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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 1, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) And they played an extremely young OSU team. The B10 has top flight coaches and top flight players, Iowa will have to do alot of work to get into and stay in the top tier of the B10. Just ask Bruce Weber how easy it is to compete year in and year out. Lick's a better coach than Weber, imo. I'll get shredded for saying that but he is. Whether he'll be able to recruit good enough at Iowa remains to be seen though.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 1, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) We're a bunch of computer nerds. All I know about Iowa/Big Ten is that Iowa State almost won at Iowa (had nearly more than 100 more total yards than the Hawks) and ISU is one of the worst BCS teams there is. The Big Ten should be thanking Iowa for beating Penn State and saving the conference the embarrassment of getting destroyed in the title game had Penn St. run the table. Iowa did nothing but get better as the season went on and beat top teams like Penn State and smeared some other opponents once Stanzi got aclimated. Bottom line is they beat Iowa State too.

I feel really weird asking about this, but I'm uncircumcised and over the past few weeks my girlfriend has been dropping hints that she wants me to do the snipp snipp. I will admit my ding dong does look kinda strange right now but I read that its rather painful and that it can take off inches. What are your guys thoughts, being some of my closest friends here on ST. Thanks guys.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 31, 2008 -> 05:05 PM) Even more ironic is that he used to play for WVU, and Iowa and OSU both were destroyed by Huggins in the last month or so. Iowa's coming around and becoming more competitive on the road. I just don't know if Lickliter can get enough athleticism to win with his system in the Big 10, in terms of recruiting. I think he will fall a little short of Alford's hype as a recruiter, although the program will be better off from an overall standpoint, I just don't see him taking Iowa to the Elite 8 or Sweet 16 on a consistent basis. However, the fact that Iowa's really learning how to play much better D is a good sign, something that didn't really happen under the Golden Boy. They had one year where they played top notch defense under Alford and it was Alford's second to last season (the one where they lost on the 3 pointer by Northwestern State in the 1st round after playing tremendous all season). It was a completely veteran team though. Lick is doing this with a team where all of his best players are freshman/sophs.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 31, 2008 -> 04:52 PM) Oh snap, WSOX99 pwns. Iowa scored about 99 percent of their points on 3's today, kept me on the edge of my seat. Just wait till Lickliter can get a few more of his guys in, there style of play will be very unique in the big ten and they should become a consistent top 4 big ten team. Nice win for the Buckeyes though as at times Iowa looks like a borderline tourney team (at other times, not so much). They are extremely young though.

I was by Wrigley two days ago and it just looked plain weird. I'm sure its a cool experience in person but the level of hockey played on this surface will be worse (because of the poor ice conditions) and the fans are going to have awful awful seats.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Dec 27, 2008 -> 01:31 PM) Yeah, same here, it was like below zero for the longest time. Last night it was 48 at 1 AM with incredibly thick fog. I think 2008 in terms of weather for Iowa won't be topped for a while. Yep, we were driving through that fog to the funeral and than to the airport.

By the way...shipps, would you guys be interested in possibly hitting up a bhawks or Bulls game? I have no idea if they are even playing when I'm there but I've never been to the United Center before.

QUOTE (shipps @ Dec 27, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) You shouldnt have any problems,there isnt any precipitation predicted for tomorrow and all the ice and snow is pretty much melted now. Dont wear flip flops,see ya tomorrow dude. Haha, can't wait to get out there. The girlfriend is super excited too and I even got a new winter coat for christmas to hopefully keep me warm. We have a layover in Cinncy so hopefully everything is okay there. I honestly don't know why we have to fly through cinncy but I actually pricelined the flight so I didn't exactly have options.

I fly out to Chicago Tomorrow and am there through New Years...woo. I must say I hope like hell that I'll be able to get in and out okay though given the airport status.

QUOTE (scenario @ Dec 24, 2008 -> 08:56 AM) What's Figgins' contract situation? FA at the end of the year I believe.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 06:40 AM) They have Yonder Alonso who is about as far from Cincinnatti as Beckham is from Chicago. They could make due for a while until he is ready. Obviously a Dye->Votto->Figgins deal would need to have other pieces added in as well. Maybe something like Angels get Reds get Sox get Votto Dye Figgins Fields K Escobar Dickerson Ortega Bourjos Anderson Figgins would be a one year rental, and I think would net Type A compensation. I forgot about Yonder. I guess with Yonder less than a year away the deal makes more sense.

