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I wonder if he's having issues adjusting to a new routine. Pitching every 5th day, and how he works between outings is completely new to him.

Given the situation, he probably wasn't high at the time. Simply b/c of the timeframe of leaving the stadium, heading out to Shannon's, and then going to a diff. spot, he would've had to light up in the car. They'll prob. find pot in his system just not from that night. People light up in cars all the time, as well as in the parking lot before pulling out. I don't know many people who keep weed on them who don't take every chance to smoke it. It was in his rental car, that he had just gotten a couple days before. In my experience, the people who have weed with them in a car, will not hesitate to smoke, especially once they're already buzzed. I would be surprised if he hadn't smoke some. That would be the only way, he couldn't light it while driving. Sure he could have. It isn't a difficult procedure. In fact, it would make a lot of sense to explain the crash. It's definitely not out of the realm of possibility that he smoked while driving.

My guess is most people remember seeing he had a 600 OPS earlier in the year, and they figure he's just hitting the occasional HR and nothing else, and haven't seen the numbers recently.

Given the situation, he probably wasn't high at the time. Simply b/c of the timeframe of leaving the stadium, heading out to Shannon's, and then going to a diff. spot, he would've had to light up in the car. They'll prob. find pot in his system just not from that night. People light up in cars all the time, as well as in the parking lot before pulling out. I don't know many people who keep weed on them who don't take every chance to smoke it. It was in his rental car, that he had just gotten a couple days before. In my experience, the people who have weed with them in a car, will not hesitate to smoke, especially once they're already buzzed. I would be surprised if he hadn't smoke some.

Minor league free agent signing during the winter. Yeah, he's going to turn 25 this year and he's back in AA after 2.5 years of doing nothing in AAA (actually, his first exposure to AAA was good, but it's been all downhill since). He did well in AA, at 22 in 2004, but his overall minor league numbers are bad.

Wow this was an incredibly stupid post. If what Sammy is doing is looking bad, I'd love to see some Cubs outfielders do that. Agreed. Watching the Rangers this year seeing Sammy come up is always a delight. Just went to MLB.com and looked at some of Sammy's highlights including opposite field doubles as well as HRs. If that's looking terrible... He did indeed start out looking terrible. But he's been very hot for quite a while now and his overall numbers are more than acceptable.

Claimed off waivers from Arizona Diamondbacks, 1/6/06 by Phillies, not sure how he got to the Cubs.

The thing about a 4.50, at this point, is that he'd probably have to pitch to nearly a 5.00 ERA the rest of the way to get up that high, assuming he throws 200 innings this year. That means he'd pretty much suck from here on out. I don't think I would have been "happy" with a 4.50 ERA, going into the season. Although if you offered me that I may have taken it. I think I would have been happy with a 4.10-4.20 ERA though. And to get to that he'd have to spend the rest of the year around 4.70.

Or perhaps you should consider yourself lucky by not exposing the kids to the potential pain of being both a Cubs and Royals fan.

If not, they are very easy to find. But the Cubs have Soriano for 8 years. They have Pie and Murton. They have Floyd this year, and possibly next. They've got Colvin in the minors as well. The best thing for this current team is probably keeping Jones in center, with Floyd and Murton splitting time in right (and Pie in the minors). But I won't complain if they make a decent trade of Jones and keep Pie in center. In your mind, what would be a decent trade? Ideally he's packaged with other things for a better player. But that's unlikely. I guess, in general terms I would say a decent prospect. Not necessarily somebody with a ton of upside, but a guy who could contribute in the next couple years, sort of like what Matt Murton was when the Cubs got him.

If not, they are very easy to find. But the Cubs have Soriano for 8 years. They have Pie and Murton. They have Floyd this year, and possibly next. They've got Colvin in the minors as well. The best thing for this current team is probably keeping Jones in center, with Floyd and Murton splitting time in right (and Pie in the minors). But I won't complain if they make a decent trade of Jones and keep Pie in center.

