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QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Mar 27, 2009 -> 01:48 AM) Talented group of freshman are a group of freshman. They need elder leadership to get them to play like a team. Calipari doesn't think his s*** smells, and brings in a multitude of 1 and done's. However, Rose really benefited from guys like Dorsey, Anderson, Dozier.......etc No way a team of AAU 18 year old studs wins anything. OSU came close a couple years ago.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 27, 2009 -> 12:49 AM) Nice job by Lisa Winston on some up and coming players in Sox system. Allen, Beckham, JorDanks, Escobar, Flowers, Getz, Poreda, Richard, Shelby and Viciedo. Add the big 4 of Floyds, JonDanks, Quentin and Ramirez from last year and things appear to be looking rosey for the long term on the south side. And we have 4 (I think it's 4?) picks in the first two rounds of the upcoming draft. We're still lacking overall depth (especially in the pitching department). But considering where we were just two years ago, I'm more than satisfied with where our system currently stands. Key word being "currently." I still expect it to get better.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 10:51 PM) How good can a team really be with a bunch of freshman though? Unless they are landing 3 Evans/Rose caliber recruits, I don't see it. Depends on how good those freshman are (Syracuse in 2003, OSU in 2007). And in Wall (if he signs), Cousins, and Henry, you've got arguably the three top recruits in the country on one team (all 3 would be lottery picks this June if not for the mandatory 1-year in college rule). I like Evans, but I think Wall will easily be better. And he's probably right on par with Rose at the same stage in their careers. Cousins has an NBA-ready body right now and will be a matchup nightmare with his size and shooting ability. Henry is the #1 ranked SG by Rivals and Scout.com. You've got good classes. You've got great classes. Memphis (again, if Wall signs) will have a truly special class. And they'll be, IMO, a legitimate NC contender.

There was a really good article in SI about Strasburg. Looks like just a few years ago he was a lazy fatass with no real future baseball wise. Something obviously 'clicked' for him.

Predicting what Duke is going to do in the tourney is becoming too easy of late. Did anybody outside of a Duke fan expect anything less than what we saw tonight? They get exposed every year by physical/athletic teams.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 10:26 PM) Man it feels good to expose Memphis. I've been talking s*** on them for a while. Evans is a superstar though. Man, he was good. With Dozier, Evans and Anderson gone they are gonna be in trouble next year. I know they have an amazing recruiting class coming in and they will probably still destroy the C-USA, but I think Memphis is gonna slide down a bit next year. I disagree. If John Wall signs, (and it's looking more and more like the only thing that can keep that from happening is if Evans comes back) they should be even better next year.

That was one of the more thorough offensive performances, outside of the FT shooting, that I've seen in a while against a D as good as Memphis.

QUOTE (scenario @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 04:33 PM) From the Plain Dealer today... 1. Cliff Lee 2. Fausto Carmona 3. Carl Pavano 4. Scott Lewis 5. Anthony Reyes Pavano as #3? A pitcher with 24 big league innings at #4? And the inconsistent and injury prone Reyes at #5? A little perspective... Clayton Richard has 2X as many innings in the major leagues as Lewis. And this is the team 'experts' are picking to win our division? Yup. And you can actually put a big fat ? on their entire starting staff. Cliff Lee's '08 screams fluke in so many ways. Not to mention he has never put together back-to-back quality seasons. You have no idea which Fausto Carmona you're getting. And, of course, that's one super suspect 3-5 they have going into the season. As far as picking them to win the division, honestly, I can understand it. Their bullpen looks to be pretty solid with the additions of Joe Smith and Kerry Wood (of course, Wood would have to stay relatively healthy). And their offense, even without bounce-back years from Martinez and Hafner, looks to be the best in the division.

Wite and lost pretty much summed it up. Curt Schilling is one of the best ever.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) no, It's not a bash at you, more like praise and appreciation toward Kalapse. I'm just saying Kalapse is a walking baseball encyclopedia and when it comes to Sox discussion he is incomparable. Agreed. This board is full of outstanding posters. But K is the Soxtalk version of Johnny 5. Happy bday.

