SouthSideRyan
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I find Theo a little overrated. Good GM for sure, but I'd put him on the 2nd tier. Of course it's damn near impossible comparing GMs in a vaccum when payroll is such a huge factor in how they work. -
Beane? really? Schuerholz, Ryan, and Jocketty are gone.(Not saying they were all better, just that people would often have them as better) Only ones left in his league are Dombrowski and Shapiro.
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yep thats the point half of the time And the other half? bustin chops.
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They got 4 of the their top 7 but it was 2, 3, 5 and 7 or some combination like that. They didn't even get #1. I saw them saying this on ESPN and it's a stupid way of making what the Mets gave up look better when what they gave up was not at all a steep price. (By the way, I'm tired of seeing the media say the Mets paid a steep price for Santana. They didn't. Quantity isn't quality. Quit saying it.) To mainstream media that's all they are. Every prospect is exactly the same. Unless they've had a cup of coffee in the majors and did well in it.
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Bako's ZiPS projection: 193/.261/.218
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Especially funny this year since the SEC is total ass in basketball.
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your nuts (see what I just did there?) What about his nuts?
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Bustin chops.
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Of course they can. It'd be a 7 game series.
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I bet I could make the team at NJ Institute of Technology.
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Fukudome article - (Discusses his weaknesses)
SouthSideRyan replied to Wrigley Rat's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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It's shortsighted to say that the DH has nothing to do with it. The ability to store impact hitters who may get hurt/rehurt in that spot has allowed many AL teams to be more aggressive in getting FA hitters. Magglio Ordonez is the prime example of this. Ordonez is the prime example because he didn't get hurt. If he did get hurt/rehurt, he would be an albatross. Fielding a DH means you have to pay 9 starting caliber hitters. That 9th spot in the NL is taken by a Daryle Ward type, saving money, allowing that money to be allocated to a smaller amount of players.
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I know it's against the religion of this board to say anything positive about Andy MacPhail, but perhaps this Bedard thing with Seattle has been drawn out because the Orioles wanted to see what the Twins got for Santana. My thinking is that MacPhail was tipped off by somebody in the league office over the weekend that the Santana trade would be going down soon, so he decided to wait it out. I think we'll see Bedard dealt in the next 48 hours. My gut says Seattle too, but I wouldn't rule out a NL contender seeing as the Mets just improved themselves. Maybe he wants to trade Bedard and Roberts for Santana. :lol: Seriously, that explanation would make sense if they weren't getting some pretty nice prospects in the deal. But it seems like the players they were rumored to be getting from Seattle was about as good as they are going to get for Bedard. There's another element to consider. The teams who lose out on the Santana derby can now switch gears and offer up prospects for Bedard. If a team truly "lost out" on the Santana derby(as in their offer wasn't enough) then their offer was somewhere along the lines of a new jockstrap and some slightly used big league chew
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The DH has nothing to do with the AL being better lately. It's because the AL has teams that will spend money, the NL has teams that won't. The Cubs, Dodgers, and Mets have to spend big money and establish themselves such to force other teams to try and truly improve themselves to make themselves or become the Pirates.
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Nevermind.
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That is not a steep price. Mulvey's the only one I particularly like.
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I could be wrong. They might already be on a tighter leash due to Sampson's earlier improprieties. I was just thinking with regards to KU's recent run-in under Roy's watch. There were some gifts given to players, and Darnell Jackson took some cash from a "longtime friend," and we got tapped pretty lightly. The football team had worse violations (fudging grades). Overall, I think we were hit with the Lack of Inst. Control, and all it cost us was schollies for both teams, no post-season bans. In a vacuum, those violations are worse than the ones at IU (unless I misunderstood the nature of the violations there), but maybe Sampson's history will be a fctor. The violations themselves at IU aren't the problem.(They are rather minor.) It's that they are the same type of violations he committed previously at OU, and that he was reprimanded for. Kinda an eff you to the NCAA.
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The Starting 9 Ticket Pack anyone?
SouthSideRyan replied to windycityfan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I got yelled at last time I weighed in, but the timing of the games just aren't worth it to me. My budget can't afford to lock in 7 games at inconvenient times when I'd rather put that money towards 10 games that fit best into my plans. -
I fully admit my biases, but a "tighter leash" and a scholly reduction seems like nothing to me. IU already was short a scholly for next year because Bud Mackey was on crack. A tighter leash was supposedly already on Sampson since he had violations at OU. Samspon violated those terms and you just are going to tighten the leash again? Fool me once...
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interesting. this might be a stupid question, but who is Loren Tate? do you have a link? thanks. Champaign News-Gazette. Illini Basketball reporter. His reliability isn't the greatest according to illiniboard.com It's a pay article, apparently he says this: Some things he knows: -NCAA is chasing complaints from other universities, -Quizing prep prospects that may have been contacted during dead periods, -Analyzing Senderoff dealings (including those 2 Ebanks), -Sampson calls weren't minor when taken in context to prior violations and him being president of Nat Assoc of Basketball Coaches. Here's what he thinks: Probation, Sampson and Greenspan are gone. Zero tolerance and lack of support by Alumni and former players brings down the house of cards.
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Political affiliation Democrat/Republican/Independent
SouthSideRyan replied to hardcorecubfan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If I recall the article correctly, some of the students mentioned that because they were in New York their vote didn't make much of a difference. I may be rememberring wrongly though. -
I'd likely be in for the 10th and the 31st.
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What a joke... I'm glad the insiders are confirming what the national reporters are saying. Otherwise ya just know it wasn't true.
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i saw something on the espn bottom line about clemens
SouthSideRyan replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm guessing that was talking about his agent releasing a report using stats that was supposed to show he didn't use steroids. -
Pretty much what I was thinking of though I didn't notice what he was wearing. McCarthy and Anderson were a big hit with the hooded sweatshirt crowd.
