Laura

I've seen enough. good night, game thread

rbi plz

Copied from Chris' post in the Minor Leagues Forum: On May 28-June 1, familiar faces will return to Pringles Park in Jackson, Tennessee, as the Tennessee Smokies face the West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx. With the assistance of Mick Gillispie, Broadcaster for the Smokies, NSBB will conduct several Q & A sessions during the series. Over the day, Question and Answer threads will appear for the following players in the Chat Schedule/Questions for Guests Forum: Jake Fox Sean Gallagher Mark Holliman Chris Robinson Donnie Veal All questions for the Q & A must be submitted by Sunday night, May 27th at 10:00 p.m. CT. This session will be in accordance with the NSBB Q & A Guidelines. Thank you to Mick for helping to line up the sessions and to the players that will be participating. Thank you to Ron Potesta and the Diamond Jaxx for their continued friendship with the site. In addition, thank you to all of you for making NSBB such a wonderful posting community!

A Barrett specialty

yay aramis

Sean Gallagher, 2007 Tennessee Smokies (AA) starting pitcher, has graciously agreed to answer questions from posters on NSBB. If you would like to ask him a question, please post it here. The deadline for submitting questions is 10 PM Sunday, May 27 -- so get your questions in quickly! Once Sean has had an opportunity to answer them, the responses will be posted in the Chats Forum. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/vance_the_cubs_fan/addison%20and%20smokies/AddisonandGallagher2.jpg Sean was a Cubs' 2004 12th round draft pick out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida. He was named the 2005 Cubs minor league pitcher of the year and the 2006 NSBB Minor Leaguer of the year. He's currently tied with teammate Mark Holliman for the most SL wins with 6. Sean is the youngest player on the Smokies. This session will be coordinated as in accordance with The NSBB Q & A Guidelines. Sean has done chats and Q & As with NSBB in the past, all of which can be found in the Chat Events forum. Many thanks to Sean for continuing to take the time to answer our questions! In addition, thank you to Chris, who will be completing this session while the Smokies are in Jackson, TN to take on the Diamond Jaxx. As always, thanks to all of you for making NSBB such a wonderful community!

thnx

dp plz

Chris Robinson, 2007 Tennessee Smokies (AA) catcher, has graciously agreed to answer questions from posters on NSBB. If you would like to ask him a question, please post it here. The deadline for submitting questions is 10 PM Sunday, May 27 -- so get your questions in quickly! Once Chris has had an opportunity to answer them, the responses will be posted in the Chats Forum. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/vance_the_cubs_fan/addison%20and%20smokies/AddisonandChrisRobinson.jpg Chris Robinson was a Detroit Tigers' 2005 3rd round draft pick out of the U of Illinois. Chris was named to the 2006 Florida State League (high-A) All-Star Team while still with the Tigers organization. In August of last year, the Tigers traded Chris Robinson to the Cubs for Neifi Perez. This session will be coordinated as in accordance with The NSBB Q & A Guidelines. Thank you to Chris for taking the time to interact with us on such an up close and personal level. In addition, thank you to NSBB Moderator Chris, who will be completing this session while the Smokies are in Jackson, TN to take on the Diamond Jaxx. As always, thanks to all of you for making NSBB such a wonderful community!

Mark Holliman, 2007 Tennessee Smokies (AA) starting pitcher, has graciously agreed to answer questions from posters on NSBB. If you would like to ask him a question, please post it here. The deadline for submitting questions is 10 PM Sunday, May 27 -- so get your questions in quickly! Once Mark has had an opportunity to answer them, the responses will be posted in the Chats Forum. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/vance_the_cubs_fan/addison%20and%20smokies/HollimanandAddison2.jpg Mark Holliman was a Cubs' 2005 3rd round draft pick out of Ole Miss. He currently leads the Southern League in ERA with 1.17, is tied for the lead in wins with 6, and is in the top 3 in WHIP with 1.04. (MiLB SL Pitching Leaderboard). He has been recently named as SL Pitcher of the Week for his outstanding performance. This session will be coordinated as in accordance with The NSBB Q & A Guidelines. Thank you to Mark for taking the time to interact with us on such an up close and personal level. In addition, thank you to Chris, who will be completing this session while the Smokies are in Jackson, TN to take on the Diamond Jaxx. As always, thanks to all of you for making NSBB such a wonderful community!

