Clem Fandango

PLANTAR FACITIS IS GOING TO END PUJOLS' CAREER!!! Remember that gem from like 3-4 years ago? I don't buy the elbow thing one bit. I'm starting to believe it's nonsense they feed the media to make other people think he's losing it so they keep pitching to him

There's always Fontenot, who is the worst of our 4 middle infielders at this point

Dudes a gamer. He's the spark that gets the rest of the team going. Those other guys may have the numbers, but players like Ellsbury are invaluable. So on and so forth, rabble rabble rabble. So does being a "gamer" not add any value to a team? Who's more of a "gamer": ARod or Erstad? If its Erstad, then no, it doesn't. I can probably kick their ass in RBI Baseball any day, but I don't see teams lining up to pay me millions of dollars. What kind of BS is that?

Is really damn good (thus far) Walk-off homer to cap a 3/5 day at the plate today. I wonder if Dusty will still start Corey when he "figures out his swing" and is called back up

Just like last time!

I wonder if PaperbackNovel.com doubles as a Nickleback fanpage

I'd like to here the first 322 reasons then. Most of them have to do with the various varieties of defensive plays the defender should make but doesn't that aren't charged as errors, and the various varieties of poorly hit balls that turn into hits. How about throws from the outfield to certain bases to try and peg a runner out and the ball is thrown in the same trajectory as the base path and the runner runs into it, giving the outfielder, who had the runner not ran into the throw would've nailed him from a mile away, an error. That is stupid. Hey, you get an error for making a throw from a couple hundred feet away and hitting a base runner, even though the base runner was 40-50 feet away from where you were throwing it to when it left your hand. Sure, it was on target, the the runner happened to be in a certain position that the ball hit him, but it's all your fault, way to go jackass, here's an error

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=marmoca01&year=2008#situa-count A lot of those numbers are absurd

9 Pitches - 9 Strikes - Side Retired Rarer than you think: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats17.shtml

I was keeping up with the score through my Fantasy Baseball page. Saw it was a blowout and gave up keeping track and watched some Undeclared. I just checked it. No. Freaking. Way.

Kevin Hart for John Koronka, basically, because I believe we traded Koronka for Bynum. Good trade(s). So who's Dusty's new favorite in Cincy now? Looks like it's starting to be Johnny Cueto, he threw 114 and 119 pitches his last two starts, both over the course of 5 innings. KEEP WORKING THAT ARM, DUSTY!!!

Since when has this been the kind of voting that happens each and every year? Albert Pujols could be hitting .256 with 4 home runs and 19 RBI's right now and he'd probably be one of the top vote getters on the all-star ballot at this point. Uninformed fans outvote the ones who are. The people who only follow their own team will fill out the ballot and go "Oh, Ken Griffey, Jr. He's one of the all-time greats, he's definitely an all-star" And boom, Griffey's got votes, despite sucking something fierce this season. I think the people who are having the best two months of the season thus far should be getting the most votes, because if they're the best players for these two months, then they clearly deserve the consideration, regardless of how they will trend in the future. Ryan Ludwick is worthy of getting every single vote at this point, his numbers are ridiculous. Players who bust their asses and are one of the best at their position the first few months of the year, but don't go to the AS game because they're not the big name players who we're all used to seeing there (and who aren't performing better than these guys), are getting cheated.

? Am I missing something, lol? Yes you are http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z287/n_wildgirl/inbeforethelock3zd.jpg

Dude, that's Kohsuke Fukudome, not Kosuke Fukudome

But has absolutely no chance to be, unfortunately. By my calculation, Aramis is probably the fourth best third baseman in baseball right now. Only A-Rod, Wright, and Chipper could be picked ahead of him. Am I wrong? Jose Castillo says "Well.... nah, yeah you're right" Although at this point, Garrett Atkins has been pretty good, even though he doesn't know how to draw a walk

home: 385/417/736/1.154 road: 289/338/508/846 Fixed my own statement

If you ignore Carter's HR and RBI totals, his numbers really aren't that spectacular. They're not bad, but they're not as great as his world series HR would lead you to believe. Career: .770 OPS 105 OPS+ .306 OBP, He was a slugger and he could run a bit in his prime no doubt, but that's about all he was. I don't understand why people regret getting rid of him. Even during a 9 year stretch between 1986 and 1994 when he was most productive, his OPS+ was an acceptable 112. Nothing remarkable.

Why won't they be able to afford him? They may not want to pay what he'll get, but they would definitely have the ability to afford him. Its not a question of affording him, is a question of a team in a constant rebuilding process, would they rather have one star player surrounded by mediocrity, or would the rather exchange him for a stable of prospects. I feel this discussion comes up at least once a week. They can build a good team around him. They have some young talent with Salty, Kinsler, Murphy and a couple of pitchers. They should be able to get a handful of decent prospects for Laird, Bradley, Blalock and Padilla/Millwood. What LLF said, but you're also correct. The more I think about it, the more I think he'll be locked up. With the ever growing popularity of early contracts, I can see Texas giving Hamilton a big contract at the end of the year that buys out his first few years of free agency at a fraction of what he'd likely be making. But if he didn't sign a contract like that, I think if he did hit the market, he'd go for a small country, assuming he continues to be a .300-30-120-20 type player throughout the years, and I would think that Texas would much rather trade him before he hits that market and get big value on his return, rather than pump out fort knox to keep him there, all of this assuming he wouldn't sign one of those early contracts.

Hamilton is an outstanding player, indeed, but I'm sure playing in that ballpark is certainly helping his stats out at least a little bit. I think he would be wise to stay in Texas for now, and Texas would be wise to keep him until he's owed the big bucks, because when that time comes, not only will Texas not be able to afford him, he's gonna jet for greener pastures and make a killing on the FA market if his numbers continue this way. Staying in Texas would be beneficial to both of them. The team keeps a great player, and a great player stays in a hitters park and puts up monster numbers leading up to his walk year.

I do hate that team, they just suck so bad it's almost criminal to make fun of them. I really do hate them though, and again it's a New York thing, not so much their players. They all have this false sense of superiority, as if Manaya has put together this juggernaut of a team that demands our respect regardless of who we cheer for. Go to hell, New York

anyone who drafted travis hafner is a moron. he looked like a corpse last year I believe Baseball Prospectus properly predicted a huge drop off for him. I think I'm just gonna drop him. Yeah. I dropped him like it's hot. Eff you Victor Martinez. I heart you Geovany Soto. I now fully expect a Victor Martinez offensive explosion

if they were smart they'd release Corey Patterson and his 52 OPS+

You sure you're not thinking of the Pittsburgh series? The Cubs didn't lose the last two in Houston due to bad luck, they just got beat. The last two in Pittsburgh, we had the lead in the 9th and blew it each time.