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good relief outing from our old pal bobby brownlie...4 1/3, 2 h, 1 r. i may just have to come around on marmol pretty soon...

so the pads lose two of their top 10 prospects AND add joe randa AND add sidney ponson AND send burroughs to the minors AND have to send eaton to the bullpen? awesome day to be a padre fan.

If you ask me, we're still in playoff contention. I think Hill's got a major-league curveball and had a few good innings up here, but I don't want an experiment-player for 5 starts if we're contending...I'd rather let Mitre get back out there, because he's young, but we've seen what he's capable of already. which is exactly why i'd rather see hill out there. i've seen what mitre's capable of...and i'm not impressed. hill had a rough outing the other night, but before that he'd rattled off quite a few great starts in a row.

patterson 0-2 (no k's) so far for iowa. iowa only has one hit, and leicester is getting hit hard. 6-0.

he's not juan pierre, as much as some people would like him to be. i'd rather have him 'trying to pound the ball' than have him check swinging and slapping at the ball just trying to avoid a strikeout. if he's only trying for homers, fine, maybe that's a problem. but trying to hit hard line drives for doubles is pretty much the point of hitting.

oh, man, why hasn't anyone suggested this yet?? brilliant!! seriously, don't you think that if it was something this simple, they'd have done it by now? and i seriously doubt that wood is enjoying these trips to the DL...i'm sure he's 100 times more frustrated than the fans. of course, no matter how many times a level headed person makes a post like this, there will still be 100 other people who say that wood is a wimp, stubborn, stupid, etc...so why do i bother??

rich hill please.

that's probably true. hopefully if corey continues to show progress, they won't have that problem for much longer. also, i forgot to mention that kelton continues to impress me. i've never been a big fan of his, but the dude has really hit in the games i've seen lately. he rarely looks bad at the plate. tonight he got down two strikes real quick, but he didn't fall apart...smoked a rbi basehit into left center. he also flew out to fairly deep right center earlier in the game...did a real good job of going w/ an outside breaking ball. he looked fine at 1b tonight as well. Good for David! I don't think it's a big surprise that I would be rooting for him! FWIW Vince Coleman and Oneri were at the games today and I would like to think that they will be there tomorrow. With that being said I think I'll try to get to the game. oneri was in des moines on friday. vince will probably tell you that you're the michael jordan of scheduling chats. :D

that's probably true. hopefully if corey continues to show progress, they won't have that problem for much longer. also, i forgot to mention that kelton continues to impress me. i've never been a big fan of his, but the dude has really hit in the games i've seen lately. he rarely looks bad at the plate. tonight he got down two strikes real quick, but he didn't fall apart...smoked a rbi basehit into left center. he also flew out to fairly deep right center earlier in the game...did a real good job of going w/ an outside breaking ball. he looked fine at 1b tonight as well.

yeah, why don't you do something around here for once? :D It's all good, just having fun. I am hoping to hear from Jeff before long. Have you noticed more media since CPatt is there? maybe a little bit. there were certainly more people there over the weekend than usual. should have sent him to WT to have him work w/ joshua and to boost their attendance. have you been in contact w/ the i-cubs the way you have w/ the other teams?

yeah, why don't you do something around here for once? :D

hill just didn't have it tonight. don't know if it was the heat (heat index was 105 at game time) or what. his velocity was down in the 87-88 range (according to iowa's gun, which is slow...he's typically at 90 on that gun) and he couldn't get a feel for his hook. they just sat on his fb because he couldn't get the hook over. i don't think he threw a hook for a called strike until the third, when he actually threw a couple good ones. i think most, if not all, of the hits he gave up were on the fb. he could have gotten out of a bases loaded, no out jam in the second (?), but mcclain botched a grounder that could have been a 5-2-3 dp...he did get the out at first, but a run scored. also, i'm pretty sure he was throwing the cutter tonight. he had quite a few 83-84s that didn't seem to be fastballs. and they were mostly thrown in to righties. he certainly doesn't have it mastered, but he did get some weak fouls with it, and one infield pop up where he got in delgado's kitchen pretty bad. he has no problem throwing inside, that's for sure. i used to think he just had a lot of hbp because he was wild, but his two hbp's tonight were just him throwing inside. patterson looked fantastic in his first two ab's. a beautiful bunt to first in his first ab....it was so cute watching the 1b try to outrun him to the bag. he then stole second very easily and scored on mcclain's deep double. in his second ab, he took three balls (one was just off the corner), took a strike and then parked a 3-1 fb over the rf fence...line shot. his third ab wasn't as good. took a ball before really opening up on a pitch on the outside corner, trying to pull it. he popped out to shallow rf. i left after hill came out, so i didn't see the rest of his ab's. it was pretty damn hot at the game, but i had great seats...second row, right behind home plate. i had better seats than leicester and koronka. :D

i don't understand why people continue to assume that patterson's attitude sucks. macias is a terrible player, does that mean his attitude is bad? you can be struggling on the field and not be a jerk. fyi, patterson has signed autographs at all three i-cub games i've been to in the past week. so, not only is he the best signed on the big league club, but he's the best signer on the AAA squad as well.

i've been to three games in des moines since he's been there, and the fans have been overly enthusiastic in their support for him. he gets by far the biggest ovation, and they cheer everything he does. i'm not saying that you're wrong, i'm just passing on what i've seen in the past week.

Go see Hustle & Flow by yourself. eh, not interested in seeing that. looks cheap. if i go to the game tonight, i will be going by myself if that makes you feel any better. Psh, even Rocket got a date. well played. my wife did go w/ me on friday...and she watched me (note that i didn't say 'let me') spend $200 on hill's jersey...so she deserves a night off.

Yes. Luis Montanez with a 1-out walk. easy for you to say...what is it, 74 degrees for the 495th day in a row in california today?

Go see Hustle & Flow by yourself. eh, not interested in seeing that. looks cheap. if i go to the game tonight, i will be going by myself if that makes you feel any better.

the heat index is supposed to be 104 in des moines tonight at 6 pm...do i like watching rich hill pitch that much?

i hope dubois gets an extended chance in cleveland. i would liked to have seen what he could have done during the past few weeks against this run of crappy lefties the cubs have faced. i still think dubois would outproduce murton over the course of an entire season...his slugging alone makes him a better option. and murton won't keep getting bloop and infield hits all year. not that it really matters, but, in my opinion... dubois > murton gerut > hollandsworth dubois > hollandsworth so, i think our best lf option is gone, though it's not like he's head and shoulders above everybody else. and he is far from the best option out there. i hope this means dunn, though i'd be surprised.

quite a comeback for the i-cubs... boy, has leicester had a rough time since being sent back down...

thanks for the concern, guys. the smell has improved. i just hung it up to let it air out over the weekend, and it's much better now. if you get up close to it, you can smell it, but since i don't do that too often, i can live with it.

that reminds me...oneri was in des moines the other night when hill was on the mound.

pics of the hill jersey... http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3435/1000573aut4vj.jpg http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8893/1000574aut7lh.jpg

that's a good score! get anything else? Vance got an Iowa team signed bat. I also bought a ceremonial first pitch and my friend bought lunch with Ribbee. :lol: lunch w/ the mascot sounds brutally awkward. they had a pretty sweet iowa team signed helmet at the iowa game the other night. the guy who bid me up on the hill jersey got it for $105, which i thought was pretty decent.

that's a good score! get anything else?