TruffleShuffle

while we're ripping on the cardinals, you'll never guess who's accusing other teams of stealing signs! also... bitchiest organization in baseball.

my youth movement is arriving! kipnis has a hr tonight off josh beckett and paul goldschmidt hit his first big league hr off tim lincecum! =D>

yeah, and if harper is scrutinized, part of it he brings upon himself by acting like a complete tool

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/6826389/dallas-cowboys-rob-ryan-takes-shot-all-hype-philadelphia-eagles so we can already see that rob is obese and a loudmouth, much like his brother... i wonder if he is also into ladies' feet?

i can't speak to mono because i've never had it, but i had double pneumonia in 8th grade and lost 25 or 30 lbs, and went from swimming in one of the two fastest lanes during practice to swimming in the slowest lane. i had no stamina and no strength at all. i don't know if simpson will get back what he had, but i can imagine that a particularly severe case of mono could really have a detrimental effect on one's athletic ability for a prolonged period.

http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c_id=cle&content_id=17546135&topic_id=8879220 asdrubal cabrera's home run originally ruled a single then changed to a home run (i think it was originally ruled a single - no idea what signal the 1b ump is making though). anyway, the angle they show at about 1:10 is definitive, but before seeing that, the way you can tell it went over the fence is the reaction of the woman whose knee got drilled by the ball (it bounced back onto the field like it had hit the top of the wall). she'll have a nice bruise in the morning.

so he's just ignoring that pena was hitting 7th because the opposing pitcher was lefthanded? i mean, ryan howard should bat 8th or just should not play against LHP, but plenty of teams would be interested in him (if his contract weren't a disaster obviously)

since i quite clearly am not going to win it all this year and am looking forward to future years... anthony rizzo has 117 PAs and 98 ABs this year. say he ends with this amount... am i reading the rules correctly in thinking that he will have burned an exempt year (because he's gone over 50 PAs) but i will still be able to keep him as a minor league player (because he won't have reached 200 ABs)? also, i think the cutoff of 50 PAs is too low... the limits for pitchers are 5 starts (or about 15% of the amount that an average healthy starter would have during the season) and 10 games pitched total (about 13% of the amount of games that a heavily-used reliever would appear in). 50 PAs is only about 7% of the PAs that a starter at any given position would have during the year. i think 100 PAs would be a better number that is more in line with the exemption cutoffs for starters and relievers. (this is a change i would propose for future offseasons) anyway, since my team sucks i will try to remain as competitive by looking to reach 7 starts each week and upgrade at positions that are faltering (there's really no reason for me to have michael bourn on my team, but i'll keep playing him)... but mostly i am going to be keeping an eye on how many exemptions i burn and how many minor league keepers lose that status. kipnis will lose an exempt year and goldschmidt probably will too; rizzo already has... all three of them are some risk to lose minor league keeper status. trout is within three PAs (see my point?) of burning an exemption and teheran, delgado and turner have each started games in the big leagues this year.

man given what BA wrote about schlecht during the draft, sure sounds like he's a guy who is valued more by cubs' scouts than by most talent evaluators.

how long is guzman going to be in daytona? this is his 11th outing for them.

i don't see the problem. they gave him the option to have a shot at a championship with a really good team. a lot of players would take that opportunity, but he passed. if anything i'd say that's nicer than giving him no other choice but to play out the string with a terrible team.

why does he need to have his head on a swivel? are you suggesting that he normally looks somewhere other than at the pitcher while he's in the batter's box?

BUST

Note to Bob: They're not free and other people will almost certainly give up good picks for the like of Halladay, Cano, etc. there is a huge gap between "free" and "pick which is guaranteed to yield a really good player." if other people are dumb enough to give up a king's ransom for players you have to release, i can't control that.

[expletive] off jayson stark.

good news everyone, tim won't be drafting first \:D/ note to tim - i would still like some of your players

so will i have the #1 pick in the regular draft then? i'm tied for the worst record with chuck, but i have fewer points and a worse differential, and i also lost to him head-to-head.

did i read something about draft position being established before the end of the season? or am i just making that up in my head?

ok this is embarrassing... jake westbrook???

back into a tie for last place =D>

lars anderson really isn't that good.

if it were one or two people saying this, i'd think that maybe some GM just wants a couple of pieces from the cubs and is putting out some misinformation to turn up the pressure on hendry. but everyone seems to be saying that he's showing little interest in dealing his players who do have some value, and he himself has talked about guys like baker being almost untouchable. it really seems absurd.

no he really shouldn't. i don't think what he did was intentionally dirty, just clumsy and poorly executed. but you can't let a guy come in two feet wide of 2b, feet high, against the most promising young player on your team without doing something about it, so you hit him in the back or the butt once, and then let it go. repeatedly throwing at him would just be stupid and possibly start a beanball war where a cub player ends up getting seriously injured.

well he's lazy so he probably doesn't like winning... just too much effort

well yeah, we'll see if he wants to accept a ridiculous lowball offer or go somewhere will a team will play him close to market value.