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Posted Wednesday October 15, 2008, About: Knight open to coaching return
you all need to see the bobby knight golf outtakes video on youtube... i've never laughed so hard
Posted Friday October 10, 2008, About: Red flag on Teixeira
Tex is a beast EVERY year. He's not one of the best 10 players in the league, but he's a poor man's Albert Pujols, which is still probably good for being the 2nd or 3rd best 1B in baseball. His OPS+ the last 4 years: 144, 126, 150, 153. That's really good. He's very consistent, plays good defense, hits for average (though not on Pujols' level), walks (though not on Pujols' level), and hits for power. The only guy at 1B who has even come close to that kind of production over the last 4 years is Pujols, and maybe Ryan Howard (who wasn't THAT good this year despite hitting lots of HR). He deserves to get paid. Whatever scout said that is full of ****. He should get David Eckstein to play 1B for his team and have Darin Erstad throw "gritballs" as pitcher. They'd be so scrappy they couldn't lose because the rest of their team would be moved by the grit-tastic effort.
Posted Thursday October 02, 2008, About: Beasley struggling with Heat play book
No. The reason Glenn Robinson wasn't very good in the pros was he had NO left hand. He never had a left hand, it was just nobody figured it out until Grant Hill D'ed him up in the NCAA tourney elite 8 his senior year. Purdue was probably the better team and was the higher seed, but Duke was smarter. Grant Hill guarded his right hand and let him go left all day. Glenn Robinson was a decent pro and an excellent college player, but he never had a left hand and that stopped him from being an All Star at the pro level. Beasley should be just fine, but it's tough to say whether he'll face the same road blocks as Robinson because we only got to see one year of him playing college ball, and he was always way way way the best dude on the floor.
Posted Saturday September 27, 2008, About: Are Knicks sandbagging Marbury?
Marbury might be the last guy in the whole damn league that I would want on my team if I was making a team from scratch. The last dude. Like if I needed a point guard, it would be like,

Kwame Brown
DJ Mbenga
Marbury
Posted Saturday September 27, 2008, About: Source: M's players hate Ichiro
Right. Because Yao is a gigantic prick when his name is on the back of his jersey in the NBA. It's just a cultural difference. He's a hell of a good ballplayer... I don't know why you would cry so hard about it if you clashed with him personality wise... big deal. The dude hits well over .300 like every year, so his teammates should at least like him for that. As far as him being selfish and trying to inflate his hit totals, well you don't get well over 200 hits every year without being awesome. You just don't. I know he's a singles hitter who traditionally doesn't walk much, but you just can't argue with his production. He is one of the most consistent players in baseball and excellent at what he does.
Posted Friday September 26, 2008, About: Quinn may relieve Anderson
Anderson is like a taller dumber version of Favre... he's not like bad, he's just risky, and he's going to make some dumbazz decisions that you just learn to live with. I don't think Quinn is in that mold. Really I think Quinn will end up being the best QB of his draft class by far. JaMarcus is a bust.
Posted Friday September 26, 2008, About: Quinn may relieve Anderson
Do you ever notice how Tom Brady or Peyton Manning "thread the needle" very rarely? Usually the dude is WIDE open. This never ever ever happens with Anderson.

Quinn might actually be very similar, but he has a lot more experience in a pro offense than Anderson does. Anderson said himself when he was at Oregon State, the offense was basically "run as far as you can and I'll chuck it." Unfortunately, that doesn't translate to the NFL. Quinn, like the Browns do, had two big tall athletic receivers in college. He is very good at finding the TE (Carlson and Fasano both got to the pros in large part due to Quinn). Really, I don't see how Quinn can be worse than Anderson. He's got a good enough arm, better mobility, is likely to be much more able to pick apart defenses, and he really has more experience in a pro style offense and making decisions than Anderson does. I hope the Browns keep both QBs, but I would love to see Quinn be the starter, just as I was saying last year when they were winning games with Anderson.

