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And now an sb

Bases juiced for a cub with reliever scahill coming in. Wow junior lake reminds me of Castro. RBI single to rf

Maybe, though the kid said he met him, and it wouldn't be easy to confuse McQueary with Sandusky. Oh, and the kid's father said that Sandusky attended a football camp in Utah last summer on behalf of Penn State: / Deadspin seems to think it is false.

Not sticking up for Dusty at all, but the scenario you just suggested is one where Mike Maddux may leave his pitcher in. He was the pitching coach for Nolan Ryan's team who was very open about ignoring pitch counts. Now would Maddux have let Prior stay out there during that inning without so much as a mound visit? I doubt it. Just saying, Maddux isn't going to make that decision based on pitch count. As someone posted, they were very good about not abusing pitchers though. So while they build up arm strength thru conditioning, Maddux isn't likely to have guys throwing 130+ pitches all the time. Yeah, Dusty had Prior throwing 120+ with regularity as a kid throwing more innings than he ever had before (not to mention after he had a collision with Marcus Giles where he landed on his shoulder). CJ Wilson went over 120 twice this year. Prior went over 130 three times in September alone, and again in his first postseason start. The big three averaged 113, 111 and 107 pitches per start in 2003 (Prior was the most), while CJ averaged 105 this year and the next two highest were at 100. Don't mistake coaches willing to build up arm strength with what Dusty did to his pitchers. He abused the crap out of them and should never be excused for his ignorance. http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/pitching/_/name/tex/seasontype/2/cat/pitchesPerStart/order/true/texas-rangers http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/pitching/_/name/chc/year/2003/seasontype/2/cat/pitchesPerStart/order/true/chicago-cubs http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/4936/year/2003/mark-prior Thanks Dusty, you despicable human being.

I'm going to go ahead and assume the kid is referring to McQueary. His face has been in the news as much as Sandusky. There's no way he was going out on recruiting trips.

if there is any place that embraces tacky and hideous, it's miami.

“He came to my last spring game going into my senior season. He liked how I moved, laterally, and how gifted I am,” said Ah Ching, ranked last year by ESPNU as the 26th linebacker prospect in the country.

espn running a breaking news ticker that mcqueary was placed on administrative leave, not sure if that's indication that they are planning on firing him eventually or just getting him away from things.

http://deadspin.com/5858414/10-things-that-are-still-happy-about-happy-valley Deadspin tries to get past the recent string of bad news by listing some still happy things about happy valley.

nice save, but the us is getting dominated

stun guns are serious business

Screw that, I want Joe Morgan in there interviewing for a job with guys who never played the game.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-bears-carimi-will-have-knee-surgery-20111111,0,5017451.story No timetable.

From blackshoediaries: So now the story is if those guys didn't go to the cops Joe had no reason to think he should have. In other words, the face of Penn State football took his cues on how to react to this situation based on how a graduate assistant reacted and since he didn't do a whole lot, Joe figured he had no reason to do much either.

Something Franceca said was about how so many people at Penn State are all about Penn State and have always been at Penn State. Unlike many schools that strive for blending outsiders into their system to bring many viewpoints, Penn Staters are all proud about how many of them have always been Penn Staters and always will be. They take pride in their insularity. I'm guessing people who have always had full control of their little island don't think too much about how things can't always be contained.

sorry, just trying to make it less confusing. how about R Day?

I'm hoping for 95%. But my guess is they will be more daring.

Hey guys there is a big game this weekend, not sure about the implications to the fashion world but the result does have a lot of implications for playoff scenarios.

losing control of a clubhouse is just a phrase thrown around after the fact to explain away underperformance. It's meaningless.

It's consistent with other reports- I think you're thrown off by the "two days after the report" portion. That is referring to two days after the Grand Jury Indictment was made public, I think. What is new to me is that it appears Paterno is trying to indicate that he stopped McQueary's story in his office with something along the lines of- "this is a big deal, you need to go to the A.D. I don't need to hear any more." That's how I interpreted it. I thought the timeline was: DDay = rape DDay+1 = McQueary tells Paterno DDay+2 = Paterno tells AD/Pres DDay+12 = AD/Pres interview McQueary This timeline appears to be similar until DDay + 2, as there is no Paterno tells anybody anything because he put his fingers in his ears and told McQueary to talk to the AD/Pres.

I think people would understand that Francona is a very well known entity to Epstein & Hoyer. Then they should know if they want to hire him before starting the process. Or they should look to see if there are better options before going back to the solid, yet not perfect candidate they are already aware of.

Reyes going to die and go to hell or something? No he's leaving the Mets.

Lots of managers I wouldn't want have won titles. Like Brenly. Ozzie. I'm kind of done with paying managers 4-5 million a year to manage. I'm content with giving Maddux a shot. Yeah, i would rather not spend much of the budget on the manager. I don't want one of the highest paid coaching staffs.

Somewhat strange bit of info. At a fundraiser for ALS research this week David Wright was honored. He was sitting at a table with Jeff Loria, and when speaking he said something to the effect of "I would like my teammate to stay to my left, but I'm not sure if that will be possible with Mr. Loria around."

I haven't understood the "chargers are super talented" theory for years now. When they had Merriman and Tomlinson at their peaks, they were super talented, but that was a while ago. They've been playing in one of the two worst divisions in the league for a decade, which has helped prop up their record, not to mention stats.