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8 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Why are you so obsessed with me, it is truly creepy

It could be worse.  I caught @bluegrassIU hiding out in the tree outside my bedroom.  

1 hour ago, DWB said:

 

results beg the question: Who's gonna make up Ware's production, boards, and rebounds next year?

After studying our list of incoming recruits, I have no idea.  

My biggest gripe is Ware only 3rd team by coaches.  I have not seen full teams, but that's a minimum of 10 players picked ahead if him.  Not buying that at all.

1 minute ago, iuswingman said:

It's combined with the part about you don't get an opinion unless you coached.  

So what I learned is I better support woodson if i want to be a true fan and I need to go find a coaching job in order to have an opinion.

Let's not forget that just a few days before that speech the heavy rumor was that Leal and Galloway were transferring or 'retiring' as soon as the season was over.

So, yeah, if the 17,000 people in attendance had been questioning his loyalty to Woodson and IU, he should be given a little leeway when he's trying to set the record straight.

Maybe, 'there's a reason you're not coaches' wasnt the best thing to say.  But, how many of those fans had spend the week spreading false rumors about Leal?

He has a voice, used it, and IU fans have to take it if they are giving it out.  And, boy have we been giving it out lately.  And, as we have seen with Leal and Galloway, not everything we're dishing out is fair.

3 minutes ago, iuswingman said:

It's not the coming to woodson's defense that people take issue with..  It's the "there's a reason you guys aren't coaches" line that seems to indicate people who haven't coached don't get an opinion.  and then at the end telling people to chill.    

People are allowed their opinion regardless of their coaching experience. 

'Chill out' is a phrase used by every 22 year old in the world in every situation.  It's harmless and meaningless.

Woodson talking about 'true fans'?  Yeah, that pissed me off.  

3 hours ago, iuswingman said:

No, Woodson did

What Anthony said wasn't much better

"I do gotta make something very clear," Leal continued. "Adversity is part of sports, and for those of you who are so quick to give up and call for quits and everything, there's a reason that you guys aren't coaches. So relax. There's no other coach in the country that I would trust with anything in my life than coach Woodson, and there's no other university I'd want to represent. So we're gonna run it back, but you guys gotta chill."

I see nothing in Anthony's quote that I have an issue with, and I am not on Team Woodson.

It's a player defending his coach.  One could argue Leal maybe should not have been giving a speech at all since he's coming back.  But, since he had the opportunity, he should be able to share how he feels.

I was at Juwan Morgan's Sr. Day, and he never even mentioned Archie.  He thanked Crean, but did not utter the words 'Coach Miller' at all.

THAT was much more of a red flag about the state of things than Leal coming to Woodson's defense.  If anything, Leal has every right to be upset with Woodson that he did not get quality playing time earlier.

We should embrace Leal's attitude, selflessness, and commitment instead of criticizing him for defending his coach.

Did this info come from another site?  The media formerly known as Twitter?  Rabby?  Tim Garl?

The source goes a long way as to whether I'm concerned.

1 hour ago, Proud2BAHoosier said:

Cashman better be on the phone with Boras...

I heard on the Radio this morning that if the Yanks signed Snell for 1 year at $30MM, it would push them up a Luxury Tax level that would cost them an ADDITIONAL $33MM.  

That's a total of $63MM, and that ain't happening.  

7 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

I gave up fantasy baseball a few years ago but the way I see it. Avoid Dodgers no matter what. Are you on weekly scoring system?

If I were still playing there's about 4-5 teams...Dodgers, Braves, Rangers, Astros, and even Orioles that I would avoid on the regular. The rest are matchup based. Good Luck!

It's daily scoring and lineup changes. No head to head.  Just season-long accumulation of stats.  At end of season, top in each category gets 12 points, second gets 11 points......bottom in that category gets 1 point.  

Starting Pitchers are causing me the most angst.  They have 2 'counting' stats in Wins and Strikeouts and 2 'performance' stats in ERA and WHIP.  As you pointed out, if you put a starter out there to accumulate the counting stats against certain lineups, then you are putting the performance stats at risk.  If you sit them to protect the performance stats, then you have no shot at scoring in the counting stats.   

I'm leading towards sitting both.  Because of the week between the Korea games and the rest of the season, I still think they get the normal number of starts as every other pitcher.  And, I truly don't want to start out getting in a hole in those two categories.  I have no other players from either team, so there would be no good to offset the bad and i would have to stew on that for a whole week.   

