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Nice!! Rocking the Juan Cruz hasn't quite fully grown in porn stache.

The ever increasing douchebaggery of earth2sean and Meph is really getting old. Seriously, have a little consideration for other human beings. Is it really that much of an inconvenience to click your mouse and drag it a little when you went to the trouble of starting a thread about something?

Just heard on ESPN radio update that he had the procedure and is expected back in a couple weeks as has been reported.

This was my exact thought when I read that. Has there ever been a hitter with numbers similar to Soriano's last year that had the absolute crap hiting in front of him that Soriano did last year? Even if you figure in the pitcher's spot being terrible, you have to expect at least a .330 OBP out of the 7 spot and a .320 OBP out of the 8 spot. Just those minor improvements have to add 10-15 RBI apiece.

I don't understand. Hendry pays top dollar for every bit of productivity you see on the field. Anybody can do that. I would think that businessmen would want more bang for their buck. Not so sure I agree with this. He has overpaid in some instances (Soriano, Marquis) but has gotten some deals done at below market value (Lee, Ramirez) in key spots so the overspending isn't quite so glaring. I really don't see anything he's done contract wise that has crippled their ability to go out and improve. Some of the reliever's contract were a little pricey, but it's not like he gave Carl Pavano $20 mil a year.

Everything I've heard down here is that Spiezio did everything he could to hide this from the Cards. There's a few reporters down here who don't cut them any slack when they screw up and they're even supporting the claims of no knowledge of the incident by the Cards. I actually have a tendency to believe it because the upper management in the Cards organization isn't dumb enough to take another PR hit on this type of issue for a player as insignificant as Spiezio. Same reason they told Tony no way on the Bonds deal.

Yes, this is the most annoying part of the whole deal. The inaccuracy in the reporting on why the Illini fans are so pissed is nearly criminal.

Good lord, I'm amazed his liver is still functioning and not the size of a basketball.

Awesome. Maybe he'll listen to what everyone has been trying to tell him after getting pimp slapped by a mod. If he even realizes the green print means he's a mod.

It really concerns me how much he referees (he did the ND game yesterday) considering he's the superintendent of the school district my wife works in. Seems like he should be spending more time doing, you know, his job (that my tax dollars fund by the way).

Looking at those numbers, I'm curious to know if Kinsler had some ridiculously low BABIP last year.

And I've found my new sig, if it's OK with you.

You don't think the manner in which leadership conducts themselves has anything to do with the way the rest of a "business" conducts itself? I don't think anybody is saying Tony held a gun to their heads and said "Drink or you're cut from the team", but I certainly don't think he has exactly provided an environment where drinking and driving, PEDs, and recreational drug use are strongly discouraged. For all the stuff that went on with LaRussa before the initial incident with Hancock happened, you would think somebody would have taken the bull by the horns and said something to the guy about scaling back the partying a little. I definitely don't think it should...that's my point. If some idiot mimics his manager or thinks because "he does it, I can do it", that's hardly the manager's fault. These aren't middle schoolers, they can make their own decisions. He's responsible for his own drug problems, not his players. LaRussa probably should have talked to guys who had obvious PED or alcohol problems (and he might have, I don't know) but he shouldn't have to police them. I think being able to see these things and intervene before they become a problem is a trait any good manager (baseball, business, whatever) should have. And any company worth it's salt has a program that all managers are required to go through to help them identify substance abuse issues and showthem how to properly intervene. The other thing you have to remember is that a lot of baseball players, because of the nature of the minor leagues system, don't have anything more than a high school education (and some less than that in the case of a lot of the Latin players I would guess) and never really participated in society in a normal way because they've been isolated and pampered because they're good at baseball, and because of this they never really had a chance to "grow up" emotionally.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/15917802.html so it doesn't actually say it's done... So does this mean they have actually settled on the other position players (Cedeno, Murton, etc.) to be rumored in this deal? It means there's no deal at all. I don't know why people keep pushing this thing further than it really is. It's laughable to think that the Orioles get to "decide which pitchers they want" in any deal, as if the other team has no say. This isn't the produce section at the local supermarket. Christ, these articles are just stupid sometimes. See, I took that to mean they were given a list of guys to choose from and they would be deciding from that, kind of like what happens with a PTBNL. But I do think you're right that there's no deal at all right now.

You don't think the manner in which leadership conducts themselves has anything to do with the way the rest of a "business" conducts itself? I don't think anybody is saying Tony held a gun to their heads and said "Drink or you're cut from the team", but I certainly don't think he has exactly provided an environment where drinking and driving, PEDs, and recreational drug use are strongly discouraged. For all the stuff that went on with LaRussa before the initial incident with Hancock happened, you would think somebody would have taken the bull by the horns and said something to the guy about scaling back the partying a little.

http://www.wthr.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?vt1=l&d1=0&ClipId1=http%3A//streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/WTHRLive.asx&LiveURI=http%3A//streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/WTHRLive.asx&h1=IU Link to IU press conference if you want to watch. Not sure when it's supposed to start.

Former Cub Robert?

I'm pretty sure he's a switch hitter. He'd be a good guy have as a 4th OF assuming Murton isn't around and he can be had for very little in trade. Outside of that, meh. And to the post above the one I quoted, isn't Stewart LH also?

I had 9 of my friends, and me. So 10 of us did it. Some of us had a lot of baseball skills and sliding skills while some have never slid before and I had to teach them how to slide. Each one of us ran to first through the bag 5 times, slid into first feet first 5 times, and slid head first 5 times. Some of us did it in a different order, like some slid head first first, some ran through first, and some slid feet first first. I had them start at home plate and just sprint towards first. I timed them as soon as they started moving and stopped it as soon as they hit the bag. Almost every trial (except for maybe 2 scores) showed that sliding feet first was fastest, followed by head first, then running through. One of my friends timed me as well and I had it in that same order. I averaged all the scores and it was about .5 seconds faster to slide feet than it was to run through. And about .3 seconds faster to slide feet than slide head. I think this showed me a lot, especially since I used many different skill leveled people. I'm going to try it again this year with my HS team. While your hypothesis and experiment may be true, I think your time figures are way off. If you figure a world class sprinter covers 100m in 10 seconds, .5 seconds equates to about 4-5 meters (12.5-15.5 ft). There's no way that's possible. Now, if you were saying it was .03 and .05 seconds difference, I could buy that. That would equate out to about 1-1.5 ft, which is significant, but not completely unbelievable like the other scenario. Edit: And he realized he was wrong, rendering my post pointless. But I still find .1 and .225 seconds to be highly unlikely unless the participants are running on one leg or the timing mechanism had a huge error in it. That still gets you somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-7 feet difference in getting to the bag.

get the digits? I'm sure. Oh yeah. I think I definitely stood a chance... Erin Andrews would probably only fall in the 85-90 percentile range of hot girls in Bloomington. erin andrews doesn't really do it for me. Quick, somebody get this guy's head examined!!!!!!! You're telling me you don't really get anything out of this.... http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/Picture%2011(3).png

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but isn't that the same concept as trying to get your hand/body in the vicinity of the base faster?

Just sent him a very cordial PM trying to explain this to him.

And possibly derail the "greatest thread ever"? Blasphemer!!!!!

Mostly because they like their skin to stay on their bodies. Honestly, of all the garbage he has spewed out, this is probably the most likely thing to have some relevance/truth to it.

Would people here have preferred Swisher over Fukudome? Probably not given the cost in prospects, especially considering the Cubs ability to come up with cash seems to be far greater than their ability to come up with prospects.