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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I don't even have the energy for it anymore.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    I can't vouch for Williams, but Oswalt and Peavy are hunting buddies with the guy who owns KAMs. They've come by to hang out in the past after a trip.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Oh the Yankees are willing to trade the scraps they don't want anymore for Peavy?
  4. SouthSideRyan
    And this gives me a pretty weak excuse to bring this back from '05.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Steve Stone implied it, so pretty much every White Sox fan believes it. There's no reasoning with them, just let it die.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah, I really doubt he's outright making this up. I'm guessing he's talking to a friend who's a low-level nobody with the Padres who talked to another low-level nobody who heard something from a mid-level nobody. Each of these nobodies liking to feel important and a part of a baseball organization liberally spreads any hint they've picked up from somebody who actually means something in the organization. Pretty soon, a vague idea of what the Padres want in return from the Cubs becomes a concrete idea of what the Cubs will receive from the Padres.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    If he's reporting what he was told by whoever this source may be, what would his intelligence have at all to do with it? Believing a non-source would indicate he's very very dumb.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    So you don't want to trade Vitters because then you lose the trade value of Vitters...how many bigger fish exist than Jake Peavy? Sorry, that's just a nonsense argument. I'd say there's more than a handful of guys that are worth more than Jake Peavy when considering contract. Peavy is one of the best pitchers in baseball, but he's also making a lot of money(whether he's still a bargain is besides the point) Beyond that you're talking about giving up Vitters in addition to other prospects. It's not that hard to look back to just last summer where people were fine giving up Vitters for Harden or whomever because "it's been 100 years, what are you waiting for with Vitters, what are you going to get better than Harden?" You don't give up more than you have to, and Vitters probably isn't necessary to get Peavy.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    JR Towles award for excellence.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    So Olney and Rosenthal just reported 2 very different stories. Which is more reliable (or least unreliable) of those 2? I thought the Cubs were loaded with pitching prospects (Marshall, Ceda, Hart, Veal, Hill, etc.) and weak on positional prospects. :-k We're not really "loaded" with anything. Marshall and Ceda are pretty decent chits. Hart and Veal are throw in types and Hill is a wild card whether a team agrees with DiamondMind or not.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Wow, I disagree with a lot of that.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Either Burnett or Lowe. I'd go real hard after Lowe regardless of what happens. I'm a big Lowe fan. So would I, but I think Lowe is likely to head to either New York or prolly Boston if the Red Sox wants him. Lowe will not be going back to Boston. It didn't work out too well for him the first time around. ?
  13. SouthSideRyan
    And Loney came in 7th place. I mean, there were question on whether Loney was a rookie or not in 2007. MLB has since removed Loney from the standings. BTF speculates that it was a programming error on their side.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    What? No they wouldn't. They may be extra parts for Oakland, but there's no way talent for talent they'd get a package equal to this.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Bonaificio is so bad that I don't even care if I'm misspelling his name.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I don't know what's sadder that James Loney almost wasn't even a rookie in '07, or that MLB.com apparently didn't realize this.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    He was talking about last year's playoffs, and I'd say the Braves were a favorite heading into the year with a full year of Tex.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    This is a pretty weird trade if Oakland isn't extending him. And even if they are, it's still out there.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    I think that might even be a little optimistic on Dempster. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see his ERA wind up a good bit higher than that. I would. It's not like it was a fluky year where Dempster outperformed his peripherals by a huge margin. It was a fluky year in the sense that he's never pitched that well before. I expect regression for sure, but I'd expect him to be somewhere in the 3s.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Iowa was like 13-19 last year, it'd be hard to not improve on that. They won't win more than 6 games in the Big 10 though. And that's with playing IU and NU twice.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    He might have pushed for Victor Zambrano but only and idiot would have traded Kazmir for him. Getting Zambrano wasn't the worst part of the trade. Rumor was he(and Al Leiter) hated Kazmir and wanted him gone.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    He couldn't find 10 minutes.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    erm...no. Iowa will improve a bit from a team that won 6 Big Ten games last season. Iowa lost its best player in Freeman. They lost 3 seniors of consequence in Johnson(played 89% of all minutes), Gorney, and Looby. The incoming class is mediocre at best and the 2 sophomores who had serious time last year were horrendous shooters from inside the arc.(Peterson sucked from outside too) They're basically Indiana with Cyrus Tate.(which admittedly is a huge difference, but it still ain't pretty)
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Yes, on this network you can.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Penn St. isn't that bad. Northwestern is at least better than their 1-17 selves from last year. Iowa I think is gonna be pretty awful though. Indiana should beat them at home. Other than that it's up to stealing a few.
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