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    That doesn't make much sense. If they do trade Gaudin to Colorado, I'd like to get an outfielder, Patton's rights, or both out of the deal. That's an interesting option to get Patton's rights out of the deal. I hadn't thought of that. That would give the Cubs a lot more flexibility to change relievers throughout the season as needed. Now that I think about it, I don't think you can do that under the rules, can you? I think he'd have to get through the other teams first before a trade could be worked out, and I don't think the Cubs would risk that.
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    Not really. A decent percentage of DeRosa's starts against left-handers last year came in the OF. If I counted correctly, there were 25 starts against left-handers where Cedeno started at 2B and DeRosa started in the OF. In those scenarios, it will be Miles taking Cedeno's AB's and either Soriano, Bradley, or Hoffpauir taking DeRosa's AB's. DeRosa had 272 AB's at second base and 47 at third. Fontenot will likely take around 175 of those AB's at second and Miles will take the other 100 of Derosa's along with Cedeno's 110. Miles will likely get between 300-350 at-bats this year, but only 150 or so of them (100 at second and 50 at third) are replacing DeRosa. The other 150-200 are replacing Cedeno. The combination of Hoffpauir, Johnson, and Gathright will probably pick up more of DeRosa's AB's than Miles will. They will be the ones who will be the injury replacements in the OF which was DeRosa's role.
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    I just didn't see the need to bring up Bob Howry in this. A guy who has 66 saves and about 30 blown saves in his career. It's hard to imagine that guy as your closer. You can't even compare him to Gregg. Gregg's a guy who has about the same amount of saves Howry has and he's only blown half the saves Howry has. That's because Howry has been a setup man a lot longer than Gregg was. If you're a 7th or 8th inning pitcher, you can't get saves (because you never go all the way to the finish) but if you lose the lead you get a blown save. His numbers are skewed quite a bit because of that.
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    Interesting to see this in the sidebar article: I wonder what the motive for the players is for this. I know many times they try to avoid too much of the statistical side not because they don't like it, but because they don't want any focus on that to affect them on the field. At the same time though, it can be hard to evaluate exactly what your weaknesses are on defense (as far as I know, position players don't look at videos of their defense nearly as much as their batting or opposing pitchers) and so their section could give them a fair objective opinion. Then again, who knows. They often have very different perspectives about things than fans.
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    In the first, Figgins reached on a wild pitch on a strikeout and then a walk and two groundouts brought him around. Marshall's line so far-2 innings, 1 hit, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K Fukudome and Lee had singles in the first, although Kosuke was also picked off of first base. That's hilarious about their supposed knowledge about the NL Central. It always seems to be those AL West announcers who seem absolutely clueless.
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    Counting Vizcaino makes it 5 players for 3 spots. The OP was counting Vizcaino as a guaranteed spot already. I'd try to trade Gaudin and keep Guzman and Patton. Gaudin's upside is only in his starting, and with the fact that Lou has not warmed to him he probably won't be a serious candidate to get starts anytime soon even if there are injuries. That takes away part of his insurance policy value. At the same time, if they want a long reliever, Gaudin is their only decent option. You certainly don't want to waste Heilman in such a little used role and so Gaudin may be needed for those occasional 3-4 inning outings. I'm not a big fan of keeping a specified long man, but Gaudin has to be kept if they want one.
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    sadly, no. for some strange and inunderstandable reason, tennessee is considered the reds market. who knew? oh, yeah, try living here in louisville. this is NOT a reds town, despite the bats being the AAA affiliate. i know of more cubs, sox (both), and (explitive deleted) cardinal fans here than reds fans and yet we are stuck with reds broadcasts over the cubs games. and yes that is important. do any one of you want to listen to 9 innings of jeff brantley and thom brennamen female doging about the cubs and/or cubs fans 3 game straight? its bad enough that if i ever wanted to catch the game on radio, bitter old marty brennamen comes out the speakers. thankfully when the games are on wgn, they aren't blacked out here (strangely enough). it's only when the games are on espn or tbs when i really don't have much of a choice. WGN games aren't blacked out anywhere. They pay the "superstation tax" for each game that they show. As MLB has found other ways to get money off of having out of market fans (through MLB EI and MLB.tv), that superstation tax has gone up which is why you no longer see Braves games on TBS and WGN has slowly but steadily cut the number of games that are shown.
