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Tice can say what he wants but this thing has disaster written all over it. Greg Olson was a terrible pick and he was their #1 option? This is getting absurd. The Bears have made it known they have no confidence in Tice figuring out the passing game.
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Well no, it's not. It's a 7-year deal with an opt-out, thus, more beneficial to the player. Up front money allows him to make a ton of cash now, and if he so chooses, potentially again in a few years. Until Victor Martinez got hurt there was a very good chance this was exactly the type of deal he would need to accept. -
http://www.cnnsi.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/01/26/dodgers.fielder/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a3&eref=sihp The Dodgers were thinking a lot like me on Prince.
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They won't be nodding in silence, you will be able to hear their deep heavy breaths heaving out of their gaping pie holes.
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Yeah, him and Bianchi. I wonder if Corpas cleared already or we may lose him still. Personally, I kind of figure he'll make our opening day pen, if he's around. I doubt he's got much of a chance to make the opening day roster if he's being outrighted at the end of January.
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I didn't know there was a person alive who hadn't bet on the Super Bowl that way. We've got complete non-sports fans doing this one, and half the sports bars put one up around the time the playoffs start and people start buying. The "touching" squares winning at the end of a quarter is lame. That should only happen once, at the final score.
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is that the 2nd guy they added to and then subsequently removed from the 40-man roster this winter?
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There would be nothing fun about Sappelt starting in the OF. And defenses do not win championships.
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Rutgers fans are worried about Schiano's late departure ruining what was supposedly a good recruiting season. I guess in a year where PSU must have lost a few of their normal NJ recruits Rutgers would have been poised to get some talent they normally don't get.
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I would have thought that a potential one game play-in for wild cards was too "out there" for MLB to adopt, but they have proven to be far more willing to look at interesting things than you may have predicted a couple decades ago.
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You could always move that DH to another position, so in a game where you are behind you may slot him into LF or 1B and try to move out your weakest bat. In games you are ahead, you let your DH go to the bench.
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I'm surprised the luster hasn't come off of Schiano by now and knocked down his NFL head coaching status.
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How does that preserve the late-inning excitement? The thing that drives the decisions at the end of a game is that you have a spot with a really poor hitter in it. Keeping a DH in the 9 spot does nothing to help that. Starting pitcher spot. Presumably, once the starting pitcher is removed, he's saying you either let the reliever bat or use a pinch hitter. A home team will be slightly disadvantaged in such a situation if you simply allow them to use the DH until the starting pitcher is removed. If both pitchers goes 6 1/3 then the DH can't bat in the bottom of the 7th, but he would have been eligible to bat in the top of the 7th.
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Cubs 6-1 odds to win 2012 World Series?
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There were bookies in the Stone Age? The stone age was a lot further back in history than you are thinking. -
Misc. Free Agent News
jersey cubs fan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
.330 career slg vs. .353 career slg is technically a little more pop Valdez has had an IsoP between 80-100 the past 3 years while Theriot has been 40-70. -
Misc. Free Agent News
jersey cubs fan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Theriot has spent the majority of his career in the midwest, so he has more pop than a guy who has been on the east coast, what with their soda and all. -
http://deadspin.com/5879353/jay-cutler-is-not-a-winner-because-he-doesnt-smile-at-bears-employees-writes-crazy-person Deadspin pointed out another ridiculous anti-Cutler column in a Chicago paper that, thankfully, I did not read. Basically, the Bears can't win because some sub-basement worker doesn't get a smile from him and because he's engaged to somebody that people have heard of.
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McLeod has already said that ideally he'd get at least 100PA in the minors. And it wouldn't shock me if he did, that's just my personal opinion. One way or the other, Byrd is gonna go You don't see the appeal of having a guy dip his toe in the North American professional baseball waters? Top draft picks sign huge deals with MLB sized salaries and start in the minors all the time. For one, you delay his service time which would mean when his contract is up, he won't be a free agent.
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Really? McCaskey was telling people they hired McGinnis before they ever signed anything, and now Emery may be telling people the Bears hired him before they've actually signed anything.
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I wouldn't assume he starts in the majors. But Byrd has been a huge candidate to be moved all offseason and will remain so until he's actually gone. Brett Jackson on a corner may lose a lot of value, I like the idea of being able to include him in a deal if it helps them get what they want. If you dump Soriano and Byrd before July there's going to be plenty of space for everybody that needs to play. DeJesus isn't a longterm asset by any measure, so he's probably a good candidate to be flipped if they do end up stockpiling OF and keeping Jackson.
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Sweet a reverse Dave McGinnis. A running joke because everybody makes fun of the nerdy boy scout and all his earnestness?
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Moving a pretty good market from the NL to the AL isn't going to help balance against the AL having more good markets.
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On field baseball strategy is checkers. A cat could implement it. There's nothing interesting about what the manager does. I like to see players play the game, not blowhards attempt to justify their position and salary by "making things happen".
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Yes! I haven't seen many address this on twitter and on sites I that I read. They lost a DH, so just let Fielder and Cabrera rotate between DH and 1B for 2012. They can worry about 2013 when it gets here, and when Martinez is going to be 30-something years old and coming off ACL surgery. I mean, that guy is not gonna be a lock to be a great performer by that point, I wouldn't think. I actually saw a projected lineup that had Ryan Rayburn at DH and Miggy at 3B. If he's in the lineup, why in the world wouldn't they just put Rayburn at 3B? Maybe they just want him to play some 3B in spring training just to maintain some flexibility. I can't imagine they will actually line up that way in real games.
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It makes sense for them to go after the guy, but I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense to go crazy. Yes there's a Cuban population down there, but I have my doubts about how well they can monetize that base by signing an expensive Cuban. Plus, Florida has been "in" on everybody this year, but they've still acquired just a manager, a couple Chicago pitching castoffs and Jose Reyes. They've committed some money, but I'm not sure how willing they are to go even higher. They could just be happy with the non-stop press they've received all winter just by being willing to be open about their supposed targets.
