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  1. TruffleShuffle
    count the times that he brings up duke or coach k during the game
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    def balsamic vinegar
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    that's just an asinine rhetorical question. I can't ask if he's seen these guys play? if he had, I'd be interested in what he saw that caused him to view them more harshly than everyone else. how on Earth can you judge a guy based solely on high school stats?? or a guy who was instructed not to throw his best pitch for much of the year. i'm not judging based on high school stats. i'm assuming that vitters won't pan out because the cubs never develop hitters, especially when they draft the hitter out of high school. samardzija couldn't strike people out and was way too hittable last year. colvin can't draw a walk to save his life; those types of players are not a great bet to succeed at the major league level. aside from soto, i've hardly seen any of these guys play. i suspect that makes me similar to most people who are submitting a list.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    yes, but does he know how to spell his own name?
  5. TruffleShuffle
    +1 Plus, I like not looking all yellow and protein deprived. I'm 99.9% sure I don't look all yellow or protein deprived. that's because you are indian, you have an unfair advantage as far as skin pigment goes.
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    He's fast and he hit 50% GB last season, but I might not put too much stock in LD rates. As a zero power hitter, if he's not a BABIP superstar, he's not going to have a lot of value as a slap-hitting speedster with a 20% strikeout rate. Even if his true talent is a .360 BABIP, it's not predictable that he posts an IsoD of .100 in the big leagues. That's what he was doing as an old-for-his-levels minor leaguer. Even if that walk-rate is real, a dip to a .330 BABIP makes him a sub-.700 OPS player last year. PECOTA sees a .354/.354 line, which is just going to be a better answer than speculation. a guy who can get on base 39% of his PAs has value, regardless of how much power he has. i also think that pecota is wrong sometimes.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    have you been to shea stadium, riverfront stadium or veterans' stadium? now those were a disgrace to baseball.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    If you take out Felix Pie's first 2 seasons (at 17 and 18 yrs old) his numbers would go way up. There should be no argument that Felix Pie is a better player then Sam Fuld. No offense to Fuld, but Pie has a much higher ceiling and more talent in which to reach his ceiling. corey patterson also has (had) a higher ceiling and more talent than, say, david dejesus and aaron rowand. i'll let you guess which of the three i'd least like to have playing cf for my team.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    well the flyers traded jim vandermeer to calgary... and on flyers message boards, the celebration commenced.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    yeah but everyone assumes that some of those guys are going to be moving elsewhere. it's very possible that they all stay in the place they were drafted, then you're up crap creek without a paddle because you've shed a lot of salary and there's nobody out there to sign.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    usually cub-killers suck. trot doesn't suck.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    we should trade for him just so he can't hit against us any more.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    i'm all for getting rid of Wallace. and stating that his PER once lead rookies...c'mon. it may have been true, but you'd really rather have Noah than Kevin Durant? who said that? it was in response to "noah is garbage," not to make the point that noah is the best rookie in the league.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    but he deep fries every vegetable 5 times before he eats it. and dumps 10 pounds of ranch dressing on his salads.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    well judging from what i've seen, it's safe to say that i'm significantly less impressed with three major prospects than a lot of other people are.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    he's okay, but he's no deron williams
  17. TruffleShuffle
    i like these two. basically there are question marks about the cubs' veteran guys, but the white sox guys are young so the're just guaranteed to be better. never mind that john danks got drilled with the big club last year. or that gavin floyd hasn't looked very good the last three years. maybe we should just insert gallagher and samardzija into the rotation, that way it'll be a tie since young unproven guys are automatically better than average veterans. FTH?!?!?
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    You keep winning and the administration will keep putting it off. I don't think so. They are in CYA mode. If OSU hadn't been smacked down and forced to pay O'Brien a bunch of money, Sampson would already be gone. I don't believe that for a second. O'Brien still hasn't seen a single penny from that settlement and according to many law experts, never will. The case is in appeal right now. Was in appeal. OSU lost and has to pay O'Brien $3M. Do you believe me now? that certainly was fortuitous timing for your side of the argument
  19. TruffleShuffle
    1. Soto 2. Gallagher 3. Donaldson 4. Veal 5. Vitters 6. Huseby 7. Patterson (keep him at 2nd base morons) 8. Ceda 9. Petrick 10. Thomas
  20. TruffleShuffle
    i think the knicks hit a new low tonight.... they were down 72-36 at halftime... TO THE SIXERS. they turned the ball over 17 times in the first half and allowed something like 40 fast break points.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    no, memphis is trying to recruit pryor. he isn't considering going there.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    i suggest you go back and take a look at his first dunk.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    all-you-can-eat buffets in chicago breathe a collective sigh of relief
  24. TruffleShuffle
    yeah but when people talk about great home runs, that one often gets omitted. there's the shot heard round the world, ruth's called shot, maris' 61st, carlton fisk... hell i think people talk about bernie carbo more than the maz homer. but the maz homer was the only game 7 walkoff in world series history, and it was hit by a guy who had little power, playing at a cavernous ballpark. plus it marked a it probably should be regarded as the most dramatic hit in the history of the game, but for some reason it often gets overlooked.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    do you really think that certain players don't have certain skills that allow them to sustain high babip's year in and year out? Did I say that? I'm inclined to believe that Willits might possess a skill set that would lend itself to higher babip's than average, but I really don't think the evidence is all that conclusive either way. maybe it's not conclusive, but he's consistently had a high LD% since becoming a professional, he's fast, and many of his ABs have been from the left side. now maybe his 2000 ABs have just been a fluke, but i'd say it's very likely that he is the type of player who can have a consistently high babip.
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