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ha ha, very good impression. I'd like to request more Harry Caray and Matt Foley in 2006. I am not sure Ron is not Harry Caray reincarnated. With those big glasses that he wears during the seventh inning stretch and with the Caray voice, who’s to say? I do not remember if Ron is on the air when he does this but he should be so everyone would know when to tune in just to hear it. It is worth it.

Dwayne Bacon and Honey did not get along too well last year with West TN. for obvious reasons. One of them had to go. I guess Honey won out and Bacon had to go. To the Angels if I am not mistaken.

I did not say that we should ignore it. I said that we should spend our time getting steroids out of the game now. I am just not sure what purpose is served by having the news media harp all summer on who used them in the past and who didn't. Steroids have probably been used in all walks of life from high schoolers who were athletes and even those kids who just wanted to get bigger to attrack the girls. Even adults would use them for different reasons. It was as sad part of our history and I believe we should just chalk it up to that and move on. We should have stopped it before now but these things just take time. We now know the harm it can do to us.

He wouldn't have gone from sub 40 to 73 that's for sure. I am talking about over the course of his career. He may not have hit 73 but he probably could have averaged 40/yr. Look how many at-bats he has missed since the 73 and how many HR he missed because he was hurt. We do not know how much steroids contributed to his injuries but there is a good chance that it was substantial. And he might still be going strong had he not taken steriods. So what would the asterick mean by his name - that he hit more HR than he should have or that he hit less HR than he should have?

The best way to make better decisions in the future is to know how and why you went wrong in the past. We know that they used them, we know why they used them, we know how they used them. I really do not care who used them. It's over and done with. Just get steriods out of the game now and let's "play ball". If the players were so upset that some of their peers had as advantage over them, then why did they not speak up when all of this was going on?

Are we going to have to listen to steriods all year? I am tired of it already. Who is to say that Bonds would have avoided his injury problems had he not used steriods and hit more home runs.

Enough of this steroid investigation. Steroids caught the sports world by surprise back when it was not illegial. The baseball players union would not let players be tested so it was almost impossible to find out who was using them. The only thing we should do is to make sure they are not used now. If they want to put asterisks, exclamation points, question marks, or whatever before the players names in the record books, then so be it. But do not bring some useless political investigation that will accomplish nothing except to give baseball a black eye. Make sure that no players are using steroids now and let’s play ball!

I tuned in to the show and the subject was fishing. Then someone called in an just kept rambling. They were getting nowhere and it did not interest me so I turned it off. I don't think I heard Ron say anything.

A little trivia - Theriot scored the winning run when LSU won the College World Series in, I believe it was 2000. He has experience and has improved every year. Solid.

Did any see D. Lee dive for that foul ball and fall on his ribs? He was slow to get up and the announcers were concerned that he might have really hurt himself. I believe I read where Lee did not start the last two games. Could it be that he did hurt his ribs. If he did, they would probably keep it quiet so as not to give the WBC a bad name. Lee would not have dived like that if it were a ST game. I also saw a runner for some team dive head-first into first base and also another runner do the same a second base. Both looked like they had hurt themselves. To say that players are just as likely to get hurt in ST is wrong.

McGegee usually get the run in in that situation.

Seeing Ryu makes me think of Pinto and Nolasco who had a good outing yesterday against the Cardinals. So did Sergio today. Pinto did ok the other day even though he had some control problems. If Pie had not been injured, we might have still had these three pitchers. Hope they do well though.

Theriot hit it to the right side even though he got it in the air. Impressive.

Marshall's delivery looks so much smoother than Hill's. Anyone agree?

Murton has always been faster than he looks.

Was that a brace or was it a pad to protect from foul balls? Could serve both purposes it suppose. Was it his right foot that was hurt?

Have you noticed that Pie is wearing a brace on his right foot?

I just got back from the Jackson city council meeting and they voted to approve and three year lease agreement with the DJaxx. If the jaxx decide to leave after one year, the Jaxx will have to pay the city of Jackson $500,000. After two years, $250,000 and after three years, $0. At the start of the meeting, we were informed that the Djaxx did turn down the latest city proposal. Then the city decided that if they did not want to lose AA baseball, they they had no choice but to accept the Djaxx proposal dating back to Dec. There are no attendance requirements. Tim Bennett is still in the picture to buy the DJaxx but he would be under this contract also. So we will have baseball. Now off to the golf course to celebrate!

For a while everyone The Jackson Sun interviewed Monday felt keeping the Jaxx was a benefit to the city's image, no one interviewed was going to the games. "I've never been," said 26-year-old Shelby Thomas, a legal assistant by day and Dixie Castle waitress by night. "I guess if I knew somebody else who was really interested I might go, but for me, not to just go and sit there all night." Visit talkback.jacksonsun.com and share your thoughts. - Ned Hunter, 425-9641 Ned Hunter called me one night and I told him that I go to about 50 games a year. Yet he said the no one that he interviewed was going to the games. This is an example of the negative press that the Jaxx have received in the past, however, I will have to say that David Brandt did an excellent job this past year covering the Jaxx for the Sun. The Jaxx have a good firm base that supports the team as you can see by the activity on this forum. It is a great place to go, easy to get in and out without having to worry about your car getting stolen. We have a good time at the games and all it would take is for the city and the press to get behind the team. I did not realize how big time minor league baseball is around the country until I got involved. The city of Jackson still must not realize that everyone in the minor leagues and major leagues, and all sports for that matter, are looking to see what happens in Jackson. The winter meetings are coming up in Dallas soon and don't think for one minute the Djaxx will not be mentioned. What the city of Jackson does in the next couple of weeks (if it is not too late already) will determine the future of professional sports in Jackson, TN. Maybe Jackson does not really care whether they have professional sprots or not. Maybe they are satisfied with just high school and youth league sports.

When the playoffs started, based on the fact that good pitching always beats good hitting, you would pick Chicago and Houston to be in the WS. If you thought good hitting beats good pitching, then you would probably pick the Yankees, Red Sox, or Cardinals. As it turns out, who is in the WS? The teams that no one wanted to face were Houston and Chicago because of their good pitching. Based on this, it looks like to me that good pitching stops good hitting and the managers know this.

I listened to the Indians games last night and I could actually become an Indians fan after listening to their announcers. They are great. Probably the best I have heard all year. I do not ever know their names. However, I wonder if the Indians can win with the manager they have. Millwood was getting hit hard a couple of innings before the Sox exploded. And he still would not take Millwood out. The Indians were lucky they did not lose the game. I am not an American League fan but I think I will follow the Indians via radio from here on out.

It is a good thing that the Cubs brought up Ryan Theriot from the West TN DJaxx (voted their most valuable player) so he can sit on the bench and contribute to the Cubs hot pennent race. Especially since the Djaxx do not need him to help them win the Southern League Championship this weekend.

What did Ron have to say about that strike-out to Greenberg?

A guy just missed winning a million dollars by inches by throwing a baseball through a stationary hole. He did get a thousand dollars though.

The djaxx have 3 hits, the Suns 0. We do not want to get too many hits without scoring a run because Suns will start getting some hits soon and they may bunch them together.