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Cubs Sign Trever Miller, And Yes, That Is The Most Exciting News of the Day
The Cubs inked soon-to-be 39 year old Trever Miler to a minor league deal. He'll earn 800K if he makes the team. He'll get a non-roster invite to spring training and I'm sure we'll get the full list of those invitees by the end of the week. It being a minor league deal, hard to get to worked up over it, but Miller has done absolutely nothing other than see his K rate get cut in half over the last two seasons, while still maintaining the ability to walk the stadium.
| Year | Age | Tm | W | L | G | GF | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | WP | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 36 | STL | 4 | 1 | .800 | 2.06 | 70 | 9 | 0 | 43.2 | 31 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 199 | 0.962 | 6.4 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 9.5 | 4.18 | |
| 2010 | 37 | STL | 0 | 1 | .000 | 4.00 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 36.0 | 30 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 98 | 1.278 | 7.5 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 1.38 | |
| 2011 | 38 | BOS-min | 0 | 0 | 2.70 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.600 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.4 | PAW · IL | |||
| 2011 | 38 | TOT | 0 | 1 | .000 | 3.80 | 48 | 5 | 1 | 21.1 | 25 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 106 | 1.734 | 10.5 | 0.8 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 1.00 | |
| 13 Seasons | 18 | 17 | .514 | 4.18 | 694 | 133 | 11 | 523.1 | 521 | 264 | 243 | 54 | 237 | 28 | 434 | 43 | 22 | 106 | 1.448 | 9.0 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 7.5 | 1.83 | |||
Spring training roster filler at its finest.
- Some random AL GM (hint: rhymes with Washington) believes Selig will side with the Red Sox and give them significant compensation from the Cubs for Theo Epstein. "I don’t think MLB wants executives leaving their teams before their contracts are up and therefore he will try to deter teams from doing that again.’’ If they cared so much about that, then they just wouldn't allow teams to even give permission.
- Articles on Josh Vitters and Brett Jackson to fill the time.
- Anthony Rizzo was named the 33rd best prospect in baseball by MLB.com, Jackson #37 and Javier Baez #62.
Other than that, Cespedes watch continues.
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So, do these has-beens get paid as an NRI, or it is a free audition? What a collection of crap Theo has assembled, "on paper".
I am not even bothering looking at his loogy splits.
We need to start bringing in guys who can at least drive in some runs if we are bringing in re-treads and seniors: Pat Burell just retired. Theo? Matt Stairs? Ron Bloomberg? Randall Simon? Ben Grieve? Can Hollandsworth still hit?
BTW, ROB G, since I am totally bored on the baseball front, I am going with "Moneyball" as the Oscar winner for Editing - neck and neck with The Artist. The Artist will win best picture. Although The Descendents is a terrific story and well cut. The trailers I have seen are actually pretty cogent and don't give the entire movie away, which is what J.J. Abrams despises...
For a team that was near the bottom in most offensive categories, where is the run production going to come from exactly?
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For a team that was near the bottom in most offensive categories, where is the run production going to come from exactly?
Bryan LaHair, duh.
I am going with "Moneyball" as the Oscar winner for Editing - neck and neck with The Artist. The Artist will win best picture.
out of most of the nominated films, I've only seen Midnight in Paris and Moneyball. I did think Moneyball was very well executed all around as a feature film (editing, cinematography, sound, etc). Story-wise, they set up the classic sports underdog story well and just nailed the final 20-25 minutes. I wasn't as enamored by the Brad Pitt or Jonah Hill's performances as others seem to be, but they didn't fuck up the film either.
If you're still looking for an unslanted documentary, you'll be disappointed of course. And should probably stop going to see movies.
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who was looking for an unslanted documentary? some people just wanted a little more real and little less Mighty Ducks.
it's hard to ignore revisionist history when you know what happened and what became of it. one can separate themselves from it and "just enjoy a film" but if someone decides to make a WW2 film and took the liberties with history that Moneyball did you're going to find people not interested. let's have brad pitt play hitler and since italy/japan/etc leaders don't matter much let's smoosh them all together into a hapless nerd. let him play samuel jackson's role of "mystic negro who is smart as hell, but can't help himself or see the forest for the trees."
