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How many times has Alexei done that? Such poor fundamentals.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 10:44 AM) Was going to ask if any of you guys had any information on him. Not much to get excited about than? QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 11:11 AM) No. He had no business ever being offered a scholarship to Illinois and his skill level is very very low. I think he will probably be able to contribute a bit on the glass and defensively for SIU but that is about it. That about sums it up. He barely touched the court last year, he played a lot more under Weber 2 years ago ("a lot more" relative to last year), still not very much at all. Just a big body to have in there and help with the foul situation etc.

Badger and Little, thanks for the info. Any recs on where to go for life insurance? Anyone have a good experience somewhere? Not looking to get it through work.

I forgot the P in there...durable power of attorney

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) This doesn't make sense to me. You've successfully isolated how much of the effort can be attributed to the pitcher, why wouldn't you just judge him on that? Why would you add or subtract credit for how well his teammates played? Exactly this.

Now that we have a daughter, I'm looking for advice from people who have set these sorts of things up recently. Did you set a lot of it up yourself, or go through an attorney for it? How much did it cost you? Any recommendations in the Chicagoland area? Any other insight on getting this stuff set up would be appreciated.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 12:32 PM) That's probably most of it. But there's something to be said for doing enough to win the game, regardless of everything else that goes on. Like I said originally, it has far less value than other stats. I'm just saying that it is not 100% meaningless, as some have suggested. This is nonsense. A pitcher can't "do enough" when the team is on offense. He can pitch a shutout and still not get a W, or even a L if a run was given up due to an error. A pitcher also doesn't try to work with any cushion he has. If they score 6, he doesn't take the foot off the gas and give up 5 so he "does enough." He still tries to throw a shutout. A pitcher can go 7 IP, 1 ER and lose. A pitcher can go 5 IP, 6 ER and win. That right there tells me it's a pretty meaningless statistic. It's 99% meaningless, if you don't like 100%.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 07:52 AM) Yes. Because he has the most control over it. Does he have it all, no. However, he is the most significant variable in it. It obviously doesn't tell everything and can't be looked at only for individual games but needs to be over a season and multiple seasons. The advent of specialzed relievers has made it less important as the starter pitches less. Except he doesn't control the run support, which is a huge factor. Nor does he control the bullpen. He only controls what he gives up. Sale's record is what it is because of awful run support. Does that make him less of a pitcher than some of the guys in the AL with a better record? What a lazy approach. Look at Felix Hernandez. Won a Cy Young with a 13-12 record and LED THE LEAGUE IN ERA. Guess the record was his fault, year after year. I can't believe someone could watch Chris Sale this whole year and still think W/L is relevant. His support is 2.96. Scherzer's is 6.04. And Sale's ERA is better than Scherzer's. But Scherzer's leaps and bounds better because "he just wins." The numbers prove you wrong, it's not a good tool to evaluate a pitcher.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 19, 2013 -> 09:25 PM) Considering that's what we base a good or bad season on and who goes to the playoffs, I would agree it's the most important. What? Did you just compare team w/l to a pitcher's w/l?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 19, 2013 -> 02:06 PM) Was this really a post? Or am I daydreaming this? Someone get that to Brooks.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 19, 2013 -> 05:40 PM) Right except it absolutely doesn't, lol. It tells you which teams have played the best relative to the ones they've played against. If that's the question you're asking, then yes, it tells you all you need to know. W/L record for a pitcher is pointless, it's amazing how many people still use it as a important metric.

I don't care about this WAR garbage, I just look at his W/L record, tells you all you need to know. - Hawk Harrleson

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 19, 2013 -> 09:09 AM) They put it in the first commercial break of the new show they're trying to sell. It sucks, but i've found that not knowing ANYTHING about what's going to happen in the coming episode adds to the excitement. There was still a preview in the Talking Bad show. He wasn't live in studio, but they had a cut of him talking and they also showed a still-screen of something from the next episode. Then the three of them in-studio discussed the still-screen briefly.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) Trap/catch may be one of the situations that isn't going to be reviewable. Or at least not with runners on. I'd say you could pull it off with no one on. You either reverse it to an out, or it was clearly going to be a single (possibly double).

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:45 PM) Man, condescending. The guy didn't know a random rule. It actually wasn't condescending, just an anecdote. I umpire, and when I have 11/12/13 year old games, every kid starts screaming "hey you got an rbi!" when that happens. No one corrects them.

