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Why on earth do they need span, they have Brantley already?

I think we need to step back and reboot the discussion with the topic at hand a bit. We are all obviously taking completely different looks at things here. All I am saying is that, of our best trade chips, we shouldn't trade them for mediocre pitching for the sake of acquiring pitching if that same trade chip could have been used to acquire better talent than that. If we can get decent pitching for it - that is fantastic. Don't like the term mediocre pitching? Plug something else into it. The point there still remains. The Hardy trade was brought up (I know it has been discussed at great lengths and everyone is tired of it) because Hardy was dealt for a need, power arms, when he could have likely been traded for a better return than that. And yes, you don't want to take the BPA in the draft for ten years straight if the best player every year is an OF. On the flip side, you don't want to draft for need for 10 years in a row either... but that's another topic entirely.

After thinking about it, it could be more related to my phone than it is the site itself - though I wonder why it has been the only site I have really had any issue with. Anyway, I will let you know if I see more issues with it in the future and just kind of shrug it off for now.

Mobile site already. Tonight I haven't had any problems. Yesterday I closed out of it because of the problems it was causing. Idk what the deal is.

Hey we needed relief pitching help a few years ago so we gave up an all star shortstop for relief help, which was of bigger need. How'd that work out?

All I am saying is it isnt a good way to run a team to draft and trade for players of lesser talent because they fill a more pressing need.

I do find the Offseason Handbook ads to be over the top, but I don't find them annoying. I have to agree that all of the OTHER ads are a bit much for me. Along those lines - I have had one hell of a time posting replies and/or navigating the mobile site. Is there a possibility that all the ridiculous ads are messing the site up on my phone or something? Maybe I should head over to another thread for that complaint..

If you do not have enough B- pitching prospect available to fill your needs then you have to trade for what is scarcer. You can always pick up another MI, for younger prospects. You might not always find a pitching rich team. That's not the most efficient method of doing things though. It's like drafting a pitcher for the sake of needing pitchers instead of drafting best player available. If you always draft to need and not to talent available, you are making your overall system weaker in the process.

We are a year or so too late or we could have packaged Valencia and Slowey with Plouffe to get the deal done.

What about Trevor Plouffe? Are you implying trading him for Bauer straight up??? Yes. wow..... Back to the idea that our trash is another team's treasure! Brilliant!!

I have FS North in des Moines on DirecTV..and all the games but the opener have back blacked out. anyone know what gives? This wasn't an.issue last year...

For the life of me, I would like to know what Webb did to never get a serious chance. He is the Slama of the Vikings.

No one has even started a thread about them this year yet? Are people that down on them? I'm not the world's biggest basketball fan, but this team could have a pretty solid rotation once Love and Rubio come back, assuming good health at that point.

How did Jeter not win? Rigged!

He has actually gotten six, not zero, but let's not let facts stand in the way of this plee for Manship. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/manshje01.shtml

Sounds like you have an issue with ESPN's coverage and you are taking it out on Jeter because you can't change the channel. Jeter is classy through and through. I know kids shouldn't look to athletes as role models, but Jeter would be near the top of my list for the way he conducts himself on and off the field. The majority of Twins fans boo Jeter for all of the reasons stated. He is a great player and a great team and the Twins fans wish he was on the Twins and they were as good as they Yankees. In my opinion, if you boo Jeter you are a Twins fan. If you don't boo him you are a baseball fan. You're missing the point. I enjoy sporting news. I clearly stated that I had to sit through a Jeter segment on the NFL Network also. I do have a problem with media coverage of Jeter. Give us some more variety - appeal the baseball fans a bit more, not just the Yankees fans. Over half the people that claim to be Yankees fans probably couldn't even name you half their playoff roster. You can also think he has been classy through and through, but if you think that if he played for a small market team, hit free agency, and would be giving them a home town discount so he could stay with them his whole career, then you are crazy. This is the same guy that as a 39 year old will be making $17 million dollars to play a below average shortstop, which he got by essentially holding the Yankees hostage due to his 'face of the franchise' status. Maybe when Mauer is 35, he should do the same thing to play catcher for us. Figuring the rising rates of salaries, he should be able to ask for about $30 million to play catcher and be the face of the franchise for us for a few more years. For the record, I've never booed Jeter. I am simply answering the question as to why I think most people have such a disdain for the guy.

Simply put, I'm tired of hearing the media gush about him. It's hard not to hate a guy even if you do respect the guy as a great player if you try to watch any baseball coverage on tv, let's say on ESPN, that isn't a Yankees game, but yet they tie half their information in their coverage to Jeter or the Yankees. I would love to know the percentage of time ESPN spends talking about the Yankees and Red Sox compared to every other team combined. I was watching NFL network this morning before the games started and I had to sit through a Jeter segment. Do you know how annoying that is? And your argument that he has been loyal and stayed with the same team his whole career is flimsy at best. They can pay out the nose for his declining production (defense counts too) and have it not be a burden like most teams would. You can't tell me that if Jeter came up with the Royals, you would be using the whole loyalty argument. Yes, he's the model of consistency and performance when it matters most. But to think that people hate him because of who he dates etc is completely missing the point.

Can he pitch?

I was making dinner. Why did oswalt even hit mauer?

I'll second this. It's been a few days since they have been an issue (maybe the issue has been corrected) but AS SOON AS I would come to TD, one would pop up. Then again, ads that have the ability to take up your whole screen so you cant do anything but frantically search for the X to close them typically get a lot more under my skin then your typical banner ad.

Kudos to this thread. I laugh when I see a new post, let alone what the new post is.

Oh, you mean the JM?

The ineptitude is actually pretty good tv with a few cheap beers.

Man how predictable was Blackburn getting lit up by Seattle. It's like a trap game in football. (two home runs let up to seattle in two innings classifies as lit up)

It doesn't sink if you throw 90+