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QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 12:05 AM) The Devs of The Show do a live-stream every Thursday. Today's they did Cubs/Pirates game. Some of the ratings I saw for Cubs pitcherss...... Lester - 89, Arrieta - 84, Hammel/Wood - 79. For reference, I think Sale was like a 92, Samardzija was an 81, and Q was a 74 I think. So they think Arrieta is better than Shark (could be, but seems premature to say that), and Hammel and Wood are almost as good as Samardzija, and both better than Quintana. f***ing laughable. Quintana as a 74? Have they not watched him at all the last two years? Hell, the stats are right there.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 04:32 PM) So the mlb rankings for The Show '15 came out today. The Sox rate out as the 22nd best team in baseball. I'm not terribly surprised. They rate Quintana as a 4th/5th starter. Abreu and Sale are the only highly rated player, and Abreu is still only rated as an 84 overall. The Cubs.....as you would expect, are highly, HIGHLY overrated in this game. But I was thinking they'd be around like #15 or so. NOPE. The Cubs are ranked as the #2 team in baseball!!!! LMAO. Number f***ing TWO. The Cubs are better than the Nationals. I haven't seen their ratings yet, but I'd bet Lester is about a 96, Arrieta a 90 or so, Kris Bryant is probably an 88. Just disgusting. That's just some idiot on Operation Sports. There's no way the Cubs are actually #2.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) I didn't look into the timing at all, but yeah those could be some great Sundays. Every single sign points to yes, and it should be official next week. Chelsea looked awful. They scored their goal and were content to go home with an away goal in their pocket. I was surprised too, but PSG looked the much better side. Bayern should be fine, but that was a surprising result as well. The little of the match I saw they didn't seem like they were really that worried about scoring That's Mourinho's style. Score and park the bus. Bayern should be fine, but I expected them to score at least 2-3 times with the way they played last week against Hamburg SV.

I can't believe PSG actually played better than Chelsea yesterday in the CL. It was in Paris, but PSG had more possession and way more shots. If it wasn't for Courtois saving Chelsea's ass time and time again, they could have easily lost 3-1. Bayern also struggled to score against Donetsk in Ukraine. Alonso's gonna be suspended for the second leg of the round of 16.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) In Brazil, matches were played at 1pm/4pm/7pm local time. If they use the same schedule in Qatar, with the time difference, the last WC match of the day will be ending at 1pm ET, so no overlap with the NFL on Sundays and only one hour with CFB on Saturdays. Could make for some epic weekends, with soccer matches running from 5am-1pm and football games running from 1pm-midnight. Are they actually going to play the 2022 WC during the fall instead of the summer? I mean, it makes sense, but it'll really screw with club play.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) twolves reportedly considering buying out Kevin Martin I don't think the Bulls have the cap space to get him if he's an FA.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 16, 2015 -> 09:37 PM) Bruce Chen stays within in the division. Signs minor league deal with the Indians. Seriously, why don't the Sox just sign him and stash him in AAA so we won't get our annual 2-3 losses against him?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 13, 2015 -> 10:37 AM) Only 10 innings. 3.49 FIP in 63 innings the year before with Cleveland. He can be a solid middle relief guy.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 12, 2015 -> 10:22 PM) Lampard isnt going to NYFC until the summer. I was excited last year thinking I'd see Donovan but he had to retire and ruin those plans. The US was awarded the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying for Brazil 2016. I remember going to see the US-Cuba and Panama-Honduras double header in 2008. The US had Edu,Adu,Jozy,Sacha,Holden and a few other guys who made the senior team and still tied Cuba. But the best part was sitting about 5 rows behind the goal and watching the Cuban GK talking to fans the entire game. I dont know what was being talked about but the next night, he and about 5 others got out of their hotel and defected. lol But you'll get to see Steven Gerrard next year. He's slowed down a bit this year, but even at age 35, I'd think he'd be pretty good at the MLS level.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 12, 2015 -> 10:10 PM) Bought my tickets for the Orlando City opener against NYFC! They want to sell out the Citrus Bowl for the opener. That may be tough but they've sold over 30k tickets so far and have over 11k season ticket holders. Should be some fun times this season. Kaka, David Villa, and Frank Lampard. Should be fun. I wish Xavi would come to the MLS. He's not getting any burn at Barca.

