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YES, if Soriano starts hitting, this lineup is going to be pretty good.

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"Robbed" is a bit much. Beasley is clearly the better player, but I think the thing that most set TH over Beasley is that he's a junior whereas MB is a freshman. Now you want to talk about "robbed" see NL MVP 2007. Giving someone an award because they are a junior as opposed to a freshman is an absolutely hideous impersonation of a joke. Beasley is a better player than Hansbrough and put up better numbers on a crappier team, and his reward for carrying a team that would've won 12 games without him to the NCAA tournament is to get passed up by a dude who tonight was the ringleader of his team's biggest weakness - interior defense. How many alley-oops did Kansas throw down tonight, and where was the national player of the year to do anything about them? I didn't say it was right for them to do it, but that I suspect that's one of the main reasons why TH got it. I may be completely and utterly wrong. I'm sure you're pretty much on target. Especially considering how loathing college basketball has become of the whole leave school early thing. "Sure he's worse offensively and defensively but he stayed until his junior year, dammit!" Did you hear the whole Dick Enberg 4-year SR award spiel tonight? For the player who has "fulfilled his commitment by staying an entire four years at his school." The way Enberg said "fulfilled his commitment" made my brain leak out onto my keyboard. This sort of thing is really prevalent in college football ("sure Adrian Peterson had the best year, but he has two more seasons to win this award!") but it makes even less sense in college basketball where a guy like Beasley is a sure-fire one and done.

Braun would be the last of the three I'd trade. i'd imagine Laporta would be the first to be traded, he'll be cheap and have the most trade value, and Braun and Fielder should be entrenched as franchise faces by then (if they aren't already)

stay hot

I hate wanting that team to win for money. Watching them spend an entire possession trying to draw a charge a minute ago was utterly nauseating. And I don't think I've ever hated a college player like I hate Hansbrough. He's insufferable. Greg Paulus?? Duke>>>>>>>>UNC. And that's not a compliment to Duke - I don't like them, but I have a white-hot hatred of the Heels. Jon Scheyer for me. Ever since I saw , it's been all hatred from me.

I nailed this one. Six point lead with 12 minutes left.

It really is like both teams just traded places.

Quick update from Tennessee Sammy 5ip, 3h, 2BB, 1K, 1ER 5GO, 9FO Colvin 1-3 with a run Harvey 1-2 with a run and an RBI

He came in with a 3-run lead. You've got to let him get out on the mound and straighten himself out, and if you're not going to do it in three run games, when are you going to do it.

And just like that, it's back to a 17 point game. It'll be a six or seven point game by the ten minute mark of the second half, just wait.

"This game..is ova" - Billy Packer with 7:32 left First off, this lead is not insurmountable by any means, especially with this much time left, and secondovely, what kind of announcer says that with almost 28 minutes left to go?

Notice that Snood hasn't posted yet? I bet he's freaking out right now.

"This...award...is the...award...(looks off camera) that I wanted....to win.....more than any....(looks off camera) award." Sure it is, buddy. Snood was nice and spared you all the knee injury photos, so CBS shoves some FMV up in your grill. Suck on that, ladies.

I think that would be in doubt this year. The OBP different may make up for the power difference. What if you could trade Soriano for a good young SS but still had to pay part of Soriano's contract? How much of it is too much to get rid of him? The next problem is who has an extra SS that would actually want Soriano. Soriano,Cedeno and $25 million for Khalil Greene? Soriano would still have over $100m left on his deal. I think it's safe to say that SD would laugh right in our stupid faces.

Both of those were bad, but they've got nothing on Eduardo's double compound fracture. None of them can hold a candle to the slamball player that broke his foot off

That's the worst a 23-year old Cedeno would give you. What's the worst a 25-year old Theriot would give you? Do you feel that if Theriot had played a full season at shortstop in 2005, that his numbers would have been worse than the numbers he put up in 2007? not really. he was polished in 2005; he probably would've given the same blah production that he gave last year. at this point i am just sort of hoping that theriot completely craps the bed for the next month and we can see what happens with cedeno. I disagree, but let's go back further. A 23-year old Theriot OPSd .671 at lansing and .621 in West Tenn. You think that a 25-year old Theriot would have OPSd the same (.672) in the majors. That's an improvement, no? Why isn't Cedeno capable of an improvement from his age 23 to age 25 seasons? This is what I'm talking about when I say "sticking to an irrational point for the hell of it".

That's the worst a 23-year old Cedeno would give you. What's the worst a 25-year old Theriot would give you? Do you feel that if Theriot had played a full season at shortstop in 2005, that his numbers would have been worse than the numbers he put up in 2007?

This is a pretty great post, TT. except that if you take out any player's best month, his numbers are likely to not look so hot. Take out Lee's april last year (.392/.468/.567) and he still hit 302.379/.502

Ouch. That cannot feel good. Ugh, I always get squeamish about knee injuries. Kneecap injuries sound painful. Never hurt my knee, but I cannot watch ankle injuries. I'm the same way. Sometimes I picture myself rolling my ankle and my body involuntarily jumps. Yeah, I'm that way with knee injuries. I'm not clicking that link no matter what. I was going to just post it in the thread, but I realized a lot of people would rather not see something like that. Derwood's description is right, though. Where there should be a knee cap, all you see is a deep crater. I've never seen anything like it. I can't decide if its worse than Shaun Livingston's ET knee from last year or not

Braun's such a good athlete that I would be shocked if he doesn't learn to play an adequate leftfield. But either way, Laporta is going to be ready soon, and that leaves two spots (left and first) for three people. Someone is going to have to go.

Today's game was a perfect example of the stupid overreaction of some people to four games. All it took was one game for Derrek Lee to up his average to .364 and his OPS to 1.091. Soriano and Ramirez are a hot week away from respectability. Everyone needs to chill.

Wood's stuff is filthy today

Awesome. Unfortunately Pie will never get off the bench, now.

Theriot whiffs weakly and Cedeno singles to RC, signs of things to come plzplplzplzpzlz