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  1. mul21
    Not sure if it's a gift since they have to work for it, but I imagine it will be taxable. That is what I have been thinking. If the scholarships for these players is going to start being classified as compensation as an employee of the university there would have to be some kind of tax implications I would think. If that's the case, does the NCAA pull some BS declaring that they're no longer amateurs and now aren't eligible?
  2. mul21
    I'm pretty sure he just died. Nvm, that was the Lions owner.
  3. mul21
    Well then you better clone a hitter worthy of getting slot at 4. Draft someone who won't sign and take the fifth pick next year. That's honestly not a terrible idea if they're not enamored with anybody at that slot this year. It'll cost them a bunch of slot money, but if they like some of the guys that will be eligible next year it could work out. The uncertainty of players draft to draft makes that a huge risk though.
  4. mul21
    You could go JR Towles or NSBBlol for Meph and be good too.
  5. mul21
    Well, at least that's a good reason to be splitting time at this point. Hopefully once the shoulder is 100%, we'll see some Valbuena at 2B and Olt at 3B pretty much every day.
  6. mul21
    Why would that make you nervous, exactly? I meant because he *only* pitched that, then Rusin came in. I was thinking that for the last start of the spring, he might throw more, so leaving after three innings makes me wonder if he's hurt. They mentioned that during the last game he started on TV that he would go 6 IP/100 pitches in his next start and then dial it back from there to be fresh for opening day, so it was definitely scheduled.
  7. mul21
    Barney has more value but my disdain is such that I still almost would have rather him gone. I don't really care who went, I just hope they put the best players out there on a daily basis and guys aren't getting PT just to build value. If that's Bonifacio and Valbuena most of the time, fine. I get the need to keep Barney though, since there's really no other viable backup to Castro.
  8. mul21
    I asked this in the game thread yesterday but I'll put it here too: For you swing experts out there: Is it possible that there's something to Mueller getting Lake's hands quieter before the swing that's clicked here at the end of spring that's going to make a long term difference? From everyone who's scouted him, all the raw tools are there and just need some fine tuning.
  9. mul21
    For you swing experts out there: Is it possible that there's something to Mueller getting Lake's hands quieter before the swing that's clicked here at the end of spring that's going to make a long term difference? From everyone who's scouted him, all the raw tools are there and just need some fine tuning.
  10. mul21
    Almora mad a catch at the wall and hurt something. Hard to tell what because he didn't really hit the wall. It almost looked like his knee buckled as he made the catch, but Lake waved a trainer out there right away. No idea what it is at this point.
  11. mul21
    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.
  12. mul21
    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?
  13. mul21
    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
  14. mul21
    Come on, give him some credit. At least that was fairly reasonable and mostly coherent.
  15. mul21
    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.
  16. mul21
    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.
  17. mul21
    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.
  18. mul21
    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.
  19. mul21
    Bah.
  20. mul21
    Lake with a 3 run dinger and then Valbuena goes back to back with him.
  21. mul21
    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.
  22. mul21
    Is Kottarras this bad at blocking pitches?
  23. mul21
    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.
  24. mul21
    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.
  25. mul21
    Tracy Abrams is the stupidest basketball player that has ever lived.
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