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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 15:28:17 GMT -5
Are you saying that no pitchers he smashed a home run off of used steroids? Barry Bonds was stealing bases, hitting for average, hitting for power, and winning Gold Gloves before his head was as big as mine. I'm not able to say that it was or wasn't a significant factor. I am arguing that it's irrelevant.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 14:23:06 GMT -5
Manny was a fearsome hitter since he was a young teenager. His legendary exploits permeate the Bronx and lower New York state baseball scenes. At the end (if not the beginning, or the whole time), he was cheating his ass off with steroids. How many pitchers that was he brutalizing were juicing themselves? I assume they were all "dirty," while breaking no rules that explicitly tested for and banned players for using. And I say that as a massive Red Sox hater.
One AA-level player that I work with said he estimates that during that time (he's a little younger than Manny), about 40% of players he came across were on the sauce. Manny so clearly is a great. As is Bonds. As is Schilling.
Do I know what you'll do with an OJ Simpson-type situation where a player literally KILLS people? No. But for being a d-bag to the media? Or taking drugs that probably don't make you an actually more-skillful baseball player? Come on, this is silliness. Phil Rizzuto over AROD?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 12:22:06 GMT -5
How you can get Helton in, or how you can get Ortiz in, but you can't get Manny Ramirez in is baffling. I like the long preamble yesterday during the announcements about character, integrity, and all that. These are guys playing a sport, spitting chaw, scratching their nuts. This isn't a charity award, and in my opinion, not a good-person award.
Steroids or not, Bonds, Clemens, Manny, Arod... undeniably the best players in the history of the sport. These are not fringe guys who got a slight edge. I almost feel like the Hall is accommodating less-dominant players, and compilers, more than the no-doubters, in an effort to try to be "pure." Nonsense. I'm a small hall guy. If they never DOMINATED the game during the era that they played in, then their lifetime of accomplishments must be long and distinguished enough to get them in.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 19, 2024 10:04:53 GMT -5
Why did we move to this killer league with much bigger schools/programs?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 16, 2024 10:47:48 GMT -5
Geographically speaking, NY State is hard to describe; on that all can agree. Speaking of perspective, which city is further west: Los Angeles or Carson City, Nevada? Los Angeles is farther west, but Nevada is the West. Los Angeles is the West Coast. Got it?
Can we all agree to join forces against those lunatics that live in Queens or Brooklyn, but don't say they live on Long Island? You are LITERALLY ON THE ISLAND. You have to cross a bridge or ride a boat to get to your house from other municipalities. It's a borough, it's New York City, but it's on Long Island. I can objectively see it on a map.
[For all those wondering what this has to do with Bill Belichick, this is exactly the type of 48 minute diatribe he'd deliver about punt return formation instead of, you know, the forward pass. That's why this Cowboys fan doesn't want him.]
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 16, 2024 10:00:14 GMT -5
Tallahassee is north of Miami. To get there from Miami, you'd have to go "up north." But nothing in Florida is "the North."
Westchester is North of Long Island. To get to Hartsdale (where I live now) from Long Island, you'd have to go "north." Hartsdale is not Upstate. It is up the state from any place directionally south of it. I agree that Upstate, from my Westchester-life-long perspective, begins around Dutchess.
mm67, would totally agree that Rye and Hastings are pretty different from one another... but they are all equally not-Upstate in rank and title.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 15, 2024 14:40:11 GMT -5
Look, we all know that even though Belichick is out in New England, with Bob Kraft at the helm, it's going to be a happy ending.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 10:34:22 GMT -5
There is some angst, sure, in my parting words. I am not effusive of praise and wondering where they will live, how much they will make, will they get playing time, etc. GTFO of here, and now it's time to focus on who is playing QB next year and how many wins we can bank.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 8:58:31 GMT -5
"The absence of love is not hate. It is indifference."
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 8:55:52 GMT -5
I am a bridge burner. One of the other posters here mentioned classmates that called exes to berate them, or hold out hope for a reunion. I am the opposite. If you want something better, whether it's a bigger-league program with a massive budget, packed stadiums, Brad Pitt hair... whether it's an objectively better decision for you and your family, or even not... I am done. Pillage the treasure, level the buildings, salt the earth, and burn the bridges. One man's opinion: if you don't want to be at HC, then you can go right to [bleep] and I'll focus on who DOES want to be here. That goes for coaches, players, administrators, past opponents. The past is the past. I will pay the same attention to JMU now that I paid them in the past = ZERO.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 9, 2024 11:02:27 GMT -5
I gotcha, '70. As a bit of a contrast to my anecdote, I don't think the SATs could, would, or should be the sole arbiter. My point is most simply that, without standards, it's difficult to distinguish people in any sort of objective way. If everyone is on a curve, and everyone is deserving, we protect no significance of the rigors or importance or, dare I say it, superior value that HC strives to deliver, relative to the vast number of competing options for higher education in the US.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 9, 2024 10:40:12 GMT -5
An anecdote: the FBI had me submit timed runs and physical fitness metrics that I did on my own during training. I had to make sure I was meeting minimum obligations to continue to go forward. With that, had I continued with the process, I'd have to meet their standards, in their gym, and on their track, under their observation, in order to qualify. Everyone would be subject to those same requirements, no matter what prior preparation, genetic gifts, or resources they had available to them previously.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 9, 2024 10:34:03 GMT -5
I thought the SAT, and all standardized tests, were racist, and that's why they were all dropped.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 8, 2024 12:31:43 GMT -5
What's the logic of putting a game featuring the nation's top (or second) tv market and putting it where many, many folks are going to skip the aggravation of finding it? A check for $133 million signed by NBC Universal.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 8, 2024 9:58:36 GMT -5
Not every year after RW. The HC "road warriors" did win a PL tournament title and an NCAA game in the not too distant past. Play-in-game doesn't have the same flavor, but we won't argue that here.
