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  1. BigbadB

    Golf

    Go out and lay a golf ball in your yard somewhere close to the hole. Then you can blame someone from the other side of the fence for the hole. ;)
  2. Dusty is getting all of his horses lined up. He needs those dudes who can handle the summer heat. Afterall, Cincy will be playing a lot of day games at Wrigley this summer.
  3. You beat me to it. That's the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.
  4. If they hadn't signed Miles, they most certainly could have offered Wiggington that many at bats. Between platooning with Fontenot at 2nd, spelling Lee, Ramirez, Soriano and Bradley, he could have had plenty of playing time. That's not including being the main PH off the bench. Hendry didn't want anything to do with him because he hits right handed.
  5. If one year at 8m meant Abreu could be signed and Peavy could be traded for, I'd take Abreu in a New York minute over Milton Bradley and his potential 3 year deal.
  6. If they hold on to him, I still say they are the best team in the NL. They don't have the starting pitching Billingnsley-Ace potential but young Kershaw- Unproven at ML level, wasn't great last year in his time Kuroda- solid 2/3, 2nd year in the majors will teams get a book on him or will he remain effective? ? ? Sophomore slump time for Kuroda and Kershaw.
  7. Juan must be trying out some new toys.
  8. And I'm interested in Angelina Jolie. And I have about the same chances of acquiring her as the Cubs do of acquiring Peavy. Your table is ready, Mr. Pitt.
  9. I think the target date is March 8th, not the 22nd.
  10. There is a Cubs roster discussion thread in the Cubs Discussion forum.
  11. Pretty sure Griffey signed as a FA with Cincy No. I believe Griffey and Cincy agreed to rework his contract so that much of it was deferred to fit into Cincy's budget.
  12. March 21-22 might be available for me. I have to see what weekend we are going up to Solvang. I want to say it's March 28-29. I'm in Vegas Wednesday through Monday of March 11-16. I think I could be free after 5pm on March 8th. The more I think about it, the more the evening of the 8th seems to work for me. Double check that Brian as that would allow Adam to be there too. I am pretty sure I am around that weekend because we're going to Sorensen's the weekend before. I'm running a 135 player pool tournament that weekend, but I think I can schedule it where I run a little bit later on Saturday night and start a little bit earlier on Sunday morning, so that I finish in time to make the draft. 5pm is probably the earliest I could get home, though.
  13. March 21-22 might be available for me. I have to see what weekend we are going up to Solvang. I want to say it's March 28-29. I'm in Vegas Wednesday through Monday of March 11-16. I think I could be free after 5pm on March 8th. The more I think about it, the more the evening of the 8th seems to work for me.
  14. Is anyone opposed to a weeknight? How about pushing the 3/18 date back by 3 hours or so? East Coast: 7pm Central: 6pm West: 4pm
  15. It's pretty sad that guys like Paul Bako and Brad Ausmus can still have major league jobs in their late 30's.
  16. I'd fall over laughing if Hendry traded Hill for anyone of Batista, Silva or Washburn.
  17. I'm probably going to miss it if it falls on the weekend. March is busy for me. I think the only weekends I have free until April are February 28-29 and possibly March 21-22, and the second one is the weekend Adam can't be there. There could still be a bunch of free agents available on February 28-29. I'll just have to be very cautious with my auto draft, I guess. A weeknight would definitely be better for me.
  18. I like that. I'll send my proposal to Bud Selig, who will probably use it to start a fire or wipe his butt.
  19. Yeah, I was the same way. There were several moments that I just had to chuckle at the choices, but Twisted Sister at #17 was the clincher.
  20. Reminds me of the classic and underrated, "Real Genius": "Ok, lets just take a step fwd. Now take a step back. Now take a step fwd., and back....and now we cha-cha!!" Real Genius is awesome!!! Did you know the singer is the lead singer from the band Survivor? Someone watched the VH1 Top 100 Rock songs. :D After watching that, I felt quite ill. Their top 100 was missing about 80 songs that are in my top 100. That's all.
  21. This. Hey Jim, We get it. You used to work for Andy MacPhail. That doesn't mean every trade has to be with him.
  22. i also think there should be an exception for guys traded within the last year - the brewers should not get compensation for losing sabathia IMO. I disagree. That allows small market teams the opportunity to contend now, while rebuilding for the future as well. It's a fairly large incentive for those teams to make the "go for it" trades that can excite the team and keep fan interest high in what is otherwise a non-entity. It needs to be adjusted, but taking away such an important thing for teams like Oakland, Milwaukee, Minnesota etc, that can't justify spending $100m on individual players, or trading away prospects for superstars, would be a big mistake. Fair enough. Remove the service time clause, and I think I like my plan better than the current plan. With my plan, you can also remove the arbitration clause. Just award the team losing one of their best players, period. If it's a given that these smaller market teams NEED compensation for players they are going to lose and can't afford to offer arbitration to, then make it mandatory that teams that sign them lose the picks to the teams losing the player. Take the gamble out of it altogether.
  23. Guzman has zero durability. Everytime they stick him in the rotation, he ends up missing a significant portion of the season. Best case for Guzman would be to acclimate him to short inning relief work and hope he eventually adapts. His stuff dictates that if he ever adjusts to the bullpen, he could very dominant in that role.
  24. Agreed. A whole lot of offseason maneuvering to be worse than they were last year. Way to work them phones, Jim!
  25. What? Was Chad Hermansen not available?
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