QUOTE (buckweaver @ Dec 21, 2008 -> 04:02 AM) You're both sipping too much nog of egg while there's still work to be done. The proposed 3-way trade didn't need your reprimand because in it, the writer was suggesting the Sox would net Figgins (maybe Santana) and Votto for Konerko and Dye. Where I believe some common sense needs to be added is that, in an attempt to get all 3-way-y as the armchair Kenny Williams, the trade proposer instead is proposing two simple trades: the first...Dye to Cincy for Votto. The second...Konerko to Anaheim/San Luis Obispo (and I don't know how to make that green or teal or whatever color it's supposed to be) for Figgins (and maybe Santana). To do that, why would Anaheim and Cincy need to swap minor leaguers? As for personal thoughts...if the second trade included Santana...let's have one great party for two of my forever favorite White Sox and wish them well in the twilight of their careers in their new cities. Let me just state that if the Sox got Figgins and Votto for Konerko and Dye I'd do it. Because I Think Votto has more value than either player straight up and Figgins has a little less value. If Santana is part of the deal than I believe you are talking one of the better moves in franchise history. I'd think the Angels would be more likely to move Weaver though and I'd have no complaints with him either. Still, I can't believe the Reds would trade Dye for Votto, they'd have to be getting something else in return.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 09:53 PM) If Cincy is really willing to give up Votto in a Dye trade, why not try this three-team trade out: Dye to Cincy, Konerko to Anaheim, Votto and Figgins (or Ervin Santana) to Chicago, with Cincy and Ahaheim exchanging other minor leaguers. Why in the heck would Cincy trade Votto for Dye? He's already as good of a hitter as Dye, imo.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 23, 2008 -> 09:33 AM) BTW, since we are discussing CF's in the Angels thread... Has anyone seen Figgins play CF? He hasn't played there with Hunter around, but, he played a fair amount of games there in years past. How is he out there? I've long said Figgins could be a plus centefielder. He's shown good range and has a plus arm for a centerfielder although he will make the ocassional error because he doesn't necessarily get the greatest jumps. However, his jumps would improve any time he got any sort of consistent playing time in centerfield so I truly believe if he stuckt here for a season youd' be talking about a pretty darn good defensive centerfielder. As much as I've said getting Figgins right now would be foolish. His legs have been hindering him the past couple years and when those go his production is goign to be far less valuable. That said if you can acquire him and Morales in a Paul Konerko deal, than you'll have the top of the order filled up and still be able to get some production from first while freeing up potentially enough payroll to sign Garland for the rotation and wouldn't have any significant holes on the roster (you still have Quentin/Dye/Thome to produce in the middle of the order with the hope that Fields/Morales develop nicely to fill the 6 and 7 spots).

Rhoades it is.

That doesn't pass the sniff test. Sure its a bigger conference, but you can do a s***load better than ISU. It would be a tremendous hire though.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 08:13 AM) He's no better as I said. Ben has scored 50 before and has pretty great efficiency. Ben is at the same level as Roy IMO. He's not at a Kobe-type superstar level like some people would like to think. And again, we already had a SG on the team named Ben Gordon, so that would have been a waste of a pick unless you move Hinrich or Ben which would have been dumb at the time considering both guys were playing good basketball and their problems were in the front court. Get on them for not keeping LaMarcus Aldridge. Whoa...don't ever compare Ben Gordon and Brandon Roy. One of is a complete player and one of the best guards in the league and the other is a good 3rd option on a team. I don't necessarily disagree with you on your love for Mayo, I often said pre-draft (as did you) that Mayo might end up being the best guy in the draft.

Grand Torino was fantastic. One of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Hell of a job Eastwood...hell of a job.

I thought the station didn't go live until January 1?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) Eh, 4.00 is a stretch for sure, 4.50 is the safer bet. Jon's been a full time starter for 7 years now and he's only posted an ERA south of 4.50 twice, he's finished in the 4.50's four times. Garland is a 4.50 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 26 HR, 207 IP starter with an awful K:BB ratio, he's going rely heavily on his defense and get absolutely destroyed in about 4 starts, he's incredibly inconsistent from month to month but in the end he's going to give you 32 starts and a ~104 ERA+ so he's valuable in the back of your rotation. Assuming of course that his shoulder is healthy and that knot isn't giving him problems. And when you have two young arms who are still in the developmental/growing pains phase (Danks/Floyd) and a questionable 5th there is a lot of value in the guy you described above.

Plus the Sox are counting on a lot of young arms and it would be nice knowing you have two pretty good innings eaters in Buehrle/Garland in the rotation.

I'd love to have Garland back on a 2 to 3 year deal.

Bobby is the freaking man.

I'd have absolutely zero problem if the Sox acquired Juan Pierre and got cash from the Dodgers. It shoudln't cost anything and at least the club would have a leadoff hitter who can hit for a solid average and get on base at a reasonably acceptable rate (albeit, not a great rate). In fact if the Sox had Pierre/Abrue in the top 2 spots of the order I'd be perfectly content (this is obviously assuming a Dye trade).