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  1. davearm2
    well this player isn't a lunatic or anything. Yeah since throwing at a batter to settle a grudge would be totally unheard of. I'm confused. What grudge do they have? Um, they're stealing signs (allegedly).
  2. davearm2
    Hate to break it to you, but yeah they (pitchers) do. So let's not go calling guys lunatics or idiotic simply for playing by the game's (unwritten) rules. Sorry, many of the games unwritten "rules" ARE idiotic. Therefore if someone is following one of those, like throwing at people intentionally (which does happen), then they are being idiotic. Throwing inside, great go for it, do it all day. Throwing at someone because they hit a HR or you think someone is cheating or showing you up in some way, is moronic. There are much better ways to get back at them for doing that. What did you have in mind that is a better deterrent than a fastball in the ribs? Striking the guy out? Outs are better than HBP any day of the week. Show the guy you can beat him even if he is cheating. All intentionally hitting a guy does is start an even dumber beanball war. Like I said, just because that's how it's always been done, doesn't mean it isn't stupid. The White Sox' intent is to stop the Blue Jays from cheating by stealing signs. And your solution to get them to stop cheating by stealing signs is to strike them out. Seems to me that would have the opposite effect of what was intended. More irony.
  3. davearm2
    Hate to break it to you, but yeah they (pitchers) do. So let's not go calling guys lunatics or idiotic simply for playing by the game's (unwritten) rules. Sorry, many of the games unwritten "rules" ARE idiotic. Therefore if someone is following one of those, like throwing at people intentionally (which does happen), then they are being idiotic. Throwing inside, great go for it, do it all day. Throwing at someone because they hit a HR or you think someone is cheating or showing you up in some way, is moronic. There are much better ways to get back at them for doing that. What did you have in mind that is a better deterrent than a fastball in the ribs?
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    Priceless.
  5. davearm2
    like washington dc? You can swim across a river into Virginia from DC ergo it's not in the Northeast. It's south of the Mason-Dixon. and I've never heard anyone consider DC a "big market". DC is a huge market. Easily top 10 in MLB. The DC MSA is #7 in the US. Now that's mitigated a bit by the fact that the Nats share it with the Orioles. And if we were to sit down and realign baseball geographically, DC would end up in the "Northeast" division with BOS NYY NYM and Philly.
  6. davearm2
    Hate to break it to you, but yeah they (pitchers) do. So let's not go calling guys lunatics or idiotic simply for playing by the game's (unwritten) rules.
  7. davearm2
    LOL some of you guys are in such a frenzy to jump on any little thing I say, that you wind up making yourselves look stupid instead. For fans of irony, it's pure gold, and this thread is a prime example. The sign-stealing is a minor story. The White Sox' reaction is a complete and utter non-story. You know how when a guy yells "I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR #$%^&* ASS!!!," he's not literally threatening to assault the other person's gluteus with his Reeboks. And 99% of the time those words are uttered, there's no followthrough at all -- it's just a bunch of macho tough talk meant to intimidate and/or send a message. This is pretty much just like that. The odds that Jose Bautista is going to wear an intentional fastball on his helmet the next time he faces the White Sox is like 0.0001%. Deep down, I think you guys realize that. At least I hope for your sakes you do.
  8. davearm2
    Oh please, don't be so literal and naive. What did you expect him to say, "We find your cheating to be rather unsportsmanlike, and would kindly request that you discontinue it, or you will leave us with no choice but to graze your posterior region with a softly-tossed breaking pitch."
  9. davearm2
    This is getting awfully melodramatic with the life threatening injury hysterics. All that happened here is that Bautista was warned to quit cheating, or there would be retaliation, in the form of him getting thrown at. That's how baseball polices itself, and has for decades and decades.
  10. davearm2
    Do you categorize every pitcher that's ever intentionally hit a batter a lunatic?
  11. davearm2
    It would be very interesting to see how sensitive those ratings are to OF assists. Some of the best OFs have very few assists, because guys rarely test them. Meanwhile a guy with a crud arm might get a bunch of assists every year since guys are running at will.
  12. davearm2
    well this player isn't a lunatic or anything. Yeah since throwing at a batter to settle a grudge would be totally unheard of.
