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  1. TruffleShuffle
    well, to fight it he needs to pay lawyers, probably expensive ones, and it gets harder to do that when one isn't earning money as a professional cyclist and a lot of endorsements have dried up due to doping rumors.
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    well, some of the things they were doing (like blood transfusions in hotel rooms) was pretty clearly crossing the line. it wasn't taking a supplement with a questionable ingredient. that being said, during the late '90s to mid '00s like half the teams in the tour de france were being raided by the authorities and riders were being kicked out left and right. you can probably count on zero hands the number of elite riders during that period who weren't at least strongly suspected of doping. in my view armstrong probably knowingly broke the rules, if for no other reason than it would have been superhuman to win as a non-doping athlete facing whole teams of athletes who were cheating. but it was probably a pretty level playing field. i mean, if you take away armstrong's win in some of those tours, who gets it? i just randomly picked the 2000 tour de france. the guy who finished second was banned from the 2006 tour and this year was retroactively stripped of all results from 2005 onward. but he wasn't cheating in 2000? right. the guys who finished fourth, fifth and sixth also have had lengthy bans due to doping. at some point you have to just say that most participants were cheating and there's no point in modifying the results 10 or 15 years down the road.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    what struck me about those reds unis is that the names on the back were ENORMOUS. larger than the lettering on the front of the unis, and the last name "CHAPMAN" almost spilled over onto the sleeves. looked pretty dumb.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    don mossi ftw
  5. TruffleShuffle
    hey i was at that game too, and yes i loudly booed dusty on a couple of occasions. got scalped tickets for about 60% of face value, right behind home plate. definitely a buyer's market since the phillies suck now.
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    also imagine how bad our already-lousy pitching would look there. you'd get to see some fun 16-14, 4 hour games though.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    just say no to the california league.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    billy hamilton is within two SB's of the southern league lead. he's played 37 games (and stolen 39 bases). the league leader has played 125 games. he's also two SB's away from breaking vince coleman's record for stolen bases in a season (145).
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    i remember posting like last month that i was having a hard time getting used to the notion of melky cabrera as a really good player. looks like i may not have to worry about that any more.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    did a tour of at&t park yesterday... beautiful ballpark. also part of the tour was a video conference with the curator for the baseball hall of fame, which was interesting.
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    lol
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    apparently the nationals have no chance to win in 2013 and 2014 under derwood's derpish scenario.
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    looking at prior's pitch counts from late 2003 makes me want to punch dusty baker in the throat. here's how many pitches he threw in each of his starts after the marcus giles start: 79 116 118 100 116 131 122 109 124 131 133 playoffs: 133 116 119 take out that first start, and he threw 121.5 pitches per start in his age 22 season after suffering a shoulder injury. gee wonder why his career path to cooperstown went off the rails.
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    any number they pick is going to be completely arbitrary and made-up. so are pitch count limits. the alternative is "well we don't know how many innings he should throw, so let's just not worry about it" - which will result in him throwing over 200 innings between the regular season and playoffs, and there's a reasonably good chance that this will have negative repercussions not too far down the line.
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    Goldstein said something about "huge offensive environment" in Boise. Compared to what, the eastern league? The NWL is not a huge offensive environment by any means, and while Boise is more hitter friendly than the average ballpark in the NWL, it's hardly in the same boat as true huge offensive environments (Tucson, Las Vegas, Lancaster).
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    i wasn't high on vogelbach, but at some point if the guy keeps hitting for average and posting an OPS over 1.000, people are going to have to take him seriously as a prospect rather than the chubby sideshow who can hit the ball far. the "it's the AZL, everyone hits there" doesn't fly in the NWL, which isn't a hitter's league, and the excuse of feasting on bad pitchers rings pretty hollow too. let's put it this way, if most second round, seven-figure high school signings were posting a .330/.400/.675/1.075 line in their first professional season, i think there would normally be quite a bit more buzz than there has been for vogelbach.
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    you don't draft a guy who looks like a whale when he's 17 years old and hope that he suddenly drops 50 lbs. most players get thicker, not thinner, as they get older. by most accounts, he's actually in better shape than he was during high school. he's always going to be fat or at least chubby, so you can pretty much assume that he's going to be a minus baserunner and first baseman. the hope is that he turns into a 30+ hr, high OBP guy and that overcomes his deficiencies in the field and on the basepaths.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    villanueva reached base in all four plate appearances (2 walks, 1 hbp, 1 single)
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PXj8m4yZyo :lol:
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    i was a bit surprised they started him at AA this year, but his performance (almost .800 OPS in a pitcher's league) has certainly justified their decision. it's kind of dumb calling him up at this point, but i don't think a month and a half in the majors before he's ready is going to ruin him. the angels called up mike trout as a teenager last year, he sucked in his trial, but now he's the best player in baseball history.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    gotta say, i was hoping that soler would be doing to the AZL what puig is doing so far.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    I wanted to capture the IP's posted from. ah good one. maybe just ban everyone from st louis just to be safe.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    i love that chubby bastard.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    who on earth approved this username?
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i think they're just trolling the cubs by making us remember that ed lynch was our GM once upon a time.
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