Transmogrified Tiger
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Would you rather pay 2/15 for Carlos Silva, or 2/6 to never have Carlos Silva come near your roster? I'm pretty sure I'd take the latter. That's the choice between this trade and cutting Bradley. Heck, do you think we could've done better than Silva if we had paid all of Bradley's contract except for 2/6? You think anyone would've given us even a low level prospect for that? Of course someone would have. -
This couldn't have happened last week before Cameron signed? And seriously, let's get on that "Silva released" press release.
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Oh, for sure they'd have a fit. I know Sandberg isn't a popular name around here these days, and at the risk of alienating myself even further from the NSBB population, I'm going to say that I agree with his quote that says "When did it become ok to just hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?" That's essentially what the DH allows a player who can't field anymore to do. Defense is huge in today's game, and with the love that it gets around here, you'd think more people would be on each player to have to play defense. The pitcher plays defense whether there is a DH or not.
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There is no intelligent reason to expand with the [expletive] options you provided. How bout that? As already stated, nobody gives a [expletive] about Rutgers. The Pittsburgh market is already a part of the BTN (via PSU). That leaves making a short-sighted move of adding Missouri so you can add St. Louis for your cable station? Really?? It's dumb, and it's a short-term cash grab to hurt your potential in the long-term. You make hard runs at Texas and ND, schools that will give you serious market share in cities that matter while being schools that will actually draw attention to your conference. Is anybody outside of the Post-Dispatch going to care about the dynamite acquisition of [expletive] MissourI? If Texas/ND say no then you have 11. Perish the thought of having no championship game! How bout you act like the Pac 10 and schedule up to that last week. Put OSU/UM up against whatever [expletive] the ACC is running out for their title game year after year. What's the downside to expanding? Aside from the opportunity cost of inviting a different, better school that would never ever consider coming to the Big 10.
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Jacoby Ellsbury
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Not Sure's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Jury's still out on Ellsbury's defense. UZR and PMR agree he was pretty good in 2008, and UZR has him as poor this past year. The Fan's Scouting Report rates him at least average the last two years. Anyone know how +/- sees him? Even if he's not a plus defender, he still has plenty of value. A .750-.775 OPS with 60 steals at a great percentage is plenty valuable, and if his defense is average then he's nearly a 4 win player going forward. -
Pitcher's don't hit, DH's don't field, there's only 9 playing at one time. I don't like the DH either, but don't make up a bogus interpretation of the rules to try to claim some moral ground for preferring it one way.
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Jacoby Ellsbury
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Not Sure's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yes. And I'm one of the biggest Sam Fuld proponents around. -
Absolutely not. A small part of me would die if the NL got the DH. Without a doubt I'd prefer if the AL got rid of the DH. But if it meant a more equitable playing field, I could probably live with it.
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I'm to the point where I don't particularly care as long as both leagues end up the same. I think it's the main reason for the competitive imbalance between the AL and NL.
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They'd probably rotate it like the Big 12 does, they go between Texas sites and KC.
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None of this is remotely true. You can say that, but I'd take Pujols, Holliday, Carpenter and Wainwright as my building block over what the Cubs have right now, and if the Cardinals had the Cubs payroll, they could have filled in a few more holes pretty nicely. The Cubs window is closing rapidly, with not a whole lot of hope to expand on payroll anytime soon. To go over your post again: The Cubs have been 11 games better than the Cardinals the last 3 years. The Cards and Cubs had pretty much identical payrolls from 2002-2006. Pujols has no contract after next year, and is a free agent after 2011. They got Holliday(who they haven't signed), but haven't added anyone big in recent years. And their farm system might be the worst in baseball right now. As far as preferring the Cards core, remember that next year if one or more of Carpenter/Wainwright are visiting Dr. Andrews, and/or if Holliday is wearing another uniform.
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None of this is remotely true.
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Yep, the Cubs are better than their performance of last year. Not to say that they aren't missing out on chances to be even better, but just standing pat would make them strong contenders for a playoff spot.
