Illini Iceman
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No, what he's saying is that the Ricketts intend to keep him on. Whether he's right or not is the question. They have already said this publicly to anyone that asks. That they are content with the front office for now and aren't making any changes but at the end of the season they will sit down and review the situation and make determinations about what changes, if any, need to be made.
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So pretty much Hendry will be retained unless they Ricketts decide to fire him. With this kind of brilliant analysis the inside source must be Tim McGarver.
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Ozzie doesn't really support Z but he definitely throws Quade under the bus: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-0814-brite-white-sox-royals-ch20110814,0,5066622.story
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Quade is probably right but his old time baseball guy thing is really tired. "24 guys busting their butt for him"? What exactly where Rodrigo Lopez and Koyie Hill doing last night where they would feel let down?
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Len said it was his 5th HR of the year. I don't know who to believe!!
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If Harry were around he would say that Barney needed one more biscuit for breakfast.
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Johnson has been pretty darn good this year.
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I don't know what he was thinking but if he really did love playing for the Bears as much as he said he did he either played his hand really bad on this one or his agent gave him bad advice, probably both. He winds up having to leave the team to get less money than he would have received to stay.
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Yay
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Strike 2 was the same pitch the ump called a ball (correctly) two pitches earlier.
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Giving up an out there seems pretty dumb.
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Ball 3 looked like a clear strike.
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And then Russ Ortiz toed the rubber Why again is this guy holding a roster spot instead of having someone like Carpenter up here getting some experience?
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Who woke up Tyler Colvin? That was almost his second HR of the night.
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That should make things a little less tense for Marmol.
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So now does Quade bring in Marmol to blow the save on national television?
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No - THAT was sexy
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So predictable.
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Well they were offered crap for the crap he wanted to give up. I can certainly see that Johnson and grabow and pena may not have garnered much. Look around the league at what Beltran and Mike Adams garnered. I have to think Ramirez, would have gotten us a deal similar to beltran (despite tweets to the contrary). Ramirez was pretty clear about his unwillingness to waive his NTC.
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That's not what he said. He said he doesn't have anyone in the system ready to take over first base NEXT YEAR. Then he said he didn't want to take SECOND TIER prospects that aren't better than what he has in the system already because they would just block the existing prospects. Obviously if someone was offering a player the he feels could take over first base next year he would have made a move. But clearly no one was making that type of player available, they were offering more lower level crap (like he got for Fukudome). I think Hendry has messed up this team and needs to go for putting them in this situation but don't specifically feel he failed at this trade deadline.
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The Cardinals GM insults the intelligence of everyone watching by saying they weren't looking to shop Colby Rasmus when it was well known that he was in LaRussa's dog house and was going to be traded first chance they got. And of course no one in the broadcast booth brings that up.
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So Demp gets tossed out. What's the worst that could happen, us losing? I prefer them just striking him out every time he comes up but I guess I am not old school.
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No way they risk getting Dempster tossed just to throw at Holliday. The umps know what is going on and will probably give advance warnings to both teams.