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Crafty Lefthander

Ohhhh Yeahhhhh

I'll have to keep an eye of Lilly's changeup now and see if he throws it inside tonight.

Cub fans cheered when YoGa got injured in Chicago. I can't remember the game, but they were probably cheering for him to be alright when he left the game with an injury. This was completely opposite.

Yeah! We need a whole lot more of that tonight Cubs! \:D/

Yeah, really. Whats that about?

Doubtful. He hit it pretty hard off the wall. It dribbled away from Braun momentarily, but I don't think it was far enough for him to advance to third.

I doubt it.

Almost....! Knock him in guys!

Let's jump all over the big guy and get some early momentum on the crew!

:-k I'm still trying to figure out if this is a good thing or not.

Actually, they do. despite my admonitions, the wife still drinks diet pop (mostly Diet Dr. Pepper), and according to the list of ingredients, it contains aspartame. I'm pretty sure all the other major diet sodas do as well. EDIT: A cursory look shows Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet Pepsi, the majority of Diet Coke and Diet Dew all still contain aspartame. Your right, my apologies. Either way, it's still extremely debatable if it is indeed harmful. I'm sure some studies say it's not harmful, while others do, but a quick scan of Wikipedia found this: (I assumed the NCI would have no hidden agenda) And while they may not help you lose weight, you certainly aren't gaining weight such as with regular soft drinks. I guess basically what I am getting at is that it may or may not be harmful, but nowadays what isn't? Some people believe that their could be a link between cancer and cell phone antennas. Hell, who knows, it's probably bad to use the "crisping sleeve" to cook my hot pocket for lunch too. The problem with trying to draw a correlation between aspartame and cases of cancer is that the evidence is fairly anecdotal. Unless you actually put together a long term, controlled experiment using human subjects (which has not been done, as far as I know), you are basing your findings on fairly flimsy evidence. Often you have to get decades out before you see illnesses that are caused by such factors. In actual lab tests (with rats), the results have been fairly conclusive. IIRC, decades ago the notion that cigarettes caused cancer was met with skepticism, and reports were published discounting the notion, mostly based on the same sort of anecdotal evidence. And if I were you, I would be far more afraid of prolonged cell phone usage than crisping sleeves (though hot pockets will make you fat). There is truth there. Yeah, this was basically my whole point, that nobody knows for sure. I've been told that in the rat experiments, the rats were exposed to huge amount of aspartame (equivalent to humans drinking 30+ diet drinks a day). You think they are unhealthy and harmful, but right now I still meet that with skepticism. I do plenty of other things that are probably unhealthy anyway. But, at least I hate talking on my cell phone :)

I would like the lineup to shape out like this: Soriano Theriot Lee Ramirez Soto Derosa Johnson Fukudome Lilly

I'm hoping today's game is the shot in the arm that this team needed (not to mention me). Go Cubs!

I'm by no means a stat or scouting genius, obviously. But, I think people seriously discredited the fact that Jeff was playing 2 major sports (one of which was in the nat'l spotlight). I'm not a Wilken apologist and I have my doubts regarding Colivn, but I think he may have nailed the "potential" in Samardzija

Hop on the Shark's back out of the pen for the rest of this season and then give him a shot at the rotation next year. This. I see no downfall riding the hot hand until this season ends. If he starts to stink up the joint then you send him down and send up ascanio/ceda/weurtz. If he somewhat keeps up this pace then you let him help the team out from the pen for the rest of the year and stretch him out next year. I see no real downfall if he sticks with the ML club this year in the pen instead of starting in the minors. Whatever potential "experience" he lost due to pitching in the pen could be offset by his role as a crucuial member on a playoff teams' bullpen.

Quality AB there by Edmonds. Well, I learned my lesson from yesterday and I'm off to drink before the cubs implode today. Hopefully Marquis can throw a CG SO.

What's the wind doing today?

Anybody else feel like Lee has hit a ton of deep flys to right lately?

Nice Quick inning by Marquis. Hopefully there are a bunch of them considering the state of the pen today.

Hank says "No soup for you"!

Do you get TBS? It's going to be on that too in case that's not blacked out. It's their game of the week. Maybe the thread title should be changed to show that as well?

Lee's OPS last 2 full seasons: 2007 - .913 2005 - 1.080 Soriano's OPS last 2 seasons: 2007 - .897 2006 - .911 I think it's safe to say that Lee and Soriano are probably going to exceed the .830 -.850 range.

Who would have seen that coming? We suck.

hahahahahahhahahahahhahahaha :banghead: