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  1. abuck1220
    I don't know why anybody would assume that. He's a big fat 38 year old coming off surgery. seriously. if he wasn't an ex-cub, fan favorite, people would be freaking out right now.
  2. abuck1220
    Why? Why is it so upsetting to everyone to get 100 innings of league average production from the 5 spot as opposed to 200 innings of below average production? seriously? where are the other 100 innings that lieber can't go coming from? also, i don't think it's written in stone that a fat, oft-injured, 38 year old lieber is league average. Gallagher? Marshall? Hart? and are those guys going to be league average or better? you can't just say 100 average innings is better than 200 below average innings without taking into consideration the necessary 100 innings in the first scenario are probably going to be below average. You can't bash the alternatives for the "other" 100 IP as a reason not to get Lieber, because they're the ones going for 200 IP if we don't have him. not necessarily. i'm guessing it'd be 200 innings of dempster/marquis vs. 100 innings of lieber and 100 innings of hart/marshall/gallagher.
  3. abuck1220
    they're obviously trading hill for marlon byrd.
  4. abuck1220
    Why? Why is it so upsetting to everyone to get 100 innings of league average production from the 5 spot as opposed to 200 innings of below average production? seriously? where are the other 100 innings that lieber can't go coming from? also, i don't think it's written in stone that a fat, oft-injured, 38 year old lieber is league average. Gallagher? Marshall? Hart? and are those guys going to be league average or better? you can't just say 100 average innings is better than 200 below average innings without taking into consideration the necessary 100 innings in the first scenario are probably going to be below average.
  5. abuck1220
    Why? Why is it so upsetting to everyone to get 100 innings of league average production from the 5 spot as opposed to 200 innings of below average production? seriously? where are the other 100 innings that lieber can't go coming from? also, i don't think it's written in stone that a fat, oft-injured, 38 year old lieber is league average.
  6. abuck1220
    you can find closers anywhere, but that's not the point. you can't find relivers as good as nathan anywhere.
  7. abuck1220
    seriously, i don't like marquis or dempster, but i'd rather have either of them than lieber.
  8. abuck1220
    eh, i'd probably do veal for nathan. whatever.
  9. abuck1220
    hmm...thought-provoking. good trade for the cardinals, in my opinion.
  10. abuck1220
    I understand your points about average guys with lots of tools, but I'm talking about wanting my HOFers to be good at several different aspects of the game. i want my HOFers to be good at one thing -- being good. i don't care how they get there.
  11. abuck1220
    Regardless of the steroids issue, I still wouldn't put Big Mac in. His one dimensionality really bothers me. I know, I know, that one dimension is pretty impressive, etc., but it's just a personal quirk of mine that I like to have ballplayers be able to have at least 2 tools. i don't get looking at guys' "dimensions." i look at production...he was productive or he wasn't...between player A and player B, one is more productive than the other. you can say mcgwire was one-dimensional (which is not true, by the way), but he was really, really, really productive. would you rather have a player who was kinda good at a bunch of things, or a guy who was super awesome at one or two things, and thus led to his team scoring a bunch more runs than the first guy? a guy with 15 homers, 20 steals, a good average and decent defense is likely to be way less valuable than a guy who hits 60 homers, walks a ton, and sucks at all that other stuff.
  12. abuck1220
    That is horribly, horribly inaccurate. But it's a pretty cool claim to make. derrek lee batting third got the cubs swept in the playoffs. everyone knows that.
  13. abuck1220
    yeah, some guy on local sports talk was making a case for rice by saying if he would have taken roids, his career wouldn't have been shortened by injuries...and he somehow deserves credit for that. first, they discredit one guy's resume because he may have done steroids, now they're boosting another's because he should have done steroids.
  14. abuck1220
    if pie puts up a .350 obp, the cubs may be pretty good.
  15. abuck1220
    WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO???
  16. abuck1220
    what did he do? ran his mouth the whole game, tackled a db by the facemask (yet got a PI call on the db), and got praise heaped upon him by the announcers for no apparent reason. reminds me of mike hart. if you just talk a lot during the game and generally act hysterical, everyone thinks you really want to win.
  17. abuck1220
    hines ward is a douche.
  18. abuck1220
    i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree then. i'd rather have bedard over buehrle every day of the week. and if the dodgers give up that much for bedard, i'll eat poop.
  19. abuck1220
    Buerhle could have gotten them 2-3 cornerstone prospects alone. that's insane. or you and i have different definitions of "cornerstone." May I suggest you look at some of the offers the Orioles are considering for Bedard and tell me the White Sox couldn't get the same offer (or better) for Buerhle. why would they get a better offer for buerhle? i haven't seen any offers for bedard that include 2-3 cornerstone prospects. feel free to throw a few at me.
  20. abuck1220
    Buerhle could have gotten them 2-3 cornerstone prospects alone. that's insane. or you and i have different definitions of "cornerstone."
  21. abuck1220
    i don't see how any of their veterans would have brought a cornerstone prospect.
  22. abuck1220
    the angels would never have done that. good trade by the sox.
  23. abuck1220
    You can't wait, but you aren't going anyway? What can't you wait for? for some reason, a lot of people think of it as some type of hotbed for information or something. it's weird.
  24. abuck1220
    i guess i'm just not convinced that two extra games is some kind of tipping point where smashing into each other becomes overly dangerous. 13 games is ok, but 14-15 is too much?
  25. abuck1220
    not if you cut out one game the top teams play against garbage teams. and if they didn't break for six weeks after the end of the regular season, they wouldn't have to play so late.
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