DurbanJer
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I have a toggle button option to turn it off and on in the area where you would expect the line score. im sorry i meant to say the score graphic from the tv broadcast. oh, then No, the feed score graphic isn't appearing on my mlbtv either
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I have a toggle button option to turn it off and on in the area where you would expect the line score.
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That wouldn't work either. They use the zip code associated with your ISP to determine your market. So just find a proxy server to mask your IP address. As I posted that I wondered about that. Also, how does a national wireless network assign your DNS as a national carrier? Wonder if that would work?
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That wouldn't work either. They use the zip code associated with your ISP to determine your market.
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Weird. Maybe they consider you Reds territory? Is there a cable channel that could be showing Reds games in your area?
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Not tonite. Soriano hasn't looked good in his first handfull of ABs
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Thom Brennamen just said that Chris Carpenter is going to miss his next start. Glad that's not the Cubs rotation, that's all I have to say.
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yeah - shockingly impressive It's early, pitchers are ahead of the hitters or something. Or it's cold. Or something
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It was a good play - especially considering it was Conine. Different question. The MLBtv feed has the Reds too. Is it always the home team's feed??
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Now we're cooking. Hit it like you did in AZ, Cliff.
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cmon Aram
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....inauspicious start.....
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there's a lot of thread to this thread. But all the 'official' sources I can find state that until 12 pm, we still got a shot and that negotiations are ongoing. Has this happened? Is my no 16 jersey a waste??? I still count 57 mins from the deadline at this posting.
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two double steals in one game??? Did somebody tie Dusty up and lock him in a locker somewhere in the clubhouse? :shock:
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I'm pretty sure he just said something about large Buffalo sexual organs :shock: Awww, man. Not the first time Ive wished I could watch MLBTV.com for the video and the internet audio for Pat/Ron
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4-5 Cubs (Rusch) v. Reds (Arroyo) 11:35 CT ESPN
DurbanJer replied to bhogg's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
aramalanga ding dong.... -
That's an excuse. Nobody can say how his MLB club would have handled him in ST. Nobody can say what would have happened or would not have happened. Stick with facts (see above). Soul, you're spot-on in calling this a WBC injury - as a semantic arguement. My contention is that even with the added pressure to compete (which is quite intense, much as you mentioned), players still should be held accountable. I think the WBC has been very very good for baseball and hope to see it continue every 4 years. I don't want to see it scuttled because players with poor judgement (Ayala) give teams excuses for not allowing participation. I said this earlier, but I think MLB should have insurance on all contracts for participants. Maybe this could spawn a new discussion, but this is one of several improvements that could be made to make the WBC better.
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Bobby Hill Released by Padres
DurbanJer replied to JC's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I agree with you 100% on a macro level, but I'd still give Hendry a solid A for the Ramirez/Hill trade and the Hundley/Karros-Grudz trades. It seems to me this 'argument' is based largely on people looking at this from the macro leve (the Cubs are worse today than they were 4 years ago by the criteria you outlined) and those looking at each of these moves on their own merits. So he gets an A on 'that paper' but flunked the course, I guess. -
I think that a team/GM/ownership should work with a player prior to participation. Since MLB is so heavily invested in the WBC, I'm surprised they don't have insurance policies for participants - to at least protect teams financially from a player's injury.
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Delmon Young sent down!
DurbanJer replied to rawaction's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I'd rather play for KC or Pittsburgh, yes. -
Agreed. He pitched to just one batter in the game against the US and just one other inning the entire WBC. There was something wrong with his arm and his time in the WBC had nothing to do with it. Speculation. The fact is, he incurred the injury playing in the WBC. Nobody can say what would have happened if he was pitching warm-up innings in Spring Training as opposed to going full-bore in the WBC. He may have had better supervision in Spring Training too---which may well helped lessen the severity of the injury. Or maybe not. Impossible to say, but he got injured playing in the WBC so it's a WBC injury. It's also speculation to say he wouldn't have died on the field if he was in ST. Dumb speculation, but speculation nonetheless. The Nats are covering their ass since they overworked him last year, and now they can just avoid all blame and push it on the WBC. How 'bout blaming the player? It was his choice. Generally, I think we all look for excuses outside ourselves instead of looking in the mirror.
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yes, but is Lee projected to miss any regular season games? He may be banged up, but Ayala is a full year deal (maybe longer depending on his recovery time from Tommy John...) True. Lee's injury was more of a ding. But it will push back his training schedule, as any injury would. Again, maybe this is a function of being overseas and all, but I'd rather lose one of my elite players to an event like the WBC, than to somehting stupid like walking in flip-flops (M. Prior claimed this once) or washing a car (J. Kent, if I recall) or to change sports -- being punched out at an FBI sponsored BBQ......
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Totally and completely accurate. But that doesn't mean that the injury would NOT have happened if he had NOT participated in the WBC. It is faulty logic to state that the WBC is WHY he is hurt. It's like saying tall women are attractive -- Jane Doe is tall -- therefore Jane is attractive. He came into the WBC off arm surgery, he pitched in the WBC, he was hurt. I sincerely doubt that pitching in the WBC or pitching in spring training wouldn't have resulted in the same thing. I go back to what I said earlier. I don't think that the Nats are 'in bounds' by blaming the WBC. If I'm a player coming off surgery in the last 12 mos., as strong as the siren song of playing for your country may be, I'd have to think long and hard what that may mean for my career. And I don't blame the Nats for being angry -- I just don't agree with the logic that stats that there is a direct correlation between participating in the WBC leading to injury. In fact, I think that teams angry at the lack of playing time for some of their players, or those players who find themselves behind in position battles to have a more legitmate beef with the WBC. But to jump into a form of elite competition after arm surgery without listening to your employer? Well that's just bloody stupid.
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Derwood, I don't know how you felt about the WBC, but I find it very interesting that the Nats are so livid with the WBC for losing Ayala. Perhaps it's a function of living overseas, but I found (still find, even though the 'boys in red white and blue' aren't in it) the WBC to be an awesome, awesome event. Even when I had the minor seizure watching Derek Lee bruise his shoulder against Japan, I didn't think for a minute that he shoud NOT be participating. Though I fully understand the Nats position, and their anger, I think they're venting their frustration in the wrong place. If I'm the Nats, I ask myself why, if Ayala was coming off surgery, didn't he and/or his agent keep him as far from the WBC as possible. OR, if the Nats had contracts that included clauses preventing players from participating in sporting events (sactioned by MLB or otherwise) in the off-season, maybe they could gripe.