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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I think it's a given that an outfielder will be called up before tomorrow's game. Calling up a pitcher to replace Byrd on the roster was a move for one game, to provide bullpen depth behind Russell. It would be an interesting story if it is Montanez: Former Cubs' #1 draft pick makes Cubs' debut more than a decade after being drafted after first spending time in the ex-Cubs' rest home in Baltimore. :D I dont mind calling up Montanez. Or LaHair or Snyder, who are all pretty much interchangeable, but I wonder of that 1 bad slide came between Brett Jackson and a callup. I wonder if their will be any correspoinding roster moves for Iowa, Tennessee, and Daytona, or if Iowa will jutst stick with an extra pitcher. There's no reason to call up Brett Jackson this early. If we did, he'd qualify for Super 2 status and assuming he develops into a pretty good player, that can end up costing the club upwards of $10 mil or even $15 mil over the course of his club-controlled years. Since adding him a month early likely wont make the difference of us making the playoffs this year, it would be a very bad idea to just throw that money down the drain. How long do you expect Byrd to be out?
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    [expletive] YOU
  3. SouthSideRyan
    You know what I mean. When someone signs him, and Im sure they will. He must be at least a type B. It's pretty damn unlikely they'd offer him arbitration.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Buying sLOWey.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Oh, I thought he was hurt.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    11-7 in one run games (a worse winning % than their total). It feels like they're winning every close game, because it feels like they're winning every game period. They'd have to play 54-63 the rest of the way to win 84 games. I'll take the over.
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    The Rangers, duh. Do you think they would have traded him if the plan was working as expected? The trade was an epic failure on the Rangers part. They ate 67M of the 179M left on A-Rod's contract to get rid of him for an inferior player 6 months his younger. They paid 80M for 2 years of Soriano and the return on his trade to Washington rather than 7 years of A-Rod for 179M. Just hilariously awful.
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    He always winds up off to the left for some reason.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    His live-tweeting of it won me over enough that I won't even make a joke.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Holy [expletive].
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Fred's broke.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    It not just those guys. It's if the Cubs keep talking themselves out of guys like Dunn and Fielder and Pujols and whoever shows up. There's always going to be a good argument against sinking a ton of money into a FA superstar. If the Cubs keep listening to that side of things they're not going to be very good unless they pull of some miracle trades and/or some miracles happen in the farm system. It doesn't matter, the same people will want to let Castro walk when he's a free agent because it's too big of a risk to commit that much money to one player. Think of how many John Macdonalds we can buy with the money we'd be paying Castro.
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    Are you talking about the situation in general or what he said in the article? The situation in general. You got to control yourself in this day and age with cameras around, especially after what happened to Kobe. Joakim must not have seen those Grant Hill anti-gay commercials they play every five minutes during NBA games. I don't think you quite understood Mr. Hill's message.
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    That depends on how long Byrd will be on the shelf. If its the 15 day minumum, it wouldnt make sense to start Bretts clock for a 2 week stint. However, if Byrd will be out for an extensive period of time, it would be interesting to see them call him up. You'd like to think Jackson's option clock won't be an issue. Actually, you'd like to think that it would. If we're here in 3 years bemoaning the fact that we called up Brett Jackson a month too early and it's now going to cost us $10 million extra in arbitration, I'll be a pretty happy camper as that means BJax will be one heck of a player. On the other hand, if he's going to be that good, why waste him on this crappy bunch so early (like we did with Castro last year). I would have rather delayed Starlin by a month and saved the arbitration money he'll get with a super 2, but whatever. The Cubs can afford it. He won't become a super 2 from being on the major league roster for 15 days. The only way a short-term call up affects him is burning an option year. (Reference Corey Patterson - Debut in 2000, didn't hit arbitration til 2005.)
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    Are you talking about the situation in general or what he said in the article? The situation in general. You got to control yourself in this day and age with cameras around, especially after what happened to Kobe. That's the real idiocy, you saw what just went down with Kobe, how do you repeat the exact same slur? I'm a little surprised you have quotes from James and Deng somewhat excusing it based on cameras being everywhere and the fan being annoying. Not really savvy, just give a no comment and get yourself the hell out of that situation without dumping on your fellow player nor tacitly excusing the slur.
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    That depends on how long Byrd will be on the shelf. If its the 15 day minumum, it wouldnt make sense to start Bretts clock for a 2 week stint. However, if Byrd will be out for an extensive period of time, it would be interesting to see them call him up. You'd like to think Jackson's option clock won't be an issue.
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    That's davearm we do it!
  18. SouthSideRyan
    That's not factoring in free throws, right? It is not. I'm not on the up-and-up with basketball metrics, so I'm not even sure if that's something you can easily look up. I would think there wouldn't be a huge variance as the successful basket AND made foul shot probably brings it back pretty close when you figure in missed buckets and missed free throws in those cases. Adding in free throws is going to give Rose's 2 point attempts a huge advantage. 1. a missed shot resulting in free throws doesn't count as a FGA 2. It's rare you get fouled on a 3.
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    Not as alarming as what I viewed to be a pretty decent coaching job from the Hawks guy.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Superstar fouls exist because stars will get the benefit of the doubt from an official. The ref knows Player A is good, so when player A starts telling him he's getting hacked, they're inclined to believe it. When Player Z starts saying it, it's shut up you're a 2nd year scrub that scores 3 points per game, you're trying to tell me that Player A can't stop you without cheating?
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Is there an explanation regarding Rose's 3 point shooting going cold in the 2nd half? Was it just an insanely hot December? Wear and tear from a long-ass season on the smaller body of a 22 year old who started drawing a lot of contact around the same time? Rose was 9th in total minutes played on the season and was 2nd only to Kobe in usage rate. I personally think Thibs should've sacrificed a few regular season wins in order to rest Rose and Deng a little more. I made it clear that I thought chasing the best record in the NBA was a foolish endeavor, and it's easy to say with the hindsight of the Bulls lapping the field in the East, but it didn't seem worth it to me.
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    While I agree with Truffle's "WHO CARES" sentiment, I'd like to point out that davearm "rounded" 3.06M to 3.1M.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    It was a joke. If we can't laugh at conspiracy theorists who can we laugh at? (Yeah, I know Danny Ainge for trading for Jeff Green)
  24. SouthSideRyan
    2 week ban for Truffle.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    The mods and I don't share your opinion. I wanna talk to Cuse about this.
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