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  1. TruffleShuffle
    i must've missed the part where the pirates had talent
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    no, a smart GM would've never offered zito such a large contract. here's the problem with looking at their career stats: zito's last three years with oakland: WHIP: 1.394, 1.200, 1.403 ERA+: 101, 113, 116 sabathia the last three years: WHIP: 1.256, 1.173, 1.141 ERA+: 104, 140, 143 http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs/404_944_P_cseason_full_2_20071001.png http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs/404_944_P_cseason_full_3_20071001.png The data above and the graphs show that Zito was actually regressing from early in his career, when his WHIP was anywhere from 1.13 to 1.23. on the other hand, sabathia has drastically cut down his BB rate and has really shown signs of breaking through and becoming an elite pitcher in the past two seasons. if you look at the players' careers as a whole, then they do look very similar, but if sabathia has another excellent year, he'll be well ahead of where zito was when he reached unrestricted free agency.
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    now all we have to do is trade the cards for the marlins and the astros for the d-rays. cubs royals pirates reds d-rays marlins jackpot.
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    he's said about 1000 times that he's not running. if he changes his mind at this point he'd look really, really bad. if you deny it once and then change your mind, that's one thing, but repeatedly saying that you're not a candidate and then running? he'd get killed in the media for that.
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    yeah i think he's ready... to start playing the slot in the nfl.
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    nice
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    geovany soto
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    torii hunter is making $16m per year... that still makes me laugh.
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    does a good job of displaying the athletic ability of soriano versus that of cliff floyd, that's for sure.
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    wasn't marmol only allowed to throw 4 more innings? if so, he was probably done after blowing that save.
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    Who do my eyes see? ... http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/tools/med/2008/02/ipt/1202955665.jpg http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy (note that nobody reads the fantasy sports section, so i'm posting it here) they rank him #8 among mlb catchers. general consensus seems to be that his 2007 was more of a breakthrough than a fluke. let's hope that's true.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    one could argue that the roosevelts, eisenhower and jfk were marginally qualified to be president, and they're all generally regarded as having been good presidents. a lot of people thought bush would be a bad president because of his views and because his inexperience was largely due to immaturity (early life) and incompetence (middle aged life). It is possible for people to be inexperienced and unqualified, and inexperienced and qualified.
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    you know who supports the legalization of [expletive] fighting? wilfred brimley. (true story)
  14. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully i stay sober this year and don't sleep through the deadline
  15. TruffleShuffle
    Norris Hopper is a hands down better and smarter baserunner then Freel is. Freel is baseball [expletive]. yes, but norris hopper is bad at baseball.
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    Yeah, I was hearing almost non-stop how Bush rode his daddy's coattails to Washington and hadn't done anything to deserve it. He needed to earn a chance for the White House like Al Gore did. At the time, I liked Bush quite a bit (how things have changed) but admitted I was concerned with his lack of experience. Now, the same people who bemoaned Bush's inexperience are saying Obama's inexperience is irrelevant. Just like with Bush, I'm concerned about Obama not having done much of anything at a national level - especially at such a crucial time. to be fair, bush turned out to be completely unqualified for the job. we don't know that about obama yet.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully ryan will stop getting high by the time the regular season starts
  18. TruffleShuffle
    yeah well they spent lots of time trying to figure out what to do with iraq and look how that turned out. as long as bush is in office i hope that the federal government wastes time with stuff like steroid hearings, because anything that they do accomplish will probably be bad.
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    speaking of making the playoffs, the sixers are doing their usual b.s.... taking a team mediocre in talent and managing to win enough games to land a late lottery pick. we need a friggin star, nobody is showing up to games because iguodala and dalembert do not sell tickets. fortunately billy king is not running the show so we actually might make some good draft picks, but the sixers really need to tank. mo cheeks is too good of a coach, we need freddy carter, doug moe or john lucas at the helm. first order of business is trading andre miller. unfortunately we're in the playoff hunt now because the east is a joke, so we might just keep him around and try for the #8 seed so we can get bent over by the celtics in the first round. but miller is a really solid player, and we could get a nice return for him at the deadline.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    bulls should be able to get bayless if they want him, unless they stop sucking after the ASB. as for rose, lose the rest of their games and hope the ping pong balls bounce right.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Don't let the big 3 fool you, it is still Doc Rivers. oh cmon isn't isiah a shoe-in?
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    could william lacy clay's questioning have been any more useless? basically "hey this is awesome, i'm talking to a famous ballplayer, here are a couple of softballs roger!" he's from st louis so i guess we shouldn't expect anything useful from him, but still.... come on man.
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    is that a female? holy crap.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    man who is the guy to the right of colangelo? that is one fat man.
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