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  1. Rob
    Don't they have Thome too? Yeah, which gives them some nice insurance for the OF. If somebody gets hurt (or Delmon Young decides he'll continue stubbornly refusing to imrpove his performance), Kubel can slide back out into the field and Thome can slot in at DH.
  2. Rob
    Come on Derwood, you know, a liberal agenda includes looking like a European model, in Europe they don't have college sports so if we are going to go with this model I say let's go all the way and only have club ball. Unless you deny that fact then you would be in a conservative camp when it comes to sports. Derwood, you know I love ya, come on and give me a hug Derwood hugs pantless. Your move, hotshot.
  3. Rob
    Seriously, your posts in this (and many other threads) show what a miserable prick you are. Stop reading the politics threads and you'll think more of him. He's willing to set aside preconceptions and learn from wellthought out arguments when the subject isn't how much he hates republicans.
  4. Rob
    Does anybody care to post that article from bill james about how you could split rickey into two-seperate first ballot hall of famers? That one has always stuc with me.
  5. Rob
    to be fair, the jacked up payroll is in part because of the new stadium.
  6. Rob
    Pecota seems to have messed up badly and no one at BP seems to know how to fix it with Nate Silver no longer involved. i'm guessing he'd help them fix the problems, but you're right, this year's edition seemed to have a lot of bugs in it when it was released, some of which have been fixed and some that are still issues. From whaqt I gather, he's under no obligation to help them fix all of the problemems that pop up. He jumped into the world's top #100 powerful men last year according to some magaizine based on the work at 538. I don't see why he'd let himself get held back by baseball when he's on the verge of being the new and improved drudge.
  7. Rob
    well it's still too early to rape and rob Nah, etiquette on that is just "when the sun goes down."
  8. Rob
    Game.
  9. Rob
    What's the record for fewest penalty yards in a superbowl?
  10. Rob
    i'd be fine with that, but only if you are referring to the football team and not the [expletive] band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vwPuiILBc
  11. Rob
    Well at least this game is getting interesting. I was worried it might get lopsided after the Colts jumped out 10-0.
  12. Rob
    I'm currently at the worst Super Bowl Party ever. My neighbor said she was going to have a bunch of her friends over. It's me, her, her cousin, and a bunch of people from her work... who are all 15 years older than me.
  13. Rob
    It's a good thing Emmitt Smith was an excellent football player, because he would not have made it as a professional coin tosser.
  14. Rob
    http://pics.livejournal.com/ack_attack/pic/004pa6y3 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
  15. Rob
    No worries. That happens around here a lot.
  16. Rob
    That's selling the Twins a bit short. They are the best team in the division.
  17. Rob
    People really need to stop guessing who was using steroids or not. I can't tell if the whole process is more annoying or stupid, but it's definitely something that makes you look bad.
  18. Rob
    You're kidding, right? No, he's right.
  19. Rob
    That's not really the Hendry MO. He seems to prefer going year to year and then trying to sign any impending FA in the period between the end of the world series and the start of free agency.
  20. Rob
    What a crock of [expletive]. I live 3 hours south of chicago and buy every offered sports package (including Extra Innings) every year, but I wont get to watch OPENING DAY because I can't get WCIU, but live close enough to get blacked out regardless.
  21. Rob
    Stop plagiarizing my posts before I can make them.
  22. Rob
    This isn't quite true. Blanco plus whomever the Cubs received in return for Theriot would have to combine to provide those 20 runs. Let's say that the Cubs were able to move Theriot for a quality reliever that could save 10 additional runs over some of the guys currently slated for the back end of the pen. I think Blanco could be 10 runs better than Theriot on defense. Absolutely a possibility. I was just referring to the situation at SS though, as there's no way to know what we'd receive back in a trade. It could be prospects or ML ready guys. Well, if it's prospects we get back, then we'd have that extra $2.5M to spend on something useful, too. I didn't think it needed to be said, but yes... the outcome of any potential trade of Ryan Theriot depends on what we get in return. I was just asked about comparing Theriot and Blanco.
  23. Rob
    This isn't quite true. Blanco plus whomever the Cubs received in return for Theriot would have to combine to provide those 20 runs. Let's say that the Cubs were able to move Theriot for a quality reliever that could save 10 additional runs over some of the guys currently slated for the back end of the pen. I think Blanco could be 10 runs better than Theriot on defense. Absolutely a possibility. I was just referring to the situation at SS though, as there's no way to know what we'd receive back in a trade. It could be prospects or ML ready guys.
  24. Rob
    Barring just some awful luck, we should still be within a few games at the trade deadline... and we'll be able to make a couple of moves at that point.
  25. Rob
    It's hard to quantify Blanco's defense at SS. He only got 90 innings there last year and hadn't played in the majors since 2006. And even at that, he only has 66 total games at SS in the majors. That said, I don't see it as particularly likely that his glove can cover the gap in their offensive abilities. I didn't even think about him not having a big enough sample size to truly get any sort of real indication. Do we think Blanco could be close to a gold glove caliber SS, given what we've seen from him in the field? If that answer is yes, then does it make it close enough value-wise to pull the trigger and deal Theriot? I'll have to make this quick and dirty, but it's a good approximation. If they both perform like they did last season with the bat, the difference between them over 650 PA is about 20 runs. All metrics seem to be in agreement that we are unfairly disparaging Theriot's defense on this board, and most systems rank him as average to slightly above average. For the sake of argument, let's say he's dead average. (which is likely underselling him) Andres Blanco would have to be +20 with the glove to provide equal value. In the last 5 years, there have been a grand total of three SS who have accomplished that feat... Orlando Cabrera in 2005, Adam Everett in 2006, and Omar Vizquel in 2007. Nobody has managed it the last two years. Do you think Blanco would?
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