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the cubs make it to 20 on a home run by... paul bako. his fourth hit of the day.

I don't think he would, and I am not sure the Brewers would want to give up Gamel or others for him. Peavy won't have the same impact that Sabathia had and the amount of prospects they would have unloaded in two years would be massive. gamel would really make a lot more sense for an a.l. team.

Fontenot needs to stay hot. I fear Aaron Miles. unless fontenot craps the bed for the first few weeks, i don't fear aaron miles. what i fear about aaron miles is him getting a lot of playing time when a-ram gets hurt.

And just because he did that last year, that doesn't make him an above average hitter today. You can't define players simply by their previous season. Theriot doesn't give you a .380 OBP, he did it last year, but that doesn't guarantee he does it this year. In 2007 he was bottom of the barrel. that's true, he certainly isn't a guarantee to produce as much as he did last season. that being said, his improvement last year was attributable to a change in his approach, where he tried to draw more walks, and when putting the ball in play, he tried to hit more line drives and ground balls rather than driving the ball into the outfield. this is a good approach for him and his BABIP of .340 was really not fluky last year. in fact, what was fluky was his .289 BABIP in 2007, given his LD/FB/GB rates that season. again, my point wasn't that he's a great player, but that he gave the cubs average or maybe even slightly above average performance for a starting mlb shortstop in 2008, while other major league teams were dumping several million on guys like julio lugo or edgar renteria or orlando cabrera. given that the cubs are paying 7 guys a combined $100 million this season, it's imperative that they get this sort of production at a cheap price from a few spots on the roster. i find it admirable that theriot has maximized his strengths to the point where he can give the cubs this sort of production.

No doubt about that. They'll pay what it takes to get a player they want, slot recommendations be damned. they'll go over slot, but 6 years and $50 million? that's not just going above slot, that's blowing the slotting system out of the water. that would piss off the commissioner's office and every other team in major league baseball. plus if strasburg is worth $50M, then how much is the next joe mauer worth? $25M? isn't the next justin upton or b.j. upton or whatever worth more than they got, because they're hardly 1/20th the player that strasburg is? no mlb team wants to set a precedent of paying an amateur player $50M; it will not happen this year.

the cajun connection is en fuego

i have a facebook friend who's bragging about how they have 15 of 16 right, with arizona the only one they didn't get. congrats, you picked chalk all the way and it panned out.

maybe it was because the defensive player went straight up? if the defensive player goes straight up in the air and the offensive player jumps into him, it shouldn't be called. if the defender goes into the offensive player then it should be called.

i wasn't rooting for anybody. regardless, that would have been a God-awful foul call and fortunately the refs were not stupid enough to fall for it.

I think he knows that you can't tackle shooters. come on, the marquette guy clearly jumped into the defender trying to buy a call. i don't care if you hate mizzou, try to show some objectivity here. theres nothing more irritating than when an offensive player does this. good no call. I don't like it either, but it's always called. Except for when Mizzou's playing I guess. or if it's a competent referee crew who knows the difference between a defender jumping into the offensive player, and the offensive player desperately flinging himself sideways and then falling to the ground in order to draw a bogus call. these grapes sure are sour.

I think he knows that you can't tackle shooters. come on, the marquette guy clearly jumped into the defender trying to buy a call. i don't care if you hate mizzou, try to show some objectivity here.

marquette's coach made an ass out of himself. i don't even think he knew what he was complaining about.

bradley's average is .423 now... apparently he wasn't kidding when he said he would hit.

is this going to get off the ground? the draft time has now been pushed back twice.

can't wait til we blow yet another two goal lead

cyno, your favorite player can be seen on nbc today, playing against my flyers.

nova should beat duke

duke had one rebounder on the free throw and texas still can't get it. they had their chances and blew it.

how are those terrible calls? they're easy calls.

wtf are you doing texas

this draft sucks. i can easily see him going in the lottery. plus most guys going from college to the nba need to put on some weight, but that doesn't stop teams from drafting them because they know they'll put the weight on quickly (see kevin durant).

you're sure that second one didn't go in, huh? No one is sure... but if I was him I'd still be pissed at that first one. How many times do you see a goalie have to make 2 saves in a shootout? 2nd one is inconclusive but the speed it ricocheted back sure leads one to believe it was post. the bar in the back of the net is made of the same thing as the bar in the front of the net

maybe the announcers are the problem then. because ucla had a possession a few minutes ago where they traveled and then went over the back on a rebound, but neither one was called or commented on. plus dick enberg is senile so you can't really put much stock in what he says.

I'm sure you would be complaining about the refs too if your team had made the Tourney. It's inevitable that people are going to think their team is getting robbed by the refs. why?

you're sure that second one didn't go in, huh?