Derwood

on the old board you could set an end date when you made a poll. i did it all the time on the Rock Band poll

in Bartman's defense, it is REALLY hard to know where a ball is going to land. I was at a minor league game last summer and sat in the 4th row. A foul ball got hit very high and right towards our section. I thought it was coming right to me until the fielder reached in and caught it 2 rows in front of me. in other words, it's extremely easy to blame a guy in the first row but if you just sit there with our hands in your pockets you're probably going to get a baseball in the face

GM's aren't smart, they're old fashioned, and they play the "old boys club" game as well as anyone

statistically speaking, Roberts would have had a 1.3% better chance to get on base than Theriot, and that's without looking at how Roberts has hit against Sheets

this is the most ludicrous debate i've seen in minutes

i'm absolutely sure that i never saw the game in its entirety

they don't offer the upgrade?

and since Theriot+Soriano will bat .000 for the rest of the year and Roberts will bat 1.000.....

hundreds, though generally they don't offer single tickets. the cost is in the thousands to rent the rooftop for one game

Dusty Baker's making a plausible decision with Scott Hatteberg, of the Moneyball fame. He hit .310/.394/.474 last season and had a very nice season the year before. Sure he's getting up there in age, but at this point he's not much different than Votto. Hatteberg having a good OBP (ie: Moneyball reference) and Dusty putting him in the lineup are 100% coincidental

Or they thought the dirt was too messy to take advantage. Exactly. I don't know if people who are criticizing Pie and Fuku for not running on Kendall, didn't realize this, but the ground was NOT exactly prime stolen base opportunity. That maybe one of few times in which nobody steals of Kendall. But if the ground is dry on Wednesday, i can almost guarantee you, that anybody and everybody with good speed on the club (Pie/Fuku/Theriot) will be given the green light to steal. not to mention that Soriano never got on base and Pie only got on in the 9th, where there were 2 outs

they are still making money hand over fist

worst poll over?

I am 100% on the Cubs' side on this one

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/04/01/the-dugout-eric-gagne-get-it/

Must be the selective moderation :-s Nah, I just > you at bending the rules, I guess. :twisted: You idiot. :mrgreen: where did our ban smiley go? :banned:

she would be moving from getting the pick of 5-star women's recruits to competing with Purdue and Notre Dame (not to mention a handful of other mid-major schools) in Indiana, not to mention Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, kentucky, and any # of other neighboring states.

what possible motivation would she have? She'd be at a historic basketball school and be a ground breaker for woman in coaching a male team. Plus that, she's one of the greatest coaches in history. Yes I'm sure she can X and O fine in the men's game after some transition. But why would it be a good idea in any other facet? The media attention and scrutiny would be crazy. Recruiting would be awful. Do you think recruits who want to go to the NBA are going to trust her even though she's never sent anyone to the NBA or coached men for a single game? Or would they rather go play for any number of coaches who have gotten to the Sweet 16 or beyond and sent someone to the NBA? She's been to the Championship more times than any male coach in the NCAA. I'm sure a lot of kids would rather play for her than a lot of the bozo's that are out there. but Women's College Basketball has the worst parity of any sport I can think of. There are half a dozen teams each year that are light years ahead of the competition. Rarely do you see upsets in their tournament. She deserves tons of credit for getting Tennessee where it is, but her competition in recruiting in a power conference in men's basketball will be something I would worry about I'd love to see her get a shot. She is in a power conference right now and she can recruit, and obviously, coach. but her only real competition for recruits in the women's game are UConn, UNC, Duke, etc. she doesn't have much competition in the SEC outside of some good LSU teams

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I predict the Brewers are overconfident with their undefeated record.

what possible motivation would she have? She'd be at a historic basketball school and be a ground breaker for woman in coaching a male team. Plus that, she's one of the greatest coaches in history. Yes I'm sure she can X and O fine in the men's game after some transition. But why would it be a good idea in any other facet? The media attention and scrutiny would be crazy. Recruiting would be awful. Do you think recruits who want to go to the NBA are going to trust her even though she's never sent anyone to the NBA or coached men for a single game? Or would they rather go play for any number of coaches who have gotten to the Sweet 16 or beyond and sent someone to the NBA? She's been to the Championship more times than any male coach in the NCAA. I'm sure a lot of kids would rather play for her than a lot of the bozo's that are out there. but Women's College Basketball has the worst parity of any sport I can think of. There are half a dozen teams each year that are light years ahead of the competition. Rarely do you see upsets in their tournament. She deserves tons of credit for getting Tennessee where it is, but her competition in recruiting in a power conference in men's basketball will be something I would worry about

anti-Wood people would have scrutinized Piniella for NOT putting him into the game in the 9th inning if Howry or Wuertz had come in instead and given up 3 runs

good first day for me, but at this point, I have Lilly and then no other pitchers going until the #1's second start. Bad for counting stats, good for WHIP.

crazy game in Atlanta Pirates up by 3 going into the bottom of the 9th. Braves score one, then have runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 out. Someone (Chipper?) hits a routine fly ball to left field, that Jason Bay inexplicably lets drop about 6 feet to his left. Both runs score. Top of the 11th, Xavier Nady hits a 3 run bomb, but the Braves cut the lead back to 1 run before the Pirates finally put them away

game is on DirecTV Channel 725 (725-1 for HD) and it's the Cubs feed