SouthSideRyan
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Right, Buxton is the one with the surest bet to become an all-star to me.
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Good God, what kind of numbers do you think he's going to put up? Something between "Trout light" and "Actual Trout" What is "trout lite" in your scenario. Somebody who kinda only relies on his speed
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Buxton/Sano or Almora/Bryant? You have to choose a pair. Buxton/Sano
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Ruiz is 35, but he has less mileage on him than most any other 35 year old catcher. McCann is 5 years younger and he's caught 98 more games than him. -
A FA deal can be considered reasonable without it being a 1Y/2M injury rehab.
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Part of Ruiz's diminished playing time was due to a 25 game adderall suspension. He's 34, but he still graded out very well on defense, and is all of one year removed from a .935 OPS. It's not really an unreasonable contract
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That first trade offer was awful, which makes me think he won't be a good partner
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Thats kinda cherry-picking. I could say that the gamecocks are the only team to give two top 18 teams their only loss. Beside ASU and UCLA play on saturday so stanford will only hold that distinction for a few days. Bottom line they lost to a bad team and a mediocre team. USC is ranked now, so how mediocre are they, really? And ND is the only other team to defeat 3 currently-ranked teams, so if you want me to extend to the top 25, the point still stands. Stanford has far, FAR better wins than Oklahoma State or Michigan State. Moreover, if you consider USC mediocre, than what do you think of three-loss ND (MSU's loss) and SEVEN-loss West Virginia (Oklahoma State's)? What's the argument that USC is better than ND? ND beat USC head to head, and won a game against mutual opponent ASU who USC lost to by 20.
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Bunch of cocksmen around here.
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Yes. I used to kind of enjoy him in the 80s...I have a hard time even remembering why at this point I'm too young to remember it, but clips I've seen of him from the 80s/early 90s he was very good. He became a parody of himself some point around the time I started watching, and now he's added preachiness to his complete lack of analysis and screaming.
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Dick Vitale is just unbearable.
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Just like the statement the 76ers made against the Heat
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Stop screaming Tracy. (I'd make her scream)
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Auburn couldn't find a way to phantomly run those 3 seconds off the clock? They just stole 2 seconds on the previous play
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Wait. Did you just say IU could put up 500 yards on Bama?
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Offseason Rumors
SouthSideRyan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Goodness -
Iowa's last tourney appearance was against Northwestern State
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Offseason Rumors
SouthSideRyan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
If there is a pitching starved team out there looking to add 2 rotation pieces, and loses out on Tanaka, Garza, Santana, Jimenez, Kazmir, Nolasco, etc... in free agency, and doesn't have the luxury of trading prospects or surplus hitting to get a starter, then I could see that team looking at EJax's 3 years and 33 million, and saying "not ideal, but not bad either." Personally, I think the Cubs could get the Giants and Blue Jays interested. Oh, I think he IS tradeable. Just doubt we'd get much for him currently. If he has a 3ish ERA at the break next year, some team may give up a top 100 guy + at that point, based on the reasonable contract. Even with the decent peripherals, I think his true numbers look too bad for someone to give up a halfway solid return currently. I was looking at it purely as salary relief. If I got just a fringe prospect, but freed up the $11M per season, I'd call it a win and move to the next order of business. He should have never been signed in the first place. We all knew it the day it happened - panic move after losing out on signing Anibal. Theo basically confessed to it this week. No, we all didn't know it. Jackson is still worth his contract. He only shouldn't have been signed in the first place if you don't plan on competing until 2017. -
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SouthSideRyan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
But trading Shark would open a gaping hole in the rotation... -
From on high comes the brilliant soothsayer. Maybe you should've been on the Illinois staff that thought they were getting him as of this morning. Go eat a sandwich by yourself.
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He basically said, " I know this is their first moment and their big moment, but these coaches bust their butts and you don't need to play games. That isn't fair to John Groce. He is going to be a beast, but lets not start things off like that." It's hard to disagree with that. It's weird when these kids do the preamble where they thank everyone for pursuing them and then turn around and pull a move like that. Someone did it to KU a few years ago, and I was pretty chapped. Its ignorance and self-centeredness. I was almost more annoyed at his mom laughing about it.
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Hopefully your stadium burns down ETA: :D
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I turrned it off, but I guess Jay Williams tore into him about the hat fakeout?
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You're weird
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What an [expletive]
