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Yeah, and Darwin Barney should never field another routine ground ball in a Cubs uniform. If not for the stupid Marlin grounding into a DP, I'm not sure Dolis would have thrown one effective strike all night. He really hasn't had much control or command in any of his appearances. Give someone else a shot. Sorry, but he has had less than ten innings in the majors. He's easily our best option to stick long-term. Let him have his growing pains and learn. Thank you. He'd better start throwing strikes. Nothing is more annoying than a pitcher who doesn't throw strikes. That Hanley homer was so predictable I called it before the pitch.

Probably helps us more than it hurts us the way he's been going

May 5, 2000, Cubs vs Pirates. My 8th grade class took a class trip to Chicago for the day. We arrived late for the game (one of my biggest pet peeves, but I wasn't running things that day so I had no choice), but we didn't miss much. Cubs lost 4-2, Sosa and Eric Young homered and Kevin Tapani took the loss. Still a great day.

I for one am shocked that Random Scrub X that is playing for injured Berkman (who himself was washed up 2 years ago before he signed in STL) is raking on us.

His dad is their announcer, his opinion is not objective. Thom is their TV announcer as well. What a worthless sack of crap. Glad I missed today's game

Well, Michael Floyd managed to make even Rees look good for quick stretches last year. I worry there's nobody there to bail whoever it is (probably Rees if you believe the local pundits) out this year like that. But your point is well taken.

I'm very excited he got a waiver. I think Kelly should abandon the spread and just run a Woody Hayes offense with the disparity in talent between our QBs and RBs. I'm more worried about the WR position than the QB one, myself (not that I'm not also worried about the QBs)

Aaron Lynch leaving Notre Dame, reportedly because of his high school girlfriend. [expletive] everything.

The Cubs aren't just going to lead baseball in blown leads this year, they're going to lead by a huge margin. It's what happens when you have good starting pitching but simply refuse to score more than 3 or 4 runs.

Boozer is the loudest player I have ever seen on the basketball court. AND ONE! GIMME THAT [expletive] GET EM JO

The Reds were inexplicably added to the blackout list for South Bend this year (which already included both Chicago teams and the Tigers) even though Cincinnati is a good 5.5 or 6 hours from here. Milwaukee is twice as close and is not blacked out. 5 miles north of here in Niles, Michigan, the Tigers are the only blacked-out team. Anyway, I picked a really crappy day to not get on the computer. Missed my GDT turn and my mock-draft pick. I'll post a GDT for the next game after CT's run is over.

Put the Nationals in the http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e67/ndistops/Dumpster.jpg

According to @KCJHoop it was the second longest streak without two straight losses ever.

Wake me when Rose is back.

I have sigs off (as you apparently should if that's such a problem), so I didn't even know what you were talking about for a second.

This is a tough spot. Carolina would kill for Claiborne to be here but he's not. Michael Floyd would be a luxury buy for a team that has more important needs. Dontari Poe destroyed at the combine but I'm leery of gym-class heroes. Quinton Coples has effort issues. Fletcher Cox would be a reach here. Luke Kuechly is good but Carolina has a couple of good LBs in his mold already. Although I don't like to do it, Carolina takes Dontari Poe here and hopes he's really as good as he appeared at the combine. Their front four needs are that pressing.

I'm down to Castro, Soto and Soriano. I'd like to add a couple this year but the question is whether anyone's going to be good enough to justify buying any.

I know no one cares if we win any games this year, but Barney 2nd and Soto 8th? REALLY?

Third

McNabb had no skills left by the time he got to Washington. Sounds like a bitter whiner to me.

I might as well do this too. This is a 14-team keeper league (2nd year) with an auction format, $260 budget. We could keep up to 7 players (1 for 3 years, 2 for 2 years and 4 for 1 year) at their existing salary. I opted not to use my 3-year keeper, passing on Albert Pujols at $43 because my team was bad last year (lots of holes to fill) and I'm not sure I buy that he'll be as good in the coming years. He ended up being taken for $49 in this year's draft, though his value may have been somewhat inflated since he was easily the best unkept player. C - Miguel Montero ($4, 1-year keeper) 1B - Eric Hosmer ($23) 2B - Rickie Weeks ($18) 3B - Pedro Alvarez ($4) SS - Yunel Escobar ($5) OF - Jayson Werth ($10) - I had Werth for $26 last year and it turned out to be a disaster but I was happy to take him back for 10 in hopes of a turnaround. OF - Matt Joyce ($9) OF - Desmond Jennings ($17) Util - Freddie Freeman ($14) Util - Jesus Montero ($9) Bench - Alejandro de Aza ($4) Bench - Salvador Perez ($2) Bench - Ian Stewart ($1) Bench - Todd Helton ($1) Bench - Mike Carp ($1) SP - Tim Lincecum ($30, 2-year keeper) SP - CC Sabathia ($25, 2-year keeper) SP - Mat Latos ($14) SP - Dan Haren ($26) SP - Wandy Rodriguez ($8) RP - Brandon League ($1, 1-year keeper) RP - Frank Francisco ($1, 1-year keeper) Bench - Jordan Zimmermann ($1, 1-year keeper) Bench - Vance Worley ($9) Bench - Tommy Hanson ($12) Bench - Jair Jurrjens ($10) I'm still not sure how I ended up with so much pitching. I just kept seeing value in the ones available so I kept taking them.

Kentucky/Louisville in New Orleans. I'm placing the over-under at 20 fan-on-fan brawls the night before that one.

Please, oh, please tell me you have enough self-respect not to join the same trolling quest that SULLEY, of all people, is on. we will also miss your wonderful sentences. Should I even ask why you enjoy picking on my posts? I don't recall ever doing a thing to you, and there are hundreds of posts in this thread about college basketball teams no one else cares about that went unremarked upon by your excellency. I'm thoroughly confused. And you can make fun of my grammar when you decide to capitalize a word.

Kinda wanted that to stay until the magical day it would have all 0's in front of it.

Please, oh, please tell me you have enough self-respect not to join the same trolling quest that SULLEY, of all people, is on.