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  1. Tracer Bullet
    How is that your concern after seeing the play? Amazingly enough, I can multitask with the best of them. I can have concern over Ankiel hitting the wall AND have concern for why it is considered an out, all at the same time. I just don't get how you were able to get so worked up about that being called an out. You argued about whether it was a catch for several posts. Why are you trying to call out another poster for questioning whether it was a catch?
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    gives them a chance to plug ESPN Chicago
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    That does it. Consider me skeptical of the sense of humor of the entire population of Canton, Ohio.
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    lol yeah, racist stereotypes are awesome. Yes, they're funny. The same way we all laugh when a black or latino comedian is on stage making fun of stereotypes. Is Z Mexican? No. Does the stereotype almost always apply to Mexicans? Yes. Is it still funny because everyone knows what he means? Yes. There's a difference between laughing at something that's funny, even if it plays on a stereotype, and laughing at something that isn't funny just b/c it attempts to play on a stereotype. I guess if the shirt were funny it would still be dumb, but at least it'd be funny. This is just dumb.
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    I hate that when I click on the story on espn.com, the video starts playing and if I don't stop it within 5 seconds, I get to see a guy nearly snap his neck. What do you have to force people to watch your videos, espn?
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    It's just a metaphor. The lawn is the crappy Cardinals lineup and the mower is a Big Z fastball. He's not a cardinals fan. He's a really clever troll.
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    Stadium is right downtown, which makes it easy if that's where you're staying. I was in Toronto a few years ago and went to a game there just b/c I could. It's not a bad stadium and it should be easy to get tickets (day of the game we got 10th row seats, 1B side, just about where the OF starts). It's live MLB, it can't be that bad.
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    maybe they think some people might be interested and at the same time they didn't expect a bunch of Cubs fans to take offense to the article.
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    funny - Oakland could use an OF more than Colorado right now.
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    yeah, that's my bad. I misread the first post. I knew he wasn't in Oakland too. I also didn't mean, I hope he continues to OPS 1.100 in the majors. But I hope he continues to produce. His AAA numbers are back to where they were before last year. It's not like he hasn't put up a .900+ OPS in the bigs for months at a time before.
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    For the love of everything holy, Oakland's team is terrible. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/2009.shtml
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    Cripes. Murton's absolutely destroying AAA again. Hopefully he can continue that in Oakland. Patterson too.
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    That might be true, I honestly don't know. But Miles is pretty bad with the bat and, from what I understand, isn't a defensive dynamo either (I'll admit to not having looked into it or even seen much of Miles in the field this year or ever). And Fontenot isn't great with the glove at 3B. As bad as we have been, I wonder if it's not worth a shot to see if Fox can mash up here as he is in the minors. I agree with the other point. Obviously leaving this team without a backup 3B, when you know ARam was going to miss significant time every year (~ 15 games/year on average), was one of Hendry's many failures.
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    fox can't play third. at all. Our options appear to be Miles at 2B and Fontenot at 3B or Fontenot at 2B and Fox at 3B. The first option hasn't worked out great. I wouldn't mind giving the 2nd option a run.
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    If you don't need Uggla and you can stash Hamilton on your bench b/c of your crowded OF, what's the benefit of this trade? Yeah ummm...how many DL spots do you get in Y! H2H? I already have two taken up and it looks like that's where he's going. I don't know how many DL spots your league has. Should be in the league scoring/setting page. But you seemed to say that your OF was crowded, by which I thought you meant you had more than 3 good OFs. With that assumption, it seems to make more sense to stash Hamilton on the bench (or drop one of your other DL guys, depending on who they are) then trade him at his lowest value. Unless you're aiming to be Jim Hendry. :D
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    If you don't need Uggla and you can stash Hamilton on your bench b/c of your crowded OF, what's the benefit of this trade?
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    His mom seemed pretty happy that he just became a millionaire.
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    Sounds like Bradley is starting today and ARam went full speed in Monday's pre-game, so he could be back very soon too. Probably no longer worth it, unless Lee's injury is more than a day-to-day thing.
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    I know he sucks defensively. But just how bad of a 3B would Fox have to be to make the team worse by running him out there v Fontenot? I'm thinking he'd have to kick every ball hit to him and then throw it out to the OF, allowing the batter to score. And maybe even tackle Theriot on a few routine grounders to SS.
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    I'm not sure if they could right away, but I'm willing to bet there are some QB's that if you worked with them on mechanics for a couple months, they could be throwing 90 mph. There's a pitcher on UCD's baseball team who is a fifth-year senior and hadn't played baseball since he was a junior in high school and when he did play, he was a catcher. He went to UCD as a water polo player and after his senior season ended in that sport, he decided to try to walk on to the baseball team. He had a couple former UCD players (guys he went to H.S. with) teach him how to throw over about a six week stretch and made the UCD team. He can reach 90 mph on his fastball. Like I said, I doubt that every NFL QB could, but it wouldn't surprise me if some were able to. Of course, they'd probably have to work as relief pitchers at first to build the arm strength up to throw 90-100 pitches. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. I didn't say a QB couldn't throw a baseball 90 mph. I'm not really sure how that applies here.
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    Even if I need to substitute VMart for Soto? yes
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    http://deadspin.com/5060218/the-ballad-of-willie-williams why would you put a lonely 18-year-old up in a hotel room with a jacuzzi on the balcony? what's that? oh, really? how many? nm
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    NFL.com has him listed as a guard. Interesting. Sounds like another athlete. Or a mix-up. Athlete. So the filter thinks "fullback" is a curse word? Charlie Weis approves.
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    by who, and how drunk were they when they said that? yeah, no kidding. Sandoval is almost certainly going to hit more than 45 homers during his career.
  25. Tracer Bullet
    can those OL slip 35 more picks?
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