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  1. 1992casey
    This is being discussed in the 2015-2016 Minor League Offseason Transaction Thread. Feel free to re-post your comments there.
  2. 1992casey
    Here's the transaction topic: Garin Cecchini to Brewers for Cash Considerations
  3. 1992casey
    Manny Piña, C He was the PTBNL for K-Rod.
  4. 1992casey
    Yes.
  5. 1992casey
    the italian pron is just like i wrote, not "chic" but "tchek" or czech. Coshun will probably say "kek" or "sec."
  6. 1992casey
    Also don't knock average. An average first baseman might have done wonders in 2013 or 2014. No team fields 8 All Stars and an Ace every game. Arguably they wasted prime years of Grienke, Gomez, Lucroy, and Braun by not having enough average players. Also, more players are below average than above. That pulls the median down and puts an average player in the top half.
  7. 1992casey
    Hmmm... Baseball reference said: chick-KEE-nee That's about the same as what kalle posted. chick-KEE-nee and chick-kinney are essentially the same. What's predictable is that almost everyone except Coshun will get the pronunciation right.
  8. 1992casey
    It said Zach Jones earlier; I don't know what happened. My only guess is that it reverted to the old title when I added the transaction posticon. It's fixed now.
  9. 1992casey
    Muppet Christmas Carol (actually like the George C. Scott version too). I think the definitive version of [cite]A Christmas Carol[/cite] is the 1951 version with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. The 1938 version, with Reginald Owen as Scrooge, is a somewhat kinder, gentler version. The fun aspect of this version is that three members of the Lockhart family are part of the cast: Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit, Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit, and a very young June Lockhart (pictured at left) as Belinda Cratchit. By the way, June turned 90 this year. I haven't seen the George C. Scott version enough to personally rate it, but I hear that it stands up well. And of course, interpretations like the [cite]The Muppet Christmas Carol[/cite] and [cite]Mickey's Christmas Carol[/cite] are always fun. A lot of the Tiny Tims are annoying, though, but that would seem to be the nature of the beast.
  10. 1992casey
    I wouldn't use the Cirillo comparison because Jeff is a likable guy, and by all accounts, he was a good teammate. I think that if you're using "poor man's" whomever to describe someone, there's quite a bit of leeway. I think the critical comparison is that Sheffield and Bradley were both continual sources of distraction (putting it kindly). "Poor man's" simply puts Lawrie somewhere below (anywhere below) these guys talent-wise.
  11. 1992casey
    As reillymcshane said, the system needs both quality and quantity. Also, it needs to be stocked at all levels. We can't look at this trade in isolation. If this is the only kind of deal that Stearns makes, it would make sense to be concerned. But hopefully, as we see more deals, this trade will fit in as one of a variety of ways that are being used to build.
  12. 1992casey
    Four years of pro experience for most players; five years for those signed at age 18 or younger. Did I miss anything?
  13. 1992casey
    Good work!
  14. 1992casey
    The Castro trade has apparently gone down, so we can now continue that aspect of this discussion in this thread: Starlin Castro to the Yankees
  15. 1992casey
    Here's another article: MLB investigating Aroldis Chapman for alleged domestic violence incident
  16. 1992casey
    There'd be nothing to stop him from being traded before 2020. If he's performing, what's left of his controllable years would be valuable to a trading partner, just as it'd be valuable to the Brewers.
  17. 1992casey
    This is bizarre. The incident reportedly happened in October. A dozen officers were dispatched, and no arrests were made. Here's a link: Police report: Aroldis Chapman fired gunshots, 'choked' girlfriend in domestic incident
  18. 1992casey
    Here's the McCalvy article: Brewers add Subero, Lane to coaching staff McCalvy says Lane's "official title is simply 'Major League coach,' but the position essentially translates to assistant hitting coach." I've adjusted Lane's age in the lead. He'll be 39 on December 22. Neither Haudricourt nor McCalvy have that tidbit quite right. Tom says he's 39 right now; Adam says he'll be 38 on his upcoming birthday.
  19. 1992casey
    Brewers complete coaching staff with Carlos Subero, Jason Lane Subero, 43, will coach first base and infielders. He was Biloxi's manager in 2015. Lane, who'll turn 39 this month, will be "coach in general" (Haudricourt's words) and will assist hitting coach Darnell Coles. He was a player for El Paso (Padres organization) in 2015.
  20. 1992casey
    The luxury tax is agreed upon in each CBA. Including next year it has only changed once in the past 7 years by $10mil. They have had more of a rolling increase back in the early 2000s so it was increasing every year, but they have not gone with that recently. Basically the owners and MLBPA can decide to make it whatever they want.With all these massive gains in revenue lately the next negotiation should be pretty interesting. The smaller it is the better for the Brewers. Another aspect of the luxury tax is that the monies go into a fund to which all teams would otherwise contribute equally. Once you slice up the penalty money, there isn't a huge advantage to the teams not paying the tax. But it's potentially a big thing to the teams that pay.
  21. 1992casey
    I think that Canada uses kind of a blend and Australia picks up on a small handful of American conventions. Besides spelling, there's vocabulary in general, e.g. lift vs. elevator. That's usually pretty easy to comprehend. A lot of words simply change pronunciation, e.g. schedule. Things like that happen within our country, so that shouldn't be a surprise to us. And some words are similar, but change in both spelling and pronunciation. The majority of the world prefers aluminium to aluminum. They prefer it because it's consistent with other chemical elements like lithium. You'll hear "aluminium" in Apple's product videos whenever Sir Jony Ive is narrating; his fellow executives like to make wisecracks about that. A few years back, several of us who participate in running message boards were trying to develop a master cuss filter. We learned that offensiveness is relative. For instance, "fanny" is tremendously offensive in England. Don't say it if you're there. If you happen to be carrying a fanny pack, it would pay to try to call it a bumbag instead. Conversely, we found a word that's tremendously offensive in the US that doesn't bother the Brits. They'd probably scratch their heads if they found that we filtered it. I won't post it; you'll need to PM me if you want to know what it is.
  22. 1992casey
    We've always seen British spellings in literature. But with the Internet, both variations are now mainstream for audiences worldwide. With some exceptions, people are generally supposed to use what's native to them. If you look really closely, you'll also see differences in punctuation rules. As an example, in the US, when commas are used in conjunction with quotes, they're always supposed to be located inside the closing quotation mark. In British, inside or outside depends on context, pretty much like the US rules for question marks and exclamation points. Another thing you'll notice is different interpretations of what's plural. In British, you'll hear "Microsoft are" rather than "Microsoft is." Another place that you'll find some British English is in our message board interface. To the right of the post editor, you'll see that it says "Font colour." phpBB only offers one flavor of English, and when we set up here, we decided that it wasn't worth the effort to track down those spellings and change them. We've addressed actual misspellings, though. The prepackaged e-mail notifications, for instance, contained some pretty egregious errors that would have been wrong no matter which side of the pond you were on.
  23. 1992casey
    If a team isn't going to over pay, wait until All-Star break when they will (assuming he is healthy and playing like Luc plays) Catchers tend to not change hands in July. There's a post around here that documents how seldom it's happened.
  24. 1992casey
    If you listen to the videos on the previous page, you'll notice that the broadcaster's are pronouncing Orlando's last name as ARE-cia. That follows the applicable Spanish pronunciation rules as long as no accent is written over the letter i. Because the inclusion of written accents (when they exist) is totally optional when writing in English, we're often clear as mud when it comes to proper pronunciation. That said, I expect Americans to say are-CEE-a.
  25. 1992casey
    In addition to this thread, there've been seven other topics with Elián's name in the lead.
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