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  1. 17 Seconds
    reading all the niemi tweets from randoms on twitter is equal parts hilarious and infuriating. i saw one girl say "first theriot and now niemi?? wtf are my teams doing? i'm about done with chicago sports" then i saw somebody else say that turco was a bad move because he's "too similar to huet" and that niemi "brings variety"
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    Ok, so what has he shown in the last 2-3 years that makes you want to sign him? He's shown nothing, which means the only reason somebody could want him is because of what he USED to be.
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    if someone signs niemi for 4 million (i ask again... who?), then fans are going to be expecting big things. that's what happens when you have "stanley cup winning goaltender...." before your name. there's going to be a lot of pressure. i'm really interested to see what niemi will do next season, especially if he doesn't have the benefit of our defense playing in front of him. don't forget... niemi was average in the regular season, and was average overall in the postseason (would have been above average if not for his SCF performance)
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    who is even going to give him 4 million? wouldn't they have signed him to an offer sheet before if they were going to do that?
  5. 17 Seconds
    james loney is a pretty bad hitting 1b.
  6. 17 Seconds
    So glad we interrupted Cashner's domination as a starter for this
  7. 17 Seconds
    Ochocinco will, barring injury. He's never had a season where he started 14+ games and had fewer than 1000 yards. Maybe, but it'll be more because of TO than Chad. i actually meant to edit the first prediction and replace it with the second one. i didn't mean to post both of them btw, even if he played 16 games in 08-09, he wouldnt have come close to 1000 yards.
  8. 17 Seconds
    prediction: ocho cinco and TO combine for less than 1500 yards next season
  9. 17 Seconds
    prediction: neither ocho cinco or TO surpasses 800 yards next season.
  10. 17 Seconds
    i thought it was castro with the stronger arm
  11. 17 Seconds
    that's still different though. michael young couldn't cut it as a shortstop anymore. it was really a necessity that they move him from there. moving castro owuld be moving an above average defender away from his natural position before he even hits his prime. i'm not even saying i'd disagree with it, but michael young was a different situation.
  12. 17 Seconds
    is it too late to do that prior for tejada deal
  13. 17 Seconds
    But if the reason for Young moving to 3B was primarily because of his bad defense at short, then he really is irrelevant to this conversation.
  14. 17 Seconds
    x - Armando Galarraga
  15. 17 Seconds
    When he changed positions the first time, he was basically a nobody. And when he switched the second time, it was in large part due to the fact that he was atrocious at shortstop.
  16. 17 Seconds
    What a silly comparison. Asik and Gibson vs. a guy was a game-changing starter. Again, he can talk all he wants; he has to back it up. It's not as silly as you want it be. Those guys may very well be better basketball players than McGrady right now. You said it yourself. He WAS a game-changing starter. Was. Not is. You really seem to be buying hard into the T-Mac name. What has he shown you in recent y7ears that makes you think he can help this team?
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    Who has that in their minds? I just don't care that he states that he wants to be a starter. He should want to be a starter. He still has to demonstrate that he has anything left before he could do so, and he was saying all of this before a deal was signed. It would be the decision of anyone interested in him whether or not he could be talked into a bench role and whether or not he's even worth being signed for a bench role. If he wants to talk up his game, who gives a [expletive]? He still has to show he can back it up and it sounds like he can't even do that showing off to prospective signers. When a guy has a history of whining about not being a starter and quitting on his team because of it, you don't think it's relevant that he wants to be the starter here even though he shouldn't be?
  18. 17 Seconds
    Delmon Young for Lilly please. Time to go to bed so I can dream of that actually happening. Eww to Delmon Young (I know he's having a good season)
  19. 17 Seconds
    Exactly. It seems like people have it in their minds that McGrady is a good shooter or something and that he can live by that even though his speed and explosiveness are completely gone. He can't.
  20. 17 Seconds
    That's exactly why you just sign him to a one year deal and then cut ties with him if he gets out of line. I don't trust that that will happen. I'd rather just avoid the issue all together and let the guys we have continue to gel. I don't really see what McGrady brings to the table at this point. Sign Eddie House. He actually fits a need.
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    Ok guys (who are fine with T-Mac wanting to be a starter), just know that you can't say a WORD when January rolls around and we get a bunch of Larry Hughes type quotes from T-Mac whining about playing time. I can just see it now. We sign McGrady, he indeed sucks, but he keeps getting playing time because he's T-MAC. I feel like people are completely forgetting that McGrady straight up quit on the Rockets LESS THAN A YEAR AGO. He's supposed to be a changed man, even though he clearly still think he should be a starter? Ok. What's funny is that we're debating all this about a player who isn't good anyways. We're talking about a guy who hasn't shot over 43% since 2002-2003.
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    do not want Im not really for getting TMac, but Im not sure what he said in that quote that is making people say the don't want him etc... He says he has to come to camp and prove hes a starter, what is wrong with that? Hes not saying he should be given a starting job at all, hes openly saying he has to work for it. I see nothing wrong with his comments. Because T-Mac is NOT a starter, and he needs to accept that. The issue all along was whether or not he'd accept a bench role and not be a whiner about it. Well these quotes basically confirm the fears that T-Mac still is going to push hard for a starting job even though he's not worthy of it. Remember when he QUIT on Houston? I want no part of this guy. I didn't even want him before, and that's when I assumed he understood that he'd be a minor piece of the team. Now I see where his mind is, and I want no part of it. A big thing that I think this team will have going for them next season is chemistry. Don't risk screwing that up to sign a player who sucks anyways.
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    do not want Im not really for getting TMac, but Im not sure what he said in that quote that is making people say the don't want him etc... He says he has to come to camp and prove hes a starter, what is wrong with that? Hes not saying he should be given a starting job at all, hes openly saying he has to work for it. I see nothing wrong with his comments. Because T-Mac is NOT a starter, and he needs to accept that. The issue all along was whether or not he'd accept a bench role and not be a whiner about it. Well these quotes basically confirm the fears that T-Mac still is going to push hard for a starting job even though he's not worthy of it. Remember when he QUIT on Houston? I want no part of this guy. I didn't even want him before, and that's when I assumed he understood that he'd be a minor piece of the team. Now I see where his mind is, and I want no part of it. A big thing that I think this team will have going for them next season is chemistry. Don't risk screwing that up to sign a player who sucks anyways.
  24. 17 Seconds
    Isn't Kurt Thomas actually well liked by teammates?
  25. 17 Seconds
    do not want
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