Re: Wild Card situation, it's compounding the problem by giving the 6th best team that shot at the world series. I fail to see a problem. Most sports allow more than 6 teams per league. People forgot that baseball has doubled in size the past half century. It makes no sense to continue to limit the number of teams that have a chance at the world series. Teams have to have a shot in order to thrive. The kicker with my plan, however, is that it would actually improve the chances that the best teams end up winning. There's 4 division winners, 2 in each league. Then 4 more WC teams for a total of 8 teams. That's 25% of the league qualifying for the playoffs, compared to 53% in basketball and hockey, and 37.5% in the NFL. So it's still quite an exclusive club. But you emphasize, and reward, winning your division by forcing the 2 best WC teams to host the 2 lesser wild card teams, in a one game playoff. The winner of that series then has to go on the road to play a 3-1-1 series against the division winner. This forces WC teams to win an extra playoff game to advance, and forces them to win on the road. The division winners get to rest an extra day, and play at home for the first 3 games. That increases their chances of winning, with the added bonus of increasing the team's revenues. The WC winner today is only guaranteed 1 home game. In this system they are still guaranteed 1 home game. The "extra" wild card teams today have no guarantee of hosting a game, but in this situation they can if they win at least 2 road games first. Bottom line is the fight for the regular season division crown will be much more important, as the "consolation" prize of winning the wild card will be no picnic. But this also opens up a shot at the playoffs for more teams. And if the the 5th or 6th seed does advance to the world series, it will have done so after being forced to win that one playoff game on the road, and then overcoming the odds of playing the division winner three straight on the road, and coming out victorious in at least 3 road games out of 6 total games. Yes, anything can happen in a short series. But if you have to play that playoff game, you've got to burn a starting pitcher, which puts you at an immediate disadvantage. Plus you have to travel to the WC host, and then to the division winner while they rest.

Yankees followers have been clamoring for their pitching staff to start hitting guys, don't think for a second this was an accident.

Wow this was an incredibly stupid post. If what Sammy is doing is looking bad, I'd love to see some Cubs outfielders do that.

1-year deal? Bummer, I was hoping he'd return.

awesome link, but think you meant this for another thread :lol: I like it here though, I say it stays.

My favorite part: 12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!

A couple of months? I know a baseball season is kind of long, but come on. I'm still trying to figure out how a baseball team learns to win with each other. So Derrek, you like hitting the ball that way and think I should run around the bases when you hit it. That's cool, we did that differently in Washington, but I'll figure it out. Hey Carlos, I think we need to figure out which days you plan on giving up lots of runs and which days you'll give up just 1 or 2, so we can adjust our offensive strategy accordingly.

OK, now that is impressive. Although I do think a few of those trades were made on sheer publicity more than what he had to offer. That was the point. It was all about what would be more valuable to the individual. It's called value added.

Did Everett actually get to punch Rome? I thought he just shoved him and the table down. If he did get to punch him, then Everett is the clear winner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVxitMy47c There was no punch, nor was there a shove. It was staged. He goes for the table before Rome says it the last time. He can hardly keep himself from laughing. This clip made Rome's career.

There will be expansion within the next 10 years. And I'm looking forward to it. 16 teams in each league will help do away with some of the weird schedule issues. Plus, they can go back to 2 divisions in each league, 8 and 8, going with two wild cards. At that point I'd strongly consider having the two wild card teams being forced to host a one game playoff against the next two best teams before going to the division winners, thus putting a greater emphasis on winning your division.

as a premium subscriber I know you can turn off a lot of that stuff.

Same here. I think the best thing to hope for is quality starts for most of the rest of the year. He is bound to have an implode game at some point, I just folks don't go nuts on him after one such bad game. Yeah, he'll go out there one day and won't have the control or the movement and get tagged up pretty good. The key will be coming back after. Kind of like what Lilly needs to do now that he's had his first crushing. Lilly didn't really get crushed though. Sure he gave up 9 hits and 4 ER in less than 6 complete. But he maintained a 5/1 K/BB ratio and a couple of those hits were bunt hits, while 2 of the runs scored because of Izturis's incompetence.

While we're talking about this stuff, the last place Yankees are 10-14, but "should" be 13-11, as they've scored a ton of runs and gone 1-5 in 1 run games. I'm hoping like heck that they're real record doesn't catch up to that expected record, because I would love an October without Yankee baseball.

We're a few months into a contract that lasts a few years. I'm not eating anything until we're a little further down this path. Absolutely. But I'd be more than happy to start looking for recipes. better serve up some of that for yourself too goony. maybe add a side helping of theriot not starting to go along with marquis. Huh? I'm saying I've been wrong so far. As for Theriot, I wanted him starting, out of all Cubs SS options. What I've said about him is that I think the odds aren't in his favor to be an everyday guy, all season long.