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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.
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it's hard enough to get one person to respond to trade proposals. i can't imagine getting a third party involved.
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false advertising. lame last day of trading overall. i had two trades out there (one for a week, the other for probably 2-3 weeks) that got no response at all.
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andy laroche blows. pisses me off that the red sox had a huge problem and teams apparently were more than willing to take him off their hands and allow the red sox to actually improve their team.
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So are the Pirates if any of the prospects they're supposed to get are any good. Exactly. Bay to Hermida is probably a lateral move, with Hermida being cheaper and having more upside. If they get a decent arm or 2 on top of that, they've made out. Florida is really getting screwed in this deal. Hermida and Tucker for 2 months of Manny? boston would be making out great in that trade. i don't know why any team would allow them to really win a manny trade when they're the ones in the corner.
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To be fair, he hasn't really given the Cubs anything to care about. well, that's just a stupid thing to say. he's a 28 y/o, dirt cheap lefty that was one of the best pitchers in the NL in 2007. i think that's enough to make the cubs "care" about him regardless of how poorly he's pitched this season.
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worst start yet? 3 ip, 5 h, 5 er, 3 bb, 3 hbp, 1 k
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it would be very disappointing if the red sox actually get better with a manny trade.
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do the cubs even care about hill at this point?
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baker's cub teams underperformed because they had a lot of injuries to pitchers and they had a horrible approach at the plate. it wasn't because they missed cut off men or whatever your high school baseball coach liked to stress.