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Yes.

Kerry is not impressed with your weak attempts to make contact with the ball.

Oh hell mfing yes

It's a start!

People suggest this because it is true. yeah you got me, i hate those lazy latin americans and i love me some gritty white guys It really doesn't sound like you apply the same standards to Cedeño as you do Pie. pie hasn't had a season as a full-time starter in the big leagues. I don't get it. Didn't Theriot have a full season of suckitude (at age 27 no less)? So why Theriot over Cedeno? "I don't like Cedeno because two years ago he had a .610 OPS. I prefer Theriot who had a .672 OPS last year." Pretty silly, no?

It almost squirted through. Bah.

On a related note Lou doesn't care and is sticking with Theriot. But remember when Cedeno was bad a couple of years ago? Theriot has been nothing but gumdrops, lollypops and rainbows in the meantime.

Shocker.

People suggest this because it is true. yeah you got me, i hate those lazy latin americans and i love me some gritty white guys It sure sounds like it.

People suggest this because it is true.

Haha, Ronny high fives the crap out of Gerald Perry's hand.

The non-ironic part is that if he's healthy he'll beat the poo out of the ball. Yes. We are scoring many runs without a guy who is going to mash a lot of home runs. This is great. The back of the order has been getting on base too. He's going to have his chances.

Thank you for this. Awesome!

I bet they are. If Pie can be who people think he can be this team will be extremely tough to beat.

I'm a little concerned about the power but he did just miss a couple. In any event, he's productive regardless and his best asset is what the Cubs have lacked and needed most desperately. It's a lot easier to score runs when......there are people on base!

i disagree. telling people that they shouldn't be offended by something clearly offensive and based upon an offensive stereotype is tantamount to telling black people that they cannot be victims of racism because it doesn't exist. I'm not even saying people can't be offended by this, just that expressions of outrage aren't useful on this, especially when they aren't genuine. Let's face it, when you are threatening violence against large numbers of people for wearing offensive t-shirts, you are putting on an act or you are imbalanced. Every time something offensive (though not always consequential) happens, people feel a need to take their reaction to extremes to demonstrate how much they are offended. When the story about the Yale art student hit, people wished she would be barren. Everytime some perverted criminal commits a horrendous act, people talk about sending him to jail to be repeatedly anally raped. This acting is not helpful. There is still damaging racism in our society. If you want to combat it, do that instead of making a big deal over an idiotic but ultimately unimportant racist t-shirt. i didn't say anything about people being offended to the point of violence. i didn't know that that was the case. in the case of threats of violence, i'd say those people are much more likely to be unbalanced than faking. you simply cannot tell people that they aren't offended by something. I'm not so much saying that people aren't offended as I am saying that their being offended is partly a result of feeling expected to be offended, and offended in a grand way. Threatening violence is sometimes just a way to up the ante and prove how offended you really are. And sometimes it is just a bad joke. I think people can genuinely be offended by this. It certainly is stupid. But expectations muddy the waters and blow inconsequential issues out of proportion, making it harder to talk reasonably about more consequential unspoken problems. Hence, the outrage over t-shirts not being useful. I don't know, this train of thought has gotten away from me. I'm sorry for the pile-on, but I agree with Sully. There is just no way you should feel qualified to decide this for someone else. And Snood was right, as well. A violent, over-the-top reaction to racism is MUCH better than ignorance of it or even complacency in the face of it. I'm in agreement. I don't understand why there needs to be a some kind of line when we are and aren't offended by racism. These shirts were totally out of line and more than just vaguely or slightly racist. Why is this any less signifigant than anything else?

Who's laughing last now that Corey has completely turned his career around?

Brennaman is a stupid meathead. No surprise that reds44 agrees with him.

Hart's spot is coming up to bat. What is Lou going to do? He goes with Fontenot! Oh man how interesting! They'll be talking about this move around water coolers all over Chicago! Sorry, I'm just not seeing it. In my opinion, the only interesting thing about having pitchers bat is the senario when you actually have a pitcher that can swing the bat and the advantage that gives to you. I just don't think it's interesting enough to justify clinging to it.

Sounds like he should be starting then. How exactly can you be "bred" as a starter? Marmol hasn't been a starter for quite some time. I doub't the work he did some years ago in the minors is really having much of an impact now.

What's all this talk of strategy? When the pitcher comes up late in the game, he's replaced with a pinch hitter. Usually one that hits from the opposite side of what the pitcher throws from. Early in the game with someone's on base, the pitcher is usually instructed to make an automatic out in the hopes of moving a runner up one base. In any other scenario, they just flail away at the ball and try not to get hurt. Does an interesting situation come up more than once in every 100 at bats? Is this really all that titillating to people?

I like how running hard has become the measure of trying hard. If you're not running, then you aren't trying, I guess.

Because they are not obvious doubles Sure they are. The risk isn't worth the reward. Especially when the reward is absolutely nothing.

Why do people want Ramirez, who has a history of leg injuries, sprinting his ass off on obvious doubles?

Is there a specific speed at which one crosses the line from "loafing" to "hustle?" Yes. It's like the difference in speed when you hit and home run and when you hit a double and run in to second. Soriano runs like he hits a homerun whether he hits a double or is running for a ball down the line or in a gap. Ramirez has this problem too. He started to hustle early last year, but then decided that he will get paid regardless. See his home run, I mean double last series. Are you seriously saying that Aramis would have had a triple off of that hit if he "hustled?" Don't stop him, he's on a roll.