...the scout thing...the timeline issues...the amount of made up stuff, which isn't just a scene or 2...or 3...or 5...
i'm not even talking about "making up" dialogue or creating drama by falsifying how players are signed (a plane trip at xmas time to sign a minor player...really). i'm talking about creating something new when a blueprint already existed.
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who was looking for an unslanted documentary?
you and the 10% that bitched about the movie w/o seeing it...
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/01/30/the-re...
So far everyone I've talked to that doesn't know a damn thing about baseball really enjoyed the film and was surprised how much they would enjoy a baseball film. So did a lot of people that know baseball and know the book. So the filmmakers and studios did what they needed to and they're now all a little richer.
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"some people just wanted a little more real and little less Mighty Ducks."
you can substitute The Rookie in there if it makes more sense.
i already saw a kickass baseball movie in the last 12 months and what do you know...even though it wasn't real i enjoyed it. amazing, huh?
it's called Sugar. it's awesome. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990413/
i'm also waiting on Dead Ball to come out in the US...Japanese horror/gore baseball film. i'm not 100% sure, but i don't think you can throw a baseball 200kph and take a zombie's head off with it. i'm willing to suspend reality to find out.\
is it that hard to believe that some people who know a lot about the situation don't want a made-up rehash of it, especially a 120+ minute version with a thrown in subplot involving a cute kid making small talk letting brad pitt develop his character's humanity?
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considering you already deemed the movie a bomb when they announced they were making it, I'm comfortable with saying you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Moneyball didn't work for you (although I don't think you even saw it), cool, movie enjoyment is subjective like that.
The filmmakers did do a good job though of making the material resonate with a larger audience w/o compromising anything that was truly important in the story.
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no, i didnt understand how they'd market it and sell it.
i never declared it a bomb. i wouldn't have been surprised, though.
no, i didn't think they'd spend about 15-20m promoting the thing 3 months before it even hit theaters, even with brad pitt.
i don't care what the filmmakers were doing. i never said they couldn't make the film. meh
if i didn't enjoy the book why would i want to see an even more bastardized version in film form?
i didnt see the remake of Bad News Bears...no interest...i love the original.
not only am i capable of liking a baseball movie, i don't feel the need to watch every one for one reason or another.
it's a lot easier to call me an "elitist" rather than saying i expected a documentary and i'm incapable of suspending reality to enjoy a story.
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so you've admittedly taken a cantankerous position on a film you've never even bothered to watch.
you're everything that is wrong with the Internet...
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"if i didn't enjoy the book why would i want to see an even more bastardized version in film form?"
"i didnt see the remake of Bad News Bears...no interest...i love the original."
also again,
"if i didn't enjoy the book why would i want to see an even more bastardized version in film form?"
it's not like i've been vague with why, either.
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"if someone decides to make a WW2 film and took the liberties with history that Moneyball did you're going to find people not interested."
Damn, you too late on that, brotha. Someone already did just that and apparently people were interested to the tune of $321M worldwide.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=inglourio...
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As I recall it, you did peg it a bomb - or that no one would watch it as it was not "accurate"... or some bullshit like that. Same thing.
If you knew shit about film making (which you don't), you would know that it is anadapted screenplay and an adapted work takes liberties from the original source. It is not supposed to be a documentary in any way. It is a story about David vs. Goliath and Billy Beane's passion, innovation, and relationship with his daughter (or lack thereof). Some items in the film are based on the book. Some are not. Not the first time this thing has happened. You've seen Gone With the Wind, right?
In that sense, the adapted screenplay holds true to the story concept of the above, and is terrifically cut, well shot, awesome mix, well-acted by the main actors, well-crafted.
As I recall, did you not make a comment that the character who played Carlos Pena was bad? Or that was someone else? If so - the character had one line.
As ROB G states, if you don't like this, that is totally your perogative as art in all forms is obviously very subjective.
I love Sugar. Terrific story. Mediocre acting. Raw. Not particularly well-shot with many flaws in lighting and editing. But, "charming".
However - it is a completely different animal than Moneyball and comparatively in Low A ball in comparison to Moneyball.
