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  1. Electron Blue
    And what makes matters potentially worse, is that the Mariners coach Don Wakamatsu is already enabling Bradley: Umm.............Don, it's not a witch hunt when a player has a history with umpires. Bradley does not get the benefit of the doubt until he earns it. There's a reason why Bradley is on his 8th/9th team in his major league career. And very soon, the Mariners are going to be yet another team that tires of his act. If you're Wakamatsu, though, you don't want to throw your own player under the bus in Spring Training. I'd imagine that sometimes a manager goes out to the umpire to defend his player whether he agrees or not.
  2. Electron Blue
    I think they should consider a BCS-style system.
  3. Electron Blue
    Fixed. Although I hate that idea. Good point. And I should say again, I too really don't like the idea. Even for a young baseball fan like myself, it's strangely unsettling to think there was a time (only, what, 15-20 years ago?) that there were only two divisions per league -- hell, given when I became a fan, the D'Backs and Rays are almost as established to me as most teams. To vastly re-align the league or, even worse, to create a rotating alignment, would destroy what divisions mean for rivalries, history, and more.
  4. Electron Blue
    While we're at it, why not dispatch with leagues and division (antiquated by mergers and modern transportation) and have every team play all of the other teams equal numbers of times, and then, after 162 games, the eight best teams get seeded and play in a tournament. Okay, I don't really want that -- but it's an equally crazy idea
  5. Electron Blue
    If commenting on it via internet message boards can be considered getting outraged, it's also questionable to get outraged about other's people's reactions on internet message boards. Okay, that's a reach, but really, it just shows the futility of the let's-not-talk-about-it commentary.
  6. Electron Blue
    I don't mind saying I wish we kept him -- even after this, which means virtually nothing to me.
  7. Electron Blue
    Actually appears to be $20 off, making the Premium 99.99 and the Regular 79.99 -- not bad, especially considering they are both HD feeds this year (where available). The SI deal looks really good to me too. Where's the catch? Appears canceling the SI subscription during the Free period shouldn't be a problem (provided that you wanted to, I guess).
  8. Electron Blue
    The article says his knee was surgically repaired - not sure how that compares to "major knee reconstruction," but it definitely doesn't sound like a scope (which I believe takes hardly a week or two to return from). It was a scope. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0223-cubs-soriano-chicago--20100222,0,2521191.story Thanks. Wonder what confused me . . . isn't there some very minor procedure done with a scope, perhaps just an exploratory procedure?
  9. Electron Blue
    The article says his knee was surgically repaired - not sure how that compares to "major knee reconstruction," but it definitely doesn't sound like a scope (which I believe takes hardly a week or two to return from).
  10. Electron Blue
    Hindsight indeed since any side that loses any arbitration hearing would have been better off settling :)
  11. Electron Blue
    The Cubs aren't a contending team. They are a high salary team that is mediocre. There are more questions on this year's team than any team since 2006. Lilly won't be back until May and may never be the pitcher he was in the first two years. Big Z has a lot of wear. Dempster needs to bounce back. Will Wells be as good as he was in first 10 starts? How may starts will Carlos Silva have? Lee is getting old, Aramis's shoulder is still a concern. Soriano has shown he can stay in a slump with the best of them. On and on. For the Cubs to contend this year everything will have to go right for them and they will still need some help. So a team that won 84 games last year with Soriano contributing next to nothing and Ramirez hurt much of the year is very unlikely to contend this year? Lilly will miss a month yes, but otherwise this team isn't much worse than last year. If Soriano rebounds at all and Ramirez can stay (mostly) healthy, I don't see why we can't contend. Our bench should be much improved as well, which means if we do have an injury in the starting lineup, we won't have a black hole playing for 3 months like we did at third last year. [Though it's harder to admit if your team isn't projected to be average or worse] there is a great deal of luck going into every season.
