Fairweather knicks fans and a Shirtless Gronk

is Scott Rolen ?     

Ha touche.

No, but he says his "shoulder feels the best that it has in years"



Actually ... im a huge Rolen fan.   Hopefully he has a big year.

Just cant be against the phils in the playoffs is all 

the wild-card play in game is a start, but it still doesn't adress the fact that an NL Central team will probably make the playoffs with no more than 85 wins this year

Fantastic.

I look forward to the "85 win" Reds WS champs being denegrated in the same fashion as the 9 win NY Giants are currently by you stubbornly consistent borough dwellers.     

I look forward to the "85 win" Reds WS champs being denegrated in the same fashion as the 9 win NY Giants are currently by you stubbornly consistent borough dwellers.

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ok, im in

Go Reds!!!

 

Actually ... im a huge Rolen fan.   Hopefully he has a big year.

Just cant be against the phils in the playoffs is all     


He's still as good as there is with the glove.

He just looked awful and weak at the plate last year.

100-120 games would be great. Means he's healthy and producing.

Anxious to see him in spring training, see if he has anything left with the bat.              

I think that means she's hot.

It does...

Is that like "illest"?

No, but she's ill...

Ladies .. im out


way to kill the thread JD 

Fantastic.

I look forward to the "85 win" Reds WS champs being denegrated in the same fashion as the 9 win NY Giants are currently by you stubbornly consistent borough dwellers.     

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When football becomes a sport as easy to pull off upsets as baseball is, I will do such


all but a couple of baseball teams win 40+% of their games. In football, it's pretty commonplace for there to be a canyon of difference between the top and bottom


Giants beat 3 teams on their way to the Super Bowl who won >75% of their games. Whoever wins the world series might get by without beating a team who won >60%

if anyone cares, AWESOME bill simmons write up/interview with larry bird about the NBA then and now

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-t
riangle/post/_/id/16463/b-s-report-
larry-bird

damnit, cant get the full link to post...no idea why

this is juts a snippet i posted

When football becomes a sport as easy to pull off upsets as baseball is, I will do such


all but a couple of baseball teams win 40+% of their games. In football, it's pretty commonplace for there to be a canyon of difference between the top and bottom

The Giants won 9 games, and were outscored by their opponents during the season. They won their division with this 9 win record. A 10 win champion was crowned last season. Your analogy is completely flawed. The reason most MLB teams win at least 40% is because they play 162, not 16.

They are the 2006 Cardinals.    

I see this was one of those typical Down running away like a coward from the threads moments


He usually knows to do that when even Sox fans are flat out telling him he's wrong


Fortunately, he has too much pride to stay away when he gets called out. He likes to come back just so he can say "wrong, i didn't run away like a coward"


So Down.... here's your token callout. You can swallow your pride, come back to the boards, and tell us all how you didn't run away


Depending on how good a response he thinks he has to the posts he missed, he might do this soon, or just wait till everyone's gone and then say tomorrow he didn't run away

The Giants won 9 games, and were outscored by their opponents during the season. They won their division with this 9 win record. A 10 win champion was crowned last season. Your analogy is completely flawed. The reason most MLB teams win at least 40% is because they play 162, not 16.

They are the 2006 Cardinals.    

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a 10 win team won 63% of their games. Many years, no team in baseball wins 63% of their games


And the length of the season holds little water.... the reason is because in baseball, you go up against a different pitcher every day. Maybe the Cardinals would be a "great" team if Chris Carpenter went every single game. But he doesn't. In the NFL, the same guys play every game. So if a team has great players, they're going to win a huge chunk of their games


The worst team in baseball has a much much better chance of winning 3 consecuitve best of 5/best of 7 series than a 6 win football team has of winning 4 consecutive playoff games


The Giants being outscored and winning it all..... that's the first time in history that's happened. Otoh, teams like the 2006 Cardinals are hardly the exception.... they happen quite often.

No comparison to the NBA in the early 80's compared to today, Rock.  Kobe better than Magic?  Not in a million years.  Kobe's Lakers (even with Shaq) would have exactly ZERO Rings going up against Bird's Boston team.  ZERO!

Johnny Damon was and is hated here because he:

a. used the exact words, "I'd never sign with the Yankees, that's just something I wouldn't do"
b. said that "it's not about the money"
c. signed with the Yankees because they offered him sixty bucks more than the Red Sox did...


That's why he's hated here...


He may have one Roger Clemens moment at Fenway if we know he's retiring at the end of the year and it's his last game at Fenway...

That's it and that's all..

Sitting here punishing myself, rewatching some of the game... gonna watch the end 2nd start 3rd Pats TDs and mark the number of yards each pass travelled in the air...

Let's see if he really is 6 yard...

First TD drive and the air yards from scrimmage that each completion had..

5 welker 13 gronk 5 hernandez 7 hernandez 9 hernandez 6 welker 3 woodhead 4 woodhead 6 woodhead

6.4 yard...

Second drive

20 ochocinco 5 green ellis 5 welker 6 welker 6 hernandez

8.4 yard...


0 incompletions on both of these drives...







damn you justin tuck

The Giants being outscored and winning it all..... that's the first time in history that's happened. Otoh, teams like the 2006 Cardinals are hardly the exception.... they happen quite often. 

Im calling BS on that. When was the last time (before St Louis in 06)a team that was outside of the top 10 won it all. (Cardnials were 13th best record in 2006)

There are no more dynastys in the NFL. It really is up for grabs in the playoffs most years now. Unlike in the past.

Dickshot is right. Its flawed to compare win % of MLB team to NFL, considering the variance of their respective schedules.

A lot more teams end up tied with the same w/l record in the NFL to the MLB. There WERE 13 teams w/ the same or greater w/l record than the 2010 Packers.. and 12 for the 2011 Giants.

Sure there are 2 more NFL teams. But the Ratios are not that much comparing a 30 teamer to a 32 teamer.