Laura

kiss of death

HOLY

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Otis has made up some ground in the past week. I'm now 20some HRs back.

GALLAGHER!

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Holliman's not getting called up anytime soon. This is his first real success as a professional, and most importantly he's not on the 40 man roster. Didn't Holliman pitch very well in Daytona last season, then hit a wall? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

Brandon Wood won the milking contest they had before the game today.

They have the impairment thing, at least for alcohol. In Arizona, they have a device that they force you to install in your car if you have a DUI where you actually have to blow a 0.03 or lower for the ignition to start. Obviously it would be unconstitutional to force everyone to install such a device, but its a start. One problem with that is alcoholics will turn to a convenient person to blow into the ignition lock when they're drunk: their kids. And then they'll take the kids along for the ride just in case they need to unlock the car again before driving back home.

He was talking on his cell phone when the accident happened.

Egads, I have to burn my 2nd transaction. Drop Piazza, Add Adrian Gonzalez.

He looks so aghast, it's perfect!

OUTSTANDING What broadcast is that? I was in the car listening to the radio.

And that XM carry it on one of the spare channels they aren't using that day.

Maddux recommended that Marquis and Rothschild get together.

Much better so far than I had expected -- hope he can keep it up. I've read a lot about his 3-year cycle with a new team and am not sure how much stock to put into it.

Aka, the best bar ever in Richmond, KY. it's also a pretty famous restaurant in hilton head island, SC where i work at. & a fantastic saloon out on the spit in Homer, Alaska.

So did I. Well this sucks :x Isn't it at least on WGN radio?!?!?!? What's going on? I couldn't get it on mlb audio so I tried directly with WGN radio on line - no idea what it is but it definitely isn't baseball! Yes, it's on both local radio and Gameday Audio. Interesting - I am listening to some weird stuff about riding a cab and being safe on wgn radio on line. It's on WGN Radio. You can't listen to it online through the WGN website because their broadcast agreement with MLB doesn't allow them to stream baseball games. To listen to the WGN broadcast online, you need a gameday audio subscription.

The Cubs placed Speier on personal leave. The rumors at the time were that the Cubs had him go to some sort of alcohol counseling as a condition of retaining his job, but I can't find any confirmation of that, so if that was the case, it seems that the Cubs kept it private vs making a public statement. Speier also played up his Cubs connection at the time of the arrest in hopes of being let off, which may have caused the organization to respond more strongly than they may have otherwise (impossible to know).

In 1895, Steve Brodie had 134 RBIs with 2 HRs. The most recent hitter with 100+ RBIs and 10 HRs or less is Paul Molitor in 1996 (113 RBIs, 10 HRs).

Isn't it just the Wild Card that you can't change until midseason? Correct!

If you haven't used your two transactions, you can trade him for another D player right now.

I was critical of St Louis media coverage of LaRussa's DUI -- the St. Louis P-D in particular -- because the articles and columns I read were long lists of excuses. I didn't think then and still don't that he should have been fired ... but I also didn't think that the humiliation of being arrested should have been the worst consequence of driving drunk, which is what one P-D columnist wrote. The link that gooney posted earlier to the column on pro baseball & DUIs is worth reading. The Cardinals are obviously not the only mlb club that has to deal with players/personnel drinking and driving, but they're the ones that have to deal with the fallout from this very sad chain of events. I know that some hold the perspective that off-field issues shouldn't matter to a team (putting aside in this instance that Hancock's drinking reportedly did result in him being late to at least one game). How should teams respond to things like a player/manager/front office type getting a DUI? Keith Law wrote As others have posted, it seems there were a lot of warning signs with Hancock in the days leading up to his death and some missed opportunities. It does sound like the hometown cops may have waved off giving him a breathalyzer after the earlier accident. I also wonder whether the worry about his whereabouts when he was late for the game had more to do with people being concerned over his behavior than Darryl Kile's death (which was the reason cited for worrying in newspaper reports). And he was drinking at their version of Harry Caray's. Today's article indicates he was on his way to meet up with other teammates when the accident occurred.

Someone heard Lou said he wanted to see more walks.

argh