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are those mississippi bigots going to get punished?
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But it's an image thing. The NFL has the right to pretty much suspend anybody for being an ass. You do not need a conviction to be suspended by Roger Goodell.
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I don't know why you would make that assumption. All four of them could easily see their prospect status drop fairly significantly this year. Vitters probably needs to take a step forward just to tread water -
that's shaky ground though. it's got to be tough to suspend a player and dock their pay if there is nothing there to go on. they were able to get ben because of the alcohol provided to minors thing. unless marshall was doing the same thing, or unless they can get him on something else, depriving him of pay for no other reason than the commissioner's hunch or for appearances sake, he'd have a very good law suit against the league. he could likely file some sort of injunction which would allow him to play and get paid until the matter is reviewed in court. Have you been following Goodell at all? He's a honey badger. He will use any excuse to suspend a guy, and somebody with a record who gets charged with punching a woman in the face will be an easy target. My guess is that without multiple reliable witnesses there won't be much chance for charges, so it shouldn't matter. But never count out the ginger hammer.
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Yep. Dusty certainly didn't help, but didn't Wood already have one elbow surgery under his belt by the time DB showed up? Lots of people have surgeries under their belt and go on to have long careers. What doesn't typically happen is that a new manager comes in and rides that surgically repaired arm into the ground with 120 pitch count game after 120 pitch count game, staying in after long rain delays. I mean, Wood threw 140+ pitches early in the season that year. He threw 130 in terribly uncomfortable conditions in Miami. He didn't do anything like that the year before. Wood never would have been the picture of durability or have a sustained career of 200 IP seasons. But there's no way you can pretend he was doomed to have his career wind down as quickly as it did if he didn't have Dusty Freaking Baker stearing the ship. Of course I can. Wood had ridiculously destructive mechanics. People were predicting an abbreviated career for him even before he was drafted. Dusty was an idiot in how he managed him, but for me Prior is the obvious wouldacouldashoulda. Wood I was just waiting for to fall apart all throughout the aughts. And Dusty made it happen sooner than it had to.
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they can't suspend him without a conviction. look at big ben, never been suspended. That might be a bad example since Ben was suspended for the first four games of the year in 2010 (of course you may have been joking and I completely missed it). i wasn't joking, i totally forgot about that. i thought he wasn't suspended. well, i guess they CAN suspend him without a conviction. which is bs. essentially, he was suspended for contributing to the delinquency of minors, though. he bought alcohol for college students or something, right? Yeah, there isn't a need for a conviction. It's not a court of law. It's a PR thing. If Marshall gets charged and the police more or less buy her story, he's going to get suspended. If this just hangs out there for a while with no charges, I doubt anything happens.
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As long as Emery doesn't spend 8 years without drafting a lineman before the 5th round they should be able to continue building the line without spending on free agents all the time. Angelo wasted a lot of money on those guys.
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it makes me want to be drunk on south beach right now
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that's kind of good
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buffalo set to announce mario signing
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buffalo set a 130 PC to announce williams
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http://deadspin.com/5893575/sex-offenders-and-nhl-success-an-astonishingly-accurate-new-statistic
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No. He didn't "bring up" trading Dempster. He said it was his preferred option that should be done ASAP. The follow-up responses were primarily on that very topic and you vacillated between supporting the notion that they need to trade him immediately because even one week in AAA would be a waste and realizing that the idea of forcing a trade in the next two weeks is silly. The nonsensical ramblings about "wasting" development time and throwing away years is just pointless. I can't believe all this worry about a bunch of guys who are so far from "must be in your starting rotation" pitchers in the first place. We aren't wasting Strasburg's development here. It's a flawed roster with a whole bunch of take or leave type guys. Maybe the people who went gaga for some of the moves this winter are now just realizing the makeup of the 2012 team is going to be disappointing. But you can't praise the efficient utilization of assets this winter and then insist on trading Dempster before opening day for whatever you can get because you just can't bare the thought of Chris Volstad, Travis Wood or Jeff Samardzija not getting an opportunity to make 34 starts in the major leagues this year.
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Yep. Dusty certainly didn't help, but didn't Wood already have one elbow surgery under his belt by the time DB showed up? Lots of people have surgeries under their belt and go on to have long careers. What doesn't typically happen is that a new manager comes in and rides that surgically repaired arm into the ground with 120 pitch count game after 120 pitch count game, staying in after long rain delays. I mean, Wood threw 140+ pitches early in the season that year. He threw 130 in terribly uncomfortable conditions in Miami. He didn't do anything like that the year before. Wood never would have been the picture of durability or have a sustained career of 200 IP seasons. But there's no way you can pretend he was doomed to have his career wind down as quickly as it did if he didn't have Dusty Freaking Baker stearing the ship.
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Yeah, well the point of this entire thread is the insistence on trading Dempster immediately. Your argument is all over the place. You say it is innapropriate to think there will be any need for a 6th starter but then backtrack. Then you inexplicably assume that a 6th guy starting the season in AAA will essentially waste a year. This makes no sense. There will be plenty of opportunity for everybody capable of making starts for the Chicago Cubs this year to get starts for the Chicago Cubs this year. There is no need to force a trade immediately to avoid a logjam (which was where this discussion started).
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I don't understand these posts. First, there's no love affair, people are happy they resigned him (probably insteady of stupidly overpaying for some bigger name mediocrity). And he absolutely can play TE. It's not a tough position to play.
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So you don't think it's appropriate to anticipate the need for 6 pitchers? I think it's appropriate to anticipate the need for 6 pitchers. I don't think it's ideal to have the 6th and 7th guys be pitchers with 500 MLB IP of varying success that need more MLB innings to show the front office their value for future seasons. What does ideal have to do with anything? Nothing about this organization's players is ideal at the moment. The point is there is no good reason to fret about insisting Dempster be traded before April 5th so we can keep all these guys in the rotation from the get go. There are options, so there is no reason to refuse to use them.
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have we changed our minds about forte by bringing in Bush? Would that free up enough? They franchised him, so I'm pretty sure they owe him that no matter what.
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So you don't think it's appropriate to anticipate the need for 6 pitchers?
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chelsea with a fun finish
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Nah. That whole progression of leagues where we move people along levels of ever-increasing difficulty in order to facilitate their development as players? That's pretty much just for show. They all develop the same no matter where we put them. What's *really* important is trying to showcase a 35-year-old pitcher with a $13 million contract to see if we can convince someone to give us a C+ prospect instead of a C prospect at the deadline for him. Don't see what that has to do with Jackson.
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High A? How will he build asset value in Daytona? Let's just send him down to Boise. I mean, it's all the same thing, he can work on his approach to hitting and his swing no matter where he plays. Seems wasteful.
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There's probably been more than a couple interactions delayed due to the smell of dead fish.
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High A? How will he build asset value in Daytona?
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If we're supposed to be building asset value, then we need to be taking guys like them and getting them established in the major leagues. If all they do is play in AAA, they build no trade value and don't improve as hitters. That's true, no AAA player has ever been traded for anything worth having.
