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I really don't think the Saints have a shot. I think New Orleans leads after the first half, and the Colts win by 2 scores. Similar to the Jets game last week.

"Why the Saints — or Colts — will win Sunday" just wanted to point out the headline of this article.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 11:01 PM) Things people forget about that situation: Belliard hit .355/.399/.616/1.015 over the final 2 months of the season and sitting down Hudson a few times a week kept him from reaching plate appearance based incentives. Hudson had a 10 game hitting streak from July 31st to August 10th. From that point on, he put up a line of .244/.336/.366/.702. Hudson's a good player, but he's pretty streaky.

f***ing that was a s***ty surprise team

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 01:22 PM) I'll take buns over beef sticks. I dooooooooo agree.

It's pretty damn cool seeing all of those guys in their college uniforms. They all look so young and cute!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) Come of the end of his current contract he'll have made ~$88M over the course of his career in salary alone, that's more than a enough to live off of and pass along to the kids. I believe his daughter and son will be 2 and 4 respectively come 2011, sounds like a perfect time to walk away to me. If it's something he truly wishes to do and has the will power to pull off then more power to him. Seeing that number is wild. When I watch Mark Buehrle pitch, I don't think of a guy that's going to make close to 9 digits in his playing career, but goddamn is he good and he deserves it.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 10:03 PM) I'll admit it. I looked. And I think Greg Oden's knee problems are a basketball related injury. However, the constant pounding from the side can't be good for him. Reminds me of the time a buddy was wearing gray sweat pants. He had the pockets pulled out, and I was like, why do you have those pulled out? He said "They're my elephant ears. Want to see the trunk?"

QUOTE (JackTalkThai @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) Tigers sign Verlander to an extension. 5 years $80 mill. It's pretty much market value, but I am wondering what kind of season he's going to have this year. 240 innings is a lot of innings. It's going to be interesting to see how he holds up this year.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) I think you mixed that up. He said dont talk about your ex with the new girls, not dont talk about the new girls with your ex maybe i am just reading your response wrong QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 02:33 PM) You're right about what I meant, but I wouldn't do either. Oh well, I wouldn't talk about the ex with new girls. Anyways, I've given her an ultimatum and a little bit of time to think. She still has feelings for me, and that I know, but she's a bit confused about the future. I'll give her the time but the ball is in her court now, so there's not much I can do.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) I just read this, in 3 of the past 4 seasons, the Twins have either won or lost the AL Central division title by 1 game. That's being a truly competitive team, and it's an organization that really understands that baseball is a marathon.

I don't believe necessarily believe it to be 100% true, but I think the Sox are really high on both Flowers and Hudson. If they think both could be very good, you are essentially looking at 10-12 years of good productivity opposed to 2 years of great productivity. It's a bit of a business decision and an opportunity cost dilemma.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) They are projecting only one team barely above the break even point in the AL Central Projections and predictions are worth as much as the paper they're written on.

Bills brought in George Edwards, who was just hired to run the Florida Gators defense, as defensive coordinator. Sounds like he plans to switch to a mainly 3-4 defense, which is just fine by me.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 01:11 AM) I forget which comedian it was, but he had a routine on something that applies here. He talked about how girls are taught when they're younger how special they are. It was mostly about p****, and how they're taught that it's special and that you can't let anybody touch it. Girls also get treated like daddy's little princess so much that they really do seem to think of themselves as better than others. Of course this isn't true of all women, but I've seen quite a few that would fall into that category. Some more advice for wite, don't talk about your ex with new girls you meet. I've seen people do that a lot, and it only hurts your chances. I haven't planned on it. If she were to ever ask, I would say I've talked to some girls but that's all the more I'd do. I wouldn't mention names, where I was, what the extent of the conversations were, what we did, or anything. Just that we talked.

QUOTE (scenario @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 12:27 PM) If they sign him, their payroll will almost be equal to ours. Pretty aggressive for a small market team. 16th biggest metropolitan area in the nation, and Felix posted a link not that long ago that had Minneapolis in like the top 15 for market size. They've been masking themselves as a small market team for years and years. Carl Pohlad's death may have been a great thing for the Twins organization, because they've been opening their checkbook quite a bit more recently.

Orlando Hudson is deciding between the Twins and Indians. Sweet.

That's how I'm leaning right now.

Answers to the questions. 1) Simple crush. Kind of like I figured. 2) Not ready to date yet (aka friendzoned). Also kind of the vibe I was feeling. Yeah, not sure what I'm going to do now, but it will all come in time. Just going to keep my options open, and if something with another girl comes up, I'll pursue it.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Feb 3, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) If Crede were a DH then you would have a DH who hits .255/20/70, you can get better than that. I agree, that's exactly why he won't be a DH. Part of his overall value was his ability to field, and with that comes a bad back, and whether its in the field, at the plate, or both, he always ends up hurting his back when he plays baseball at a high level, and his value is very minimal at this point and it wouldn't be surprising to see him hang it up within the next couple of years.

1993 Sky Blue Toyota Camry, and I'm damn proud of it.

My sister got married when she was 23, just had a friend get married at 23 or 24, one of my cousins got married at 20 (though that was partly because she comes from a very Catholic background, met a guy who is also very Catholic, and they got pregnant, though their relationship is very strong all the same), and many other cousins have gotten married ranging from 25 to 32. It all depends on if you're both ready to take that next step, and if you truly are ready, then do it.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 2, 2010 -> 07:48 PM) I don't think Hudson will be a #4 this season, but I can see him being one of the best #5 starters in baseball. I really like Hudson and he looks good for a 22-year-old. Being one of the best #5 starters in baseball would make him a #4 or even a #3 starter. I didn't say he'd be the #4 in the Sox rotation - it's pretty obvious that Peavy, Buehrle, Floyd, and Danks are all better than him currently.

I think Dan Hudson would probably be a #4 this season, with the potential to be a #2-3.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 2, 2010 -> 01:16 PM) Out of curiousity, if you run the power analysis for an entire season what is the number of at bat needed to consider the methodolgy valid? I've never seen this posted. http://books.google.com/books?id=uxdvwQdXb...%3F&f=false I don't have the book with me, but this is part of the article from the book itself. This part of it divulges into whether certain hitters are simply better against certain pitchers or not, and the title of the article is something along the lines of "Does Mike Redmond own Tom Glavine?" These are looking very small sample sizes - I think the minimum they use is 25 plate appearances - but they likely range up into the area of 100+ plate appearances - Mike Redmond was 21 for 48 against Glavine with 3 walks, while Tony Gwynn was 39 for 91 against Greg Maddux with 10 walks and 2 sacrifices. The article basically points to the fact that, while these guys may hit a certain type of pitcher better than others (Redmond is known to hit lefties very well, and Gwynn was a fantastic hitter period), their actual splits against these single pitchers is not necessarily accurate of how good or bad they actually were simply because they didn't have enough plate appearances to prove it. This same thought process works exactly the same with a hitter in a specific ballpark as well - just because a hitter has a good stretch of about 185 plate appearances at a ballpark doesn't necessarily mean they are actually that good in the ballpark but rather they've had a good stretch. Anyways, after rambling about information that is generally common sense, I would guess that you'd want to be looking at 400-500 plate appearances at the minimum, and the more and more you get the more statistically relevant it is. You probably want atleast a year's worth of data, which is around 500-600 plate appearances to determine traits of a hitter against a certain pitcher (whether specific or type) or ballpark. 185 plate appearances suggests basically that a guy got hot for 2 months worth, and he might put up worse numbers over the next 4 months worth of playing time.