Little Slide Rooter

I don't get why you guys are so caught up in things like this. Some players/pitchers aren't championed in the minors and can develop into really good players in the majors. It happens quite often actually. I have to ask; is your screen name a tribute to Marvelous Marc or is Mark Mero your name?

Time for Bochy to pry the pull from his pitcher's..COLD DEAD HAND! Come one, somebody must have got that reference.

He's the guy who always takes it a step to far; some chick falls asleep on the frat house couch. Everyrone else draws [expletive] on her face; but not Hunter. Hunter puts a firecracker up her nose.

And am I the only one who didn't realize that the Mets have leap frogged the Nats?

I've always hated him. If anyone's ever seen the obscure but hilarious film "Dead Man on Campus," he's always reminded me of the lunatic, so I reflexively imagine him dry humping the clubhouse furniture. Anyone. who's seen the movie knows what I'm talking about. If not, they don't.

As for Jeffrey Baez, he may one day be known as the guy who forced 2 extra letters onto Javy's jersey.

Julian Aybar for DSL has a 2.02 ERA 1.00 WHiP and 5/38 BB/K through 30 IP. At 23, he's old as dirt for the DSL. Don't see many guys over 20-21 in that league, and those are the guys who have been lingering for several years. But what makes this one kinda-sorta interesting to me is that it's his first year pro. Is this someone who played pro(ish) elsewhere?

KB's ceiling is a first ballot hall of famer. His floor: Outside Cubs Convention signing autographs for $10 a pop alongside Bryan LaHair and Gary Scott at a table that they all chipped in on.

bryant is adam dunn with less pop I will stab you in your earhole. Repeatedly. it's really not a bad outcome if he's adam dunn at the plate actually it's great Adam Dunn at the plate who can play defense and run the bases? I'll take 10, please.

Leal will always, always be the answer to "Who was traded to the Cubs for Campana?" if he does nothing else. In the all new "Trivial Pursuit: Worst Edition Ever."

#20 in our MLB.com mid season prospect list. Easy to forget that he's almost 10 months younger than Zagunis, and rocking a higher level.

Well he does tweet from time to time. I think he is battling an oblique strain if I remember right. Been battling that oblique strain for some time without any updates. I would make a fat guy joke, but I can't think of any right now. Got stuck in the doorway, maybe? Nah.

Prospect is a very strong word for a guy like Francescan. This being said, he's Rule 5 eligible, and I could see him in consideration for a spot, depending on how many are available. If not, he's definitely the type that teams with a Rule 5 pick burning a hole in their pocket would take. Either way, I could see him as a serviceable middle reliever, but nothing head-bang inducing if it's not for us.

Well that was fun. If every game were to play out like that, the baseball season would be an absolute delight.

Gleyber was pulled after grounding out to the pitcher for the 3rd out. Maybe it was for lack of hustle or something. But maybe not.

Do we know whether or not Dan Vogelbach is alive?

Holy limited damage, Batman.

Don't worry. They'll walk him to set up a 2 out Arama-Slam.

Because that's something you can just do with no repercussions. Is it? Because who the hell knows, assuming the player is down with it. As I recall, a few years back when Zack Greinke came out with his social anxiety disorder, and suddenly underpermforming players such as Dontrelle Willis and Milton Bradley were coming out of the woodwork saying "oh yeah, I have that too," there was debate (I believe S.I.) over whether or not a seperate DL for "mental breaks" should be a thing. Maybe it should be. Cripes. No, I was being sarcastic. Starlin isn't going to agree to a phony injury to be shut down for 2 months in a playoff race so that someone younger and cheaper can take his job, thus ending his season with the worst numbers of his career. Plus social anxiety disorder is an actual diagnosis, and then SCS starts going on about a DL about nebulous "mental break" stints. If a player goes on the DL for something like SAD it's for actual medical reasons, not because he just needs some time to clear his head or have a timeout because they're playing poorly. And I know that it's an actual diagnosis. What I'm saying is that after he was diagnosed with it, there was a sudden slew of players who claimed to have it (don't have a link, but there was an SI article about Greinke's struggle when he was diagnosed, also featuring Willis, Bradley, Ian Snell, among others.) And with or without a diagnosis, I can understand how tremendously stressful a line of work professional sports can be. All poor multi-millionaire jokes aside, when compared to other high paid celebrities who don't have a packed arena full of drunks and meatheads mercilously booing and heckling when they [expletive] up, so who knows what kind of emotional toll it can take. And keep in mind, this is a 25 head old far, far away from home. My point is that I don't think it's unreasonable to have an inactivity list (say 5-7 days) for guys who simply need a mental break. And yes, I know.

Between Javy, Villanueva, and Olt, one of them has to be more than smoke and mirrors, right?

I find tremendous comfort in seeing Javy, Olt, and Villanueva all in Iowa's starting lineup. I figure that if there were any indication that KB would need to go on the DL, one of those three would have arrived in Pittsburgh by now.

Like Alfonso Soriano, she's serviceable, but when she's wrong, she's really wrong.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/209755/kstew-sigh-of-relief-o.gif It has since been reported that they evaluated Clayton Kershaw by mistake.

[tweet]@CarrieMuskat: #Cubs Bryant ok. Felt dizzy. Taken out as precautionary move[/tweet] Carrie Muskat is one of the most well informed and respected journalists in all of sports, is what I will tell myself since she's saying something that I really want to here.

And the Rangers actually held on this time. If anybody's bullpen is going to ruin our chances, then dammit, it better be our own.