Rowand44

Damn it.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 01:55 PM) All of them, so far. Ya this is quite annoying.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) Disregard this man. That got out of hand real quick.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 08:54 AM) No he just married Samantha Steele. But the point stands Her changing her name to Sam Ponder on twitter was heart breaking. :crying

Hi!

So if your actually trying to win a game down 21 in the 4th you go for it, right?

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 08:24 PM) Joe Webb is bad Awful. Ponder is bad, Webb is god awful. I was wrong.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 06:12 PM) How serious? Looked like a pretty bad foot injury. Not sure though.

Cj McCollum hurt, blah.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) Webb officially in. Makes the Vikings more dangerous me thinks

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 03:54 PM) Not me. Got the game on with no issues. Bad weather in Chicago but not that bad...

Directv death for anyone else?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 09:56 PM) 1 point safety in the Oregon/Kstate game. Yes, 1 point safety. That was new. Makes sense though.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 09:13 PM) You mean "is" Thought he got it off. Real close but I think they made the wrong call.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 09:10 PM) Arizona-Colorado was absolutely nutso. Wow. Err...refs made a bad call me thinks.

Arizona-Colorado was absolutely nutso. Wow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) Correct, because if there's data out there on correlations between weight and pitching durability, I haven't seen it, but I also haven't seen anything ruling it out. Fair enough. But once again, I think we're all just assuming too much with Chris. QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 01:25 PM) This was also that little scare this season where the Sox entertained the idea of moving him to relief permanently because they were concerned with his future. That speaks volumes, too. Teams are trying to protect their young pitchers so much that they sit them down for the playoffs for no reason or debate moving them to the bullpen for basically no reason. It's paranoia and at this point, that's all it is. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 01:26 PM) If we really want to get into it, there's also his dropping to 14th in the draft when his performance, velocity, and Lefthandness had him in the top 5 on most people's draft boards. That had to do with Chris' perceived contract demands. Trust me, I understand why people worrry about him as he's a huge part(the biggest part) of our franchise going forward but I think people are just trying to find things to be worried about when it comes to Sale. I just don't think there's any more injury concern with Chris than there is with any other pitcher in the bigs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 12:54 PM) Any other wafer thin guy throwing 96 mph with a real solid slider, perhaps. And we're just working with assumptions that skinny guys can't be durable I take it?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 01:12 PM) And he was awful when he played. You take that back.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 10:07 AM) Ptatc can describe it in further detail, but coming from the side puts far less stress on his elbow than coming over the top or 3/4. And, as that article indicates as well, he's strikingly similar to Randy Johnson too, including mechanically. Johnson threw 200+ innings 14 times, and he was well on his way to doing it in '94 too. EDIT: Thinking back, it may not have been ptatc, but I have read in the past where there is less concern over Sale due to the angle at which he throws. I'm honestly not concerned in the least. I've always thought that his arm motion is a much safer angle for his slider than coming over the top would be. I think some people just believe that coming from an angle like that automatically makes you an injury risk, and I just don't believe that to be the case. Obviously every pitcher is an injury risk but Sale is no more so than any other guy imo.

I'm still not sure why Sale is so much more of an injury risk than any other pitcher.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 10:20 PM) In football though, oftentimes you are looking to slot these players into your lineup within a year or two. In baseball, you are projecting out several years in most cases. It is much easier to address needs on a short-term basis than on a long-term basis, because you are not trying to predict the future as much. Ya exactly. Drafting by need in baseball makes no sense, drafting by need in football is essential.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 01:19 PM) fitness related goals for 2013? Work out 260 days this year. Average of 5 days a week. A hour a day. The funny thing? That's only 3% of my time. EZ. Dunk a basketball. Unrelated to that, I'm going to cut down about 15 lbs over the next 3 months here and then go from there.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 11:51 AM) Purdue has offered a scholly to soph Jalen Brunson from Stevenson. The kid is going to be the best PG in state by the time he's a senior. Heard he maybe moving east this coming summer as well. Interesting. I need to go watch him in person.

SIU-Bradley and Ill State-Creighton on tv?!?!?!? Rowand heaven.