Little Slide Rooter

What the [expletive], it was 0-0, I ran into Starbucks for like 3 minutes and come back to this. Thy keep talking about a defensive mistake. What was that about?

MAYBE WE CAN TRADE HIM FOR WADE DAVIS It wouldnt be out the question if LaHair keeps hitting. We have Rizzo and they only have Pena for 1-2 years and Scott for 1 and they're system seems to hemorrhage pitching. Davis is only 26 and perhaps the change of scenery and more importantly division would do him good.I like your thinking even though the comment was clearly made in a mocking fashion.

Future perennial CY Young candidate and substance abuser.

I think I've made this comparison more times than I can count, but 3 guys in recent years who either made it to the big leagues or had their breakout season at a later age are Ryan Ludwick, Casey McGehee, and Garett Jones. Each one had 2-3 good seasons and then faded away or fell off a cliff. I think that LaHair would have somewhat in common with Ludwick, as each was once a fairly touted but not quite top prospect who broke out late. McGehee pretty much exploded out of nowhere, and I don't know too much about the Garett Jones story. LaHair definitely has the motivation to keep it up. He's a 29 year old rookie who plays a position in which the heir apparent is chomping at the bit, so he's going to have to prove that he's worth keeping around after Rizzo comes up. Also, during LaHairs Mariners minor league career, he was a 15-25 HR guy and then declined into a 10-15 HR guy, and for the style of player he was, low OBP/ high SLG 1st baseman, he'd need to be a 30-35 HR guys to distinguish himself from the pack. Now he not only seems to have developed more power but he's taking more walks, though not quite an OBP machine so who knows. He also looks a lot better at the plate than Hoffpauir and his uppercut swing and Jake Foxes swing at everything and hope you can knock a ball into orbit here and there approach.

As much as we're to take the slow starts of Szczur, Torryes, and Hernandez with a grain of salt, how about the smoking hot start of Rubi Silva? He was off to a good start last year, and then struggled when promoted. He did get a hefty $1MM bonus out of Cuba a few years ago. However, I refuse to believe that this guys 22. http://www.milb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_600975.jpg

I don't mean to be a jerk, but if you're going to copy/paste AZ Phil's posts and comments you should acknowledge that he is the source. If I'm out of line on this I'll show myself out. It's not like he's taking credit for someone elses intellectual property for personal gain. He's passing on some stats. I didn't realize we needed a bibliography.

Not losing my mind, I'm just saying IF he doesn't pick it up. I'll be very surprised if he doest end up with something silar to his 2011 line, although I'd prefer closer to '09-'10. Now I really do think that we could use some help in the pen. I'm not so sure Marmol's coming back. Baseball history seems littered with closers who had 2-3 dominat seasons and then fell off the map. Marmol's main weapon was the swing and miss, and no only is his velo down, batters have learned that if they stop swinging at his wild nastyness he'll have to throw actual strikes taking away much of his effectiveness.

Lol that's so horrible. Take away 2 brutal Wood/Marmol innings and 1 awful Maholm inning and the Cubs are 6-2. Could be 7-1 just as easily with game 3 of the Brewers series.

But the question is how sexy did he look putting up that not so sexy line?

Like I said, if the rest of these guys keep looking like a big league ball club and Byrd and Soto remain dead weight, there's only so much time before they're replaced. Dare I say: 1. DeJesus RF 2. Barney 2B 3. Castro SS 4. Rizzo 1B 5. Stewart 3B 6. Soriano LF 7. LaHair RF 8. Castillo C I don't love Barney hitting 2nd, but with Castro seemingly adapting to the 3 spot, I don't know who else.

I guess I remain alone on the Adrian Cardenas bandwagon. 1-3 and a BB. J Jax had a not awful outing going 5 giving up 5 H 2 ER 1 BB 2 K I'm thinking that he's at the point where his ceiling is a 6 starter/swing man.

They basically sacrificed his ERA to ensure that he got the W. one meaningless stat for another. I was listening to that long on the radio on the way home from work. He had 2 strikes on pretty much every batter and then they'd get him.

I hope that Byrd ad Soto are taking notice of their heir apparents Sotos is obvious. As for Byrd, the options are either thrust Jackson right in, keep Jackson in AAA and give Sappelt first crack, or call up Rizzo for 1st, move DeJesus to center, and give LaHair a look see at right.

I love it. Is it too soon for "Javi being Javi?" Javier Baez douchiness thread? Ooohhh, maybe I'll actually get to find out how I would feel about Bryce Harper if he were on my team... How long before the tasteless clothing line hits stores?

So I the rest of these guys continue to emulate a major league baseball team, and Byrd and Soto continue to be auto outs, how much time are they given? There are multiple options to replace each.

Maybe we should have done more with the whole bases loaded 0 out thing.

Could be a good time to give DeJesus or Soriano the rest of the of the afternoon of and see what LaHair looks like out there.

Random question: What ever became of Evan Crafowrd, the guy we got for Fontenot. he had a nice season for Daytona last year, and now seems to have fallen off the map. Toronto has a prospect named Evan Crawford, but he's a pitcher and more white than the other one.

When we're 10 games up in September they'll be an afterthought :D But if we miss the post season by 2 games, Kerry Wood is officially not welcome back.

LASLAM! I think I might be starting to like this team of misfits.

Iowa will need a 1B then. That's why the good lord created Rebel Ridling.

Hows Shark looking? 43 pitches through 2 isn't exactly the recipe for another 8.2 inning game, so we'll probably have to rely on the *gasp* bullpen for a few.

There must have been more tweets to him that werent posted because he later mentioned something comparing him to Hollandsworth in '04, meaning people getting too excited over him.

[expletive], I thought the little flurry of activity in this thread meant that their was some news.

The hills are alive with them.