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Post by bigpupp on Jun 3, 2016 13:08:16 GMT -5
Uhhhh, guys....Do I have to wait the full 4 hours before calling my doctor?
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Post by bigpupp on May 28, 2016 16:13:35 GMT -5
Teams make their draft board based on who they think will be the best player. When it's their turn they should call the name of whoever is left at the top. A team might show a bias for a certain type of player when they create their board, but no team should ever pass up on a player they think is better than everyone else just because they drafted someone at the same position the previous year.
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Post by bigpupp on May 22, 2016 20:33:52 GMT -5
I get what people are saying, I just find it odd that people login to a message board to say athletes shouldn't share their opinion on things.
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Post by bigpupp on May 21, 2016 22:28:44 GMT -5
Have we ever thought that JBJ might like hitting where he is? Lack of pressure that comes with hitting in the top half and so on? His stratomatic card doesn't mention anything about that so I don't think you're right.
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Post by bigpupp on May 17, 2016 12:07:58 GMT -5
Do you have the clips that show that every time Koji has pitched this year it would have been Tazawa instead? And every time Tazawa has pitched this year it would have been Barnes instead? and every time Barnes has pitched it would have been....You get the idea... Do you realize that if we hadn't given up a king's ransom for Kimbrel we would have just signed O'Day? I know that is the assumption. I also know it's not a 100% fact that it would have happened, no matter how many times it gets repeated.
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Post by bigpupp on May 16, 2016 22:10:18 GMT -5
Without Kimbrell right now I doubt Boston is 10 games over .500. It was a great move on DD part. Overpay? I don't think so. Sox had depth in the OF and at SS in the system. Far as a Prospect pitcher, the next time Boston develops an Ace from the farm will be a first. I doubt Allen is that guy.. You're sure about that? Let me refresh your memory one more time. The record has nothing to do with Kimbrel, it's all about the MLB leading offense, man. Koji would've done the trick just fine. And for the rest of your entry, I totally disagree and it's been discussed over and over again in the previous pages so I'm not gonna discuss it again but I'll say this: I brought the Allen numbers again because I read yesterday on a Cardinals blog the idea of trading their closer Rosenthal and the auther was speculating about the package they can get and he was in shock how the Padres "fleeced" (It's the term he used) DD in that trade and i think, like many here do, that the author was right. Do you have the clips that show that every time Koji has pitched this year it would have been Tazawa instead? And every time Tazawa has pitched this year it would have been Barnes instead? and every time Barnes has pitched it would have been....You get the idea... It's easy to show two clips and think that proves your point, but the bullpen is now a strength and that is largely because Kimbrel has pushed everyone down a notch on the depth chart - two blowups be damned. EDIT: and for the record, I hated (hate) the trade too, but that is not the point.
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Post by bigpupp on May 15, 2016 20:46:18 GMT -5
Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to be on the attack. It should have been obvious he wasn't going to get promoted before today's game. Not surprisingly totheights tweeted it out like it was his info. After mocking brisox. Fraud. I blocked the guy so I don't have to see his posts, and you're actively searching twitter to read more of what he has to say? You must be some sort of a sadist...
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Post by bigpupp on May 14, 2016 16:23:32 GMT -5
Can't believe Farrell was able to hit the game tying and game winning hit after also giving up a grand slam earlier in the game. Really a roller coaster ride for him today.
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Post by bigpupp on May 14, 2016 16:13:07 GMT -5
Wait, are all these bosox accounts different people?
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Post by bigpupp on May 14, 2016 15:49:28 GMT -5
prove it. HE did it on his own.... Hanley is swinging a hot bat I'm at the game man. I saw it and so did everyone else. Just looked at the replay. Ortiz didn't even make it half way down the line, so there was no way that was called.
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Post by bigpupp on May 1, 2016 23:48:41 GMT -5
Didn't get to catch the whole game, but I knew we finished the sweep when I came here and noticed only about 50% of the posts were negative. Must have been a good night!
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Post by bigpupp on Feb 21, 2016 20:13:49 GMT -5
You could weigh it by how long the free agent was a member of his previous organization (in other words, a team losing a player who was on the roster for 6+ years gets a multiplier over a player who was traded for at the deadline). This might do significant damage to the trade market though. Something to keep in mind.
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Post by bigpupp on Jan 24, 2016 15:52:33 GMT -5
Ummm...wtf? So women are like children that need to be put in there place from time to time? Congratulations on completely missing the point. Take the ball and go home kid, this argument ain't for you. You should maybe take a step back from this thread and figure out what point you're trying to make here. Whatever it is certainly isn't coming across the way you think. And if it is coming across correctly then you probably need to rethink coming here altogether.
