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oh, that explains it

jim edmonds is homosexual

he either has to die on the field or help us win a world series. in my mind there's no middle ground.

BP on Samardzija: WE GIVE UP

on the flipside, it would be hilarious if he got here, hit well, proved all of us wrong and irritated the S out of cardinal fans all while helping us to the playoffs. I may have to actually root my ass off.

Being wrong on purpose doesn't foster intelligent debate.

If the problem really is mechanical, and it sounds like it is, I think it's a good idea to have Hill work on it in AAA where the results dont matter as much as the fact that he's working in game conditions. It's a bummer that Marquis is allowed to suck at the major league level, but two wrongs dont make a right. If Hill throws 50% strikes at the major league level, he's going to get rocked. Let him work that out in Iowa and in the meantime someone throw Marquis off a bridge.

Marquis is a guy you can survive having on your roster, but when there are other options, you shouldn't have to. Now, you put him on a team where Sean Marshall - better in all respects a year ago - is a loogy, rich hill - probably the best pitcher on the team over the full 2006 season - is in AAA, and 50 at bats decides the future of a 23 year old CF in favor of Jim Edmonds, it's pretty frustrating.

good stuff

It was linked on Deadspin or TBL recently.

Speaking just for myself, the problem I have is with the (seemingly) prevailing assumption that Pie is the solution, and all that's needed is time and opportunity. Nowhere do I see anyone contemplating the possibility that the solution to the problem of who to play in CF against RHP is neither Pie, nor Edmonds, nor Johnson. Now perhaps given 5 starts a week, Pie could become this year's Pedroia or Tulowitzki. It's certainly possible. More possible, IMO, is that despite the defensive advantages he can offer, Pie remains a liability for a contending team. The guy's just not good at all right now offensively, and expecting significant improvement is really nothing more than an act of blind faith that any minute now, his MiLB success will translate to MLB success. Maybe it will, but maybe it won't. If nothing else, one thing we should recognize about Lou is that he's not one to sit on his hands and hope what isn't working suddenly will start to work. We've got three options against RHP Reed Johnson - a 31 year old OPSing .643 this year, .729 in his three-year against RHP Jim Edmonds - 37 years old, OPSing .533 this year, .755 last year (to be fair, his three-year's are good, because he crushed before falling off the map last year) Felix Pie - a 23 year old that is a better defender than Johnson or Edmonds and has succeeded after a learning curve at every level. Basically, you know that Johnson is going to be mediocre, you assume that Edmonds, with his injury past and age, will be average at best, worse than mediocre at worst, but that Pie as a chance to be more than that. Pie, at his worst, most terrible, "send his ass back to Iowa" stint has still not been as bad as Edmonds this year. When these three guys are your options, you owe it to yourself to give the one that actually might not suck a chance, and Pie hasn't seen that yet.

At this point, anyone who still needs the Pie argument spelled out for them is basically not worth it in the first place. Unless you're convinced that Reed Johnson has somehow magically figured out how to make pitchers hit him with a baseball, there's no reason for Pie not to be in the lineup against right handed pitchers. Now, you throw washed-up Jim Edmonds into the mix - who has been worse than Pie, thank you very much - and it's just a complete head scratcher.

How's the weather up on your high horse? It's nice. A little humid, but nice. You're embarrassing all the other AD fans with this nonsense

well, we've done pretty well without a CF for most of the year, so maybe Edmonds gets here, starts for two weeks, does terrible, gets booed and the offense still performs. That way everyone wins (except that [expletive] edmonds).

if we signed Edmonds, i'd probably make the lineup something like this Edmonds CF Samson 2B Donaldson C Burke RF Smith 3B Rosa 1B Johnston DH Lara LF Gonzalez, M SS

you know who likes to make a splash in the foreign market? Mark Cuban.

shut up, roast

SUCK IT KEENER

I dunno, I thought he was classically handsome. we should seriously debate this i thought his neck was too long and his ears were too big for him to be called classically handsome. i think a pair of spectacles would have done wonders for him, plus he should have grown his hair out

is he really good looking though? I always thought he was hilarious looking, but maybe he's just not a hat guy

i told this to matt earlier, but the only way a edmonds signing would make me smile would be if he got beaned in the face and died in his first plate appearance, getting his first and only standing O at wrigley

I haven't been following the whole Simers vs Jones thing or whatever (if it even is a thing), but it sounds to me like Andruw is just screwing with a columnist that he (and probably the rest of his team) hates. But yeah, he is really fat though.

And DePodesta was the one that got ran out of town

hopefully he can be marmol-esque in 2009 when marmol is out with shoulder soreness all season

No surprise: good pitching staff shuts down Cubs Good surprise: Ted Lilly shuts down good offense A close loss today is pretty far from a bad thing