Derwood
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Cause we all know academic cheating is right up there with child rape. That was one terrible attempt at finger pointing. Was the writer a PSU alumni? I didn't post it because I was personally trying to compare it to the PSU situation. In fact, I don't really care about the author's smarmy tone. I am curious to see if this gains any traction, though. Seems pretty egregious. Then why post the article comparing it to psu instead of the dozens of articles about it? Happened to be the one I was reading at the time. To address CubinNY's post: here will (hopefully) never be another violation as horrific as the PSU one, but if that is now the standard by which we punish people, no other school will ever be punished for anything again. And if we assume every school has systemic academic fraud (and thus shouldn't worry about it), we might as well shut the NCAA down entirely.
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Cause we all know academic cheating is right up there with child rape. That was one terrible attempt at finger pointing. Was the writer a PSU alumni? I didn't post it because I was personally trying to compare it to the PSU situation. In fact, I don't really care about the author's smarmy tone. I am curious to see if this gains any traction, though. Seems pretty egregious.
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http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-08-13/north-carolina-academic-scandal-mark-emmert-ncaa-penn-state Interested to see how this plays out
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Money is only good if the guy wants to stay. Best Buy told me I should hate new revenue streams, so I should hate new revenue streams. I have no idea what the [expletive] you're talking about.
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maybe, but I can only assume Strasburg will sign wherever he feels he has the best chance to win
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Money is only good if the guy wants to stay.
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Please sticky this thread so SOMEONE can say "I told you so" in about a decade
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Who said that? Nobody; just making fun of how you think the rest of the season and the postseason are "tangible." "tangible" meaning you know you're in the playoffs this year and you know you're healthy. Neither of those things is guaranteed down the line
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Who said that?
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The present is tangible. It's not theoretical.
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Everyone wants to see him pitch in the playoffs. Derwood thinks he should pitch the rest of the year, precautions be damned. I think the Nats should try to win when they're in the best shape to win, not purposely handicap themselves so maybe just maybe someday they might have another chance.
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That's a terrible analogy. Why would pitching Strasburg another 30-40 innings be equal to an nearly 100% chance of getting your fingers chopped off?
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Wait, you're accusing other people of propping up strawmen? He's not just their ace; he's their very young ace coming back from major surgery who has never pitched nowhere near the amount of innings he'll pitch this year. I'm not implying this is your position. I'm simply asking the question.
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So if the Cubs had the best record in baseball, you'd be cool with shutting our Ace down for some nebulous possible future?
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I'm saying they will be in the playoffs this year, and Strasburg gives them a better chance of winning than no Strasburg. You guys are the ones saying that NOT shutting him down will hurt him down the line, which isn't something anyone can say with any certainty
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I'm getting itchy from all the strawmen being built in this thread
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Does removing Strasburg hurt their chances of winning the WS this year, yes or no?
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of course they have a CHANCE to win, but right now, they ARE winning. This would be like the Bears winning the division, but deciding that Cutler or Forte had to be protected for the future, so they'll just put the backup in for the playoffs
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He threw 24 inning last year. What should be his inning limit? As you say, every opportunity to compete is valuable but your citing the 2003 Cubs is flawed since the reckless use of Prior and Wood - similar to what you want the Nationals to do with Strasburg - torpedoed future Cubs teams' chances of competing in future years. I don't want them to have Strasburg throw 150 pitches every outing. I also don't want them to say "welp, we have the best record in baseball but we might win the WS in 3 or 4 years, so shut er' down, boys!" They're not shutting him down because they might win the World Series in 3-4 years. They're shutting him down because they want Strasburg healthy and pitching 200 innings in 3-4 years. which will be great if they're in 3rd place, right?
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He threw 24 inning last year. What should be his inning limit? As you say, every opportunity to compete is valuable but your citing the 2003 Cubs is flawed since the reckless use of Prior and Wood - similar to what you want the Nationals to do with Strasburg - torpedoed future Cubs teams' chances of competing in future years. I don't want them to have Strasburg throw 150 pitches every outing. I also don't want them to say "welp, we have the best record in baseball but we might win the WS in 3 or 4 years, so shut er' down, boys!"
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my issue is that 160 innings is a completely arbitrary, made up number and the Nats may torpedo their chances based on this completely arbitrary, made up number
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no, the point is that "young ace potential" doesn't mean "team will contend for the next decade". Strasburg's arm could fall off even at this made-up innings limit, and the Nats could have tanked their one and only chance to win it all.
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http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2003/0707_large.jpg
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Shutting down Strasburg only makes sense if you think the Nats are going to be perennial playoff contenders. Even then, there's no sure thing (see: 90's Atlanta Braves). No better time than now to try for the championship. Shutting down your ace seems like a bad idea when there's no guarantee the team will ever see October again
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This stupid salary cap structure has successfully made the NBA even MORE of a big market/small market league.
