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  1. TruffleShuffle
    yeah he was part time for much of his career so he doesn't have as many miles on him as a lot of guys his age, and his performance the last three years suggest that he does stay in good shape and is your classic late bloomer. but this is also very likely his last big contract, so i'd be leery about giving him a 3 year contract, because his financial motivation to stay in top shape won't be there like it was the past 3 years.
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    well one of those years he was playing for the royals, so we can pretty much throw that out as a non-factor to the discussion. 2004, 2005 and 2008 he was only very slightly better at home (about 20 to 30 ops points), 2006 he was significantly better at home, 2007 he was significantly better on the road (more than 150 ops). overall he was only marginally better at safeco. and that doesn't change anything; he hit well at a good pitcher's park.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    agreed, plus edmonds' bat is probably going to deteriorate (like it was before it magically got good again). i won't miss watching him play OF; he was just brutally slow and that is one thing that ain't changing.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    he plays half his games in one of the most extreme pitchers parks in baseball. his numbers, when weighted for park factors, are just about as good as aramis ramirez since 2006: aramis, OPS+ and EqA the past 3 years: 126, 129, 128 and .292, .294, .297 ibanez: 125, 121, 124 and .295, .293, .295 by the way average is 100 and .260, so i'd say that ibanez was much better than "extremely mediocre," regardless of what position he played.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    yeah i think the longhorn avatar disappeared 5 minutes after the texas tech game
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    i'm almost glad; the starting pitching is already solid and i wouldn't want them to leave the farm barren and give up derosa as well to upgrade to peavy.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    c'mon it's a big recession. we cant be spending money on guys who are there just so espn cant run another segment on tebow. imagine the awesomeness now. before it was one segment per player for an hour. now it will have to be MORE TEBOW! tune in saturday as meph attemps to break the world record for most times pleasuring oneself in an hour!!!
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    good, this takes away a big part of tebow's argument to win.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    how's the bar scene in kc?
  10. TruffleShuffle
    or you need to relax if you're making the same argument as dextermorgan you need to step back and reconsider things. i also appreciate the irony of dexter telling me to relax... the guy gave up on the cubs about 624 times last year and that's just within each individual game. it was a joke and yeah, i overreact during games when emotions are running high. i don't flip out during the offseason because some guy made a joke that i didn't agree with. you're sounding like kylejrm right now. you can't disagree with that kind of joke. nsbb guidelines require that a sarcastic comment either be funny or have some basis in reality. this fell far short of both standards and therefore required a response.
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    or you need to relax if you're making the same argument as dextermorgan you need to step back and reconsider things. i also appreciate the irony of dexter telling me to relax... the guy gave up on the cubs about 624 times last year and that's just within each individual game.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    this isn't a personal attack, so you mods can't ban me, but anyone who thinks that tim tebow should win the heisman is completely [expletive].
  13. TruffleShuffle
    lol
  14. TruffleShuffle
    or it was just a dumb comment that had no basis in reality.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    to be fair, mike mussina did miss like 10 starts in 7 years after the yankees signed him, so maybe he is onto something with the "guys suddenly break down for no reason when the yankees sign them" angle.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    yes he has averaged only 33+ starts and 208 innings the past 7 seasons, that certainly screams "injury risk" to me i think he was implying that he'll become injury prone because he's going to the yankees right because that happened with carl pavano... oh wait he was already injury prone before they signed him. but it did happen to kevin brown... wait no he had big injury questions too...
  17. TruffleShuffle
    yes he has averaged only 33+ starts and 208 innings the past 7 seasons, that certainly screams "injury risk" to me
  18. TruffleShuffle
    punched a girl in the face
  19. TruffleShuffle
    indiana is friggin terrible
  20. TruffleShuffle
    mccoy bradford tebow
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    yeah i am not too worried about them getting a few people who played qb in high school to show up, but will there be decent options? clark and devlin were good but cianciolo, dimichelle and suhey would have been awful choices. a 1-2 of cianciolo/suhey would make michigan's two headed monster of threet/sheridan actually look good.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    if that makes him a douchebag then the cubs already have some douchebags on the roster.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    message board fodder suggests that he could be headed to u. of delaware so that he wouldn't sit out a year. makes a lot of sense - he's from eastern pa, delaware runs a pro-style offense and had bad qb's this year, and the blue hens just sent a first round qb to the nfl.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    penn state leads army 23-22 at halftime. it's worth noting that army lost by 16 points at home to a school called presbyterian.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    he's not a douchebag like most baseball fans seem to think he is.
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