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That's so ridiculous. I wonder if the Cubs would toy with the idea of bring of Jay Jackson from Tennessee if Demps is going to be out a while. He's been outstanding in AA. Assuming they send him down, that's unnecessarily burning an option. Between Hart, Samardzija and Marshall they have plenty of guys to choose from.

More like: DUI early Thursday morning Buy illegal gun during the day on Thursday Kill McNair early Saturday Looks like after the DUI, McNair wanted to take a break or end it all. However she had second thoughts. Pretty good how all of us can pretty much figure out what happened here, yet the police are mum and saying that they are having a hard time coming up with a motive. Certainly they can't be serious. All I can't think is that they must be holding off on opining due to the fact that you can't prove that the girl was a whackjob. Even though all indications of that(and a murder suicide) are there as plain as day. Seriously....Anyone with any kind of sense whatsoever can see that this is a real life Fatal Attraction. They don't have the luxury of being anonymous message board posters. They have to deal with facts and the law. What's the point of rushing their findings?

Retroactive to last game played is standard operating procedure. Why make the point that it won't be retroactive?

That makes zero sense. It's almost automatically retroactive. Even if they don't THINK he'll be ready before 15 days from today there's no reason not to at least have the flexibility. If they made it retroactive to that date they couldn't recall Hart because he was on the roster July 3rd. They want Hart and they know it will be at least 15 days for Demp so they made it active from today. I wasn't aware of that rule concerning Hart. That makes a difference. But it doesn't make sense. You aren't making Hart's callup retroactive, just the DLd player. It's 2 seperate moves. If they wanted they could turn around and send Hart down and call somebody else back up.

Only 6 games before the ASB. Maybe, maybe not. If Demps needs more than the retroactive 15 day stint, then we may need to do something. I suspect he's thinking of the likelihood of the bullpen getting taxed the next couple of days. With Z pitching on short rest tonight and Hart pitching tomorrow they'll be lucky to average 5 innings per starter. Yeah, that's my point. With Harden an unknown at this point, Zambrano rushing to fit in 2 starts before the ASB and Hart or whoever starting the other game, these are likely to burn through a lot of relievers the next 6 games.

I have to imagine they will consider going back to 12 pitchers very soon.

10/5. He probably realizes the Canadian $ is worth more than the American and its worth staying an extra year and a half ;-). It's not 2007 anymore.

You'd think it'd be better that it's the Right toe rather than the left toe (his push off foot). Where the hell did this come from anyways? Wouldn't his right foot be his push off foot? Maybe I'm using "push off foot" incorrectly as I'm referring to his lead foot but I guess there is strain put upon the foot that toes the rubber as well. A righty pushes off with his right foot and lands on his left. I'm not too concerned about performance tonight with Z on short rest, but I am worried about longterm implications.

How can you possibly suggest I'm refusing to consider the details of the situation?

You have serious issues. I don't understand why you would get so worked up over this move. The point is there was a little benefit of using a PH there and a little benefit of letting them think Wells was pitching that inning. They more or less cancel each other out. Lou decided to go with the latter option. Personally I'd have probably PH for him there. The point is this wasn't simply a Dusty thing where he clearly just didn't think 2 steps ahead and therefore wasted an opportunity. In all the crappy decisions that the decision makers for this organization have made, this just doesn't register.

As much as I'd love to have Yunel Escobar, he's not expensive contract-wise so I can't imagine they'd give him up for just prospects. We'll have to come up with some kind of a legit ML bat to give them and we're not exactly overflowing with them. Why are the Braves even considering trading Escobar? He has decent #s including hitting over .400 w/risp this year. No idea. I wouldn't trade him if I were them. A post in another thread (which I can't find now) said something about Cox being either frustrated or fed up with him. His line is .297/.360/.436/.796 and he has 43 rbi, 17 dbls and 7 hrs to go w/22 walks and only 30Ks in 273 abs. Does he have off field trouble? Do the Braves have another ss prospect ready to take over?? I vaguely remember hearing something about them thinking he plays SS lazily.

There may be some here talking about the "lead off" position as it applies to batting first...however, there are many others who understand that the higher you are in the line-up, the more at-bats you get. A player who is in a dreadful slump, should get less at-bats in a game. Thank you. The more PA you get, plus the more opportunity you get to have guys on base for guys who are actually hitting.

You don't have to be all that smart to be considered a genius amongst a group of professional baseball players.

