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yeah, this is my biggest problem with the theriot-bashing. he is what he is. it's not like he doesn't give a crap; he does the best he can, which isn't very good, but it's not like he signed a huge deal and stopped trying, or is taking the place of someone who would be great. it's lou's fault that he's not hitting 8th, and it's hendry's fault that there isn't a clear better option so that theriot could be a utility guy off the bench, which is the role that he's better suited for.

Nice Pittsburgh blast there at the end. I don't know what their TV announcers are like because I don't live there anymore, but the radio PBP guy, Mike Lange, is widely regarded as one of the best in the business. I can understand your bitterness towards Pittsburgh seeing as how we swept you last season and worked you last night. I really hope we draw the Flyers in the first round. i really don't care about the pens. their fans are the ones who hate the flyers; the pens fall a distant third on our hate chart. aside from cindy crosby - who, the other 29 teams in the league realize, is very good at starting battles and letting other people finish them for him - i don't really hate anyone on that team either. as for last season, you helped us be bad enough to get the #2 pick in the draft and open the organization's eyes that they were sorely lacking in speed and offensive talent. so thanks for sweeping us last year; it really did us a favor. there have been studies done saying that certain markets like "homer" announcers and certain markets like more unbiased announcing, and pittsburgh definitely falls under the cities that prefers homers. i thought mike lange knew what he was talking about, but when you're bitching about "spearing" when he's clearing try to dig the puck loose from between a player and the boards, i don't know what to say. a guy who has called the game for that long should know the difference. i don't know why you'd want to play the flyers in the first round. we're as talented (albeit poorly coached) as any team in the east, and we've had good success this year against the pens. the craps are a much easier first round draw.

considering the support that they get from the fans, the cards have really put a piss-poor product together the last two years. it's not their fault that carpenter got hurt, but they should be able to put a better team on the field than they've had.

Yup, thats kinda his thing. yeah it's just funny to watch. i think he realized after the first pitch, "uh oh this guy has good stuff, i got no shot unless he throws four balls."

haha eff you kendall, what a bum. can't hit his way onto base so he tries to bend and stretch his way into a smaller strike zone.

it's jason kendall for God's sakes, throw strikes

someone kick counsell in the balls on his way out of the park

get this ugly bastard out

it'd be more helpful if his dad was a surgeon, and could replace kendall's rag arm with a bionic one

well the good news for dempster is that he doesn't have dempster in the bullpen to blow the save for him

take a seat fatty

soto mad. SOTO SMASH.

reason #8857 why theriot should not be hitting second.

great ab there felix

when soto bunts, the ball ends up on waveland. when soto swings away, the ball ends up in lake michigan.

i like how some fans boo when he hits derosa with a pitch when he's down 0-2, and they cheered on opening day when kerry wood hit the leadoff hitter in the 9th inning. you people are idiots.

so dempster can't bunt? yet another reason that starting him is stupid.

the brewers really should petition for a move to the AL. braun needs to be a DH.

let's hope this "dempster as starter" ends as soon as possible

agreed. generally stolen bases are not a big deal; however, when you are playing a team with a rag-armed catcher, that is an advantage that you have to exploit.

i used to like the pens announcers just for the entertainment factor, but their homerism is painful to listen to. scott hartnell is trying to dig the puck free from a pens' defenseman who grabbed the puck and pulled it under him, and they're up in arms about him "spearing" the defenseman. earlier he had taken a shot at crosby and got a justified penalty, but they had almost nothing to say when hartnell went in for a clean check on gonchar, and gonchar put his stick up in hartnell's face and cut the bridge of his nose. i guess one can expect pandering to idiots when you're talking to the pittsburgh market, but it's kinda depressing.

oh, for the love of..,. hey people talk about joe paterno losing control of the football team, but as far as i know, none of those guys have publicly beat off in the library.

he better get a hit, otherwise he'll have splinters in his ass by next week

well, my pick of the brewers to win the central is looking pretty good so far

penn state basketball.... are you in?