A big issue too is the right side of the Browns' line is hurting, and now with Steinbach at LG out, they could really be in trouble regardless of who the QB is. If you don't have time, you're toast.
Posted Friday September 26, 2008, About: Quinn may relieve Anderson
I'm a Browns fan... here's the truth and what I've been saying forever. Anderson is, as Denny Green says, "who I THOUGHT he was," meaning, Anderson is really good at like 2 things. He has a cannon for an arm, and he has good pocket presence. Yes, the Browns line was good last year, but the reason he took so few sacks is because he knew when to get rid of the ball. The clock in his head when he's in the pocket is very good, which makes up for his lack of mobility. That's pretty much all he's good at. Things Anderson does not have: ability to pick apart good defenses, touch on short/medium throws, ability to see the field and find open receivers. Last year, despite his numbers (which by the way was against a very easy schedule), you can still see the type of QB he was. Last year wasn't a fluke. He threw for a lot of yards per completion (deep ball), he threw a lot of picks (2nd in the league, almost all were his fault, not tipped balls), took few sacks, and had a terrible completion %.

This year, it's the same thing, plus his receivers are dropping balls. It's hard to blame the receivers when Anderson sticks it in Polamalu's chest or Ed Reed takes it to the house. Anderson just has never really been good at reading defenses or finding the open man. He's just gotten away with it because Edwards and Winslow and to some extent Jurevicius are tall athletic monsters (usually) with great hands and that was what got him through last year.
Posted Wednesday September 24, 2008, About: Steinbrenner rips MLB playoff system
Hank is a moron
Posted Thursday September 18, 2008, About: Manny: Pujols should win MVP
Manny's right on this one. Pujols is having an INSANE year. Him and A-Rod are far and away the most long term consistent hitters for power and average, but Pujols is way better at getting on base and hits for more average, while keeping HR numbers close. Plus the dude plays a very good first base and he's doing it all with ONE ARM! I'm not a Cards fan at all, but seriously, if Pujols doesn't win the MVP it's a joke. Nobody else is on his level this year, and only ARod and maybe Manny are close to his level over the last 5-8 years.
Posted Wednesday September 17, 2008, About: Maverick caught disrespecting anthem
totally agree
Posted Wednesday September 17, 2008, About: Maverick caught disrespecting anthem
"Go back to your trailer park." That is the definition of hypocrisy.

Personally I think it's just disgusting that Howard tries to turn the national anthem into a racial issue. He's been given more opportunity here in the United States to be successful and enjoy freedom, something he clearly takes for granted.

Call me ignorant, but I just don't see how a 25 year old multimillionaire who gets paid to play a child's game can claim that the national anthem is a symbol of racism. If anything, I think feelings of patriotism derived from anywhere (the Constitution, the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem) serve as a moral compass which often leads our country TOWARD respecting the rights of all people. Liberty and justice for all, the land of the free! How can those things be racist? I would argue those things have served as motivation for cleansing our society of widespread racism.
Posted Friday September 12, 2008, About: Indians GM: Wedge's job safe
Yeah, they might have been a little better had they kept CC and Blake, but those trades were definitely smart moves and they had to make them--those trades could potentially pay off for the next 6+ years. The team has played below their expected W-L record, but I think that has more to do with a **** bullpen than the manager.
Posted Friday September 12, 2008, About: Indians GM: Wedge's job safe
Slinky, I think you're just kind of wrong about this year. The season was lost primarily because of the following reasons:

1. Pronk SUCKED and then got hurt. He was probably playing hurt the whole year
2. Martinez hit for NO power at all and sucked. Zero HR from a 3 or 4 hitter for 1/3 of the year.
3. Garko was awful the first half of the year.
4. Westbrook was lost for the year: Sowers was awful.
5. Carmona was lost for most of the year and has lost his control.
6. Cabrera's bat fell off the face of the earth.
7. Betancourt's ERA is like 6.00 instead of the 1.50 or so that it was last year.

The only reason they are bad that is Wedge's fault is that he insists on playing Franklin Gutierrez and Andy Marte way too much even though they are terrible and don't really show signs of getting better. They don't play Jamey Carroll enough, and I don't know why because he gets on base very well. Really, only a few players on the Tribe have played to expectations: Cliff Lee (way above expectations), Sizemore (quite a bit above), Ben Francisco, Peralta, Aaron Laffey (back end starter), and Rafael Perez has been ok.

