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The point is moot because a couple extra hours of practice would not cause a stir by players because it would be media suicide if the team just started making them come in two hours early every day for work and also come in on every day off? no i think that the public would feel that an employer is wrong in suddenly asking like 15 hours a week of their employees' free time without any change in compensation.
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i'm baffled as to how you can think that a union as powerful as the MLBPA has no wording in their collective bargaining agreement about how much time that MLB organizations can ask of their players.
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you apparently have a fundamental misunderstanding of labor markets and fair work practices.
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you really sure the manager has the tool of taking away free time? i'm pretty sure the players association would like to weigh in on that. the manager can make the players be at the park as early as he wants before games...he the boss, they are the employees period they can not show up and face fines/suspension but he can call meetings/practices whenever he so chooses right so if quade says the players have to be at wrigley every day at 8 a.m. for a 1:20 game the players have no recourse?
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you really sure the manager has the tool of taking away free time? i'm pretty sure the players association would like to weigh in on that.
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because it's a veteran team and you're advocating treating them like children. what's he going to tell them, hey garza don't throw the ball into the camera well? pena, catch the ball when it's hit at you?
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http://times-news.com/basketball/x1720293948/Hard-work-communication-Riggleman-s-stamp-on-Nats i must have missed the part of that article where it talked about coming in 2-4 hours early to work on that stuff and also coming in on days off.
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that's nice. maybe all the time they spent learning how to make a few less errors would have been better served learning how to get on base and get major league hitters out, considering that they lost 93 games.
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also, please provide me a link to an article saying that riggs has his players come in every day of the baseball season for "taking infield, learning how to bunt and hit behind runners, and learning the general fundamentals of the game"
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Jim Riggleman did this with great success at the major league level last year not little league if you consider 93 losses to be "great success" then you should be thrilled with quade.
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hey aramis ramirez i know you've been playing baseball for 25 years, but how about reporting to the ballpark at 9 a.m. before day games to spend 3 hours fielding grounders? after the game quade will take you out for an ice cream.
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oh ok so you want the manager to treat his bad team largely composed of multi-millionaire veterans and treat them like a little league team. if you want everyone to hate the manager i suppose that's a great idea.
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was just looking at ted williams' stats. imagine a guy going for .406/.553/.735/1.287 with 147 walks and 27 strikeouts in his age 22 season. insane. on another note, ted williams was listed on only about 93.5% of the bbwaa ballots cast, while 23 voters (out of 432) left willie mays off. seriously, if you omit a player like mays or williams from your ballot in their first season of eligibility, shouldn't you automatically be ejected from the organization?
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because you believe the offensive production he provides will outweigh the poor defense? ted williams was a lousy defensive LF, would you have said "no thanks i don't want that 1.200 ops guy because he gives some runs back in the field" it's because sandberg does [expletive] like bunting in the first inning and places way too much emphasis on manufacturing runs. what you see when a guy strikes out with a runner on 2b and nobody out is the failed opportunity to score him from third on a ground out or a sac fly. what many other people see with your preferred method (roller to the right side or a sac bunt) is you giving the other team an out and reducing the chances of a big inning. "manufacturing runs" is often a euphemism for giving the other team outs in an attempt to push one run across, and the most important thing in baseball (offensively anyway) is to not make outs.
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yeah the cubs look ok "on paper" because they have a lot of names like pena, ramirez and soriano who used to be really good, but now they're not. the cubs just aren't a good team, regardless of how effective the manager is. and you're kidding yourself if you think that mental errors lead back to the manager. this isn't little league; if your team is just throwing the ball around aimlessly then it's probably because the players are dumb, not that their manager for like 3 months isn't paying attention to fundamentals.
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Be careful they will come for you with torches and pitchforks next. please point me to the posts where people on nsbb are saying that things like defense and baserunning don't matter. That will be a long list. Let me get started on it. ok, can't wait to see it.
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Be careful they will come for you with torches and pitchforks next. please point me to the posts where people on nsbb are saying that things like defense and baserunning don't matter.
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let me google that for you
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on the plus side the cubs are making strong headway in the fecal league standings.
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They are just awful, both he and Brennaman. I had to watch last night's debacle on their network, which really sucked. Both of them are homers who make routine factual errors. i'd honestly be insulted to have to listen to those two every game. i'm okay with some homerism but at least have someone in the booth who knows what the hell is going on.
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just watched the replay of the play that tied the game (at 3-3) for the reds. jeff brantley is such a moron... he said that fukudome threw the ball home from the outfield when in reality it was garza throwing it away from first base. how do you [expletive] up that badly? (besides being a dumb hick who is completely unqualified to serve as a color commentator for a major league baseball team)
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-17-11
TruffleShuffle replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
i saw that he was hitting .350 and still had an ops below .900, which kind of requires one to not be walking or hitting for much power. i guess his doubles power is up, though who knows if that's because of "camp colvin" or just more line drives into the gaps and down the line. -
already 7 gidp for castro... that's a lot.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-17-11
TruffleShuffle replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
i know he had some shoulder problems... doesn't seem like he's recovered well from those. another very good outing from whitenack - 7 ip, 3 h, 0 r, 2 bb, 5 k, 11 go/2 fo, 96 pitches/61 strikes. jae-hoon ha is 1-5 with a triple - no strikeouts though. lemahieu is 2-4 and hitting .349 on the year, though it's about as empty a .349 as you can have. kirk was good - 5.1 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 0 bb, 3 k, 6 go/6 fo. era down to 1.56 on the year. -
do you really think that every player who experiences tightness requires surgery????