witesoxfan

The only reason I wanted Madden 13 was because I wanted to play with Mario Williams, and that ended quickly. This year, I just want to play with EJ. I think I'm better off holding my money because I'm still playing Madden 12 online. It's awesome with the Pats because I catch touchdowns with Hernandez and yell "MURDERAH" and it pisses people off.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 01:42 PM) Injuries do not always force you to sit. You guys should know that. But in a league like the NFL, even playing dinged up can produce terrible results. Look at the gamelogs if you don't believe me. Plus, we're arguing how taking those guys early over QBs is a very bad move as QBs are much more consistent than RBs, year to year in fantasy. Say you go QB-RB-RB instead of RB-RB-QB, for hypothetical purposes. You can see your top 3 QB produce 22 PPW, your RB1 produce 13 PPW (1200 rushing, 400 receiving, 8 TDs), and your RB2 produce 8 PPW (128 points, which can be a 750/170/6 TD season, which is about what you'd expect). Total is 43 points, which is pretty solid. In the second, you see your RB1 produce 16 PPW (1560 rushing, 400 receiving, 10 TDs), your RB2 produces 13 PPW, and your QB produces 15 PPW - total is 44 points, which is obviously forced in this situation, but not entirely unreasonable and, in fact, perhaps unfair against the second scenario. THEN, full well KNOWING that RBs get hurt more often, you can lose either one of your top backs, plug in your RB3, and still get 8 PPW. If you lose your top back in the first scenario, you are looking at, like 22/8/5, and you are left hoping your QB can pull a miracle out of his ass every week. Both Rowand and I have said that taking QBs in the first round is not necessarily a bad move, but more often then not, in standard leagues, drafting running backs will be the logical choice. That's why RBs go so high. There are simply not a lot of guys out there who can get you the points that you need...if you're lucky, you get 2 good ones plus 2-3 others with upside, and the difference between #1 and #15 and #31 is incredibly large. Receivers and QBs though have a wide variety, and while the difference in QBs between #1 and #15 and #31 is bigger, you only HAVE to play one of those in standard leagues, and there are very few leagues that actually MAKE you play 2. And receivers are ridiculous...as I pointed out there were like 50 receivers last year who caught 700 yards or more, and there are plenty of others who can make up for that difference in PPR leagues (I love when a 8/50/1 game gets me 19 points). Now, if your league allows you to draft play 2 QBs? Your first two picks better be goddamn QBs or you're going to lose.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 12:23 PM) Still more expensive than a tennis ball, which is actually more useful for playing fun games than the WiiU. In other news, Madden came out yesterday. Trestman looks legit, and the gameplay and presentation is a true blast. So is it actually good this year, or is it good for the first 2 weeks and then s*** again like Madden 2013? Because I hated it on the demo and then your review made me buy it and I played it for maybe 10 hours and then shortly thereafter you declared it s***.

If you are incredibly gifted, then it's perfectly fine. I mean, my passion in life is baseball, specifically playing baseball, but I really can't do that for the rest of my life unless I want to die in 4 months due to lack of food and shelter. Generally, society will provide outlets that allow you to enjoy life while allowing you to also sustain yourself. Sometimes, this is "selling out to the man" and "being told what to do."

