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WSCR Rumor?
TruffleShuffle replied to Hosak8's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
not really. he has a lot of tattoos and at least at one point had nipple rings (i know, that's hott), so he doesn't look like your average baseball player. so everyone just assumed that he's a freak. -
that much = $2 million
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WSCR Rumor?
TruffleShuffle replied to Hosak8's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I heard the same rumor last night. One of the more reputable posters on the Cubs forum at http://www.prosportsdaily.com said he heard from a top scout for the Blue Jays that the Cubs and Jays are closing on a deal that would involve the following: Cubs Get: AJ Burnett Jays Get: Marquis, DeRosa, a mid-level prospect (probably Cedeno) This deal would only happen after the Cubs get an answer from the Orioles regarding Roberts. Personally, I don't see this trade happening because DeRosa is too valuable to the Cubs in terms of a clubhouse presence and versatility. Besides that, the Jays allegedly want DeRo to play 2b...well, if I'm not mistaken, the Jays have Aaron Hill and John McDonald as their middle infielders. that would be a horrible trade for the blue jays. cubs get a guy who is a very good pitcher when healthy; jays get a bad pitcher, a prospect who isn't very good, and a pretty good second baseman who's on the wrong side of 30. i guess the good side of it would be getting out from under burnett's $12M per year each of the next 3 years, but during the next 2 years they'd be giving as much to DeRosa and Marquis as they'd be getting in savings. -
yeah, pecota liked pie and cedeno a lot in the past too, and they sucked ass.
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fukudome, modzilla.
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if you can do another one by the end of the day, then i'll be really impressed. :lol: are you prepared for the onslaught of your japanese counterparts? i'm sure it will be less than the coverage of, say, ichiro or daisuke, but more than the fervor of so taguchi's debut.
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Geez. You sure are negative nancy tonight. too much optimism and happiness in one thread... someone has to remind people that they still are, after all, the cubs
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i went to a little league game last year, i'm pretty sure that wasn't far from the level of the national league
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pretty good for a defenseman, period. he's gonna be a stud, wish we had a top-pairing defenseman in our system. coburn and parent are more second-pairing types.
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has anyone told him that the cubs usually suck and haven't won a championship for 100 years? or is that just something he's going to learn as he goes along?
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btw you guys know this is gonna mean that he'll either suck or be injured for the next four years, right?
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by the way, kudos to david stern for letting everyone know that players need to conduct themselves well off the court, but if a head coach, say, sexually harasses women to the point where they sue him and his employer, and costs them more than $11M, that's okie dokey.
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isn't bruce levine usually wrong? or am i thinking of someone else.
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i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he also got a no-trade clause
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hopefully this is freakin over... otherwise maybe fukudome can go be head coach of michigan, that'll kill two birds with one stone in the "sports stuff that TruffleShuffle is tired of hearing about" section
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there's nearly $4M down the crapper
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yeah seattle is horrendous though
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against the spread? oh hell no... considering that you're supposed to have a 50% chance of picking a game right against the spread, the chances of picking every game of a full NFL slate correctly ATS is about 1 in 65,000. Most favorites won this week, and I was also able to pick the upsets that did happen (Giants over Eagles, Houston over Tampa) and the pick 'em game (SD over Tenn). When picking NFL games it's tough to go perfect because there's a lot of parity in the league, and the difference between the good and bad teams is not nearly as large as it is in I-A college football. The parity that has created a 13-0, 12-1, two 11-2, four 3-10 and an 0-13 team this year? okay USUALLY there is a lot of parity in the nfl. and there's also a lot more up and down because of the salary cap - few teams are either consistently very good or consistently terrible.
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immensely entertaining game between the flyers and pens tonight. two flyers had hat tricks (lupul and umberger), and there were a whole punch of fights. mike richards told cindy crosby to stop diving, cindy whined and complained as he is wont to do; george laraque pretended that he slipped and fell into marty biron's legs, except he really did it on purpose. the pens completely melted down and the flyers spent most of the third period on the power play. yet the announcers wouldn't stop talking about how the flyers are the dirty team :roll: eddie olcyzk was a complete homer; he should never be allowed to call a pens game again when they're on national tv.
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against the spread? oh hell no... considering that you're supposed to have a 50% chance of picking a game right against the spread, the chances of picking every game of a full NFL slate correctly ATS is about 1 in 65,000. Most favorites won this week, and I was also able to pick the upsets that did happen (Giants over Eagles, Houston over Tampa) and the pick 'em game (SD over Tenn). When picking NFL games it's tough to go perfect because there's a lot of parity in the league, and the difference between the good and bad teams is not nearly as large as it is in I-A college football.
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i picked every game right this week... first time in 4 years that i was able to do that
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agreed, I was going to say that if you're going to read only one baseball book, it should be Ball Four. "Juiced" by jose canseco is also a guilty pleasure. Plus it's funny how many of his "outlandish allegations" have proven to be true.
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TruffleShuffle replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Other Sports
i am more tired of les miles than of any figure in sports right now. -
yeah you told us it wouldn't happen last year, solid forecast there
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On NFL Network's highlights of the Dolphins game, Deion Sanders (i think it was) said that he though the Dolphins would beat BAL next week. While I don't agree with him, they certainly need to play better than they did today....well maybe not. But I have a feeling they will be pumped up if the Steelers are tied with the Browns going into Week 17 and will put up a good showing at home. Yeah this is really Miami's shot to win a game. The Bengals should beat Miami unless they completely don't show up, but it seems like Baltimore has totally quit, and they've lost 7 in a row.