buddha

you fired tom thibodeau in order to hire mike brown. its not KAT's fault youre bad. he is who he is: soft. at least thibodeau got him to play hard for a season.

couldnt happen to a nicer guy.

tuomisto is probably equivalent to clayton. maybe wallinder. but are you giving up a first for sherwood? i'm not. plus he's hurt.

i'm 53 years old. its been that way ever since i started watching basketball. the only time the celtics dont get calls is when they play the lakers. then the refs are too confused about who to favor so they just call the game.

i really hate caris lavert. almost as much as i hate officials who call everything in favor of the celtics.

if some team wants to give a 30 year old pitcher a ten year contract, let em do it. i hope its not detroit.

the lions have had one successful offensive coordinator under holmes/campbell and that was ben johnson. hard to give them the benefit of the doubt in coordinator hirings. that said, what the heck do we know about it? the problems last year stemmed from their inability to replace ragnow and zietler more than the oc, imo. that falls on holmes, not campbell. the oc turns into a fall guy for personnel lapses, injuries, and bad luck more times than not. hopefully this guy turns into the next ben johnson without the ultra cutesy **** that got him in trouble from time to time.

true.

ben johnson took a heel turn awfully quickly. i dont know if he's on the daboll path but it wouldnt surprise me. the bears have more talent than those giants teams so it probably wont happen. otoh, the central is a harder division than the nfc least. depends on how you feel about caleb and this bears team. he's great outside the pocket and not great in it. if you keep him in there, he'll make a mistake. bears fans will learn what lions fans learned this year: progress is not always linear. its a week to week league. i doubt the bears are as lucky next year as they were this year.

the only angle i can possibly convince myself will work is the "vancouver retains a ton of salary" and "the swedish guys bring out the best in him." i can almost talk myself into it at that point. but then i still go back to him basically crying in a corner because jt miller was bullying him. the last time the canucks were in the playoffs he was a complete no show. he signed that huge deal and fell off a cliff. is that who i want? do i really need a perennial lady byng candidate to lead my team? otoh, he wouldnt be the leader of the team. he could fade into the background and produce on line 2 or 3. but if that's who youre trading for, do you really want to pay that guy 11 million per year for the next SEVEN years? i dont. if you wanted to mortgage the future for a "star" then you should have ponied up for hughes. if you want to take on a distressed asset, then find one who doesnt make 11 million per year.

war has always overly benefitted starting pitchers who accumulate innings. the fact that park effects can change year to year without any physical change to the park itself or change to the general weather patterns tells me that players who play in the park have as much or more influence on the "park effect" that season than the modelers would have you believe.

its been a disappointing year for a lot of their prospects. danielson proved he definitely wasnt ready for the nhl, kasper has regressed horribly, asp is decent on offense and a black hole on defense, lombardi is hurt, mazur is ALWAYS hurt, mbn didnt do much in detroit, buium is hurt, wallinder/tuomisto cant get out of GR and look like AAAA players right now. injuries have robbed a lot of their top prospects of their seasons. normally you'd chalk that up to bad luck, but in mazur and lombardi's case, it may be an indication of their lack of size being a problem. buium just seems like bad luck. danielson's debut was a real bummer. i was hoping for more at the nhl level, even though he is a rookie. and he's not barging down the door in GR either. the criticism from scouts that he's just not a dynamic offensive player may be true. still time though. on the bright side, bear is healthy, buch seemed to continue to score in russia, and plante has blossomed into a great playmaker at the college level. cossa went on a heater in GR and looks ready for next year. augustine continues to augustine in the ncaa. genborg looks like a potential holmstrom. the swedish johannson continues to earn praise. can we finally get a second rounder who hits? 🤔 the system remains deep, but with no one projecting as a star player. all in all, its probably the usual amount of rising and falling that prospects do. i'd like to see them deal a few of them for an established blue liner and physical forward. deal them before the shine wears off.

no, no, no, no, NO! 11.5 million per season for a guy who floats around on offense and is the opposite of physical on defense. that's the guy you want as the highest paid player on your team? the wings get continually bashed in physically by other teams, adding petersson to this team only exacerbates that problem. unless vancouver is literally giving him away, i am not interested. now, if the petersson of which you speak is vancouver's DEFENSEMAN of the same last name, that i am interested in. elias petersson the overpaid, soft as church music center? no thanks. i'd rather take my lumps with danielson.

war has gone from being a really interesting statistical way to analyze player value to overrated gospel. it places too much emphasis on things like park effects, fielding, and base running, and not enough emphasis on hitting. just my .02. like most stats, i like it when it supports my argument and dislike it when it doesnt.