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  1. Jehrico
    Not necessarily. If someone like Z hit waivers and someone claimed him, obviously he'd be pulled back. You can be darned sure that if someone puts a claim in on Sheff, he's as good as gone. I'd love to see the Cards take a flier on him and have it backfire on them royally. Now that Dunn's gone though, any chance Dusty talks Jocketty into picking him up? I could Dusty being all over this. "The kids need a mentor. Who else are they going to watch from the bench and learn from? Corey?"
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    There's another angle that needs to be looked at with respect to Dunn's approach. Considering he strikes out alot AND walks alot, he's pretty much maximizing the number of pitches he can get that starter to throw during any given at bat. He may not be "putting pressure" much on the defense with his approach, but he is putting added pressure on the pitcher. Give me 3-4 guys like that in an otherwise average lineup, and I'll get to other teams bullpens more quickly. Considering bullpens normally have weaker pitching than you'd find in a starting rotation, his approach ends up helping the rest of the team later in the game as well.
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    I'll laugh my butt off if Cincy traded Dunn for Owings, Buck and a fluff piece. Buck isn't anything to get excited about, Owings is a better hitting version of Mike Hampton after he signed with Colorado.
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    DLee? He's got 22, 14 shy of the record. He's on a pace for around 30-31 GIDP. Only 4 guys have GIDP more than 31 times in a season before, one of them twice.
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    It's a combination of 2 things. 1) The Cubs lead the overall series. It's much harder to ignore a team when they've beaten you more than you have them. 2) The biggest reason the Cubs lead the overall series is that the rivalry had been going strong for 60 years before the Cubs really started to slip as a team. The rivalry by then is not likely to be dropped because children learn the rivalry from their fathers and continue to carry it on. That doesn't have anything to do with the rivalry. If the historical series really had anything to do with it, you could point to every other team that has been around for awhile, and someone is going to lead that rivalry. The rivalry is what it is because of the geographic proximity of the two. There's alot of areas in mid-state Illinois where you'll find a good mix of both Cubs and Cards fans growing up together as kids or living next to each other as neighbors. As a kid, I had to endure all sorts of trash talk from all of the Cards fans at school, and they had to endure it from me when the Cubs gave me something to talk trash about.
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    One other note...at least he's finally out of the division. Let's hope it stays that way this offseason.
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    If there's one thing LA needs it's more corner OFs. That's why they offer little more than a b-level prospect, knowing they would pull him back instead. If they actually got Dunn for a b-level prospect, then it was well worth it. You don't have to have good intentions of making a fair trade when you put a waiver claim on a guy.
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    Is it fair to call this an example of Colletti's incompetence? I'm amazed he wasn't on top of this. He could have put in the waiver claim then offered little more than a b-level prospect to keep him out of AZ.
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    How the heck did Dunn fall to them anyways? Oh, yeah, right. There's only a few teams worse than them that could have blocked it. Stupid Dodgers.
  10. Jehrico
    Fonzie-Fuku-Dunn from left to right would be inferior to Dunn-Fuku-Fonzie.
  11. Jehrico
    And should be, since he's basically been cleared of any wrongdoing.
  12. Jehrico
    If they did trade for him, I doubt they'd be looking to move him in the offseason. He would probably be slated to compete for CF time with Pie and Johnson, and may continue to spell Fukudome and/or Soriano. I don't think they'd move him either. I'm just saying that if the $8 mil he's owed next year (or whatever it is) shouldn't be considered a sunk cost once they made the move and shouldn't be the sole prohibiting factor from obtaining him.
  13. Jehrico
    I think you're marginalizing what Rose did too much. You can't have players and managers associating with gamblers the way Rose did, no matter what he was betting on. Even if you're betting on a completely different sport, surely you can see the conflict of interest that arises when someone in a position similar to Rose finds himself in debt by 6 figures or more to these kind of people. Even if he never bet on baseball, that doesn't mean he couldn't hold a reliever in a little too long to make his bookies happy and forgive debt accumulated from betting on other sports. MLB really has no choice but to hold the line on this issue. It can't be treated as a situation where there is a gray area or there are exceptions based on circumstances.
