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Depends on the likelihood of a repair actually taking...not quite like Giolito situation, or Hoffman.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2015 -> 08:22 AM) My god that's a long post about Iowa bball. Larger than Ferentz's playbook I'm guessing. Waiting 14 years to write it... Like it used to be for a White Sox playoff appearance.

First Iowa tourney win since 2001 (Creighton) 14 years Last three times in the tourney, 2006 (bounced by NW State on last second shot after blowing 17 point lead as a 3 seed against 14, First Four against TN in 2014), 2005 lost to Cincy in the first round Biggest win margin of any NCAA game in Iowa history....31 points (before only going to the tourney 5 times in the past 15 years, Iowa had made the NCAA's 1999 was last time in the Sweet 16 (Davis' lame duck season, after missing out of LaFrentz, Collison, Hinrich, to KU) 9 Tourney appearances in 13 years under Dr. Tom Davis 2/3 Raveling (1983-1986) 5/5 Lute Olson (1980 Final Four, as well as 1955-1956) 16/21 years in NCAA's....then just 5 out of last 15 (Alford/Lickliter/McCaffrey) Biggest victory margin by a 7 over a 10 seed in NCAA tourney first/second round history What I wouldn't give to see Iowa face Alford in the Sweet 16....but I think Gonzaga's due to make a run with the favorable home court advantage. On the other hand, Iowa has now won 7 of their last 8. Opposite last season, finished up losing 7 of their last 8. Also, Iowa just signed Christian Williams out of Decatur St. Theresa (Peoria Irish), to go along with Isaiah Moss and Hutton (Chicago Public League), Andrew Fleming (Oak Hill) and Ahmad Wager (OHIO). This is the first time since Raveling they brought in five athletes and nobody from the state of Iowa in a single recruiting class. Next year, they have Pemsl already, and McCaffrey's son Connor in 2017... With their final scholarship (Trey Dickerson transfer), they're looking at a F/C....Russell Woods from John A. Logan CC, Caleb Swanigan (Ft. Wayne, IN), Shandon Goldman, Ikenna Okwarabizie (Tyler TX CC), Lamous Brown (Morgan Park) and Brady Ernst (Dubuque)...anyone know any of those players??? Swanigan's clearly the top ranked recruit of this group. NEXT YEAR Gesell Jok Uthoff Dominque Uhl Woodbury Sapp Clemmons and Brady Ellingson off the bench, Okey Ukah, then the five freshman and hopefully one more big man (see above)...a month ago, I would have said they weren't an NCAA tourney team next year. Now, I expect Uthoff to score at least 18 per game, Gesell and Woodbury to provide senior leadership and Jok to crank up his scoring to 12-14 per game....and also to be able to play up tempo/attacking/pressing style with all the freshman wing players. Also expecting big things out of Dominque Uhl, who has shown glimpses of talent this season as a freshman.

Iowa up to 15 point lead, settled for 9 at the half. Gotta hold Davidson off the first four mins and get 4th foul on Davidson's best player... Iowa picking the perfect time for one of their best games of the season. Foul trouble really hurt Davidson, and Iowa's length really seemed to bother them, as they couldn't get any free looks from 3 until the game was already essentially over. Jok continues to be key, when he and Uthoff show up, that gives them 3 scoring options, and Olaseni's really made big strides from where he came into the program to today.

It's going to be interesting to see how much rope some of the veterans like Putnam, Guerra, Albers, etc., are going to get with a "win now" mentality in 2015. Probably not much. Putnam's earned some respect, but there has always been the concern about repeatability.

Ummm....when do we start worrying (again) about Tyler Flowers? Still too early?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12508142...ing-think-again

http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/113...s-of-2014-draft

Another Bryant homer in a "b" game.

http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-gov-calls-i...-205040028.html

You can bet coming off this spring and knowing their tendency to be aggressive with promotions that Hawkins will begin the season in BIRM.

Josie and the Pusscats...to the rescue. Hawk crushes one to CF. (10 for 25 now) Dick Allen goes back to his "big board" to formulate more pro-Beckhamian rationales, freshly incorporating today's statisical anomaly.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball...asketball-title Damn you Pres.Obama for jinxing Iowa and UnI. If he had another Jan caucus to win, hed probably not have picked 2/3 Iowa programs to go down.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) That song is the best thing about his signing and makes me reconsider my opinion on it. It's a classic. Your what hurts?

If I disliked Beckham before (this was mainly because he went off on how inconvenienced he was by Pres.Obama and the Secret Service rerouting traffic for their motorcade when he was trying to get to the stadium), then this thread will push the rest of us over the edge of the abyss. That and his idiotic walk-up music.

Unless they miss the playoffs by just 1-2 games...

Albers really needs to get into better shape.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/9850/ Great counter response by Badler... http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2...boras/24922785/ Long article by Nightengale.

http://feeds.boston.com/c/35022/f/646890/s...tml/story01.htm Yoan Moncada...hopes to be in the big leagues one year from now. D Backs already considering giving up on Tomas as a 3b. Parallels with Viciedo? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/9850/

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 17, 2015 -> 07:01 PM) I wouldn't have picked Verlander due to the overuse concerns. However, I still pick the pitcher who can have much more of an effect on a game in the playoffs than a guy who if he is really good is only good about 35% of the time. I know it's a different opinion and there really isn't a right answer but you can win the World Series with a mediocre offense. You rarely win with mediocre pitching. You can take a player who builds stats facing below average pitching over a 160 games. But they will not perform as well against the superior pitching in the playoffs. Do you want to look good in the regular season playing the averages (ala Beane) or win in the playoffs. See Giants in 2010/12/14, and the Royals (with the even more extreme of having very solid starting pitching, but a supremely dominant bullpen and defense that covered up for some of the average at best starting pitching, guys like Vargas, Guthrie and Shields for much of the season. They didn't have a true ace, as Shields is declining and Ventura isn't there yet but might be some day if he can develop secondary pitches to keep hitters off his fastball.)

This just in...Hampton not any danger to ISU, even if they go on to win and get back to .500.

Surprised Moncada and Puig weren't on the list... Or maybe I missed them at the bottom with just a vote or two.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 17, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) More annoyed that Bumgarner is on there. People need to slow down on him a little, including the silly NL manager quoted in the article that he'd take Bumgarner over Kershaw. He's a poor man's Sale. Maybe not a poor man. He's a middle-class man's Sale. Let's just split the diff and go with upper middle class, ha.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/113014540/ly...coveted-players

When's the last time you guys can remember when the Sox seemingly went so far out of there way to promote one young player for a starting position in the face of other candidates? Struggling to find a similar example.