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LULZ WHUT
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There's a difference between Soriano hitting and Soriano hitting well. Obviously, hence why I said "hitting well." I don't want to just blindly plug him back into the #1 slot.
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You're generalizing too much and ignoring all the reasons why he'd want to go to somewhere like NYC. Unless he just dicking around, LeBron has dropped a ton of hints that he wants to go to New York and absolutely nothing that indicates he wants to go anywhere else. For all we know he WANTS the media attention that comes with that market. Again, he goes there he gets a team built for him in the biggest market in the world for a storied team with much more of a legacy than the Heat (think about it: no team has the history of the Celtics, Lakers and Knicks. Two of those teams have been "claimed" by superstars already). Any winning that team does will be looked at has happening because of him over anyone else. If he goes to Miami that's not his team. In New York he gets his team built just for him. Guys are gonna want to play with LeBron and the Knicks have a ton of money to spend. The Heat do not. If he can talk Wade into coming to NYC it'll come across like Wade came to him, not vice versa. You simply cannot discount ego in all of this. If he was just about money and the basic idea of winning, yeah Miami makes sense. You put ego in there and it doesn't.
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We shall see. I would be very surprised if he ended up in Miami.
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Yeah, Soriano hitting well and hitting #1 would just be the worst thing in the world. Imagine the horror if Ryan Theriot got less AB's.
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It's less about the Knicks wanting LeBron and more about LeBron wanting the Knicks/NYC. I don't think he can make it any clearer that he wants to go there short of somehow putting it in neon letters on his jersey for the rets of the season. Anyone ignoring all of his "hints" at this point are as deluded as the people that were convinced the Knicks-themed LeBorn shoes were just classic Cleveland colors.
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Do you think it is a foregone conclusion that LeBron is going to take a max contract instead of just getting a really big one and going to a place where he can win (Miami?)? With LeBron all but flat out saying he's going to the Knicks, yes, I'd be stunned if he didn't end up there. There's simply no other market like it, the team would be built around him, they have a ton of money to spend and if he can win there he's the king of the NYC. I think it goes beyond him simply wanting to win and instead he wants to win in the biggest way possible. I really would not be surprised to see a combo like him, Wade and Boozer on the Knicks after a couple of years. I think LeBron and Wade are all but foregone conclusions for the Bulls in terms of the team signing them and they need to focus on getting Bosh and someone like Joe Johnson (if he can be pried away from Atlanta).
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I really don't think anyone has a chance of landing LeBron outside of NY (and the extreme dark horse of Cleveland keeping him) unless he's laying down the biggest mind [expletive] / [expletive] you in FA history, but I definitely would also like to see Hinirch moved to free up some more spending to ideally land a combo of Bosh and someone else (I don't think it'll be Wade. My money is on him not opting out and then signing with the Knicks/LeBron after his contract is done).
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Sure, there's unfortunately a realistic chance of that happening, but it's not like they passed on some slamdunk altenatives to make sure they have money for this. Yeah, it would be nice to still have Gordon, but not at the money he would have gotten. Keeping Gordon would have just put them at MAYBE slightly above the pack, and for way too much money.
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It's not ridiculous enough. -
I agreed that he was not adequately replace, but let's face facts the Bulls were not seriously going to upgrade any position last summer if it jeopardizes their "2010 plan." So bemoan the fact the Bulls do not have a player that can stretch the court, complaining about it (sponge, this wasn't necessarily directed at you, but the Bulls fans on several different sites have simply frustrated me with their love of BG and their wishing he was still on the Bulls) really doesn't do a thing. I've learn to accept the Bulls for what they are this year and not what they don't have. They are who they are. And yes, they do need to fix it, but it won't happen till the summer. Exactly. I've never understood why people keep complaining in this thread like the Bulls dropped the ball for this season when it was obvious as can be that they were just going to in a holding pattern until the big offseason. It's obvious what needs need to be fixed, but it's also been obvious since Gordon was not signed that they're biding their times until the better FA's are out there.
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Is there any particular reason they waited until Novemeber to have this done? Granted, yes it was relatively late in the season where the Cubs were still technically "in it," but why not have this done, say, just a month earlier at the beginning of October?
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I believed he actually died in his sleep.
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Given the potential high quality depth the Cubs (shockingly) have in their farm system, Theriot is most certinaly not worth that much money, especially with how tight money is at the moment.
