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    6/10/2013 9:22 pm  #1

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    6/10 Other Games Crap

    I almost feel badly for Jim Deshaies. He gets paroled from Houston, only to end up in Chicago watching Alfonso Soriano flail at sliders in the dirt.
    He and Kasper spent the bottom of the sixth inning talking about their favorite desserts.

     

    6/10/2013 9:27 pm  #2

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    Here comes the "Brandon Phillips was robbed of the Gold Glove Award ..." half-inning discussion from Brennaman's Mentally-Retarded Son and Idiot Sidekick.

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    6/10/2013 9:35 pm  #3

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    Phillips didn't win the award because "unnamed managers" didn't vote for him.
     

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    6/10/2013 9:56 pm  #4

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    Now we've entered the Matt Garza defamation portion of the broadcast. The irony being Garza intends to pitch tomorrow, while Cueto will miss another start against another team that's figured out he's a coward.

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    6/11/2013 12:23 am  #5

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    artie_fufkin wrote:

    Brennaman's Mentally-Retarded Son and Idiot Sidekick.

    Pardon me for asking, but who the Hell are you talking about?  

    --Clueless in Seattle
     

     

    6/11/2013 8:59 am  #6

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    Way to keep the flame on an off-day, Artie!

     

    6/11/2013 9:28 am  #7

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    Max wrote:

    artie_fufkin wrote:

    Brennaman's Mentally-Retarded Son and Idiot Sidekick.

    Pardon me for asking, but who the Hell are you talking about?  

    --Clueless in Seattle
     

    The Reds' usual TV broadcast duo of Thom Brennaman and Chris Welsh. Brennaman is the son of Reds' radio broadcaster Marty Brennaman. Thom has a room temperature IQ. There's no fact or concept too obvious for him. He also spouts non-sensical statements, usually laced with cliches, at an obscenely high volume.
    Welsh was a journeyman major league pitcher who also has an uncanny grasp of the obvious and an undyling love affair for anyone in a Reds uniform.
    And they both hate, Hate, HATE the St. Louis Cardinals. 

    Sample exchange:
    Thom: "MAN OH MAN OH MAN. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, PARTNER ... IF THERE'S A BETTER SECOND BASEMAN IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE THAN BRANDON PHILLIPS, I'LL EAT MY WORDS."
    Welsh: "What a player. I mean, he's not just a good player. He's not just a very good player. He's a great player."

    During last night's game, Welsh tried to make an argument that Phillips' RBI total is more impressive than an "ordinary" RBI total (whatever that is) because "He's been doing it without hitting home runs."
    Phillips had already hit a grand slam earlier in the game.






     

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    6/11/2013 11:28 am  #8

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    I know this story from Goold isn't as awesome as a Joe Strauss scoop revealing that Adam Kennedy is asking for a trade, but it's interesting to see how the Cardinals identify potential prospects in the latter half of the draft.

    http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/late-picks-yield-major-talent-for-cards/article_9b128e05-d43c-503c-9da2-4f26fffc2a2d.html

     

    6/11/2013 12:11 pm  #9

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    tkihshbt wrote:

    I know this story from Goold isn't as awesome as a Joe Strauss scoop revealing that Adam Kennedy is asking for a trade, but it's interesting to see how the Cardinals identify potential prospects in the latter half of the draft.

    http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/late-picks-yield-major-talent-for-cards/article_9b128e05-d43c-503c-9da2-4f26fffc2a2d.html

    I have a feeling we're going to lament Luhnow's departure more than the departure of anyone else connected to the Cardinals during the DeWitt era. 

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    6/11/2013 1:29 pm  #10

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    You could very well be right, but luckily they have most of the infrastructure in place. I think most of the development team is still here.

     

    6/11/2013 2:25 pm  #11

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    tkihshbt wrote:

    You could very well be right, but luckily they have most of the infrastructure in place. I think most of the development team is still here.

    Well, that's good news. I figured an exec who takes a promotion with another organization usually brings his guys with him. But maybe it's only Theo who has acolytes.

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    6/11/2013 2:38 pm  #12

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    artie_fufkin wrote:

    tkihshbt wrote:

    You could very well be right, but luckily they have most of the infrastructure in place. I think most of the development team is still here.

    Well, that's good news. I figured an exec who takes a promotion with another organization usually brings his guys with him. But maybe it's only Theo who has acolytes.

    Luhnow took some of his people with him.  ESPN has a pretty good story about him on the front of its baseball page.

    "To help him identify those what-if bargains, Luhnow assembled a stable of millennial Ivy Leaguers that resembles a dot-com garage startup. When Luhnow arrived, Houston was using the same software to evaluate players that the Cardinals were using back in 2003. So he brought Sig Mejdal -- who had built mathematical models for NASA that predicted human performance based on sleep-cycle data -- from St. Louis to be his director of decision sciences. He named 27-year-old Harvard grad Stephanie Wilka, one of baseball's few female front office executives, coordinator of amateur scouting. And he plucked David Stearns, who grew up a Mets fan and went to Harvard, from the Indians, where he had landed after helping the commissioner's office negotiate MLB's collective bargaining agreement when he was just 25."

    http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=9357636

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    6/11/2013 2:54 pm  #13

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    "He named 27-year-old Harvard grad Stephanie Wilka, one of baseball's few female front office executives, coordinator of amateur scouting."

    Hmmm ...

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    6/11/2013 5:16 pm  #14

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    artie_fufkin wrote:

    "He named 27-year-old Harvard grad Stephanie Wilka, one of baseball's few female front office executives, coordinator of amateur scouting."

    Hmmm ...

     

     

    6/11/2013 5:35 pm  #15

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    artie_fufkin wrote:

    "He named 27-year-old Harvard grad Stephanie Wilka, one of baseball's few female front office executives, coordinator of amateur scouting."

    Hmmm ...

    I'm not sure that those chiquitas in the DR will be losing their sugar daddy just yet. 

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    6/12/2013 8:43 am  #16

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    Max wrote:

    artie_fufkin wrote:

    "He named 27-year-old Harvard grad Stephanie Wilka, one of baseball's few female front office executives, coordinator of amateur scouting."

    Hmmm ...

    I'm not sure that those chiquitas in the DR will be losing their sugar daddy just yet. 

    Nothing worng with her max.  I would dry hump her shadow.  
     

     

    6/12/2013 11:22 pm  #17

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    APIAD wrote:

    Nothing worng with her max.  I would dry hump her shadow.  
     

    Whatever.

     

     

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