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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Atlanta's got Wickman and Andruw Jones this year, Tim Hudson and John Thomson last year. Oakland's got Eric Chavez, Jason Kendall, and Mark Kotsay. You can spend even larger amounts of money on high paid dreck too. The White Sox won a world series with a team full of middling salary guys and no superstars. The Cardinals did it the other way with a few studs, and the rest dreck. The Red Sox had a couple superstars, and then a bunch of role players. Don't overspend on bad players. Shocking revelation.
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    I've been wondering for awhile. If you DFA guy, you have 10 days to trade him. If you trade him in that window, you're not liable for his contract right? (Obviously, if you have to pitch in money to work the deal you are, but just generally speakign here) Cause I've been arguing for awhile now that DFAing our dead weights, that way getting actual help to the big league club, and putting some pressure on whatever insane teams out there actually want to pay some of the contracts of them by creating an artificial deadline to the market.
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    Not for long. New CEO coming in in the fall. I expect (pray for?) wholesale changes. If I recall, in fact, it was during the recent Cubs' series at Pittsburgh (right before the break) that he announced he was stepping down. That was McClatchey, who headed the group that bought the team. Up until January, McClathcye had been the principle partner. At the time of the purchase, he was the majority shareholder. But, as limited partners sold, the Nutting Family of WV bought them out, gaining the majority in (I think) 2003. Bob Nutting has been Chairman of the board since then, while McClatchey has been the public face. Nutting took over as Principle owner this past offseason, leaving McClatchey as CEO. McClatchye is dropping out of the picture altogether now. No idea if he's selling. I can't imagine anyone coming in as CEO and not making wholesale changes, though. Deck chairs on the Titanic I fear for you. Pittsburgh is gonna be stuck the way they are until those douchebags that run the show sell. And they have no reason to sell right now because they're making money by putting up no effort just collecting their revenue sharing dollars. It's gonna take a stud GM, a mass fan exodus, or a lot of luck to turn things around. It's sad.
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    There would be more scrutiny in this case, but couldn't the phantom injury come before the playoff rosters were set so they could get on? Yes they could, come to think of it. It's why it's a nice idea to not release Novoa and Miller if you don't have to, so that those spots are there for the taking.
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    How can you NOT love this guy (unless you're abuck)? I think he's kinda acting like a jerk with that quote.
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    We'll just pretend that's what they're paying Theriot to actually be somewhat useful at SS. I wouldn't have had a problem with paying 6/3 of Izturis' remaining contract. Sometimes it's just better to pay someone to play for someone else than to continue playing him on your own team. I don't get it... why would Selig allow this and not the Jacque Jones deal? Selig didn't shoot down the Jones deal, Hendry did.
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    TJS is like 12 months these days, but yeah.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I'm going to play that right now in honor of them.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Leon Lee just exposed himself in a hotel room, he didn't blow all his money and act like a complete ass.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    I don't know if somebody else mentioned that or if it was just me, but I was half joking on that due to your similar styles/knowledge. You're not nearly the jagoff mgl is.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Rickey is rolling over in the Mets dugout because of that comparison. I'm not sure Brock was better than Kenny Lofton.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    His .097 batting average and .121 On Base % meant enough to get him a bus ride to Iowa. He'll be back, and hopefully he will be doing what we all feel he is capable of doing. 31 ABs are meaningless enough. 31 ABs over a monthlong period are worse. 31 ABs over a monthlong period with half coming off the bench cold aren't worth the time to come up with something clever to end this. Ronny was absolutely terrible last year. He was also 23. He's done nothing but mash in AAA this year, and has been instructed by my baseball god Von Joshua. I think it's worth giving him a chance. The only problem arising from this as far as promoting Cedeno, promoting Murton are these things have to be accompanied by Jones and Izturis being moved. It's moving the high priced guys that seem to be the problem, not the low priced guys underperforming. Our GM/ownership is too damn stubborn to dump a contract, and it's hurting the team because of it.
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    Cedeno started about 6 games this year, his major league numbers this season mean nothing.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Cliff Floyd is our starting RF. I never want to hear Murton can't play defense as his excuse for not being on the team again.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    It was the thought process behind people wanting Geo Soto to get a chance which the Kendall trade prevented.
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    Gagne would have helped today how exactly?
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    Gambler's fallacy. Starting 2-12 in 1 run games doesn't mean you're due to go 12-2. It means you're due to go 7-7. Law of averages, more so. Flipping a coin 100 times, even if 12 of the first 14 are tails, at the end of that 100 times it's most likely to even out. Sure, that next flip is still 50/50, and any single flip is 50/50, but at some point the greater average trends towards, well, average. That's because at a certain point 14 flips is an insignificant amount. Flipping it 1000 times, after 12 out of 14 you wind up expecting tails 50.5% and heads 49.5% total. If any single flip is 50/50, then the total sum of flips is 50/50.
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    Somebody's bitter that he's of no use to anyone anymore.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Gambler's fallacy. Starting 2-12 in 1 run games doesn't mean you're due to go 12-2. It means you're due to go 7-7.
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    It'd be really weird for the Royals to deal Greinke.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    It's no "Burnitz was 5th in the league in HRs among guys with 120+Ks"
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    i don't care about the white sox You don't live in Chicago. I'm more referring to the fact that the Brewers consider us their arch rivals, and most Cubs fans don't even refer to the Brewers as anything more then they do Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Houston well don't worry, the brewers are gonna be good for the next five years, so you'll get used to thinking of them as a rival Unless we're not good.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I admit I was making fun of the groundscrew guy last night, but now I feel really bad for him after reading this thread.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    I think we did this like 3 years ago and I had Hendry in the top 10, defensibly so. Now, not so much. Schuerholz Dombrowski Beane Beinfest Ryan Shapiro Melvin Jocketty Cashman Towers I'm not crazy about 9 or 10, other guys who could maybe have their spot are Byrnes, Stoneman, Minaya or Williams
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