Author Topic: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)  (Read 59916 times)

brjones

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #60 on: June 27, 2014, 05:32:03 pm »
I like the Angels side of the deal.  Frieri is just a Marmol type--he's always going to be wild and prone to blow-ups.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #61 on: June 28, 2014, 11:04:04 pm »
I am watching the Arizona / San Diego game and Dick Enberg and two other guys (one of whom is Mark Kotsay) are actually arguing against replay and FOR incorrect calls standing because they liked to see managers blow a gasket and argue with umpires.

I've seen some idiotic garbage before but allowing wrong calls to stand because you want to see a manager throw a tantrum after his team was robbed because an umpire just missed a call has to be up there.

Yeah, who cares who wins and loses as long as you get to see a grown man act like a toddler?

In the same game, I just got my first look at the new hat for pitchers designed to protect them from liners to the head.  It looks awkward but if it saves one guy a life-threatening injury, it's well worth it.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #62 on: June 28, 2014, 11:20:17 pm »
Koyie Hill back in big leagues--Phillies.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #63 on: June 29, 2014, 10:39:39 am »
I am watching the Arizona / San Diego game and Dick Enberg and two other guys (one of whom is Mark Kotsay) are actually arguing against replay and FOR incorrect calls standing because they liked to see managers blow a gasket and argue with umpires.

I've seen some idiotic garbage before but allowing wrong calls to stand because you want to see a manager throw a tantrum after his team was robbed because an umpire just missed a call has to be up there.

Yeah, who cares who wins and loses as long as you get to see a grown man act like a toddler?



This might well illustrate another benefit of allowing video challenges.  One of the concerns was that challenges might lengthen games, but we have seen the challenges done fairly quickly.  Things which almost never happen quickly in games are manager tantrums, player tantrums and ejections and bench-clearing brawls.  I suspect that the challenge process is likely to reduce all three of those serious game-delaying events -- manager tantrums/ejections; player tantrums/ejections; and brawls.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #65 on: June 30, 2014, 02:52:29 pm »
Astros internal trade talks leaked:

http://deadspin.com/leaked-10-months-of-the-houston-astros-internal-trade-1597951970

If this it true, it makes it look like crazy message board trades that we'd never expect to get offered in real life actually do happen (for example, Bogaerts, Cecchini, Webster, or Bradley for Bud Norris.  Or Harrell for Giolito).

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #66 on: June 30, 2014, 04:14:26 pm »
Man that is an interesting read.  Buying a car and trading players seems to have a lot in common.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #67 on: June 30, 2014, 04:15:28 pm »
Very interesting.  Would love love love to come across something like that for the Cubs.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #68 on: June 30, 2014, 04:23:42 pm »
Hopefully the Cubs have better password protection.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #69 on: June 30, 2014, 04:51:08 pm »
Cubs password is real complicated: think Wrigley.  Password is "gum"

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #70 on: June 30, 2014, 06:12:39 pm »
Cubs password is real complicated: think Wrigley.  Password is "gum"

No kidding. It works.

Looks like Hoyer has been trying to deal away the outfield:

1.   June, 17, 2014. Offered Kalish to MM.  Asked for Heaney. MM countered with Danish. Asked if we could get back five apple but MM will only go three cheese.  Said talking to other clubs and will get back to them later.
2.   June 18, 2014. Offered Ruggiano to LAA.  They never heard of him. Gave link to BR.  Will check out and get back to us.
3.   June 20, 2014. Offered Sweeney to KCR. Asked for Zimmer and another guy.  KCR said Zimmer died few days ago but they would see what they can do.  Said not that Zimmer.  Phone went dead.  Will call Verizon.
4.   June 22, 2014. Offered Coghlin to Bos.  Asked for DelaRosa.  They offered Yaz and insisted that still better than Coghlin.  Agreed but will take mucho to get him in shape.  Offered to throw in Barney.  Bos asked for Soler instead.  Said will take mucho to get Soler in shape. Looks like impasse.
5.   June 23, 2014. Offered Schierholtz to NYY.  Asked for Sanchez.  NYY countered to take back remainder of Soriano dough.  Told NYY will take Brooklyn Bridge if no Sanchez.  Will consider.
6.     June 24, 2014. Offered Lake to Phil.  Said it will them younger.  Phil says younger is nice but don't want Lake.  Phil says Keith Law hates Lake.  We said Law likes Kalish.  Phil says in that case will offer the five Danishes and throw in another cheese.  Think we have a deal here.   

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #71 on: June 30, 2014, 08:11:07 pm »
I think the thing I'm most shocked by on the Astros leak is how little trade discussion there actually is (if that leak is totally extensive of their trade talks that is).  Only 60 entries over 10 months? 

It doesn't seem like they talked to a whole lot of teams either.

As a fan, I almost always pictured a team talking several trades several times a day and that they'd be throwing ideas out to all 29 other teams fairly regularly. 

Of course, I'm also disappointed there was nothing about the Cubs in there.  It'd be interesting to find out what kind of back and forth goes on when Theo and company are discussing trade (Aside from Reb's behind the scenes "insider" info of course.)  Granted, I guess since the Cubs and Astros are in the same rebuilding boat, there really isn't much for them to discuss with one another.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #72 on: June 30, 2014, 08:11:22 pm »
By the way, nicely done Reb as always.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #73 on: June 30, 2014, 08:31:14 pm »
They had to have something on Torryers that we sold them, maybe it just didn't make deadspin.

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Re: Around Baseball (06/14 - 08/15)
« Reply #74 on: June 30, 2014, 09:59:27 pm »
That's probably just one one guy's notes off his cell phone/iPad/laptop or whatever got hacked.  Might just be a file or two that they were able to grab in the limited access they had before they were discovered or shut down.