Damn, I forgot how bad Jeff Francoeur was. But fair enough. I guess being a Sox fan and obviously seeing Swisher on an every game basis made it seem like he was one of the worst players out there.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 09:47 PM) Going into June 1 - .200/.329/.308/.637 From July 1st on - .195/.306/.405/.711 So probably around a .670 OPS. And you can't simply forget about his best month, otherwise you can do that for every other s***ty player too. Tony Pena Jr had 235 PAs last year and put up a .398 OPS. In 15 PAs during August, he went 6 for 15 (all singles) for a .400 AVG, .400 OBP, .400 SLG, which leads to an .800 OPS. If you take that out, I could very easily see his OPS being in the .380 or lower range. In all seriousness, to suggest that Nick Swisher was one of the 10 worst players last year is flat wrong. Even if it was just one month, he still put up a 1.000+ OPS in June, and then he put up an .850+ OPS in August. Those months have to be counted, no matter how s***ty the others were. In the end, his season ended with a .742 OPS, and he wasn't even the worst offensive regular in his own lineup (Cabrera and Pierzynski were offensively worse, though Pierzynski is a pretty good offensive catcher which isn't speaking in raw offensive terms but rather more along the lines of VORP). Let it be known that I'm not defending Swisher...he was absolutely brutal. Just that he doesn't deserve to be called one of the 10 worst players in baseball. (Swisher actually had a higher OPS+ (given, 92 to 91, but still) than Chris Young, but I'll keep that hush-hush as Chris Young was also a decent base stealer and played superior defense to Swisher). How about one of the 10 worst players with at least 400 at bats (not sure how many he had exactly. But I know he had at least that many)? If you can find 10 players worse, I'll give you your props. And I wasn't trying to subtract his best month. Just pointing out, and the numbers obviously prove that it was that month, and only that month, that he didn't look like the 2k version of Dan Pasqua.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 09:41 PM) Davidson @ St. Mary's is about to start. This is going to be tournament quality basketball. 2 pro guards against each other. Patty Mills is spectacular. Damn shame he got hurt. St. Mary's is better than probably half the schools that actually made the tourney.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:19 PM) People seem to forget that in a down year the guy still hit 24 home runs and 69 RBIs, but yeah he performance wasn't ideal. Calling it even a "down" year is giving him too much credit. Nick Swisher was simply one of the 10 worst players in baseball last year. I'd love to know what his numbers were if you take away his one good month (was it June?).

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 01:06 PM) lets to Wisconsin! beat xavier +1. And I hate Wisconsin. But for some reason I always root for our conference in the tourney. Well, except Indiana. f*** that school.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 10:59 AM) Wouldn't you be pissed if you had a chance to win it all if your non-ready NFL QB stayed? Not even USC can recover from all the studs they lost on defense in one year. So your chances of winning a NC, even with Sanchez, were pretty slim. And sure, I'd probably be a little pissed. But I sure as hell wouldn't express that publicly.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 05:59 PM) Mullens isn't NBA ready, but he can do whatever he wants. Now relay that message to your boy Pete Carroll.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 01:03 PM) I was dumb enough to pick VCU over Villanova, but that never would of happened. I had WF in the NC game. So I can't say a thing about anyone's picks.

Villanova is physically manhandling UCLA. This is hilarious. I hate to sound redundant. But again, how good is the Big East? I've never seen one conference with this much depth before in my life.

QUOTE (The Bones @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 10:38 AM) Surprised no one has mentioned Wisconsin's OT win over FSU yet. Second best game of the tournament so far behind tOSU and Siena's double OT thriller. Last night was damn entertaining. I'm still mourning the death of my bracket (f*** YOU WAKE FOREST!). Very nice win for Wisconsin. Score one for the Big-10.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 10:26 AM) What games are everyone looking foward to viewing today? Really looking forward to LSU/NC. LSU can give NC all kinds of problems with their length/athleticism. QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 10:40 AM) Would love for Michigan to win and move on, but I went out on a limb to be different and have Oklahoma winning it all. Why the hell not? My bracket was shredded when CS put WF outta their pathetic misery. Don't fret. Even if they beat Texas, they most certainly won't get by 'Nova/UCLA.

And how about the "mighty" ACC? FSU loses to arguably the worst of the 7 Big-10 teams to make it to the dance. USC smokes BC. Clemson loses to a team who has one legitimate big (and he's all of 6'7) and, of course, WF takes it in the crack from CS. Maryland has no business being in the tourney in the first place (and they will get smoked by Memphis). Duke won't last past the Sweet 16. So that leaves NC. Remember when there was an actual debate on which was the better conference between the ACC and Big East? Hahaha.

I guess all mid-major fans are rejoicing. Instead of Arizona/WF (a game that would've featured 5 first-round picks), we get Arizona and Cleveland state. Oh, joy!

Congratulations WF. You are truly pathetic. There goes my bracket.

WF down 11 with less than 10 minutes to go. I don't believe this s***.