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If Cameron signs I would hope we just keep Bradley. Bradley is better than Cameron and keeping Bradley wasn't an option then, so I don't know why it would be an option now. Bradley is better but not by much. I think ridding the headache of Bradley + drop off to Cameron > keeping Bradley > ridding the headache of Bradley + drop off to Byrd/Pods Cameron is easily better than Bradley, and that's before you consider that with Cameron you get to play Kosuke in RF, which is a huge defensive jump.
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Yeah, way too much money for Lackey. But ESPN will somehow overlook the amount and say "Theo did it again." Way too much? He's a better pitcher than Zambrano and it's less money. At the very least, it's overpaying a top of the rotation starter, instead of some schmuck. Is anybody signing better free agent pitchers for less? Huh, how is lackey better than Zambrano. Zambrano has better numbers and is three years younger. Zambrano is a nut case but his numbers are better than Lackey's. please tell me how Lackey is better than Z. umm, the last time zambrano had better numbers than lackey was 2005 Also, 2008. And if you're talking about how either would fit on the Cubs, or any NL team, there's very little difference between them.
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A Fuld/Crisp platoon would be a lot better than many people would think. Perhaps indistinguishable from having Cameron play CF.
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Incredible.
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NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
That's kinda the point, isn't it? No one would've said "great hire" if anyone had hired Pinkel after 1994. He actually built something, after those 4 years he had 5 first place finishes and 2 second place finishes in his last 7 seasons. Even besides that success, the additional 7 years of experience is a crucial difference as well. I'm not saying that Gill is destined to failure. I'm saying that because of his minimal and not mind blowing track record, he has a lot in common with coaches who have succeeded as well as failed. On a related point, how long do you think Gill gets to prove himself? To extend the Pinkel analogy, do you think he lasts if he has 1 winning season and 1 bowl appearance in the first 4 years like Pinkel did? -
College Football - Championship Week and Beyond
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Andy's topic in Other Sports
Worst winner since the last Bama guy to win the award. You may know this and I just missed the joke, but Bama's never had a Heisman winner before. Yep. -
College Football - Championship Week and Beyond
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Andy's topic in Other Sports
Worst winner since the last Bama guy to win the award. -
NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
The MAC isn't a conference that takes much for a complete turnaround. They've had 7 champions in 9 years, and 9 schools have won or tied for the division in the last 5 years. -
i don't know.... his track record doesn't really show that so far. his first 3 years were very good, and last season he was hurt. in 271 career innings so far he has really nice numbers (1.18 whip, a k:bb of over 4). that's a pretty big sample size. even if those things you say about him are true, he's shown he can be well above average consistently.... assuming he's healthy. I'm not trying to say that his true talent level isn't good. I guess my point is that despite having a pitch to contact game, he's not likely to be any more consistent than a power reliever who has the potential to be more dominant. I wouldn't be terribly upset with him on the Cubs, but considering all that and his injury history, I'm not going to lead a campaign to add him to the pen.
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Capps has some good qualities, but ultimately he's an extreme fly ball pitcher who allows a ton of balls put into play. In short relief that's a recipe for a lot of up and down years.
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For the third time, is there any evidence that an actual or proposed conference/division realignment was influenced by the interests of women's sports, at the expense of the best option for revenue sports?
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NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
I don't think Gill will let them slide to Terry Allen levels, but I don't think he'll do a whole lot to elevate the program. While Buffalo was a terrible program when he got there, it is in the MAC(which has an obscene amount of parity), and he could only manage one winning season there(Doc Saturday likes to point out how much Buffalo benefitted from turnover margin that year). The only thing I found on Long or Torbush was that Torbush became a punchline during his time at aTm. Ultimately, recruiting will probably be what defines Gill. If he can recruit in the top half of the North, their South rotation could allow them to make a run at the division if things fall right. I don't see him as much of a game changer though, maybe that changes if he's able to stick around for a couple 4-year cycles.
