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    ok, "an+h" doesn't make sense in American English, but I'll be damned if I'll let someone use that in front of an acronym. Now someone make a joke about how Alabama is blushing in embarrassment. Incest will be up tonight. :-&
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    Mutual hatred of Bama among SEC fans, probably. :good:
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    Does he bat left handed? :evil:
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    The guy is a raging douche. The fact that he talks Cubs really doesn't help because he doesn't know Howry.(are we still using that?) The 1st time I met him about a month ago, I thought he isnt so bad. Then I actually had a converstaion with him, oh my he has issues. Nope, it's Veteran's Committee now. :(
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    Yeah I'd imagine this would definitely end the Peavy sweepstakes. :pig:
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    Players don't come cheaper at the deadline, they get more expensive because of higher demand. Need will be greater and more teams will be willing to take a chance on players - thus we'll have to pay more. While you may or may not end up paying more, by the time that time rolls around, there may be players available that were not in the offseason, and especially if your going for a rent a player whose about to be a free agent, a team thats all but out of the post season picture may want to unload him for some prospects. But why pass up good options like Adam Dunn and Jeremy Hermida for a hypothetical player that might become available around the trade deadline and might be cheaper than the current options? If there's a chance to improve the team now (which there is) you don't make it worse with the thought that you can improve it later. You make it better now and then further improve if the opportunity is there and you can take advantage of it. :confused:
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    Which is why Greggs contract and Fuentes' contract are completely unrelated. Gregg will get paid based on option being picked up, age, performance, and similar players, while Fuentes is getting paid by FA market standards. Surely, you can see the difference. Which brings me back to the original poster who asked "And we're paying Kevin Gregg $5 million why?" It was a poor attempt to make Greggs acquisition look worse by comparing his salary to a high priced free agent. Lastly, Gregg will not go to arbitration and will sign a contract in the range of $3.4 to $3.8 that will be the middle ground of the arb proposals by agent and team. So, trading Jose Ceda for Kevin Gregg and likely paying him $3.5-$5 million to probably suck for 1 year is better than resigning Kerry Wood to 2/$20 or Brian Fuentes to 2/$17.5 and keeping Ceda? Yes, especially when your inhouse closer is making about league minimum. I haven't seen so much paranoia over Ceda since they left Andy Sisco unprotected. That proved disastrous. :shock:
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