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Brett Jackson and Geovany Soto would like a word with you, and in all likelihood they'll be bringing a friend or three. brett jackson should be working on figuring on how to not strike out in a third of his at bats instead of talking to dorks on the internet
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Right. It's clearly not ideal, but having a fantastic pitching staff and a really good defense can work if you get some breaks. A team with a $130m payroll in the NL Central shouldn't have to rely on pitching health and "breaks" or hoping to wait a year and outbid every other team in baseball for the best free agent on the market that everyone will want so we can put him on the field next to our one other good position player.
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Right. It's clearly not ideal, but having a fantastic pitching staff and a really good defense can work if you get some breaks. very true. unfortunately, that team has three starters better than any of ours and three relievers better than any of ours
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I don't think what Bettman did with the NHL's TV deal could be qualified as 'losing' an ESPN contract. The NHL chose to go to a place where they'd be the top dog. I think to them that's worth not being with ESPN. if that was what happened, bettman would be comfortably the worst commissioner. SORRY GUYS, FOX HAS THE SUPER BOWL, LET'S MOVE SATURDAY BASEBALL TO G4 OH WAIT THEY HAVE NINJA WARRIOR WE'RE GOING TO HAM RADIO BOYS WHOOOOO
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i'm not particularly excited to watch the 2012 cubs in which no position player slugs .500
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...balls. Stupid logical TT. it's good logic so long as we get one of those guys and wouldn't have otherwise. if we don't we're a complete disaster team next year. and after that we still only have one particularly valuable piece.
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bears game eight, at the eagles on monday night
treebird replied to treebird's topic in Other Sports
that line is insanity. i really thought it would jump with a win in dallas, but holy god -
Ouch. Doesn't sound like he was that impressed with the draft, other than the amount spent. all things being equal, it's absolutely in his best interest to downplay the current quality of the system. it will only make him look more impressive when it starts producing talent.
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I'd rather give a cash prize! i would be willing to donate a cash prize of up to $10,000 back to nsbb in exchange for da bum's return done. Paypal is tim@northsidebaseball.com When I see the receipt, I'll proceed with the unbanning. Then the drinking will commence. i will send the money over as soon as you hit me with the cash prize paypal is johnny6969696969696969@prodigy.net
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I'd rather give a cash prize! i would be willing to donate a cash prize of up to $10,000 back to nsbb in exchange for da bum's return
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i like tebow because he sucks and he doesn't play for my team
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the only thing evil about the media is that people within it continue to subject us to chuck lorre sitcoms
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bears game eight, at the eagles on monday night
treebird replied to treebird's topic in Other Sports
are you a girl? jameson and coffee, no sugar, no whipped cream, no [expletive] baileys. i had a buddy in college who really, really liked bailey's and chocolate milk and drank it often -
David Wright available?
treebird replied to RynoRules's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Why couldn't you sign him to an extension? And wouldn't the price be considerably less than, for example, King Felix, because he's only under club control for one (potentially two) year and is coming off an injury? the only way he'd sign an extension before this season is if you paid him some crazy amount of money (the sort of money he'd get if he had a big comeback 2012). if you trade for wright, you need to recognize that you're trading for one season of a guy you can't be sure about. the prospects sent out would need to reflect that, and i'm not sure why the mets wouldn't just conclude that they'd rather hang on to him and see what happens rather than accept the mediocrity he is worth. -
bears game eight, at the eagles on monday night
treebird replied to treebird's topic in Other Sports
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you'd still need a home plate umpire to call safe and out at home and to call catcher's interference and whether the batter got hit by a pitch and stuff like that. there's no reason you couldn't just put a thing in his ear and let him signal balls and strikes anyway.
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the braves were 14th in defensive efficiency last year, and the indians were 19th. lowe is pretty obviously a guy who is going to need a lot of help from his defense if he's going to be worthwhile at all, and cleveland doesn't seem like a team that's going to give it to him, unless asdrubal cabrera wants to get a lot better defensively really fast.
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nate silver did all of this in baseball between the numbers. i want to say he said that a playoff appearance was worth, on average, 25 million dollars to the team.
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No one said otherwise. But a lot of plays are clearly close enough that you know the call on the field is irrelevant, it's going to review. It robs those moments of their significance. Two options for next week's Cubs news: A) Albert Pujols signs a 5 year/$100 million contract with the Cubs. B )Albert Pujols says he wants to sign with the Cubs, but reserves the right to change his mind over the next few weeks. One is clearly more exciting than the other. I think that's a pretty poor example. I don't know about you, but I'd say both those bits of news would be pretty [expletive] exciting. I don't think having to wait a week and a half for Theo to be officially official robbed any excitement or enthusiasm from the board. Hell, it might have actually let it simmer and grow. At the very least though, I don't think anyone got to press conference day and thought "You know this is really great, but not nearly as good as it would've been a week ago." Nahh...people were excited about the result. C) albert pujols almost signs an extension with the cardinals but then signs a contract with the cubs, but it is incorrectly ruled a cardinals contract. getting things right has value
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managing the phillies' aaa team next year
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at least the cardinals didn't win the world series yesterday and the packers aren't the best team in the nfl and illinois basketball is really good goodbye cruel world
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the referees have decided to join in on the fun and do a terrible job too.
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i'm not sure. the sideline reporter said "coach, the call was for a fake, what happened" and then zook talked about how the ball was wet. he didn't really say it was a fake, and he might have just ignored her, but i don't know why she would've assumed it was a fake if somebody hadn't told her it was.
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this game is utterly unbelievable.
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yeah, that was pretty awful. very blatantly came in with the intent to go helmet to helmet, and he is rewarded with a turnover instead of the penalty he deserves. i'm honestly surprised scheelhaase stayed awake.
