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  1. 3-3, 2B, 2 HR, 7 RBI tonight. On fire. Good lord, ARod's stuff works quick!
  2. Because until he learns to be properly patient and selective for a prolonged period, there's a risk of him turning into Castro this season just with more power.
  3. I'll deal with it if it makes the Patriots bad and Belichick lose. I mean, there's no way Tebow gets near a start, but they'd still be a lot worse.
  4. There was an ESPN story a couple years ago about how bad of shape he was in and that he was drinking himself to death, but I don't remember anything about him actually dying.
  5. That's probably a pretty good theory. A little bit of a dead arm that a skipped start might do wonders for.
  6. Fantastic. Navarro sees 6 pitches and hits a HR, the other 3 guys see a total of 7 and make outs. At least Starlin hit it hard I guess.
  7. Right. If he puts up 300 or so dominant at bats at Tennessee, I don't think the FO will keep him down there. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me that if this happened and he continued to play well at Iowa he saw a September call up but started the next season (2015) at Iowa for service time reasons.
  8. Kinda fluff, but rings true. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/jay-cutler-can-finally-be-great-after-bears--run-of-inconsistent-offensive-schemes-190523797.html
  9. Probably, since he's getting kind of Olt to be a prospect.
  10. Yeah I was just going to post that. Didn't look at all of them in too much detail, but the Cubs team was by far the worst I saw on there. Here's your starters: Catcher: Soto 1B: Vitters 2B: Barney SS: Castro 3B: Donaldson OF: Lake, Colvin, Fuld Jesus Christ. The rotation there is solid and the pen probably wouldn't be any worse than it's been this year. Why don't they get credit for Wellington? He's been way better than Soto this year.
  11. If they sign one of the FA OF there's no way they keep both of them. I'd be surprised if they deal Lake, especially with budget uncertainty and the need to have some sort of production out there long term until Almora et al are ready. Why wouldn't they want an outfield of DeJesus/Free Agent/Schierholtz with Lake as the 400 PA bench guy? That seems ideal to me.
  12. If they sign one of the FA OF there's no way they keep both of them. I'd be surprised if they deal Lake, especially with budget uncertainty and the need to have some sort of production out there long term until Almora et al are ready.
  13. Hey, they won last night with a shutout in St. Louis for the first time since 1997! Let's do it again and hopefully they can put this Michael Wacha is awesome thing Cardinals fans have going to bed a bit. Cubs DeJesus, D, CF Lake, J, LF Rizzo, A, 1B Castillo, W, C Schierholtz, N, RF Castro, S, SS Ransom, C, 3B Barney, D, 2B Villanueva, C, P Cards Carpenter, M, 2B Beltran, C, RF Craig, A, 1B Holliday, M, LF Freese, D, 3B Jay, J, CF Johnson, R, C Descalso, D, SS Wacha, M, P
  14. I was surprised he hadn't been mentioned yet.
  15. Please win the series so I don't have to listen to rampant douchebaggery all weekend. That is all.
  16. He's on vacation and this guy is terrible. I think I'd rather let Moreland do PBP.
  17. And they may have broken Shelby Miller last night too. That was an ugly liner off the elbow.
  18. I'm sure a lot of us do feel that way about our schools. The difference is, had Manziel done all of the above while at Iowa for example, I'd probably be saying something like "what a dumbass" rather than trying to legitimize the dumb [expletive] he did. Every university has their skeletons, and a whole lot of athletes do a whole lot of really stupid stuff. There's way too much smoke for there not to be a fire somewhere, and pretending otherwise is foolish. Go back and re-read my posts. I've ripped him for a lot of the dumb [expletive] he's done this offseason and I said in the last day or two that he's most likely guilty. Not even sure why I'm bothering to respond to you, but I actually have an Aggie Ring and a degree from Texas A&M. The Texas Southern grads are the ones with the burnt orange uterus on their chest. wut The Longhorn emblem.
  19. And it will be glorious!
  20. Yep, and if he does become big time, I'm going to just enjoy how much Cardinals fans will piss and moan about him being too cocky and not playing the game the right way.
  21. My influence is often underestimated, but I'm not responsible for the Nationals' sucking in the post-Montreal era. If the argument is that the Cubs needed to expedite the rebuilding process because they were so terrible that they were starting with nothing, wouldn't going back to the beginning of the Nats' sucking be the logical starting point? No, and you know that. You may have to go back a bit before Rizzo, but all the terribleness under Bowden certainly can't be counted because of a complete change in philosophy/level of competence.
  22. I'm sure he wasn't. But that's what happened. At the end of the day, we don't have a good role model for a major-market franchise just flat-out tanking in order to expedite a rebuilding. That's why so many of us were flat-out adamant that they would not be doing that when Epstein was hired. But pointing to successful teams that developed prospects isn't particularly accurate or helpful to illuminating the Cubs' position or the viability of their plan. Well, yeah, but then they changed the rules on how you can spend money on amateurs, which severely handcuffed what would have been the way they went about rebuilding. They could have bought all the over slot and IFA guys they wanted and not had to sell off anything and everything to get as many decent prospects as possible. I don't think it would have been entirely different, but there certainly would have been some noticeable changes in the way they approached a rebuild if not for the new CBA.
  23. He did make a hell of a throw from the track last night that nailed the cutoff man who made the relay to the plate to get a guy that would have tied the game at the time. The guy is amazingly athletic and has a cannon. He made a couple throws last night that you don't see too often.
  24. Look at you taking all your "dates" to a fancy Hilton instead of the typical motel. I expense that [expletive] The room, the dates, or both? If both, can I get a job there?
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