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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865579976/BYU-baseball-Freshman-star-Jacob-Hannemann-could-give-up-football-to-pursue-pro-baseball-career.html?pg=all We understand there's a young lady friend in Provo. Cameron is going to marry the first girl he lays. -
So he was already 19 when he graduated high school? Was he held back? Is that a typical age for Utah high schoolers? Did he get to play against guys 1-2 years younger than him in high school?
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So he's a freshman and 22 and has football. All sorts of signability issues with him. He's not an 18 year old who can go to school for a few years and vault up the board. And if he's fighting for a spot on the BYU football team at 22, he's not an NFL prospect.
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is this an underslotter?
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Nobody cares what you do at home, away from the team, with your free time, etc. Nobody cares what religion you are. People get annoyed at blowhard religious people who treat the workplace as an opportunity to recruit.
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His teammates hated Chad Curtis. http://espn.go.com/page2/tvlistings/show4transcript.html http://deadspin.com/5913134/former-yankee-chad-curtis-arrested-for-allegedly-touching-female-high-school-students-inappropriately http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/when-the-pinstripes-get-ruffled/ http://angelswinblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/where-are-they-now-chad-curtis.html
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His teammates hated Chad Curtis, and he was out of baseball by 32 (hardly forever) and he's apparently on trial for inappropriate touching of high school girls. Bible thumpers creep people out. Keep your religion to yourself and nobody cares, preach to people who aren't actually showing up to your church to be preached to and you will be disliked.
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ESPN is the most successful television network in the world and it's loaded with dolts.
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As bad as HR is, I wonder if some of that "talk about their relevance to the current 25 man roster of the team that drafted them" was simply a mandate that came down from the suits at MLB and MLB Network trying to make the draft a television event on par with the NFL. The NFL draft is good TV (sort of) because guys taken in April will actually be starters, and some will be starts, 6 months later. Also, the worst thing was the way Selig would say the next team.......is......now................on....the....clock.
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I don't live in Boston or Philly. I love it here. Never having lived out there, I often times just think of the entire northeast as more similar than it probably actually is. Philly and NY are so close, that it's amazing how quickly you really notice a difference in the region. Boston is further away. You also have the city/urban collar, suburbs and rural areas you'll see most anywhere else. They just overlap spheres of influence unlike other places.
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I don't live in Boston or Philly. I love it here. It's also the general stereotypical sports fan I am talking about. I have friends/in-laws who are fans of just about every team in this part of the country. For the most part, I can have a rational conversation with any of them without animosity, with the exception of the Boston fans. I have some acquaintances who are Boston fans and will only talk about the kids or other non-sports topics with them.
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actually, they are pretty much the same with the main difference that Bostonians have the supreme arrogance that comes with several sporting championships in a relatively small period of time.
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Well..., I should back away from the statement that it's clearly worse than Philly. It's debatable.
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Re: Chicago Blackhawks 2013 Playoffs
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
The Cap hit will always be the average of the total contract. So a 5 yr 25 mil contract will have a 5 mill cap hit no matter how you structure the contract. But to him it would be more valuable to get $15m of that upfront. I've read some speculation that Bickell would be better off taking a shorter contract to stay with the Hawks in hopes of getting more money when the cap goes back up. The feeling is that this will be a bad year to be a FA since very few teams can afford the cap hit needed to offer stupid contracts to big name FAs. I can see him taking a short-term contract for that very reason, but other teams will have a lot more space to afford a bigger short-term contract. He's not going to get the "pillow contract" from the blackhawks. -
They're Boston fans. Prior to 2004 they were relatively sympathetic figures, but there's a reason things like Tawwwwmy from Quincy exist. They are horrible people and on top of that have become horribly arrogant sports fans. This has always been the argument for idiots regarding not wanting the Cubs to win the WS. I could see Cub fans becoming pretty arrogant after some success but when it comes right down to it, if the Hawks, Cubs and Bears all won and Chicago became the new Boston I'll gladly take all the vitriol that the rest of the sports world can dish out. I think this is a possibility, if the they all won and won frequently. But the difference is that Boston truly has some of the worst people in America. Think of all the worst NY stereotypes, but with none of the influx of other cultures, foreign and domestic, moving into the area to offer respite from the scum.
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I think people have been trying to downplay reports of his "high end velocity". I hope they didn't target him as a pen arm. I would hope they would try and see if he can be a starter and then shift him to the pen if that doesn't work out.
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They're Boston fans. Prior to 2004 they were relatively sympathetic figures, but there's a reason things like Tawwwwmy from Quincy exist. They are horrible people and on top of that have become horribly arrogant sports fans.
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Re: Chicago Blackhawks 2013 Playoffs
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
The Cap hit will always be the average of the total contract. So a 5 yr 25 mil contract will have a 5 mill cap hit no matter how you structure the contract. But to him it would be more valuable to get $15m of that upfront. -
The Ted Lilly comp is exactly what I've been hoping for with him. Although he was a 23rd round pick when he signed and Travis Wood was a 2nd himself.
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So that's Ian Clarkin, who the Yankees picked. The fist pumpers will love him.
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I don't mind it at all in the 3rd.
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Because a couple of pundits didn't put a low enough number in front of his name, and people think that getting a guy with a pundit's ranking superficially lower than the spot you are picking in the middle rounds means you win the draft. It's not just that, but that most reports were saying he peaked at 90 and had average stuff with no stand out pitch. It wasn't until a little while later that "mid-90s" was discussed.
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Dude on MLB Network was quoting W/L record to mock the pick. Might have been as bad as anything Gammons or Reynolds said. Not just quoting it, but he went back to it a couple times and other panelists, I assume HR, were guffawing in the background.
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He's got incredible juice.
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I had a problem with this as well, but I'm not going to knock him because of [expletive] parents. Aren't scouts supposed to check out the moms hips and how the dad aged? If you can cite a fathers athletic achievement you can dock him for naming him kris.
