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Gary Hughes Not Returning Next Year
abuck1220 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well here, we're celebrating. Which is unfortunate, he's been good to great at scouting throughout his professional career. It's not his fault that Hendry did not combine his talents with someone well-versed in statistics to view it from an analysis basis as well. Hendry only looked at it from one side ledger. His body of work is far more relevant than one Baseball America interview. this sounds like you're blaming hendry for not hiring a guy to correct hughes' mistakes. and that with someone there to tell him what a terrible job he was doing, hughes would have been really successful. -
pretty sad that i'll be jumping for joy if iowa state ends up in the leftover 12 or whatever it will be called. gross.
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They're the Rockets. The Mudhens are Toledo's minor league baseball team. oh come the [expletive] on i checked. he's right.
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KARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMA
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STEELE [expletive] JANTZ
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STEELE JANTZ FOR HEISMAN.
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shockingly, iowa state just pissing this game away.
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17 starts would lead to some serious dumpster diving with people being shut down, saved for the playoffs, etc. it will be nearly impossible to get 17 starts and keep anything remotely close to a legal roster.
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any time you're counting on jeff francis to save your fantasy season, you've got to be feeling pretty good.
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yeah, poor texas a&m. i'll keep them in my prayers for sure.
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i guess i'm surprised i'm not down by more. down a little over 80, but i have a 4 start advantage. of course my starts consist of starts from assorted vagabonds like harang, francis/ogando, wells and minor. damn jj and hanson for being hurt. you also have a hamels start still to come. i was fully prepared for felix to dominate the angels...i just wasn't accounting for gems from stupid lohse and peavy.
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i think he made up for it with 20 1/3 shutout innings from the other three starts.
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well, i'd say three starts of ZERO er in one night is about as close as you can get to ending it on a tuesday. wow.
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but i like my team.
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yep, 50 million people who play fantasy sports with rules are wrong the 15 who play with "spirit of the rules" are right.
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or maybe we need rules that are actually followed instead of playing calvinball.
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actually, quite the opposite. i want fewer rules. for example... current rule: 7 starts per week and lineups are due on monday. cannot make mid-week roster changes/pick up FA pitchers or promote minor leaguers to your active roster to get your 7 starts unless a) there is a rainout or b) there is an injury or c) you make a trade or d) a minor leaguer is promoted to the bigs or e) you forget to use one of your guys (maybe or maybe not applicable if you have another start on your bench that you could have, in theory, used) or f) your guy gets pushed back. rule i would prefer: 7 starts per week. do you really not understand my point about how difficult it is to use this "spirit of the rules" standard and how we just trust each other to "do the right thing?" i don't want more rules/more complicated rules...i want simpler rules that we have to follow. 99% of the arguments come from interpreting what is within the spirit or the rules or whatever...all this could be eliminated by simplifying the rules and then following those rules.
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i was all over it...i'm a stickler!
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Then I'm guessing your opponent would have had a problem with it why? why is 1 over ok but not 3? obviously the easiest and most practical solution is to simply say you can't go over. i mean, is it not? not really. "the roster limit is X" pretty well takes care of this particular situation. i didn't know it was a vote, for one. for two, "allow illegal rosters for the playoffs" is pretty broad to just be thrown out there as a ruling.
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come on, dude...don't do that thing where you act like i'm being an [expletive] because i think the rules should be enforced.
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well, it's a little ridiculous to assume silence from the other players over a 3 day span when nearly all of them are eliminated and probably not checking this board means they are on board with this, but whatever. my point is...and i really fail to see how anyone can not see this... is when you are literally making up the rules as you go along. what if i wanted to go 3 over the roster limit? 4? i mean, please tell me you understand this why this is not a good system.
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yet here i sit with a perfectly legal roster. because the alternative is kinda having rules/kinda not and that's not really possible to enforce. can you have an illegal roster just for one day or the whole week? can you go one over the limit or two? you can't have rules and then decide to half follow them.
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you can't DL morneau anyway because your DL is full. that's my point. it has nothing to do with whether morneau is put on the mlb DL.
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don't really care though...doesn't effect me. i don't want anything to do with a bunch of price/verlander/lee starts if i make it to the finals anyway. but we have some work to do on the rules after this season.
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yes, i realize you suggested allowing an illegal roster a couple days before you used an illegal roster. i don't really know what your point is. i agree. however, that is not at all your problem in this instance. your problem is not having enough DL spots (same problem i have had, as have others). except i've dropped the players i couldn't fit on my DL and you just said, hey illegal rosters are allowed.