abuck1220
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i mean, if you just disagree with me, that's fine. but you seem to agree with basically everything i'm saying, yet you still somehow disagree with my larger point. honestly, the best way to go is to scrap the whole "lineups due on monday" rule and allow for daily lineup changes, free agent pick ups, etc. it would be 1,000,000x easier. just say "don't go over seven starts" and let everybody do whatever they wanted. that way you wouldn't have 86,923 circumstances where maybe you can bring up a minor leaguer, maybe you can pick up a FA pitcher but only if it rains, whatever.
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the problem with that is you have go back and check and see how many starts your opponent was supposed to get at the beginning of the week to determine whether your opponent shouldn't have been able to pick someone up because he was supposed to have a guy start @ colorado or whatever. clearly, the easiest and most common sense way to approach it is to say LINEUPS ARE DUE ON MONDAY. yes, you can pick up a FA if someone gets rained out, pushed back, murdered, whatever. EXACTLY. and if you didn't realize on wednesday you were only going to get six starts if you didn't pick up aaron harang, too bad (to quote you from above).
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SIGH. holy [expletive]...we've ALWAYS been able to pick guys up in the event of injury, rainouts, etc. this is not what i'm arguing about. i seriously can't believe we're going over this again.
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2011 Draft Discussion
abuck1220 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
the only thing better than the cubs picking a dud with this pick would be them picking a dud and then not even being allowed to have him. that way they would literally be wasting a pick. -
wow. then get rid of the "rosters must be set by monday" rule if you don't care about it. because the rule could not be any clearer. Why get rid of that rule if it's only pitchers you can pick up and ONLY if you don't have 7 starts. You can't pick up a pitcher if you already have 7 midweek and have no risk of losing them. The exception is ONLY to get your 7th start. because that's not what the rule says. which is why it needs changed if that's the way we're going to do it now. and what if you have 7 starts in your lineup but you just forget to put a guy in your active lineup one day? should you still be able to pick up a guy off free agency?
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can we at least agree you shouldn't be able to bring a minor leaguer up mid-week (unless he just got recalled)? we can call it the bud norris rule.
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wow. then get rid of the "rosters must be set by monday" rule if you don't care about it. because the rule could not be any clearer.
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my goodness, how many times do we need to have this debate??? we have seriously covered this a million times. end of story. agreed, agreed, agreed x 10,000. heck x 1,000,000. however, in this case, he just picked harang up mid-week for no reason other than he didn't have 7 starts. ROSTERS ARE TO BE SET BY MONDAY. ROSTERS ARE TO BE SET BY MONDAY. ROSTERS ARE TO BE SET BY MONDAY. ROSTERS ARE TO BE SET BY MONDAY. on monday, harang was not on his roster. his rotation had NO injuries, demotions, rainouts, retirements, deaths or sex changes. there is no reason he should be able to wait until mid-week to determine who he wants to use as his 7th start. ROSTERS ARE TO BE SET BY MONDAY.
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also, since we're sticklers for the rules in this thread, someone please take harang's points away from yesterday.
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i am the last person that is going to support truffle's intentional tanking, but that is really dumb that you can't have an injured minor leaguer who is on the disabled on your disabled list. that is completely idiotic. HE'S ON THE DISABLED LIST.
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you can get seven starts. but your lineup is to be set on monday. which means you can't pick up guys mid-week/promote minor leaguers to make starts unless there is an injury or demotion to the minors or rainout or something.
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shane just picked up aaron harang and put him into his lineup. you can't pick up players mid-week. nobody got hurt, nobody got pushed back.
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that doesn't make any sense. if he's on a DL, he should be allowed to be placed on your DL.
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exactly
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poor tim.
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gordon has zero exemptions left, correct?
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wow, that is an atrocious trade. guess it doesn't effect me too much since tim isn't in my division, but holy [expletive] that's bad.
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he must have been just added to the database.
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you guys want me to trade him back so we can vote on which offer he should take?
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you're right. when he asked for those players, i should have told him "no, don't do that, take tim's offer."
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for now*, i have 5 of the top 15 SP's in the league (along with hanson, who is in the top 30). *any of my SPs are available for a bat.
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what were the details of your trade of lincecum?
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grant green is basically lou gehrig playing shortstop, thank you very much. ps - i'm kinda tempted to trade one of my SP's for a bat now if anyone is still in the mood to talk trade...
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you cannot change out a RP mid-week unless there is an injury or demotion.
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Robert, I'm pretty sure you know what the right decision is here... Would you rather hear me humbly accept a 2nd consecutive RK championship or hear Adam gloat forever about his 4th career RK championship ? all i know is i traded don hanley ramirez back in the day. and i traded raw zach britton. i think i know a good prospect to trade when i see him.