Football Season is for Fantasy Road Trips
July 26, 2009Suddenly Hot Tribe Sweeps Seattle
July 27, 2009While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email in the sidebar.
Since we always do so well when expected: “The Big Ten Conference announced today that Ohio State has been selected as the preseason favorite for the 2009 football season by media members attending the conference’s football media day. Penn State was tabbed to finish second, and Michigan State was third. In addition, the media panel also named Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.” [Big Ten dot Org]
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The MLE is a fickle beast: “Lamar Odom is leaning strongly toward accepting the Miami Heat’s contract offer and leaving the Los Angeles Lakers, multiple sources with knowledge of the talks said. Odom has not reached a final decision, the sources said, but there is growing belief he will ultimately return to the Heat unless the Lakers improve their current offer.” [Adrian Wojnarowski/Yahoo! Sports]
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Strengths and weaknesses of Brandon McDonald, complete with a ton of pictures! [Dawgs by Nature]
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Terry’s Talkin’ about the recently Connor Graham: “While Graham has been a starter in Class A, his 95-mph fastball and size (6-7, 235 pounds) seem to make him a bullpen guy. In his minor-league career, he has averaged nearly a strikeout per inning (including 87 Ks in 80 innings this year), but he also walks nearly five every nine innings. This is the kind of pitcher that former Tribe GM John Hart would put in the bullpen and say, “Just throw hard, big fella. Don’t worry about anything else.” They had success with Jose Mesa, Steve Karsay and Danys Baez doing just that, as all began their careers as starters. Graham, who pitched at Miami (Ohio), has allowed only seven HRs in 247 innings. For now, the Tribe plans to keep him as a starter.” [Terry Pluto/Plain Dealer]
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Big Ten media days kick off today. Will anyone ask Rich Rodriguez if he’s a virgin? [Chicago Tribune via Rivalry Esq.]
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While im a giant BuckNut…I dont think OSU will be the outright champs…I’m seeing a shared title again this year…
on a side note, its actually really nice to eat my words about the under-performing Tribe players (Garko, Benny, and Peralta)…they’ve been the core of the road-trip success, and I hope they continue to prove me wrong as far as their abilities…I have a feeling that they will come back to earth (peralta and benny) but Garko has made a change in his attitude as far as hitting pitches hard as opposed to slapping them…he’s really turning his hips thru the ball now as opposed to bailing out and reacting to breaking pitches…he looks more balanced…
Pryor pre season Big Ten POTY..? As a sophomore? Wow..
This is shocking given that Penn State has one of the easiest schedules in college football this year. I love OSU, but I playing the cupcakes Penn has lined up should give them the advantage.
#3 – The big ten championship is just determined by games played in the Big Ten. So, Penn State’s non-conference schedule has no effect whatsoever on the Big Ten standings
You can even argue that it will hurt them because they won’t have any experience to fall back on when the meat of the Big Ten schedule comes up
My experience so far has shown picking my favorites to win it all has been catastrophic. 2008-Indians win world series. 2008-Browns a possible darkhorse for the Super Bowl. 2009-Cavs will win it all. I am not buying this prediction about the Bucks until we have a few games done and won.
The Buckeyes’ biggest strengths are their O- and D-lines this year. The D-line especially is deep. It’s been lacking a bit in recent years (especially compared to the Tim Anderson/Fresh Prince days), and this will take a ton of pressure off the inexperienced corners.
Somewhere Darryl Clark is crying because he wasn’t picked offensive POY.
I’ve heard Darryl Clark gained something like 40 pounds, which is incredible. He’s either bulked up to become the incredible hulk QB set to terrorize defenses, or he’s going to sacrifice much of his speed/option game.
He lost both of his receivers who really made him last year………
I’ll be at the Navy game scouting the Buckeyes………best part is the pre-game bash at the Blackwell across the street from the Stadium!
brendan beat you to the pluto article on yesterdays www scott
fight fight fight! : )
That’s what I heard – worth revisiting?
While the team is still nowhere near AL Central relevance, they have managed to collect some solid arms over the last few weeks.
Sure, Chris Perez has had some control issues but he’s a crazy live arm and he’s young. Add in Graham and his high 90s stuff. And now Jess Todd?
It may be a year too late, but the bullpen of the future isn’t looking all too bad…
Plus when you consider some of our high-end draft picks over the past three seasons (Steven Wright, Jonathan Holt, Zach Putnam and now Alex White), the organization’s pitching depth is pretty impressive now.
well…our future depth, in theory, is looking ok…but no one really knows until they do it in the Bigs…
too bad the Grinder would be around to see it!
Jacob Rosen…..that’s if you have faith in Shapetti. Their drafting track record with high picks (pitchers included) has been absymal so I don’t know where you get such confidence. This is not the Tampa Bay Devils or Milwaukee Brewer’s farm system.
The Tribe drafted Lincecum but couldn’t get him signed. I’d say that’s a good high pick that didn’t work out.