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  1. TruffleShuffle
    the pens' 2nd goal looked like huet's fault to me, you have to shut down the right side of the net there with the guy coming from that side.
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    f*** you huet
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    I think Wieters will be amazing but look at who the #2 guy was. Glenn Braggs' career highlight was marrying one of the singers from En Vogue. yeah looking at glenn braggs i wonder what happened to him, his minor league numbers were great but he never put it together in the bigs. i get what you're saying about gordon or hermida, TT, but gordon's EqA was only .293 since his big numbers were put up in the Texas League. i just don't see any of the warning signs that maybe he isn't that good. he was consistently a great hitter at ga tech, which is high-level college competition; he has a relatively low k-rate, the power has always been there, he doesn't have a long swing, and draws plenty of walks. plus he absolutely destroyed two pitchers' leagues in his first go-through. the scouts love him and the projections love him. i know crazy things can happen but i'll be really shocked if, assuming he stays healthy, he doesn't become the best-hitting catcher in baseball.
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    we had more pp's during the game, and i didn't see most of the game, but i do know that the call in overtime was God-awful. montreal tends to get a whole lot of home cookin, that's what bothers me about them. it happened during our playoff series with them last year, but fortunately carey price was so bad that it didn't matter.
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    yay we lost to montreal in overtime after scotty upshall gets called for a phantom interference penalty! good times.
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    oh are you referring to that one year where he had a .303 EqA in Carolina after fairly average performances in his first three seasons in the franchise, and struck out in 23% of his ABs? because a .303 EqA is a pretty good deal worse than .329 (plus wieters' EqA in Double-A was .351) and wieters struck out in 17% of his ABs. plus, even when you factor in hermida's monster 2005, his minor league line is .284/.397/.436/.833, which is nice but hardly overwhelming. wieters worst ops since leaving high school was 1.051, his freshman year at tech. i know we don't want the cubs to have made a colossal mistake by drafting vitters over wieters, but come on... if wieters stays healthy he's very likely to become a star. you'll be better off rooting for vitters to become the next david wright than rooting for wieters to bust.
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    They showed a pretty good shot on SportsCenter last night where the ball was barely out of his hands before the light came on. ok fair enough. it was really, really close from the video that i saw, but that was just using my tv slo-mo. if there was photo evidence that the ball was out, kudos to him. wish he'd done it against someone else though.
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    huh?
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    hoffpauir should be on the team unless he completely bombs, which it doesn't look like will happen. if anything gathright should go away; hoffpauir is the best available bat off the bench, he hits lefty and can play the outfield corners (albeit not well). that's a lot more to offer than most of the other potential backups.
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    Yeah. Poor guy. How can one reasonably expect to live any sort of comfortably on a lousy $10 million a year? I wonder if he can qualify for welfare on that sort of pay. Juan Pierre is making like 10 million a year, isn't he? I can understand him not wanting to play for that annual salary. I'm not saying that it isn't a lot of money, just that it makes a lot more sense for him to turn it down knowing that info. that's not the annual salary. that's what he gets this year; from 2011-13 he gets $25 million for doing nothing. deferred money is not money that doesn't exist.
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    i've come around on hoffpauir. he's not the second coming of lou gehrig but his numbers last year were overwhelmingly-good at iowa, and he also raked at tennessee the previous year. more importantly, he doesn't strike out all that much - jason dubois (AAAA slugger) has struck out around once a game in his minor league career, or in almost 27% of his minor league at bats. hoffpauir struck out 0.63 times per game or about 17% of his ABs. his last two years at iowa the k-rate is only 13.3%. it seems like something has clicked, at least the past three years he seems to be a lot better at driving the ball than he was early in his cub career.
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    well we signed a bengal offensive lineman, i'd say the vince lombardi trophy is headed to philly next year.
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    ooh i do
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    yeah i'm not sure how i'm going to react when he starts destroying mlb pitching... i'll be happy for him because i liked him since his ga tech days, but i'll be irate that he (or soto) isn't playing first for the cubs and giving us another lefty bat to face RHP.
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    i do think hitchcock deserves some consideration for the jack adams, because that team is performing much better than the level of talent on the roster. i like thomas for the vezina because his save % is outstanding (.007 better than anyone else) and while i haven't seen a lot of b's games this year, the ones i saw, he looked great - not just a product of the team in front of him. and if mike richards is not at least a finalist for the selke i will poop a brick.
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    that thing looks ridiculous
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    Yeah. Poor guy. How can one reasonably expect to live any sort of comfortably on a lousy $10 million a year? I wonder if he can qualify for welfare on that sort of pay. So you'll be giving back a large portion of your lifestyle to bring you down to the world average? as long as he hasn't totally burned through the $20M per year that the red sox paid him, i'm pretty sure that his lifestyle won't take a hit by deferring money and only getting $10M a year the next 2 years. it's up to him, and i don't begrudge him the right to decline this deal, but i think it's a pretty bad move on his part. they'll probably get the dodgers to defer a little less though - they'll meet in the middle somewhere. If they'll meet in the middle why is it a bad move? i guess i should rephrase. if they're rejecting it because they think that the dodgers will reduce the deferred money, that's probably a smart move. if they're rejecting it because they want bigger dollars and more years, that's dumb.
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    oh i totally understand hendry's boner for bradley. he was able to fit into their salary structure (manny couldn't), can play adequate D (manny and dunn can't), gives a left-handed bat and is probably one of the 20 best hitters in the game today. health is clearly the big risk, though. there are only a very few players in the game i have a hard on for...one of them is in your sig... that guy makes me randy baby! :stickman: don't get me started.
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    Yeah. Poor guy. How can one reasonably expect to live any sort of comfortably on a lousy $10 million a year? I wonder if he can qualify for welfare on that sort of pay. So you'll be giving back a large portion of your lifestyle to bring you down to the world average? as long as he hasn't totally burned through the $20M per year that the red sox paid him, i'm pretty sure that his lifestyle won't take a hit by deferring money and only getting $10M a year the next 2 years. it's up to him, and i don't begrudge him the right to decline this deal, but i think it's a pretty bad move on his part. they'll probably get the dodgers to defer a little less though - they'll meet in the middle somewhere.
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    as someone mentioned earlier, it's his own fault that he can't get a long-term deal. if he hadn't basically quit on the red sox he likely would've had teams that would give him 4 years, since he obviously can still hit. but he flaked out to get traded, which worked, but now nobody wants to make a long-term commitment to a guy who might just decide at some point that he doesn't want to be there.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    die in a fire dusty
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    oh i totally understand hendry's boner for bradley. he was able to fit into their salary structure (manny couldn't), can play adequate D (manny and dunn can't), gives a left-handed bat and is probably one of the 20 best hitters in the game today. health is clearly the big risk, though.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i'm sure that will be a close one
  25. TruffleShuffle
    go hawks
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