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Which wild card front office do you most believe in?  

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  1. 1. Which wild card front office do you most believe in?

    • Houston Astros (led by Jeff Luhnow)
      10
    • New York Yankees (led by Brian Cashman)
      4
    • Chicago Cubs (led by Theo & Jed)
      68
    • Pittsburgh Pirates (led by Neal Huntington)
      15

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Atothe Vancouver Canadians

Atothe

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Ok since Chicago is not going anywhere fast and fading, would they do samardzija, Albers and soto for dickey Thole navarro wolf and Redman plus 6.95 mill

 

Trade for everyone right?

HERPDERP Vancouver Canadians

HERPDERP

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That is jokes but who the hell is Joseph Abboud

 

If you had any sense of fashion you'd recognize him as one of the more famous fashion designers of menswear ;p

Candy Maldonado FCL Blue Jays

Candy Maldonado

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Ok since Chicago is not going anywhere fast and fading, would they do samardzija, Albers and soto for dickey Thole navarro wolf and Redman plus 6.95 mill

 

Maybe we can get them to take Izturis as well.

Boxcar All-Star

Boxcar

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It's my opinion, not an attempt at quantification.

 

I'm a Seahawks fan, so yeah I kind of know how Sherman rolls.

 

I think I wasn't precise with my post, I was simply talking about the point in general. There's no way to quantify "mental preparation" though I'd assume the top levels of any sport require a huge amount. Sherman is the best at what he does in the top league of the sport he plays, he has no way of knowing what it's like for Trout or Djokovic.

 

I like Sherman. He's not an idiot and doesn't tolerate stupid media members.

glory Vancouver Canadians

glory

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Samardzija has a high ERA. So clearly he sucks and it shouldn't take much to get him, right???? Hey, McCarthy got traded for nothing last year this time for having a high ERA.

 

Bring in the Shark.

TwistedLogic Cooperstown

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Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez defiant after seventh-inning ejection

Dylan Hernandez, June 13, 2015, 7:20 AM

 

In the wake of the Dodgers’ 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night,

Adrian Gonzalez was smiling and ready to talk about his seventh-inning ejection.

 

Asked if he had any regrets about his dismissal, Gonzalez replied, “Absolutely not.”

 

In fact, Gonzalez said he was looking forward to receiving a phone call from Joe

Torre, the league’s chief baseball officer.

 

“That’s why I did it,” Gonzalez said.

 

Gonzalez remained defiant as he looked back at the events leading up to his ejection,

saying his at-bats in the fifth and seventh innings were compromised by errant strike

calls by home plate umpire Doug Eddings.

 

Gonzalez had problems with a 3-1 pitch in the fifth inning, an outside fastball that

was called for a strike. The pitch-tracking system showed the fastball by Odrisamer

Despaigne was out of the strike zone.

 

“It should have been ball four,” Gonzalez said.

 

Gonzalez flied out on the next pitch.

 

On his way back to the dugout, Gonzalez said he told Eddings, “That was a ball.

That should have been ball four.”

 

Instead of the Dodgers having runners on first and second base with one out and

Howie Kendrick at the plate, they had a runner on first with two outs. At the time,

the Dodgers were leading, 2-0.

 

“It could have been a rally or something,” Gonzalez said.

 

Gonzalez said his suspicions about the call were confirmed when he returned to

the clubhouse and saw videos of the at-bat.

 

“Every angle that we got in here showed it was a ball,” he said.

 

Gonzalez returned to the plate in the seventh inning, this time with one out and

the bases loaded.

 

The first pitch, a breaking ball away by left-hander Frank Garces, was called a

strike.

 

Again, the tracking system showed the pitch was out of the zone.

 

“I said a couple things about how it shouldn’t have been a strike,” Gonzalez said.

“He started telling me that I was complaining about the pitch before. I said, ‘Yeah,

I complained because it was a ball.’”

 

At that point, Gonzalez said he was told by Eddings, “You know what? Now, you

have to swing at that pitch.”

 

Gonzalez said he became enraged.

 

“At that point, that’s when I lost it,” he said. “There’s no way I was staying in the

game if I made an out.

 

“The fact that he just didn’t care is really what got me mad.”

 

The next pitch was also outside, but Gonzalez swung at it for another strike.

 

“Normally, I wouldn’t have swung at that pitch,” he said. “I already know that if I

take it and he calls it a strike, I might get thrown out before the at-bat even ends.”

 

Gonzalez grounded into an inning-ending double play, after which he exchanged

words with Eddings. As he expected, he got the thumb.

 

“One-oh is a huge different from oh-one," Gonzalez said. "And on top of it, he’s

now telling me I have to swing at those pitches. For me, it’s unacceptable. I’m not

going to just sit there and keep my mouth quiet over it.”

TwistedLogic Cooperstown

TwistedLogic

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The umps in this game are such prickly f***ing ****s. It's ridiculous that guys like Eddings can throw their weight around like this and the league doesn't do a f***ing thing about it. What a joke.

TheHurl Toronto Blue Jays

TheHurl

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number of pitching staffs that are better than the Rays DL list? I'd say half at the most.

DL SP 53 Alex Cobb R 27.7

DL SP 55 Matt Moore L 26

DL SP 23 Jake Odorizzi R 25.2

DL SP 56 Burch Smith R 25.2

DL SP 33 Drew Smyly L 26

DL RP 38 Jeff Beliveau L 28.4

DL RP 59 Andrew Bellatti R 23.9

jaysfan2014 Dunedin Blue Jays

jaysfan2014

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The White Sox suck.

 

Do they ever. 2nd lowest scoring team in the AL. Even the low-scoring Rays can beat them. For the Rays though, the sked gets MUCH tougher after this.

TheHurl Toronto Blue Jays

TheHurl

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Do they ever. 2nd lowest scoring team in the AL. Even the low-scoring Rays can beat them. For the Rays though, the sked gets MUCH tougher after this.

 

sure does...they get Washington and then Cleveland (under 12 runs for the whole series combined?) but then it gets easy again.

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