Andy
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DeRosa a Cardinal (p. 5) + DL'd (p. 13)
Andy replied to apete6's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Equal amounts of both, I think. More the first. There is LITERALLY no reason whatsoever DeRosa should've been traded. None. Maybe if you were going to get a good return on him, it's an argument, but three minor league pitchers, unless at least two are pretty highly rated, is not a good return. Now instead we have gotten less production out of LF, RF, 3B OR 2B than DeRo would've given us in any of those spots. I know we couldn't have predicted that Soriano would go into the tank for no reason or that Aramis would get hurt, but that's the fact of the matter. And it wasn't exactly a shock to find that Milton Bradley was a bit of a nutcase and gets hurt a lot. We could've signed Bobby Abreu for 1Y/5M (or a little more to outbid the Angels) and had more than enough left in the budget to keep DeRo. And, BTW, unlike Bradley, Abreu IS ACTUALLY A GOOD LEFTHANDED HITTER WHICH HENDRY WAS TRYING TO GET ALL ALONG. And by the way, he's now going to be a key player in keeping us out of the playoffs. -
As awful as Bradley's been most of the year, Soriano has no damn room to talk. Maybe I don't want YOU around if you're not 100 percent to help the team, Fonzie, because you're sure as [expletive] not doing that right now or at any point in about the last two months. That being said, Bradley's a complete nutcase and a total disaster of an acquisition.
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Gregg isn't a bad closer. He's an average or so closer. Then I pose this question to you... who IS a bad closer? Me. You. Others on NSBB. Gregg sucks. His ERA is 3.66, mediocre at best for a closer, his WHIP is higher than it's been in either of his prior two seasons closing in Florida, his H/9 is a ridiculous 8.4, his HR/9 is a career high 1.4 right now. (All those stats are entering the game tonight.)
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[expletive] you Kevin Gregg.
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Nasty pitches to get out of that. Let's get an insurance run.
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Pretty sweet pitch by Marmol.
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Marmol hits the guy right in front of Cabrera, keeping alive our streak of 8,267 consecutive games of putting on the guy in front of the other team's best hitter.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA at Bob "One of the stupidest pitches I've ever seen" Thank you, Micah!
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MICAH HOFFPAUIR!!!!!
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Yah, Z was getting squeezed a bit. Tim Welke's from Michigan. Tim McClelland, on the other hand, is in Michigan.
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Z wasn't getting the call Zumaya got on the 1-1.
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Haha, he was safe.
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Meatball pitch.
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Eff you Don Kelly.
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Here we go. Another K, then probably a long fly ball just to rub it in.
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For God's sake, Hoffpauir. Back to the bench with you.
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Dang, Lee is SMOKING the ball. RUNS!
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I was just thinking to myself this has the looks of an Ordonez rejuvenation weekend. But a nice catch by Blanco there.
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You mean other teams don't K and hit slow grounders 85% of the time? They do hit 3 shallow popups with a runner on third and nobody out though. Yeah, I spoke too soon there. Good work by Z, let's get that back.
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I love how easy it seems for other teams to get runs in these spots by comparison.
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Z could have done that.
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Well, good hustle Lee. I'll take a run there.
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I like Branyans bat a lot, but Mark Teahen or Felipe Lopez is more practical for us. I would've thought that it would be obvious by now, but DO NOT BRING IN ANYONE WHO JUST HAD A GREAT YEAR FOR THE CARDINALS (Lopez).
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The thing I remember most about the last three Bulls titles, since I don't remember the first three, was how inevitable they appeared to be. I don't think I worried even one time that the Bulls would lose one of those series and I remember thinking they'd thrown Games 4 and 5 in Seattle in 96 to win the title at home, completely ignoring that the Sonics were a pretty damn good team that year.
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It'd have been really nice if one of the other 28 teams had gotten their mitts on the greatest pure hitter of all time. I don't even care if it was us, it just would have been nice if one of the other 28 had. But, the Cubs look juggernaut-tastic right now. That's good.
