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ummmmm That's about the only part of that that made sense. He's saying that because Valbuena is the lefty, he'll get more PA.
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Do these guys that are being switched/potentially being switched actually have some US background or are we just poaching guys that have some random tie to the US that makes them eligible? Are they guys that have developed in the US, meaning the players being produced here are getting better, or are these guys internationals who haven't played in the US much/at all?
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Heard Wittenmeyer on a radio show here during lunch. Man, that guy is a Debbie Downer. Saying weird things like the Cubs are at least 3-4 years from being competitive and pretty much belittling just about every prospect other than Javy. It should be on the 2nd or 3rd segment of this once they clips get posted. http://insidestlaudio.com/Middlerelief/MiddleRelief_Podcast.xml
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Come on, give him some credit. At least that was fairly reasonable and mostly coherent.
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Shoulder injuries are not to be trifled with. They need to be treated with extreme caution because it's an exceptionally fragile joint. And if there's no reason to push him right now, why take a chance? By all accounts he's always been regarded as an above average defender there and there's no reason to believe that's not the case now. If he continues to not be able to throw over to first then yeah, you have to reconsider, but the results in one game shouldn't be swaying your opinion in that direction.
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Has Creighton not seen a team all year that has anybody taller than 6'8"? They are completely clueless on how to play against a bigger team. Man I hate Scott Drew.
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Offseason Rumors
mul21 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
And apparently Andrus has a sore right arm, though I don't think it's supposed to be serious. Seems like they could definitely use Barney. I doubt they bring up Odor, and I don't see many internal options for them. They might be a little gun shy about dealing with Theo again after the last 2 trade deadline deals we've made with them. Especially after their GM pretty much admitted to being short sighted and getting taken advantage of in the Garza deal. -
Feel bad for Wichita. They are too good to be remembered as a mid major that got eliminated in the first weekend. This is what the committee wanted by loading this bracket. Yep. The committee set them up to fail, and its [expletive]. The officiating in that game was....not good. I agree with all of this. Harrison was allowed to just drop his shoulder and bulldoze his way to the basket on several occasions and then they started calling all the touch fouls the last few minutes. Although in the refs' defense, I haven't seen any particularly well officiated games in this tournament. It seems like they're letting them play most of the game and then tightening things up at the end, which is completely unfair to the players.
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Bah.
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Lake with a 3 run dinger and then Valbuena goes back to back with him.
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This may be the highest quality basketball of the entire tourney so far. This is a hell of a back and forth game. I guess this is what it looks like when players as good as Kentucky has are actually interested.
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Is Kottarras this bad at blocking pitches?
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Offseason Rumors
mul21 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Wow. Hopefully he just thinks Detroit is a sinking ship or he hates it there and wants to move on, because that's a ton of cash to walk away from. If he wants more years than that, I don't think I'm interested anyway since he'll be 30 this summer. -
This has been, overall, about the worst shooting performance in a tournament from all the teams that I can remember. You had SLU and Syracuse both go 0 for on threes yesterday and there have been a few other games where teams just couldn't knock down wide open shots.
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Tracy Abrams is the stupidest basketball player that has ever lived.
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This has been a horrendously officiated game. Letting guys beat the crap out of each other all game and then they start calling ticky tack crap the last 3 minutes. Just not fair to the players.
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Nothing like a road game at 10 am when you're the higher seed. Why did they start this so early on a Sunday morning? Seems pretty ridiculous, even with the other tourney games today.
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Fixed. It's almost like none of them ever actually played the game and don't have any idea how the game works.
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Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition
mul21 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He's everything Kyle's doom boner wishes it could be. What a turd. And not just because it Cubs prospects, but it's so completely different than what we heard on Tseng just a couple days ago. -
The games so far today haven't been good, but there have been a bunch of great games with fantastic finishes thus far, so if you're complaining about the tourney over all, I don't know what else you want.
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I agree that all of that would be an improvement, but I just don't see how that's potentially putting them at 90 wins. 90 wins sounds like Baez and Bryant showing up and kicking ass, the Cubs trading for at least one fantastic starting pitcher and re-singing Shark and Castro and Rizzo not just bouncing back but improving...at least. That's a lot that has to go really right. It's not that I don't think they won't get to that point along those lines, but I don't think 2015 is the year it's likely to happen. I think there's going to be growing pains/busts. I think you're forgetting how completely and utterly awful the pen was until Gregg showed up last year. Just not giving away half the games they did by having nobody who could get guys out consistently after the 6th inning will be a big help. If the rotation is halfway decent, you get a bit of a bounce back from Castro and Rizzo, and you're not selling off parts at the deadline, that 65 wins from last year is probably closer to 75-80 this year and then you add in Bryant and Baez to replace Barney and an OF. Granted, you don't have Soriano propping up the offense this year, but you have the potential to make up for some of that with Olt.
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Did they ever give a diagnosis on Javy's heel?
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Add another one to my list with VCU. That's the first one I've had go my way.
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I can't believe how many games I've missed where my pick was in clear control of the game and then just gave it away in the last minute.
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So apparently the VCU strategy is to just foul so much that the refs quit calling all of them and you win because you get away with it. Interesting if you can get the refs on board.