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Rooney is solid, but Shannon is not. But don't tell Cardinal fans this. They've got the same deal going with Shannon that we have with Santo. He's a beloved ex-player who may not be all that good at what he does, but the fans love him for nostalgic reasons more than anything else. Personally, I think the guy's an idiot because he intentionally mispronounces Maddux's name, always saying Maddox. Drives me nuts. Avatar is kind of HUGE, yo

No way, Meche is the second-coming of George Brett, in pitcher form! Heh. Now if the Royals can find a manager..... Buddy Bell = Dusty Baker. Yeah, what gives, they could have the real thing!

Yeah, May 18, 5 IP, 4 Runs/all earned, 0 BB's, 6 k's, 3 dingers.

And your basis for this is what? Still waiting.... I think that might have been sarcasm. I dont think it was. If I recall hes posted on here before about Zambrano. I believe it dealt with saying Sheets was far and away a better pitcher than Z coming into the season. Now that's just silly.

Them wanting Eyre might be a deal-breaker though.

Only jerks think about themselves. What a selfish jerk. I think this is when Sammy Sosa says, "Who's Josh Towers?"

awesome link, but think you meant this for another thread :lol: Soon you thread nazis are going to want everything posted where it is being talked about and not in random threads in different forums. It disgusts me. Lets remain on topic here, folks. Anyone seen Grindhouse? Awesome.

And your basis for this is what? Still waiting.... I think that might have been sarcasm.

Pie scores runs with his glove, nerd.

Also, at the end of the column, I won't miss that guy when Conan takes over next year.

Not much, there are several outfielders on the block, according to Stark. I think Jones will probably be here for a while, but I wouldn't mind seeing him gone.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, if it is, forgive me. From Jayson Stark via Al Yellon

Yes, the South Side is a bastion of temperance. True-blue-blood Chicagoans, those South Siders.

No way, Meche is the second-coming of George Brett, in pitcher form!

I really wish this season wasn't over. :roll:

Exactly.

Boy, the more they happen, the more I hate off-days. Hopefully the Cubs can use these next two series to, not only turn around their record as a whole, but to turn around their home record a bit. Wrigley has not been nice to this team.

Some dude named Glen Ballard wrote the songs, not Alanis. I'm not hating, I'm just saying. I got nothing against Alanis Morissette as a person. Chill 'dude who's connected to the music industry'.

Some dude named Glen Ballard wrote the songs, not Alanis.

that was huh-----larry-us a---rugala That was hys----terical

Yes.

Does the segment end with Michael Barrett punching him in his ugly mug?

I wasn't referring to the lyrics, I was referring to the title.

=D>

Sheets is still struggling with his mechanics right now. He has been leaving his curveball up in the zone and has not had his usual pinpoint control. He said he figured it out midway through the start against St. Louis and finally felt like the old Sheets. Whatever that means. Expect his K rate to go up when the weather starts becoming warmer and more humid. Sheets loves throwing his curveball in high humidity. Hopefully he figured it out a little bit in his last start, but he has not been super sharp as of yet. As far as using the Cardinals series as a gauge of the Brewers, that was not my point. I was just saying how a few games that are blowouts really effects the overall run differential of a team. The Brewers hadn't really blown anybody out before the Cards series, but had been blown out 3 times. It just evened things out to where the numbers should be. The Brewers are a good team and a totally different team from past years. People need to realize it is more than just luck that they are winning games. Once St. Louis can put the whole Hancock thing behind them a little bit, you will realize that they are not that good of a team. It's convenient to use a teammates death for poor play, but it would inspire me personally to try to win even harder in his honor. You can play that card only so long. It's tragic yes, but don't use it as an excuse to say that the Brewers aren't a good team for sweeping the Cards just because they were in mourning. The Cubs had beaten them twice before the death of Hancock. The Cards are simply not playing good baseball right now. I would say that the Cubs are the most serious threat to the Brewers this year, especially if Lilly and Marquis continue to pitch as well as they have and Soriano starts to play like he is capable. It should be an interesting finish. The Astros and Cardinals lineups don't scare me and the Pirates are where the Brewers were a year or two ago. I hope teams keep thinking that "well it's the Brewers so they can't possibly be a good team and keep this up" because they will simply be overlooking a very capable team with no glaring weaknesses. No glaring weaknesses? None. He has a point, the Brewers are a capable team. I'm not going to get into a battle of weaknesses, and obviously I am biased, but I think at the end of the day, the Cubs are a better team, on paper, than the Brewers. If this doesn't flesh itself out over the season like many of us are hoping it will, than in the end there is no other conclusion that the Brewers were the better team this year. But they do have weaknesses that seem pretty obvious, and while they've played better than the Cubs thus far, they haven't played that much better to conclude that they're the 'team to beat' in the central, mostly because I don't believe that there is a team to beat in the central. It's up for grabs.