nick23

I really wish I could watch this game. But with the city of Memphis,TN being located so close to Cincinnati, MLB has blacked it out. I guess I should just make the 10 hour drive up there to watch it. Thanks Major League Baseball.

The Cubs are the only Major League team that will let someone as bad as Dempster start just because he want's to.

No there not. They have alot of talent, no doubt, but there not the better team. They've PLAYED better, but that doesn't make then a better team. I don't see how anybody can honestly compare these two rosters and state that the Cubs are the better team. The Brewers are better offensively at every position except 3B and Catcher and their rotation is better. Our bulpen may be slightly better but not enough to make up the difference on offense.

This hasn't been Lou's best game.

A someone pointed out ealier this is not the same Brewer's team as last year. If we start out 10-14 I'll be very much concerned.

We're so much better than the Brewers!

What kept that from getting out.

They're starting Catcher is Jason Kendall. No they're not. The Brewer's offense will be flat out scary once Cameron replaces Gwynn in center.

I wouldn't go that far, yet. Well, they are. I disagree, they really aren't. I hope you're right. I have a bad feeling i am though.

I wouldn't go that far, yet. Well, they are.

Ok could Pat please stop getting so excited for pop outs and foul balls?

I agree with this.

They're toying with us.

Hey Roast, a lot of people don't know that because they don't have CSN. Either way, hit and runs don't count because they are [expletive]. I don't have CSN either. and I don't think it was a hit and run. I'd hope not on a 2-2 count.

I came here to say the exact same thing. We should be running with anybody who gets on base not named Soto, Ramirez, or Derosa. You ever tried to run on a pool table?

haha, why the memphis hate TT? They're athletes before basketball players, as their shooting percentages show. Especially Dorsey though. He's Ben Wallace on a good college team, a goon that can't score if he's not a foot away from the basket. The main difference in the comparison being that Wallace doesn't think he's as good as Dorsey does, which makes it worse. I couldn't disagree more with this paragraph.

Z had an easy 1-2-3 inning in the first. Angels didn't get the ball out of the infield.

Murton was sort of collateral damage from the Soriano signing. The Cubs wanted/needed to make a big splash after the disaster of 2006, and it just so happened that the best available FA that year (Soriano) plays the only position Murton's shown himself to be competent at. Under ideal circumstances, the best available FA that year would've been a SS or a 2B or even a RF, and Murton would've been able to remain the everyday LF -- and I bet the Cubs would agree with that. (Next best outcome would be for Murton to display an ability to play a passable RF... he hasn't, at least not in Lou's eyes.) Unfortunately those weren't the circumstances, and so here we are... not by design so much as by coincidence. Coincidence? No, we're here b/c our GM is terrible at building a baseball team. Let's focus on the topic at hand please. Would Hendry have built a better baseball team if he had installed Murton in LF and passed on Soriano? How about if he had installed Murton in RF and passed on Fukudome? Which of those two guys is Murton better than? Recall that since the Soriano signing, the Cubs have made efforts to get Murton regular PT. First Soriano did not work out in CF, necessitating a return to LF; then Murton did not work out in RF because of his defensive shortcomings (real or perceived). What? Signing Cliff Floyd is not what I call making every effort to get Murton regular playing time. It wasn't Murton's defense that kept him out of RF, it was Floyd.

This quote from Lou either means that Murton is definitely getting traded or he just outwardly hates red heads. He's going to get playing time," Piniella said of Johnson. "I've got to rest the kid in right field (Kosuke Fukudome) from time to time, too. There's going to be some playing time for him. He's a hard-nosed kid that likes to play that's had a nice major-league career, and we're fortunate to get him here at the end of spring training."

Nice spring for Hill so far.

Did you stop to look at how the guy the Reds got back is doing? Volquez has 19 Ks and 3 BBs to go with his 3.46 ERA (bad stat?) in 13 innings this spring. He is just filthy, and is going to be the Reds 3rd or 4th starter behind Harang, Arroyo, and maybe Cueto. I'll take pitching over hitting 100 times out of 100. So far it looks like a win for both teams. I would take the high slugging center fielder 100 out of 100 times.

Wow, this Roberts stuff must really be getting to him.

I bet most black men are very offended that they're stereotyped as being large in the private area.

Umm, didn't you write about a page ago that people from the south don't know any better than to say dumb things?

Paul Sullivan just made a towel joke about Prior.