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 12:35 PM) Doug Martin - 2nd year RB - I'm weery - REALLY? HOW? HE WAS A GREAT BACK LAST YEAR AND THE OLINE IMPROVED LeSean McCoy - Usually is injured - IN 4 YEARS, HE HAS MISSED 6 GAMES CJ Spiller - Fred Thomas - FRED JACKSON, AND YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOT PAID ATTENTION. MARRONE IS USING SPILLER AS HIS BELLCOW WITH JACKSON ONLY SPELLING HIM Arian Foster - Oft Injured - IN 3 YEARS AS A STARTER, HE HAS MISSED 3 GAMES Trent Richardson - Got a lot of TDs, not that many yards - HE WAS A BANGED UP ROOKIE, NOW HE IS HEALTHY, AND HE IS A BELLCOW WITH BRANDON JACKSON AS A BACKUP Matt Forte - Michael Bush takes the TD - AND ALMOST ALWAYS GOOD FOR 1500 YARDS FROM SCRIMMAGE Stevan Ridley - See my previous post on him. Any NE RB is never a good argument - THIS IS A FLAWED ARGUMENT. RIDLEY IS THEIR 1ST, 2ND, AND GOALLINE BACK. HE IS GOING TO BE BUSY Maurice Jones-Drew - Downhill - WORTH A FLIER LATER AND THERE'S STILL NOBODY BEHIND HIM Reggie Bush - Hell no - GOOD PPR CHOICE, UNLESS YOU TRUST MIKEL LESHOURE OR JOIQUE BELL Lamar Miller - What? - #1 BACK AND GOING TO GET A TON OF CARRIES Please let me play in pay leagues with you so you can pick up guys like Rashad Jennings and Daryl Richardson. I don't think I've seen rankings this misguided in a really, really long time.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 11:29 AM) Ya I actually took Brees with my first round pick last year ha, but that's because having Lynch kept as a late round keeper gave me a ton of flexibility and with Brady, Rodgers and Stafford off the board and having no idea what the 1st year starters/Peyton Manning were capable of, it made the most sense for me at the time. But ya, 95 percent of the time I'm waiting on a quarterback. My sister plays in a league with her husband and his buddies, and she started this in 2010. That first year, I helped out a ton, and I told her the name to know is Arian Foster and told her explicitly not to tell her husband. She did anyways, and he thought I was crazy. She asked every round until the 4th came around when I told her to finally pull the trigger. That was a reach, but a calculated reach. He led her to the championship that year. There are always going to be running backs that go in the mid rounds that will provide good value, but finding them is important. Also, picking up handcuff guys is a good thing to do too, especially young ones when the guy in front has a lot of miles. Ben Tate and Bernard Pierce are the big two that come to mind immediately. Also, rookies tend to fall but they can have big impacts (Giovani Bernard and Eddie Lacy are the big ones here). Finally, those that are injured but should come back healthy can make for good values, but they can screw you too...looking at you Ryan Mathews. f*** that guy.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 11:01 AM) Brees, Rodgers, Brady, Peyton, Cam, RGIII, Matt Ryan, Matt Stafford, Kaepernik, Romo, Wilson, Luck should all be good fantasy qb's if you're in a 12 team league. Try to find 24 rb's that can be good fantasy rb's... That's exactly it. You can find probably 16 QBs in the league right now who can at least be serviceable. You can do the same thing with receivers too. FYI, 28 running backs rushed for over 700 yards last year. There were 24 WR's in the AFC who had that many receiving yards last year, and 5 more tight ends too. The NFC had more too. This is coming from a guy who has drafted a QB with my 1st pick 2 years in a row and having said QB lead me to the playoffs 2 years in a row too - Rodgers and Brees. If you can find value in RBs later, then do so...I did with Martin last year and it was awesome. If not, then take a workhorse early and work your magic with receivers and QBs and tight ends.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 10:45 AM) Chris Getz' wife will be on the coming season of The Amazing Race. I'm sorry, I thought this was Pale Hose Talk and not Pale Hoes Talk and also not "s***ty 2B for the Royals who played some games for the White Sox but got traded for a guy the White Sox had to package with a better player just to get him out of here cuz he sucked so bad which tells you how bad Chris Getz sucks Talk" too The 3rd is a work in progress, but we'll get the details ironed out

The assault can be covered up and, by all indications, was covered up. The drive-by is harder because they didn't have a good view of the shooter and it's still an open case. All they know is that it was a "large Hispanic or Hawaiian person with tattoos all over his arms," because there are none of those in Gainesville.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 09:13 AM) He plays in San Francisco for a large chunk of his games right? Is it possible to hit a cheapie there? 339 down the LF line, 364 to straight left, 364 to straight right, 309 down the RF line (with the wall in play) It's definitely possible. Pence has the longest average distance for home runs this year among players with at least 13 of them.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) http://deadspin.com/angel-dust-and-cover-u...y-sh-1211156111 Looks like rolling stone is about to drop a few bombs, implying Urban Meyer in covering up a lot of AH's misdeeds at UF, and his fathers somewhat shady death http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-ga...r-in-the-huddle They did drop a few bombs. The storyline becomes clearer, that's for sure, but there's not a ton of new information in here if you've been following closely. The angeldust is definitely new though

