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  1. TruffleShuffle
    lol
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    ah crap, are you serious? I was afraid of this. Devlin is a better QB than Clark and was stuck in the depth chart behind Clark next year, leaving only his senior season for full playing time. This sucks he's not better than clark. he's a better passer but clark can do a lot more as far as escaping sacks, running the sprint option and scrambling for yards. clark is a better all-around qb than michael robinson and seems to be a good fit with the style that galen hall has created. i wish they'd gotten devlin more reps, but realistically he was not going to play much, especially in big/close games. i don't blame him for transferring, he'll get to play 2 years somewhere rather than just 1 year at penn state. i do blame the staff for not getting a viable option at qb last year, and this year's qb recruit doesn't look to be much of anything. they need to start looking for pretty good qb's who are stuck behind other guys right now, try to get them to transfer by next season (so they sit that one out) and then become the starter in 2010. it's either that or you're starting a true freshman or a crappy soph in 2010. as it is they're going to have a crappy true freshman as backup in 2009.
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    Yeah, my heart's just oozing with sympathy for the guy. Especially considering Hendry was the only GM crazy enough to offer him a 3/$12MM deal at a time when everyone thought it was ridiculous. DeRosa should love Jim Hendry. everyone on this board thought it was ridiculous. i didn't see any reports suggesting that other teams saw the contract and thought "oh man what the hell are the cubs doing?"
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    well some guy on espn just said that sabathia never won 20 games, so it must be a bad move. good thing that johan santana won exactly 20 games in one season or there's no way he'd be worth anything close to what he got.
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    why is it a sad sad day? of course they overpaid for him, but he's really good, durable (so far) and the yankees have a practically unlimited pay potential.
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    If that's what it takes to insert Marquis in a trade for someone instead of Marshall, it's a sacrifice I'm gladly willing to make. I'd much rather indirectly pay Marshall 4 million than Marquis 9 million. fair point, though i'm dubious that one year of marquis at $5-6M has much value to anybody. Truffle, your two posts in this quote seem contradictory to me. You'd rather keep him than pay him to play elsewhere because he's got some value but you don't think he's got much value to anybody at $5-6m. no, it's that i don't see a 30 year old pitcher with rumored attitude problems fetching much in the trade market, especially from a go-nowhere team like some of the ones that have been rumored to be in the bidding.
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    mahmoud abdul rauf imo i'm thinking more chris jackson
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    after the contract received by cc, and the rumored contraacts to lowe/burnett, i remain even more convinced that $7m per year is absurd.
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    I don't think it's that far-fetched. The free agent market is pretty tight this year, and he's almost a part-time player. jose guillen got 3 years, 36 million coming off a worse season, and he had character issues and performance-enhancing drug rumors swirling around him. The economy was also different last year. not different to the point that similar major league players are going to be taking a 50% pay cut. i'll be stunned if they get him for $7m per year, i'll leave it at that.
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    mississsippi state is still recruiting him, however.
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    If that's what it takes to insert Marquis in a trade for someone instead of Marshall, it's a sacrifice I'm gladly willing to make. I'd much rather indirectly pay Marshall 4 million than Marquis 9 million. fair point, though i'm dubious that one year of marquis at $5-6M has much value to anybody.
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    certainly better than '05-'06 when i'm pretty sure the trainers were actively injuring cub players.
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    I don't think it's that far-fetched. The free agent market is pretty tight this year, and he's almost a part-time player. jose guillen got 3 years, 36 million coming off a worse season, and he had character issues and performance-enhancing drug rumors swirling around him.
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    i think you have successfully covered every baseball cliche in this post.
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    they ain't getting him for $7M per year, no chance.
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    i think he already is a pitching coach; every time the cubs, padres or dodgers starters did something good or made progress they attributed it to maddux.
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    if you can unload his whole contract, have a blast. but eating $4M of it would be stupid; you'd only be saving $5.5M and marquis is worth at least that much as a back of the decent rotation starter who stays healthy.
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    by the way, auburn's administration is completely embarrassing itself by claiming they were shocked at tuberville's resignation and maintaining that they wanted him to stay. if you believe that auburn is paying him the $5.1M because it was the "right thing to do" then i have some beachfront property in arizona to sell you.
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    wait so you are saying that not getting tebow did not hurt alabama? Not in the sense you are thinking. Shula put all of his eggs into one basket with Tebow. Shula spent a night on Tebow's lawn trying to convince him to come to Bama. I never believe Tebow was coming to Bama, but Shula thought he could get him to Bama, and thus he forgo go after after QB prospects. That's how Tebow hurt Bama, he kept Shula hanging on, like some desparate guy trying to hold onto a hot girlfriend. tim tebow contributed to the gators winning a national title in 2006, won the heisman trophy in 2007 (while alabama was playing .500 football) and then led them to a championship game appearance this year... a game they're playing in because they beat alabama in the sec title game as tebow threw 3 touchdowns. i'm pretty sure that missing out on tim tebow was very bad for alabama for more reasons than them not recruiting another qb that year.
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    wait so you are saying that not getting tebow did not hurt alabama?
  21. TruffleShuffle
    cue redflash to tell us that alabama didn't really want him anyway
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    LOL
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    They'd need to reduce the number of bowl games for that to happen (I'm not saying that would be a bad thing). There just aren't enough teams with winning records to fill all the slots. I remember when playing in a bowl game was a reward for a GOOD season, not a mediocre season. My first year in college (1978) Ball State went 10-1 overall and undefeated in the MAC, but didn't go bowling because back then there were fewer than 20 bowl games and the MAC didn't even have one bowl tie-in. yeah if there are .500 teams from the sun belt, wac and mac going to bowl games, then there is no way they can require teams to have 7 wins without dumping bowl games. i mean, THREE 6-6 teams got left out this year - you'd have to get rid of 4 or 5 bowl games simply because not enough teams would be eligible (i think there are 8 or 9 6-6 teams playing in bowls this year).
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    Something tells me it's more the Notre Dame part than the 6 win part that's bothering you. Nevermind that any team with 7 wins is already in a bowl. no, it's more of a "there are too many bowls already" thing. I'd feel a littel sorry for the ND players to end up with a losing season by losing to Hawaii (though they get a free trip to Honolulu, so....) the Indy Bowl will probably fold soon. they don't have a title sponsor anymore since PetroSun didn't pay them last year. they are already in debt a few million. it'll be replaced with something else. Right now, more than 1/2 of the FBS schools make a bowl game. yeah i would think that bowls like that would go under, but they keep adding, not subtracting. i don't know who the hell is supporting these bowls; i can't imagine deciding "well i'm free this evening, can't wait to sit down and enjoy colorado st. versus fresno st."
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i would think that someone as cynical and bitter as you would understand our position.
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