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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    What are CHONE projections based on? They have Castro projected at 5.9 runs below average defensively in 2010. Also, spring training results still don't mean anything, and I don't think his minor-league production to date projects to major-league adequacy offensively.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's not true at all. You jump higher off of two feet. Quick. Someone get their college buddies and a tape measure and do a conclusive study!
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, the key to getting value lies in two areas: First, the supply is a bell curve, with way more decent players than good one. So you should be using free agency to fill your holes where don't even have a decent player, and you should be able to do that very cheaply. Second, not all marginal wins are worth the same to each team, and money doesn't have the same value to all teams. If you have a crapload of cash (like the Yankees) or are a team that is competitive but not dominant (like the Cardinals this offseason), the amount you are reasonably willing to pay for extra wins can go through the roof.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    IIRC, Boston included cash in the deal to make it cash-neutral for both teams?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh ye gods. I know the Castro boner grows daily, but the guy barely outhit Theriot last year while in A-ball and Theriot was in the majors. I hates me some Riot as much as any good stathead Cubs fan, but come on.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    For funsies: Cubs got: Nomar Garciaparra: 2.0 WAR as a Cub (1.3 in 2004 before signing the one-year extension. Not as meh as I remembered) Matt Murton: 4.4 WAR as a Cub Red Sox got: Orlando Cabrera: 1.2 WAR as a Red Sox Doug Mientkiewicz: -0.2 WAR as a Red Sox Cubs gave up: Francis Beltran: -0.3 WAR in negligible major-league time since Justin Jones: peaked at AA Brendan Harris: 2.2 WAR in the majors since the deal, replacement-level player outside of one season Alex Gonzalez: 0.9 WAR since the trade, -0.5 in the rest of 2004 Hendry pwned that trade pretty hard.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    And after all that excitement, he ended up being pretty meh.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    The one where the Kings player whiffed on a puck, his stick came up and smacked Byfuglien in the face. I guess you could claim it was part of a "normal shooting motion" but not a "wild swing at a bouncing puck" as the rulebook states, but it sure looked like a penalty to me. Edit: Actually, looking at the rulebook, I guess it probably wasn't a penalty. Stupid refs knowing the rules better than I do...
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    This isn't a bad idea, either. Like how soccer works in Europe. Really, something has to be done for some of these clubs to have enough incentive for them to win. That teams rich in history like Pittsburgh and Cincinnati can meander around lost for what seems like decades is fairly telling. Also, really, something has to be done about the DH. That it's in one league and not the other is really stupid. That people still wonder why the AL is so dominant amazes me. 1) It's a horrible idea that makes absolutely no sense for an American pro league, where franchise value is a large part of the economy. 2) The AL is dominant for reasons that have nothing to do with the DH.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Two soft goals for Niemi (I guess I could hear the argument that the second one wasn't that soft), but 28 saves. I'll definitely take that.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    They didn't really do anything wrong. They took shots, they got traffic, they had some nice passes, they hit a post. It just didn't go in.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    That should have been five more minutes of power play. Absolutely textbook and the ref looking right at it. Only reason it wasn't called was because the Kings already were two men down.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Niemi or Huet had given up a goal the way that L.A. goalie just did, I would drive down to Chicago and hand-deliver my hate mail.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    The best way would be all the teams in one league with a round-robin where they all play each other home and away the exact same number of times, and then the best record is the winner.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    If McGwire can be the Cardinals' hitting coach and Sandberg is our manager, I'd want Sosa to be our hitting coach. That'd be awesome.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    The solution would be to keep the playoff format as-is and stop using an unbalanced schedule. If you can't win the Wild Card with a balanced schedule, then you are at best the third-best team in the league and I can live with you missing the playoffs.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    When they first started when I was a kid I watched like the first three or four years.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm almost wondering if he's talking about a European-style multi-tier league, where the lower-payroll teams could compete amongst themselves for some kind of lesser title? He can't mean putting all the cheap teams in one or two divisions and letting them have a playoff spot same as a yankees/red sox/mets/etc. division?
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm trying to wrap my mind around how the "changing divisions based on how you plan to compete or not" would even work. I can't figure it out.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm more concerned about the average production of available first basemen than the top 30, many of whom aren't going anywhere.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was definitely a midday ESPN regular radio host.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm almost positive it was Doug Gotlieb who said last year that he'd rather have Jeter than Pujols because Pujols hadn't shown he could come up with big hits. So pretty much anything he says is worthless.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Tom Morello taught me that I'm a racist. You taught me that I was imprecise with my language. You're like the teachers in the Giver.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's cool. Between you and Tom Morello, I'm learning all kinds of new things about myself.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    There were a ton of statheads in the old Cubs newsgroup on Usenet that smacked me around. Al Yellon was also there.
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