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2007-11-27 19:00
by Bob Timmermann
 

 

 

 

 

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2007-11-27 19:12:41
1.   Sam DC
Brocail flies to _____ .
2007-11-27 19:17:25
2.   68elcamino427
Broke (man with empty pockets)

Ale (glass of good looking brew)

Eye in the sky (satellite)

2 (Roman Numeral)

Astros (Aristotle)

2007-11-27 19:18:59
3.   68elcamino427
Thanks for the clue.
2007-11-27 19:21:49
4.   RIYank
It's Sam Houston, I believe.

But what's the verb? Not 'flies', I'm sure. It must be a rough synonym for 'returns', right?

2007-11-27 19:35:55
5.   Bob Timmermann
The verb should be thought of in meteorological terms.
2007-11-27 19:41:24
6.   68elcamino427
4 Yeah, I knew that i was in trouble with the bust.
2007-11-27 19:42:43
7.   dianagramr
Doug Brocail is a bust ...

(that's my interpretation .... and I'm stickin' with it)

2007-11-27 19:48:38
8.   68elcamino427
7 If Doug's not worried about all of those long fly balls to left field, should we worry?
2007-11-27 19:57:16
9.   68elcamino427
Doug zooms back to the Alamo.
2007-11-27 21:57:14
10.   Xeifrank
Umpa Lumpa...
I got another puzzle for you.
vr, Xei
2007-11-27 22:21:52
11.   dukejwe31
Doug Brocail GOES!
2007-11-27 22:26:21
12.   dukejwe31
Doug Brocail GOES to BUST!!!!
2007-11-27 22:28:26
13.   Bob Timmermann
Combine 4 and 12 and you've got it.
2007-11-27 22:31:15
14.   dukejwe31
Doug Brocail GOES to BUST in Houston!!!
2007-11-27 22:41:10
15.   Bob Timmermann
14
You don't need the word "bust".
2007-11-27 22:47:43
16.   bhsportsguy
Why sign him now and give San Diego a draft pick?
2007-11-27 23:03:11
17.   Bob Timmermann
16
A tradition like none other.
2007-11-27 23:17:41
18.   Eric Stephen
16
I know! I don't like that San Diego benefits from this. This was discussed on Baseball Think Factory today, in a discussion of this Baseball America article on the Astros' top 10 prospects:

http://tinyurl.com/3x9u3o

Same story last year too. From the BA article:

By signing Carlos Lee and Woody Williams as Type A free agents, the Astros surrendered their first two draft choices. Offering arbitration to three of their own Type A free agents—Aubrey Huff, Andy Pettitte and Russ Springer—was a low-risk proposition that could have yielded three first-round picks and three supplemental first-rounders, but Houston declined to do so.

2007-11-28 09:40:04
19.   overkill94
Wasn't Brocail a type B free agent? Those don't penalize the team signing them, they just give the team who lost them (the Padres) a supplemental first round pick.

San Diego probably would have offered Brocail arbitration since I don't think he made much last year and would have declined it.

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