Over 100 points of OPS difference (Franco v LHP - Blanco v RHP). And Blanco has 1 career HR, so the chance of him getting lucky and parking one was pretty low. A solo HR wouldn't have exactly killed the Cubs there. Neither would Gregor Blanco. No, but that's not the point. They were bringing in Marshall. If they wanted to keep Blanco, fine, if they wanted to use both guys, fine. Either way, they benefitted from waiting to pull Wells, and probably would not have benefitted from using a PH.

Over 100 points of OPS difference (Franco v LHP - Blanco v RHP). And Blanco has 1 career HR, so the chance of him getting lucky and parking one was pretty low. A solo HR wouldn't have exactly killed the Cubs there.

I'm not ignoring anything. I believe the point of the move was getting the Braves to burn through their bench quicker moreso than saving the Cubs bench. Had Wells hit for himself, but never went out to the mound, yes, that's pretty stupid. But that isn't what happened. I take issues with much of what these guys do, but I don't see the point here.

You don't need a bidding war to beat $3 million per year for a second-pairing defenseman, let alone one with youth and potential. You would for a restricted free agent. There's a huge difference between a RFA and a UFA.

It's getting very old.

I'm going by what the beat writers are suggesting: Interestingly, his cap hit was $2.4 million last year because of bonuses he didn't reach. The minimum qualifying offer was about $1.1 million, but there was no way he was taking that. The going rate for young defensemen as good as he is is a lot more than that. As a RFA he didn't have a lot of choice. Somebody actually had to offer more for him to get it. As a soon to be UFA due to incompotent management, that road block cleared. Teams weren't throwing money around like mad, and there were no indications there was a bidding war for him.

stop saying cargo

Why? When was the last time he put together back to back very good seasons? He's an inconsistent soon-to-be 33 year old pitcher who can get hit hard quite frequently. The only thing inconsistent I'm seeing from Vazquez is his ERA. He's had very good K:BB ratios, more than 200 Ks, low HR/9, and high K/9 over the past few seasons. And he's very hittable, plus he's 33 already. He's been a nice pitcher, but trading Fielder anywhere close to straight up for him would be a horrible idea. The prospects would have to be very significant to even up that deal of a pre-prime hitter for an aging pitcher, both of them signed through next year, with Vazquez making $1m more.

I'm going by what the beat writers are suggesting:

We know how they handled it, the NHLPA filed a grievance. An arbitrator will decide. The fact that they paid Barker more than he should have gotten if he was still really just a RFA leads me to believe the Blackhawks think Versteeg has a great case and will likely become an UFA. As an UFA, I don't think the Blackhawks would be due any compensation if Versteeg signed elsewhere. That would be a huge loss. I'm pretty sure Barker would have gotten that much, at minimum, as an RFA. Even though it didn't look like anybody was prepared to go after him?

Why? When was the last time he put together back to back very good seasons? He's an inconsistent soon-to-be 33 year old pitcher who can get hit hard quite frequently.

I think saving your bench guys for better situations than 2 out nobody on and forcing Cox to burn 2 of his bench guys is at least arguably as good as just going ahead and pinch hitting there. Agreed. If Gregg would have blown that game, we would have had a full complement of bench guys to pinch hit, pinch run, double switch, and whatnot. If we were only up by 1 run, then, ya, a solo HR would have made a big difference, but with a 2 run lead, I think Lou actually made a decent non-move. We'd rather give up an out in a 2-run game on the off chance that we blow the lead and also need 6 bench guys in the remainder of the game, then try to add to the lead when you're taking the pitcher out right away anyway? As I said, if Lou had left Wells in because Wells on 87 pitches v. Blanco is better than Marshall v. Francoeur, fine. That makes some sense to me. But giving up an out to save all 6 bench guys with a 2-run lead is pretty dumb. We weren't starting the getaway day lineup. All the regulars started. So other than Fontenot (and maybe Fukudome) against a LHP, you're not taking any of the starters out for a PH. So you're worried about having to use Baker for Fontenot and the lineup coming around to the pitcher 4/5 more times from the 7th inning on? I don't like to hold my bench of the off chance we blow a 2-run lead in 3 innings and end up in a 20-inning marathon. Scoring after a 2 out nobody on situation using a pinch hitter might be as much of an "off chance" as blowing a 2-run lead. And it forced the other team to use 2 pinch hitters. Had their been a man on and the same thing occured, I'd be upset with the decision. But from what I recall they appeared ready to use a PH if somebody got on base.