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come on mark no 2 out hits.

nice play mark. now they are set up to beat you. :roll:

then he should sit. it isn't too hard to hustle. reguardless of talent, hustle is something every player can do.

Jesus, was Lawton running under water there?

Pitching we throw 3.84/PA (Tied for highest in ML) Batting we see 3.61/PA (2nd worst in ML) but, thats ok cause we had such a great bullpen this year.

which wouldn't matter, since the Braves, like the Cardinals, are impervious to serious injuries, while the Cubs collapse like a house of cards when someon tweaks a muscle. thats because both of these teams are run much better than the cubs.

They get hurt, too, but no one notices. yet we have had two years in a row of healthy Perez and Macias. Funny sense of humor the baseball gods have. :roll:

Isn't your football about to start? Enjoy that feeling. Where you know you won't have an incompetent boob ruining things for your team. It's a good feeling.

Not if Mike Fontenot or Scott McCalin have anything to say about it 9/1/05 They don't, Dusty does.

what a great year we have had again reguarding staying healthy.

did anyone not see that homer coming. It was like it was too far a walk for Dusty to make for just one out so he let him face the hitter and hoped it would work out. Then when it enevitably didn't he had that oh shucks who would have guessed this would happen look on his face.

well it seems to me we won't sign a great sp this year anyways. the only guy I would want more than Maddux would be Burnett and the Yankees are going to pay a ton for him.

yes because we need both hill and rusch starting.

True in most situations, but not all. If the player feels they have to make a running correction to touch first base (i.e., slowing the legs down to make contact with the bag rather than running in stride), then a slide may be quicker in that particular situation. It is not an absolute that the slide is always slower when a running adjustment must be made to touch the base. the only time to slide is to avoid a tag. if it were ever faster you would see olympic sprinters doing it. Please pay attention. Olympic sprinters are not adjusting to touch a bag. Your natural stride doesn't always take you to the bag, it can take you under or over a bag. Hence, sometimes a slide can help someone reach quicker because it eliminates the awkward running adjustment to touch a bag. Such instances are rare, but the answer is not absolute. right but isn't the point on a gorunder to run threw the bag? You get there as fast as you can to beat the throw? Thus sliding would defeat that.

shorten your swing idiot.

True in most situations, but not all. If the player feels they have to make a running correction to touch first base (i.e., slowing the legs down to make contact with the bag rather than running in stride), then a slide may be quicker in that particular situation. It is not an absolute that the slide is always slower when a running adjustment must be made to touch the base. the only time to slide is to avoid a tag. if it were ever faster you would see olympic sprinters doing it.

is that what i think it is?the season dying?

This is my last post to you dude. You're acting unreasonable. I'm not Corey bashing, I'm giving props to Hairston for his effort. If I was batting .230, I'd do whatever it takes to somehow get to first safe. If it meant sliding, I'd do it. yeah, except, as you've been told numerous times, sliding head first makes you come in slower. and i can't say i'll really miss corresponding with you. oh right abuck it makes you faster, why do you think all the sprinters in the olympics are doing it? :lol:

why? so you don't have to see a better player sitting on the bench behind neifi? nomar is fine to play - dusty just wants to play his boys as much as possible. but wait, I thought that the guys who made the most money played. Doesn't Nomar make more than Neifi? I guess this is just more selective thinking by our equal opportunity manager. :roll: We cannot win the wild card unless Nomar plays everyday he is able.

That is correct. The Royals are fine at the K, but it does need improvements, that's for sure. Same thing goes for the Chiefs. Why they come up with the idea of downtown stadium is, simply, stupid. I like the K and Arrowhead right out of nowhere, between 2 interstates. It makes the traffic flow a bit more smoother. Imagine a 60,000-70,000 attendence in a football game, in downtown, where all that traffic. That would be brutal. yes it would be, plus the K is great for getting other teams autographs. You get there for BP and you can line up at their dugout. I got so far this year from this method, Vernon Wells, Angel Berroa, Matt Staris, Eric Chavez, Barry Zito, Danny Johnson, Danny Harren, Rich Harden, and Bobby Crosby. It was great because Zito talked with my brother and I for a few minutes, he made of fun of my Cubs hat. He asked if I cheered for a big league team too. I told him well yeah you guys and the big league Cubs. I told him if he keeps pitching well we might even call him up. He was a pretty cool guy.

Seems like a lot of money to improve a stadium that's already rated among the best in the majors. On the other hand, the K is one of the oldest stadiums around so it's probably due for a few touchups here and there. (It's also not unreasonable to expect the county to pay for the rennovations as the facitlity is publicly owned -- the Royals just lease the K.) well then he needs to take the 50 mil he gets from revenue sharing and put it back into his team. Like say keeping Damon and Beltran. He needs shown the door by Selig.

Yeah San Jose is the biggest city in the Bay, but three teams in one metro area (especially when you wouldn't be putting in a third team in bigger metro areas like LA and Chicago)? I doubt a third team within 40 miles of the A's and Giants would work. I have no clue if a third team in New York would work, but the same questions would be there. The problem is that they have one of the worst farm systems in baseball. In their preseason rankings, BA says only Detroit and St. Louis are worse. Funny I would rather have Billy Butler than anyone of our players in the minor leagues. Yeah and Alex Gordon too. Granted he wasn't on the team before the season. Living in KC now I got to see the game against the Indians where they were up 6 in the ninth and then gave up 11. Glass will again pocket over 50 million this year because of revenue sharing and his nonexsistant payroll. Baseball needs to fix that. Butler is a sweet player, but they have to sign Gordon first before you can consider him a part of their farm (and him signing is in doubt, apparently). If Gordon signs, their farm will have improved nicely, just as Detroit and St. Louis's have this year too. Just lose baby. Sisco seems to have slumped a little of late too. any chance they send him to the minors :wink: You had me smiling for a minute then I remembered that they have kept him long enough to be able to send him down...I think. No, he has to be on the big league team all season, but now they can stash him on the DL for the rest of the season and still keep him. They will sign him if not this year next year when they have the first pick again they will pick him and he will have lost all of his leverage. The one advantage they have. Butler is a beast though.

I guarantee you both Billy Beane and Theo Epstein are directly involved in who plays and who doesn't. It isn't enough that Hendry fires Baker at the end of the year -- which I'm still doubtful will even happen -- he has to force Baker to take advantage of these built-in chances to give youngsters a shot. Involved, yes. But I doubt even Beane and Theo tell their managers who to play on a daily basis. No but I am sure they would have not allowed Neifi Perez to play everyday this summer when they had a rookie who was more than capable of outperforming him. Hell Dusty would have never even let Bobby Crosby play.

The problem is that they have one of the worst farm systems in baseball. In their preseason rankings, BA says only Detroit and St. Louis are worse. Funny I would rather have Billy Butler than anyone of our players in the minor leagues. Yeah and Alex Gordon too. Granted he wasn't on the team before the season. Living in KC now I got to see the game against the Indians where they were up 6 in the ninth and then gave up 11. Glass will again pocket over 50 million this year because of revenue sharing and his nonexsistant payroll. Baseball needs to fix that.

dear god let them have him. lets just play Murton everyday. Just win everyday from now til the end of the year and we will be in the playoffs.