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Britton just came off the DL a couple days ago. He was moved to the 60-day DL just this week, so I was thrown off when he was taken off the DL and sent to the minors a couple days later. I thought truffle mentioned taking a couple of days to re-work your roster with a guy coming off the DL was ok. Truffle's roster isn't illegal, though. He doesn't have too many players. He just doesn't have a full pitching staff starting, but we discussed earlier this year that this was ok.
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How do you figure? Just thinking back to the A's sneaking under the radar and getting Cespedes in one of the offseason's many WTF moments. If willing to overpay, it's the type of bidding war in which a small market team could beat out the big market teams. That's, I just. I don't. Forget it. -
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Bruce is cubsfan26? I've been campaigning to ban him forever and there's the smoking gun I needed.
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The Masters is so wildly unpopular. It's on tv for what - 4 days, once a year? I mean, you don't even hear anything about it for probably 9-10 months out of the year.
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i like this idea because i was trying to figure out how you would convey to the players that a ball was fair or foul, and the first thing that popped into my head was strapping giant speakers to the umpires' chests that would bellow out the call. i support this plan as long as we can do that. Umps must carry boom boxes above their heads Lloyd Dobler style. They can play "in your eyes" during breaks in the action. There is no acceptable alternative.
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And it only takes that long for dramatic effect
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i dont get it either. i worked in the sports department at a mid-sized daily for a while during the barbaro thing, and they wanted updates on his condition on the front page every day. WHY THE HELL. That Barbaro thing was maybe when deadspin peaked. The freaks were all over that story.
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A niche group of rich people betting on something doesn't make it popular. If you think it's mainly rich people betting on horse races you REALLY aren't in tune with the "sport". If you think it's popular you aren't in tune with the English language. This is probably where you should just admit that maybe you underestimated it's popularity.
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Both sports are on the front page of ESPN, the most popular sports website on the internet. Horse racing just 3 days a year, but that's more than I think it warrants. That spot is reserved for the "biggest" news in sports that day. A horse race should never be in that spot, if it were as unpopular as you suggest.
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If you hadn't traded a guy that was on your DL, you would have even more guys on the DL. Again, abuck has a point.
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How could it possibly not? Are you saying fair or foul shouldn't be reviewable? I think that's one of the easiest things to fix, especially on that particular call. Now, things change a bit if there was a guy on 1st who may have scored, but that's an easy ground rule double call to break up the no hitter once you see that ball hit the chalk. I think you can change fair calls to foul, but not the other way around(the exception being HR which have no on field action). Beltran's case might be pretty straight forward, but there's too many other things at play for me to feel comfortable with simulating action to get to a result. What do you do with runners on base? What if it's a pop up down the line that the LF or SS can immediately pick up and throw to a base? So the only way to handle it would be to give discretion to the umpire, the same umpire we're trying to take power away from because they just blew a call. It's like a runner being down in football. You can rule them down somewhere after the fact, but interpreting what would have happened when you've already called the play dead is too much hypothetical interpretation for me. What's the difference between overturning a foul ball on a HR and a ground rule double?
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Also agree on eliminating errors.
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I'd give up the excitement of Santana's no-no to get the call right in Gallaraga's "perfect" game.
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can we talk about Darwin Barney?
Tracer Bullet replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
oh wait, defensive prowess is irrelevant to gold glove consideration. who has the most RBI? He wins. -
can we talk about Darwin Barney?
Tracer Bullet replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
being able to throw out fat, slow left handers from short right field is the new standard for gold gloves for third basemen -
He traded me someone from his DL for him, though. then he should have traded for someone that wasn't on the DL. Trading someone that is on your DL for a guy that is on the DL doesn't decrease your total number of players on the DL. I suspect truffle knew this and made the trade anyway. i.e., abuck has a point.
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I'll take longoria or panda off you hands.
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I'd revise my original response to say yes to a single 60-day dl spot. I don't want more than 3 15-day spots.
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No Leave in March No
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BTW I'd trade almost anyone on my team for almost anyone of those players. So, yeah.
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Should have nabbed Bud Norris while he was available.
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There is nothing ideal about that timeline. Nothing at all. Almost 100 loss seasons twice in a row? That's stupid. Not ideal.
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Sheehan or someone said that if several picks in the 10th get cut it won't be surprising and won't mean they were bad picks. That's insane (but true under these rules).
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I don't think guys drafted in 6-10 were 11-15 talents. They were college seniors and very late round talents picked to guarantee signability and at (or more often) below slot. It's the best strategy to give yourself more for the top talent and fliers you're going to take after the 10th.
