Sammy Sofa
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Right, but Dempster's coming off of a bad year. Ideally you hope for him to rebound so you can maximize what value he has left. Yes, there's the incentive now that teams would be getting him for the whole year, but I think that they'd get more for him if he's decent from teams in contention looking at or desperate for starters as the deadline gets closer. I just don't see the "waste" in guys having to wait a few months before entering the rotation on a terrible team that's also likely going to be terrible next year, too.
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For 2-3 months at most? How is that a downside. Those future decisions don't need to be made in May. Yeah, I'm baffled by the sense of urgency. It's not like they'd be banished to Iowa for the long run.
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Do we even know what aggravates his wrist? Do simple things like shooting and dribbling also increase the pain? Either way, he shouldn't be playing more than 2 games a week until the playoff start, provided we can hold on to the #1 seed (which I think we can). According to the team and Deng him doing pretty much anything involving that wrist causes him pain. Apparently the injury itself can't get any worse, but it also can't get any better without surgery, so sitting him that much really doesn't do anything besides giving him a break in general.
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This is beneath even you, Kyle.
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Because what aggravates the pain most are things like him landing on it awkwardly or taking a shot to it and so on. Those are things that can happen if he plays 2 minutes or 40. Obviously playing less will decrease the chance of something like that, and he should be playing less even if the wrist wasn't an issue, but talking like simply playing less on its own somehow makes it better isn't accurate. I never defended playing Deng as much as he's been played. I countered the idea that these injuries are Thibs' fault. Thibs could sit Deng for the rest of the season and it would still be a game by game issue/decision when it came to the playoffs and Deng's wrist.
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There's a difference between wanted him to take more advantage of when he can sit his best players (sane) and thinking most of the injuries are being caused by him "running the team into the ground" (insane). The team with the front office that was punching the last coach for potentially overplaying their best player isn't going to suddenly sit back and let Thibs kill everyone. Most of these injuries are the ones that just happen and it's shitty coincidence that they've piled up at so much of the same time. And Deng's wrist isn't going to get "better" by him sitting just like it isn't going to get worse by him playing. The pain is either manageable or it isn't regardless of the minutes he plays, and clearly it's not. He should have gotten the surgery ASAP as certain people in the organization wanted. They effectively left it up to him and he, being a typical stupid player, made a typically stupid player decision. But don't again foolishly construe this as me saying he should be played as much as he's been played; he should be playing less minutes against shitty teams whether he has the wrist pain or not.
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Oh, FFS; he's not coaching a bunch of brittle old men (besides Rip), you loon.
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But it's not like they're trapped in the minors. The other pitchers they ARE looking to move would have to be replaced, plus dealing with injuries and whatnot.
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But they're not necessarily guys they're only looking to trade away.
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Why are you so worried about them not being on the team to start the season?
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I mean, the very first link was the one that came closest to pointing out something up and even that one is deeply flawed. Take this part: Really? They're using 140 years as a measuring stick? All 140 years of baseball? As if the diagnosis and recognition of these types of diseases were comparable over that time? Hey, you know what often causes medical diagnoses to seemingly skyrocket from one ear to the next? THAT THE DIAGNOSIS BECAME A THING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Comparing the baseball players between 1960 and 1980 with brain tumors to the ones between, say, 1890 and 1910 is ridiculous.
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I'm not tossing it aside as a "conspiracy theory" because there's nobody is talking about any kind of conspiracy. I tossing it aside as coincidence because there's not enough correlation between the number of umpires and the number of players/coaches/managers/etc.. If an unusual amount of umpires were getting brain tumors from lead in AstroTurf or pesticides used at a certain stadium or several stadiums or whatever than you should expect to see a much more pronounced upswing in similar diagnoses in players/coaches/managers/groundskeepers/etc. who spent much, much more time at those locations than the umpires.
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Week of 3/11-3/17 Spring Training Game Thread
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
On top of the usual "It's ST" caveat, Marmol is predominantly a breaking ball pitcher re-tooling his mechanics in the dry Arizona air. There are bound to be rough innings. Aramis Fan will not hear such things; Marmol in Arizona is not a new occurrence, it's been pointed out to AF before how being there can effect Marmol's pitching. -
Ugh, he's so [expletive] boring. Stop giving the meatballs boners, dammit.
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Oh, yeah, I'm really bummed I didn't get on the "baseball stadiums are causing monstrous brain tumors" bandwagon. Both of those articles go out of their way to downplay the idea that it's actually something caused by or based out of their time on the field (though I do like how the Trib article goes out of it's way to replicate this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxJ2QXyzSc). From the first article: Basically what you're looking at here is the baseball equivalent of the "suspicious deaths due to the JFK assassination" list. You're going to find variation all the time with these types of statistics with different random population groupings, and to make anything out of this someone has to expand the time-frame pretty dramatically and gloss over what type of cancer each person actually had. Trying to throw in umpires skews it even more since almost all of these projections are based on players/coaches/managers/groundskeepers, etc.. and not guys like umpires who didn't spend at least half the season at the same stadium.
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Actually, it was that you don't "respect" him because of his injuries, but whatever.
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#3 is probably something really big like intangibles. 3) aggressively running the bases. 3) Productive outs. Collect underpants. HEY, THAT REFERS TO THAT JOKE THAT THAT OTHER FELLOW WAS REFERRING TO.
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Really?
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You know, I wasn't even paying attention, this deal wouldn't even include Noah. It'd be Asik, Deng, Boozer and the Charlotte pick for Howard and Turkoglu. I'd strongly consider that even without an extension. Don't know if I'd do it or not but I'd strongly consider it. [expletive], I'd be pissed if they didn't do that.
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BOI-OI-OI-OI-OINNNNNNG.
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Saturday night dude Sure, sure. The misery porn mooks will have to wait at least another day.
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So, uh, don't want to talk about the game, boys? All set for another bitchfest and had your hopes dashed?
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And that The Third guy.
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http://youtu.be/NmNObROcBOo