Snell's on a hot streak as of late. Good to see old DRose show up tonight. Lots of drives to the bucket.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 12, 2015 -> 08:24 AM) Finally got to watch The Walking Dead. Good episode,

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 11, 2015 -> 04:49 PM) http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/1...ml#.VNvbldKUdsI Protected free speech or the makings of his eventual demise? That last line is VERY close to a threat/call to arms. Speech is protected, up to the boundary line of potentially injuring other groups of people as a result. “I give your religion as much respect as your religion gives me,” he wrote. “There’s nothing complicated about it, and I have every right to insult a religion that goes out of its way to insult, to judge, and to condemn me as an inadequate human being – which your religion does with self-righteous gusto.” It’s not clear if Hicks was referring to a particular religion or all religions. He continued: “When it comes to insults, your religion started this, not me,” he wrote. “If your religion kept its big mouth shut, so would I. But given that it doesn’t, and given the enormous harm that your religion has done in this world, I’d say that I have not only a right, but a duty, to insult it, as does every rational, thinking person on this planet.” Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/1...l#storylink=cpy These are the people who give atheists a bad name.

QUOTE (asindc @ Feb 11, 2015 -> 05:00 PM) I see two points to Barkley's argument: 1) Advanced metrics are not needed at all to identify efficient star players; and 2) advanced metrics cannot be used to identify which efficient star players will work well with each other. On point one, I agree only to a point. Advanced metrics can be used in conjunction with scouting to identify efficient basketball players, but... on point two, I wholeheartedly agree. That's why I said earlier that advanced metrics are more useful in baseball than basketball. The plays in basketball are fluid in nature and cannot be isolated to the extent that play is in baseball (pitcher vs. batter, batter vs. fielder, base running vs. pitcher/catcher, etc.). If a shooting guard plays with a crappy point guard, his numbers won't look as good as they probably would with an average point guard. A hitter cannot make any claims as to his teammates possibly dragging his performance down. I can agree with point 2 in basketball. Look what Josh Smith did in his first few games with Houston. But Charles' crusade against analytics is stupid. Yes, Morey takes it too seriously and he's done some weird things and he doesn't have a whole lot to show for it. But that doesn't mean the idea behind it isn't effective.

Charles' argument doesn't hold a lot of water. He gave examples like the current Spurs, 90s Bulls, and 00s Lakers as arguments against analytics. Charles, those teams had efficient star players. That's why they won. That's how you win in basketball. Morey takes it a bit too far since all he wants are guys who either shoot 3s, draw fouls, or hit layups, but if you want to win, you need players who can do that in basketball. Shooting long 2 point shots isn't efficient and teams who rely on that type of game aren't successful.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) Yeah I saw that on the Kap and Haugh show yesterday. Kap thinks the Cubs will trade Castillo, Wood and a couple prospects not named Baez, Almora, Edwards (obviously not Russell or Bryant) for Hamels. Lol what a joke. Amaro is stupid, but not that stupid.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) Not sure how I feel about Better Call Saul so far. The beginning and end of the first episode was great. I'm hating the stuff with Chuck so far, but I'm hopeful there will be a good payoff to that plot. Does anyone know what's really wrong with Chuck? Is he just crazy?

I thought this was a thread about James Shields?

lol I was saying that Shields would get 4 years and $75 million a few months ago and some of you said I was stupidly stupid. Well, who's stupidly stupid now guys? HUH?

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 8, 2015 -> 11:36 PM) I was flipping back and forth from that and the US-Panama match. Crazy how it was 2-0 Ghana after the first two rounds of the PKs. Ghana choked that away. Ghana really sucks at PKs...Gyan missing the Suarez handball PK cost them a chance to go the semis in the 2010 World Cup.

Real Madrid got absolutely embarrassed by Athletico yesterday. It seems like Athleti knows how to play Real well.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 7, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) Tottenham beats Arsenal on a late goal by Harry Kane. The kid is only 21 years old, a Spurs fan and has been tremendous this season. Great game. He's probably the third best striker in the BPL right now (after Aguero and Costa).

QUOTE (asindc @ Feb 4, 2015 -> 09:29 AM) I'm not as high on Shields as some others here seem to be. At his best he was a #2.5-#3 starter and is 33 years old. He wants solid #2-#1.5 starter money. I'll pass. No, he is at least a 2-1.5 right now. He might not be come 2016 though.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 3, 2015 -> 01:10 PM) The Bulls have reportedly checked in on Tobias Harris. Decent, but nothing to get too excited about.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 12:12 PM) The only commercials that got any reactions from my house: 1.) Budweiser dog - no explanation needed 2.) Insurance commercial with the dying kid - Everyone basically said WTF and talked about how they were just doing to get people to make posts/tweets/texts/emails like this. 3.) The NBC show "The Slap" - Our room erupted with laughter as we had no idea why NBC though this was a good idea for a show. What a terrible, terrible idea. Then we questioned what had happened to Uma Thurman's career where she becomes the 6th listed actor/actress on such a horrible pilot. NBC...where good shows to go die because NBC would rather promote stupid shows called "The Slap".