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    Follett would definitely be a change from the Colts defense now. He is supposed to be stiff and not play fast. I think Gerald McRath would be the most likely best LB pick here, but it really depends on how the Colts are looking at their defense at this point. And I agree with you that this is when Polian just starts drafting any position he wants so there is little chance we get this right. With that said, there are multiple LB's that might fit, but I have had my eye on one WR most of the round. The Colts love to grab the same type of WR over and over again and use them interchangeably in their routes. Gonzalez is better as an outside receiver and so the Colts could really use somebody that could step in today as their slot receiver, and they don't need a receiver with a huge upside as Wayne and Gonzalez still have years left in them. So the Colts select Juaquin Iglesias, University of Oklahoma. Andy has been PM'd.
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    I will like usual wait for Exile to give his advice first. I probably know less about the players down this far than he does, but I think the Colts probably should go either WR or LB in this spot. I see certain prospects in both positions that seem like Colt players. I'm not sure which one will more likely have a good player available with one of the Colts 4th rounders.
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    Apparently Directv doesn't publish that number: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/california/ci_11989270 It also sounds like by 2012 there will be some sort of broadband version of ST offered to non-Directv subscribers. I don't even subscribe to ST because it's ridiculously expensive and I'd rather pay for Center Ice and Extra Innings, but I like having the option to do so. Yeah, but it's dirt cheap to go watch the games at the bar, if you don't count the food and drinks. Unfortunately, if you don't live in Bear Country, you're not going to get much luck getting sound with the Bears games. Seriously, between the lack of choice viewing space at any bar around here, and the extra money I'd spend if I went to the bar 16 Sundays a year, paying for Sunday Ticket is a no brainer for me. Do you have DirecTV? I'm perfectly happy with my cable company and have no intention of switching. If NFL is satisfied with limiting their options on Sunday Ticket, I guess I'll have to be satisfied too. Out of curiosity, how much is Sunday Ticket for a household? I know the bars pay based on occupant capacities. It looks like their early bird price this year is $279.99. I know that in previous years they charged an extra $100 if you wanted the games in HD and I would assume they are continuing that.
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    The Cubs can afford to overpay for certain players they need because of their payroll. To be completely efficient with your payroll is to have holes on your roster because the perfect player for your squad is rarely out there and it is even more rare for that player to have a reasonable cost. The Cubs may be more cost efficient with Hoffpauir instead of Lee, but they very likely wouldn't be better unless they found either a great 1B from somewhere or be able to find the player that makes a bigger upgrade at one of their other holes. And since the Cubs have built a team that is focused on balance (not any superstars, but not any major holes) it becomes very hard to upgrade positions with extra money. The Cubs might very well have to either pocket the money or spend it on a player who becomes even more overpaid than what you already had. So I understand your argument although I do question its relevance in this case. But I guess it depends how much of a downgrade you think Hoffpauir is from Lee and how much re-signing Harden is a priority.
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    They won without him producing last year. I just don't see how they need him to produce this year if they are going to win as a team. Obviously one would hope he improves a little bit from last year's production. I don't want him to miss the season. But if last year's team thrived despite Lee "not showing up" for 5 months, I think this years team could likely survive if Hoffpauir has to replace him for a month or two. Even if they have a little bit of a drop because of less production at 2B mostly (the OF shouldn't be too much worse. Bradley will make up for Edmonds, Reed will likely regress a little bit, Soriano will likely play more games unless he has another fluke injury, and Fukudome will likely at least repeat his production if not improve) they still have some wiggle room. Last year's team scored 855 runs in 161 games. They could have quite a dropoff and only score 800 runs and still be one of the top offenses in the league. In fact, that would have been the top last year (but not in a normal year). So sure, the Cubs without Lee improving will likely not score as many runs as last year. That doesn't preclude them from winning though as they can have a less potent offense and still win a ton of games. How far do you really see them dropping CubinNY? 775 runs? 750 runs? I don't see how the Cubs have enough downgrades to be down anywhere close to 100 runs difference.
