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Intentional Fallacy
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http://deadspin.com/5924188/chicago-paper-cubs-not-a-total-train-wreck-like-that-actual-train-wreck-on-the-front-page
I would like to welcome my wife who now reads this blog and loves the comics. She is trying to learn sabermetrics, which is awesome. I figure it’s better to point her here and share our misery than try to teach her myself. I don’t think she is commenting, just lurking. Be nice and try to limit the forest.gif (dying laughing)
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/sabermetric_glasses/
Jim Callis @jimcallisBA
#Cubs agree w/1st-rder Albert Almora on $3.9 mil (pick value=$3.25 mil). Florida HS OF w/lots of tools & polish. #mlbdraft
@ mb21:
Good article.
@ bubblesdachimp:
He got the most money he could (with our remaining allotted $) and we got our 1st round pick. Glad to see both sides come to an agreement.
Does that mean we signed all of our top 10 picks?
Cubs 22k away from losing a pick. Good job on spending right up to the limit.
Very happy with our draft. Welcome to the Cubs Albert Almora!!!!
Brett hears that the cubs had the highest offer on Puig
@ WaLi:
Yeah, that’s awesome. Maybe our front office guys aren’t so brain dead after all!
Castro Rizzo, Soler, Baez, Almora, Jackson, Vitters, Lake, Candelario, Vogelbach
some interesting bats that are pretty young.
Pitchers?
None
no fucking way. If we bid OVER 42 million for that guy then Tom is just printing money
@ dylanj:
i dont think it is true becuase cubans just like everyone else tend to go to the highest bidder
@ WaLi:
Laughter brings us all together.
i agree bubbles. If the Cubs offered a single cent more why would he be a Dodger?
@ GW:
I forgot if the random source wore an orange or a purple shirt. But I find this difficult to believe.
I don’t know if the Cubs offered more, but I’m glad he signed with the Dodgers.
@ Rice Cube:
I don’t. Brett said the guy didn’t go into details, so I find it very plausible that they offered more money at less per annum. Would that really surprise anyone? Clearly the FO decided to dig a money pit in Cuba and kidnap everyone who fell in it.
i mentioned this to Harry P on twitter but the Cubs have spent about 50 mill on the farm system so far this year
@ GW:
Elian Gonzalez had to be forcibly removed twice.
@ GW:
Yeah, it’s not hard to believe. Did he sign for something like 7/42? Cubs could have offered 8/43 and that’s technically more money.
Cubs do have to pay the 75 % tax on the overage for this years draft.
@ mb21:
There might have been some opt-out option for him in their deal and not in the Cubs’ deal, too. Something other than straight cash.
@ dylanj:
You talk to Harry Potter on twitter?
Keith was certain last night that the CBA would be tweaked after this draft, because so many #1 picks were still unsigned. I tend to think the agents are just holding out until the lower order picks sign, so they can claim every single loose penny the teams have.
@ josh:
Lots of 1st round picks were unsigned in year’s past at this time too.
Any word on where the Cubs are sending Almora? I assume he needs to get back into playing condition so a few weeks in Mesa and then what?
I bet he stays in AZL then does the Fall League. If they really love him maybe Peoria?
(dying laughing)
http://www.bleachernation.com/2012/07/09/kerry-wood-is-the-next-discount-double-checker-for-state-farm/
@ dylanj:
The Fall League is usually for guys at AA or AAA. I think teams can only have 1 or 2 guys below that.
well Boise has Trey Martin & Dunston. Peoria could be a fit but I just think he spends the rest of the year with AZL
@ mb21:
That’s kind of what I was thinking. I just think Keith Moreland finds change to be confusing and scary.
i bet by august he is in peoria
http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/07/simpsons-guest-stars/#page/1
I know it’s fashionable to trash the All-Star Game (especially in these parts), but I decided to give it a try in 2010 for the first time in many years, and I was surprised to find I enjoyed it quite a bit. Marlon Byrd’s contributions actually made me temporarily proud to be a Cub fan. I’ll be watching it this year, at least in part. There’s no other game going on for four days, I’ll see good players I rarely see, and (who knows?) the game just might surprise me like it did in 2010.
I’m enjoying all of the ZOMG AL Team X is playing its next 40 games against teams with .500 or better records!!! …when only three AL teams have a losing record
Tim Lincecum has (pitching only): -2 rWAR, 1.1 fWAR, and -.1 PWARP.
Berselius wrote:
Not only did I do a double-take, I’ll confess I was all, “Dude, there’s no way that’s true,” in my head. So I had to look.
Holy crap. That’s kind of crazy.
@ Brett:
By contrast, half the NL teams have a losing record. I guess interleague has a lot to do with that, plus Minnesota and Seattle are pretty terrible.
@ Rice Cube:
The entire league’s record is .513. Also, there are 3 teams at .500, a few teams just above .500, and now teams slightly below .500 (though no teams quite so bad as the worst 4 teams in the NL, interestingly). It is a really odd set of circumstances.
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I hate all the theatrics and the lineup changes every other inning. It’s stimulus overdose to me. To me, half the fun of baseball is seeing if your favorite player X can get a hit after two hard lineouts earlier in the game. Without those mini tensions, it’s just dudes I wouldn’t want to hang out with running around in the grass.
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I’m not that good at math anymore but I think it has to do with teams playing a different number of games (due to off days and rainouts that have yet to be made up) plus unbalanced schedules allowing one set of teams to beat up on the NL’s crap and the Twins and Mariners so far.
Awesome. ESPN 3 gives me the option to watch the Home Run Derby in Spanish.
@ Rizzo the Rat:
Please let me know if Mexican Chris Berman is less annoying than usual.
It might be worth it in order not to hear Berman.
Wow, I posted that before I read RC’s comment. Weird.
@ Rizzo the Rat:
¡ Trumbo golpea un, reverso reverso reverso reverso reverso reverso reverso PASADO!
http://www.nola.com/zephyrs/index.ssf/2012/07/kevin_gausman_will_return_for.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
very interesting
Prince Fielder is merciless.
Rizzo the Rat wrote:
,said every cookie within arm’s reach.
why did bautista advance instead of trumbo? i forget the rules of this and i’m just watching the scoreboard on mlb.com.
@ EnricoPallazzo:
He tied Trumbo, then they had a swing-off (each got 5 swings; Trumbo hit 1 homer, Jose hit 2.)
@ EnricoPallazzo:
To get to finals, they add the 1st two round totals.
Side note, apparently Jamie Moyer and Casey Coleman were asked to be HR Derby pitchers but declined. No telling who would have won if they did pitch for whoever asked for them.
@ Rice Cube:
Classic. Isn’t Zimmerman hurt right now?
@ BubbaBiscuit:
right but they both had 13 homers apiece from rounds 1 and 2. trumbo had 7 then 6 and bautista had 11 then 2. i would have assumed that round 2 would be the tiebreaker, not round 1.
@ EnricoPallazzo:
ha, never mind, didn’t see rizzo’s answer. thanks.
@ EnricoPallazzo:
See my post (#54).
edit: too late.
@ josh:
I think he’s okay now but slumping. At least I thought I saw his name in the lineup in this weekend’s games.
@ Rice Cube:
I didn’t realize he had kind of a shitty season last year, by his normal standards. That stinks.
I just learned there is a new album out called “Negative for Fun” by the Don’t Fucking Cares. It reminded me of ACB.
@ Suburban kid:
QUIT HACKING MY BLOG
The Don’t Fucking Cares put up an event on Facebook for their album launch. Only one person is going and one is a maybe. (dying laughing)
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