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  1. TruffleShuffle
    ugh of course the giants have to run it in for a TD when i'm down 0.3 with manning and nicks on my fantasy team that nobody cares about. throw the ball to dez bryant romo you prick. or get in field goal range for bailey to kick a fg. i have 4 players and need 0.3 points, COME ON.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    uh he's black and has a tattoo, CASE CLOSED
  3. TruffleShuffle
    haha I noticed that too but you know its actually a word http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entrance uhh yeah i'm completely lost too.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    robbie gould, best offensive player on the bears.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    so chase headley, the guy with a 120 ops+ at 3b last year, has had no real major league success.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    he probably cheated and got caught, but if i'm ever accused of a crime and see kyle sitting in the pool of prospective jurors, i'm telling my lawyer to throw him out.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    i'd say WSR got blown up. that proposal is absurd.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    hey buck up there, rafael furcal resigned for two more years. not only is he a decent player but he also may pick up the DUI slack left by larussa's departure.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    so you can't comprehend a player juicing to improve his performance, but you can envision an mlb organization risking a federal investigation, severe mlb penalties and a massive lawsuit against them by one of their star players.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    so an mlb organization is knowingly injecting a blatantly illegal (both in respect to US laws and MLB rules) substance into its players that can heal them quickly short-term, but have significant negative health impacts in the long run. and they're doing this in a desperate win-now ploy because they're losing a franchise cornerstone in the offseason. and the player, who will have his reputation ruined and lose a lot of money due to suspension, is just a-ok with this.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    so you're saying the brewers gave braun steroids without him knowing about it? boy that sure as hell would be a scandal.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    wells also had an absurd number of fly balls flying over the fence.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    so, what happens with braun now... expensive to keep since he probably misses 1/3 of the season, but then (assuming he's still really good after coming back) he's a bargain keeper next offseason.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    he was only doing it to look better in his tight affliction t-shirts.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    good start, but i'd work a few more teams into the deal.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    Okay then, what's true? Heavy/fat players tend to really decline around age 30. He might have a few prime years left, but he is almost certainly not entering his prime. Considering Prince is already a bad baserunner and fielder, I'm scared what he's going to be like after age 30. 30 is a little early. prince's dad kind of leveled off through about 32-33 and then got bad quickly. john kruk was quite good through his age 32 season and then dropped off. mo vaughn dropped off after age 30, but his knees were fucked up (probably from being fat). david ortiz peaked at ages 29-31 (probably steroid-related) but was still quite good last season. i'd have no problem going 6 years with prince, taking him through his age 33 season. even if he drops off like ortiz/kruk in the last two years of his contract, you've probably still got an above-average hitter. hopefully you get enough in the first 4-5 years of the deal to make that last year or two not matter so much.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    Thank god, I was worried what you thought. Thankfully you'll be generous. I'm an unabashed Bryce fan. It's sports, not your coworkers, it's more fun when the guys are douchebags. oh i think he's hilarious, i just took umbrage with the statement that he "keeps getting cooler." there is nothing cool about that tattoo. at all.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    I'm going to be generous and assume that was just a bad joke.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    i assume there is something in place to stop the cubs (or whoever) from dropping like half a billion on his posting fee and then making no attempt to sign him?
  20. TruffleShuffle
    also, trevor cahill has had a below-average ERA+ in two of his three mlb seasons. matt garza has been below average in one, average in another and above average in four. and, he strikes people out.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    i guess the female fertility drugs didn't work for him... can't get pregnant, might as well give baseball another shot.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    ok, so don't overpay in years or money for top talent, and never sign any elite players. sounds like a real sharp move for one of the biggest-market teams in the game.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    xFIP the last three years: cahill: 2009 - 4.86 2010 - 3.99 2011 - 3.90 wells: 2009 - 4.18 2010 - 3.94 2011 - 4.45 obviously cahill is younger, but he's already got a mature body and his fastball velocity really hasn't changed in the past 3 years, so he probably is what he is (rather than a guy you'd expect to keep improving through his mid to late 20s). his babip-fueled 2010 and pitching half his games in an extreme pitcher's park have him pretty overvalued... he's much more an innings-eating mid-rotation guy that the #2 that many people think he is.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i'm sure that he's quite talented, but i'm just really reluctant to shell out what will amount to like $20m/year (posting fee + contract) for a guy who hasn't pitched in the major leagues. how many free agent pitchers have $20m/year contracts? the ones i can think of off the top of my head are sabathia, cliff lee, halladay and johan santana. considering that no japanese pitcher has come over and been anywhere near as good as those guys, i don't see how you could have any confidence that you'd get enough value for what you're paying.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    nobody is trading a top prospect for david dejesus unless he starts hitting 30 home runs in his age 32 season.
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