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0-3 (I think I'm going to win this week) in the league where Yahoo rated me as the best drafter 4-0 in the league where Yahoo rated me 11/12 in the draft QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) Who wants in on the best NBA fantasy league ever? It's a keeper, I need two owners. Sureeeee

The USA has by far the best higher education system (now, that does not include cost, where we are pretty much the worst). This is a tremendous asset as pretty much everyone in the world knows that we are the place to go to learn just about anything from STEM and beyond. We get the greatest minds in our backyard; many may not plan to stay, but when you're educated here you would normally find work opportunities here vs uncertain prospects abroad. Now the prospects abroad remain uncertain, but there are no prospects here

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 11:31 AM) Agreed. At least they dumped him before he could permanently damaged Garcia/Semien. Semien walk rate in AA: 17.4%. Result: League MVP Semien walk rate in ML: 1.4% Result: .261./268/.405 For what it's worth, his walk rate had already been cut in half after his promotion to AAA. This is among the reasons I'd like to see him get more MiLB seasoning because he really was just surviving in AAA (by his standards). He went from BB outnumbering Ks to an almost 2:1 K:BB in AAA and then didn't walk at all in MLB. QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 11:33 AM) Amen. I'm not huge on hitting coaches making a huge difference, but that was ridiculous when Manto said he didn't care about walks. I hope they talk to Rudy Jaramillo and Kevin Seitzer. Manto never said that - the example he had given in the interview that led to much of Soxtalk thinking that he hated walks was him giving a situation in which his hypothetical best hitter is up with a base open and man in scoring position. He said, in this case, he wants the guy trying to get a hit because a walk doesn't benefit the team. This is, of course, correct. There are some situations where you'd much rather have the guy at the plate take a shot on something he can hit than pass it on to the guy behind him.

Anything based on innings pitched was always going to be doomed.

It is not the NBA. Tanking is unlikely to magically net you a franchise-saving player

De Aza's faults are correctable and that's a good thing

WRs and TEs have been brutal short of one play by Jeffery

Jay has had something going on with his arm today

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 02:25 PM) Forte and Peppers showed up. Everyone else? Nope. Not that Forte wanted to catch the ball a few plays ago either

Not our day. Bad game in every facet for the Bears

Drop, drop...?

Peanut takes that to the hizzy

Could use a score from the D

What a crap call that burns us. The only penalty by any lineman today... I believe that

People look out of sync on offense

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:34 PM) Gotta catch that ball. Needed that

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:23 PM) He made one bad throw where the ball floated when he was tripped up. The other was Jeffrey not getting the ball. Not a great performance but not a disaster. DOOONNNTTTT CCCAAARRRREEEE

Two FF end up benefiting Detroit

Took almost 2 quarters for everyone to turn on Cutler

Just get a TD and everything will be alright. This is why your special teams can't f*** you like that. It makes the mistakes by the O and D into backbreaker.

That should have been caught.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 28, 2013 -> 10:10 PM) Since Matta was hired at OSU (2004): Matta: 5 reg season title, 4 tourney MSU 3 reg 1 tourney Wisconsin 1 reg 1 tourney Purdue 1 reg 1 tourney ILL 1 reg 1 tourney Iowa 0 reg 1 tourney Mich 1 reg 0 tourney IU 1 reg 0 tourney NU - lol

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Sep 28, 2013 -> 10:19 PM) I think Holds are an even stupider stat. Holds are necessary due to the absurd blown save for middle relievers

Yeah I wonder about the reporting of this. I almost wonder if we misunderstood Hawk or Hawk misunderstood some other kind of info

before that at-bat, Conor Gillaspie had posted a wRC+ of 1 against lefties this year no, I didn't leave any numbers out of that stat