Jordan4life_2007

Yeah, this is a sweep all the way. This Philly team just does not have the offensive firepower to even make the Bulls sweat. Worst team in the playoffs, easily. Edit: forgot about the Howard-less Magic. So second worst team.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:08 PM) So is Jon Lester. I know. But Jake has been god-like. Lester? Not so much. If we lose tomorrow? Yeah, a sweep is imminent.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:01 PM) Web gem by their second baseman. Like I said, one out of four will be about right this series if we can get the one. This is a mismatch payroll wise and shows up on the scoreboard. A big chunk of their payroll is on the DL. The Red Sox have starting pitching and bullpen issues. But their offense is just awesome. Even without Ellsbury and Crawford.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:58 PM) anyone doubting a 4 game sweep at this point? Jake's going tomorrow. But these AL east offenses are no joke.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:51 PM) Too early to tell, but his stuff f***ing sucks this year. He was really bad last year, and he looks worse now than he ever did last year. Some of it's on Robin. But some seem to believe Danks has this untapped potential that's yet to be realized. Please. He's a #4 starter getting paid #2 starter money.

Is John Danks the most overpaid #4 starter in baseball?

QUOTE (KG#1 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:28 PM) Why the hell would this be an "LOL" moment after that sentence? Just makes no sense.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 03:31 PM) DeJuan Blair was a second round pick because his knees scared everyone. He was projected to go at 16 to the Bulls. Green: Fair enough. Mills: Fair enough. Leonard: Number 15 pick from this year...so...yeah. Neal: Touche. That being said you can make a case for Thibs. Didn't have the Rose for a lot of games, while Parker played at an MVP level. Watson, Hamilton, and Rose all missed lots of games. JL3 started. Deng didn't have a wrist ligament. The defense was unreal. In my rose-colored glasses, Thibs having SO many injuries and being in the drivers seat all year makes him COY, but if Pop wins he is also deserving. I know why he went in the second round. But he's a starting C at 6'7. That's just not normal. You're not supposed to be able to get away with that. I had never heard of Leonard. But ok. 15th pick. Fine. Parker has had a fine year. But he does the 17-18 ppg, 6-7 apg thing every year. I know what the Bulls have had to deal with this year. And it's remarkable that they won 50 games. But the non-playoff teams from the east are pretty damn bad. Nobody can deny that helped some.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 03:18 PM) What about when the 8 playoff teams from each conference played each other? I have no idea what that is. That'd be too much work. The other numbers were easy to figure out.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 11:22 AM) Dejuan Blair was an absolute steal of a draft pick. And Green was always a pretty high ceiling guy. IMO Thibs did a better job because he lost 3 of his starts for a pretty significant amount of the year and still won with a bunch of no name scrubs. Are your numbers about the east/west playoff teams against other playoff teams only, or the whole division? The bottom of the east is clearly worse than the bottom of the west. The west as a whole went 156-114 against the east as a whole. The 8 playoff teams from the west went 100-44 against the east as a whole. The 8 eastern conference playoff teams went 74-70 against the west as a whole.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:25 AM) It sounds a lot more like you're a proponent of R.C. Buford for Exec of the Year than Pop as Coach of the Year. True. But Pop still has to coach and ultimately win or lose with these guys. Nobody cares about executive of the year. Nobody outside of a virgin hermit could name the last five executives of the years. What Pop has done this year with this roster is spectacular.

