Banedon
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Everything posted by Banedon
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Boston gets Grienke and Castillo w/$6.5 mil Cubs get Theo and Prince Mil gets Lackey and Crawford Is that close to a B2B type deal? Pretty sure even B2B knows you can't trade a free agent.
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I saw what he had to say and didn't have much of a problem with it. My sense is that Briggs is more or less falling on his sword for the sake of some underpaid teammates. I think his request for an extension is more about presssuring management to get Forte done along with a couple others. He's comfortable so he really has nothing to lose. And other than his request for his own extension, he's not saying anything crazy. I just think it's crazy that he's saying that the contract situations are affecting play on the field. Forte is having as good a season as he's ever had. Briggs's play hasn't been a problem (though maybe not spectacular)...I guess maybe you could somehow argue that Chris Harris maybe is distracted, but I'm not sure I buy that. Seems like something made up so Briggs can talk about contracts to the media.
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Somebody please make Lance Briggs stop talking... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-briggs-bears-players-management-not-on-same-page-20111018,0,1944381.story
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Apparently Hue Jackson called the Palmer deal "the greatest trade in football."
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Or, we could just make up nicknames for you. You'll be teenie. If his posts suck, he can be weenie. [expletive] I'm creative.
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Selig can pretty much do anything. Best Interests of Baseball, and all that. No he cannot. There is no best interests of baseball going on here. If he sides with one of the counterparties that would be a big no, no. If he says. "guys you have until X to get this done", that's another matter. But I don't even think he'd do that. Well yeah, he'd set deadlines if he did anything. I don't think anyone was suggesting that he'd take a side.
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No. When you sell your car, does your price depend upon how the person buying it is going to use it? No. Then you're contradicting yourself. You're arguing the Sox' price (compensation) for Epstein depends on how the Cubs are going to use him. Why should it? Because cars aren't jobs and it was a terrible analogy? I'm promoting my car to a truck.
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So the Cubs are considering hiring Hoyer, who may stay in SD, but if he goes, Byrnes will be the SD GM, unless the Cubs hire Byrnes, who is also being considered, in which case presumably Hoyer will remain SD GM. Confirmed.
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Yeah, when the QB is still good, and not 32. Right. Nobody's getting on them for spending the picks on a QB. They're getting on them for spending picks on a mediocre, oldish QB.
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I need something that will send me a text message when Laura posts in this thread. It'd save me reading a lot of drivel.
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I'm really thinking that Epstein doesn't end up as GM. He'll be Pres and hire someone else as GM.
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There's a lot of silliness in that article.
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It's great news for Bengals fans.
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For a first rounder too Possibly 2!! I wonder what the condition is. Geez.
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The rich win again. Rich people always get ponies. I am the 99% who don't have a pony!
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Either way...brace for the garbage spam!!!
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Oddly enough, I'm more confident in the road games on that stretch than the home games. I really wanna beat Detroit at home though.
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https://www.facebook.com/thekapman/posts/263531533685359 Lemme fix that for you Kapman. Nothing will be announced till after the world series due to mlb policy. They can still talk, can still agree, and theres no rule on world series announcements, just policy.
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Could easily be that Boston's side thinks it's civil because they're the insane ones being unreasonable and we think they're insane and unreasonable, so our side says such. Or it might not be. Sure. That's why all these reports are so useless. There's no way to wade through them to anything meaningful. It being done by the end of the day tomorrow makes the most logical sense. Boston doesn't wanna have to wait through the WS to begin their manager search. It'll probably happen after 3:30 tomorrow, cuz that's when I'll be home playing Arkham City, so that's naturally when the news will come out.
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I give up. Because I do not think the world ends if we give up McNutt? Because it's not about their relative value. It's about the fact that we have no reason to give up that much value, so we shouldn't. If you know you can buy a car for $25,000... are you going to throw them an extra $1000 just to avoid the headache of negotiating it down? A double A minor league prospect for a guy who has a solid model on how to win and win consistently is not a high price to pay. High ceiling guy or not. Again, not the point. The point is that if you don't have to lose the double A minor league prospect with a high ceiling, why would you choose to?
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Kaplan's sources said the negotiation was contentious, and that Lucchino was a horrible human, and then Boston's guys reported that everything was civil and moving along well, so who knows.
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Why do you want Epstein for a general manager if you think the minor league system is so trivial?
