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Plus, SOSH is dealing with crushing disappointment, so everybody wins.
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Just waiting for the headline "CHRIS CARPENTER TRADED TO RED SOX".
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Yeah, technically the Red Sox have to send the Cubs a PTBNL because the transaction has to be a player trade. You can't just send a player somewhere for nothing.
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It's cute that SOSH still thinks "pitcher on the 40-man" leaves Garza on the table.
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Yes, as per the league's concussion rules, he can't play today.
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Oddly, the Bulls are down to 1 timeout for the game...with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter.
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Football Outsiders on the Bears' offseason needs:
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Looks like Illinois found a way to get rid of Weber before the end of the season.
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Not sure if anything would kill the Linsanity more than a home loss to the Hornets.
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Is that the only game they've lost with the starting lineup all playing at the same time? I know it's a really small sample size, just curious.
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I see. So when is the cut off for "it's recent enough to be relevant"? I'm going to guess right around the time Illinois went to the National Championship game? Anything before that doesn't matter, right? How long do you get to hang your hat on that exactly? This post is just embarrassing. I was told "almost every big ten team has been more successful [than Purdue]". I responded by stating that they have the most Big Ten Championships and a winning record against every Big Ten School. Than I'm told (paraphrasing) "that doesn't count". I'm just trying to get the rules right here. So you tell me, has almost every Big Ten team been more successful than Purdue? That has nothing to do with why your post was embarrassing...which makes this one even more embarrassing. And yes, in the NCAA Tournament era, which is plenty long enough now, almost every Big Ten team has been more successful than Purdue. Purdue easily clears Penn State, Nebraska and Northwestern, though, so keep that chin up!
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It's mind boggling that people view this sort of thing as refreshing. Yeah, those aren't exactly a lot of great teams listed there. Yay, the Cubs don't have any players with long term value! -
I see. So when is the cut off for "it's recent enough to be relevant"? I'm going to guess right around the time Illinois went to the National Championship game? Anything before that doesn't matter, right? How long do you get to hang your hat on that exactly? This post is just embarrassing.
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Hard to get access, easy to keep access.
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Thanks for '05 buddy. Don't you mean Bill Self? He did a hell of a job with that team. Regardless of who recruited them. I mean, really, the closest any team has been to undefeated since UNLV 1991. A desperation 3 and a missing center for the champ game away.
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Why call timeout to draw up a 3? They've been doing it on their own all game.
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3 for 19 from 3-point range. Yeah, let's keep shooting 3's.
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no, his roster legitimately sucks ass. he basically has no good young exempt players, josh hamilton is his best offensive player and tim hudson his best pitcher. his prospects aren't very good either. i wasn't thrilled with my roster last year, but i was able to acquire halliday before the draft, had starlin castro, gaby sanchez, austin jackson and jaime garcia as exempt players, and had very good prospects like mike trout and julio teheran. When I took over my roster 3 years ago, the team was totally bereft of talent aside from Dan Haren (best player after that was probably Brian Roberts), and had nobody in the minors. I traded down in the first round for Jason Bay (fresh to the Red Sox), drafted prospects well and turned them into good players, and took advantage of some waiver values to win the league. The next year, my team got riddled with injuries which I initially tried to fix (thus trading Miller for Cabrera), but eventually just bailed and loaded up on exempt players and prospects. A team lacking in superstars can generally find some good ones in exchange for exempt players and/or prospects, and a team without prospects only needs one good prospect draft to replenish.
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i have no idea where the one on the eyes of texas' roster came from. from what i can tell, he was added by bazingas on 03/27/10, traded to my team (when i wasn't the owner) on 04/02/10, traded to NC Cubs on 05/30/10 for kendrys morales, traded to tim's team for josh hamilton on 10/17/10, then traded to my team last year in the halladay deal. there's no record in the transactions log of shelby miller or the eyes of texas. I drafted him in the prospect draft in 2010, traded him to NC Cubs with Morales (who had just broken his leg on a game winning HR) for Miguel Cabrera, who traded him to Tim's team for Josh Hamilton. There was a fake one floating around, but I know I ended up with the real one by the start of the 2010 season.
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If you guys end up short a manager, I can probably swing it this year now that I'm not trying to support a family on a solo income. I didn't even work 80 hours this week!
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I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that you do that. :)
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I think the Cubs' minor league talent is getting shafted in that poll, but it's just whatever Law ranked them. No real arguments otherwise.
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Hints: 1) Everybody thinks their roster sucks when they take over a team. It's partially a product of being a 16-team league without any patsy, and partially a product of having an exempt-heavy roster mindset, especially when your team isn't making the playoffs. 2) Tim wants your first round pick. He just does. 3) It's not out of the realm of possibility to take a team from worst to first in one year. 4) Draft picks are more meaningful than they might seem at first glance. Especially when you're trading for players the other team is going to have to drop for nothing otherwise anyway. 5) There are more people on this board than there are team managers at this time, because occasionally some of us get so overwhelmed with life that we have to drop our teams. Those of us without teams can probably be trusted to help in a more unbiased manner than those of us that currently have teams that are trying to compete.
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I think that the East's best chance to win the game will come from James, Wade and Bosh playing 52 minutes each, and being practiced extra hard in the days leading up. We must use the power of Thibsball for good.
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Heck, Southern Illinois would hire him back in a heartbeat.
