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  1. BCVM22
    Big Z is in fact on Team Venezuela's roster. :| Geo, Z, Lilly and Fuku will play for their respective countries.
  2. BCVM22
    Jimmy's still a FA.
  3. BCVM22
    Photo day FTW.
  4. BCVM22
    That's quite odd, given that everything Zambrano has said has pointed him in the direction of not participating so as to make sure his shoulder checks out completely and to get his eye issue taken care of. We'll know for sure tomorrow, I guess.
  5. BCVM22
    This, I would think, because what "big names" participate is dependent almost entirely upon factors that the WBC organizers can't control. For example, Big Z is healthy ( ) but is coming off a year where his shoulder was acting up and thus he doesn't want to throw a wrench into his normal spring routine. Johan Santana is coming off a knee surgery. Albert Pujols is, by all accounts, a perfectly healthy 36-year-old, but because of offseason elbow nerve surgery he couldn't get insurance on his contract and thus won't play. Add to that the fact that the WBC can't control when players might switch teams or be fighting for a roster spot, both of which are factors that would usually lead a player to remain in camp with his team rather than fly off and represent his country. You get the idea - it's not as if players are completely dismissing the tournament outright, it's simply that they'll always defer first and foremost to the organizations paying their salaries, which is something that won't change and shouldn't. And even with all the players who elected not to complete, most of the countries with sizeable contingents of players in the majors have still been able to assemble some darn good talent, which we'll see tomorrow when the final 28-man rosters are made public.
  6. BCVM22
    This reads like one of those "Real Men of Genius" radio commercials.
  7. BCVM22
    With Marmol's decision not to pitch for the Dominican Republic, the Cubs will ultimately send three players from their projected 25-man roster to play in the Classic: C Geovany Soto - Puerto Rico OF Kosuke Fukudome - Japan SP Ted Lilly - USA Lee, Ramirez, Zambrano, Soriano, Dempster, Harden and Marmol were all listed on provisional rosters but elected not to participate.
  8. BCVM22
    They don't. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/schedule/broadcast.jsp?c_id=chc
  9. BCVM22
    Miles isn't even half of what Grudzielanek is.
  10. BCVM22
    You can't get to any of the MLB media services with the Safari browser and you can only get the Gameday Audio feeds because they're programming the functionality for it into the next build of the MLB.com At Bat app. I wouldn't imagine they'll be including live MLB.TV game streams anytime soon because of the relatively massive data flow it would require, even for video the size of the iPod/iPhone's screen. That might be passable on a good Wi-Fi connection but I imagine it would just be a mess on the iPhone's cellular data network. That's why they do it as they do now - short, pre-edited video highlights that don't cause smoke to come out of the gizmo's ears.
  11. BCVM22
    http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2004/08/26/argles_00strad1.jpg
  12. BCVM22
    This. Neither of the versions of the Opera browser for Nintendo's two Internet-enabled hardwares have the media functionality necessary for this to be possible. Once MLB releases the new version of their iPhone app, however, it will be possible on that gizmo.
  13. BCVM22
    Any time DeRosa and Woody want to end this joke they're playing and put their Cubs jerseys back on is fine with me. :(
  14. BCVM22
    If this thread and the Roberts thread were to engage in an epic, Highlander-style swordfight, who would win?
  15. BCVM22
    The one and only.
  16. BCVM22
    http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090217&content_id=3840138&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc Ramirez and Lee both officially out. That leaves Fukudome, Lilly Soto and Marmol as the only potentials.
  17. BCVM22
    And in Bradley's limited defense, what the Royals broadcaster in question said was stupid enough that I'd be rather unhappy with it as well. I'm not sure I'd march on the warpath to the press box, but the point remains.
  18. BCVM22
    Maybe it's a matter of where he felt he would be able to actually do the most instructing. The Cubs' pitching staff is comprised of veterans and guys who are young but not so young as to be completely green, and they've got a stud catcher by the name of Geo to put down the right fingers at the right time (who just happens to be a protégé of one of the game's smartest catchers who himself was one of Maddux's personal catchers at one time). The Padres' staff, save for Jake Peavy, Chris Young and Heath Bell, is more or less the opposite in every way. It's a staff of unknowns and rookies from which the Padres hope to cobble together a passable rotation and bullpen and their no. 1 catcher has all of 59 major league games behind the plate. This is the sort of staff with which Maddux (and Blanco, to an extent) can do a lot more teaching.
  19. BCVM22
    This didn't strike me as quite needing its own thread, but it's as relevant here as anywhere else since Hudson is directly affected by it. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-cactusleaguenotes021609&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
  20. BCVM22
    If he's only with the team for the spring, why would the geography matter?
  21. BCVM22
    Daryle Ward just took a monster Howry upon Gregg that night. What a game.
  22. BCVM22
    I believe you're right. Most of the 2008 late-game magic that wasn't in extras was in the 7th or 8th. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2008/VCHN02008.htm
  23. BCVM22
    Geo is everything that was great about Barrett combined with everything that Barrett couldn't do all that well.
  24. BCVM22
    And you really think Bako would hit appreciably better? If you have the choice of two backup catchers, neither of whom is known to be able to hit worth a damn, isn't the guy that's been around this pitching staff for the last two seasons the better choice?
  25. BCVM22
    And by "eyedrops" they mean "cortisone injections."
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