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  1. Roast
    Best of luck in life after baseball, Mr. Clement. I always loved that slider of his. It was wicked.
  2. Roast
    Yeah I got it. I was only kidding. Hence the emoticon. Then sign up for Teh Funny 101 because that was turrrrrible. Sorry I don't meet your standards for kidding around?
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    I like this: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cheering_fans_thrilling_ncaa
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    Yeah I got it. I was only kidding. Hence the emoticon.
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    Same here. I'm not sure if it's just the heartbreak of the past two years or if there are other factors. Agree. I'm really underwhelmed with excitement for tomorrow. I mean, sure it'll be nice to watch Cubs baseball again (maybe), but I can hardly say I'm excited. What a bunch of sucks. It's baseball, for God's sake. Stop embarassing yourselves. Attached to your post there are pictures including Rod Blagojevich, George Bush, and Dusty Baker. I feel that I'm doing pretty good :wink:
  6. Roast
    Same here. I'm not sure if it's just the heartbreak of the past two years or if there are other factors. Agree. I'm really underwhelmed with excitement for tomorrow. I mean, sure it'll be nice to watch Cubs baseball again (maybe), but I can hardly say I'm excited.
  7. Roast
    Hooray for night game and ESPN. If it were a day game I'd have to miss it for class - as i can't skip that class, and if it were only on CSN my stupid freaking dorm wouldn't carry it. Thus, hooray on all counts.
  8. Roast
    I may be blind but i couldn't find the link for the free beta test of the mlb.tv player. could someone shoot me a link?
  9. Roast
    I know someone posted a thread a long time ago saying that BR was updating their site and such, but I just went over there to check some stats and it looks like it's completely changed over now. Previously they just had a couple of example pages - now everyone that I search is updated and the homepage is as well. It looks freaking sweet. http://www.baseball-reference.com
  10. Roast
    Yeah, exactly. It's a real small section pressed up against the LF foul pole. It's a pretty nice view and you can actually see pretty much the entire field, which isn't the case for a few seats in the ballpark.
  11. Roast
    Trading might be pretty difficult. Your best bet would probably be to talk to the ticket broker guys next to the red line station and see if they can give you a trade or anything. The do buy tickets so its a possibility. Just be careful - while i'm sure trades are fine selling tickets on the street there is illegal and believe it or not the cops do nab people on occasion. So if you're going to do that make sure you get away from the ballpark a bit.
  12. Roast
    I believe it's just a donation to the site that allows them to keep working the magic that they do.
  13. Roast
    That is, apparently, because the cubs scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 2nd. EDIT: looks like K. Hill had a bases loaded triple.
  14. Roast
    And of course march 31 this year was a hell of a lot nicer weather than last year when we had to open in that rain. Figures.
  15. Roast
    Hey, I heard Aramis Ramirez is going to make the squad for us this year. :wink: Seriously, though. I hope Veal does really well. Mainly because I have his autograph and hope to sell it for lots of cash one day.
  16. Roast
    he's done it twice in his entire career, and that was when he actually stayed healthy and productive. now he's 40 years old and his numbers have been in serious decline. the chance of him hitting 40 homers is probably less than 1%. It's funny, I was listening to ESPN a few days ago and they were talking about how from the looks of things Sheff's bat speed had returned and they expected him to really pick it up soon. Then they released him.
  17. Roast
    I agree on almost all counts, except the idea that he did it with peavy in mind. Hendry usually seems pretty straight forward with us (us=fanbase) about what he's thinking. That is, he may not always be forthcoming with info but when he does talk about transactions he usually doesn't B.S. us. Or so it seems. Anyway, my point is that every time I heard him talk this offseason (mainly at the convention) the way he explained it was that he moved DeRosa out of necessity - not related to Peavy. The way he put it was that there was a general consensus that we needed to be more 'left handed.' That means saying goodbye to at least one of the righties on the team. Obviously Lee, Ramirez, and Soriano weren't going anywhere. That left DeRosa, pretty much. (or theriot, I guess). Getting rid of DeRosa was essentially a way of putting two lefties in the lineup for the price of one righty in that Fontenot could step into his place at second plus it freed up the money for Bradley. Certainly I think Hendry wanted Peavy but the more I hear Jim talk the more I believe that his intentions in trading DeRosa actually did not involve Peavy.
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    I guess that just depends on how much stock we put into defensive metrics that we all know to be fairly flawed. They're getting better, but I don't know if I put enough stock in them to put them ahead of what my eyes tell me in a case like Soriano's. Granted, the throwing out runners point is valid. Yeah, he has a freaking cannon for an arm and he's quick enough to have pretty good range. That's not his problem, though. His problem is that he just tends to take either poor routes to balls or he (appears to, anyway) pull up on balls early sometimes out of fear of injury (i.e. collision with the wall/pulling a hammy) All in all he's pretty good and his arm makes up for how godawful he looks on occasion. No one will confuse him with a great defender, but he's not bad.
  19. Roast
    Indeed. I'm in favor.
  20. Roast
    Apparently Dusty is jonesing for some Sheffield.
  21. Roast
    How are baggy pants modern? http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Ty_Cobb_Biography_4.jpg http://www.workers.org/2007/us/Jackie_Robinson.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/861/000085606/cy-young-1-sized.jpg i meant this type of baggy pants. i guess low baggy pants. http://images.quickblogcast.com/0/4/5/6/2/135438-126540/340px_Manny_Ramirez.JPG So really the exact same thing only with low socks.
  22. Roast
    Yeah, I realize my team will be fairly mediocre - at least as far as 10-team leagues go - until mid-may when Ervin and Arod come back. I see no reason why that team shouldn't make the playoffs, though, barring a major injury.
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    How are baggy pants modern? http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Ty_Cobb_Biography_4.jpg http://www.workers.org/2007/us/Jackie_Robinson.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/861/000085606/cy-young-1-sized.jpg
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    +1,000,000,000,000 And the blues need to get some more respect around these parts. They're nothing like the pinstripes - but they are so, so much better than those nasty gray uniforms.
  25. Roast
    Best first overall pick ever.
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