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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) I think Oregon will win. I think they have the better defense. QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) I'm on Oregon. Thirded.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 10:02 AM) I think we all kinda owe LeBron at least a semi-apology. The Cavs are 1-18 since December 2nd. They are f***ing awful. My goodness. Owe him an apology for what? Everyone in the universe knew that Cleveland was going to be brutal and that the Heat were going to be real f***in good. This doesn't change the fact that he handled everything like the massive moron that he is.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 08:54 PM) No, this is from what I have read on message boards and heard from my friends, who are all very big Bears fans. On paper the Bears are the better team and should win, but because of that offensive line, they are capable of being rendered absolutely horrible. Which is why very few national commentators are buying into them at all. And frankly, it's hard to blame them. Oh I agree overall. But as you've learned from my fantastic Saints-NFC West winner prediction that I'm not exactly high on the Seahawks. To be honest, there wasn't a team in the entire playoffs that I'd pick the Bears to beat other than the Hawks. But my predictions have been garbage(minus the Jets-Colts game) up to this point.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 08:52 PM) I've seen them all. If they were going up against a better defense, I would be concerned. But this is a Seahawks team that was 26th in defensive EPA (expected points added). They're 27th in defensive passing EPA and 20th in defensive running EPA. Fangraphs does football too?

I'm not really a Bears fan, so I hope you're not counting me in that, Shack.

If you're a Bears fan this is the best scenario in the history of life. Now, I'm certainly not going to say that the Seahawks have a 0 percent chance of winning but the Bears should handle them and move on to face the Falcons in the NFC championship(that was for you shack ).

Hooray lucky games. Whatever, I'll take it!

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 03:26 PM) Fay may be having the best game of his career. Ya, he's not missing. Nice to see but it'll certainly be a one game only type deal.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 02:34 PM) ISU vs. SIU Go Birds! Gotta love how you can just throw a zone defense at us and we go on a 4 minute scoring drought. Chris Lowery despite being a head coach for 7 years now has apparently still never seen a zone defense, it's quite astonishing. Also gotta love the talent level on these two teams. Carmichael and Seck are both long, athletic very smart basketball players who could start on a lot of bcs teams while the rest of these players should be playing like division 2 somewhere. Obviously I'm exaggerating a tad but unfortunately it's not that much.

Who knows? I've been one worried about Sale just because I think the kid is so damn talented and I don't want him to have a career threatening injury real early in his career, so I'm just paranoid about it. That being said, people thought Lincecum was a sure thing to get injured right away as a starter as well and so far obviously nothing has come of that, you just never know.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 12:27 PM) Entire Chiefs secondary is getting abused. Eric Berry might be the worst blitzing safety I have ever seen. Wow. It's been their linebackers mostly as they're playing deep coverage with their secondary. It's all been over the middle of the field with Heap and Rice. Hoping KC can make a few adjustments and pull this out in the 2nd half.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 10:28 AM) There were more calls for Kenny's firing and Jerry selling the team, than anything else. Eh, people for the most part were pretty happy around here during the 05 offseason. That being said I'm not sure how one would have been happier after 05 than this one because a lot of the question marks are similar and overall this team has more talent than the 05 one did. 06 I can definitely understand though.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Jan 9, 2011 -> 10:18 AM) Santos... unless if something changes control wise... i think he is closer to the pitcher he was the last two months... rather than the first four. People undervalue just how valuable it is when a player has a limited, or in the case of santos, nearly no scouting report at all against. You also can't undervalue how crazy it was for a guy who had virtually no pitching experience to come in and put up the numbers that he did last season. You can say teams got a scouting report on him but you can also just as easily say that he got wore down since you know, he's never pitched before. The guy has a terrific arm and the more he learns how to pitch, the better he's going to be. Santos to be honest, is one of the least of my worries this season, I think he's going to be one of the elite relievers in baseball.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 09:35 PM) Maybe they grew up a bit with those 2 losses. Hopefully, losing 1 of those games is understandable, both of them was bad. Nice bounce back tonight though. God damn I just want to see this team healthy.

Yay I got 1 right today!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 07:52 PM) Now let me ask you this...say we didn't sign Dunn and maybe ended up with a much lesser player like Lee or Laroche or worse even nobody, what grade would you give the Sox offseason? I'd be shocked if it was higher than a C -. Well as you already said, that was the biggest need for this team and we filled it with one of the better left handed hitters around, so yes that alone jumps the letter grade up quite a bit. If you just look at the offseason, we went into it with a few major holes: 1b, dh, C, bullpen. DH and 1b were filled with two of the better fa's out there, C was filled with a bit of a ? but it's at least someone our pitchers are comfortable with and we know can call a good game, and we added two quality(not spectacular) relievers to the bullpen. Now if you're just comparing this team we have set for 2011 with the 2010 team than obviously you have to look at things a bit different but I still can't see how one wouldn't be upbeat. Since I know you're a WAR fan, what Adam Dunn over Kotsay adds about 3 to 4 wins to this team by himself, no? We both agree that Konerko is going to regress and Becks is going to get better, I'm also convinced that AJ is a lock to have a better offensive season while you're not, that I'm not going to argue though. But would you say it's fair that the offensive numbers as a whole(excluding Dunn) should stay around the same? As far as the pitching staff, I just can't see how there would be anyway that the staff as a whole performs worse than they did last year, would you agree with that? Obviously Peavy is the X factor that could make this staff great but this team still won 88 games last year with him missing half the season and being garbage for 2 of the 3 months he pitched. With the added depth to the pen and hopefully some added consistency from the likes of a Sergio Santos, the pitching staff as a whole should be better even if Peavy isn't healthy all year. Of course this team still has some question marks(everyone does) but we have no holes and a pretty high ceiling if we can stay healthy. I just don't see how anyone could say this is anything but a great offseason.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) So masturbation and ? QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) Breathing and drinking. Man, tough crowd.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 08:24 PM) Team looks set to me. I'd give the offseason a solid B -. That's mostly because of the massive upgrade at DH. Just curious, what would you have liked to seen done?

QUOTE (Felix @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 08:02 PM) CON AIR I love that movie. No sarcasm.

Wow, never in a million years saw that coming. Awesome!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 07:19 PM) It wasn't a mishap. They were never going to kick that fg. It was a 53 yarder and they just lined up to see if the Saints would do something stupid. The delay doesn't hurt your field position if you're going to pooch it there. Ya, I thought about that right when I posted and logically that certainly makes sense. I'll have to see the play again though, for some reason when I first saw it I actually did think it was a mistake.

I really don't understand what the Cubs are trying to do as a franchise right now, however, I will say that I think the whole peripheral thing with Garza is quite overrated for the fact that he's still been able to put up a consistently good era the last 4 seasons.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 05:48 PM) Hey Rowand, you still thinking 0%? Haha, I was waiting for someone to bring that up because I would have myself if Seattle hangs on. And no I am not, though I still expect the Saints to pull this out. That delay of game mishap by the Hawks of Sea was huuuuge. All that being said, definitely rooting for Seattle to hold on here!

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 04:15 PM) Is drinking and BSing the other 2? Those weren't the two I was thinking of but I like it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) Yeah, we'd need Green Bay to beat Philly too. I think that was Balta's way of saying that he thinks Philly is going to win.