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  1. Whammy
    Fien keeps drawing the short end of the lineup stick
  2. Whammy
    Can Stephen Drew play OF?
  3. Whammy
    Back "watching" at 35,000 feet
  4. Whammy
    I haven't seen anyone's counter-offer. I know you'd all take him at some point (Maybe for you it's Berrios and A.B. Walker) , so what's that point?
  5. Whammy
    Not sure if you are referencing "A" or "B"
  6. Whammy
    2015: Samardzija Meyer Nolasco Hughes Gibson Let's play ball. I don't care if he's an ace or a great #2, at some point of a rebuild you hit a tipping point and need to trade some of your assets for proven commodities. Sometimes you'll look back and say "holy crap, I can't believe we got _____ and only had to give up _____" and some times you'll look back and say "I can't believe we gave up _____ for that piece of crap ______," but that's baseball.
  7. Whammy
    Which isn't even an indictment of Gardy. In general, I'm way more apt to rip Gardy than the front office, but with what Gardy has to work with right now, I'm not sure I would have done things differently.
  8. Whammy
    The Rockies are hitting 355/401/600 (OPS 1.001) at Coors Field this season
  9. Whammy
    For me: a) Kohl Stewart and Eddie Rosario More than that. Alex Meyer and Lewis Thorpe?
  10. Whammy
    Rumblings are that he is, of course, available. http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/buster-olney/post/_/id/6107 That Bailey-like deal is 6/105 If we could work that 6/105 handshake deal with Samardzija before a trade.... a) what would you give up? what do you think it would take?
  11. Whammy
    Want. To. Like.
  12. Whammy
    MLB has banned "likes" for the first 6 minutes of internet talk about copyrighted material
  13. Whammy
    What the terrible play in LF should say to Gardy/Management is that Florimon should be sent down. What it will SOMEHOW convince them of is that they need 3 catchers
  14. Whammy
    I think MLB got to KFAN too... all I heard this morning on the Power Trip was Bonnes laughing in the background
  15. Whammy
    Maybe MLB invested heavily in old school Sony Walkmans and are trying to drive up sales.
  16. Whammy
    Because MLB sells access to internet radio broadcasts to consumers. They don't want their local broadcast affiliates giving it away for free
  17. Whammy
    I'm not a copyright expert by any stretch of the imagination.... Let's say for the sake of argument that the Minnesota Twins decided they liked the fact that there were two free podcasts out there that promoted their product, could they license their name (for a menial fee) to Gleeman and the Geek and Talk to Contact so that those two podcasts could use "Minnesota Twins" in their podcast description?
  18. Whammy
    Not to defend MLB, but I do understand the blocking of internet radio broadcasts and to a lesser extent the regional blackouts of TV broadcasts (although those regions need some tweaking). And I guess I can see how they can technically request the removal of podcasts with trademarked material in their names. But over half of the pulled podcasts contain no copyrighted (at least by MLB) material in their name ---- Did Bonnes copyright "the geek" ---- Maybe they also targeted podcasts who had main contributions from people who work for a competitor of MLB's partners (ie. Gleeman's NBCSports being a competitor with Fox Sports) I don't know. It seems very bizarre. Also... what leverage does MLB have against iTunes?
  19. Whammy
    I'd much rather pay that for an OF seat in the HR derby.
  20. Whammy
    So, let me get this 3rd catcher theory straight. We keep a 3rd catcher on roster for two potential scenarios.... Scenario 1) One of our catchers is catching and the other is DHing. The guy that is catching gets injured, so the DH needs to get pulled into the game, "eliminating" the DH and causing the pitcher to get placed in the batting order. If this happens early in a game, it COULD mean that the pitcher spot would come up several times over the course of the rest of the game. To avoid this 1/50 chance we are now batting Hermann, who is worse at hitting than an average MLB pitcher, several times EVERY game. Under normal circumstances, where the 3rd catcher just sits on the bench week after week, having this player prevents a legitimate late inning PHer from being on the roster, who could have an impact on many games per week. Scenario 2) One of our two offensive juggernaut catchers gets an off day, but is available to PH. Late in the game we use him to PH. THEN our starting catcher gets hurt, leaving us needing to use our emergency catcher, presumably for no more than an inning or two. To avoid this "once every 5 years" chance, we are currently using our 3rd catcher in the OF, but he's not any good, and he's one of the guys who we would pinch hit for, so we haven't really avoided this "problem." Under normal circumstances we carry dead weight on our roster so that Eduardo Escobar doesn't need to play catcher for an inning once every 5 years.
  21. Whammy
    But Gardy's Nooky Blanky 3rd catcher helps him sleep better at night.
  22. Whammy
    Phil Hughes if we need him to... Our chances weren't going to get any better than that.
  23. Whammy
    9,621 in Cleveland looks like way more than 25,000 in Minneapolis
  24. Whammy
    That pitcher is in his 50s..... Right?
  25. Whammy
    I love that the highlight of the Tigers' game included a sitting ovation from 2 of Detroit's most rotund residents.
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