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  1. GAME05
    looks like Gil Meche is retiring with a year and $12M left on his contract. apparently there was/is a stipulation in his contract that would pay him regardless, but it sounds as though he is going to forfeit the money. http://mlb-facts-and-rumo.../entry/22297882/27127160
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    ugh, nice reference. it seems like so long ago when we had to muster up every last ounce of fandom in ourselves to generate even the smallest amount of excitement for the season. Rafael Roque as the Opening Day starter was like George spotting the donut in the garbage can. there may never be a longer February than what we are all about to experience. sure glad it's not Leap Year, because an additional 24 hours before March would be too much to bear.
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    the contract really doesn't make sense to me. i don't see that the Reds would have paid all that much more in arbitration than they're giving him now, and that's if he even has good health the next three years. the whole contract just weighs so heavily in favour of Votto, and i doubt he spent more than three seconds deciding on whether or not to sign this contract. worst part about this contract is that i think this completely prevents the Reds from squeezing another one or two years out of Votto before he hits FA. now that he has his financial security, there's no reason for him to accept another $2M per season to extend his contract any longer (safe to assume the Reds would like that). thinking back to the Braun extension, Braun gave up a lot to get that financial security. the contract benefited both sides. at the most Votto is only sacrificing $1M or $2M, which is essentially nothing. i just don't see how this contract benefits the Reds at all.
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    it's really cool to have a 3:5 chance at the Opening Day starter being someone i'd really like to see and who deserves the nod. numbers aside, i think i'm going to enjoy watching Marcum pitch more than anyone.
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    in my next job interview i'm going to point out that i write left-handed. "Well, he clearly doesn't have the skills to do this job, but we don't have many lefties in the workplace." being left-handed is the baseball equivalent of nepotism.
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    if Seth McClung wasn't working on catching on with a team this year, he would definitely have my vote to be the next Brewers beat writer. he clearly has a love for the team and the city (and we love him), has an intimate knowledge of the team, has a funny and engaging writing style that makes him very entertaining to read, he'd probably have greater access to Melvin and the players than other beat writers (what player would close the locker room off or not do an interview with a recent teammate?), and he would bring an amazing professional knowledge of the pitcher-hitter matchup that is unparalleled. i could see him not only writing articles about entire games, but a full article that is a deep analysis on Axford and Lucroy's approach to a single batter in a crucial situation. i guess i'm just dreaming since McClung has a year or two left of baseball, but he would be one of the few writers who i would search out to read everything he wrote.
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    i see this as the Yankees getting owned by the rules they created for themselves. it isn't an offseason without the Yankees signing at least one superstar FA. since Soriano is really the only impact player left on the market, it was as if the Yankees had to sign him for whatever amount.
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    i'm guessing that the vast majority of the top 10-15 of these guys made less than 2-2.5 million last year and some under a million. well, when it's the Yankees usual team budget versus a normal team budget, i'd bet the Yankees are spending about the same percentage of payroll for Soriano than another team would for their low-paid setup guy.
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    a friend of mine played this for a while and enjoyed it. i'd enjoy playing, but i don't have the time to get too compulsive about it. for example, my drafting strategy would likely be "eh, he seems ok." there is a very good chance that i would end up as the Pittsburgh Pirates of your league. so...sign me up if that's ok for you, but i wouldn't be offended if you'd prefer to pass me up for someone who would be a lot more into it than i could be.
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    Edgar Diaz, i was going to say the same thing about Private Ryan. the opening scene is amazing, but nothing else in the movie stood out to me from any other war movie at all. a decent movie all in all, but i've never really found it special. Das Boot is such an excellent movie and really does such an excellent job of putting the audience in that delicate position of realizing that they're Nazis, but almost rooting for them at the same time. and would anyone put Bridge on the River Kwai into their Best War Movies list? i don't know the war movie genre quite well enough to know if that was particularly groundbreaking or original enough. and that's where good vs. great stands out to me. i think of Pulp Fiction and how that has shaped dialogue in a lot of movies now, but then i think that His Girl Friday also did that and came way before. i'm not really a fan of musicals, but Singing in the Rain, Mary Poppins and Blues Brothers would have to be on a related Must See list somewhere. and of course Spinal Tap is so good it goes all the way up to 11. only after many viewings did i discover that most of the dialogue was improvised.
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    i just mentioned it, but Paths of Glory, for me, is an essential if only because it's so heavily political, which i haven't really seen in any other war movie. and the ending with the German girl--how can you not tear up at that? it's probably for a separate thread, but a friend and i used to email during work our High Fidelity-inspired Top 5 lists such as "Best car chase" or "best date movie." Robert, for a lot of the same reasons that you include RoboCop in your list, wouldn't you also then want to include Modern Times and/or Metropolis? I'm also going to put a vote in for Nosferatu on the Horror list. hard not to include the beginnings of such a popular character--though Werner Herzog's version is definitely my favourite of the bunch.
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    wanted to bump this thread because i'm really excited about my brand-new purchase of an electronic cigarette. the late-night ads make them look incredibly stupid, but i ran into a girl who had one and she loved it, said she was able to quit smoking because of it. it seems like you get to keep the nicotine intake and just having something to fiddle with, but none of the stink and tar. for $100 i'll take a shot at it. i'm basically ashamed of my habit and have a fear of the repercussions, but addiction is a terrible thing. lost a great girl primarily because of the habit, too. even if the thing only reduces my intake of real cigarettes, that'd be a plus. BrewCrewKid mentioned Chantix, and i've heard great things about it as well. one friend quit with it and he was even fine with me smoking right next to him. the drug does, however, give you some very vivid dreams. some people are fine with that, others not so much. i have a friend who ended up having hallucinations for two days because of it, just ended up huddled in the corner of his room with a samurai sword in his hand, afraid that some monster was going to get him.
