Mephistopheles

velos way down iirc

did florida set the record for fewest picks for a national championship team? only two for the gators this year, unless you count CI, though CI didn't play a down this year and that makes all of three.

now thats a bad idea.

its also too early to take the cardinals seriously.

well its the fighters, not the ham fighters. ham fighters would be an awesome name. right out of a japanese anime.

How much do you guys wanna bet the TLR bitches about how the Cubs treated Pujols today?

He should have been DL'ed to begin with. Yep.

we can only retroactively DL him back to yesterday. He wouldn't be eligible to come off until May 9th.

He hit last April, too. I just hope he keeps it up all year. Not like this. KF has seem to adjusted to the style of pitching here. He's learning how to hit pitchers who predominately try to get hitters to hit the ball on the ground. Last year he hit the ball on ground 50.6% of the time. That's what you expect from guys who beat the ball onto the ground and trying to run fast, like Fred Lewis, Michael Bourn and Willy Taveras, not someone who is expected to hit for league average or better power. The same thing happened to Hideki Matsui his first season here. His GB rate in 2003 was 54.7%. I believe he led the league in groundballs. Unsurprisingly, after the transition season Matsui became more of a nuetral GB/FB hitter like you would expect someone who has a power slanted game. Matsui's GB% dropped to 40.9% the next year, a HUGE HUGE drop. As a result he double his power output. Similarily, so far this year KF's GB% has dropped to 34.1%, which is around where Alfonso Soriano usually is. Unsurprisingly, he's been a hell of a lot more productive.

When did he stop hitting? He's reached base every single game that he's started except for opening day. Hes reached twice in all but three of the games he's started this season.

well they did win 86 games last year.

everyone in the league has at least twice as many home runs as they do. everyone.

Is any offense terrible facing Todd Wellemeyer?

God Reed Johnson cannot hit righties to save his life.

remember when soto could hit a baseball?

now we are probably better with gathright in over johnson right now.

cotts and patton would miss though

Strangely enough, I don't have much of a problem with this idea. Guys are two-way players in college; why not do the same thing in the majors? /not serious casey kellys playing both ways.

soriano doesnt get hit too often.

Z for LF!

what the hell was derrek lee injured? wtf...

alright rich those are your three runs for the game, better make them count.

whats this none circular thing next to the Cubs on the scoreboard? It can't possibly be actual runs scored, can it?

sigh

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