abuck1220
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holy [expletive], i guess i should have held on to peavy and his broken body.
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i think i play alamo stealth this week...
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well, this makes no sense. so since you're not sure he can stick at ss (but you don't really know), you want to do what, exactly? move him to 3b so he gets practice there? but i guess he may not be a 3b either, so maybe just make him a utility guy to make sure he gets lots of practice at other positions?
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This is addressed in the rules thread. A player is minor league eligible until the first time he has more than 200 at bats (not plate appearances) in a season. Ramos will likely lose minor league eligibility within the next few weeks but he still has it for now. ah okay. so if, say, anthony rizzo bats 199 times this season then can i keep him in the offseason as a minor league keeper? yes
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but, in any event, i'll set the over/under at 6.5 and take the over.
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some people here seem to not really understand what "over/under" means.
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as i'm sure you can imagine, i did take just the teeny tiniest slightest bit of enjoyment from this given your post from a few hours before. however, i'll go ahead and be the bigger man here and suggest that you could pick someone up to replace brett anderson and his exploded arm.
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jaywalkers should be given the death penalty. hey, don't want to get the chair? don't jaywalk.
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what is this gibberish.
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wait, you worked 35 hours over a 2 day span???
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i'm fine w/ leaving it how it is. pitchers are riskier due to the higher potential for injury, so i'm fine with them scoring more. if that makes sense...
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wow, that's idiotic.
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also, the reason you're having to have this discussion after your long weekend is because these rules are ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated (apparently). NEW RULE PROPOSAL: don't go over 7 starts. do whatever the hell you want with the rest of your lineup. have fun. this would put an end to 99.9% of these discussions.
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that sounds like something my dad would say to me when i was seven. give me a break.
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me too. keep the 7 starts rule, but otherwise all bets are off. then you wouldn't have to listen to me "whine and bitch" about people not following the rules. i mean, that right there makes it worth it, doesn't it?
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don't worry guys, kaplan was on local radio today suggesting the cubs could unload zambrano and ALL of his remaining contract on the yankees and get montero in return. so that's exciting.
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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.