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Last week was my worst week of the season, hope thats out of their system.

The Stars and Sharks series has been really damn good. 4 OT's in 6 games, 5 games decided by 1 goal, great goal keeping the entire series.

This may not really apply to baseball jersey, but one thing I noticed with soccer jerseys is that anything made in Australia or China is a fake. Check to see where the seller is, I would not buy anything unless they are based in the US.

I am pretty sure the slump-buster shirt was meant to be worn for two straight days. You got to wear it on out when leaving her house the next morning ;-).

Juan, Arroyo will be start #8 for you this week.

Wow, how important is McBride to Fulham?

Another arm before the All-star break looks like it is going to be very important. I just don't know who the Cubs can go out and get. How about Hill, Pie, Samardzija, and Ceda for Halladay ;-).

In English news Liverpool may be fixing to swap Crouch for Gareth Barry. Also Gennaro Gattuso claims he would like to like Milan to come play in England next season. Don't see many high profile Italians wanting to leave Italy to come to England. Could maybe be a Man City target, not sure where he would really go.

Proof QB's from Texas are better than from LA ;-). I really dislike Perrilloux too though for the way he handled and treated Texas, the kid has zero class and in all likelihood will be in prison within 3 years.

If there was ever a game this season for Piniella to get ejected and start throw crap out of the dugout today is the day. A bench clearing fight might not be such a bad thing either :-).

Hill wasn't even close, his delivery looked like crap, and he is a headcase. If he can get thing figured out he will be very good, but when he loses confidence they might as well pull him.

Zito is not worth it.

I vote to move it to Billy Bob's in DFW, and to start serving beer first thing in the morning :-).

Two Yankees, a division rival, and a playoff rival. Nope non at all ;-)

Osorio doing his best Arena impression? Yes, this. Europe please

+ 1 agreed, Toronto should look into dealing Halladay to us since they can't win a game for him :-). They can have Pie, Zamardja, Colvin, whoever they want for him.

The Cards have proven they can win in the past with less talent, where Baker has proven he can screw up a team with more talent. I am becoming more worried about them with every passing day. Still expect them to have a rough stretch soon enough though that will put them back too far.

and its on national television too #-o and hopefully both demoralizing and tiring for their bullpen the rest of the week :twisted:

Which is also in line with my point. With guys like Lee and Utley if the HR's are not there they get replaced by doubles. It doesn't work that way with Dunn. If he only hit 30 hr's last season he would have seen a drop in his slug% buy 80 point and would take him down to an .820 OPS. He still had a superb isolated obp last season of .122. If that simply dropped down to .100 which is superb for any player in baseball his OPS would have been right about .800. Thats would have been around 14 less walks last season. So we are now looking at 24 PA that resulted in a .100 increase in his OPS. Statistically he is walking on very thin ice from looking solid with his OPS to very crappy for a guy with his power. Walks and HR's play way too much of a factor in Dunn's stats, more so than any other player in baseball.

explain please making fun of Soto for the 8 straight K's a couple of days

Room for another one in that boat? Thank God for Yahoo being slow, at least I'll have a bit of time to give the Dbacks a chance to explain what his role is going to be. If your not currently first in the waiver order I would take a shot. Not worth waiting when you might not even get him to begin with. Unfortunately, I've found myself with the first waiver claim much earlier than I normally like, which means I have tough decisions on who to use it on. The Dbacks are going to stick him in the pen right now. Edgar Gonzalez has been perfectly adequate, Owings has been very good, RJ is healthy (right now), and when Davis comes back in a couple weeks they will already have 6 men for 5 spots. Also, Scherzer only pitched 106.6 innings last year, so the DBacks aren't going to want him to go over 140 this year. Of course, the other side of the coin is that they will probably want him to reach around there so they can get him up to around 170 in 2009. Hes pitched 23 so far, so that means he'll have to be starting again sometime (and somewhere) again this season. This is such a tough call because of the depth in the rotation that the DBacks have... I'm more tempted to do it after his performance last night though... nasty stuff. Someone please slap me around with sample size and Price, Kershaw, etc. will be better arguments. They are all pitchers so I think its a crap shoot. Be happy getting just 1, and hope he outlasts the others.

Anyone? I know there are more Dunn lovers on this board than in Cinci. I like the guy, just think the hype is overblown and the OBP and OPS are not a strong indication of what kind of hitter he really is. I would love to have him as a run scorer, but would never count on him as a run producer. This is all nonsense. The OBP and OPS tell you exactly what type of hitter he is. And as somebody who gets on base a lot and hits for power, he absolutely is a run producer. If you don't want him because he hits for too low an average and strikes out too much, admit it. But don't make up all the rest of that nonsense. Most of the time you are right, again I said Dunn was the exception. Anytime your OBP can reach .200 great than your BA it is going to inflate your OPS. In what world is Adam Dunn considered a good hitter. Great slugger yes, good hitter no. He has 4 games this season in which he has an rbi without hitting a HR, thats not a run producer. Like I said he would be great for scoring runs, but I would never count on him to drive in critical runs.

Anyone? I know there are more Dunn lovers on this board than in Cinci. I like the guy, just think the hype is overblown and the OBP and OPS are not a strong indication of what kind of hitter he really is. I would love to have him as a run scorer, but would never count on him as a run producer.

Any team can always use more power. It's asinine to say otherwise. Greene would replace Theriot and Cedeno. Likely no great loss there at all as that Greene's projected numbers in terms of scoring runs well outproduces anything they would probably accomplish. Soriano is also likely not kicking out anyone. Johnson is obviously going to still get a ton of playing time in CF. So who is the OBP machine being removed from the lineup? Lee, Aramis, DeRosa, Soto and Fukudome are all obviously staying in the lineup. You're full of it on this one, and basically making up phantom players that don't exist. To top it off, in an ideal lineup, Fukudome is batting 2nd with Green batting 5th or 6th. He wouldn't be setting tables...he'd be here to clean them off. He'd be batting behind the OBP guys to help bring them home. How is that a bad thing? Ah, so Dunn's HR's count more because he takes more walks. Gotcha. That makes complete and total sense. This team does not need Soriano? Yeah, the guy that hits 30+ HR's a year, 40 doubles and 70-100 RBI's with around a .900 OPS is "not needed." You may not want him hitting leadoff, but to act like he's somehow hurting the team when he's playing healthy is one of the most absurd things I've ever seen posted here. You're like the logic that makes OBP a smart thing run amuck into some ridiculous extreme where you think HR's, run, RBI's and hits accomplished by someone with a sub .350 OBP somehow don't count or "hurt the team." Then, to top it off, you cling to OBP, but then constantly toss out batting average like it actually proves anything. And you somehow think strikeouts are signifiantly "worse" outs than anything else. Incredible. Listen to yourself. If a productive Soriano is a "problem," I wish this team had a lot more problems. Can't decide if I want to comment on Dunn anymore or not :-). Again he is the only hitter in MLB of his kind. How many guys post an OBP 200 points above the BA and still barely manage to hit .240. Would you rather have: .240/.400/.900 or .300/.380/.850 I'm not talking about Soriano vs. Dunn just in general. If you had the choice between Dunn and Pat Burrell who would you take?

Gamecast showed it from pretty damn far out. Curious to see that one. I had no clue Babel had any ability to score from that far out.