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Wasn't Ozzie on the staff of that 2003 Marlins team? I think I remember some controversy over him making the "choke" signal to fans after Game 6. yeah, he was their third base coach. i hope he steps on a land mine.

He begain his lobbying about 2 months ago on Sunday Night Baseball. yeah, i've always kind of been a valentine guy, but that was embarrassing. i hope he steps on a land mine.

that's literally the worst call i've ever seen.

awwwwwwwwesome

between this and the sudden import that comes with actually winning your division, i really like these plans a lot.

good one

vick or stafford WHAT DO I DO

can we at least all agree that this stupid old man is gone and we should be thankful

i have a friend who went there. she is kind of weird.

I was looking at this ranking...Texas A&M is 58 and Missouri in the 90s... http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities in fairness, i only call missouri a cow college because they were founded by a cow.

no more cutler plz (assuming we get the ball back ever)

major wright is dead again

i really like how aikman's analysis of that drop was about how cutler needs to set his back foot before making that throw. yep, that was the problem.

So is making the tournament every year since '98. How are all those top flight Illini recruits working out? Still finishing in the middle of the big ten? or dropping a solid 9th place like 3 years ago? Expected return post: over-emotional defense of how mccamey and tisdale sucked, didn't have any recruits the class after that wait another year until DJ, Paul, Crandall and Meyers Leonard will be dominating blah blah blah same story new year we made it to the championship with dee, luther, deron and jack ingram in 05 Then take shot back: wisconsin basketball is full of slow big white players, gets lucky, won't ever win a championship Glad we got all that covered. i can't wait until god wises up and hits your honkeyass state with a snow hurricane and the snow is piled up so high that the rescue workers can't see your vanilla faces mixed in with the snow and everyone drowns in a sea of misery

Nope. If this was a different organization I'd probably be cheering for it just for the fun of it. But I don't like having a guy with patience issues trying to get to an arbitrary number of hits by year end. Production isn't about a specific number of hits and Castro still has a lot of learning to do. But oh well, he's good enough to not get screwed up by it. He's probably good enough not to get screwed up by it. Still, it makes me nervous that he's taken exactly 2 walks in September. 2 walks is pretty much on pace with the rest of his season. It's his 3rd highest walk rate of the 6 months. And September is his lowest strikeout rate of the season. You would hope that, as a 21-year-old develops, his September walk rate would be the best of the season. You would also hope that, whatever his K rate, his walk rate wouldn't be so abysmal. I'm not crapping on Castro - I can't wait to watch the next 10 years - but I am crapping on the idea that, if he gets to 200 hits, it's a particularly huge achievement. ... especially since he leads the league in at bats. I'd be far more impressed if/when he one day puts together a .400 OBP season. Yeah...a .400 season is not gonna happen unless he starts hitting 30+ homers annually (i guess not completely out of the realm of possibility) if you had to pick one player who you thought would hit .365 in a full season at some point in the next ten years, starlin would be up there.

those. were. the. dayyyyyys.

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the steve stone picture and heroin into forehead on the same page! lovelovelove

That's all fine and good if that's what they're thinking. I just pray they're not buying into all this leadership BS. Eh, the person that is gonna make the first base decision next year is likely not even working for the Cubs right now When did Kenney get the boot? jesus h christ

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Uh, you mean like the value of OAK doubling over the last 9 years? That's just fact. Sure Beane can sell at the current value but he can't replace that kind of secure growth during a very long recession in the market or in real estate. If a smart investor owned 4% of the A's in this market he/she would NOT sell it at face value. If the A's are going to soon be valued at 616M at minimum (Holy [expletive] they are not), then why would Beane only make 12M from the sale of his shares? there not worth that yet duh you no nothing about hi finance

the first 25 black players were probably all more scrutinized. and the first caribbean players. and japanese players. and like 300 other guys who screwed up in the playoffs or other important games or signed big contracts. and guys who said things to the press that were stupid and got attention. and other huge prospects whose exploits are actually talked about on a daily basis (strasburg/prior/whoever else). this guy is a dingus, i hope his face explodes

i am shocked to learn that the dumbass numbers you made up support the conclusion you came to before this argument started

aramis ops by month: mar/apr: 758 may: 725 june: 893 july: 1148 this guy is pretty good, i hope he can keep playing for us