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    i'm no expert, but i'd imagine it might be worse on the kids to have an alcoholic, drug-addicted father at home than him gone. it reminds me of seeing Ozzie Osbourne telling his kids not to do drugs. "Don't do drugs. Are you crazy? Look what it did to me!" not surprising the abandonment doesn't get much play. i don't want my feel-good stories to have an asterisk.
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    speaking of, cable tv itself bugs me. if we're already paying to watch television, then we shouldn't have to be subjected to commercials. i'm paying about $90/mo for the Interwebs and basic cable, which is ridiculous. i wanted to add HBO so i could watch PPV boxing, but apparently i need a cable box for that. in all, it would have ended up being $130/mo for Interwebs and cable tv, so i declined.
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    hating Star Wars is like hating sunshine and the Care Bears and skipping work to see a baseball game. Robert, though i agree with you that Gold Rush is funnier than City Lights, i personally put City Lights ahead on the must-see list if only for it's beautiful ending, which is #2 on my personal list of best all-time movie endings (after Kubrick's Paths of Glory).
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    Your post gives me heart burn. I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's. Since turning the big 3-0 last year, most fast food gives me indigestion. Just can't take that stuff anymore.same here. it can be so tempting and convenient sometimes, but then you walk out of the restaurant feeling ashamed and sick. i also recommend looking up how chicken mcnuggets and bologna are made, which will kill any cravings you have for that food, too. one of my jobs right now is working in the deli at Wal-Mart. all the ready-made food we serve is deep fried in a gigantic vat of oil. i thought i would end up with these cravings for all the food there, but i've been mostly repulsed. having the produce section nearby is an angel on my shoulder, too. i think i'd like to try vegetarianism for a couple weeks. i enjoy meat, but i think most Americans have just gotten to this point where we'll eat a full plate of it for dinner only because a good meal of carbs and vegetables is harder to come up with. meat is the default.
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    Damian Miller gets a vote? so apparently former players get ballots and get to vote for themselves, and Obermueller never turned his in. Yost was apparently smart enough to vote for himself and then make a photocopy.
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    i'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there:) my younger brother is 7'2", so you can imagine how often he gets that (also pointed at). and i know exactly what all you bf.netters are thinking now, and no, he doesn't play basketball. and how did i know that's what you were thinking? because that's everyone's second question. funny, though, i'm only 6'5" and never get that question, so i guess there's a world of difference between 6'5" and 6'8".
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    i'm at least a slow reader, too. all those years as an editor/proofreader and i've learned to read very carefully as if i'm checking for errors (which i regularly find). i just finished "The Year of Living Biblically" by AJ Jacobs. this was where he lived by Old Testament rules for a year (which included things like never combining fabrics). after enjoying the interviews he gave, the book was only ok--like a really good episode of a bad tv show. it's not really a theological book, though. finished another one recently that i really enjoyed: "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine Exupery. a true-adventure book, he chronicles his time piloting his single-engine mail plane in the 1940s over mountain and desert (he seems to think crash landing is almost funny). the author is very prosaic without seeming so forced, so his writing was very beautiful and enjoyable to read.
  20. GAME05
    maybe i'm wrong, but that seems like a lot of runs to me.
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    might also be a mistake to assume that Greinke and Marcum will be able to go deep into so many games. if there's a big gap between good starters and good bullpen pitchers, that could mean a lot of lost games. 40 games with a 2.8 ERA reliever in there vs. a 5.4 ERA reliever represents a lot of extra runs given up.
  22. GAME05
    i think it's been said before, but if we really do only have a few million and one prospect to sell, we're being quick to assume that Betancourt will necessarily be the biggest weakness on the team. i agree that one month isn't really enough time to judge a player, but it's certainly enough time for a more sizable hole to emerge on the team. if we hit our absolute limit by replacing Betancourt now, i'd hate to see a larger hole emerge later (regardless) and not be able to fix it. maybe keeping that money/prospect safeguard available is more valuable to the team than replacing Betancourt right away.
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    i disagree and think the Closer role is completely different than locking down the 7th or 8th innings. i don't think the saves statistic was created just to have another statistic, and i don't think the majority of baseball fans value holds as much as saves for good reason. it's not just the ability to pitch well, but the mental makeup that makes closers unique. a blown save usually results in a loss, with the other team standing at home plate celebrating the closer's failure. a blown 7th inning and at least the pitcher can hold onto a slim hope that his team will make a late comeback. a closer's job is unique in that the closer is basically the only thing standing between a win and a loss. obviously we all know that, but i think that it highlights a unique mental makeup that is required of a closer and not of a 7th inning guy. and a 7th inning guy doesn't have to deal with the substitutions that a closer regularly has to face. i really wish i could ask this question to a bullpen pitcher, but i'm still inclined to think that if two pitchers had equal ability, that their results as a Closer could still be wildly different.
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    that was hilarious. his splits are pretty drastic, but isn't it that way for the majority of Colorado hitters? and that's still not a bad price to pay for a player who is awesome if only 50% of the time. for a city that hasn't had a very long history of baseball, maybe it isn't that bad of an idea to lock a few certain players in for a long time so that fans eventually have a small handful of players to look back at.
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    if anybody is an upgrade over Betancourt (which i don't necessarily agree with), then it shouldn't be much of a worry to enter the season with him because he could be replaced easily. Melvin and Roenicke can figure out if Betancourt is the worst thing to happen to baseball since Joe Morgan took to the microphone, but i wouldn't want to make such a final conclusion as to cut him before he even dons a Brewer uniform. it's booing the guy before he even gets an at-bat. i'm at least curious to see what he can do, and if that means cutting him after only a month, then so be it.
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