Jake Fox, 2007 Tennessee Smokies (AA) LF/1B/C, has graciously agreed to answer questions from posters on NSBB. If you would like to ask him a question, please post it here. The deadline for submitting questions is 10 PM Sunday, May 27 -- so get your questions in quickly! Once Jake has had an opportunity to answer them, the responses will be posted in the Chats Forum. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/vance_the_cubs_fan/addison%20and%20smokies/FoxandAddison.jpg Jake Fox was a Cubs' 3rd round draft pick from the University of Michigan in 2003. After hitting .462/.533/1.077/1.610 with the Cubs in Spring Training this year, Jake has been tearing up the Southern League and is currently hitting .360/.385/.616/1.001. He leads eligible Southern League batters in slugging and OPS. He was recently named the Southern League Hitter of the Week: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/DJAXXFAN/foxhow.jpg Jake was kind enough to do a Q&A session with NSBB posters in July 2006. (regular link) That session can be found in the Chat Events forum. This session will be coordinated as in accordance with The NSBB Q & A Guidelines. Thank you to Jake for taking the time to interact with us on a personal level. In addition, thank you to Chris, who will be completing this session while the Smokies are in Jackson, TN to take on the Diamond Jaxx. As always, thanks to all of you for making NSBB such a wonderful community!

Me. too.

i'm pretty sure Keener is in the minority regarding his anti-IMB sentiments. Im pretty sure Keener dont care either. All I was saying is he has no business telling people to shut up and leave. Had it been done by somebody else, to somebody else mods woulda been all over it. Modzilla's the only poster who can make it stick. In general (to everyone), if you aren't Modzilla, please don't take it upon yourself to order other posters off the board.

This pretty much sums up my thought process (or my trying to project the Cubs' thought process). They invested a lot of money and years in Soriano. Murton was never going to win any head-to-head battle for playing time. I don't think that they've slotted Soriano into LF because they believe that's the best defensive fit for the OF. They may have watched his adventures in CF and decided that LF is the best place for him to stay healthy (since he did, after all, get injured with an awkward lunge for a fly ball). They don't want that investment sitting on the DL and his sore hamstring is already being blamed for his lack of running.

I'm going to be away from the computer for most weekday evenings for the next two weeks. THANKS, CARaisin, for holding down the fort! Wait, now I'm more confused than I was before ... :lol: All of the 'formerlies' -- including me! -- should have their updated names on the first page now, courtesy of Raisin again.

Scout.com article on Gallagher's start last night (subscription not required).

Wednesday is Soriano Bobblehead Doll night!

He had a wild 5th inning. Mississippi Bottom 5th *Van Pope walks. *With Clint Sammons batting, Van Pope steals (5) 2nd base. *Clint Sammons lines out to first baseman Jake Fox. *With Kelvin Villa batting, passed ball by Casey McGehee, Van Pope to 3rd. *Kelvin Villa walks. *With Carl Loadenthal batting, wild pitch by Sean Gallagher, Van Pope scores. Kelvin Villa to 2nd. *Carl Loadenthal walks. *Brent Lillibridge singles on a ground ball to right fielder Josh Kroeger. Kelvin Villa to 3rd. Carl Loadenthal to 2nd. *Brandon Jones flies out to right fielder Josh Kroeger. *Matt Esquivel flies out to center fielder Sam Fuld.

GALLAGHER!

caused by diving

He was taking IF at 3B when I was in TN a while back.

That's awesome, Vance!

So much for policing personal attacks. Oh my god you are such a baby. (That's a personal attack) Enough, please.

Soriano has been less than impressive.

So Pat & Ron said that Soriano couldn't be bothered to run that out?