buddha

yup. there is no science to it. no mathematical formula. its all about vibes.

its an absolute joke. the biggest laugh is not giving bonds or clemens enough votes to even stay on the ballot! because of roids! or schilling because of politics. and instead you vote in ortiz! and pudge! and bagwell! and now kent! ortiz was CAUGHT but because he's fat, happy, and plays for the red sox he gets a pass. pudge miraculously lost 100 pounds in one summer which just happened to be the summer they started testing. bagwell and kent suddenly got quite large and starting hitting homers but could never have done roids... come on. sportswriters are some of the dumbest hypocritical beings on the planet. i was always on the fence about whitaker and trammell. theyre "hall of very good" for me. but if youre going to let in the likes of harold freaking baines and jeff freaking kent, then by all means whitaker and trammell both belong.

from prashanth: "Without Moritz Seider on the ice at 5v5, the Wings have a 5v5 goal differential of -27. Minus. Twenty. Seven. It’s the worst 5v5 differential removing a single player from a team across the league. A -27 goal differential would be the worst goal differential in the NHL at all situations, not just 5v5. Over the course of a full season that would amount to a -76 5v5 goal differential without Seider. Arguably the worst team of the last 20 years, the 2019-2020 Red Wings, finished with a -75 5v5 goal differential. That’s how bad the Red Wings are at 5v5 without Seider. " he still has the hardest assignments in the league. and now he's started to add offensive playmaking to his repoiretoire. he's making the case to be a top ten player in the nhl.

he wants to go to the knicks, but they have nothing to trade that the bucks would want.

mo seider for norris.

such bull**** favortism for notre dame. why should they be guaranteed anything? join a conference or stfu.

no draymond, no steph, no horford, no problem! warriors up 26 on the bulls in the third. in chicago. bulls need to fire billy donovan. just promote him upstairs because the team has quit on him.

can the hall of fame get less relevant? what a joke.

cant wait to see michigan state there! biff will be really excited! actually he wont care. like any sparty fan, he's only interested in seeing michigan lose and doesnt actually care about anything else.

byu has a better resume than either of them.

lets just makr it 64 teams and we can have a whole second season! pmaying games until may. who cares about the players, theyre getting paid now and we need tv content!

whomever trades for hughes will have worked out the extension beforehand, imo.

notre dame will treat this like theyre making some moral statement about college football. if you wanted to be in, you should have beaten miami.

that position is already taken by isaiah stewart.

and as a michigan fan, were not just laughing at ohio state, were also laughing at notre dame. were equal opportunity haters.

horrible prediction: oregon over jmu oklahoma over alabama ol miss over tulane texas a&m over miami oregon over texas tech oklahoma over indiana georgia over ol miss ohio state over texas a&m oregon over oklahoma georgia over ohio state oregon over georgia three straight for the big ten.

back issues are always in the picture when it comes to porter.

yeah, which means there likely wont be a huge selloff at the deadline. and if stars/good players do get moved, its going to cost a TON to do it. quinn hughes is going to cost multiple #1s plus young players. i dont know if yzerman makes that kind of deal or if he gets outbid. anderson or kadri will probably cost multiple picks too. max did a question on this recently. he compared it to when karlsson got traded for a top young player (norris), #1 pick, a couple ready nhlers, and a few picks down the road. if you packaged a #1 pick, a #2 pick, asp, kasper or danielson, and probably another other lower level prospect like lombardi or mazur you could entice them. then your top 4 is seider-hughes, edvinsson-aljo/chiarot. you have an elite playmaking norris trophy defenseman who is only 26 and just into his prime to go along with your elite 23 year old stud defensive defenseman who is starting to pick up offense. that is a stanley cup first pair defense. it kind of guts your forward depth, but you have a lot of that coming up. you have yo give something to get something like hughes. if your core is larkin, seider, raymond, hughes, edvinsson, debrincat, i think you can contend for the division for the remainder of larkin's prime. you still have either kasper or danielson to be 2C. your 3rd and 4th lines might suffer a bit, but you'll have a top line that could hang with most of the league.

i like mgoblog but theyre a little ridiculously homerish. especially seth. its like michigan's players are all rhodes scholars sometimes and no one else can match their impeccable strategy and brains. my dudes, osu is the best program in the country for the last 20 years, just deal with it. brian had to go on a little hiatus after he got too political (again) about trump but he's pretty good when he's actually analyzing and not trying to act like he doesnt care or is too cool for school. at least ace anbender isnt there anymore. alex drain is really good. his substack is a great read. and i think he lurks here...

it could be worse, you could be a michigan state fan and have nothing to cheer for.

other teams have better assets, like atlanta, san antonio, or okc (just off the top of my head). other teams have been accumulating first round picks, the pistons have not. the pistons' tradeable young assets arent really that young anymore in terms of a contract. ivey and duren are both due big deals. do you want to trade ausar? i know we all joke about holland and sasser, but would another team really want either of those players as a centerpiece - or asset - in a deal? sasser isnt very good, is too small, and never plays. holland has regressed in year two and looks like a hustle guy with limited offensive upside. ymmv on ivey and duren. someone may love the potential and think they can extend them on lesser deals (especially ivey) that they will outplay once they get healthy/achieve their peak performance. but i doubt duren takes less cash. the real potential in ivey/duren is suckering the guy who drafted them into taking them for a better player/pistons fit (murphy) whom he didnt draft. knowing weaver and dumars' track record, you may not even have to throw in too many (or any) picks. when they have a scouting report crush on a player, they trade assets to get him regardless of whether they could get any back (see wiseman deal, bagley deal, stewart deal (which worked out), recent queen deal). its possible to swindle them for one of their crushes, which could be ivey/duren.

much needed regulation win.

lol ohio state.

if theyre going to trade him where he wants to go, he aint coming here.

i'm not trading for giannis because he's likely seriously injured. and will be a free agent soon.