abuck1220

nice try, cheater.

if mccann's exempt than so is fielder and i want tradsies backsies on my deal with juan.

how is mccann exempt?

Says the guy who can't seem to ignore other posters who get on his nerves. see...if i ignored people who drove me nuts with inane, worthless posts, i'd be missing out on this fascinating debate.

nah, i'm good. thanks though.

they may annoy me, but i'm a big enough boy to deal with it myself.

holy crap, you guys made it through law school and the military. yet someone calls you a doo doo head on a baseball message board and you turn into sniveling tattletales. weren't you taught to ignore people who were mean to you in like 2nd grade? sack up.

danks pelfrey galarraga j. sanchez ziegler david murphy all have multiple exemptions. looking for draft picks or minor leaguers. could stand to restock my farm.

none of those guys are worth any where close to $6 mil.

All I know is that the cubs had him working on core training, something that was non-existant in his workout when he played in japan/last year. That's about all I've heard. What's core training? a myth. like unicorns.

And a WHIP of 4.58 well, that's obviously not true. he had a whip of 1.58 and an era of 4.12. i'm not saying he was good or even acceptable, but guys with a lot worse numbers than that have stuck on major league rosters, and it wasn't like he was killing the team. 6 ip, 4 h, 2 er, 3 bb, 4 k 3 ip, 3 h, 3 er, 4 bb, 3 k 5 ip, 3 h, 1 er, 3 bb, 4 k 5 ip, 3 h, 2 er, 4 bb, 3 k followed by the disaster in st. louis. Please don't forget a disastrous time at Daytona and Iowa last year (nearly a walk per inning), and then his one chance to show the Cubs that he was worth saving was in Venezuela this winter where he had 23 walks in 21 innings pitched in front of one of the Cubs minor league managers (I forget who). The only way Rich Hill becomes the 2007 Rich Hill again is if Dunn and Kranitz can change his mechanics back to what they were. Then, the Cubs should receive a very nice prospect in return. i think the problem snowballed once he got sent down. i would have liked to see whether he could have worked it out with the big league team.

And a WHIP of 4.58 well, that's obviously not true. he had a whip of 1.58 and an era of 4.12. i'm not saying he was good or even acceptable, but guys with a lot worse numbers than that have stuck on major league rosters, and it wasn't like he was killing the team. 6 ip, 4 h, 2 er, 3 bb, 4 k 3 ip, 3 h, 3 er, 4 bb, 3 k 5 ip, 3 h, 1 er, 3 bb, 4 k 5 ip, 3 h, 2 er, 4 bb, 3 k followed by the disaster in st. louis.

i like how all the articles are like "hill was good for a while a few years ago, blah, blah, then completely fell apart last season. he was sent to the minors with a 4.12 era early in 2008."

73-57 i don't think anyone was claiming iowa state to be awesome.

really? an iowa fan talking trash?

[expletive], garrett's two missed FT's and that griffin missed FT, offensive rebound, 3 did them in. iowa state sucks.

omg stfu announcer. he's doing it against iowa fricking state.

these refs have been horrible.

whoever is announcing = thom brennaman

tim tebow...er...blake griffin travels like 50% of the time he touches it.

i'll be in mesa 3/20-3/25. any other day/time is fine with me.

ah, psychoanalyzing rich hill...i'll miss those good times.

man, fontenot better do what he did last year.

Dumb play, mistake, flaw in judgment, like I said its all a matter of the adjective you want to use. I think the people that could best gauge his aptitude would be the people that he spent the most time with, mainly Lou, Hendry, other coaches, his teammates, beat writers, etc. Bruce is pretty reserved in his criticism of players, so I would tend to think that if Bruce was insinuating that Cedeno was viewed as not very bright, that would be closer to the truth than any of us posters on a message board. Where did I say anything about Cedeno and his intelligence or lack of? To try and insinuate that a player oversliding a base is somehow part of a mental flaw, I doubt that person has really spent much running the bases in a live game but if they don't overslide it while playing The show then it must not occur in real life. What is "The Show"? Oversliding a base, per se, is not generally a mental flaw. Not comprehending the situation in the game or understanding that the ball is live if you overslide, is a mental flaw. It's live regardless if it's ball 4 or strike 3, it's not like he decided to overslide the base because it was ball 4. He was running aggressively to avoid the strike em out/throw em out and his hand slipped off the bag on the outside of the base. yeah, everyone made a huge production about it because it was ball four. if it had been strike three, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. of course, the guy sliding head first into the base has no idea whether it was ball four or strike three.

i love how people make that "thrown out at 2nd base on a walk" thing into some completely idiotic move. didn't he just overslide the bag or something? oversliding the bag isn't idiotic? not really, no. it's a mistake, but it's not like he forgot how many outs there were or ran around the bases backwards.