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 10:39 PM) Hunter Pence hit the longest home run in the bigs this season, 476 feet. At Coors, but still a huge blast http://deadspin.com/watch-hunter-pence-hit...3-so-1212209908 He has 16 home runs this year. Here are his 8 longest 476 460 459 442 433 425 421 421 He doesn't hit a ton of them, but when he gets a hold of balls, they aren't cheapies

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 12:17 AM) lads and laddies. Jesus what is this, 19th century Scotland?

And Walker was awful this year, regardless of whether he was a former first round pick. Frankly, I could care less with these guys who were former first rounders and sandwich picks. Yes, it sucks that they suck and whatever, but the reason people say that the MLB draft is a crapshoot is because it IS a crapshoot. You are hoping to get 2 players out of 40 drafted to make it and stick in the majors, regardless of what round. That's 5%. Yes, a 1st round pick is going to be among the more talented players, but talent still takes refinement and a ton of it too and these guys were raw because, if they were able to develop and use their tools in game, they would have turned out to be top 5-10 players at their positions in the game, but they did not, and they've fallen. It's not the end of the world. (Even so, Walker has done some decent things this year too...he's walking a lot and stealing bases, and if he can cut his K% down to below 25%, he's got a shot to make it too, but we're a long ways from that) Thompson has struggled in the second half, but frankly he's done enough this year to keep me relatively excited about him too. Cut his K% (down to a manageable 23.7%, which is still on the high side) and kept his BB% good (10.5%), so the idea of his numbers improving next year, and significantly so, is not out of the question. Jacobs is the same sort of flyer, but even more so. The Sox got him for a 36 year old reliever with 3 months left on his contract. If he turns into ANYTHING, even a trade piece, he's worth it, because the Sox were going to lose Thornton no matter what.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 11:06 PM) In a ten team PPR Cam Ray Rice, Alfred Morris, Frank Gore, Rashard Mendenhall, Gio Bernard, DeAngelo Williams Roddy White, Stevie Johnson, Lance Moore, Chris Givens Tony Gonzalez, Zach Sudfeld Rams Randy Bullock Pretty strong team, no? I just need help figuring out a WR2. Johnson was a somewhat early pick for me there, but that was before his QB situation. Now I don't know what to do. The Bills are trying to get Manuel into game shape for week 1, and if he's healthy, he's going to play. Still, I think that's going to be a very, very run heavy offense and Johnson is going to be working primarily out of the slot. Given, it's a west coast offense, and he's still (one of) the best route runner(s) in the NFL. 70/1000 wouldn't surprise me again out of him, but I think they're going to look to spread it around too. They have a bit of depth at receiver this year. Maybe try and trade Morris for a good WR2. He's a good fantasy back but loses value in PPR's, and you have a lot of depth amongst your RBs. I think on a week to week basis you can get by with Gore/Bernard as RB2's, and Mendenhall and Williams work as filler in the event of byes or injury.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) Sometimes when I read your posts I think you need an opinion column where you can give other tips on being a man. Something like: "If you are trying to bring a girl home from a bar, but you think you drank to much. You should throw up at the bar not at your place. Because if you throw up at home and she hears it your chances of scoring have dramatically reduced." Well there are other problems that arise from a situation like that. She might hear you doing that and get sick herself, but she won't have a bathroom to ralph in, so she will go on your bed or in your sink, neither of which are good options. Also, she may be into that, which makes it 1000x weirder. Of course, she may be the maternal type and she will want to take care of you and hold your hair and rub your back, and then you can get snuggles that night and then you brush your teeth in the morning and get some morning sex, which is always the best by far.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 04:29 PM) But if they want to compete in 2015, the only way they're going to turn that value into performance on the field is to trade most, if not all of these guys. You are smelling what I am cooking

