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I'm betting it's gonna be Twins vs. Yankees or Rangers vs. Giants for the teams you can play as in the demo.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 02:51 PM) Dangit I have a Sams card not a Costco one, Im definitely going to get one in near future though..... in time to buy the new NHL and NBA games. That Killzone bundle is sold everywhere.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 03:12 PM) link I think the line I bolded is the most important here. Morneau's brain is f*cked up and he might just be permanently damaged. Anyone thinking he'll be 100% anytime soon is certainly looking on the bright side of things. He probably shouldn't have played so much hockey in his youth. But I guess that's Canada for you. I think he'll be ready to start the season. Whether or not he's the same player and can play the majority of the season will be the question.

This team needs to have a kickass mentality this year. They need to convince themselves that the Twins are s*** and they are THE s***. No more friendly talk about the Twins and how they're this well-runned organization. When you embrace your rival that much, something is wrong. You don't hear the same stuff from the Twins about the Sox.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 02:59 PM) Our 1st baseman Paul Konerko scoffs at your post! I was talking about the league, not individuals.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 01:17 PM) That only works if you take WAR as an absolute number with no margin of error and able to apply to different players moving to different teams, which has a whole host of variables in play. That's why I didn't use exact figures - like half wins. I think it ought to be kinda clear that Thome's impact on the Twins was at least 3 wins and that Kotsay didn't help the Sox at all.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 11:12 AM) Swap Thome and Kotsay with the Twins--what's their record, what's the Sox? It's an unanswerable question, but it still highlights how bad of an idea the rotating DH with Kotsay was. Whether it cost the division is immaterial, and I'm very happy that KW corrected this problem. It is answerable. Thome was worth 3.5 wins to the Twins, he would have gotten even more PA for the Sox. So he's at least worth 3 wins. Kotsay was worth none, hell, he could have had a negative effect. So that's a 3 win swing alone. Take Thome's 300 PAs away from the Twins and replace that with Kubel or whoever they had to have at DH (who had a bad year last season) and that's at least 2 fewer wins for the Twins. So 3 more wins for the Sox, two less for the Twins and the difference between the two teams is now 1 game. Or you can say that the swing between Thome and Kotsay was 4 wins, which would then put the Sox in a dead tie with Minnesota.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 21, 2011 -> 08:22 AM) Last year was not a strong year for the DH position. It wasn't a strong year for any position offensively.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 20, 2011 -> 11:26 PM) Seven teams above us, six below, i.e. the middle. Well not exactly the middle. There was also a huge drop-off after Kansas City.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 20, 2011 -> 06:57 PM) No, we were in the middle of the pack DH-output wise. Only because Konerko, Quentin, and Manny got ABs there. Seattle had a .609 OPS from the DH spot, ouch. .758 was the average last year. I'm not so sure .728 was middle of the pack.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 20, 2011 -> 06:50 PM) Well technically there is a pretty good chance of that happening again this year... Rephrased: At least there won't be somebody who will have an OPS under .700 getting half the PAs at DH this year.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 20, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) No doubt they're better, but it isn't why they lost. Pitching (especially the bullpen in the last couple of months) screwed them last year more than anything else, and this year the outcome will again rest mostly on pitching. The 2010 outcome really had very little to do with Kotsay. The pitching would have been less of an issue had there been somebody who didn't hit .230 getting half the PAs at DH. White Sox pitchers led baseball in FIP and fWAR last season. That wasn't the team's weakness. The White Sox had the worst OPS and wOBA at the DH position last season, that is a weakness. I would say the latter had more to do with the White Sox losing than the former.

Buehrle starting opening day against Cleveland = bad memories.

I'd actually like to see D. Rose and Westbrook in a dunk contest one day. Rose's alley oop in the Detroit game would have been a pretty damn good dunk in the contest. I'm pretty sure he'd be able to pull off some sick dunks. He can twist his body in the air so well.

QUOTE (T R U @ Feb 20, 2011 -> 12:21 PM) Yeah it was really no problem at all to beat Bioshock, 1 or 2, they were both pretty short.. nope, never played Alan Wake.. for some reason the game just didnt appeal to me.. I will say this though, I JUST bought Borderlands the other day and man I feel dumb for not playing that sooner.. its awesome I like the co-op campaign on that.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Feb 19, 2011 -> 10:41 PM) Serge Ibaka's first round free throw line dunk was the best of the night. He was actually behind the line. I don't know if anyone has actually done that. The famous free throw line dunks were just inside or on the line. Ibaka got screwed. I felt that he and DeRozan had the best dunks, but didn't get the scores because they lacked a bit of flair in comparison to what McGee did. Blake's dunks in the first round weren't that good. His first one could have been better, but he changed it up and simplified it when he actually made the dunk. I think Griffin was destined to win the thing from the start. He was at home, so the judges weren't gonna give him low scores. And of course, when he got to the fan vote, it wasn't gonna be a contest.

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 19, 2011 -> 08:19 AM) Yeah, I guess technically Hamels is a 4, but he's really a 3. I'd consider Halladay a 1. Lee and Oswalt are 2's, and Hamels is a 3. I consider Buehrle a 4 because of his production the last 5 seasons. On a championship team, he's the guy that you'd want pitching the 4th game at this point in his career. We need Danks, Jackson, and Floyd to step up, and man, if we get 25-30 starts from Peavy--and a postseason, then we have a shot this season. Buehrle's a second starter on most teams. 3-4 WAR pitchers don't grow on trees.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 19, 2011 -> 02:03 AM) I love Buehrle. I'd really love to see him one day win a Cy Young, but that's probably not gonna happen unless he takes some of Paul Konerko's career revitalizing potion. His only Cy Young caliber season was 2005. And TBH he deserved it over Fartolo. Too bad Johan was actually better.

Believe it or not, ESPN might actually be more progressive in terms of advanced stats than MLBN.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) All the Sox had to do to shut us all up, and make us all optimistic for the season is to sign Dunn and get rid of Kotsay. That's it. To a lesser extent, getting rid of Bobby also has silenced all the naysayers and put everybody in an extremely positive frame of mind (although I still love Bobby). Many of us don't like Teahan, but there's not the unabashed, vicious hatred especially with him likely being in a platoon role. Can you ever recall an offseason where all of the Sox fans on this board have been so pleased? The only thing that could wreck this feeling is if the Sox start slowly, then there will probably be a lot of anti-Ozzie stuff beginning again. But this has been a nirvana off season for Sox fans. If I lived in Chicago, I definitely would have bought in season ticket wise for this season. He will continue to suck as long as everybody keeps spelling his name wrong.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 09:12 AM) Rich Harden shuts down for 2 weeks with lat-stiffness. At least there's a precedent if he somehow gets the whole thing torn off. If Harden is injury-ridden like usual, B-Mac could become the 5th starter in Oakland.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 01:39 AM) I really need to get a ps3..... anyone know if somewhere has them for a little cheaper than the normal price? Killzone 3 + 160 GB PS3 bundle is coming out next week for $300.

Played the Killzone 3 demo today. Really impressed actually, it feels a lot better than Killzone 2 and I feel the controls are better. That + the co-op campaign makes me want to buy it.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 10:40 PM) Man the Bulls are so damn good. And they will only get better with Noah in and Kurt Thomas back to DNP: Coaches Decision. Kurt's been a pretty good fill-in. I don't know if I want to see Omer Asik starting every night. Thomas is a good defender and will annoy the hell out of the other team.

That should be game. What a monster game by Rose on the national stage.