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  1. Clem Fandango
    I know nothing about intercostal sprains, sounds like a surfing injury. Where is the intercostal? I strained my intercostal muscle last year. It was indeed a suffering injury. It's damn near crippling. I could barely move any parts of my body without feeling some of the sharpest pain I've ever felt. I strained it whilst moving a couch into my office, and then I had to sit and do work the rest of the day and then drive home, and believe me, contorting your body to get in and out of a car with an intercostal strain is not easy. Easily some of the most pain I've ever experienced.
  2. Clem Fandango
    Since we're discussing Smyly...
  3. Clem Fandango
    I think that's far enough down the line that we can't really know. In 3 years, maybe Rizzo's plateaued as less than we expect, maybe he's good but we can trade his last couple years of control for a real big fish, maybe he's out of baseball because his cancer came back. Moreover, here's the 2009 Cubs prospect Top 10: Vitters Shark Cashner Rhee Castillo Hart Castro Flaherty J Jackson HJ Lee Which is just a long way of saying that there isn't any need to brainstorm uses for Vogelbach at the moment. Kevin Hart? I remember him having nice stuff, but I had no idea he was ever that high up. Kevin Hart was the doom bringer. He sucked something fierce.
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  5. Clem Fandango
    Devil's Advocate case for Billy Hamilton... 1) He has increased his walk rate to 12.8% from 8.5% 2) He's lowered his K rate from 21.8% to 17.9% 3) BB/K rate is up from 0.39 to 0.71 4) His ISO is up from .082 to .116 5) wOBA up from .353 to .417 6) He's made significant strides in a league where, if the roster's on B-R are any indication, there are less 21 year olds on the teams than there are older players. That being said... I like Baez a lot better, an also BA said Hamilton likely won't stick at short because of poor hands (despite what they admitted was above average range). Also, while looking up those ages, I stumbled upon this guy... http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=morban001jul Julio Morban. Got some good numbers (but poor plate patience it seems), what's his story, anyone know? 20 is young for that league, is it not?
  6. Clem Fandango
    He'd have to approve the Pirates re-drafting him. Ahhhhhhh did not know that. Said it as a joke, but that's actually really important information I didn't know, lol.
  7. Clem Fandango
    I hope that's 100% accurate. Even if they don't land Greinke or Hamels there are guys like Edwin Jackson, Brandon McCarthy, etc. who could be cheap(er), productive alternatives that could help round out the rotation at a fraction of the cost. And even then they could do some dumpster diving and grab guys like Liriano or Ervin Santana (if he's bought out)
  8. Clem Fandango
    The sweetest irony would probably be if Appel's high contract demands again have him fall to the 9th pick and the Pirates select him again and can't meet his demands and he doesn't sign.
  9. Clem Fandango
    I've always been under the assumption that they are going after near MLB ready young arms using Garza and Dempster as the bait so that they don't need to rely on free agency to do so, especially since they have the 2014 contingency plan (or whatever you want to call it that we keep hearing about).
  10. Clem Fandango
    I hope they do too, I just question whether or not they will.
  11. Clem Fandango
    Touché. But are we really anticipating going after either of them with this plan the FO has set in motion?
  12. Clem Fandango
    Going for that AAA series crown
  13. Clem Fandango
    Back on topic... -ish http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/brewers-prepared-to-offer-greinke-extension.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook I sure hope he does. And I sure hope Amaro resigns Hamels. Taking Hamels and Greinke off the market before the deadline would all but guarantee a HUGE return for Garza and Dempster
  14. Clem Fandango
    Amaro traded away all the players that would've/could be developed into useful major leaguers. Travis d'Arnaud, Kyle Drabek, Michael Taylor, Jarred Cosart, Jonathan Singleton, Domingo Santana, among others. The only one he's held onto is Domonic Brown, and you see how far his stock has fallen. Seriously take a look at their drafts since 2009: http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/team/draft.jsp?c_id=phi&year=2009 Just a big pile of hot garbage. He's not setting them up for [expletive] in the future. If these high priced veterans don't get healthy and pump out the best results they can before father time takes its course they're fucked for a long time, because then all their high priced talent becomes untradeable because they're either too old and aren't worth it or they're winding up in their last years and they won't get much in return. This decade is all doom and gloom for the Phillies unless they decide they want to say "[expletive] the system" and pay the luxury tax and open up the pocketbooks for the best FA's on the market, cause that's the only way they're gonna be able to compete over the next several years and that's not even a recipe for success.
  15. Clem Fandango
    God bless Larry Lucchino for being an absolute [expletive] and allowing us to get Theo and Co. as a result of his power trip insanity.
  16. Clem Fandango
    Why? It's not like the Phillies are going to do a full on rebuild. We're talking one of the best young pitchers in baseball here. Is this a serious post? Amaro has been awful and has basically doomed the Phillies to high-payroll suckitude for the foreseeable future. And all they got was 5 lousy consecutive division titles, 2 stupid pennants, and 1 crappy World Series. No the [expletive] he didn't. Phillies won in 2008. Amaro took over in 2009. Pat Gillick and Ed Wade did all that, and they were also was responsible for acquiring the players that got them there (i.e. Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, etc.) Ruben Amaro Jr. took over a World Series Champion and proceeded to [expletive] all over their future.
  17. Clem Fandango
    Jayson Stark needs to stop posting that slash line. He's blowing it for us!!!!!
  18. Clem Fandango
    He's also helped to warp the FA market a bit by handing out ridiculous contracts to guys like Ryan Howard and Jonathan Papelbon. I can only imagine the contract he gives Hamels will top Sabathia's by a wide margin
  19. Clem Fandango
    If Boras files a lawsuit against MLB and it forced their hand to revert the draft rules back to the way they were I may actually applaud him for that, but in a "You magnificent bastard!" kind of way.
  20. Clem Fandango
    I don't know how to do this in the interface, but you can always open any link in a new browser window by holding down the ctrl key when you click the link. Yeah I know, and I try and do that most of the time, but I forget more often than not. Oh well, no worries. Just curious if there was a way to automate it
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    Is there a way in the CP that I'm not seeing that allows the ability for links posted within the threads to open up in a new tab/window? I always get frustrated when i open a link, read it, then close out of that tab to get back to NSBB, but then realize it didn't open up in a new tab, and I closed out of the NSBB window. Just curious
  22. Clem Fandango
    I'd appreciate these more if the copyright watermark didn't cover everything up
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  24. Clem Fandango
    I smell a sitcom
  25. Clem Fandango
    I forgot he even existed
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