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i trust him to throw 92 mph batting practice every time he goes out there.

i have terrible matchups for my pitchers and i have to face two harden starts. could be the end of my seven game win streak.

what

dreaming about the cubs is one thing, this is something entirely different.

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

both my fantasy teams are thinking about filing a similar grievance. he hasn't allowed a run in his last three starts (20 innings).

you're welcome. good trade for both of us. you got a top 10ish, exempt 2b, and i got a catcher. besides, for a while you had THREE catchers in your lineup!

could be some upsets due to the short week. hopefully my fifth (sixth?) catcher of the year will be the charm.

Uggla will be the most hated man in Chicago (NS), New York (Mets), Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami, St Louis, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (Dodgers). Those are the home cities of the 8 teams with the most legit shot at reaching the playoffs, thus with a shot at the WS too. i really don't think any of those teams' fans will remember or care about what uggla did in the all-star game.

man, you guys get fired up about the ASG.

aside from all the errors, his defense has been great. damn you, arod, for buying stuff.

Yeah, let's have 100 all stars a year!! Absurd. They had pitchers go 15 innings. There are regular season games where managers are on their last pitcher in the 15th. There was no problem. The all star game probably won't go 15 for another 20 years, no reason to make changes based on the worst case scenario. like they did after the tie a few years ago.

it's funny how literally NO ONE thinks it should determine home field. not the players, not the fans, not the commentators, not the writers...no one. were people really that upset about the tie? i would think the only people who cared about that would be crusty old timers who woke up the next morning (they certainly didn't stay up that late the night before) and shook their fist at a cloud because games shouldn't end in a tie and in his day warren spahn threw 16 innings in an all-star game or whatever.

well, i'm right. no one called him a bum...someone just said he was overrated.

yeah, because everyone said he was a bum.

come on...they played 15 innings of absolutely evenly matched baseball. i don't think you can make any definitive statement about either league based on that.

Or you could look at it like I had the opportunity to do the same, and I failed as well. I hate having Adam back in the race. I'd love to see him miss the playoffs. I knew you were gonna lose before I knew I was gonna lose though. I thought I had a legit shot to win with the Mets night game, until Sabathia came out for the 9th (3Ks, CG for an extra 10 points) and Lincecum came out for the 8th. Both were over 100 pitches before their final innings. I just want to let it be known that I took you both down ;-) but you couldn't take me down. :twisted: thanks though for taking those other guys down.

i'm sure the 100 pitches sherrill threw last night will lead to good things in the 2nd half. also, i hope uggla can put his all-star game disaster behind him. wow.

Thank god he's not involved in any trade rumors amen. this royals guy is gonna blow it. nothing like a pitcher from the royals costing the AL home field in the WS.

selig is SWEATING it right now.

that would be hilarious.

whew...i need uggla's psyche intact for my second half fantasy push.

wow, i thought that throw was going in the third row.

it's pretty obvious that whether it be brett favre, yankee stadium, josh hamilton, or whatever...a lot of people on this board don't want to hear about anything on sportscenter other than the chicago cubs.

to protect your kids? no, I usually don't take the kids. a 5 and 2 year old tend to get bored after about 1/2 an inning so why do you bring it? i'm not making fun of you (in this thread, at least), i just don't understand the psyche of a gloved baseball fan. I used to have season tickets for the local Short-A minor league team. My seats were 3 rows behind the 3rd base dugout, so a lot of foul balls (both liners and pop ups) headed our way. Again, I hardly bring one anymore, I just don't understand why someone shouldn't. The only reason I've heard is "it's not impressive to catch a ball with a glove" and "because it's dumb" i guess my reason would be because it's not a very...i don't know, "grown up" thing to do? i mean, if you want you can put a quarter in those rides outside of the grocery store and ride them when you're 33 years old you can, and i guess my reasoning for why you shouldn't would be something along the lines of "because it's dumb." so if you're looking for something beyond that, i don't know what to tell you. it just seems like an odd thing for a grown up to do simply because i find it strange that a grown up would care about getting a foul ball. I don't really care, which is why I don't bring it much anymore. that said, the people who are catching the foul ball with their bare hands are still catching a foul ball, so how are they any better (per your P.O.V.?) i mean, a ball is flying toward you...what are you supposed to do? i don't think those people are going to the game thinking "oh boy, i'm going to catch a foul ball" like people who bring their glove apparently are. it's not even really comparable.