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  1. CubinNY
    Intrascrotal hernia.
  2. CubinNY
    For those in the know: Does Vitters stay in Short Season or does he go to Peoria after he gets in "game shape"?
  3. CubinNY
    This course is so tough it's making them look like hackers.
  4. CubinNY
    Based on what I saw in that video, I don't think we'll have to worry about that. The most we have to worry from this guy is his inability to fix our computers when calling in The Geek Squad. He's got a wedding ring on his left hand.
  5. CubinNY
    If this isn't a joke, the worst thing about it is that guy is married and may procreate.
  6. CubinNY
    Tiger Woods is not human. He's an alien, pure and simple.
  7. CubinNY
    When I saw him last week against West Tenn. his fastball looked pretty good, but his breaking pitches were excellent. In hitters counts they were hitting the fastball pretty well. If he got ahead he was much more effective (obviously).
  8. CubinNY
    Is the sound messed up for anyone else?
  9. CubinNY
    The Sporting News needs to pay more attention to baseball. Berkman has been a superstar in baseball for a number of years. I disagree with you on Berkman being a superstar for a number of years. My point was that he should be considered a superstar, but he's not. Part of the reason could be that he's not on either coast, but Bagwell and Biggio did get their share of publicity while playing in Houston. Who says he's not? You? He's on every all-star team, he makes the most money on his team and just about anybody who follows baseball knows he one of the best players in baseball.
  10. CubinNY
    Exactly. Jay puts about as much thought into his work as I do in choosing which color of white sox to wear when I'm mowing the lawn. He's the very definition of a hack. My biggest wonder is how he ever got to the position he currently occupies.
  11. CubinNY
    The Sporting News needs to pay more attention to baseball. Berkman has been a superstar in baseball for a number of years.
  12. CubinNY
    Santo was annoyed too. I think he watches WGN instead of the game on the field. I love Ron.
  13. CubinNY
    A little more on the Iowa game. Hill hit Josh Phelps in the knee and it sounded sick. Jason Dubois is still a physical specimen and still cannot hit a curve ball. Matt Murton did a great job coaching 1st base.
  14. CubinNY
    I just have a few minutes until my class starts. I'm about as big a Rich Hill fan as anyone this side of Abuck. However, I just felt bad for him today. We got to the game early (1 pm start) so I got to see all his pitches. He would go through a stretch of about 6 or 7 close to or in the zone and then completely lose the zone for 3 or 4 pitches. He threw a fastball that went back to the back stop Rick Vaugh style and several 50 foot curve balls. Then when he'd have a good stretch his defense would let him down. Coye Hill made a terrible throw trying to pick a guy off and Bobby Scales (who the hell is he?) couldn't handle a little league two hopper. I don't know what is wrong with Rich but he looked unhitable and terrible and nothing in between.
  15. CubinNY
    I think The Cubs are going to be linked in one way or another with every available decent player on a losing team.
  16. CubinNY
    I'm going to try to get to the game by the 2nd or 3rd inning.
  17. CubinNY
    He played on the Cuban National Team when he was 15 or 16. He's pretty damn good.
  18. CubinNY
    I kind of think the Yankees will be sellers this deadline. I could see them moving Mussina and a few other pieces. Plus, I don't see how they have the chips to deal. They might be sellers at the deadline, but they are going to have a boatload of money coming off the books at the end of the year. They are going to be buyers in the off-season. If Darvish posts I cannot see any way that the Yankees will be out bid.
  19. CubinNY
    That sounds very high-falutin', like going to Oxford or The Sorbonne . I bet it's a cricket pitch with some batting cages. :wink:
  20. CubinNY
    He lost touch with a "reality" based world and wondered off somewhere. He also started a thread in social on time travel and aliens. link? I'll never be able to find it. It was rambling and incoherent for the most part. I think I was one of the very few who responded. I think my response something like, "Don't take the brown acid. The brown acid is bad."
  21. CubinNY
    He lost touch with a "reality" based world and wondered off somewhere. He also started a thread in social on time travel and aliens.
  22. CubinNY
    We should probably release him. This Steve Stone analysis just drives me insane, oh the teams through intense research realized that throwing breaking balls low and away is his kryptonite! It has been kryptonite for Soto for about a month, same for Lee, same for Soriano, but for his entire career. You can deny it, but it is true. They aren't working him inside and setting up the ball low and away (Steve Stone analysis), they are starting there and working further away. Soriano's last K yesterday was three feet outside. I think Soto will adjust. According to this all you ever have to do is throw breaking balls low and away and you'll be Steve Nebraska. I've noticed no change in the way Soto's being pitched from the beginning of the year. Then you haven't been paying close enough attention.
  23. CubinNY
    We should probably release him. This Steve Stone analysis just drives me insane, oh the teams through intense research realized that throwing breaking balls low and away is his kryptonite! It has been kryptonite for Soto for about a month, same for Lee, same for Soriano, but for his entire career. You can deny it, but it is true. They aren't working him inside and setting up the ball low and away (Steve Stone analysis), they are starting there and working further away. Soriano's last K yesterday was three feet outside. I think Soto will adjust.
  24. CubinNY
    Is Rich Hill scheduled to pitch against the Redbirds? I have class on Tuesday and Wednesday so if he does I hope it is Thursday. If not we may have to make a field trip to AutoZone Park. I'll just have to figure out how to make the students count something over and over at the game (The class is a research methods class).
  25. CubinNY
    Stephen Drew and Jered Weaver both waited nearly a year before signing with the Diamondbacks and Angels back when they were drafted. I don't think it's hurt either so far. Wasn't Vitters sick his senior year? He was good, then was sick, then was drafted (with the sickness used to explain his rather pedestrian performance), then sat out an entire summer. That's what I mean. Also Drew, Weaver, Weiters were college players. Why does college v. HS matter in that instance? Time not playing is time not playing, regardless of the competition you're coming from. Physical development (age) and practice, not to mention competition. There is a huge difference between a college junior and a high school senior (however, there are exceptions). To think otherwise is foolish. Anyway, the point is mostly moot as we'll never really know. All things being equal, I'd rather the player not waste a season of development time. Well, they're likely to be facing competition at their level. And you ignored the HS guys I mentioned (Heyward, Parker, Porcello). That doesn't mean that it's a good thing that Vitters meant a couple months of development, just that I don't see the correlation. Those three also were not injured/unhealthy their senior year. There probably isn't a correlation but judging from the information I've read Vitters is not that same player he was in the showcase games.
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