11/30 Royals Links Roundup: Reactions to Broxton

to the lunacy of your statements. You just argued that the report that Chen took a hometown discount to sign is likely a lie because the reporter ‘lies’…all to somehow defend your/or someone else’s point that DM made a bad move. You seriously sound like someone losing their mind

but fuck it…chens lying…that works better

Just said it meant it wasn’t an overpay relative to the market.

which would likely be a part of some apocalyptic scenario involving few cars existing, but the persistence of fiat money and gasoline distribution.

“Signing Broxton is a signal the Royals are a bit freaked out by the market for starting pitchers — Bruce Chen, a No. 4 starter, passed on bigger offers to sign for two years and $9 million with the Royals — and have focused on building the best possible bullpen around a hope-for-the-best rotation.”

Although I’m not sure the SF is always representative of the market at large.

How can Affeldt and DDJ be worth the same?

I bet Klassen would know

Bianchi is a weird case. Derailed by injury, but a middle infielder with potential at the plate. I don’t see him as a Rule 5 risk though. This year is definitely huge. If he doesn’t break out, he never will, IMO.

Cameron’s a Conservative, Sarkozy’s a Gaullist, Merkel’s a Christian Democrat, Berlusconi was a right-winger before giving way to Monti, an apolitical technocrat, and if you count Russia, Putin’s a Mafioso. Almost all the smaller countries have conservative governments as well. The Socialists/Social Democrats have been swept out everywhere.

In Spain there are three different election cycles: the municipals, the regionals, and the generals. Technically each election takes place five years after the last one, but as a general rule they’re called slightly earlier. All the municipal elections are held the same day throughout Spain, and so are 13 of the 17 regionals. Catalonia, the Basque Country, Andalusia, and Galicia are more autonomous than the other regions, and each of their elections is on its own cycle. Zapatero was forced to call an early general election because of the seriousness of the situation.

You vote for the party’s list of candidates rather than for individuals. Seats in the city council, the regional parliament, and the national Congress of Deputies are then assigned proportionally.

First the conservatives wiped out the Socialists in the municipals and regionals—the Socialists lost both their strongholds, Sevilla and Barcelona—and that made it clear that the PSOE was going to get its clock cleaned in the generals.