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Hendry: Sam Fuld is an untouchable
abuck1220 replied to JohnF's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
exactly. they're going to have a tough time pulling off a trade for a decent outfielder if non-top 10 prospects are untouchables. -
but this time the rest of the lineup will be awesome.
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i think you're missing the point. just because X has a negative effect on people, doesn't mean that X necessarily has a positive effect on some people. of course, it depends on what X is. but it is impossible for me to imagine how pressure could make a baseball player play at a higher level than he normally does. generically speaking, say player A is typically an 7 on a scale of 1-10. i can see how pressure could bring him down to a 5, but i don't see how pressure can make him a 9. it just isn't possible. if he had the ability to elevate his game to a 9 at will, he'd just be a 9 all the time.
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not really, by then they will be trading Uggla, Ramirez and Olsen among others. It's a neverending cycle. After the win another World Series... I hate how they do that. Trade the entire team, win the WS a few years later, and repeat. it's better than the cubs' plan of spending money on the henry blancos of the world, producing a junk farm system, and trying merely to compete within a turd of a division by finishing over .500.
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it's like the NL teams and AL teams operate in completely different ways. the AL powerhouses throw around all this money and all these talented prospects to get actual, huge difference makers like arod, beckett, cabrera, johan, etc, while the NL teams just try and round out their mediocre, 84 win teams by signing todd hollandsworths and trading for will ohmans. it's really strange.
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i get the feeling that prior hates the cubs and i'm pretty sure the cubs feel the same way. what a messy, sad ending to what could have been glorious. please trade him to the AL.
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must be nice to have a farm system not made up of complete garbage.
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Santana to Red Sox?
abuck1220 replied to Geech's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i'm surprised the twins seem to prefer lester to hughes. -
yeah, cancer's the best.
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give me a break. you speak that as if it's gospel. you have no proof or reasoning to back up such a statement. it's ridiculous. why the hell not? having a broken arm only takes away from a player's ability. there isn't some kind of unseen balance in the force that mandates every outside force has some kind of equal effect on the universe. what a moronic couple of statements. abuck, you insist that its on one way street, that you can only do worse in a "pressure" situation. That is a facetious arguement. my statements are not moronic. they are arguements. The "proof" is simply what I just stated. personally, I dont really want to believe in either a "clutch" hitter or "choke artist". I would like to believe haltz's explanation. But, as of yet, I see definitive prove of neither arguements. It really is abit of "mental masturbation." My whole reason for this discussion is the lack inclusion of "clutch" to the "choke" arguement. I am sorry if you were offended because I think your cancer analogy was stupid, but it was. no, it wasn't. just because something has a negative effect on some people (whether it's pressure or cancer) doesn't mean it has to have a positive effect on other people. that's stupid.
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who do you plan on replacing it with? because hendry seems dead set on it not being matt murton.
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give me a break. you speak that as if it's gospel. you have no proof or reasoning to back up such a statement. it's ridiculous. why the hell not? having a broken arm only takes away from a player's ability. there isn't some kind of unseen balance in the force that mandates every outside force has some kind of equal effect on the universe. what a moronic couple of statements.
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well, they used jones to get infante, so i don't know how you can subtract him from it completely.
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if you're referring to jones, i don't know how you can refer to him as a marginal piece of the puzzle when the cubs are currently (at least in hendry's mind) an outfielder short.
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besides, it'll be more fun for the patriots to run the table in the regular season and then lay an egg in their first playoff game anyway.
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The timeout did turn out to be a bad idea, but Billick made a good point in the press conference that he'd be roasted had he not called a timeout even though the Ravens had the wrong personnel for what they thought the Pats were going to run. They got lucky on the stop, but the timeout (which was probably the smart thing to do) canceled out that luck. It still doesn't excuse the horrific "holding" penalty the refs handed to the Pats. Saw a replay on SportsCenter where they showed a view from behind the Pats line of the play and the Pats WR did appear to be held after the 5-yard limit. It was holding. possibly, but that type of "holding" occurs on just about every play.
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how can you hate them more than the patriots?
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if it were possible to put money on a PI/holding call on a given play, i would have put a lot on ne's 4th down play. most predictable call ever.
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Hamilton Available?
abuck1220 replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
yeah, hill for hamilton is insane. i wouldn't even do marmol for hamilton. -
scott rolen is a slightly warm corpse. the cardinals better not get anything of value for him.
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it's funny how everyone perceives him to be something he's not. a friend of mine told me he should bat leadoff because he walks a lot (lowest OBP in the lineup) and because he takes a lot of pitches (fewest p/pa on the team).
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that's a pretty sad haul for quentin.
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Levine: Prior, Hudson, Swisher
abuck1220 replied to JeffH's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
really? who? -
everyone always says theriot was a "tough out," but he was last on the team in p/pa. last. behind everyone. even koyie hill, even cedeno, even pie, even soriano. last.
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floyd was essentially the same player as murton last year, but 246 years older.