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And if the reports are true, he isn’t interested in cheap……

I really like both prospects in the deal. Aaron Cunningham can hit and, although he doesn’t have big power, could be a great fit in San Diego. Eric Sogard is a fine prospect at 2B, but Oakland has some depth there. Should be interesting.

To me, Cherry is close enough to replacement that you shouldn’t pay much more than the minimum. Seems like an odd move for a club that’s financially strapped.

my child.

I also don’t know if I like their whole catalog. I just have gagagaga, but I’m expecting good things from what I’ve read.

Article here. Floyd, at this point has to continue to ask for testing because it presents the appearance that he genuinely cares about the future of the sport and a level playing field, not just f’in up the biggest fight of the past 25 years.. And, Mosley chimed in during the Pac negotiations that he would submit to any test, any time. At this point an early May date is likely since Berto pulled out of the fight later in the month. No way they go head to head with Pac on March 13th. Each has to build box office and PPV numbers for the next negotiation and the same date would harm all of that.

Here’s the problem: either he doesn’t impress and only gets a 1 year, incentive laden deal, or he convinces people he’s back on form and gets 2-3 years and much more than that guaranteed… The fact that he is a proven commodity essentially prices the Reds out of the market.

by unloading Millwood to the O’s and buying Harden with an incentive laden deal.

That’s all I got.

as Yogi always said pitching is 90% of the game; the other half is mental."

A actual living breathing ace on a Reds staff is something I ain’t seen round these parts since back in….well ought 1993 or so when Jose Rijo was able to pitch. Why, I remember it like it was yesterday. A more than 50/50 chance to win on Opening Day….an owner who cared more about winning than telling stories about budget woes…oh, Charlie, they say those were the good ol’ days, but they weren’t always good. Sometimes, the reds finished second or a strike ruined their season. But, we had fun, mayhap we did.

You can keep the ghost of Miguel Tejada and spend the money on pitching and then somebody on some blog somewhere can look at this team’s offensive numbers and opine like a recent comment re: the Giants “I don’t know they won anything with that line-up”.

I’ve asked this question to many people and have yet to see a study that actually proves this. I know BP claims there is some correlation, but I’ve never seen a number that convinces me that PAP is predictive of injuries.

But that’s not what I dislike about your post. What I dislike is the use of rankings for this stat. For PAP to actually work, there should be a theoretical cutoff point or a “safe number” for a pitcher is at risk. We have no idea what that number is, so more often than not we these things based on rankings. So you list Edinson Volquez as 17th in PAP in 2008 and then list him later on the surgery list. However, I have no idea what that ranking means. Volquez was closer to 50th on the list than he was to 5th in total and average PAP. So, how am I supposed to tell what is a bad level of PAP?

I’m not a Dusty Baker supporter by any means, but outside of 2 weird uses of Aaron Harang, I haven’t seen him be particularly abusive to any of the Reds pitchers. And I feel like PAP is just a case of putting a number on anecdotal evidence and calling it definitive.

do you, Mr. MVP Eckstein?

but if you’re going to inject sports into a conversation try to have some idea of what you’re talking about. I think it’s the completely talking out of her ass which offends voters much more than the lack of knowledge about Schilling himself.

and just to let you know, i’ve wished all kinds of evil on the bread $ox. i said i hope fenway park naming rights get sold to a company with new york in the title, that papebutt and pedroia go to the bankee$ before year’s end, that leatherpants becomes their GM…all the sudden, the bankee$ drop to number 3 on my 9th circle of hell list. congrats. hee hee.

only a tiny bit, but enough to laugh, which is supposedly some sort of medicine?