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  1. SouthSideRyan
    it's so strange seeing that come out of the cubs front office Mancrush re-growing
  2. SouthSideRyan
    No, you get him playing by midseason so that you know what you have by April 2013. If he doesn't play much this year, and burns next year's option, you have to keep him up in 2014 as a 24 year old potentially not knowing if he's really going to make it. Exactly. I want him up about midseason so he's clearly won the job by next year's spring training. Whoops, misread your original post. I thought you were bemoaning using the option at all next year, not the timing of the call up. Carry on.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Why wouldn't Rizzo? June at the latest. He's 22, and this team is terrible. There's no reason to even consider him on opening day. Why rush him? Let him solidify his abilities in Iowa and call him up in September unless he's absolutely destroying everything. September might be a little late. This would already be Rizzo's second option used up this year. I'd hate to only bring him up in September and still don't know if you have to use his final option next spring training. The 2nd option will be used whether he comes up on April 20th or September 20th. Are you in favor of just handing him the job to save an option we'll probably never use? If you hand him the job to start the year, and he does well, then you wouldn't have needed the option in 2013 anyway. If you hand him the job and he sucks, you have to demote him and you use the option anyway. There is no scenario where it makes sense to put him at Opening Day due to options
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Why wouldn't Rizzo? June at the latest. To steal an extra year of team control out of him, rather than waste one on a lost season.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Cates received the largest 3rd round bonus in the 2010 draft. Didn't move to the mound full-time until the 2010 college season. 2011 Stats HR/9: 0.3 BB/9: 4.0 K/9: 8.5 WP: 15
  6. SouthSideRyan
    And we apparently are in fact cutting payroll by 40M
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Well that was sudden. If we weren't going to use Cashner as anything but a reliever, then this is a great deal. I don't agree with that decision, but I guess I have to trust those in charge in that regard.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Analyst and Therpaist.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    My one rule is that peanut butter [expletive] rules.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    The issue with that analysis is that the same caliber of guys aren't going to be available in those rounds because of the restrictions. It's different holding out and letting people know you need X dollars to sign when you know overslot signing is normal. When you have a new CBA with funky rules, and have no track record to speak of for how teams deal with it, it's too risky.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    yeah i'm sure a major league organization is going to give hush money to a possible rape victim. sounds like a solid p.r. move. Hush money would suggest that it would have been given to her before the reports had actually come out. cash settlements are to avoid dragging a case to court when there's a good chance that there won't be a resolution. It's all a part of this wonderful land we call corporate america, and sports franchises don't react much differently when their best and brightest get themselves into trouble. Please stop. Don't stop him, he's like a bad SVU episode. Sounds like the shortstop...should've stopped short.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Deady Guerrero
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Preferrably together in some sort of fermented chicken drink.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Levine just said Crescendo. As if the rape wasn't bad enough.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Everyone on steroids is a scumbag.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    yeah i'm sure a major league organization is going to give hush money to a possible rape victim. sounds like a solid p.r. move. Hush money would suggest that it would have been given to her before the reports had actually come out. cash settlements are to avoid dragging a case to court when there's a good chance that there won't be a resolution. It's all a part of this wonderful land we call corporate america, and sports franchises don't react much differently when their best and brightest get themselves into trouble. West Side Rooter Esq.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    The only part of him that isn't lazy @thekapman
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I don't know the details of this, but I bet it has something to do with Zambrano's 9M buyout.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    What the hell, man? This is where hardcore and WSR finally merge and become one.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Hey, anything making Will Carroll look like a horse's ass is fine by me.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Well, now I'm just sad.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Ho Lee Sheet
  23. SouthSideRyan
    You act like it was just a link to a box score followed by ranting and raving.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Penn State obviously decided Gruden wasn't a good fit.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Losing multiple first round picks and paying 100% extra is pretty significant - especially considering if we simply compensate by going overslot later in the draft again next year we lose multiple first round picks again. Also, if the plan is full rebuild for 2012 at least, that means we're forfeiting probably a top 5-10 pick. That hurts. And there certainly won't be the same level of talent to overslot, at least until it's established that this is going to be a strategy utilized by multiple teams. No kid is going to hold out for absurd cash to come in the 7th round until they know some team is actually crazy enough to do it.
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