The right honorable gentleman from North-Decatur-upon-Lullwater wants to know two things:
1. If Chipper Jones would have been drafted by the Cardinals instead of the Braves, how would his career have been different? In other words, how would things be different after the inevitable blow-up between Chipper and Tony LaRussa as to Chipper’s reliance on his father for hitting advice? That advice surely violates one of LaRussa’s myriad unwritten rules for baseball, like “I get a virgin in heaven for every pitching change I make” and “a pitcher can hit a batter only in one of the following 17 situations…”
2. In light of the fact that Bret Bielema is apparently the best coach in the Big Ten now that Jim Tressel is no more, how many head coaches in the SEC are better than the best coach in the Big Ten? Put another way, would Georgia fans trade on-a-seat-of-indeterminable-warmth Mark Richt for any coach in the Big Ten? Would LSU fans take any coach in the Big Ten over Les Miles? Am I being too partisan here or does Jim Tressel’s demise at Ohio State really bring into full view the sorry state of coaching in a conference that has the money to do so much better?
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I'd guess a few LSU fans would take Bo Pelini over Miles, and I'm pretty sure that he'd be the first guy they'd call if Miles left.
The only other Big 10 coach who might have some cache would be Kevin Wilson if he can make some noise at Indiana. An 8-4 season and he'll be on the list for a number of big openings.
Yeah, I'd take Pelini over Miles and possibly Richt, but the media in the Big Ten have Bielema as a better coach right now. Maybe I'm just predisposed to dismiss everything about the Big Ten generally and Wisconsin specifically (the latter because of their ludicrous OOC schedules that always inflate their records), but I'd take half of the SEC head coaches over Bielema. I'd only take Saban, Petrino, Spurrier, and possibly Mullen and Richt over Bielema.
An 8-4 record at IU and the world will end....
I've always wanted someone to write a book on the unwritten rules of baseball. All of which are dumb.
Ferentz ain't too shabby.
Sorry, threadjack... I saw this trade: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ah8UfWcbt56FknXSLdRvMnYRvLYF?slug=ti-brown_pence_traded_phillies_hardball072911
and couldn't help but wonder why the Braves couldn't swing a couple of A-ball players for a solid bat like Pence.
But I think the Braves are gearing up for a huge second-half collapse because of injuries and poor hitting.
From what I saw on Twitter last night, the Phillies really mortgaged the future to get Pence. I'll wait to see what BP says about the deal. I can see Philly going for the ring right now because their core is all over 30. The Braves are a younger team, so I don't see the same need to push all the chips into the middle of the table for this year and next.
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