Phightins

Great start team!! No way Vick makes it to half time alive at this rate.

Casey Matthews is not ready to play in the NFL.... Have to think this is the last straw.

Haha....had to be Steve Smith. I am sure you Giants fans are loving that Also....broken record time....the Eagles need some damn linebackers.

And I am sure some Giants fans will enjoy this... http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-89.png

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-88.png :wallbash3:

Okay, this is getting really bad now.

Did you seriously just reference RBIs? Anyway, with the pitchers, when you consider park factor (entirely relevant, since Dodger Stadium is absolutely massive compared to Citizens Bank Park), Halladay is actually far ahead of Kershaw. 1.2 WAR better, superior adjusted ERA. This isn't entirely surprising since Halladay has almost 20 fewer walks... But of course, the majority of the BBWAA guys with a vote do not know the first thing about advanced stats. So Kershaw probably still wins, and deservedly so. But for you to say it's a landslide is laughable since the numbers actually show Halladay has been better.

Halladay and Lee are right on par with Kershaw and Braun is right on par with Kemp. Numbers have no bias.

Another big round of cuts today. Matt Read and Sean Couturier are still around, though. Read has been incredible this camp/preseason, and from what I hear Lavy is in love with him. I am thinking he is almost a lock to make the roster now.

Jagr already with a goal and an assist less than 20 minutes into his debut.

You are right about basketball, that is the one exception as I mentioned earlier. Happens all the time in the 3 other major US pro leagues. I could give you hundreds of examples from just the past ten years.

I don't think this is true at all. It's still a very small sample size. Certainly more accurate than a 1 game series though, but not by as much as you'd think.

"Choking" is really just a silly narrative that fans/media can use to spark up conversation. And it gets used a lot because the true "best team" almost never wins the championship because the playoffs are very flukey (except in the NBA, where the best team wins far more regularly). This actually had me thinking the other day. Would sports be better without playoffs? I know you will all jump on me right away and say no, which is understandable, but think about it for a minute. The playoffs are really a pretty poor evaluator. Inferior teams win championships all the time, even when 5 and 7 game series' are used. (For the record I am not proposing that we get rid of playoffs, they are fun/dramatic/TV ratings generators/etc, but it would assure that the "best team" usually wins). Just some food for thought.

The more I think about it, the more awesome I think it would be if Kershaw and Kemp both win. It would hopefully be a huge step towards eliminating team performance from consideration with these awards (which is how it should be most of the time IMO).

Believe me, he'd be playing in all 5. Which is why I am so happy about this.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-86.png Wow...

10!

Good

Winter Classic to be officially announced on Monday. Sweet. http://s1.proxy04.twitpic.com/photos/large/404539801.jpg Matt Gelb with the pic from CBP.

And AGAIN, due to the Flyers incompetence with the CBA, they will lose out on another promising prospect. Tomas Hyka back into the draft next season. Good work team!

Only thing better than a long suspension would be the NHL forcing his contract to be voided.

Great news if Shelley gets suspended (I am sure he will). It'll force them to put Sestito on the roster. Better, much cheaper version of Shelley.

Couturier signs an entry level deal. Now it is actually reasonable to think he may make the team.

I really don't buy that much since I don't smoke that much, but yeah, all of my friends who buy/sell regularly say it's generally way more expensive around here than it should be. No clue why.

I am thinking Joffrey Lupul probably regrets picking a fight with Tom Sestito.