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its more unlucky than anything, they are hitting the ball hard a lot of the time, yet they are hitting the balls to opposing players

evertt shouldnt have even been still up to bat

pitches catching all plate being called balls, balls a foot outside being called strikes. howry throws a great pitch which was a strike (wouldve been a K) right before he gave up the home run.

reporter, whats the worst part of the loss lou, the loss

Howry shouldve been out of that inning

lets break this wide open

YES

he dosent swing at one right down the middle but will swing at it 10 feet outside

he isint as bad as i wouldve thought

thank God

he had to think about it before he called it

yeah, bad feeling about this

nice k wuertz

how was that a strike for williams and not for lilly

that wouldve been something if the ump screwed that play up

this ump is beyond terrible

he got ahold of that

is it me or has there been a abnormal amount of foul pop ups caught for outs this year.

Houston must have acquired him solely for the purpose of pitching against us. He sucks against anyone else. he isint that good against us either, his stats would suggest

marquis and hill on wed

how the hell was than not a strike and the pitches williams had were

The whole point of this is that Wade Miller isn't going to help us win now, and Angel Guzman isn't going to develop pitching once a week in mopup duty. You're arguing a point that's not being made. And he isn't going to develop if he gets shelled back into the minors ethier. You are assuming that he will be successful. Can you take a step back and see it if he's not? He might learn more working with Rothschild on his pitching while working in the majors for a seaon then by going back and dominating AAA and not learning what it takes at the big league level. As far as pitching once a week, that comes back to a manager being able to find innings for him as I said earlier and also using him for spot starts as needed (we don't need any yet). I saw his struggles in spring, and I'm not ready to say that he's going to go into the rotation and be an instant success. I don't mind them bringing him along slowly. As far as Miller, you are speculating (though stretching a bit for one start) that he will be unsuccessful. All I'm saying as far as that goes is that one start is hard to judge. He might come out next time and really do well. Hey, lets kick Murton off the team because he's been successful in the past, but has looked like a total hack at times this year. Or how about Soriano, I mean just over .200, sheesh, there's a guy who needs to be shown the door. Even three starts isn't enough in my opinion. But you are already judge, jury, and ready to be exicutioner on Miller with only one start and are saying that three starts is some magic number for judging him. Miller suffered a fairly serious shoulder injury and lost 10 mph on his fastball. I'm not stretching anything when I say he's not going to be successful if his pitches aren't going to move. He's never been a location/movement guy. He's been a power pitcher. He no longer has any power. All of your other examples are irrelevant. Murton and Soriano aren't recovering from serious injuries and trying to change their entire approach. As far as Miller coming out an performing well, I don't care if he throws a quality start; if he's still throwing in the mid 80's and not getting any movement, he shouldn't be in the rotation. I simply do not agree with you that Guzman is the person who should have that spot. If I were to agree with you on Miller, which I am 50/50 on to be honest, then I'd say make a trade or sign someone else because I don't want to risk Guzman when he could be good for a long time to come. so when are we susposed to use him? when he is 30?

fixed you think the blues are ugly, did anyone see the dreadful camo with tan pants the padres wore on saturday night They are ugly to look at, but I respect why they are wearing them. My take on our unis is that the greys are about as drab as can be. I'd like to see a sleeveless variety to add some color to our roads. Also, bring back the navy blues! that is by far the worst idea so far in this thread

where was that because there was no way that was a ball

a quick rant about miller park They have this cheesy ghetto music playing when prince fielder comes up to bat. on the screens or whatever they are called they have "every price has his castle". i was about to steal a bat and start bashing the computers who kept playing that crap.