ORS

http://www.gohuckyourself.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/gazoo.jpg Polanco with the large head fail.

Kubel just launched that, but otherwise Julio Lugo has looked good for Detroit. Too bad he didn't "earn" the right to pitch in this elimination game. They should have handed the ball to Bonderman, who has playoff experience.

This. There a quite a few members here who think disagreement is trolling. It's just disagreement. Rhet's entitled to his opinion and analysis, both of which I think are wrong, and those that disagree with him are faced with the challenge of showing him the error of his ways and stuff like "LOL, RBIs r teh suk" doesn't cut it. His attempt to answer Paradisecity's question was incorrect. JD Drew's run production is limited by the ability of the other people in the lineup. If they make outs faster than he does, and most do, his opportunities are limited, at least they are relative to how many opportunities he'd have with 8 other JD Drew's in the lineup. To determine what 9 JD Drew's would do you have to look at how many RC he creates per out and multiply it by 27 (amount of outs in a game - the "clock" of baseball). Fortunately, RC/27 is a stat that they keep. His 3 year average RC/27 is 7.0. That's pretty good. A team with 9 JD Drew's in the lineup scores 1134 runs a year. This of course assumes he plays every day. He's averaged 129 games played over the last 3 years. Adjusting the total for his playing time, 9 JD Drews score 903 runs per season. It's really not more complicated than that Paradise. The RC is based off of years and years of team total output. So, in large part, it captures the situation dependent results you mentioned in your clarification of what you were looking for.

The PI call was awful, but they also called offside on the play, so it would have been their ball anyway. Never saw a replay of the offside call, so I won't pass judgment there.

You have the control of google. All this information that you act like was being withheld from you is freely available, provided you are willing to research your point enough to be well informed. Jumping right in with both feet is not the right approach.

While the hyperbole from Jaworski has been over the top, Favre has been excellent. The arm is still big, and it's been accurate. His WRs get the ball in stride and can do something after the catch.

Percy Harvin is going to be a star. Where was the PI? He jumped the route.

re: rsr's signature Would that 1093 runs be worth the cost in tampons?

Rockies in 2.

Dojji's whimsy of the week. He and BSN07 infect every thread they enter with their Christmas wish list.

Not to RF it isn't.

You made this up. Fenway has had a HR Factor That's evidence that Fenway is harder on LHH. Then there's just good old fashioned common sense. Fenway is one of the deepest parks to RF in the league.

Rather than hash out the examples of good and bad transactions for Epstein, I'd be curious to know who das considers to be a very good GM. My point is, all GMs, even good ones, have skeletons in the closet, so focussing on Epstein's bad moves as the example of his deficiencies lacks sound reasoning. If his performance has been bad, then it's bad relative to something good, not relative to himself (his successes vs. his failures). Furthermore, this smells a lot like hindsight analysis. I'd like to see das show up and put something on the record either for or against future transactions when they happen. All I ever see him do is try and discredit this FO after the fact, which is easy once the results are in.

Had to be before 9/1, because he was recalled from Pawtucket on 9/1.

Players eligible as substitutions through the 60-day loophole have to be on the 40-man roster as of 9/1.

I'm skeptical of the idea that a new GM, being brought in to replace the previous GM who couldn't build a winner, is going to be interested in trading away his best player in his first offseason.

Not particularly. He's serviceable in the college game, but the QB phase of his career will end in Blacksburg, IMO.

It's hard for me to read how good my team is after this Miami win. One the one hand, they did punch Miami in the mouth, and Miami has beaten 3 ranked opponents outside of the that game. However, of the teams Miami beat, only GT is looking like a quality win. FSU beat the pants off BYU, but lost to South Florida and BC. Oklahoma got beat by BYU, who lost to the afformentioned less than spectacular FSU. I'm looking forward to the VT vs. GT game to shed some light on this.

Kudos, J_E. This is the first football thread created where you didn't express your irrational hate of the Patriots.

Yeah, and while I'm always in the "Anything can happen" camp, this year's LSU squad has not been as impressive as years passed. They are good, but I'd be surprised if they can pull off a win against Florida.

Florida v. LSU is shaping up to be the game of the year (in terms of ranking). The U is eliminating Oklahoma as a team worthy of being on the radar, which diminishes the Clash of the Titans atmosphere of the Red River Rivalry on October 17 vs. Texas. EDIT: Of course, if Florida and Alabama can play the balance of their schedules without a loss, the SEC title game would be the defacto National Championship, IMO.

Deserve is a subjective word. I don't know enough about them to make subjective statements about them. In terms of talent, they should win that division. If they fail, so be it.

Yeah, the trainwreck keeps a rollin'.

Ne'ermind, when I said it would take something miraculous, it was 4-0 in the 8th, and the Sox had two on with no outs. Now it's 4-1, and the Tigers have 2 on with 0 outs.