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it's curling without the ice and people sweeping. it's a perfectly round ball rolling slowly down a perfectly mowed grass pitch. that is not interesting.
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i would like to add three things to this list: cricket lawn bowls (it's televised here in australia, and it is the most boring sport i have ever watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tupeq1irpU) netball (australia/new zealand... think women's basketball but without the "excitement" of dribbling and jumping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGAuwbumAU)
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i think it's more the amount of money they'd lose if the horse was seriously hurt and ended up in the glue factory. smarty jones lost the belmont and was subsequently retired and syndicated for $39 million due to his expected stud fees.
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Right now, people only ever watch if there's the possibility of a Triple Crown. So, they'll watch the Belmont if one horse already won the other two big races. So, horse racing is so popular that people watch one race every five years. Reaching even that level of popularity still baffles me. Of course I have similar feelings about NASCAR, but at least the humans get named as the winners in that event. well that's pretty much the same thing, except the car should be named the winner and not the person who drove it around in a circle a bunch of times.
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put sandoval in my lineup at 3b, released chris johnson because he sucks, brought randall delgado up to my major league bench because he probably had too many starts to be in the minors anyway. also, dropped ogando and added tom wilhelmson from the mariners because ogando is apparently now a SP and i want to have two RP.
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yeah that would be fine. but he has frank francisco, chris perez and tyler clippard in his starting lineup.
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Is Truffle, Scoscia's tragic illness? If so, that's my question. If he only has 3 players on his bench that would make his pitching roster 6 SP and 1 RP. Is that legal? i think if someone wants to have 10 SP and 0 RP they should be allowed to, assuming that they don't go over the 7 start limit. they're only screwing themselves by not getting points from RP. now The Eyes of Texas has 3 RP, which is definitely not allowed.
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yeah i put ogando on the bench because i noticed that he was getting a spot start and didn't want him as one of my starters for the week.
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yeah, this is best handled with a PM (if you are questioning how a manager is managing his team.) that being said, if anyone would like to lose intentionally against me, i have no problem with this.
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How do you figure? Just thinking back to the A's sneaking under the radar and getting Cespedes in one of the offseason's many WTF moments. If willing to overpay, it's the type of bidding war in which a small market team could beat out the big market teams. well you definitely just wrote some words on the internet.
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boy talk about a nothing for nothing trade
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wut
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i have no idea who jairi belas is, but do you really think that an mlb team is going to forge a birth certificate? now we're not just talking unethical, we've moved into criminal behavior. the punishment that would come down upon an mlb organization that forges a birth certificate for a player would be mind-boggling. i think you're really ignoring how much the potential punishment is a disincentive to cheating. getting a talented 18 year old player is not worth having years of high draft picks stripped away. and yes, cheating would come out, because generally 18 year olds aren't so great at keeping a secret.
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we had agreed on a trade like a week earlier, but i was trying to trade kelly johnson so that i could fit the new players on my roster. then all of my players started getting hurt and nobody wanted kelly johnson, so trading an injured player was the only way to do it (besides continuing to play a player that i'd already agreed to trade, and putting off the trade even longer)
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Prospects who were never Cubs
TruffleShuffle replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
billy hamilton has 29 stolen bases in his last 16 games, and 69 SB in 57 games. so he's on pace for like 150 SB this year. -
ok, that did happen. they certainly weren't the first team to do that kind of deal - flyers did it with pronger, isles with dipietro (lol), etc. but the devils were just so obvious about it because the last few years of the contract he would have been getting paid like the league minimum while still playing at age 45. i agree that teams will try to manipulate the rules and find loopholes, as the devils did with kovalchuk. you can already see that happening with late-round talents being drafted early in order to free up money for overslot signings. that's different than what davell is asserting, which is that teams will blatantly violate the caps by paying players under the table or showering them with cars or houses.
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the NHL had no salary cap, salary floor, luxury tax or revenue sharing arrangement prior to the lockout. after the lockout it had a hard salary cap. below is the list of teams that have been caught or accused of cheating to circumvent this relatively new, drastically different arrangement: http://www.crctlessons.com/images/empty-set.jpg
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6/7 Cubs (Garza) @ Brewers (Wolf) 1:10 CSN TV
TruffleShuffle replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I think I'm quite ready to stop giving a [expletive] about how much luck does or doesn't enter into it and give Cardenas some starts. well good thing you're not managing the cubs then. We're talking about a guy who was a legit prospect a lot more recently than Stewart. I have no problem with the acquisition of Stewart, especially considering what we have up, and I have no problem keeping him around, but at what point do we give Cardenas regular playing time? Castro won't be losing playing time to him, nor will Barney, though I woudlnt be opposed to him getting starts over Barney here and there. If not, send him to AAA and let Amezaga hang out at the end of the bench. when you post contains the phrase "I'm quite ready to stop giving a [expletive] about how much luck does or doesn't enter into it" you should probably reconsider what you're typing, and at the very least not hit the submit button. -
i'm not sure what i'll do if someone else gets hurt. right now all of my bench spots are used up by injured players. my worst injured player is either alex avila, who's still pretty good and is exempt next year, austin jackson (also pretty good, and exempt next year) or jaime garcia. can't see releasing any of them. thankfully panda is supposed to be off the DL reasonably soon and jackson has started his rehab stint.
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yes, leave in march, no
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i'm not talking about rookie (new draftee) scales, i'm talking about salary caps in general. the nfl and nhl have hard salary caps. many teams come very close to their cap limit. they have the exact same incentive to cheat (pay players under the table, etc) that MLB teams have with newly-drafted players. yet these things generally do not happen. there was an aussie rules football team that was found to be committing serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap during the early 2000s. the league took away the #1 and #2 overall picks in one draft, plus their second and third round picks, then their top two picks the next year, and also some picks for an overage draft. and fined that club almost a million dollars. that team ended up being awful for another five years and needed a loan from the league to keep from going under. while it's not MLB, this is the kind of thing that happens to teams that knowingly flaunt a hard and fast rule.
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That's insane. yeah his home runs were down last year too. everyone figured that he'd be a big power source with the short porch in fenway.
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i believe that poster already has dibs on Raging Anus, since wilken and fleita are still with the cubs.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-7-12
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
vitters walk :shock: -
Very easily could be, for the exact reasons I just listed. It's an example. I'm sure there are others. Hopefully the guys who may wind up in a position like this can come up with better ways. But the draft system sucks right now and teams are going to want to maximize as many guys as they can get. But no one can say what may or may not happen right now. Maybe, hopefully, it doesn't come to things like this. But to think it can NOT morph into it, with this type of system in place, is naive. how is this different from every salary cap system in the world? yes i get that they're amateur players turning pro, but don't NFL teams want to get as much talent as they can? especially a team like the cowboys or the patriots with billionaire owners and profitable franchises; they certainly can afford to spend more on players than they currently do. the incentive for them to circumvent the salary cap is very real.