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"As I recall it, you did peg it a bomb - or that no one would watch it as it was not "accurate"... or some bullshit like that. Same thing."
absolutely not.
and i would never assume the general public would demand accuracy out of it. that's not even in my profile.
the "sullen pena" was covered by many. that's a very minor detail compared to other issues i have with -multiple- aspects of the film...and we're not talking minor things. this film has a composite character for christ's sake...and i don't care how human his little girl makes the beane character.
i don't care about...this...film. not a revolutionary thing, a few hundred other million joined me in not wanting to see it.
"If you knew shit about film making (which you don't), you would know that it is anadapted screenplay and an adapted work takes liberties from the original source. "
okay real neal. moving on, i do know what an adaptive screenplay is and if your comprehension was better (hi, neal) you'd realize i'm not bitching about how i don't know what an adapted screenplay is. i'm saying i have no interest in seeing a 2+ hour drama based on a book that i didn't like. i have plenty of friends IRL who saw the film or heard/saw other sources which didn't make the film something worth giving 2 hours to. given what i think of the book, i don't think i'd enjoy the film so i haven't seen it yet. i'm pretty clear what these reasons are, too.
in the past i wondered how they'd market the film to make back the money they put into it.
some of you are very protective over the whole "moneyball" lineage...grow up and be a TB fan, forget the beane fanboyism.
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"As I recall it, you did peg it a bomb - or that no one would watch it as it was not "accurate"... or some bullshit like that. Same thing."
absolutely not.
Hmmm...well it is interesting that at least two of us here think otherwise.
No matter.
This quote sums up your feeling on the matter, and the comparison in your mind of Moneyball with a Disney comedy:
"some people just wanted a little more real and little less Mighty Ducks."
How you draw this conclusion, is quite puzzling.
(Hi Silent Towel. Is that you?)
Re: Cubs Sign Trever Miller, And Yes, That Is The Most ...
"some people just wanted a little more real and little less Mighty Ducks."
if you want a reason why it goes into fantasy land we can start with the composite character, move onto timeline issues, dismiss the minor dramatizing, and still have plenty of major dramatizing left over.
to me, this whole era was evident down to beane-stories of agroness before the book came out. i laughed off some of the over-dramatized stuff in the book, but the film took it way beyond. the look inside the draft room was neat, though...but keep in mind what the film did to convey it...and yes, i've seen dialogue excerpts myself, in case that matters.
now, if i didn't enjoy the book, why would i want to watch Disney's "The Rookie" version of a history i already know?
can't people just be happy the general public actually went to watch a baseball drama? that's rare. it's not for everyone.
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...now, if i didn't enjoy the book, why would i want to watch Disney's "The Rookie" version of a history i already know?
That is a very valid point.
We are just looking at the piece through different glasses.
There were several story points I felt affinity towards (and the book did not reflect the Hollywood-ized version) and as someone who teaches in a large film school, probably have a different technical perspective than you do on the overall craft and achievements.
It seems as if you were criticizing the film when not having even seen it, which is what ROB G had alluded to in the first place.
Suffice it to say, as I am understanding now, is that maybe you just meant you had no interest in seeing it based on the book that you didn't like.
All the other stuff with your interesting comparisons to "Sugar" and "Mighty Ducks", I am just going to leave alone.
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at first i was shocked at the new direction it was going given what the 1st run of the movie was supposed to be...the daughter character took on much more importance and the plan to integrate/use real players in the film took a backseat.
actually, from the out-set i was surprised they were going to try to sell a baseball drama to the general public using a highly paid actor to do it.
i was surprised how much investment they put into marketing the film, too. this was being trailer screened and tv buys for ads months before it was even rated.
as far as taking a nearly-doomed project start-to-finish in a genre that's historically (especially recently) not attractive to the general public...home run.
i'm just too close to the real history to enjoy it for what it is...call it elitism, but i'd rather just say i need more time to separate myself from the real history in order to actually enjoy it for what it is.
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You all make compelling arguments. Allow me to interject with a Jose Macias Snake Monster.
http://flic.kr/p/bmmJuV
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*golf clap*
http://i.imgur.com/ZMu8Y.jpg
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MONEYBALL!
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*golf clap* revoked.
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Wrong moneyball?
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*insert aqua teen moon dude with middle finger*
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*cries*
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Déjà vu
http://www.thecubreporter.com/2011/09/23/duns...
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