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Stop playing crappy teams close or you're going to get burned, I don't feel bad for MSU at all. And Bama is just too good, this is why I had no issue with them at #4.

Navy looked dominant today.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) Florida is such frauds. If the East didn't suck so much they'd be a .500 team. Way too many close calls against crappy teams

Vanderbilt pulled a Jacksonville State.

I wouldn't mind Freese if it was only 2 years and not 3, but he's unlikely to take only 2 years.

Haha you think this board is too optimistic? A very large portion of posters have basically given up on the next 5 seasons. I see way more pessimism than optimism.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 03:41 PM) I am really trying to understand the love out there for Alex Gordon. He is going to be 32 next season and he is looking to be getting superstar money next season right? He hasn't really put up superstar numbers as far as I can tell. He was good last season no doubt but I can see him being one of the next contracts that someone is going to regret. He's a very, very good defender and doesn't really have any offensive weaknesses. I do agree that with his age he likely won't be worth the money. Heyward is basically Gordon except 6 years younger.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 03:02 PM) Brad Miller changing uniforms while Kenny and Rick are still in the preliminary stages of their offseason plan.... Really, we're already complaining about no moves being made yet?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 12:16 PM) Alas, we don't have a Top 5 or Top 10 farm system to draw from despite six (going on seven) abysmal seasons in the past nine. Define "abysmal". The Royals lost 95+ games SEVEN times from 2001-2010, with a 93, 90 and 91 loss season sprinkled in around there for good measure. That will get you loads of high draft picks. It's not like us winning 79 games in 2009 and 2011 or winning 76 games this year are giving us a spot at the top of the draft like the Royals occupied for the entire last decade.

I don't think I've ever seen a J4L post that didn't have some kind of absolute in it. His world is completely black and white.

