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Season starts soon:mark:
 
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re: MLB: CHISOX MOVES > PADRES MOVES





Goodbye Oscar... may you forever hit more homers in heaven against the Giants. God rest your soul.

This is probably the hardest thing I've ever went through as a fan of sports. I bleed Cardinal red, I'm part of the Cardinal Nation. I become attached to every single player. I watched Oscar play in Springfield when he was just in AA just like many others before him. I seen something special in Taveras. When he hit the home runs in the videos above, I was so excited for his future, and to watch him play in many more playoff games. He was always smiling when he played, always seemed to be having so much fun. He really brought needed energy to the team this season. Such a bright future, taken away so early.

It's amazing how sports can make you appreciate life so much more. Baseball is just a game, but the players in it are role models to kids from whichever country they came from. Athletes bring joy to people in sad times, hope for kids who grow in a life of poverty. It can be their escape. They bond people of different races together when tensions are high. I'm not just a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, I'm a fan of baseball and the magic that it can have on people of all ages. When something tragic like this happens, it makes you realize just how much you care for these athletes, and how much of an impact they have your everyday life.

Thank you Oscar for bringing the smiles, bringing the joy to fans everywhere. Go to heaven my friend, play in the outfield with Stan the Man. And get your home runs called by Jack Buck. Keep playing the game you love Oscar. No matter where it may be.
 
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re: MLB: CHISOX MOVES > PADRES MOVES

Congrats, Dezo and the rest of you Giant fans out there.

That play by Crawford to end that 2nd inning [or 3rd?] was the play of the game imho. That was a fine play that pretty much fell in to his lap but it could have easily been misjudged but he came through. Had to leave after that and missed the rest of the game until the final pitch on the radio but I just read he turned a crucial DP with Panik.

Just an amazing season for the San Frannies. From to the best record in baseball [or close to it?] to Timmy's no hitter, to their 2 stretches of foul baseball, to Timmy sucking, to battling for the Wild Card spot, to starting Dan Uggla at second base, from the window, to the wall. Just an amazing season filled with ups and downs that no doubt has to make this that much more enjoyable. An adrenaline rush for all those invested in this team indeed.

Dez, just remember who told you to stick in there and to hold on for brighter days because I know it was dark for you at one point in this season and you - as you should have - questioned this team and the crap that was going on there for a while mid year. No one deserves this one more than you as a fan because you are the epitome of the SUPER FAN, you live and breath GIANTS and it's a real privilege to be able to read the ramblings of a mad man. Rage on, rage in to the night, rage in to that keyboard and let us all have it, let the WORLD have it, your Giants are a true dynasty.

And again to the rest of the Giant fans cuz I know there are plenty, congrats, enjoy and get ready to defend that crown next year because my MAWLINZ are a comin'! :D:

Can we get PABLO up off ya hands doe first, plz?
 
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At some point a team will bite and Max Scherzer will sign on for something at least within striking distance of what Scott Boras is asking for, something like 7-8/175-200 as Ad Infinitum states above. Boras will wait the market out just like he did with other agents in the past such as Prince Fielder, who did not sign with the Tigers until February.
 
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I didn't refer to Win-Loss record at all. His fWAR (which was the metric I was using) was top 5 for the past 4 years. His FIP was top 20 and that's with 7-8 of them not even making 100 starts during that span (skewing those numbers a bit). WHIP isn't a very useful stat either since it's heavily dependent on defense (aside from BBs) and he was hurt by a poor Tigers defense behind him. The guy won a Cy Young and finished top 5 the next year. Name me 10 guys better than him in the past 3-4 years. Trick question, you can't.
 