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 04:26 PM) Why cant a girl just ever want to talk and have a nice time? bow chika wow wow

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 04:07 PM) The first wave of guys is starting to stagnate. That isn't good if you want to compete in 2 years. The other consideration is that these guys CAN stagnate, but so long as someone believes they are still a rising star, they will still have value and they can still capitalize on that value.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 03:49 PM) Looks like they're being represented by: P- Chris Bassitt P- Charlie Leesman P- Stephen McCray P- Kevin Vance 2B- Micah Johnson SS- Marcus Semien I'm stunned none of our outfielders got sent there. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/afl/club.jsp?team_id=454 Not sure if serious. Leesman and McCray surprise me. I'm guessing they want to see Leesman given relief opportunities because he could very easily end up in the pen next season. Not sure what they're doing with McCray. The other 4, especially Bassitt, Johnson, and Semien, seemed to be mortal locks.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) Of course. Which is why I'm glad I posted about it on a message board. This is how I feel too (about myself, not about you). I don't judge though - you were just looking for a place to vent regarding a situation you thought you had a grip on, and for all you know you very well might and she may be playing those games, but in the end it IS nothing more than petty games and they aren't going to stop you from meeting up with her in the long run. You handled everything perfectly, so there's your self-verificiation if you need it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 02:21 PM) Drug use to beat fatigue has been part of baseball since the 60s and 70s, if not earlier. It's not some new phenomenon. Drug use to beat fatigue has been around for a hell of a lot longer than that. Just because caffeine is in f'ing everything and is generally harmless doesn't make it any less of a drug.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) Oh, it's over the top. It's just there are A) Way worse things he could do B) Everyone gets frustrated from time to time, as long as it's not common. He's not punching a bat (or, errherm, a locker) like Quentin did, which essentially killed the Sox chances of winning the division in 2008. Thankfully the Twins choked hard.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) The problem with many of you and dating is quite simple, and I can give you a few tips on how to fix it. All you have to do is follow these five easy steps: 1) You'll have to get in better shape. Way, wayyyy better shape. This is a must, because she has to think you care about yourself more than you care about her, which will force her to try to make you care about her more than you care about yourself. 2) You'll have to learn how to let everyone around you know that you're better than them, without actually saying so, as that's the difference in being conceited, which nobody likes, and confidence, which the girls love. This will cause the girls to gravitate to you while telling their friends how annoying you are, but like a moth to flame, she will come. 3) You'll have to learn that when in the "group of BFFs" situation, where your actual target is the cutest one, be sure to pay more attention to her obviously less cute friends, as this will annoy her, and cause her to go out of her way to get your attention back from the lesser minions that surround her. 4) You'll have to learn how to be an "asshole", because let's face it, the ones you want to date love the asshole. Sure, they'll tell their very sad puppy dog friendzoned guy friend what an asshole you are, and how nice and awesome they are, but you'll be the one they're texting or calling later that night for some action. 5) You'll have to get way better looking. This is probably the most important step. If you can get them to say to anyone they know, "He's not THAT good looking!", then you've won. If you follow these simple steps, I guarantee that dating will be easier, more successful, and even if you go out of your way to f*** it up, they'll forgive you. I think what you are suggesting is steps on how to make men become alpha males. These are guidelines that will get guys laid and I'm sure some dates, but they are not universal truths, especially once you begin dating someone. The #1 factor above all else is confidence. If you go up to a girl stuttering and pissing yourself, you won't get much more than maybe a sympathy date. Yes, there are a lot of these that are important, but without confidence, you are f'ed.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 02:07 PM) Seriously, it's like half the people in this thread have never played sports (I know that's false). Especially if you feel like you're letting your team down, punching a cooler is up there with some of the safest ways I can imagine to vent anger. It's not to say I like it or am glad to see him act this way...I like emotion in players, but this is still over the top.