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Of course, Jeremy Guthrie got no votes, and he was superior to Bannister in every way except won/loss record.
He did lead all AL rookies in games played, you know.
Congratulations, kevin.
I really need to reboot today.
Is he still technically a rookie? I had no idea he was already 28. He'll be a grizzled veteran by next August!
*high five*
At that same time, he was a more valuable player than David Wright, and the last 2 years have only increased Pedroia's superiority.
David Eckstein nods in agreement.
With the holidays coming up, the lure of shopping money was too strong.
Randolph, Curry, and Marbury.
Garnett, Pierce and Allen
I'm still holding out hope for a Giants victory in week 16 to ruin the Pats perfect season. 7 sacks for the Giants D, three for Strahan. Back page of the New York Post is a picture of Kiwanuka, Uminyora, Strahan, and Tuck, underneath the banner headline "THE BRADY BUNCH."
I can dream, can't I.
They didn't fall apart, they were never together in the first place. An overrated piece of crap team with a good, but way overrated QB.
With the holidays coming up, the lure of shopping money was too strong.
Dude, I'm trying and trying but I DON'T get this joke. Can you explain it, please.
Dude, I'm trying and trying but I DON'T get this joke. Can you explain it, please.
I'm guessing this is a joke about fixing games?
Not bad for someone who's 5'2'' and 110 lbs and played the last two months with a broken hand
Taylor Twellman.
Congrats to Pedroia.
and i realize you don't care, but i find BC more distasteful than anything Larry Lucchiano says or does...
Exhibit A) the big east switcharoo
Exhibit B) Mike Lupica.
Exhibit D) Bill Romanowski
I'm a UConn and Jints fan anyways. Not all of us longtime Red Sox fans live within Route 128. I have mixed feelings about the Celts offseason spree anyways.
I don't think out of state fans necessarily understand how low college football is on the pecking order in Boston. College hockey is a way bigger deal. Plus in an area so besodden with colleges, most people went to a non BC college and so have loyalty to them.
I root for a different college in pretty much every sport, including BU hockey, so BC losing was a source of great pleasure to me.
THE BRADY CRUNCH!
Say, did you got to Hollywood Upstairs Newspaper College too?
With the holidays coming up, the lure of shopping money was too strong.
!!!! I'm still giggling.
Randolph, Curry, and Marbury.
Yeah, the drive for 40 wins is really going to electrify MSG on a nightly basis.
I still think it's funny that out-of-state fans think that anyone in Boston actually cares about BC football in any way at all.
This is true. In fact, I think the only Bostonians who even root for BC at all went there. The rest of us can't stand them.
I'm still holding out hope for a Giants victory in week 16 to ruin the Pats perfect season.
I wouldn't bet against a Giants team in the thick of divison in playoff races in a must win against a NWE team who has homefield, etc. already locked up. The Giants are a good matchup too; they pressure the QB well, which as the Colts showed is the only known way to slow down the Pats' offense right now.
they pressure the qb well against bad teams. Not yesterday.
To be fair, I think BU and Northeastern rank higher on the "don't give a #### about them" scale and visceral dislike (1 year living on the B line - BU is my personal devil).
My condolences.
That only leaves one Beanpot team, anyway, for you to be rooting for. "Visceral dislike" is certainly not unknown to that school, though not usually applied to its sports teams particularly.
I bet New York City doesn't give a #### about Pace university's basketball program.
Go Pedroia!
Meh, I thought the food was decent, not great. Of course, my biggest regret about moving from Boston is that I can't go to Boloco anymore. ;)
Thanks. In my defense, I did move up the hill and to the C line(Coolidge Corner area - absolutely loved it) in time. If I had stayed in Boston, I might have ended up in Riverside!
I'm among a sizable contingent of Boston area fans which actually rooted for BC to lose. College sports are a joke. Unpaid minor leaguers. If some other parts of the country want to get into that, fine. We've got real teams here and much better colleges than BC, too.
I also had forgotten that people in the New York area care a little bit about hockey, at least compared to Boston. Driving late through the night recently I was surprised how many callers wanted to talk about the Rangers. When I was 13 in 1994, Hockey fandom was crazy in New York, and I always felt fringy for being obsessed with the Yankees. Rangers/Devils arguments in the cafeteria were heated, to say the least. Like Yankees/Red Sox, except all the trash talking participants lived next door to each other.
Man, hockey really shot itself in the foot with the first big lockout. And then in a million other ways.
(Sure I'll change your grade on that Milton paper...just step into my office).
Who is this second Yankees team?
Staten Island
WEEI syndicates. They have another AM station somewhere (maybe in Worcester) and they have a couple FM stations; one in Rhode Island on 103.7 and one in western Mass (Easthampton, which is near Springfield) on 105.5. The latter relationship started about a year ago. I find it very parochial. They don't talk about much that happens outside The Hub. I haven't listened to sports radio much lately. I'm trying to prune my sports tree. I'm pretty much down to just the Red Sox, Giants football, and UConn hoops.
Bringing the discussion back on topic (and borrowing from the NL thread); Dice-K figures to have the better career, dontcha think? Yeah nobody should vote based on that (tho I recall a voter from like 20 years ago or so putting that forth as a reason for his vote), but Matsuzaka has almost twice the strikeout rate, and as we all know that is the best predictor of future career length out there.
Very comparable FIP ERAs, though. Matsuzaka 4.35, Bannister 4.52. Are strikeout rates the better predictor, or FIP? They're normally so correlated with one another that I genuinely don't know the answer.
Young people today with their piercings.
His family has seven rings, in their halls of stone.
This was one of the funnier things I've seen on BTF in a while. And I have a degree from BC.
Have you ever heard the DJ Shadow song "Why Hip-Hop Sucks in '96"?
I swear to god I am playing Entroducing, right now as I read this thread....
eerie
FIP doesn't adjust for HR / F rate. Bannister's was 7.9%, Matsuzaka, 11.7%.
Bannister's xFIP was 5.14. Matsuzaka's xFIP was 4.42.
How much you should adjust for that depends on how much influence you think a pitcher has over his HR / F rate.
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