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re: MLB: AL w/HFA (pls someone beat the A's)

Talking to Notorious inspired me to come out with another flexstradumus prediction. :mark:

AL East:
1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. Rays
4. Orioles
5. Blue Jays

AL Central:
1. Tigers
2. Royals
3. Indians
4. White Sox
5. Twins

AL West:
1. Rangers
2. Athletics
3. Mariners
4. Angels
5. Astros

NL East:
1. Nationals
2. Braves
3. Marlins
4. Phillies
5. Mets

NL Central:
1. Cardinals
2. Brewers
3. Pirates
4. Reds
5. Cubs

NL West:
1. Dodgers
2. Giants
3. Diamondbacks
4. Rockies
5. Padres
 
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re: MLB: David Price for Nick Franklin seems fair

It's sad seeing CC as a shell of his former self :(. He can't even top 90 on his fastball. I figured a full year after surgery, the arm would be back to where it needed to be. Maybe it's time to gain the weight back :side:

Talking to Notorious inspired me to come out with another flexstradumus prediction. :mark:

AL East:
1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. Rays
4. Orioles
5. Blue Jays

AL Central:
1. Tigers
2. Royals
3. Indians
4. White Sox
5. Twins

AL West:
1. Rangers
2. Athletics
3. Mariners
4. Angels
5. Astros

NL East:
1. Nationals
2. Braves
3. Marlins
4. Phillies
5. Mets

NL Central:
1. Cardinals
2. Brewers
3. Pirates
4. Reds
5. Cubs

NL West:
1. Dodgers
2. Giants
3. Diamondbacks
4. Rockies
5. Padres
Agree with all of these except Yanks/Sox should be switched. Still too many questions with the Yanks pitching. OAK/TEX is a tossup imo.
 
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re: MLB: CHISOX MOVES > PADRES MOVES

This fetid filth of a human being, this professional lowlife, A.J. Pierzynski, bringing the art of flopping to the pristine, wonderful sport of baseball...



:no:

Can't wait to boo this monster yet again.
 
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re: MLB: CHISOX MOVES > PADRES MOVES

Giants legend Christy Mathewson won 3 World Series games in 1905. Now Bumgarner walks in the rarified air of legends. I waited seemingly forever for the 2010 win. 2012 was great, but this may be the best. I joked about the winning in even years before, but,in my heart of hearts, I really doubted they could actually do this.Northern California is rocking tonight due to one of the greatest athletic performances I have seen. Bumgarner is a GIANT among GIANTS!!!! :mark: :mark: :mark:
 
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re: MLB: CHISOX MOVES > PADRES MOVES

Trea Turner is one of the most polarizing prospects in all of baseball. I was praying that the Giants would not draft him and was relieved when the Padres drafted him ahead of San Francisco. He's exactly the kind of ultra-toolsy (+power and +speed together), extremely raw (low hit tool, a bit unwieldy all around but profiles as a superior defender) player that the Giants swing and miss on. The Nationals feel like a better fit for him for a plethora of reasons but I like him better as a Nat than a Padre. It should be noted: he's struggled quite a bit from his draft year and since being drafted but he has also sustained a couple of fairly bothersome leg injuries and the like. One of those guys who could either pan out and become a star or never reach the bigs. Which I suppose is true of almost all prospects, actually.

Steven Souza: Oh, man. I love this for the Rays. This guy has been on the short list of "Deso's Major Prospect White Whales" for a while now. This guy potentially has it all, but scouts are not certain because he was old for each level of the minors. However, as a fan of an organization which cannot produce quality homegrown outfielders, this guy stands out like a flashing neon sign reflected off of a tranquil puddle on an abandoned nighttime city street. Souza swings and misses a great deal but the power is definitely there. Could be Tampa Bay's right fielder of the future but who knows? Perhaps the swing and miss issue becomes problematical at the big league level. And there is the age concern; not so much "boo hoo he's old," just that it may have been distorting his minor league numbers all along to some degree. Nevertheless, I'm obviously willing to bet on him and of all of these prospects in this trade he's by far my favorite.

Joe Ross: His fastball is excellent but secondary pitches are lacking. He's very much an unfinished project who could arguably be in the right organization to develop more profoundly. The control is there, as he rarely walks anybody, but the command is suspect, as evidenced in the anemic K/BB numbers. He profiles as a backend-of-the-rotation guy. Having said that (should be noted that Joe is Tyson Ross's younger brother), he's big, tall, athletic and his fastball has a great deal of life. Changeup is reportedly becoming a better pitch, slowly but surely but I have not seen that yet. Clearly, the Nats needed Turner from the Padres to make this deal work because Ross would never have been enough on his own. Even then, it could easily be argued that the Nats are taking the biggest risk out of the three teams here because both Turner and Ross could easily bust.

