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Can someone please tell me what Hendry was thinking when he signed this guy? It not like Gene Clines is some kind of hitting guru that can save people's careers. Aren't there enough mediocre outfielders that could hit 20 HR and .250 avg, that we could have signed to a 1 year deal? Isn't that who Burnitz is? Im sure he would have signed a 1 year deal. Why sign a crappy guy to a 3 year deal. Its sickening and every time I have to think about it, it drives me to maddness **pulls out hair** AAaarrrGGG WHY!? WHY!? WHY!?

Agreed

Are you sure that isn't the Baker kid? lol

Man that boy is uuuugly

Just got home from the Daytona game. I had a blast though it was kids day and the park was full of screaming elementary kids. Every 2 innings they played the Spounge Bob square pants song and all the kids sang at the same time, it was frightening. Also they were handing out these long plastic horns, adding to the noise. I also sat beside a 60 year old lady that had life time season tickets, apparently a few years ago they did a promotion where if you got a Daytona Cubs tattoo you got a life time seat (of your choosing) with your name plate on it. She didnt even know the name of most of the players but she rambled on and on about the games she had been to and the different promotions ect. So needless to say it was hard to follow the game at times. Pitch regognition was difficult for me from my seat behind and slightly to the left of home plate 2 rows back. I did get a chance to talk to Grant Johnson who was with a few other guys, that I assume were D Cubs pitchers as well. He was charting pitches and had a radar gun. I asked about Gallagher's fastball, which accoarding to Johnson was in the low 90s the whole game, I dont think his fastball droped bellow 90 (I watched the radar gun for half an inning myself) Grant confirmed that Gallagher is throwing the slider and I did see him throw quite a few, they looked pretty good. The HR was on a hanging curve. He threw a handful of really good curves but stuck mostly to fastballs and sliders. Gallagher has a stocky build but he's not over wieght, his body type is somewhat like Kerry Wood's, he looks strong and in good shape. Some other notes, Fox looked really good, he was playing as DH today and had a double a single and a BB, at least thats how I have it scored I may have missed an atbat in the 9th. The Mets bulpen was horrible. D Cubs bulpen was solid Hunton had a 1-2-3 8th and I was impressed with Mendez's 9th, he had 2 Ks and struck one guy out on 3 pitches. I didnt get a gun reading on Mendez but he seemed to be throwing some serious heat. The umps were horrible, I think there were 3 or 4 times when the managers came out to argue a call, and the homeplate umps strike zone seemed pretty generous. I guess these were scab umps since the minor league umps are on strike. There were only 2 umps a home plate and one behind 2nd, I have never been to a minor league game, is this pretty typical? Ryan Harvey was sporting a sad peach fuz mustache. He had a good at bat in the first when he actually took a few pitches and worked the count other wise he hacked away. I really had a blast I wish there were more 10:30 home games as I dont see myself being able to do a night game (3 hor drive). I may catch some out of town games later this summer.

I would really like to see Ronny moved up in the batting order

How so? Alou raked, but couldn't play D or run the bases. Jones can play D, can't get on base, but is fairly adept on the basepaths. Alou's bat was pretty good for the last year and a half of his contract, but before that he was extremely unimpressive. It was a bad comparison in retrospect, the DP just brought back memories of a time when Alou came to the plate witha runner at first and guess DP and you'd be right at least 50% of the time. Or at least it seemed that way.

How so? Alou raked, but couldn't play D or run the bases. Jones can play D, can't get on base, but is fairly adept on the basepaths. Im just remembering all the DP Alou grounded into, JJ is like 1/4 of the hitter Alou was.

No doubt

WoW Im so glad we have JJ he's like the new Alou *puke*

I apparently am not going to compete this year, first day of the period and Im already down by like 30 points in both games. maybe I should just trade for prospects and try and prepare for next year *sigh*

I didnt see Ardsma I have the Dodgers broadcast though. Vin Scully is awesome, he seems to know everything about everyone, he rambled off facts about Murton his entire at-bat, which wasnt long but still....

Im going to the game tommorow hopefully Gallagher is pithcing, Im really looking forward to seeing him, one of the few good prospects on that team. I wish I had gotten to see Pie while he was there.

Hey whats the Djaxx score?

Whats up with the sportsline site I cant get it to load anything league related. Anyone else having this problem?

Its fixed, thanks Tim

Tim, Markakis played his 5th game in CF today, if you could please fix his elegibility to include CF I would really appriciate it. Im going to need him especially if Edmonds misses any more games with that shoulder problem.

heh I told you, its the demon. We were lucky he kept it at bay this long. hehehe

Ah the demon that normaly controls Rusch is starting to retake control.

lol the announcers for Pittsburg just said something about "getting into our bulpen". They dont realize our bulpen is pretty good I guess. Why did Murton just watch that pitch go by without having the bat up?

It takes alot of hard work and perserverence

good ole auto-loss Rusch going tommorow so I guess we lose the series.

Eyre is good but Dusty is running him into the ground.

swung at a horrible pitch

I thought the same but I'll take it