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  1. TruffleShuffle
    bwahahahahahaha
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    so does dusty baker.
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    yeah wisconsin players should probably not make fun of another team's overall speed.
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    i've got 152 points but missed my 33 (cmu) and 25 (troy). still i'm in the 99th percentile and tied for 1359th overall.
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    that team whose ass you kicked just got shut out and thoroughly outplayed by the blue jackets last night. we've gone directly from a hot streak into a slump.
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    Technically, I think there is a limit, and the Yankees have reached it, of 3 type A free agents. I can never remember this particular rule, so maybe someone else can chime in that actually does know it. But, I don't think there is a written rule of just 3. What if you lose 5 type "A" free agents? Maybe it's +3 type "A" free agents beyond however many you lose? My reading of the rule in question (Article XX(B)(5) of the CBA, page 74) makes me think that the limit would be either the global A+B FA cap or the number of A+B free agents the team in question loses, whichever is greater. The three-player global cap is for years when there are up to 62 combined type A and B free agents. This year that number seems to be around 70, so there's a good chance the league-wide cap is four A+B free agents. Since I don't think the Yankees lost five top free agents this offseason it looks to me as if they may have one more signing to go before they hit the cap. We need more BK around here! truuuuuue dat. YES. can we take a collection to get BK help with whatever he's so busy with (job/child rearing/whatever)?
  7. TruffleShuffle
    sutcliffe missed significant time due to injury in 1985-86, when he was 29/30.
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    uh, what are you talking about? richards is one of the best leaders in the nhl; that's not my opinion, that's come out of interviews and polls around the league. how many captains are willing to drop the gloves at all, let alone fight guys who are clearly bigger and better fighters than them? richards doesn't fight often but when he does it sends a message to the team; last night he fought to send the message that, while the rest of the team didn't give a crap last night, he sure did.
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    but mostly from his injury, since looking at, say, derek lowe, roger clemens, tom glavine or greg maddux and saying "the guy is 33, he'll probably get hurt" would be really dumb. Survivor bias. find me a handful of guys who were almost always healthy their first 10-15 years pitching as professionals and then started to break down frequently in their early 30s.
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    i'll let someone else do it for me: i guess you can mock the BABIP argument if you want, but when a guy is hitting line drives 20.9% of the time and his BABIP is .251, that's bad luck. he's a good bet to post a line like .240/.360/.440, and could certainly be better than that. he's not great, but he's way better than the options the cubs have on the current roster. I only mock people that use one convenient number to back up their argument. Of course BABIP as it's place and it's limitations as well. When someone writes something like, " Swisher’s skill in hitting the ball and hitting it with authority didn’t change; rather, he simply experienced a lot of bad luck." that gets filed under the limitations side of the argument. there are plenty of numbers supporting that swisher is a good baseball player. i'm also not sure what you mean by "convenient" - are you suggesting that people cite swisher's low babip to explain away his poor production last year? when you take into account his line drive percentage and his other peripherals (fly balls, ground balls, home run rate, walk/strikeout rate), it's clear that his production last year should have been better if not for an unusual amount of balls in play being caught.
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    yeah i had 33 points on cmu... chippewa is a stupid mascot anyway.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    nice game by the hawks tonight, we probably played our worst game of the year and justly had our asses handed to us. come on, your guy lost this one. i also loved our fourth line, two guys who probably could score goals in a tykes on ice game, and a grinder who belongs in the ahl (powe). toughness is great, but it doesn't have much of an impact on the game when the tough guys are so bad they can't play more than 4 minutes a game. f you stevens.
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    but mostly from his injury, since looking at, say, derek lowe, roger clemens, tom glavine or greg maddux and saying "the guy is 33, he'll probably get hurt" would be really dumb.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    fangraphs had him valued at about $28M of production in '06-'07. he sucked in '08 but still earned his salary.
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    Courtesy of fangraphs - an old friend says hello!
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    i would probably have a heart attack if he were able to achieve an ops over 1.000 against lefties this season. it was only 139 pa's. it would be maybe the 15th most shocking thing to happen next year. he wasn't really close to a 1.000 OPS in 2004 and 2005, had a .376 BABIP against LHP in 2007 and barely eked out a 1.000 OPS. he'll be 40 years old and hasn't played 2 of the past 3 seasons. his 2007 numbers against LHP scream "fluke" and his bat speed and ability were clearly declining from 2003 onward. it would be very shocking if he could post a 1.000+ ops against LHP, with any sort of sample size.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    Nothing if you like a station to station offense. i like station to station offenses that put up great numbers and win world series, like the red sox or the phillies.
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    i'll let someone else do it for me: i guess you can mock the BABIP argument if you want, but when a guy is hitting line drives 20.9% of the time and his BABIP is .251, that's bad luck. he's a good bet to post a line like .240/.360/.440, and could certainly be better than that. he's not great, but he's way better than the options the cubs have on the current roster.
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    The Pedro deal wasn't really bad at all when he was signed. He was still 33 and really good. He was ridiculously good in his first year with the Mets and then the injuries started. You couldn't really have predicted that his body would have broken down that much that quickly. you couldn't? he had physical problems (some minor, some major) pretty much every year since 2000 and he's weighs like 120 lbs but throws mid-90s. that doesn't really scream "long career" like a guy with a clemens/schilling body. he's the greatest pitcher of our generation but only got 4 years, $50M... that should tell you something about how much his durability concerned teams.
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    i would probably have a heart attack if he were able to achieve an ops over 1.000 against lefties this season.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    do you mean that orton has regressed as the year has gone on? i guess that would be true, but i'd probably consider it "playing more like kyle orton."
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    http://chicagocubsonline.com/archives/2008/12/rumorsnews1224.php#more I didn't think of it as tipping your cap as much as I thought of it as the Padres trying to use the media to their advantage to squeeze as much out as possible. I still would not be surprised to see this happen down the road. Peavy holds all the cards, and we do know he really likes the Cubs. I don't think it's tipping your cap either because that phrase makes no sense in this situation. They tipped their hand. :hello:
  23. TruffleShuffle
    got that right.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i'm pretty sure i didn't need to know that leo durocher got a penile implant.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    hawai'i has a God-awful secondary. i think that most high school teams could throw for at least 200 on them. No one seemed to be concerned with this when they picked against ND and made cracks that they'd lose by 30 anyway. i picked nd because, even though they're not very good, they still had boatloads more athletic talent than this hawai'i team. last year it would have been different but this year's hawai'i is pretty lousy.
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