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  1. Funketown
    Outside of some of his legal troubles I'm not sure why he hasn't been snapped up already. His peripherals were decent last season (9 K/9, 4BB/9, 1 HR/9), and he should be able to contribute.
  2. Funketown
    Worthless random thought I had: With James Michael McAdoo returning, UNC will likely start 4 McDonald's All Americans. The lone starter without that designation? Leslie McDonald. I don't blame Vander Blue for going. Honestly he might just not enjoy school and want to focus on basketball. Odds were slim that sticking around would get him into the draft, so if he thinks he can improve by playing overseas, that's completely understandable.
  3. Funketown
    Yuni has five career grannies. That is pretty surprising.
  4. Funketown
    Let x be an arbitrary Yovani Gallardo joke referencing "puke it up". x.
  5. Funketown
    Driving with a .22 is really bad. This season sucks.
  6. Funketown
    Halton's not on the 40-man is he? Otherwise I'm not quite sure. He looks like a slightly above average AAA hitter and he's 6'5".
  7. Funketown
    Looks like IU's oversigning is driving Remy Abell out the door: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9166801/remy-abell-indiana-hoosiers-transfer
  8. Funketown
    Just once, I would love to see some pitcher in Greinke's situation just run away, as in out of the stadium and down the street, screaming "Run away, run away!".
  9. Funketown
    At first I was thinking he would be a good pickup for the league minimum. Then I looked up his stats for the past two years.
  10. Funketown
    That is even more funny that it came from the offical Dodgers account, I can't imagine the Brewers ever doing that to the Cardinals but kind of wish they would have a couple of years ago. Don't the Dodgers routinely post funny stuff on their twitter machine? I think the LA Kings actually have a legitimately funny twitter account, though I might be mixing up teams.
  11. Funketown
    Well played sir.
  12. Funketown
    So what type of production do we even expect from a guy like Lalli? In about 400 career AAA PA's, his wRC+ is around 70. Is there a story behind why this guy is getting called up outside of a nice spring? It just seems like there has to be someone out there in AAA who can be had for essentially nothing. Heck, Travis Ishikawa is in AAA right now and he'd be a significant upgrade over the Betancourt/Lalli/Maldonado "platoon".
  13. Funketown
    I suspect you can go to the AAA roster of almost any team in the majors and find an expendable veteran that could be had for about twelve dollars. Yes, it's time: http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2008/12/03/2008466486.jpg
  14. Funketown
    The way things are going, we might need to start an emergency haiku gameday thread to reverse this bad mojo.
  15. Funketown
    I'm not sure what's worse: Yuni starting at SS or Yuni starting at 1B.
  16. Funketown
    This doesn't sound good. If it's a 15-day thing, there has to be a better option at 1B. Gonzalez's primary value is in the field. Yuni's primary value is on the bench. FWIW, zips projections: Yuni: .258/.286/.414 Gonzalez: .248/.285/.412 Morris: .253/.291/.449 Morris is 25.5 years old right now, so I'm not concerned about burning service time. If Ramirez does have to go to even the 15-day DL, I think they ought to bring up Morris and see what he can do, sending Gonzalez over to 3B.
  17. Funketown
    I don't mind the 1 year transfer rule, although I'd like to see it softened after coaching changes. The expansion of the conferences actually makes me dislike blocking the entire conference even more. Outside of rivalries, with a 15-16 team league, teams will usually only meet once per season, maybe twice if they meet in the postseason.
  18. Funketown
    Oh, and I'd also relocate the Marlins to Durham or Greensboro. There isn't a baseball team within five hours of Raleigh-Durham, or within 3 hours of Charlotte. After March Madness ends, there isn't much competition in this area: the Bobcats are a joke and the Hurricanes don't pique the interest of much of the population here; nor are the Panthers as big of a deal as most other NFL franchises. Edit: I'm going to assume that were I made commissioner, it would be on benevolent dictator terms.
  19. Funketown
    That sounds like a non-story to me. I think many teams have a guy who is aware that he'll be going year-to-year with the scholarship. As long as he knew the situation before he enrolled, which it seems clear he did, there's nothing wrong with Marquette not being able to offer him a scholarship this season. Are programs given the option of formally offering a player a 4-year scholarship? I was just thinking about that with regard to the Kevin Ware injury. Now, I suspect the negative press in an injury situation would prevent a team from pulling a scholarship on a player who suffered a major injury, but allowing coaches to either agree to go year-to-year with a player or up the ante and guarantee formally all four years would probably be a good idea. Another gripe: Coaches need to stop blocking schools from transfers, outside of maybe a couple of rivals. Rodney Purvis is transferring from NC State, and here's Mark Gottfried's list of schools he's not allowed to attend: UNC, Duke, Wake, UVA, Clemson, BC, Miami, GTech, VTech, Maryland, FSU, Louisville, Cincinnati, Missouri, Notre Dame, Syracuse, and Pittsburgh. That's almost every major program on the East coast. Yeah, that's a great way to treat a 19 year old kid who made the wrong college choice.
  20. Funketown
    I think Gonzalez is too well liked around here for that to happen, and he really is a serviceable player who is only playing 1B due to an injury. It will be Yuni.
  21. Funketown
    I'm also on the Roku bandwagon. I might just be able to get by without cable!
  22. Funketown
    Don't feel bad kalle, I'm just an hour ahead of Milwaukee time and I still can't stay up for the games. I'm feeling a good ol' fashioned de La Rosa implosion tonight.
  23. Funketown
    Uni is delicious. Yuni...not so much.
  24. Funketown
    Outside of Weeks, that's an infield that is not particularly fond of taking walks. Does anybody know if there's a chance that Khris Davis gets some starts at 1B? You have to think he could be no worse than a combination of Alex Gonzalez and Yuniesky Betancourt.
  25. Funketown
    Sounds like a good plan to me. Towel boys need to be fairly quick on their feet, so that probably wouldn't suit Yuni.
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