I remember that team well. Besides sharing a first name and a number (#22) with Champion, I liked his game and attitude. I was absolutely stone cold sober (not) at Stout FiDi watching that game. Even that season, the team was 15-20 overall (seems like most of us would PAY for that this year), including only 5-13 in league play (does not include the four straight PLT wins).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 8, 2024 9:33:41 GMT -5
We scored nineteen points in the first half, and can't make free throws. You seriously can get kids at the park to play better basketball.
Is the appeal of A) an HC diploma, B) having to do arduous school work for four years, C) travel on a bus across Pennsylvania, and D) not get paid all worth it? Add to the mix: are the kids who can play basketball "smart" enough to get into HC?
Forget the last four years (the seemingly arbitrary time period prior posters are using to show progress/records/etc.)... HC basketball has been virtually embarrassing since RW left.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 5, 2024 12:39:31 GMT -5
I don't see statistical evidence that Poffenberger is a better passer than Matt Sluka. He did throw a lot more passes, but I don't believe he waas more effective Stat= Poff/Sluka
Att= 472/197 Comp= 277/122 Yards= 3,603/1,728 TD's=36/20 INT=13/5
Rating=142.5/164.0 Comp %= 58.7%/61.9% Yds per Att= 7.6/8.8 TD %=7.6%/10.2% INT %= 2.8%/2.5%As a passer, Poffenberger covered twice the distance on earth with a marginal added risk in turnover %. You have to get their rushing statistics involved to try to get close to apples to apples.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 4, 2024 16:57:48 GMT -5
I feel like these kids are better. . . . Raynor's roster in his last year included freshmen Ryan Serravalle and Pat Whearty, sophs Jared Curry and Juan Pegues, and Josh Sankes sitting out his transfer year. Believe Brian Wilson, who came in the following season, was also a Raynor recruit.
They would have mopped the floor with this year's roster.
I got guys at the House of Hoops in Ardsley that probably could, too.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 4, 2024 9:10:53 GMT -5
Few pitchers in the entire game average over 7 innings per start. If you have even a single one on your team, it's unusual in the modern game. However, every starting pitcher accrues runs to build an ERA, and one whose ERA hovers around 2 is going to be the best starter on your team.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 3, 2024 9:35:30 GMT -5
You are correct on that Sale didn't do much for the Sox after 2018. I have often wondered if the Sox did that to themselves by using Sale as a closer and a starter in the post season because Kimbrel was not reliable down the stretch. That being said, Sale was the #1 starter and best pitcher on the team that year. In my opinion, no way was he a coin flip #3 or #4., That was from memory. I looked up some stats to make sure my memory wasn't getting fuzzy Sale 2.11 ERA Price 3.58 ERA Porcello 4.28 ERA Porcello and Price both had more starts and wins than Sale (although Sale had a better win percentage) but it's hard to rank a starting pitcher behind another starter who's ERA is double his 27 starts, 12 wins, 158 innings pitched, 0 complete games.....don't think that defines a #1 An ERA just shy of 2 makes him a #1.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 2, 2024 16:50:28 GMT -5
Don't confuse this with college hockey. The pay is so good, and you're on a college campus, it's probably better than being in the real world and in the NFL.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 2, 2024 16:19:54 GMT -5
Quote directly from Dan Campbell today, which I did not read until now [my emphasis in bold below]:
“You’re not worried about the officials, because you’ve already explained it,” Campbell said Tuesday. “You’ve already explained the whole thing. It’s the defense you’re trying to confuse. They’re going to know what it is because the number’s going to be called out over the PA, you’re just hoping somebody falls asleep. They see (Dan) Skipper run out and they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s the jumbo tight end again,’ and they don’t realize that 68 is the one who reported eligible. If they’re on their stuff, it’s not going to matter, anyway. If they’re listening, they’re going to know 68’s eligible, unless it gets called wrong.”
So there you have it. He admits that he was trying to confuse the defense, but the refs were going to clarify what was actually happening anyway, and also acknowledged a vulnerability to his plan that the refs might call it wrong. Campbell is smart and knows this in hindsight. We've seen enough O-linemen catch TDs that he could have sent #68 solely, clearly, definitively to report as eligible and chances were good they'd catch the Cowboys napping anyway.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 2, 2024 16:13:25 GMT -5
I think we'll win a third of our games. I'm not confident, but I think we'll be hotter later, than early, with underclassman featuring prominently.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 2, 2024 15:46:36 GMT -5
Kinda, of course. But if Detroit didn't try to pull some shady sneaky stuff, which was an effort in futility in the first place, the refs wouldn't have had anything to get tripped up on (aside from the normal holding, PI, and other missed call nonsense on a play-to-play basis). If Detroit's scheme-- again, wouldn't have been allowed to throw Dallas off much anyway-- was dependent on the refs being Rhodes Scholars, then I think they deserve quite a bit of blame too.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 2, 2024 15:44:04 GMT -5
We're starting to get into the "that guy is still playing" mode?Some guy on the Rutgers game at the Pinstripe Bowl a few days ago is like an eight or nine year player between COVID and multiple medical redshirt seasons. You're gonna have 32 year old players soon...
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