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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I just hope we can break up the perfect game.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Don't feed the morons Kyle.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I've had just about enough of Tony Campana, starting CF
  4. SouthSideRyan
    2 of those starts were against the Yankees and Red Sox. Like I said, we're probably going to get a perfect game tossed against us.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    That's a very interesting point. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that this is kind of like throwing stuff up against the wall and seeing what sticks, in their way of trying to find whatever the new "market inefficiency' is. Dayton Moore (Royals GM) said in a recent radio interview that they target guys who have recently started pitching for wear and tear reasons. He basically said HS and college coaches don't have a clue what they're doing. I'm sure a lot don't have a clue what they're doing, but there's plenty that know what they're doing and don't care.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Opponents have hit .329/.388/.539 vs Verlander his last 3 starts. We're definitely going down Steve Nebraska style.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Yep, this will probably happen.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    this alone is like $400M worth of commitments Not if you don't extend Garza.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    I'm sure Lalli will be gone next time they need one.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    What exactly is wrong with asking a question? Bill Simmons brings it up every time he talks to Stern. "Hey commissioner, were you involved in the cover-up on the Bison Dele murder?" "Just asking a question here" It's not a random question out of nowhere, it's a question on a topic that people discuss all the time. And a topic that Stern has heard discussed all the time. Would you be ok with a journalist asking Obama about 9-11 being an inside job?
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I hope he really is starving.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    What exactly is wrong with asking a question? Bill Simmons brings it up every time he talks to Stern. "Hey commissioner, were you involved in the cover-up on the Bison Dele murder?" "Just asking a question here"
  13. SouthSideRyan
    http://deadspin.com/5914370/no-matter-who-wins-the-nba-draft-lottery-is-fixed
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Stewart is 36th among 167 qualifiers in K% He's 35th out of those 36 in wOBA Striking out too much was not his problem.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    If you signed a FA and he blocks a prospect, you trade one of them for something you need. You will never know exactly who your prospects are in the majors.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Well we were talking about building a serious/annual contender. That's roughly what it would take to do it. If we were just trying to keep the team around .500 and treading water like the old FO last offseason we probably would have re-signed Aramis, signed E. Jackson, signed on of Dejesus/Cespedes/Willingham, add a overpriced bullpen arm or two and probably brought Pena back. I guess that team would be a "contender" in a broad sense but certainly not a serious one or one that people would think would be around for years. Would that have been so bad? Theo's legacy was as a drafting and development expert who built from the later rounds and the end of the first round. Why couldn't he build all that here while still giving them a chance to fluke into a 2006 Cardinals situation? So you basically want Theo to impliment Hendry's way of building teams and hope he can continue his success of building teams from late round picks, in a drafting environment that has drastically changed from when he was in Boston and when draft picks are such a crap shoot? You want us to purposely tank for 8 years so we can build a team solely through top 10 picks? #DICHOTOMY
  17. SouthSideRyan
    AND IAN STEWART LOLOLOLOL
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I bet we get a hit in the first 7 batters.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Stop the presses It's just a flier.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    If he only plays a few games between now and the end of the year, then yeah, you have to non-tender him. If you mean he comes back but the wrist is still clearly bothering him, then it's a more complicated situation. I don't think it's too complicated. He's making 2.25M this year. He's not getting that on the open market after his '11 and '12.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    That team would win 110 games.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Vitters is already on the 40 man, the option was burnt in March. You don't bring him up because he's 22 years old playing okayish in AAA. He still has plenty to learn down there, and it's not exactly now or never for him.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    You definitely non-tender him.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    HENDRY WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT
  25. SouthSideRyan
    That and by the time we are serious/annual contenders Rizzo should be in his prime while Fielder/Pujols will be exiting theirs or already out of it and I think Rizzo in his prime will be greater than those two out of theirs Not that I disagree with davell, but that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Part of the reason Pujols/Fielder would be out of their primes by time we were serious contenders is because we didn't try to become serious contenders during their primes.
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