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    The PTBNL is huge in evaluating whether this deal is worth it or not. If it's a nobody, then why not. As far as being concerned about his contract for next year, who cares. Maybe we have to eat $2 mil, but we could use him off of the bench through the series then move him in the offseason for a decent prospect. If that's the case, then essentially we could end up giving up a nothing prospect and a couple of million and get someone pretty decent. If the PTBNL is Ascanio or someone better, then I'd rather just DFA Ward and bring Hoffpouir back up.
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    Grady Little wasn't bad. Maybe Hendry has a soft spot for baseball guys with Little in their name.
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    then why is he even playing anymore, then? he's on the road already. if being with his family is such a high priority to him, he should just retire. Maybe he's decided getting paid millions of dollars is worth being away from his family for 80 or so days a year, but not 200 days. wait, is this early august or early april? early August...maybe mid-August? somewhere right in there, I guess. But if he goes to Boston now, he spends the next 3 months away from his family. I don't know a great deal about Giles' family, but it would seem he can't just up and move them all to Boston for the next 3 months. Maybe he doesn't think Boston's going to win it all this year and just making the playoffs isn't enough for him to be away from his family that long. If you have kids you can't just up and move your family for three months beginning in August without yanking them out of school and what not. Plus, moving them for three months implies making them move again at the end of the three months, so he'd really be obligating them to moving twice. I know if I were in middle or high school, I'd hate bouncing through three different schools over three successive semesters.
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    I just noticed that Ruutu isn't on the team anymore. Was he a blackhawk's version of Gary Scott?
  18. Jehrico
    No, I couldn't imagine how bad it would be to listen to Sammy's hard accent for 9 innings.
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    Maybe they should have strectched him out in the minors for a little while longer? The Cards are usually a pretty smart organization. It used to be a rare occasion when they'd make a bad decision like this one. Let's hope Mozeliak keeps making bad decisions.
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    i'm not holding it against him, but i am weighing the relative significance of those numbers. santo was an elite hitter in a pitching-dominant era, and was a better defensive player than sosa, and played a position where less offense is produced than RF. And Santo did it with Diabetes back when they didn't really know how to treat it at all.
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    If only Himes wasn't a complete idiotic jackass, we could add Maddux to the list.
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    I'm guessing that those criticizing Giles have never been in a situation where you're often away from your kids for extended periods of time. I think saying he enjoys losing is idiotic. It would be fair to say that he has something that ranks as a higher priority to him than baseball though.
  23. Jehrico
    I feel that all the juicers compromised the integrity of the game as well. Do you? Yes, but the problem I have is where the line lies between "juice" and legal supplements. McGuire was caught with Andro, which was considered a legal supplement back then (I think he was using more than that, but that is what he was caught with). Depending on how you define "juice," (or I prefer performance enhancing drugs), it obviously would include anabolic steroids and hgh, but may or may not include everything ranging from ephedra, andro, and even Red Bull. This argument affected Eyre in the first half of last year when they wouldn't let him take his ADD meds, then decided it was okay. Where exactly to draw the line is a very tough question.
  24. Jehrico
    Some guys just want to play for certain teams. I doubt you had any such disdain for Dawson when he resigned with us after the 87 season, did you?
  25. Jehrico
    True, but Rose has as much of a case to be in the HOF as Santo. Look I am on board with the "Get Santo in the Hall" bandwagon, but I also believe Rose should be in the Hall, too. But Rose isn't held out of the HOF because of his statistics, so it's a poor argument. Especially when you have a guy with perfectly legitimate numbers that is held out of the HOF for no reason at all. Rose has as much of a case as anyone to NOT be in the HOF. rose bet on baseball. there are signs in every major league locker room in the game that say (in effect) DON'T BET ON BASEBALL. he did. i'm not saying that rose deserves to be in or doesn't deserve to be in, but everyone in the game knows that MLB is very, very serious about its players not gambling on games. rose chose to ignore that. I can't prove it or anything, but I doubt Rose was the only guy betting on baseball. He's the only one who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I would reinstate him for the sole purpose of electing him into the Hall of Fame. That's exactly why he shouldn't be reinstated. Anyone who potentially compromises the integrity of the game should be banned for life. It's too damaging to the sport, you have to send a message to everyone else what happens if you mess with that. Rose is currently serving that purpose.
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