third eye

Appropriate, but I was hoping for the other one.

HOLY FFFF'n CRAP!!!!!!

There's Theriot's contribution to the SLG end of the ledger. Nice.

It took me a while, but I finally found the movie that clip came from on YouTube. I considered it my easter egg hunt. Nicely done. Where is it from? That thing is freakin scary I don't know if I'm ready to pull OMC's cloak of mystery just yet. Still enjoying the responses to the GIF. Also, it is not much less weird in its original context.

It took me a while, but I finally found the movie that clip came from on YouTube. I considered it my easter egg hunt. Nicely done.

Wow, Fuku's got the eye and the swing put together in the early going this season. Friggin awesome.

Now I'm curious to see how Fuku looked in BP

2 BBs and a HR for Sori tonight. Not bad at all.

Koyie saved us again

Only took a little over a decade.

Hey, we've graduated from AHPS to O-P-S. Progress!

Anyone else getting a less-than-HD feed from ESPNHD? Seems kinda crappy here.

Shockingly lucid commentary. At least in relative terms.

hahah, Pat's call was so clumsy on that Homer. He couldn't believe it came of Koyie's bat.

:rotfl: ..... :shock: ...... :D) ..... :blink: ...... :rotfl: ..... :confused:

No, you are absolutely not the only one. I was about the post pretty much the same thing. This is going to sound overly dramatic, but it's like my love of baseball died last October. Sure, that always happens when my teams lose like the Cubs did, and usually the excitement comes back a few months before the next season starts. Didn't happen this year. I have no interest in buying tickets. Usually by this time I have tickets lined up for several Cubs-Cards games at Busch. I haven't even looked. I attribute some of it to my mind being on hockey, but mostly I think it's that last summer was so perfect, and the way it was ruined just makes me think I'm not read for another six month investment in these guys. EDIT: But talk to me in June. Or May. Or next week. :) I am mostly on the same ship. I think most seasons you can get really excited, because each year might be the one in which everything falls into place and the team dominates all season. Well that happened last year, and it ended just as miserably as any playoff disappointment. The the symetry of the 100 year anniversary probably added to the anticipation (yeah I know this is the wrong board for sentiment like that). This year it feels more like I have to wait out a long season to see if anything positive will happen, because it's unlikely that the regular season could be anywhere near as great as last year. Having said that, I've been checking in more freqently each day we get closer to opening day. And I'm sure within a few days I'll have a seriously vested interest again.

oh come on, this should have been a layup for you he zigged when we thought he'd zag Or MAYBE the world is as expected, but the mods added a word filter for "hack". eh?..eh?

The Marquis overpaying has been discussed ad nauseum here, but what people seem to ignore is the context. The Cardinals got 2 years of league average pitching (+) with right around 200 IP from him out of the three years he was there. Contrast this with the nightmare of relying on minor league depth to fill the injury time of Prior/Wood in 2006. I can see why overpaying, especially on a backloaded contract might have been attractive. More so when considering the fact that he expected #2 level pitching from Hill to offset the cost. Between Lilly, Hill and Marquis collectively, the resources wouldn't have been horribly spent for the middle of the rotation. Durability was the key in Hendry's mind at the time. I'm not saying it justifies the contract, but it does become more understandable as a priority given the level of contribution from the "depth" coming from the system in eating innings. Where he likely failed was in overbidding other teams at the time. Would we have been better off with Schmidt (a popular choice at the time) or Zito for way more? I just dont think evaluating the decision absent context is useful here.

The plight of the autistic trees wouldn't drive you to drink? Edit: Whoa, I thought you were referring to the caption. Just read the second comment now. Where did that come from?

No. I think his name is Jim Anixler. I like that Ricketts is a fan, I'm sure he would put money into the team, but I worry that he is a dumb fan. Dumb Cubs fans have some awful ideas about what this team needs. He seems like the best option at this point anyway. He still sounds more like a business man that a fan which is a good thing. Then again he has to be doing something right to have that net worth. Yep, it's great that he is a fan in that he's less likely to run the franchise as a cash cow. But it is more important that he is someone with great business skills. I guess that could be said about most owners, but I would hope for something closer to what the Rays current management team did. Their experience in the hedge fund industry gave them the skills to learn about a market and recognize arbitrage opportunities - the very essence of moneyball. They put the right people in place to be talent evaluators, but adopted a more forward thinking approach to making relative value judgments about the assets they had and the ones they wanted.

Not that I disagree or anything, but for what it is worth. Ryan Dempster has had two ASG appearances, which is two more than AJ Burnett and only one fewer than CC Sabathia. :shock: Are you citing this as a reason that FA market demand might have been there for him (perception) or as a reason the contract was appropriate for his production?

No way, dude. The trip he is on is too intense for my tastes.

Wow. After weeks of silence, if both Bradley and Peavy end up being on board, it will have been a pretty sweet offseason. Sounds like Levine felt pretty confident about these rumors. Did he have a different tone this time than with previous stories?

Wow, we're definitely in bizarro world when Soriano is the only one offering intelligible contributions to an interview. TTH929's comment was awesome.

Aren't we at 9 now? :confused: