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who cares? anyway, no way in hell i want winn's contract for next season. yuck.
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thanks to the H2H tiebreaker, if i beat HBC next week, i clinch a playoff spot. of course, if he beats me, i'm in trouble.
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the east is completely up in the air right now. don't like my chances against raw given his pitchers face atl (x2), wash, sea, sd, and la. also raw is going to get a lot more ab's than me given that teixeira has as many days off (5 game week for the angels...wtf) as raw's entire offense. and his all-mets offense gets 7 games against pittsburgh and washington. pulling pretty hard for tootielicious this week.
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but the guys you are trying to trade for have not (i'm guessing).
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i agree that 7 doesn't sound like a lot, but when you think about what st. louis would have to do record-wise from here on out, it sounds a lot better.
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if the cubs go .500 the rest of the way, the cardinals would have to play .681 ball to finish ahead of the cubs. TOAST.
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pujols is taking lilly deep this inning. bad idea.
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Jim Caple article on the closer role
abuck1220 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in General Baseball Talk
yeah, don't lump cubs borowski with indians borowski. he was actually good when he was with the cubs. -
use him as much as you can when he's healthy. if he gets abused and subsequently gets hurt...eh, he was probably going to get hurt again anyway.
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does this process work? people who don't post at nsbb aren't going to know who is on waivers and aren't going to put their own players on waivers.
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I think you have to use the DFA method and expose him to waivers in order to get him to the minors. Eyre will be traded, probably for a PTBNL in the next 10 days. If not, somebody will claim him in the waiver process. Zero chance anyone claims Scott Eyre off waivers. 100% chance someone does. Shall I say it again for emphasis? No one is going to take on a $1+ million commitment for two months of a mediocre (at best) relief pitcher who has a very real chance of being horrible. sure they will looks like someone is taking on that salary.
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that's not true.
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i'd rather have rich hill in a back brace out there than marquis.
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i'll buy the "it makes it more interesting" theory, but not the "it makes perfect sense" one. i just realized i beat tootielicious in our first matchup and that i'm only one game back of him. if i can beat him in our second matchup, that could be big.
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LOL...look...I agree the decision was awful, but come on. Lee should tell Piniella what to do? That's possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. that is great.
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not quite as bad as letting howry face russell branyan...but still pretty damn bad.
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I don't agree with that. If two teams tie at the end of the year, the team that won both meetings should be the tie breaker. If they are still tied after that tiebreaker, then total points should break that tie. why? because you happened to have a lower scoring week the weeks the two teams matched up? it's not like you can prevent the other team from scoring points or something. total points is clearly a better indicator of which team is better. head to head matchups are completely random and don't tell you anything about what team is better.
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that being said, i still don't know who i should be rooting for in the HBC/DE matchup.
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but HBC has to face DE this week. his last four games are against the top four teams in the division. if i go 2-2 the rest of the way (with this week's game being a must win), DE would have to go 4-0 to jump me in the standings (due to me likely having the total points tie-breaker). if i go 2-2 the rest of the way with one of those wins being against HBC, HBC wouldn't be able to catch me (i think). but if i lose to HBC, i may be in trouble due to him having two wins against me. by the way, i really disagree with head to head being the first tiebreaker (if it still is?). i don't think there's any doubt total points should be the first tie breaker.
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who do i want to win the DE/HBC matchup? DE has an easy schedule the rest of the way, but i'll for sure have the tiebreaker over him. HBC's schedule to finish is just brutal.
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i have a bad feeling about this week...after my huge offensive week last week, i'm due for some mediocre hitting. also, i have to face four starts from billingsley and cook, who are facing some terrible offenses. thankfully, there's not a whole lot of pop in the maginos lineup.
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Teams may claim players just to keep proposed trades from going through if you do that. isn't that kind of the point? seems like it would be easier than me going through every team's roster and saying who i would claim. plus, you know half the teams aren't going to announce who they're putting on waivers. it'd just be easier to say i want to trade teix to someone for prospect A and you would put a claim in on teix, stopping the trade. then i can decided whether i want to pull him back. would have the same effect as me just putting him on waivers and you putting a claim in for him.
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just saw the white sox/royals highlights...if greinke hadn't hit a guy and been ejected, HBC probably would have won this week. as it stands, HBC and draconian empire will be tied one game out of the playoffs. myself and HBC both have grueling schedules the rest of the way (HBC facing the top four teams in the division...which i guess gives him a chance to control his own destiny), while DE faces three teams out of contention. my team hit a ridiculous .370 for the week with 17 hr, 51 rbi, and 47 runs scored. five hitters over 27 points and three over 39. if sherrill would have had even an average week for him, i would have hit 400.
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would it just be easier to put proposed trades here and allow people to make claims on the players involved?
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like i said in the scoring thing, those are the lengths of the game. the florida game started before the cubs game.