Everything posted by chw42
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Jake "The Bulldog" Peavy on evaluating pitchers
QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 05:50 PM) Yeah, me too! I figured it would be something like, "Man I gotta say all that matters is a win. A good ol' W. Whatever I gotta do to grind out a win, even if it lands me in a hospital, I will do. If my team doesn't hit for me, I gotta put the fire in them to grind up and hit more. Wins are everything and nothing else will ever matter." I think last year (where he went under .500, but pitched really well) really convinced him that W-L is bulls***. But he probably knew that beforehand.
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Red Sox vs. Tigers
Verlander finally gave up a run.
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Jake "The Bulldog" Peavy on evaluating pitchers
QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 04:58 PM) I swear I'm not trying to start a rehash of an unpopular debate on pitcher wins, though I'm aware it may happen, but it's the offseason and I thought this was interesting coming from the mouth of Jake Peavy, who has a reputation for being a gritty old schooler: Part of an article asking players about which stats that should be used to evaluate pitchers: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/players-vie...itchers-part-2/ Also, from Tyler Flowers: Peavy's the last guy I'm expecting to say what he said.
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2013 Video Game Thread
QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 12:45 PM) Mother f***ing Watchdogs got delayed. It was a month away from being released, now it has been delayed until AT LEAST April. Cool, cancelling that pre-order.... Crap. Oh well, more time to play the other games I've yet to finish.
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Fantasy football advice thread
Went 4-0 in my Yahoo! leagues this week.
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Dodgers vs. Cardinals
QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) It is amazing that he still got a triple out of that. I would imagine if he wasn't posing and watching the ball after contact, and hustling out of the box that he could have gotten an inside the park homer. He was MOVING He would have had it easy.
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Fantasy football advice thread
QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) Rowand, remember how we were talking about how you picked up Julio Jones since a guy dropped him without keeping it through? 2 days later that happened in my league, and I was able to pick him up. I don't think anyone else went for him either. He was a 2nd round pick, so the guy doesn't want to keep him for a 1st...but as a FA, he's now using a spot 3 rounds below next year's ADP. So likely a 5th or 6th rounder. No idea why he wouldn't just throw him on IR, but hey, thanks. I'm glad I created an IR spot this year in my league. I just threw him on IR. Not sure if this league will be a keeper league, but it doesn't hurt.
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2013 TV Thread
QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 12:42 PM) Nothing new ever happens to the main cast. Rick is torn about something. The dude in the motorcycle is a bad ass. Carol likes him. The old Doc provides some advice via analogies. Glen and his gf suffer grief but hug it out. Carl lost the hat but now has too much hair, etc. The zombies are always good, and they were again tonight. But everything else is such crap in this show. The entire aside with Rick and the irish chick - what did that accomplish? What message was delivered there that we didn't already cover 4 times in prior seasons? Zombie apocalypses suck and you have to do awful things to survive? Hmm, that's new. I watch because the zombie kills are always excellent, but man it's upsetting that this show can't raise the bar a little bit. The governor was the best part of the show so far and i'm sure he won't be back until the end of the season (if ever). That Irish chick is going to kill someone important as a Zombie. Just watch.
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2013 Cubs catch all thread
QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 12:41 PM) Everything about that summer sucked. Our family moved in August of that summer, the Sox blew a division lead in September (thanks Jose Paniagua! Ironically, blaming him is doing the exact same thing Cubs fans do to Bartman). The Cubs pulled through in the clutch, the Twins won, and both the Yankees and Red Sox won, though I believe I hated the Red Sox less at the time. It had just been an awful postseason up to that point. Then the Marlins happened, and everything was right in the world again, and then 2 years later, the Sox would win it all. Yes 2003 sucked a lot. I actually lost some friends in middle school because I wasn't a Cubs fan...
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Fantasy football advice thread
QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 09:49 AM) Ha, no, fraternity league. Sucks to be knight too. I also had David Wilson in week 1 and lost by 2 points. The funny part is that he got like -2.1 points that game.
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Red Sox vs. Tigers
QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 02:16 AM) I'm not a fan of that racist prick, but that was a helluva effort and he nearly snared it. Hunter celebrated too...but with his legs.
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Red Sox vs. Tigers
Torii Hunter was pretty close to catching Ortiz's grand slam. He also fell into the bullpen afterwards.
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Red Sox vs. Tigers
QUOTE (zenryan @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 10:30 PM) Big Roidiculous Boston has Papi. The Tigers have Peralta. So it's all fair.
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Fantasy football advice thread
Murray getting hurt sucks. I'll probably win anyhow as I have Rivers going tomorrow and I'm down 9, but losing Murray and Julio (if Murray's injury is serious) would really suck.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 07:00 PM) D'oh! So what you are saying is a lot of patriots have birdies flying around their heads Yes.
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2013 TV Thread
Walking Dead starts again tonight.
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Technology catch-all thread
QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:57 PM) I've seen it done well beyond 8 gb. They must have had the phone for a long time then. Either that or they were doing a ton of sexting lol.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:45 PM) Pathetic coaching to not play for the first down and settle for a fg. You'd think Sean Payton would go for it on 4th down every time.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:41 PM) Pats aren't that good, but Saints are seriously overrated. And Brady is awesome Their defense isn't as good as they've been made out to be so far. I still don't know how the Pats limited Graham to no catches.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) I see the birdies flying around Amendolas head Pats also have Collie now.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:39 PM) Sad Rex Ryan More like sad Rob Ryan. Hell of a throw by Brady.
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Fantasy football advice thread
QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:25 PM) Kendall hunter, jerk vulture I'd feel worse for the people who drafted Spiller in the first round. Jackson gets all the goal-line carries and he takes away 10-15 carries away from Spiller.
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Fantasy football advice thread
Blackmon with 180 receiving yards.
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2013-2014 NFL Thread
This Broncos-Jaguars game is actually pretty close.
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Technology catch-all thread
QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 08:12 PM) Videos and pictures sent in SMS (mms) is what fills up most peoples phones. They don't realize it, but every picture or video you receive and send/forward is another copy of that same data on your phone. It'll still be really hard to get 8 GBs of messages, as MMS usually has a 600 KB limit.