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Post by bigpupp on Jan 24, 2016 11:44:14 GMT -5
No it isn't. It's called reasoning while ignoring relevant information, and that's not logical at all. Anyone with any knowledge of social services and police records has seen this over and over again, and objective analyses verify it. Either because of fear, a desire not to make waves, the unwanted attention, or because the victim is paid to keep quiet, it gets buried. There's nothing new here unless you've completely willing to ignore mountains of objective data. The story is always the same and the result, unfortunately, is often tragic. Anyone with knowledge of the real world understands that, and they understand the logic of those relationships, how they work. It's called reasoning based on typical human behavior under the circumstances. The Ortiz incident illustrates my point perfectly. He was angry at the umpire but restrained himself from hitting him because he knew it was socially unacceptable to do so, and took out his frustration on the phone instead. Is Ortiz now considered an umpire intimidator? Is Ortiz now considered an umpire beater? Is Ortiz now considered someone with anger issues? Is Ortiz now considered as a despicable person? The answer to all the above questions is obviously no. He just happened to have a bad moment/day which is common for human beings. Not everything is black and white, there things in life called nuances because of the simple fact that human beings act based on a long range of emotions, they aren't robots. Another thing, the term abuse apologist doesn't really exist. This is just something made up by people who can't handle debate and/or being wrong. No one in their right mind thinks that women getting abused is a good thing, the problem is that not every woman who gets hit or say they got hit by a man are being abused. Just like every parent who hits their child growing up is not a child abuser, same thing. But let me guess, you guys believe that is never ok for a man to hit a woman right? Ummm...wtf? So women are like children that need to be put in there place from time to time?
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Post by bigpupp on Jan 22, 2016 9:20:44 GMT -5
Not really a fan of either of them myself, although you're onto something with the first.
Instead of a matchup specialist, just make it so that a pitcher can't be removed from the game until he has either completed an inning or allowed a base-runner. We don't need to identify a L/ROOGY as a specialist, we need to get rid of them.
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Post by bigpupp on Jan 14, 2016 11:42:41 GMT -5
Not that one case can speak for them all, but Michael Jordan, who's sometimes called the greatest athlete (or one of them) of all time, didn't exactly tear it up in his short baseball career. I mean, the stats weren't amazing, but to take a 31 year old who has never played professionally and put him in AA he did pretty damn well for himself. Even stole 30 bases that year. I would love to know what he could have done had played professionally out of high school.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 16, 2015 12:57:00 GMT -5
Montas was one in a string of hard-throwing IFAs with mediocre to below-average control the Red Sox traded. Raul Alcantara comes to mind, and there's probably another I'm not thinking of. You trade enough of those guys and one will eventually turn into something, but I wouldn't freak out about Montas being traded quite yet. There's still a very good chance he's a reliever. Don't forget about our Prodigal Son: Roman Mendez
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 15, 2015 9:38:00 GMT -5
Harper gets 10 years, 400 mil and an opt-out......after EVERY YEAR! I'm....kinda joking? (someone is going to get an opt-out after every year contract a la Lebron) Yanks gave an opt out after every year to a reliever a few years ago. Soriano I think it was?
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 10, 2015 2:38:27 GMT -5
First shots fired in the next CBA negotiations. As stated above, the MLBPA will lose, but that's not the point here. It's to take this issue and gain traction on it before the negotiations so that they don't need to give up as much to get that changed. Frankly though, I'm not quite sure how you fix this without completely changing the structure of baseball contracts. Do you get rid of Super 2s? Do you split the season up into thirds or something and base a player's arb eligibility on that or something? I'm not sure. That was going to be my question. What can really be done? My proposal would be to change the super 2 system so instead of those players getting an extra arbitration year the top percent get free agency, but I don't think that is very realistic.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 8, 2015 1:51:39 GMT -5
Don't change, winter meetings. Don't change.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 7, 2015 15:10:43 GMT -5
Considering trades usually turn out worse for the Sox that we all initially think, I'm guessing there's no way Carson is coming. I hope I'm wrong because I think he is a best case scenario, but I'm pessimistic. I know nothing about baseball.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 7, 2015 14:25:49 GMT -5
Considering trades usually turn out worse for the Sox that we all initially think, I'm guessing there's no way Carson is coming. I hope I'm wrong because I think he is a best case scenario, but I'm pessimistic.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 7, 2015 13:31:03 GMT -5
I might be greedy, but if the asking price is high, why not consider moving both Buchholz AND Miley (free up around 20 million) and look at either Cueto or Leake?
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 5, 2015 15:19:27 GMT -5
Price came here because the the Sox offered the most money. He will opt out if the market says that he will get more money. Either way the deal looks pretty good now that Greinkes deal look like it does. The big winner in the all may be Jonny Cueto. He's probably looking at 6/150 plus now. Blizzard not to pick on you but alot of people judge deals by the following deals. But the person making the deal does not have the fortune to do the same. Everything should be judged based on the info at hand at that place and time, the information that follows is hindsite for which we all have 20/20 vision, sorta kinda. I would argue that DDski correcly read the market and made a good deal. It's not that we're judging it with hindsight, it's that he is showing foresight of the market.
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Post by bigpupp on Dec 4, 2015 16:27:33 GMT -5
Really surprised they kept Coyle over Cecchini.
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