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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    Free The Claw
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    Because that's the "in" thing to do here I guess. Kinda sad really. I guess people aren't allowed to express their opinion when it doesn't agree with what the larger majority of what the board thinks. I guess there aren't as many 'baseball purist" around these days which means in 20 years the game wont even resemble what it is today. We'll just be televising batting practice/homerun derby. Nobody is preventing you from doing anything. Are you opposed to the use of replay? If we're going in that direction with this thread, IMHO it should be all or nothing. There are a lot of times when that missed call at 1st or called ball/strike can be as important as whether or not the home run ball was fair or foul. It should be like in football where each manager has a certain amount of calls.
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    I hope they aren't serious. Do you feel that Ng isn't as qualified as Hahn or Evans? Or do you just feel it is a bad idea to make a woman a GM? (hint - pick box A if you want to continue here!) Next thing you know they'll be driving, voting, and refusing to do my laundry. Do you really want that on your heads Angels?
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    ugggghhhh... is wsr writing these jokes for you? I don't share my gift.
  5. Little Slide Rooter
    Agreed. I think he'll be Dunn next season. This season was just a disaster for the dude. That's a pretty bold prediction. I also predict he'll be Dunn the season after that and the season after that as well as all future and previous seasons. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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    If the Cardinals did have to go on a miracle run to the playoffs and an improbable sprint to the world series and win it all, I'd prefer it's this year when we have bigger and better baseball related things to focus on rather than bitch and dwell on it for the next several weeks-months.
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    the jokes you make sound like ones that michael scott would make. Are we talking former Astros pitcher or the former manager of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin?
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    I hope they aren't serious. What do you care who the Angels GM is?
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    There was Tyrone Watkins, Juan Dominguez, Ching-Ho Lee, and Habib Patel, . What more could he want?
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    Interesting. If the options are him, Casey Coleman, or Rodrigo Lopez, I dont see any harm in trying it out.
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    As for the Samardzjia talk, go for it. Yeh, he seemed to be finally figuring it out, but unless they plan on trying him as a starter, I think we have enough guys to piece together a solid bullpen, such as Marmol, Marshall, Carpenter, Dolis, Beliveau, and Russell. That's 6 solid guys, and virtually every team has some random mop up guy at the end of the pen anyway, so just tack on Stevens, Berg, Maine, Gaub, Caridad, or whoever. Oh wait, never mind, I just remembered that Angel Guzman exists. That's a pretty solid pen for several years.
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    If they do sign him, hopefully he can revisit his original plan when he came with the Mets to acquire every latin player he can get his hands on and we can send them Soriano and Zambrano for Mike Trout.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    I very much like scenrio 2. Baker and a Carpenter/J Jax/Flaherty type prospect sounds more than fair.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    The lack of interest in Buerhle, at least on my part, is due to him being 33 when the season starts next year and likely declining rather than in his prime or improving. I'd go after Wilson, E Jackson, Maholm, and trade targets before I gave Buerhle a 3 year deal covering his ages 33,34,35 seasons. Yes to Wilson, yes to Maholm assuming he's healthy but a big fat no to Jackson. Dont get me wrong, I think he's a very solid mid-rotation guy but I think that the weak FA SP class is going to drive his price higher than any team should pay for a mid rotatiom guy but smeone will anyway. I mentioed in another thread that Joe Saunders is another guy that will likely be available, probably for cheaper in trade than guys like Danks, Floyd, or any of the Rays guys.
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    I think he's either a Cardinal or Marlin next year. Judging by the direction the White Sox are going, I can't see them re signing him. He really seems like the type of guy who'd hang em up if he didn't get an offee from a team he wants to go to. Of course, there's always the possibility that the Yankees make him an offer he can't refuse.
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    I think that Byrd is our best trade bait. Hes productive and inexpensive and doesnt fit into our future plans. If we could get a quality piece or two, maybe even enough to make up for whatever we send to Boston, I'd be willing to put some carousel of Colvin, LaHair, Montanez, Baker, DeWitt, Flaherty, or whoever in RF for a year.
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    Do you really view pujols or fielder as band aids? They should both be around long enough and great players for long enough to be part of our next core.. Good gravy, if Pujols/Fielder are band aids, what constitutes as a good FA signing? Signing one would not catapult us to where we want to be. That will take at least 2-3 years of good moves. However, either guy would be an ideal cornerstone for the building process. I'm sure some will come with the why would they want to enter a rebuilding process than a ready made winner? Well, if they respect what Ricketts/Theo/Hoyer plan to do, and I'm sure they'll discuss it thoroughly before anything is signed, they should be happy to be the cornerstone of the building process and lets face it, when the Cubs finally to win it all every player, coach, and exec in the game is going to wish they were a part of theparty with the possible exception of Tony LaRussa. Remember when the Cubs were good, virtually every free agent wanted to be a Cub.
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    Looks like the mods vacation is offically over and the free for all has come to an end.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    Anyone else remember Gary Sheffields comment, something along the lines of black and hispanic players being more difficult to "control" than white ones?
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    Larry Bowa as bench coach would be amazing. What is Mark Grace going to do make sure the beer is tapped? Hire Matt Stairs as hitting coach (though he is still playing as of 2011) and then we really have a party. By opening day, every Cubs and White Sox player from the 80's-90's will be on his former teams payroll in some capacity.
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    In this age of evil rich people it's refreshing to have one on the side of justice and good. He's like the baseball Batman. Yeah, he's seems like the ideal owner doesn't he? How he handled all of this was first class. Kept everything close to his chest. He's like a Bobby Fischer of the baseball world. I'm not sure if we are all impressed because we've never had anything close to this or he's just that good. Although, the Blackhawk owner (can't think of this name) is pretty damn close. Rocky Wirtz. He took the team over when his dad, who was everything you don't want in an owner died.
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    What? Is this a joke? If true that's pretty amazing that Kenney was trying to sabotage the whole deal from the inside. And he would have gotten away with it if it werent for those meddling kids and their dog.
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    I agree with you. He certainly could have his old job back after they fire "out at home" DeJesus. Better than Waving Wendell.
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    I'm very high on him. He plays 3B, which is becoming a premium position. Great OBP, nice SLG. He's only 17, so there's probably more to come, and he's only 17-18. I'd like to see him at Peoria some time next year.
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    ok ssr I'm still pissed nobody reacted to my line about Theo ejaculating on me. Eh. Too predictable. You should've gone with the urination on you. Todays not about you Ryan. Todays about Theo and Tom.
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