Everything posted by bmags
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2016 Democratic Thread
It's not even worth discussing. It gives beltway media hard-ons, but 1) Kasich would never do it and 2) Hillary would never do it. You realize she's basically saying "if I die, I'd rather a republican be president than a dem".
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2016 Fantasy Baseball Official Thread
Deal fell thru, he traded for Sano while we were negotiating. I'm fine keeping Arenado, Machado (play him at SS), and Hernandez.
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Adam Eaton "Racial" Tweet Controversy
You gotta put the [/color] after your text.
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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 07:51 AM) I find it odd they offered 2/$17 mill for Fowler (plus a draft pick) but are supposedly not interested in Jackson (likely a guy who may take a one year deal plus no draft pick). I doubt that we don't have interest. They clearly have an unrealistic number for each of these guys that they won't budge on. We clearly offered more than 2/17 for Gordon/Cespedes/upton. I'm sure they are telling Ajax they'll accept him for 1 year 4 million, and soon he'll sign with the cubs and we'll hear "we didn't have a chance, he just wanted to play for the cubs".
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2016 Democratic Thread
John Oliver's Trump bit was very therapeutic. What an embarrassing weekend for American politics this weekend.
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Adam Eaton "Racial" Tweet Controversy
QUOTE (aryzner @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 09:00 AM) They love turning a non-story into a story as long as it includes the White Sox. Rosenbloom sucks but he also basically has to write one of these a day. It's not a surprise he can only burp out 2 or 3 dumb lines, especially in slow season. edit: so I'm saying that I don't think they pick on the white sox. Bulls get it way worse right now.
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2016 Fantasy Baseball Official Thread
Yeah he was a 10th round pick so he'd be a 5th round pick this year. Basically looks like I would be looking at losing my 3rd, 4th, 5th on potentially Machado, Altuve, Hernandez
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Ian Desmond Signs 1 Year 8M Deal with Rangers
Source: Desmond deal with #Rangers is for one year. -Rosenthal Copying Twitter fail
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Ian Desmond Signs 1 Year 8M Deal with Rangers
Rangers sign Desmond, per Rosenthal.
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Sale's first ST start won't be til 3/19
I thought it was because he broke something. I trust them to keep him healthy.
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2016 Fantasy Baseball Official Thread
Thanks. Appreciate it. I'm much better at football. Keep in mind, Rodon is more valuable only due to him being basically nothing (21st pick), not straight value add. Fernandez will be costly to keep as he's my 3rd year keeping him.
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OF Options
Maybe better defense? Austin Jackson may be equal at bat, but he doesn't actively make the rest of the team worse with poor baserunning and defense. Austin Jackson makes our pitchers better.
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2016 Fantasy Baseball Official Thread
Hey guys, question. My league is a 3 keeper league that is unusually friendly to pitchers. Our keepers accelerate by one round from the previous year. I have both Machado and Arenado, so I was hoping to trade Machado for swapping into higher rounds, and keeping J. Fernandez and maybe Rodon (he was 22nd pick last year). But instead I was offered trade of Altuve for Machado. Altuve would be my 7th round choice. On its face it seems completely fair, but it means I'm keeping two offensive players and losing 2 top ten picks. Thoughts?
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 08:36 AM) Disappointing that General Soreness returned when Derrick Rose was coming back, but great efforts from Gasol, McDermott, Moore, Gibson, Dunleavy, Snell, Felicio, etc. Great win It sounds like the soreness for rose is hamstring related, I don't think he's wrong to sit if that's tight.
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OF Options
I dislike that so much more than a 1 year deal with a loss of a pick for Fowler. You are trading three low ceiling, but likely, major leaguers to the As in that.
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2016 Democratic Thread
QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 11:25 AM) We had a 90% top rate for a while in the past. It would also have zero chance of passing with a Republican controlled house anyway. While this is true, tax rates that high are more defensible when following a world war that we need to pay for, and people are pumped about winning.
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Orioles deserve this treatment.
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2016-2017 NFL Thread
The Bears went from having the hardest schedule in the league last year to the easiest. They were on the wrong end of the close games record. They will be a very popular pick for the playoffs next year. They had very low turnovers last year in a very new defense. Expect that to improve. I will be very disappointed with no playoff birth next year.
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Sullivan on Rodon & his slider comps
That was awesome to read. Especially when I was about to make fun of it thinking it was a paul sullivan article.
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OF Options
*Walks into dealership* "Hi, I'm interested in your Ferrari's. I'm prepared to pay you the price of a volkswagon" *Salesman sells ferrari to man at moderate discount* "Well maybe my 1997 Ford Taurus will get faster this year" *Plays chess*
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2016 Democratic Thread
fun with HTML
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White Sox sign Jimmy Rollins
QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) I know. It's very strange, but the write ups this year didn't match the PECOTAs. I get BP every year, and this year's White Sox section was about as weird as it gets. They spent a couple pages going over their efforts to replace Ray Durham. They even wrote one of the Sox biggest problems was sticking with their young players too long. Said Carlos Sanchez was not a good defensive 2B, but that he had a lot of speed, which he doesn't. Very amateurish. Sounds like they were definitely talking about Micah.
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Oregon
QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) Only death was a suicide by cop? That's a pretty high standard to live up to, so yes. The 2014 standoff had a couple murdered cops IIRC. I don't think you are right. They basically refused to act in Nevada and retreated. You may look at all of this as one big situation as well. If we learned one thing from the wire, is that with any criminals you can basically be assured that sooner or later they will slip up. Requires a lot of patience and boredom. I am much prouder of this result than had they stormed the compound, even though they certainly had a right to do that.
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Avi's new swing, video
Looked like a weak grounder to 2b.