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  1. TruffleShuffle
    i'll take the under on bill james' projected batting line for sappelt.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    it's too bad Mizzou isn't around to weigh in on this.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    i feel like SSR is just pulling a kyle on us (taking the unpopular side just so he can argue)
  4. TruffleShuffle
    i don't know why a player would want the highest posting fee ever, since he gets $0 from that. i suppose a very high posting fee (like dice-k high) gives the player a minimum contract to shoot for (what dice-k got from the sox).
  5. TruffleShuffle
    shouldn't interested teams have had a conversation with him about what kind of salary he expected? 5/100 would make the average annual value over $30m after the posting fee, which is absurd. i wouldn't even have gone $20m/year with the posting fee factored in.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    i also wouldn't really care if they removed someone like marcos mateo or scott maine from the 40-man. they're already very fringy and are going to be in the age 27/26 seasons, respectively. if they're removed from the 40-man and someone claims them, maybe we've lost a 7th inning guy but more likely we've lost a guy who is good enough for iowa but not good enough for a big league bullpen.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    he had a good game, unlike most of his games during the regular season.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    agree! http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=0&season=2011&seasonType=REG&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&statisticCategory=PASSING&conference=null&d-447263-s=PASSING_COMPLETION_PERCENTAGE http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=0&season=2011&seasonType=REG&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&statisticCategory=PASSING&d-447263-p=1&conference=null&d-447263-s=PASSING_PASSER_RATING let me pre-emptively offer the rebuttal of "BUT HE WINS GAMES"
  9. TruffleShuffle
    well look who's off his meds again.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    i shouldn't have even launched into this tangent. my point was that i find it amusing that i know eagle and viking fans who defend his football abilities because he's overtly Christian. if he were just some schmuck with a bad qb rating and bad completion percentage they'd goof on him or not care. ain't no eagle fans telling me that tarvaris jackson or josh freeman are underrated and better than their stats.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    somewhere dugan fife is crying in a corner
  12. TruffleShuffle
    depends on what you mean by succeed. i think a guy can be a reasonably effective qb as a bad thrower if he can make good decisions and add plays with his legs that most other guys can't. he could probably be at least average... average being not that difficult a bar to reach considering that bums like blaine gabbert and rex grossman and tarvaris jackson are starting qb's. there's zero chance that a qb can be elite without being able to throw. but i think a lot of the backlash has been because so many people give him credit for turning the broncos even though five of the games "he won" were games in which both teams scored fewer than 20 points - meaning that the wins were largely produced by the broncos' defense. even with his running ability and the handful of big plays, tebow really was pretty lousy this year.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    I find it amusing that others have a problem with people liking a player because they think he's a good person. there are a lot of good people in the nfl. a lot of devout Christians, too. they just don't make a big deal about it or incorporate it into their touchdown celebration. i'm guessing there were some nice Christian guys on pittsburgh who are quite sad right now.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    maybe my eyes deceived me, but i thought demaryius thomas played.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    i think the thing that amuses me most about the tebow debate is the devoutly Christian people who are huge fans and defenders of him simply because he's overtly Christian.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    I think Sappelt is probably a fourth OF. But given the fact we're going nowhere this season I would absolutely love to give him as many PA as possible so he can prove me wrong. works for me. of course, soriano needs to go away to make that happen (assuming that the cubs aren't going to bench an $18m player)
  17. TruffleShuffle
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=callas001alb http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=keppin001jef
  18. TruffleShuffle
    to me, sappelt looks like a fourth OF who is better against LHP. which is fine, because it does have some value and i think wood and torreyes were the bigger gets in that deal.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    n&g, it appears he took your comments about run-on sentences to heart.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    that's not what he's being paid in 2012. Insert $1.15 million and the point still stands. so he might be overpaid by half a mil, i'm really not going to lose sleep over that. he can hit lefties and if he is confined to that role through the first few months, he might have reasonably good numbers and fetch a C-grade prospect at the deadline. i'm not fond of the signing but really, it doesn't matter much.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    yeah not even to get into the content of it. things very likely wouldn't have been different if theo were here because just about nobody in baseball thought hamilton would do what he did.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    TT's irrational and intense hatred of him, I think. combined with WSR's irrational and intense adulation of him.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    they're awesome... 26-9 record. no other team is over .500. their team ops is over .900 and best ERA in the league by almost a run. btw old friend alex maestri is pitching for brisbane and beat the heat a couple of nights ago.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    I'm at a Perth Heat baseball game and some guy three seats down from me was just telling someone sitting behind him that he's a cubs fan because his favorite player, Alfonso Soriano, plays for them. lol
  25. TruffleShuffle
    yes, if he hit like he did when he was a few years younger in his prime, playing half his games in the best offensive environment in baseball, during an era where offense was significantly easier to come by, and the past two years of bad production are not a signal that he's no longer good, then it could be a huge win. assuming that his defense is not too wretched to give away most of those positive offensive contributions.
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