Jake Bauers: Not a fan, but the Rays keep looking for a solution to first base. His power is quite limited which is a problem but he's a smooth defender and walks at a steady clip with an advanced feel for the strike zone. It's fitting that he's now a Ray because he reminds me and many others I'm sure of James Loney. Perhaps an unwarrantedly rosy comparison.

Rene Rivera: Like this move for the Rays and the Padres both because Rivera is certainly blocked in San Diego's system as long as Austin Hedges is roaming in their minor leagues, but Rivera's a solid catching prospect in his own right, honestly. Solid move from both clubs as the Padres addressed their minor league pitching situation a bit by dealing Rivera, I imagine.

Jose Castillo: Who knows? He's 18 or 19. So young and he's coming off a shortened campaign from arm tenderness. Who knows? Profiles as middle relief for the Padres, maybe.

Gerardo Reyes: A lot like Castillo. Who knows? He's smallish and has a solid fastball from what I remember seeing in clips, ha. Possibly another reliever for the Padres one day. Possibly.

Travis Ott: As an afterthought you could do worse. Big, 6'4" lefty with funky delivery and good fastball with life on it and he keeps developing fringy secondary pitches.


Who won the deal? Well, because of Wil Myers the Padres made the biggest immediate impact but I frankly like the deal from Tampa Bay's perspective a great deal in terms of the prospect haul. Souza is a guy to dream on. Ott is highly interesting. Bauers reminds me a little bit of too much of Daric Barton on the A's but the James Loney comp might serve if he improves. The Nationals are betting on Turner and Ross, who are, as Brandon notes above, generally considered the two "best" prospects in the deal but I'm personally not too high on them (though I'd say Ross is probably major league-bound, I'm just not seeing him as anything but backend-of-the-rotation material, which is not an insult or anything!) the odds are at least one them could be a productive major leaguer one day in the not-too-distant future. Padres grab Myers and some intriguing arms for the future. I'm probably scratching my head just a little bit if I'm a Nationals fan, but nobody was fleeced and everyone seems to have received what they wanted. Also as much as it's incumbent on organizations to never draft for need for a panoply of reasons, trading for need is just dandy and one can see the need in San Diego and the other need in Washington, D.C. The Rays, meanwhile, refueled their prospect pipeline a bit, which was a desperate need for that organization. Well done, everybody!
 
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Random thought: what is the post-World War II list of baseball players who won consecutive World Series on different teams?

Let us investigate, shall we?

Aha, here is the list I have created:

Allie Clark (1947 Yankees, 1948 Indians)

Clem Labine (1959 Dodgers, 1960 Pirates)

Moose Skowron (1962 Yankees, 1963 Dodgers)

Don Gullett (1976 Reds, 1977 Yankees)

Jack Morris (1991 Twins, 1992 Blue Jays)

Ryan Theriot (2011 Cardinals, 2012 Giants)

Jake Peavy (2013 Red Sox, 2014 Giants)
 
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Emergency prayer circle for Bruce Bochy who is in the hospital tonight following an impromptu heart procedure, please.

Oh Buster Posey, hallowed be thy name, see that our skipper's recovery is swift and full, so that he may continue to make managerial calls incomprehensible to the meager minds of mortal baseball fans, which have resulted, incredulously, in a treble of even-year world championships for our esteemed and storied baseball club. Praise be to Posey, for the night is dark and full of zombie birds. Amen.
 
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Tim Hudson is well behind his physical rehabilitation following the ankle surgery earlier this winter and now Bruce Bochy has had stents inserted for his heart. So begins the #oddyearbullshit .

The odd-year gauntlet of self-flagellation, misery and torment is the price we must pay for the even years. I told you, CP, months ago... The odd year was coming...
 
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Ohh, which World Series Trophy is THIS ONE?!?

Which one is he polishing right now?!?


LOL Phillip J. Dick, every time you post that .gif, it makes Buster's 2012 MVP/CPOY/HAOPAW/SS year and contribution to the '12 World Series campaign even sweeter. :)

(Okay, I'm going to keep living in the past since the Dodgers are probably going to win the NL West by about fifteen games.)
 
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