Jake
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if he really has an arm dick, i feel like we should have drafted him Heh. Just seeing this now. A few people taking this a bit too personally. I looked up Personally, I haven't see Appel's Arm. Or his dick. His dick wasn't in the scouting reports, but many liked his arm. Would have been nice having him third behind Cole & Taillon. What a rotation. With JMac at 4. Still, JMac third behind those two guys doesn't suck either. -
His tweets say he's going back to Stanford.
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http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/pirates-to-sign-mark-appel.html
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How many first rounders didn't sign?
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It was a risk to be sure. Huntington said so at the time, noting that we'd get the #9 pick next year. He was picked because the Pirates brass felt he was the best player remaining. Based on these signing, http://www.bucsdugout.com/2012/7/13/3156936/mlb-draft-signing-deadline-open-thread, The Pirates have moved on.
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Isn't that one of the Ironies. Even if Appel signs, we're still not able to operate as we have the previous couple of years. Any notion that this was meant to help small market teams is ridiculous. We still can't afford to sign the main line players (I'm talking the Albert Pujolses of the world.) Our strategy to overcome this was to outspend on draft and international signings, and that was taken away.
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So is Prince signing with the Tigers. :-) Seriously... Boras, when he does speak on the subject, has ranted against the system. He's also very good at exploiting loop holes. This time the loopholes seem closed, or at the very least very small. I think his only recourse might be the courts. Or maybe he's just rolling the dice on next year. Just saw t his Keith Law tweet: Could be there's no game here at all.
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No, he's not. Okay, will be. Not gonna matter. NFL went through this a few years ago with the Williams kid from USC that wanted to come out earlier than was collectively bargained. He lost - quickly. Courts are VERY reluctant to interfere with what was collectively bargained. He didn't have Boras representing him.
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No, he's not.
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have the slotting system invalidate, thrown out, back to the old system of teams spending what they want. So he his clients can make more money. Don't know that it's worth the time and effort for him. Compare Appel's slot with what Cole got last year. Or Correia's. That's serious income each year.
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have the slotting system invalidate, thrown out, back to the old system of teams spending what they want. So he his clients can make more money.
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We bucs fans are counting down the hour to see if Appel signs. The news is leading away from it. But with Scott Boras, you never know. A columnist @ the Trib notes that Boras clients always sign. I'm thinking Boras is setting up a suit of the whole system. Just seems his way. He'll probably win. He usually does.
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It's just under 5 hours to the deadline. Think he'll sign? Personally, I'm waiting for Boras to file a lawsuit against the whole draft under antitrust rules. Whether he signs or not, I don't think the story ends @ 5:00 today.
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Alright, who saw this one coming?
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Cool, Sneaky. Thanks for that link!
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Who the [expletive] is Drew Sutton?
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05/26 Cubs (Maholm) @ Pirates (Correia) 06:15 FOX
Jake replied to Vanilla Ice's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Enjoy batting practice tonight. Correia can't pitch well @ PNC for some reason. This could be ugly. I'm out with friends tonight. Probably won't even check the phone to see how it's going. -
Tabata 7, Harrison 9, McCutchen 8, Alvarez 5, Walker 4, Hague 3, Barajas 2, Barmes 6, Burnett 1
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1) Yes, I am. :-) 2) It is. 3) In diapers.
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http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/pro-sports/pbc-blog lol, who was President the last time the Pirates had a winning record? Reagan? never mind. too easy.
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Yeah. The few times I saw him this season, he just looked lost.
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Ouch http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/pro-sports/pbc-blog
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#Pirates recall Matt Hague from Class AAA Indianapolis and DFA Nate McLouth
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Dempster will go the distance, 1 hit, 14ks. That one hit will be a Cutch HR in the 4th. Pirates win, 1-0 /TROLL
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Not what you think though. We get AJ Burnett, Yankees get Salary relief of $13m over two years. We give up one guy I never heard of and another guy I barely heard of who is 25 and still in low a ball.
