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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Dempster cruised through 3 then threw 27 pitches that inning and is at 64 now for the game. I think you have to be mindful of the workload on his first game back from DL. Unless he breezes through the 5th you are going to have to think about getting relievers warmed up by the 6th.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    1B. Trade Rizzo for bullpen help.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Not me, I've been a HUGE LaHair supporter since day 1. Before day 1 actually. Like Day 1 minus 50.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I'm all in on LaHair.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Well if he's got 2 catchers sitting on him on the bench that could explain his poor results to date. Maybe the manager should run a more disciplined ship.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    You don't have to be literal. But 15 minutes of fame suggests he's had a Bryan LaHair type career to this point. He's been around for a while and done quite well for himself.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    15 minutes of fame? He's got 2000 major league PA with an OPS+ of 107.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    It's not like he has 12 million either when you take into account taxes, agent fees, etc. Prior's at a higher tax bracket, but I hate when people deduct taxes from salary only for higher income people or the lottery. The guy making 30K isn't really bringing home 30K either. No, but if he's bringing in 30k every year he has an income stream whereas the person who made $12m over 6 years a decade ago does not necessarily have any income. People talk about a guy who made X amount of dollars in his career as if he has that X amount of dollars as liquid assets in his portfolio. They shouldn't.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Again, that's ticket sales. The scarcity of available tickets and the mad scramble for tickets when they have been good at times in the past decade has assured virtual sell-outs in most years. There's a difference between what you see listed as attendance and how many people actually go to games though.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Only if you win both.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Although when batters face him they may feel like they are facing a Jamie Moyeresque fastball.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Your general point is right, but Howard won't be on the ballot. LaHair will end up around 7th. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2012/ballot.jsp Well aren't I the [expletive] then. I thought it was opening day starters only? In general it is opening day starters. But I think injured vets take precedence, especially ones who have made past appearances.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    He's not the least bit interesting to listen to and nobody likes him, so a career in media is going to require starting from the bottom. Is that more enjoyable than playing baseball? If he wants to coach he'll have to start at the college or minor league level. Is that more enjoyable than playing baseball? Writing a book or motivational speaker are probably extremely unlikely future jobs for Mark Prior. You don't have to MC Hammer away your money to not be able to live off a 5 year career where you made $12m. Taxes, lawyer/agent fees, family requests, personal expenses, buying a house and just generally living the life of a major leaguer is going to leave you with a nest egg that almost certainly won't come close to allowing you to live like a 1%er for the next 70 years. No amount of appearance fees from Just Ducky are going to allow you to coast through life.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I think it has a lot to do with the way baseball has marketed itself and how the media has portrayed it. The vast majority of everything written about the game is written in a flowy nostalgic style that's almost poetic. It's the myth making of how baseball built America and blah blah blah. They relied on 55 year olds with funny hats to describe the sport to the masses, unlike football which has always (or at least most of the time) been about the present. The 1950/60's Yankees are still one of the the most important teams in baseball, because the past is always so prevalent. When you worship your past over your present you are going to put tradition/nostalgia and everything that goes with it above the needs and desires of the day. Following the steroid scandal they are probably even more hesitant to go modern since so many who pay to watch the game still think Mickey Mantle was the last truly great baseball player.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    He's probably drawing a bigger income than he would just sitting on what he made 8 years ago. I'm guessing a former major leaguer signing a minor league deal is getting somewhere in the upper 5 digits. Maybe $75,000.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    What makes you think he wouldn't have to work for monetary reasons? He's not sitting on a massive trust fund. How about the theory that maybe he enjoys pitching, that's why he's doing it?
  17. jersey cubs fan
    If you mean "1%" as in the Occupy Wall Street sense, they don't sit around and do nothing. They do most things in this country and pay the bills. If you meant the 1% that play professional baseball, nevermind. Well look at this gem way outside of the political thread. Can we finally change your name to "Right-wing Nutjob-y?" Seriously though, if he's out of baseball he's sure as hell not going to be living like a 1%. If he's made $12m while working in Illinois and California he's probably already seen more than half of that go away in taxes and agent fees. He's probably diddled away $1m or so on toys and vacations. Most of that was earned prior to market crash, which means he could have easily lost a significant portion of the principal. He probably has spent $1m or more on a house with a very high tax bill that is worth a lot less now and he might have $1-2m of free cash earning 1% for him. He's not making it through life with that unless he moves back in with mom and dad. And he sure as [expletive] isn't living like a 1%er. You have to actually have an income to do that, not just $1m in the bank.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    good thing they drafted upshaw
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Time, and undermining umpires. Of course the stupid tradition of managers having to argue calls to no avail takes up a lot more time than any challenge would.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I don't understand the "just give it up" crowd. You people are on another planet. The guy is getting paid to pay baseball. He's not putting off an opportunity to be a brain surgeon. He's only got a degree from USC to fall back on and the rest of the economy outside of the professional sports, entertainment and technology universe kind of sucks. Rehab and bus rides to small cities sure as hell beats waking up every morning at 7, driving an hour to sit at a desk and making $50,000 to file TPS reports. He's got 30 more years of life to do boring ass real life work. He's seen his former teammate Kerry Wood get back to the top after seemingly ending his career with a worthless arm. He's seen any number of formerly washed up pitchers succeed with one last try. He's only 32. Why the hell wouldn't he keep giving it a shot if teams kept giving him the opportunity? It's lunacy to suggest he should stop.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5907145/tim-welke-demonstrated-why-the-human-element-is-a-pathetic-joke More "human element" fun from incompetent umpires
  22. jersey cubs fan
    http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7879285/nfl-mock-draft-looking-ahead-2013 Another 2013 mock draft from McShay. He has the Bears picking 15th, based on the reversal of Scouts Inc.'s Matt Williamson's power rankings. Well that would suck.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing/status/197780599061221376
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Man, I was so confused with what you were writing. Eventually I just assumed you were doing some sort of voodoo "if I ignore that ridiculousness then it never came up" jedi mind trick thing.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    https://twitter.com/#!/PatKirwanCBS/status/197773903165272064
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