TruffleShuffle
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agree 1000%. that will pay off big in the long run, as long as you're hiring decent people to scout the amateur talent and then coach the guys after they sign. Don't forget being willing to fork over money to sign players. Another $1m - $2m would go a long, long way. yeah we should be doing what the red sox are doing every year. that being said, i haven't really liked some of the tim wilken big bonus signings. if you're going to grab guys in the later rounds, sign guys who would have been drafted early if not for big bonus demands or perceived strong commitments to colleges. don't give $1.3m to a guy who blew out his elbow his junior year and pitched 5 innings his senior year (huseby) or half a million to guys who aren't all that highly regarded outside your organization (rundle, watkins), and absolutely under no circumstances should you give $10 million to a wide receiver. they've seemed to do better with the guys like mcnutt who are certainly over slot, but not huge dollars.
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rick ankiel is still a douche bag
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Forbes: Cubs Least Efficient Team in MLB in 2010
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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agree 1000%. that will pay off big in the long run, as long as you're hiring decent people to scout the amateur talent and then coach the guys after they sign.
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oh any references to holliday's gaff are very welcome on this board. that is my favorite game in several years (probably have to go back to game 5 against the braves in the 2003 LDS for a game i enjoyed more) http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/matt-holliday-blows-the-game.jpg
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Phillies' fans were waving lots of distracting white towels. Bruce is just lucky that soft liner didn't hit him in the groin. yeah i thought charging bruce with that error was harsh, but they made two errors that led to the phillies' first two runs and brandon phillips just dropped the ball on the exchange after the bruce error, allowing werth to score. he also mismanaged the 8th inning, allowing masset to face a number of LH batters (and walk them all intentionally) with bill bray (very tough LHP on LH batters) just farting around in the bullpen.
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I think they need to come up with a new formula. So all no-hitters are automatically better than games where a pitcher gave up a hit? Not all, no. But Halladay's no-hitter IMO was better than Lincecum's 1-hitter. Why? he gave up no hits, duh
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ah there are those dusty baker fundamentals i know and hate
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Is that available online or does your provider offer it? I remember being in Australia several Februarys ago and seeing hockey games, including a Blackhawks/Red Wings game. They were on in bars late at night if I recall correctly. probably just for something else to bet on
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lol maybe he meant long as in it will probably go well into may or june?
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our new goalie and paul dano from TWBB: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/img/user_uploaded_img/s_bobrovsky.bmp http://upload.moldova.org/movie/movies/t/there_will_be_blood/thumbnails/tn2_there_will_be_blood_3.jpg
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ron gardenhire may eventually go crazy and just burn down yankee stadium
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some guy named sergei bobrovsky started in goal for the flyers. he's 22 years old and played in russia's KHL the last couple of years. he had good numbers (save percentages of .927 and .919 the last two seasons) but had a really bad record, so apparently his team (Metallurg Novokuznetsk) sucked. we signed him as a free agent and he looked good in preseason and with leighton hurt, he got the nod over boucher. edit - he also looks like the preacher from there will be blood i'm probably going to splurge for NHL center ice since ice hockey is not televised very frequently - or ever - over here.
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he's a catcher
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dee gordon is overrated
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Playoffs discussion/predictions
TruffleShuffle replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in General Baseball Talk
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At least there's someone who can out-Cub the Cubs. You're kidding, right? only the cubs. and now the twins.
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it's a pretty interesting story - halladay came up and pitched pretty well, but then completely collapsed and the blue jays sent him to single-A. a guy named mel queen pretty much broke him down and rebuilt his entire game. http://mopupduty.com/index.php/a-story-forgotten-halladays-reinvention/
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it's either don larsen or roy halladay. you'll have to do the leg work from there.
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looks like david took round one off goliath. this could be an underdog story for the ages.
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these twins-yankees series should just be automatically canceled in the postseason with the yankees being awarded the win. the yankees always [expletive] win. either that or the yankees should just buy the twins and contract them.
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i hope wood gives up 35 runs
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Wait, you're a Cubs fan, right? ok teams without a senile manager
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hopefully this is the yankees' year; it has been a tough 11 months for their fans since their last championship.
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it's not so much complaining as it is an observation. how many teams have a player as good as granderson batting #8? pretty much zero, but when your payroll is $215M you should have top players at almost every position. i would prefer that baseball had a real cap like football and hockey, but such is life. teams like the twins/rays/whoever just have to try to overcome it.