Man both BP and Fangraphs seem to think we have a lot of money to spend. Cameron predicted we would sign Rasmus and Morales last year instead of LaRoche and Melky. Damn, had we done that we might have won the 2nd wildcard.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 07:11 AM) Where did Schoenfield say this? Pretty sure it was Dave Cameron who said it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 11:58 AM) lmao you are nuts. Kershaw is crazy dominant Kershaw is clearly the best pitcher in baseball, but I don't think it's at all crazy to suggest he wouldn't have an ERA under 2 in the AL. I very much doubt that as well.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 09:53 AM) To play devil's advocate, then why isn't ND being punished for needing a miracle to win at UVa? I agree with rock, it feels like Michigan St. is receiving too little credit for winning at Michigan. To me, the team that looked the most impressive in any top win this year was Florida destroying Ole Miss. I agree with you, and Florida is probably currently more deserving than Bama, but the committee does say they're trying to pick the 4 best teams, not necessarily the most deserving. tOSU wasn't necessarily more deserving over TCU/Baylor last year, but it was clear they were a top 4 team after that complete dismantling of Wisconsin. Of course, this is all very subjective. There's never going to be an objective way to pick the 4 best teams.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) As of now MSU has the best win and no losses. Their resume is better. It wont stay that way though which is why coming out with "rankings" this early is dumb. Having the best win doesn't mean as much if all the rest of your wins are collectively far inferior, like I said Bama has 4 wins arguably better than MSU's 2nd best win, and they've at least looked dominate at times, where MSU hasn't. I get the no losses argument but to me nearly losing to Purdue is almost as damning as a loss, not to mention going down to the wire with Rutgers. How you win matters.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) Yes, in truth its a mistake since their resume isnt even as good as MSU at the moment, but it doesnt matter. Everything will even out eventually. I don't know about that. @Michigan is the best win of the two, but Wisconsin, Arkansas, Tennessee, and A&M are all at least on par with or better than the Oregon win (maybe not Arkansas/Tennessee, but it's not that big a drop-off, especially if you compare them to MSU's 3rd best win). Michigan State has also been taken down to the wire multiple times by some pretty bad teams, so they should rightfully be punished for that. All the other metrics favor Bama by a decent margin too. But you're right, it will all even out eventually. Even if you want to argue that MSU's resume is better right now, if Bama beats LSU that'll no longer be true. But if MSU wins out they'll be in, barring there being 2-3 other undefeated conference champions as well.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 07:47 AM) I read something yesterday that the White Sox have no intention of using Q to acquire hitting. They want to use their minor leaguers. Was that in the papers? A quote by Hahn?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 10:36 PM) Royals players decided to talk about how they didn't have a ROY, Cy Young or MVP but they're still awesome and beat them all. God they're assholes Neither did the 2014 Giants, or the 2013 Red Sox, or the 2012 Giants, or the 2011 Cardinals. I could go on but they are not at all unique in that regard.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 10:28 PM) Bama is going to end up with best SOS if they win out. They are easily in if they win out Yeah I meant that even if the current undefeated teams win out, they still might not have a better resume than a 1-loss Bama.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 09:34 PM) Well I think everyone will disagree with you. Still also ignoring the point. No one cares about wins over Rice just as nobody should care losing to the number 1 team. What people should care about is the quality teams you've beaten. Clearly the playoff committee doesn't disagree. And about your point, what if a team has 4 losses but has 7 top ten wins? They would have by far the best quality of wins, but they'd have no chance at the playoff. Clearly it does matter. What if two teams both have one loss, but team A lost by 1 in overtime on the road to the #1 ranked team, and team B lost by 25 to an unranked foe at home? Team B has beaten 3 top 25 teams, while Team A has defeated 2. Who is more deserving in that scenario? Also, I did address the wins, I said ND was 7-1 against the 14th SOS. But it will sort itself out anyway. If Baylor/TCU/Ok State/MSU all win out, their resume will be better than ND's. Not sure about Bama though.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 09:17 PM) Who you beat should far, far, far outweigh who you lose to, so yes. The selection committee actually came out and said this last year which is why Ohio State ended up in the playoff over TCU and Baylor. Otherwise you reward teams for "quality losses" which is really dumb. Not sure where you're going with the scheduling fcs team thing. That'd be the opposite of what I'm saying. Reward teams for who they have beaten. Scheduling fcs teams certainly would not accomplish that. Because if we're not going to treat all wins as the same, then it should follow we shouldn't treat all losses the same either. I'm saying that I think a team that loses a close game to a top team deserves some credit, it shouldn't be treated the same as if they were blown out by a decent team, and I'll go as far to say that it's much more impressive than beating some cupcake. I'll give Michigan a lot more credit for losing on the last play to MSU than I'll give Baylor credit for beating Rice. That doesn't mean that I think a team with 5 close losses to top teams deserves playoff consideration, but a tough loss should be weighed more favorably than some wins.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 05:52 PM) I had Royals fans tell me Rex Hudler is good for baseball. The problem is a lot of these former players are god-awful announcers. Some are good. The Sox are probably gonna look at Pods, Rowand, Frank, etc. who have all been terrible in the booth with Stone or Hawk. Give me a trained announcer, not a former player. At one point I got the international stream with Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz. Vasgersian was awesome, Smoltz was meh. Vin Scully never played baseball, I agree that the bias towards former players is too much.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) Who gives a s*** who you lose to? They still don't have good wins. So all losses are the same? Losing a close game to a top team on the road is better than beating some cupcake like Lamar or whomever. It's not that black and white. It should matter, otherwise why not just schedule FCS teams and s***ty G5 teams every year? Their wins are comparable to those of the teams below them.

So wanting to trade for Derek Norris is "chasing heroes". You're really stretching that definition to its limits.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 06:25 PM) Crazy that a 1 loss Bama team ranks over some undefeated power conference teams. I do think Bama is playing like one of the best 4 teams in the country, so in many cases, I actually think they got it right, but hard to do that when you have a field of 4. If the field was 8, I have an easier time giving it to the better team with a loss vs. a power conference team without a loss. #3 SOS. The undefeated Big 12 teams haven't played anyone besides Texas Tech yet and Michigan State has looked pretty poor in a lot of their wins. I like that the committee takes into account strength of schedule and how teams look in their wins instead of just overall record, otherwise everyone would just schedule cupcakes. People are too focused on just top 25 teams as well. Hypothetically, a team that beat the #31, #29, and #27 teams has a better resume than the team that beat the #94, #51, and #17 teams. QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 06:33 PM) Notre Dames resume is not good at all. No idea how they're that high, but probably won't be for long. #14 SOS and lost to the #1 ranked team by two points on the road, how is that a bad resume? They might not necessarily deserve to be #5 but it's really not that egregious, maybe a few spots too high.