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Who knows, Ron. Maybe the Cubs might even bring up those Murton and Pie kids someday.
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Now you know hard it is for Raisin to post the rotations when sobriety is not an option. Hopefully Veal can build on his last start a bit. Keep that walk total under 2, please.
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I love when managers try to shake things up and then give up on it after a day because it didn't work. It's old school baseball managing at its finest.
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Scheduled Games: Iowa vs. Round Rock, 7:05 CDT Tennessee at Huntsville, 7:05 CDT Daytona at Brevard County rained out Peoria at South Bend, 4:30 EDT Boise at Everett, 7:05 PDT Mesa lost 2-0 DSL Cubs won 2-0 VSL Cubs/Twins lost 9-2
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-17-2007
Jon replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Kinda like Wellmeyer a few years ago. Or "can't miss" Juan Cruz. Or a whole host of other possibilities that are "something" in the minors but never amount to anything in the majors. Minor leaguers are almost always gonna be an unknown. Hopefully this works in the Cubs favor. But it's not like Blevins was one of the Cubs top prospects for crying out loud. He's had a very good first half in A and AA ball. And again, even if you don't keep a player like that in your system, he is still a valuable trade chip. That's just one of many reasons why the Pierre trade was so awful. Good, young, and cheap pitching can be quite important if you want to make a trade with a small market team. Including players like that in a package deal can make or break a trade.
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We'll have to see how much money the Cubs lost in trading away a catcher that had a better chance of being productive than Kendall and a decent trade chip in a relief pitcher who any team would like to have considering even if he turns out to be good at the major league level, he'll never make much money.
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He's making $13 million plus this season. Well, the pirates are paying 5 million of that 13. That leaves 8 and I'm pretty sure the A's would pick up close to half of that. This is the last year of the contract and his PECOTA for this year is: .274/.346/.333 Not great but not terrible. Let's hope he can turn his season around to something around that line. I'm going to let this one play out before i'm ready to throw in the season. That's still $3.5 million the A's were on the hook for the remainder of the season. Maybe the A's will pick up half of that, but that's still money lost for further potential moves this offseason and a pretty decent trading chip in Blevins that would be pretty appealing for any small or mid market team.
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He's making $13 million plus this season.
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The laughter in Oakland this evening must be deafening.
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There's no way the Cubs are getting enough money to make this worth it.
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I'd rather listen to Joe Morgan than Rick Sutcliffe. This is really painful.
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Have ticket sales been that good this year? That's pretty surprising. I know the secondary market was nothing special (although better than you'd expect given their record) earlier this season, but they were still just a few games over .500. I headed to Wrigley today at lunchtime to pick up cheap seats for the Wednesday night Brewers game in late August and cheap seats for Labor Day. The Labor Day game only had UD reserved seats way down the line and the Brewers game only had Terrace reserved outfield all the way in the corner or decent UD reserved. I wasn't planning on paying more than that, though. It would be my first game since early last May.
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According to the Bears message board, Rosenhaus said that they will get a 1-year deal done by training camp. It certainly sounds like Briggs knows he lost this battle and won't sit out any part of the season.
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$40 for section 204 in the 4th inning? What game was this? Either way that seems, pretty ridiculous and goes against everything I've heard about waiting until after the game started. You probably just had terrible luck and ran into the wrong brokers/scalpers.
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The miserable season for the Fire continued as they were shutout 1-0 in their first USOC game against Carolina. Carolina's GK hadn't played a minute all season. Not a very strong year for the MLS in the USOC.
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They number the bleacher tickets 1 through whatever number they have. 770 just means that it was the 770th bleacher ticket in their system. They need them numbered to identify the tickets. It's irrelevant, though. Regular season bleacher tickets are all GA. The bleachers are broken down into sections, though (140s-150s, I believe) and there are seat numbers, but only for the playoffs.
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Brazil with a beautiful goal to go up 3-0 on Argentina in the 69th minute. I'm not sure there are many people who predicted this kind of domination, especially with Brazil's performance earlier in the competition.
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Sigh. It was a very exciting extra time and both sides had tons of chances, but the US just couldn't convert those chances into solid shots on goal.
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This is getting painful. A wide open goal on that header but couldn't connect cleanly.
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This official is terrible. How many yellow cards is that so far? 10? And now it's 10 v. 11... And immediately after they blow it. Again, no excuse...
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OH MAN. Adu needed to get that off sooner. He played it too far trying to get it past the GK. Man....
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Good to see them start out with a quick chance, but the needed a shot on goal with that one.
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Beautiful run by Bradley, but what a save. Damn. Seitz is really starting to get lucky. How many more face saves can he make? Maybe lucky is the wrong word considering he looks to be on a different planet right now.