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Couldn't agree more with everything XZero is posting in this thread. VoR is clearly someone who wants to run around with blinders on and think that steroid use was relegated to a relative small group of players who can be easily villified and that the use of steroids in general can be limited to a small period in time. He's never going to concede that PED's were something widely used, likely for decades, and that it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that most people involved in the game knew what was going on, especially when it was at it's height. It was an open secret at best. This wasn't something like a corked bat, where it's typically a player acting on their own. This is something that involved at least hundreds of players, coaches, trainers, doctors and managers for a long time. I have to wonder if VoR has the same ridiculously black and white outrage over the scores of amphetamine users the game has played host to over the decades.
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"There's a sucker born every minute" - P.T. Barnum Agree, all those people who think "the steroid era" is encompassed in the mid 90's to 2005-ish are clearly suckers. I'd be curious to see the Voice of Reason explain how I'm being a "sucker." I fully recognize that PED use did and does exist in baseball. At the same time I recognize that people didn't really have a problem with "steroid baseball" at the time of its peak: in fact, it was the opposite and it arguably brought the game back from the brink. I also recognize that the "steroid era" extends well beyond the relatively small window of time and small group of players that those who decry it the most want to relegate it to.
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You mean like where it is, or what it would look like when done? Both, so thanks for the drawing and link. That thing looks amazing.
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Ben Sheets (Was Sheets Signs with A's)
Sammy Sofa replied to Post Count Padder's topic in General Baseball Talk
When he's healthy, he generally works 93-94. But I imagine the odds that we see that guy again are low. How reliant was he on being able to hit those speeds when he was able to do so? Generally he throws about 2/3 fastballs and 1/3 curveballs, with a rare changeup tossed in here and there. But it appears the fastball has been his out pitch more than the curveball. Thanks. -
I can't picture what they're talking about in regards to the "triangle building." I'm not opposed to it at all, but I can't really tell what they're describing.
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Ben Sheets (Was Sheets Signs with A's)
Sammy Sofa replied to Post Count Padder's topic in General Baseball Talk
When he's healthy, he generally works 93-94. But I imagine the odds that we see that guy again are low. How reliant was he on being able to hit those speeds when he was able to do so? -
Ben Sheets (Was Sheets Signs with A's)
Sammy Sofa replied to Post Count Padder's topic in General Baseball Talk
I didn't pay enough attention to Sheets to know this, but what would he typically top out at when he's been healthy? -
Cubs interested in Nady?
Sammy Sofa replied to A-Cal's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Harden is gone and Lilly will be out and Wells will be going into his second year. Those all open up question marks. If the Cubs had nothing but Silvas available to fill the gap, yes, then they've got massive holes in the lineup. Fortunately, they don't. I'm not saying it's a lock people are going to step in and be amazing, but it's likely that they end up with a very average rotation. Is that ideal or what I want? Do I want them to do nothing if reasonable options are out there to help bolster the rotation? Of course not; but someone declaring that the Cubs need to approach Sheets like they have a "massive holes" in the rotation is implying that they need to go into it with a desperate mentality that leads to bad contracts for the wrong people. No thanks. -
Jack Clark's McGwire/Steroid Comments
Sammy Sofa replied to Prizefight's topic in General Baseball Talk
Maybe he's bitter because he did use PED's and he still didn't end up with HOF numbers. -
Cubs interested in Nady?
Sammy Sofa replied to A-Cal's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I'll wait until the holes actually exist to declare them holes. I'd love it if the Cubs would pick up Sheets, and I wish they had held onto Harden, but as it stands right now the rotation is questionable and not riddled with "massive holes." -
an enlarged heart should leave some kind of evidence on a simple ekg, and can be confirmed on an echo. Not true. For something so potentially serious it's something that's often very easily missed even with an EKG. i have an enlarged heart, and i had a funky rythm that was picked up on an ekg. my doctor knew what to look for, so, i guess it may have to do with the physician or with my individual situation, but if doctors are looking for these types of things, they'll probably find them more times than not--even without super-expensive prcedures. Again, not necessarily, and like you said it had more to do wth your particular situation. Even if a doctor is looking for something specific with an EKG it can still easily go undetected. Enlarged hearts are relatively very common and go missed all the time. I'm not arguing against people being able to be tested along these lines; just that it's far from a surefire bet to be caught.
