| 5:00 |
: Hello, all. Jeff should be here shortly. Get your questions in now.
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| 5:01 |
: I’m right here guys
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| 5:01 |
: I got confused because David opened this before I did
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| 5:01 |
: WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO DO THAT
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| 5:01 |
: Early bird and whatnot
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| 5:01 |
: oh right I did
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| 11:59 |
: Coming up on Dateline Monday, hardball veteran reporter Dan Szymborski tackles the disappearance of Shelby Miller. Why are the Cardinals covering up Shelby Miller’s disappearance near Howland Island? Is he working for the NPB? Or has the NSA blackmailed him into going into hiding?
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| 11:59 |
Better WS, 2013 or 1997 with all the quirky plays? |
| 11:59 |
: 2013’s been great fun
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| 11:59 |
: 1986 is still my favorite.
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| 11:59 |
Who’s going to win the series Dan? WHO IS IT? |
| 11:59 |
: Still have Red Sox.
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| 11:58 |
: Good luck getting to sleep after that one. Bye all.
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| 11:58 |
: OK friends. Got to get my kids to bed, I’m out. See ya around the twitters.
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| 11:57 |
: The funny thing is that I agree. With a slow lefty up and Koji on the hill, your best bet is to get the hitter
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| 11:57 |
I like the part where McCarver said the Red Sox shouldn’t hold the runner. That was cool. |
| 11:56 |
: A risk anytime you bring in a reliever. Especially a sinkerballer, even a slight miss in location can lead to terrible results.
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| 11:56 |
Watching the Gomes shot again, wow Maness just missed there. Should never be that far up with his stuff. |
| 7:24 |
: Welcome to my first chat in… a long time. That’s just how desperate things are around here: I’m running a chat on a Saturday night World Series Game. Send ’em in and we’ll get going pretty soon.
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| 7:27 |
Provide content damn it |
| 7:29 |
:
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| 7:30 |
How many grandmothers will be startled when OU/Texas Tech suddenly starts airing on Fox News at 6:30 CDT? |
| 7:31 |
Hi Matt, what do you think of Kelly getting the nod for game 3 over Lance Lynn (and the long lost Shelby Miller, for that matter)? |
| 7:32 |
: Well, I think Lynn is better than Kelly, but obviously Matheny likes Kelly here. There is objective evidence that Miller may have been gassed near the end of the season, and the Cardinals seem to agree.
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| 7:56 |
: I think James Taylor just sang the wrong song…
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| 7:56 |
WHY DOES AMERICA NEED SO MANY SONGS |
| 7:57 |
BECAUSE AMERICA |
| 7:57 |
Because… ‘Merica! |
| 7:57 |
I love American. Mass obesity has its charms |
| 7:59 |
: For those wondering, no Sullivan tonight, but Zimmerman might swing by later to keep our Jeff quota going.
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| 11:48 |
: Be here at the top of the hour, is what Baba Ram Dass said.
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| 12:00 |
: Lyrics!
nobody knows what they are doing |
| 12:00 |
Lester cheated, Lester cheated! |
| 12:01 |
: What I find most interesting about this episode is how nobody cares. Even Adam Wainwright says, oh yeah, it was just for grip. Okay! If this is accepted… perhaps we should change the rule to allow stickum? Wait. That seems crazy.
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| 12:01 |
Oh man, had Founder’s wet-hopped Harvest Ale last night. A must for hop-heads. So crisp and complexly delicious. |
| 12:02 |
: SHUT UP. Well, actually, I’ll report in from the Public House tonight where I’ll watch Game Two. hopefully they’ll have some nice wet hops on tap because I’m finally feeling healthy.
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| 11:31 |
: We’re going to do a slightly abbreviated chat today, running only 30 minutes instead of the usual 60, since I’m live blogging World Series Game 1 tonight (with Jeff) and need to get some other stuff done before spending ~4 hours doing this again later on this evening. But, we’ll have time for question WS/Free Agent Q&As now, and then you can join us later on tonight for live blog fun.
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| 11:58 |
If the Reds and Braves swap Uggla for Phillips, Atlanta will have ALL OF THE DEFENSE. |
| 11:59 |
: My guess is that Phillips ends up in KC. They need a 2B, he’s exactly their kind of player, and they won’t make Cincinnati take back a bad contract in exchange.
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| 11:59 |
Cardinals’ GM admitted that Mujica is on the roster to avoid upsetting any of the players, not because he’s the most deserving. Do you think this “keep everyone happy” consideration has actual value, and, if so, is it greater than the value of having a better player take the 25th roster spot? Pretend for the sake of argument that Mujica is no better at pitching than a position player. |
| 12:00 |
: Mujica is likely going to be used in a mopup role, or not at all. In that sense, his roster spot doesn’t really matter. If you’re only going to throw low leverage innings, performance isn’t a big deal, and if it keeps the players happy, I’m not sure why that shouldn’t be a deciding factor.
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| 12:00 |
Can you think of any reason UZR didn’t like Iglesias’s defense much this season? Is he a flashy-but-not-actually-effective type, or is this just a blip? |
| 9:00 |
: All right, what do we have today?
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| 9:00 |
: A baseball chat!
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| 9:01 |
: With no baseball scheduled!
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| 9:01 |
: To answer questions left in the comments for some reason:
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| 9:02 |
: Zduriencik hires the next manager, mostly
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| 9:02 |
: No Carson
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| 12:03 |
: It’s peanut butter jelly time.
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| 12:04 |
: Where he at?
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| 12:04 |
Rendon or Gyorko – long term…including defense |
| 12:05 |
: Rendon. Not that I dislike Gyorko, but if Rendon hasn’t been healthy and his debut was very solid for a guy who has missed so much time
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| 12:09 |
Does the cardinal success with their player development signal the end of the mega-stupid 10 year 100’s of millions of dollar contracts? |
| 12:09 |
: No, instant gratification is easy.
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| 12:40 |
: Hope you guys show! Sorry for being late. Sick. Tough morning.
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| 12:56 |
: Gonna get going! Not many of us today!
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| 12:56 |
Hi Eno! Sorry no one is here |
| 12:56 |
: It’s not your fault! You’re here!
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| 12:56 |
Please don’t be dead, Eno |
| 12:56 |
: Just bronchitis.
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