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IMHO Cameron would= the 2009 equivelant of Jeromy Burnitz I think Mike Cameron is quite a bit better than Burnitz with the glove and the bat. What's funny is that we're going to spend money on an "athletic" outfielder when we had a perfectly good 23 year old athletic centerfielder just a year ago... he should've gotten more of a chance to play regularly last year, but a hell of a lot of people didn't think he was perfectly good a year ago.

i wish my starting pitchers hadn't been so horrendous that they got farmed out by the worst team in baseball (danny cabrera) and outpitched their peripherals while being lucky on fly balls and getting shipped to a pitcher-friendly park (ian snell). still an outside shot at top 10, i guess.

ok well i'm going to beat cubbiebum and probably going to beat any cardinal fans who entered, so i consider my performance a success.

i will say one thing about aaron corp, if he wants to throw the ball your direction you're going to know it. might want to learn to look a guy off or run through your progressions, big guy.

lee has been unconscious this month. kinda pointless but at least worth noting.

i like how people are so adamant that there's no racism going on among the 40,000 mostly white and drunk fans. Who said there was no racism? I'm sure there's racism at 100% of major league ballparks. But he makes it seem like he is Jackie Robinson in 1950's America and that's just not the case. no he's saying that he heard racist things yelled and him and apparently his kid, which i don't doubt. you're the one saying he is making it seem like jackie robinson in 1950s america.

i like how people are so adamant that there's no racism going on among the 40,000 mostly white and drunk fans.

st. louis lost. it ended well.

Andorra? Maybe I'll defect. Well if someone hits a home run in Andorra it's likely to end up in a different country. 8-) It probably won't happen, since Andorra isn't listed on the Confederation of European Baseball website, which suggests no baseball is played there. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/nation_of_andorra_not_in_africa

we should sign mike cameron just to prevent him from hitting against our pitchers.

guys, stop feeding the troll. i'm pretty sure that nothing we post can change his mind about anything or make him any less insane.

how the crap is looper 13-6

i agree with a lot of his points, but the piling on by his teammates is pretty damning, and joe didn't touch on that at all.

i could also end up marrying a supermodel.

i feel like i'm watching ted williams' first AB right now.

apparently the brewers are trying to prove that they're even worse than the cubs.

you're right... barely:

wow, like 40% of the country (geographically, certainly not population-wise) gets to watch denver @ oakland. lucky them.

psst you might want to fire your general manager too

ok i apologize but the comment was insane nonetheless. Bradley is a a sissy. Fans in this town will cut you a lot of breaks if you are actually trying. They will not when you piss and moan and dont give it your all. i hope this person is gone, he is a cancer on ths team. we the fans saw this and thats not tolerable and called him on it and he is too weak to deal with it i don't have a point about bradley, but sometimes the fans and even the organization are really [expletive] stupid about who's trying and who's not. back in the '80s the sixers had a guy named andrew toney who was a great player when he came into the league, but he developed stress fractures in his feet and by the mid-80s was missing a lot of time. the sixers' ownership accused him of faking his foot problems as sort of a hold out for a long-term contract, and the owner even got the NBA to test him for drugs. the fans, like lemmings, bought into the garbage that ownership was spreading and started shouting terrible things at toney. he played a couple more years but wasn't good and couldn't stay healthy, and retired by age 30. i guess my point is, sometimes a guy is trying but he's talented enough to make it look effortless; sometimes a guy wants to be out there but can't; sometimes ownership is just inept and treats a guy like [expletive] and the media and fans just buy into it.

colvin is batting 7th and playing CF. i'm glad he's playing, but CF? i thought they gave up on that a couple of years ago. plus fukudome is playing RF... seems weird, but whatever.

i would never switch to another team. i did bandwagon onto the phillies last year since i grew up about 15 minutes from philly, and i root for the twins in the AL, but the cubs will always be my team. if they suck and are out of it, like in 2006 or the last month of this year, i just find other things to do and don't bother setting aside time to watch the games. i guess you can call that being a frontrunner, but i'm just not going to waste 3 hours of my life watching a game that doesn't matter for anything.

matt groethe is still at USF? is he a 12th year senior? it seems like he's been there forever.

which cities has he been run out of? By the fans or by anybody? He was definitely run out of town by Cleveland, LA, and Oakland. The partings with both San Diego and Texas were much nicer, and I have no idea about Montreal. i guess i wasn't clear. a lot of those places he wasn't excellent and it was easy to run him out of town. but it's true, he made enemies of a couple of teams and didn't make enemies of some others.

You can say a lot about Hendry, but trades have been the one facet where he's largely done a commendable job. I don't think he's going to give up the top stars of a rapidly rising system to get a mediocre meatball like Dan Uggla. Free agency is where you have to worry about him paying through the noise. even despite being below average defensively, uggla is far from a mediocre meatball. he's been one of the most productive second basemen in baseball the last four years.