I'm looking at this Spurs roster. O.M.G. Popovich is the clear-cut choice for COY. Manu Ginobili has missed more games than Rose. And in the games he's played, he's sported his worst across-the-board numbers since 2004. Tim Duncan is barely half the player he was in his prime. Parker has had his normal good year. But let's break down the rest of this Spurs roster (most of it): DeJuan Blair: a second round pick, is their starting C at 6'7, in the west. Danny Green: another second round pick, who had 28 career games played coming into this year. Patty Mills: are you serious? Where the hell did he come from? Another (late) second round pick. Kawhi Leonard: did anybody know who this guy was before this season? Gary Neal: undrafted These are like their top guys. The west is clearly better than the east. The west is 156-114 against the east this season. If you narrow it down to only playoff teams, the west's top 8 is 100-44 against the eastern conference (east playoff teams are only 74-70 against the west). This is a severe no-brainer. Thibs did a tremendous job this year. Rose, while great, is nowhere near as valuable (at least in the regular season) as I thought he was. But Popovich, in a much better conference, has been god-like. There's nothing to discuss here. This is almost as easy as LeBron and his third MVP that's coming next month.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 26, 2012 -> 10:44 PM) Glad to miss the Knicks in 1st round match-up. Big break for the Bulls. Not that they couldn't beat the Knicks. But they (Knicks) are 17-6 since Mike Woodson took over. Carmelo Anthony is playing some of the best basketball of his career (29.8 PPG in April), Tyson Chandler is a leading DPOY candidate, and they have the perimeter shooting that if they get hot, Smith and Novak in particular, that can give you a ton of problems. Getting the Sixers (their leading scorer is their 6th man) is the equivalent of a first round bye in the NFL. I'll be shocked if the Bulls don't sweep.

Good call by fathom. I didn't even realize how good Boston's offense has been so far. They're top 4 AL wise in every major offensive category. And that was coming into tonight.

lol@mcgrad. You are truly awful. I can't stand Kenny. But you are way beyond irrational.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 11:56 PM) I don't think I do that. But you do. Just look back at the gamethreads from the Orioles series.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 11:51 PM) I just hated the offense tonight. Sox didn't come close to scoring. Even though Gavin was matching that no-name pitch for pitch, out for out, it seemed obvious Sox would get shut out and Oakland would not. But you go postal after every loss. Not just tonight.

lol@greg. Are you going to go wild bull-like crazy after every loss?

Yu Darvish made diarrhea of the Yankees lineup tonight.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) That's why I hope Kenny is working the phones trying to get rid of him. I'll take this nice April and go with Fuko the rest of the way as the Sox use that money for other players I like better.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 04:56 PM) here is to hoping that bottom three gets their collective heads out of their asses. Having 3 automatic outs in a row is not good Shades of '06 Uribe, Anderson and Pods. The take a s*** inning.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 04:02 PM) Competing with Texas in Texas (holding their offense down fairly well), beating Detroit 2/3, THEN sweeping Seattle in Seattle along with good starts from Dunn, Rios, Peavy, AJ, Paulie are why analysts like us so far. The fans don't know s*** and that is literally the worst way to evaluate the team. That's asinine. I'm not going to pretend I evaluate every single team so I won't say definitively where we fall -- but 10 seems to be fair based on our performance so far. The Dodgers not being in the top 10 at 12-4 is rather suspect. But yeah, I don't see a problem with the Sox in the top 10. Other than the Orioles series, they've played good baseball.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 12:04 PM) how f***ing funny is it that everyone's clamoring to be the first to say "oh, no the sox are good, we knew that all along!" just so that at the end of the year people don't think they were all idiots. You do realize these are WEEKLY rankings, right? They change ever week.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 11:37 PM) I really am not even caught up in the numbers...the great thing to see is that he is hitting the ball to the opposite field...and really driving it...that is a great thing for him, as last year he was just a dead pull hitter for the entire season. Over the course of the last 5 games or so, he's had several opposite field hits, a few for extra bases. That means he's seeing the ball well, he's going with pitches over the outer half of the plate instead of rolling over them weakly, and that makes him much, much harder to pitch to. I really think he is the key to our offense. I like this post. I agree. I had noticed a lot of the same things. His .900 OPS really doesn't mean anything. Because we all know he's not that good overall. Colby Rasmus' OPS went up, like, 150 points after his 2 HR game Saturday.

Ales Rios isn't, and never has been, .900+ OPS good. I really hate April stats. We're still at the point that one or two games, good or bad, can dramatically impact your overall numbers. Alex's OPS coming into today was .782. He looks better. There's some encouraging signs. But other than the first half of '10, he's been a very bad baseball player for the White Sox. Get back to me in a month.