  12. Electron Blue
    I love posters who overreact to some rumor. We should have fired Hendry when he signed Ankiel, Posednick, Contreras, etc. As I 've posted before, Hendry gets bashed whether he makes a move or not. It's not a matter of whether he gets the deal done. The idea that these are the players he deems worthy of pursuing is very troubling. Though even that would be too presumptive, perhaps. First of all, the rumor may be somewhat (if not entirely) fabricated by some writer assumes the Cubs could be interested. Secondly, it's like reading too much into the waiver wire in August -- "Who was put on waivers!?!" -- many players are, and little is actually intended by the GM's action. Likewise, Hendry probably "shows interest" in a great number of free agents he has very little interest in actually signing. You need to feel out the market and inquire on demands. Plus the rumor was from just one guy . . . on Twitter . . . maybe I should have started and stopped with that one.
  13. Electron Blue
    They're usually the smart thing to do with a contract like this and a team that's under somewhat of a budget crunch. This is hardly unique to Hendry and is very common around MLB with most GM's. Plus. in his case, he's maximizing everything he can do and won't be here to see the ramifications of his work, in all likelihood. He's just putting the best(in his mind) on the roster, which in turn, will be someone else's mess to clean up, assuming the longterm deals that are backloaded inevitably don't work out. Still, like was just said, it's a common practice...... A common practice. And we'll have an average to below average 34-year-old outfielder making $6.5 million. We'll also pay that average-ish outfielder about $3.5M right about in his prime. For an average OF, that's quite good. That's how averages work, of course, just don't lose sight of it.
  14. Electron Blue
    wow, I think you're really misunderstanding what is actually a fairly classy response from milton
  15. Electron Blue
    He's not going to take Mike Fontenot and turn him into Chase Utley or anything, but I think he will help with the hitter's consistency, quickly finding flaws in their swings and adjusting it before it turns into a prolonged slump. Will be interesting to see what he can do with Soriano and Fukudome, 2 hitters that have been known to fall badly away from their swing mechanics from time to time. I think Jaramillo would be a bigger deal if we hadn't had a decent hitting coach for awhile, anyway. And I think the general consensus was that Gerald Perry was, in fact, quite a good hitting coach, fired as a scapegoat for an underperforming offense. For that reason, it will be easy to expect too much of an improvement with this move.
  16. Electron Blue
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santoro01.shtml a good pick-up, IMO. anyone know how he is defensively?
  17. Electron Blue
    well, can't disagree with that :). I guess I was just looking at him as a solid signing, in general, not necessarily for us.
  18. Electron Blue
    Not sure of the Pirates' financial situation, but it was clearly related to that: He'd be quite a solid pickup. He's a legit unrestricted FA now, right? Nothing weird rule-wise with him being non-tendered, correct?
  19. Electron Blue
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parismi01.shtml really struggled in limited time in the majors last year.
  20. Electron Blue
    Didn't know you could trade away draft picks... Haha. Probably not what he meant, but another example of a lack of clarity. I definitely read it as "traded away one of his vaunted draftees", but it really is some poor clarity. The AL East thing had me also scratching my head.
  21. Electron Blue
    The part about all of his teams making the playoffs? I've heard that more than a couple times, actually. It's, of course, a coincidence (or simply a sign that he signs with good teams), but it is kind of interesting. 10 years, 4 different teams now.
  22. Electron Blue
    Are you reacting to the reaction of fans, the media, or Bruntlett himself? Either way, no one's really saying it was an amazing play (performance-wise). It's simply incredibly rare, and is impressive for that reason. It is very rare, but for every unassisited triple play in baseball history, you'll probably find that some kind of baserunning gaff as much to due, if not more so than the fielder himself. Possibly a gaff, yes, but most likely it's simply a hit-and-run like this one. Not really a bad play -- very risky, but intentional. Still though, none of that really enters into the fascination with triple plays (and unassisted ones, even moreso). They are incredibly rare, and often, interesting to see develop.
  23. Electron Blue
    Are you reacting to the reaction of fans, the media, or Bruntlett himself? Either way, no one's really saying it was an amazing play (performance-wise). It's simply incredibly rare, and is impressive for that reason.
  24. Electron Blue
    Mods merge if you don't think this deserves it's own thread, separate from the Grand Slam thread. Albert Pujols this year has had 9 ABs with the bases loaded. He has 7 hits. 5 of those hits were home runs. .778/.700/2.444/3.144 http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4378304&name=olney_buster
  25. Electron Blue
    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/blue_jays_gm_confirms_there_never?utm_source=a-section http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Halladay.article.jpg (it's The Onion of course)
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