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    Yes, most of the conferences did almost exactly what the committee thought they would do overall. Some were a little better, some a little worse. What makes the Big 10 different than the other conferences is that they were the ones who were heavily criticized for not deserving what the committee gave them. So when they go out and do just a little better than the committee envisioned, it ends up being much better than most of the national perception. The Big 10 proved they deserved to have 7 teams in which was quite far off from what most people were saying around Selection Sunday. They were saying that the Big 10 would get 7 teams in, but that the play in the league was so low that they shouldn't get 7 teams in, and that opinion was mostly defused by the last couple of weekends. Most of the other conferences it was agreed that they were treated fairly by the committee, and the tournament results have borne that out (with the exception of the ACC).
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    Not if they keep all of Vizcaino, Gaudin, and Guzman. I think Jeff to AAA is assumed right now but the Cubs still have to clear even more room.
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    he's still gonna get 10K I know, but still. I'm sure there were safer picks than that game the final few days before it resets. True but it was quite obvious the streakmaster was whoring picks from him... look how many picks there's been the last few days. Another interesting thing I saw.... if drock were to get to 26.... and bet his streak on a game... would you bet 50K on the OPPOSITE outcome? I know I sure would. You could lose both since the game is rarely a Pickem in Vegas while it is always that way on the Streak. It will only be a couple point spread, but it's still too risky when you're talking about money that you simply don't have.
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    There will be no more talking about other posters instead of the topic or else warnings/suspensions will be handed out.
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    IU had 2 national titles before Knight arrived there. That would still be tied for 6th all-time. IU's really only had two great coaches and one decent coach in its history. However, those two great coaches coached the team for 52 out of the last 71 years and the decent coach was there for 14 years before that.
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    I'm pretty happy with the Big 10's tournament. A +2 already compared to seeds, a team in the Final 4, and a chance for more. That's definitely a successful tournament even though the huge number of teams with low seeds means a mediocre actual record (8-6 so far). The Big East is a -1 compared to seeds but that's still pretty impressive with how many games they were expected to win by their great seeds. Two final 4 teams is also impressive. If they can get 1-2 wins in the Final 4 it will be a great tournament for them. The Big 12 has also had a very solid tournament posting I believe a 0 number so far with 1 team still left who can add onto that. The only thing that will save the ACC is a North Carolina title. They are at -5 right now which is just a miserable effort. They are also 0-3 combined against the Big East and Big 10. The Pac 10 was subpar and the SEC was as expected terrible.
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    I believe Wood ended up being in higher leverage situations overall but that's because Lou put Marmol into a bunch of 5-7 run games where he didn't need to be in. If he avoids more of those innings this year, his leverage average would go way up.
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    Apparently Marmol, Heilman, and Cotts all threw in the minor league game on Friday, so Marmol did get his back to back in. I still don't know why Lou wouldn't want to see him personally if he supposedly is basing part of his decision on it.
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    AT&T does contract with one of the satellite companies (although I believe it is now DirectTV but it was Dish for quite a while). However, U-verse is a completely different product. It's not satellite at all. It uses an Internet Protocol service to send the information. You have no dish and it sometimes runs with the same coax cable that your cable company would use but it also might use Cat 5 cable to run the information. Until it hits your neighborhood, the information runs on much better fiber. As for the original question, U-verse does not carry the MLB network right now. Hopefully they'll get it soon as it is really sad that the cable companies have it and Uverse doesn't. I personally am willing to trade it for being able to have CSN and getting 70 more Cubs games a year than I was with cable because of what market I'm in. I do know that's not the case for most people though.
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    If I felt he could cover the positions the Cubs need, then I would be pretty happy with him. But he hasn't played a game at third since he was 27 and a game at second since he was 28. That was a long time ago and at 35 years old I don't really think he can do anything but play the positions that the Cubs already have covered with better players (1B and LF). So I would have to pass on him.
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    Marmol was supposed to pitch today to complete his second half of back to back outings. Was there an explanation of why he didn't? If there wasn't, that seems to be very good news for Gregg in the closer race as Lou is still supposed to announce the winner on Sunday.
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    Mark_R and Flames24Rulz have been PM'd.
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    Cro Magnon has been PM'd for the next pick.
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