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"Brain Damage" by Pink Floyd
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Well, I'm not confident it's just a matter of time. With all of the injuries he has had at such a young age, how do we know he isn't on the verge of being pretty much done. He could be another Mark Fidrych. That seems at least just as likely a scenerio as him returning to his 2003 form and staying healthy consistently. -
His value can get lower. If he can get back sometime in June and pitch at least a 3.50 ERA, that would be a golden opportunity to trade him at the deadline.
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Putting Prior in the same class as Z is a major disrespect to Z. Prior is a good pitcher when healthy, but he plays less each year and his numbers seem to be getting worse too. It's a long shot that Prior will have multiple seasons like 2003 for both reasons. The smart move is to get as much as possible as soon as possible, all the while being fully aware that the longer you wait, the more you risk his value lowering even further. It's not impossible at all that we could end up getting next to nothing or nothing at all for Prior if he continues to perform like he did in 2004 and 2005 while at the same time playing less each season until his free agent year.
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Trade him for a solid young, No. 2/3 who hasn't had many if any injury problems. We'd be fortunate to get one of the following: Brett Myers, Chris Capuano, Cliff Lee. If we could get one of those guys straight up for Prior, Hendry would be a moron not to do it. At the same time, the GMs of their respective teams would be just as foolish to do it, but maybe one of them is a gambler and will take the risk.
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Maybe he doesn't have the bat speed to get ahold of a pitch much anymore.
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If Hendry had traded for Huff, we probably wouldn't even mind Neifi, Bynum or Mabry subbing for him a lot. And Huff is making like 7 mil and is a poor defensive player.
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His career is crashing and burning like the Hindenburg. He may be done and he isn't even 30 yet. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this that seemingly happened for no reason, unless he took steroids. .164 BA .271 OBP .260 SLG .531 OPS
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srbin84, What makes you doubt that Jon is telling the truth? Your recollection is the only one that matters? That's crap. Because I remember it basically word for word. It's not just something I think; it's something I heard and remembered because it was a little stunning to me too.
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dude, there's nothing to defend b/c that's not what he said. as jon said, he said that his approach on the mound and his pitches were similar to koufax. in other words, that's the guy who he models himself after. you're acting like he said he was going to be better than koufax. go back to teaching us about your laws of probability...your posts on that subject amazingly made more sense than your posts on this one. I'm not biased toward Hill, so my recollection of what I heard is what counts. I was right, not anyone else. If you or anyone else disagrees, feel free to call Boers and Bernstein today and ask them. Go ahead, and if I am wrong, I will own up to it. Otherwise, don't comment on it.
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It was one man starting a fight with another. AJ has always talked the talk, but I guess he's not as tough as he tries to make people think.
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Barrett's punch was a good thing. A.J. is a loudmouth jerk and was in full character for that game. The play was great, I'd like to see our players go into home on a play at the plate like that. I just don't look at it as an embarrassing thing, and if it was, who cares. He was frustrated from the losing and AJ just pushed him over the edge. That happens. He's human. And personally, I think it was the highlight of a far more embarrassing season in the standings.
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When I think about how Hendry screwed up in the offseason, I don't think much about the Jones signing. There weren't really any better players available in free agency. I don't think Giles was available to us at a reasonable price. Even if we did sign him, it would have been for more than the three-year, $30 million contract he got from San Diego. He's 35 and declining. Giving 36 million over three years or more to him would have been a much worse contract than Jones. I wanted him to trade for Mench, but my main concern was that we didn't get another quality starter to solidify the pitching staff. Kevin Millwood would have been the right guy to get. He screwed up badly there by putting the whole season in the hands of the health of Wood and Prior....again.
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Wood sore shoulder; might not make next start
srbin84 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why doesn't anybody ever consider the possibility that Wood and/or Prior just might have weak bodies. It's nothing to do with being a wuss, but some people just injure easier, and others may go through a lifetime with no major injuries of any kind. That's just basic anatomy. -
Hendry obviously either thinks the fans are idiots and will just keep paying them all or just doesn't care what they think, and why should he?
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What "shot"? nothing terrible, but i thought it was a random thing to throw in there. LOL. Wow. Some "shot". Haha, that's hilarious. The shot heard round the world.
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miss the part where hill criticized himself? reach and your point is....? take that into consideration & your rant's full of holes. It was already full of holes. I pointed out that he is a tool because he compared himself to Koufax on a major radio show; and instead of trying to defend that statement, which he can't, he accused me of making it up. He also told me to shut up. That's low and second only to actually making something up. I thought you attacked the post here, not the poster?
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Angels release Edgardo Alfonzo
srbin84 replied to WindyCity's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I'll take Alfonso at less than a million over some of the guys we have on the roster right now. -
Last year, when he was called up, Boers and Bernstein interviewed him. They asked him what pitcher is he most similar to, and he said Sandy Koufax. That's exactly what he said. After they were off the phone with him, both were laughing and surprised but said, let's see if he can back that up. *And if anyone here is going to say I am making this up because he sucked, call them tomorrow and ask them. Then come back here and apologize to me.
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HAHAHHAAHHA Defending a teammate = headcase. Greg Maddux when he beaned a guy in retaliation his rookie year to stand up for a teammate = crazy headcase. Shoulda traded him for a 2B. He's a headcase because he says stuff like he pitches like Sandy Koufax before he even threw a major league pitch. Then he backs it up with one of the worst starts to a major league career in history. If you think we're watching a young Koufax, I apologize to you. Personally, I don't think he is or ever will be near that good, but that's just my opinion.
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Where has my argument changed? Where I have I said I didn't say anything when I clearly did? You never directly responded to the original discussion yet still argued with me about something else presumably because you didn't like what I originally said about Prior.
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It's seems to me like you are the one doing that. Nevertheless, let's drop it, and I will once again state how I feel. Prior has been hurt every year he has been in the big leagues. When he does play, he puts up far worse numbers than he did at the start of his career. He hasn't played this year. For these reasons, I think he should have been moved before as I stated then, and I would like the Cubs to move him now if they can get a good player for him.
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That's 100% correct, but I'm taking it a step further based on everything Hill has said and done since he came up. It's like a cook showing up for his first day at work and saying, "Wait till you all see me work, I'm [deleted] Chef Boyardee" Then everybody who eats the food you made vomits uncontrollably until they die of dehydration. Then after that happens, you slam an experienced cook for cooking a steak on both sides instead of just throwing it on for awhile and then taking it off without even flipping it. That's how Hill's career has went so far.
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So not only are you a master mathmatician but also a liscened psychologist too. No, I just have a sense of hearing. When you say you pitch like Koufax, and follow it up by going 0-6 with about a 10 ERA, you are a tool. That's not even counting what was said yesterday.
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I'm sorry, but if a guy says he pitches like Sandy Koufax before even pitching a major league inning, then follows it up with this: 43.0 IP, 0-6, 9.21 ERA, 44 ER, 32 BB, 32 SO Then calls out a veteran and is actually completely wrong about his interpretation of the rule by saying this: "I think it was pretty gutless on their part—him hitting Michael when he didn't even have the ball," Hill said. "That's not how you play the game. If he had the ball and he hits him, that's fine, that's how you play it. But you don't go around just running over catchers. What if he injured him and he didn't have the ball? That's not the way you play the game. … It was pathetic." He is a headcase and got off light by what Ozzie said.