@Seeking6 or anyone else out there play season long 5:5 roto style Fantasy Baseball?  I'm playing this year for the first time in a long, long time and have a strategy question.

No money is involved, but I am an intense competitor, and I don't want to do something dumb.  So, here's my quandery.  I ended up with both Joe Musgrave and Yu Darvish in my rotation.  The Padres, or course, are scheduled to start the season in Korea against the Dodgers.  I know nothing about the ballpark they will be playing in, but my natural suspicion is that it is probably smaller than the average MLB park. What I do know for certain, however, is that the Dodgers can hit and score runs, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if MLB takes a 'lively' ball to use over there.

Both Musgrove and Darvish are scheduled to start in Korea. My question is whether I should start them or put one or both of them on the bench.  For my fantasy league, the 5 standard pitching categories are in use.  Wins, Saves, Strikeouts, E.R.A., and WHIP.   I put the chances of either getting a win at below 50%.  They, obviously, will not get a save.  I will lose some strikeouts if I bench them.  My concern is whether or not the possible damage to their E.R.A and WHIP will erase whatever benefit I would get from strikeouts.  Yes, the setup may give both pitchers an extra start over the season, but the combination of small stadium, the Dodgers, and the possibility MLB wants to put on an offensive show has me leaning towards benching them.  Against those odds, I don't want to sacrifice two categories for the benefit of one.  

Thoughts?   

Just realized the NBA season is still going on.

1 hour ago, Maedhros said:

Dakich wouldn't know.

You ever notice that Ahdick is an anagram of Dakich.

Someone should let him know that.

51 minutes ago, iuthruandthru said:

Wait are you telling me this internet Nigerian Prince isn’t really gonna give me money after I help him out with my money?

No.  But I will if you can send me a little to help out with my alimony the next couple of months.  I promise.  

@Proud2BAHoosier

Some concerning news about Cole and his elbow.  If it's bad, that could ruin the season before it evens gets started unless Rodon rediscovers his stuff, and that might not even be enough.

8 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Portal doesn't open until the 18th 

I heard Luke Brown was granted citizenship in the Portal.

16 hours ago, HoosierFaithful said:

Not really sure how much more evidence people need to not believe the BS rumors on this site, other sites, and various places across the internet.

You mean the story I just read about the entire population of Omaha being aliens and that they took control of Peyton Manning's mind when he visited the city in 2009 is not true!

If I cant believe that, what can I believe? 

The perception of Indiana this season is going to require, at a minimum, three impressive wins, and I still say probably requires us to win the whole thing. 

Here's what we need.

15 plus point win in our 1st game, regardless of the opponent.

Beat Nebraska and look good doing it.

Beat Illinois.  We cannot afford Illinois to lose before they play us.  We need to have a W against them to have any shot if we lose Sunday.

Hope Northwestern (possible) or Wisconsin (highly unlikely) can beat Purdue for us.  Even if we beat the Illini, a 20+ point beatdown by the Boilers takes away all the brownie points earned earlier in the tournament.

A run to the Championship certainly helps, but it is not surefire ticket to the dance.

4 hours ago, IUFLA said:

I wonder what Billy Hatcher would have scored on the Reds/Astros part?

4%.  I just tried him on my phone.  I did the grid on my laptop this morning.

14 hours ago, Hoosier4Life53 said:

He averaged 20.8 pts per game, 92% from the FT line and 38.4% from three. Somebody will grab him in a hurry, but we should be in good shape to get him, if he enters the portal.

92% from the line?  He may have trouble fitting in.  

Did both Gallo and Leal say they were unequivocally coming back?  Or, did they simply say generic things that make people think they are?

2 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Billingham was actually my first thought on the Reds/Astros square, but I thought he would score higher than Helms because Billingham came to the Reds and got the Big Red Machine exposure.  

@^&%@&^@

Going through the grid, I got fixated with the fact that I should have used Tejada in the Houston 300 HR square instead of the Giants/Orioles square.  So, when I went to put Berkman into what I thought was the 300 HR square, I clicked on the center square because it was adjacent to Tejada.  Wrong category, leads to blank square.    

Anything  said I the postgame about that status of Galloway's injury?

2 hours ago, Indykev said:

why go through 2 senior nights?

Jess Settles just said on the Penn State v Maryland broadcast that he went through THREE Senior Nights.  And, he was dead serious.  His broadcast partner even validated that it was true.

LOL