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  1. TruffleShuffle
    my concern about him adding power is that he's already 21 years old and has been playing football all through high school and college. the guy's probably been lifting weights pretty seriously for many years... i suspect that if he is going to add much power it will have to be from adding more loft to his swing, not from filling out like many young guys do.
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    not sure if/when it would air in the u.s., but the top two teams in AFL (geelong and collingwood) face each other on friday night. every other team has at least two non-wins (carlton has a loss and a tie) but geelong and collingwood are both undefeated.
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    apparently i was drunk when i made my picks, and put kendry morales on my team. nice work. i didn't realize this until now. drop him, add berkman.
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    yeah hopefully he has a solid career in turkey or latvia.
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    i believe this phenomenon is known as the vitters.
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    yeah the second one came from a guy who apparently could not throw strikes (4 BB in 6 batters faced) but hey, we'll take it.
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    jae-hoon ha has hit his 6th home run of the year (grand slam) and also an rbi single. justin bour has his 7th hr.
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    isn't it pretty obvious? make my team better for the future. i didn't see my team as being playoff-caliber and decided to trade my most valuable asset for things that will presumably improve my chances in future years. miller and turner are two of the best pitching prospects in the game and matusz had a whip under 1.20 the second half of last year. as for trading the first round pick for halladay, last offseason i got halladay for travis snider, who sucks. and the first rounder - presumably it will be late first round since tim's team is good - can still yield really good players. the last few picks in the first round last year were ethier, kemp, mccann, nelson cruz, granderson and j. santana. hardly worthless.
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    he died today.
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    Most of the guys they have we could have had if we were willing to spend big on the draft. Hopefully Ricketts will be willing to do so. take nothing away from the royals - they've done great to go well above slot to grab talents like myers, crow, dwyer, hosmer, etc, but they've also had the advantage of being consistently lousy and drafting at the front of each round. players like hosmer, moustakas and crow were not available when we were drafting. plus even their slot picks have had an above-average number of hits lately. they're doing the draft right... cubs are not.
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    it's probably more that he's played over 1300 nba games... can't stay among the top 3 players in the league forever.
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    And? Remember when Sam Fuld was tearing the cover off the ball? You probably thought it was horrible we included him in the trade for Garza also. Well, he's OPSing .442 over the last 15 game and he's down to .714 for the season. there's a gigantic difference between fuld and guyer. fuld was always going to be a AAAA guy or a 5th OF. guyer was ranked #10 among cub prospects by BA and put up big numbers in AA last year, and then continued to rake this year.
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    do you have any links to sites suggesting that huseby and watkins were widely regarded as first- and third-round talents, respectively?
  14. TruffleShuffle
    except we spent teixeira/prior money to get him away from football, so you're really hoping for more than a middle reliever there
  15. TruffleShuffle
    i really wish we would give big-ass bonuses to players who most scouts actually believe are worth that kind of money. i'm getting pretty tired of the cubs dumping big cash on the jeff samardzija/drew rundle/chris huseby/logan watkins types and having them come up bust.
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    julio teheran is being called up for a spot start for the braves, and since i'm going to have an extra start available (due to the blue jays being jerks and moving up kyle drabek's start) i have moved up teheran and put newly-acquired brian matusz on the DL.
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    good start so far for nick struck: 6 ip, 3 h, 0 r, 3 bb, 7 k. jae-hoon ha is 1-2 with a double and another walk - really happy to see him coming on in that area.
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    uh ok, relax francis. i was arguing against a post that you made in the nhl playoffs thread, which i'm pretty sure is a thread for all nhl fans. you admitted you were wrong (after first saying that the article was pretty useless), now i'm done with it.
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    guess who just hit a home run in his first major league at bat? hint - he was mentioned in the last few posts.
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    this is embarrassing. it would be a useless article if it were written by cubbiebum. i looked up information about man games missed, and this was (without much research) the most recent article i can find. so i used the information from this article, combined with a listing of the hawks' statistics, to say that your assertion that they suffered massive injuries is a joke. toews played in 80 games. kane 73, sharp 74, hossa 65, bolland 61, kopecky 81, brouwer 79, bickell 78, stallberg 77. those are probably their top 9 forwards. even if we assume that every game they missed less than 82 was because of injury - which probably is not the case - that's a total of 68 man games missed among their top 9 forwards, or an average of about 7.5. that is not bad at all in the nhl. among their top 4 defensemen, seabrook and keith played every game, hjalmarsson played 80 and campbell played 65. that's a possible total of 19 man games missed among their top 4 d-men. again, that is not bad at all in the nhl. neither goaltender missed significant time to injury. just admit you were wrong when you said that the blackhawks suffered massive injuries this year, and move on.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    posted mine this afternoon, let me know if it doesn't arrive within a week or two.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully without the DUIs as well. fyi, it's ok to compare players to guys of different races/nationalities.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    brett jackson doubled twice and drew a 7 pitch bases loaded walk in the 9th inning of their game... just following along on gamecast. vitters preceded him with 2 outs in the 9th inning, runners on 1st and 3rd, and according to gamecast "singled to catcher" on the first pitch - meaning that he probably hit a well-placed dribbler with the runner on 3rd holding. anyway, lemahieu hit a two-run single to give the smokies a 1 run lead in the top of the 9th. yes i'm bored at work.
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    the idea that the hawks suffered "massive injuries" is also a joke. their top defensemen and forwards missed very little time. injuries to their depth guys sure, but every team suffers problems like that. according to this article, the hawks had the third-fewest man games lost with about 10 games remaining in the season.
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