  13. davearm2
    Yeah I'm as excited as the next guy to see the Cubs spending on amateurs, but somehow giving 3rd round money to a 10th round talent that's been taken twice in the 20's just doesn't seem like smart business.
  14. davearm2
    and how did that turn out for the cubs? certainly none of those big contracts have hurt the cubs in the past few years. but hey, we were pretty for 2 years in a row, so who cares. Well they won the division, and in one of those years even lead the whole NL in wins. So....good? The only big contract hurting the Cubs is the Soriano one, IMO. MAYBE the Zambrano one, but at 30 he's got plenty of time to turn it around. Even if people are to argue that Jim Hendry is the only Cubs GM to ever take them to 3 playoff appearences and 2 in a row, the fact is that he's also the only Cubs GM to be given the kind of open checkbook that he was, and considering that The Cubs are the lone big market team in the division, he really should have been able to do more. To be fair, the open checkbook era began once MacPhail left. Hendry got handcuffed on a number of bigname guys he wanted to sign.
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    Like Reed Johnson
  16. davearm2
    Apparently 25th round talent + HOF name = 4th/5th round money
  17. davearm2
    Considering the primary issue with Strasburg is health, that's a fairly ridiculous comparison to make. Unless I'm misunderstanding, Strasburg no longer has an issue with his health. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of thought was paid by the Nats and their doctors to Strasburg's recovery path... the timeline, the PT protocol, when he can start throwing again, when he can return to game action, etc. What I'm hearing folks say is that all of that planning and medical expertise, leading up to his return to competitive pitching, should be [expletive]-canned since the Nats aren't contending, even though the recovery is otherwise on track.
  18. davearm2
    There's a cap on the number of days a rehab stint can last. Not sure of the exact number though; it's like 10 or 15 days IIRC.
  19. davearm2
    That, plus Joe Carter is overrated. Even in his prime, he was a low-OBP, .800ish OPS guy that didn't play much defense. Quite similar to the 2009-2011 version of Soriano, actually.
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    That, plus the consideration that he's healthy enough to play baseball, and it's baseball season. Holding him out just because the Nats are out of contention doesn't make any sense either. By that logic, the Cubs should send Castro home.
  21. davearm2
    Oh please. None of these three guys were under team control beyond the year they were traded. DeRosa played in 71 games for the Indians, 0 of which came after the year he was traded. Barrett played in 74 games for the Padres, 30 of which came after the year he was traded. Walker played in 44 games for the Padres, 0 of which came after the year he was traded. These guys were definitely not long-term answers for the teams they went to.
  22. davearm2
    Todd Walker, Michael Barrett and Mark DeRosa were all better players than Reed Johnson. DeRosa, yes, but he brought two other guys as well. Beyond that, you're splitting hairs. I get Johnson's BABIP is high, but the guy is having a great year, can play all 3 OF positions, and is cheap. Guys like that have value to contenders. Walker are Barrett had been legitimate starting caliber players for contending teams in previous years. Now they were both obviously on the downslopes of their careers, but there's still some degree of upside to guys who have shown more in the past (remember our Jim Edmonds acquisition?). Reed Johnson has never been perceived as a starting caliber player. Again, I'm not saying I don't see the value in Reed Johnson. I absolutely do see it. I just see that utility guys and 4th outfielders bring back less in trades than guys teams are planning to plug in as the starter. Point taken. I just don't see that large a gap in these guys' trade value. Or much of a gap at all.
  23. davearm2
    I don't think we're talking about giving him a job. Just a "Sammy Sosa Day" or somesuch honor, where the freeze-out is thawed.
  24. davearm2
    That's probably because Castro doesn't weakly ground out to second base (or shortstop, since he's a righty) every other at-bat like 4-3 did. A few folks seemed to get perverse pleasure from pointing out that Pierre led the NL in outs made when he was with the Cubs in '06. Guess who's leading this year. ichiro, mutha [expletive] Ichiro isn't in the NL, partner.
  25. davearm2
    Todd Walker, Michael Barrett and Mark DeRosa were all better players than Reed Johnson. DeRosa, yes, but he brought two other guys as well. Beyond that, you're splitting hairs. I get Johnson's BABIP is high, but the guy is having a great year, can play all 3 OF positions, and is cheap. Guys like that have value to contenders.
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