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Everything posted by XZero771679666304
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unreal. I wonder what that price tag will look like if he hits free agency. High, but his injury history will mitigate it. That genius Phil Rogers wrote the Milwaukee is the best fit. Yeah, that's likely. -
unreal. Who was the douche here basically rooting for him to relapse? I don't know, but it's hard not to root for the guy. I just hope he can stay healthy.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-11-12
XZero771679666304 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
HR Vitters -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-11-12
XZero771679666304 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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You're not owed any more than half the people on this board, quit your wailing
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Maybe it's just me, but it seems that for a guy who bunts a lot, Tony isn't very good at it.
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Soriano is almost certainly 36. His breakdown doesn't seem extreme or fishy. Yes, his contract has been a disaster. In other news, the sun is hot. Rizzo probably isn't coming up until after the ASB, and Soriano probably isn't going anywhere. None of this was worth a new topic.
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Awesome.
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Pujols sucking makes Cardinals fans feel better, so I can't enjoy it.
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It's only three pages. You can find it. I can't, actually. It never happened. But I'm pretty sure you know this, since you don't do anything on here but troll. Lay off C.C., man. His parents didn't recognize his limitations and hold him out of reading classes.
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Or as it's otherwise known, "being civilized". We're all human, but some of us have self control enough to mitigate our knee jerk reactions. Allowing yourself some latitude when in private is one thing, carrying on in public is another. But I'm not sure I've ever actually booed, privately or not.
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Yes, this. So everyone is saying they never boo? They never get pissed and punch a wall, say "you suck and so does this team" and so on? What are you people freaking robots? Yeah, because all of that is the same as booing someone. I get frustrated and curse and act melodramatic all the time (in my own home). But would I lustily boo a guy at a game? No. That would be a waste of energy and be counterproductive. Plus it would make me look like an idiot.
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There culture around the team was different, I think.
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I don't know about booing, but I've always thought there was an inverse relationship between meatballness and time spent playing the game. I don't know, many ex-players seem to be huge meatballs. They tend to be more sympathetic toward current players but their views of sports seem to be pretty backwards. I just chalk this up to many pro athletes just not being all that bright.
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A great many vexing things happen with regularity. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be vexed by them or accept them as the status quo. Those things that can be fixed are worth vexing over. But booing sports fans have existed for as long as athletics has existed and will exist long after your last post bemoaning the existing of booing sports fans. Fans who boo are just not something worth getting worked up about in my opinion. A fair stance. I'd never start a crusade to go into ballparks and try and dissuade groups of fanatics from booing, but if I hear someone wax moronic like benchwarmer did, I feel compelled to address it.
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A great many vexing things happen with regularity. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be vexed by them or accept them as the status quo.
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They paid their money and have seen the Marmol Show before. How else are they going to send a message that he needs to start earning his money by doing his job? (That message is already lost on one veteran.) If a few boos from the hometown paying customers rattle him in a meaningless May game, he won't see an October game. This the very definition of cro-magnon, meathead logic. Do you think for one second the the crowd "sending a message" will have any tangible effect? That it'll somehow make him "try harder"? Or that the FO will make moves based on a bunch of mouthbreathing knuckledraggers venting their ignorant rage? Yes, you're right, I'm sure Marmol's wildness it a matter of effort, much like Wood's injury problems.
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Lots of those guys moved off of positions like 3B or 2B, not 1B. 1B is where fielders go when they can't play anywhere else. Listing a bunch of names that played the position does not do anything to support the notion that Bryan LaHair can do it. Then the question becomes one of whether Rizzo can play the OF, and whether he can do it at a level far enough beyond what LaHair can to offset the gap between their abilities at 1B. By all accounts Rizzo is a stellar defender at 1B. If they would be similar defenders in the OF, the choice is pretty clear.
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As long as he produces at a good level (.800-.900 OPS), I think it would be worth it. He's not going to be great (or even good), but give him as many practice reps out there as possible and he should be passable. If guys like Dunn can play out there, LaHair should be able to hack it. That said, I'd want to see the other two OF spots manned by capable defenders in such a scenario. An OF of LaHair, BJax and DeJesus could be adequate, but I don't know where that would leave Soriano.
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Sloth was a different kind of creepy. LaHair looks more...menacing and surreptitious. Like Doug Hutchison crossed with the Child Catcher. If his playing career bottoms out, he could have a future as a windowless van driving stereotype working as a janitor at an elementary school.
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That's not the point. If you're going to saturate the board with posts, at least a few of them should be informed.
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Research project? It takes less than a minute to go to B-R or Fangraphs, type in his "Mike Gonzalez" and scan his numbers.
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Volstad hasn't been nearly as bad has his w-l and ERA make him look.
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Bryce Harper douchiness thread
XZero771679666304 replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
I have yet to hear an analyst support (or not repudiate) the notion that what Hamels did was "old school". Mitch [expletive] Williams jumped Hamels' case and he's a brain dead, old school, meathead cowboy. It was just unprecedented and stupid. -
As of now, Stewarts stock is slowly but surely on the rise whilest Darwin Barneys free falls. However, LaHair-Castro-Cardenas-Stewart could be historically bad. Dude, there are two above-average defenders out of those four. That's pretty generous. I see two average defenders there. Stewart and Barney are solid defenders, above average at least. Castro could be, but I'm not holding my breath as he's quite mediocre right now. LaHair is bad.
