Rowand44

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 04:14 PM) I don't honestly care what baseball fans think. I care if the organizations think it is worthy, and then you actually have hit your standard of "widely accepted" and "state of the art". If not, their opinions aren't any more widely accepted than the "eye test " group out there in baseball today. If the Sox felt those numbers were an accurate representation of De Aza's true value, there wouldn't be rumblings of them looking to upgrade his spot. Rumblings from fans, nothing out of the organization. Everyone would be fine with upgrading from De Aza, it's just not as easy to do as some people seem to believe.

I really enjoyed Captain Phillips.

I actually really liked that Marlins team at the time too, looking back at it some of the players I liked are just gross now. I was a big fan of Pierre, Castillo, Carl Pavano, Cabrera and Beckett at that point, yuck.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) Rowand, remember how we were talking about how you picked up Julio Jones since a guy dropped him without keeping it through? 2 days later that happened in my league, and I was able to pick him up. I don't think anyone else went for him either. He was a 2nd round pick, so the guy doesn't want to keep him for a 1st...but as a FA, he's now using a spot 3 rounds below next year's ADP. So likely a 5th or 6th rounder. No idea why he wouldn't just throw him on IR, but hey, thanks. Ha, very nice.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 12:15 PM) Talk about the way back machine...I was at U of I when they lost, and I remember writing the best away message in the history of away messages, just ripping the Cubs and all the bandwagon, dbag fans around campus for the past couple weeks. Seriously, 50%-60% of people going to class were wearing some sort of blue. Sororities ordered t-shirts. Bars had playoff logo glasses ordered It was the worst thing ever. My away message was the biggest, best "f*** off" ever. I wish I still had it. I couldn't care less about the Cubs now but that season at the time made me despise everything about them and their fans. That October sucked until that game.

I actually completely disagree with you guys, I feel like now a days almost all the Bartman blame is gone.

Trading Chris Sale would have to net the best package of prospects that's ever been traded before.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 07:25 AM) Gotta love playing two guys who throw up a goose egg in one league (Shorts, Graham) and two guys who get hurt and have to leave the game early in the other (Cobb, Schaub). This was probably the worst luck I've ever had in any one week of fantasy football in a long, long time. Man, I thought starting Tom Brady sucked.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 06:55 AM) Unfortunately no one has an outs on bases stat that is sortable. BR has it for individual players. De Aza had 19 outs on the bases this year (OOB+CS) vs the 20 SBs he had. 11 of those were baserunning mistakes that were not deemed as CS's. For contrast Ramirez in his 30 steals, had 15 outs on the bases this year, 6 of which weren't CS's. Alex Rios had 5 OOB this year that weren't CS's. Yes De Aza had as many outs on the bases (not including CS's) as two of the biggest idiots in baseball combined in Rios and Ramirez. Again, any baserunning stat that tells me De Aza was a good baserunner has problems. I'm sure the stat that was posted takes all that into consideration.

I'm down 14.8 with Gates going tonight. With the way this season has been going he'll get 12-14 and I'll fall to 2-4 with the 2nd most points in the league

I'd go FJax in a standard league.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 09:59 AM) Sproles @ NE or FJax vs. CIN? PPR?

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 09:46 AM) Sigh. I wish I could. My backup is cutler. I don't have a back up. I'm stuck with Brady...f***in Gronk.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 11:55 PM) Except for all the reasons that team fell apart two years ago and then under Valentine...85-90% of them fall on Theo's shoulders. This year's creation is almost all on Cherington/John Henry. How are you not understanding this?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) ? Rose not playing tonight, left knee soreness. "Precautionary" but uh oh.

Uh oh

Pretty sure Beltran is just a joke.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 11:21 PM) English? He almost missed the tag in the 10th. Slowing it down a million times it does look like his glove caught the elbow but there's definitely a possibility that he completely missed.

Yadi almost whiff sticked that tag.

Beckham just regressed back towards the mean, it wasn't the injury that was messing with him and there's no reason for me to think otherwise.

Gronk most likely out. WHAT. THE. f***.

There's so many different Cardinal fans articles going around right now, it's pretty funny. I personally think almost all fan bases are the same. They all have their morons and their reasonable fans, it's just the ones that you encounter that sway your opinion.

Hopefully they just lock AP and Joseph Patterson in a room and let AP take care of it. How f***in awful.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 02:04 PM) DeAza - CF Beckham - 2B Ramirez - SS Dunn - DH Garcia - RF Viciedo - 1B F/A/Rookie - LF Semien - 3B Phegley - C So we're basically just going to stay put?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 09:41 AM) I hope the Dodgers sweep them. Cardinals fans are insufferable. Any fanbase that describes itself as the best fans in a sport is just awful. Someone read the deadspin article.