Wedge has actually gotten better in what I feel was always his weakness of leaving starters in the game too long when his bullpen was so super awesome. Now he's doing pretty well with everything. I just wish he would bench Gutierrez and Marte and either give the Tribe the best chance to win (with BenFran and Carroll), or maybe pull someone up from AAA and give them a shot.
Posted Monday September 01, 2008, About: Can Sabathia refuse Yanks' offer?
So many idiots on this thread. I can't believe people think CC is an average pitcher. His last 3 years all under 1.100 WHIP. That's not like Santana at his peak 0.95, but still very very very very good. And he throws WAY more innings than anyone out there right now except Doc Halladay. If the Yankees don't offer Sabathia a HUGE contract, they're fools. He's reliable, overpowering, been in his prime for 2-3 years, durable, and very valuable to a team that hits like the Yankees.

All the talk about him having almost a 4 career ERA is sort of dumb. There's not that many guys who come to the majors and have a sub 3 ERA right away. Look at the last 3 years, though, which are pretty damn indicative of how he will keep pitching. With the way he's mowing down the NL, I wonder if any NL teams would make a run at him. I'm sure the Giants would love to if not for The Zito Disaster.
Posted Thursday August 28, 2008, About: Marve's upset with Miami coach
I think this kid looks like a puppet from Crank Yankers... anyone agree?

At least he's saying the right things as SVT pointed out... hopefully he means at least some of it and will change for the better.
Posted Monday August 25, 2008, About: Blazers hoping Miles fails?
jgb is dead on right in his comments on page 1
Posted Monday August 25, 2008, About: Dodgers moving Andruw to 1B?
They couldn't trade this guy for a bag of chips. They couldn't trade him if they gave him away with a bag of chips, or a bag with $20 million in it.
Posted Sunday August 24, 2008, About: GM won't touch Sabathia, Sheets
Interestingly in 2006 he was just as good as when he won the CY, but based on a weak W-L record wasn't even IN the voting. Tells you something about baseball journalists being dumber than computers.
Posted Sunday August 24, 2008, About: GM won't touch Sabathia, Sheets
In fact, saying he's going be a 114 ERA+ pitcher is an aberration of his stats over the last 3 years where he has more or less stabilized:

2004: 106 ERA+ ; 1.319 WHIP
2005: 104 ERA+ : 1.256 WHIP
2006: 140 ERA+ : 1.173 WHIP
2007: 143 ERA+ : 1.141 WHIP
2008: 146 ERA+ : 1.157 WHIP

You have to say based on that sample of data, along with the age range (age 23-27) that he has developed into about a 1.15 WHIP pitcher, corresponding to an ERA+ of about 140, a far cry from his outstanding 270 in MIL so far but also way better than the 114 figure that was totally cherry-picked.
Posted Sunday August 24, 2008, About: GM won't touch Sabathia, Sheets
Sabathia has been "otherworldly" since his 5th start of the year! The dude is a beast. If there was one pitcher to build a team around (and baseball prospectus agrees as of yesterday's top 50 list), Sabathia is the one. He eats innings like he eats donuts, he strikes people out and doesn't walk them. The aberration was the 4 starts at the beginning of the year. Last year he threw what, 7 CG? This year is very similar. The only guy who eats up innings like CC is Roy Halladay. Basically out of what, 60 starts going back to the beginning of last year, the dude has been a colossal beast in like 40-50 of them. Saying this guy is a 114 ERA+ pitcher is just stupid. He is OBVIOUSLY way better than that. Rather than taking an extremely skewed mean (which includes his worst 4 outings in a 2 year sample and only over the first half of this year), if you could look at CC's median performance, it would probably be something like 7 2/3 IP, 7 H, 1 BB, 8 K,

The mean isn't a great indicator of central tendency if you're going to just single out his first half with the Tribe, when he happened to have his 4 worst outings in a 2 year sample. Look at what a median outing would be and you'll come to the obvious conclusion the guy is a beast.
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