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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I completely blame the first fumble on Orton. What good can possibly come of firing a pass into a TE at the line of scrimmage with two defenders right on top of him?
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    does rex play TE? Is Rex incapable of making an NFL throw 15 yards downfield, guaranteeing that the defense will swarm the tight end immediately after every dump-pass, encouraging the possibility of a fumble?
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wanted it all along. A guy who might be an NFL quarterback on any given day, or a guy who you know won't be?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ron Turner generously makes a stupid playcall on third down, and a mediocre one on fourth down, to distract from the fact that Kyle Orton can't make an NFL throw of more than 10 yards. If he could, the Bears win this game.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Do you the story about Grantland Rice and the Ty Cobb self-promotion letters? As a sports journalist, you'd probably get a kick out of it. When Cobb was 17 and in the minor leagues, Rice kept getting dozens of letters a month from "interested fans" and "faithful readers" who signed themselves as Jackson, Brown, Kelly, or Jones, etc. These letters, all penned in unique styles ranging from slanting, scrawled, Spencerian, and widelooped, all said things like "Keep your eye on Ty Cobb..he is one of the finest hitters I've ever seen." "Watch Cobb of Anniston, he is sure to be a sensation. "Have you seen Ty Cobb play ball yet? He is the fastest runner I've ever seen." Rice finally wrote a column stating "there is a young man named Cobb currently playing who shows an unusual amount of talent." Because Rice commanded such respect, the Tigers and several other clubs sent scouts down to look at him. It wasn't until 1951 that Cobb revealed to Rice that the dozens of letters had all been written by him. I'd never heard that, that is awesome.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Very cool video to watch. But for every kid who starts out like that and makes it big, there are a dozen who start like that and find out everyone else has caught up to them athletically by the time they are 12.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    For me, it's his face. That is the most hateable face I've ever seen. I don't care if he were Mother Theresa and Grantland Rice rolled into one, if you can look at that face and not hate him, you are a better person than I.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd love to see someone attempt to do a run-expectancy chart that splits up bunts into "expected" and "less expected" situations somehow. There was a study a few years ago that showed that while a successful sac bunt is a slight loss for the offense, the net gain from misfields vs. failed bunts narrows the gap. Presumably a misfield is more likely when a position player is up (and the infield is back) than the pitcher or Rey Ordonez, so that would perhaps make that effect even more pronounced.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    The .650 was hypothetical. The point remains for a .600 team. Brushing off a 1-8 stretch as utterly nothing is just as bad as assuming it'll go for the rest of the season.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    You guys are using a knowledge of statistics to insert some fuzzy logic that doesn't quite follow. The fact that a 1-8 run was *possible* for the Cubs team before doesn't mean that we shouldn't downgrade our best guess of their talent level because it actually happened. Not a huge downgrade, but a downgrade nonetheless. A fluke bad 1-8 stretch for a .650 team is possible, but when the 1-8 stretch actually happens, fluke is the least probable of the possible explanations. The most probable is that the team wasn't really a .650 talent team. The downgrade in our estimation of the Cubs talent from a 1-8 stretch may not be huge, but it is there.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm in.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    A 1-8 stretch sheds new light on how good the team may or may not be, which still does have a small effect on postseason success. It can't just be shrugged off.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    His base coach reached out and touched him to let him know he missed first. He should have been called out.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ding. That was not a good football team in any way, shape, or form, but they managed to luck out 13 games. It's not *likely* to turn a 6-win team into a 10-win team on luck, but it's certainly possible.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, no matter what, tonight is more fun than I ever expected.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Being ahead less than a field goal with the ball in Manning's hands is the same as being behind.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I know it's the first real game, but this is not at all the team I was expecting. An offensive touchdown sealed that relative to my expectations.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Being up 9 at halftime on the Colts is just tugging on Superman's cape. I hope he is merciful.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Stuck at work, what happened?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Huh. Is it just one year? Any idea if it's neutral or at either Mizzou/SIU? It's a 1-AA opponent, it's going to be in Columbia. Hmm...I don't think I realized SIU was 1-AA. If you were an Eastern Illinois fan and had to keep dealing with them beating you in close games, you would know it too well :( Except last year when we blew you guys out :wink: Yeah it's unfortunate we're I-AA, but I don't really mind it all that much. We'll have a new stadium by 2012, so we'll see if that will lead to bigger things. I wasn't there last year, sadly. I was there when our freaking steel-handed receiver dropped a ball 10 yards behind every defender that would have turned the game around a few years ago :(
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Huh. Is it just one year? Any idea if it's neutral or at either Mizzou/SIU? It's a 1-AA opponent, it's going to be in Columbia. Hmm...I don't think I realized SIU was 1-AA. If you were an Eastern Illinois fan and had to keep dealing with them beating you in close games, you would know it too well :(
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Listen man, I'm all for questioning conventional wisdom, but the burden of proof falls squarely on you in this instance. As someone mentioned before, there isn't a shred of statistical evidence that supports what you're claiming. There's nothing wrong with trying to stir up a little debate, but all you've brought to the table is "Maybe there's something about Jim Hendry that makes him pick players that aren't clutch." Like...seriously? This is a larger point than whether or not the Hendry Cubs specifically have an unclutch attribute. It's a point that over the long term, organizations are distinctive and there's no reason to completely dismiss anything that happened in an organization before the current season. I'm not arguing a positive point, I'm arguing for the possibility of an effect.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    The NFL tells you that you must set aside a certain portion of your cap for rookie deals, so it's technically part of your cap. But more importantly, a top-5 pick isn't signing a one-year deal.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not really, but OK. Go read some newspaper articles about baseball and tell me any of them (with FEW exceptions) are worth a crap. The mainstream sports/baseball media is still dominated by archaic thinking and sensationalism. Agreed, but so is baseball fandom and the industry of baseball. No reason to single out the media on that one.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    So if we could get proof that there were 45k+ Cubs fans who were better fans than you, you'd willingly give up your seat if you had one?
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