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  1. Rob
    He's...not...good...?
  2. Rob
    I love Len. I love Bob. I love Ryan Adams. I think I have to find a way to be there.
  3. Rob
    Agreed. Matsuzaka and Lilly are my top choices in each category. What in this thread has proved to you that Lilly is the top choice of the second tier starters, the high amount of fly balls and homeruns allowed, or the high walk rate? Personally, this thread helped cement my opinion that neither one of them is likely to live up to their contract, and both should probably be avoided like the plague.
  4. Rob
    Yeah, now that the paper's finished, I see the joke sucked and that it was not at all obvious I was trying to be over-the-top. Oh well.
  5. Rob
    I have a hard time believing you. The way I see it, the way you so cowardly folded your principles has one of two underlying causes. 1) You just got tired of people ripping on you. 2) You're the first person in the history of the internet to be swayed by intelligent debate. I'm kinda leaning towards #1, myself. good grief, back off man. there was a discussion and he formed an opinion from it. It was a joke, man. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm in the middle of a 15 page paper right now, but I thought it was a hilarious indictment on the general state of intelligent internet debate.
  6. Rob
    I have a hard time believing you. The way I see it, the way you so cowardly folded your principles has one of two underlying causes. 1) You just got tired of people ripping on you. 2) You're the first person in the history of the internet to be swayed by intelligent debate. I'm kinda leaning towards #1, myself.
  7. Rob
    Maybe he can spell Izturis at short... there's a good chance he's a better player still.
  8. Rob
    Carlos Lee...Beltran money? HAHAHAHAHA. Are you kidding me? Ramirez, I would seriously consider. Soriano, maybe. But not Lee. I'd be hard pressed to give Lee 8 per for 3 years. A contract worth 4-5 times as much? Uh... no.
  9. Rob
    And now I see they signed Luis Montanez as well. Perhaps we should wait an hour and see who all they stole away before we respond.
  10. Rob
    I always head into elections with the realization that my vote will simply cancel out someone elses vote. This year, I choose you. Topinka may not be any better than 'Balogna Man', but she cannot be any worse. Vote green then. I was planning on writing-in Ditka. Neither of the bums deserve my vote... but Ditka commands it.
  11. Rob
    Brandon Sing signed with them too. :cry:
  12. Rob
    Which is most likely part of why it looks so filthy.
  13. Rob
    About an hour before I run out of Jack Daniels.
  14. Rob
    I don't think anybody here is going to debate that Lilly and Padilla aren't extremely close in actual value to a team. A quarter of a million extra floating to either one's contract would make that one less valuable, so close is their production. All things (read: contracts) being equal, I would rather have Lilly. But if I could get Padilla for a $250,000 less, I'd rather do that. Then again, I personally believe if their contracts go above 6 mil per, they aren't worth acquiring.
  15. Rob
    how in the hell does it prove that? Drugs
  16. Rob
    Am I completely off my rocker for thinking that Hicks would be a little more timid about throwing money around after the ARod contract crippled his team? I just don't see Texas going for more than about 22-23 million.
  17. Rob
    That was hilarious!
  18. Rob
    I want to say sometime Monday... For some reason I so want the Cubs to get this guy. He seems like a can't miss, but I don't really care. I just want them to win something, a bidding war, checkers, anything. I am fired up. Yeah, and with the field having dwindled down like it has, we're actually in a position where we could take this one. From what I can tell, it's essentially down to the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Rangers, and us. And 25 mil looks like it might get it done.
  19. Rob
    I want to say sometime Monday...
  20. Rob
    If we're giving Pie to the Marlins, the only player I'd want in return is Cabrera... I'm still just not sold on Willis and his ability to stay healthy.
  21. Rob
    Losing ARam can only be smoothed over if we get Cabrera and sign him to a Pujols-like contract. Other than that, I see little hope for this offseason if ARam is lost. We could get lucky taking a risk on a guy like Ensberg. What makes you think Houston would trade him to a divison rival? They might not. On the other hand, they have grown so disillusioned with him that I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if they non-tendered him.
  22. Rob
    Losing ARam can only be smoothed over if we get Cabrera and sign him to a Pujols-like contract. Other than that, I see little hope for this offseason if ARam is lost. We could get lucky taking a risk on a guy like Ensberg.
  23. Rob
    Hey, cut him some slack. It's not like Buster Olney gets paid to know what's going on in baseball.
  24. Rob
    http://www.rotoworld.com adds this commentary: It seems as if we might have to mark Burrell off the list of options. I don't imagine that it precludes the Cubs... but rather that he wouldn't be willing to accept the trade until he thought the Cubs had signed enough people to make the club a contender. If we were to re-sign Aramis, get Matsuzaka, and trade for ARod, Burrell would jump at the opportunity, I'm sure.
  25. Rob
    I'd much rather have Gary Sheffield for the next 3 (assuming he'd force us to ink him to a 2 year extension) than Carlos Lee for five or Soriano for 6. I'd do Marshall for Sheffield in a heartbeat.
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