Obviously I'm very interested to see how this gets implemented. It's not that easy in all cases. Here you go: Bases loaded, 1 out. Ball hit to right center, line drive, medium depth. Guy on 3rd stays at 3rd to tag. Guy on 2nd takes off towards 3rd and is at 3rd when ball reaches fielder. Guy on 1st hangs at first only a few feet off the bag. Ball appears to be trapped and is called a trap in real time. Guy from 3rd and 2nd score, guy on 1st makes 2nd. Replay shows it was a catch. So there's 2 outs. Tell me where the baserunners end up. Tell me how many runs score. You're playing complete make-believe baseball, which is tough. Would the guy on 2nd have made it back to 2nd before a throw beat him? If you say no, would he have been out before the runner on 3rd got in to score? Did he tag up correctly? Is that now reviewable on top of the already reviewed catch? What if he was a few few off the base at 3rd. He never went back to tag, but he didn't need to because he was reacting to the no catch ruling. Good luck. There are just some plays that can't be reviewable and will become a bigger clusterf*** than just going with what happened on the field.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 01:02 PM) He still gets the RBI though. No he doesn't. Guys scoring on a wild pitch while you are at the plate is never an RBI. I realize in little league every kid thinks this, OMG I got an RBI, but they've got it wrong.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:33 AM) Yes, the pitcher is charged with an intentional walk, and the batter is credited with a plate appearance and a walk, and the pitcher is also charged with a wild pitch. Since the wild pitch is what caused the run to score and not the walk, I would describe it as a walk-off wild pitch, though that's really a semantic argument and not a rules argument. While theoretically possible, there should never be such a thing as a walk-off intentional walk. Agreed, the at-bat was completed, the wild pitch caused the run to score, so the count was irrelevant.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:11 AM) Snider taking an unofficial too. Black, Snider and Cliff please. Cliff isn't happening. Maybe Black and Snider, but I'll take Black at this point and be thrilled. We also don't have room for all 3 right now anyway (and not knowing Starks, we don't even have room for 2. Would be nice to hear something soon on that). QUOTE (Boogua @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:21 AM) That would be insane. Black alone, considering where Illinois was a bit over a year ago, would be insane. Most people thought it would be 2015 until Groce got a true impact level recruit. Yeah, exactly. Opens it up to help 2015 then, too. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:51 AM) Of his final four, shouldnt Indiana be the only real threat? Probably. QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:56 AM) I really like Groce, but he still needs to prove he can close the deal on these guys. It's great being talked about with a lot of top recruits and being included in top threes or fives, but in the end, you gotta get the commitment and not be runner-up. Hopefully, this is the year he gets those top recruits. He does, but I can't fault him on any of the ones where we've been bridesmaids so far. He was barely on campus and made up that much ground in a matter of months on some guys. He's already had 3 guys commit while on campus and cancel their next visit. Those weren't 5 stars, I get it...but it appears he can close. August 31st, Leron Black on campus...hopefully it's done right then and there.

Black eliminated Florida and Memphis..........................................................................................

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 09:32 PM) Well I got it Guest I'm going to be a cheese head Glad it all worked out for you man. But moving to Wisky? Ouch.

I love when people just make up idiotic names. Poor kids.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) Maybe if I had a parent who went to Illinois and bled orange and blue it would have been different*. But I was an Illinois fan for the simple fact that I grew up in Chicagoland. Did I root for them, watch all the football/basketball games, follow recruiting? Yeah. But I'll readily admit that I was as never as big an Illinois fan as I am an Indiana fan. And that seems right to me, since I actually went to Indiana and have all those experiences tied up in it. But at the same time, while you and Jenks can't believe someone would switch allegiances so easily, I can't believe someone would actively root against the college they're attending. That always blew my mind. *This makes sense, because my dad was always much more into Bears/White Sox than he was Illinois, so it's not like I became a Vikings and Twins fan when I moved to Minnesota. Moving to a different city is also way different than attending a different college than the one you grew up rooting for, though. Sounds like an early Illinois fan but not really THAT into it. So, it makes sense. College is hard to begin with because you aren't really old by the time you go there, so if you change teams, unless you were really into them from age 6 on or whatever, I could see where it would be easy to change. Most of my friends in HS weren't huge fans of any college in particular, so you start rooting for the school you attend. We've talked about grad school on here before, maybe that's a better example but not quite the same. I wouldn't be going to Michigan for grad school and suddenly drop Illinois and put on my hot yellow t-shirt.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 10:22 AM) I think it is easy to change college allegiances if you pay thousands of dollars to attend a certain place. That shouldn't change someone being a life-long fan of a team. Must not be a big fan to begin with. If you're die-hard, nothing would change it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 09:54 PM) For those that didn't listen to the Hahn interview, he flat out said the Sox are rebuilding. I haven't listened to it yet - did he expand on it when he said it? Rebuilding can obviously mean different things to different people...but interesting.