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It's about time they got instant replay for home run calls. However anything beyond that should be off limits. You obviously can't allow reviews for strikes and balls, but also for what's a foul. Let's say someone hits it down the line and it just gets white but ump calls foul. You can't review it because you can't know for sure how far the runner would have gotten. Maybe and this is a big maybe you could do it the other way around. If it was actually foul but called fair because then you just put everyone back where they were and count it has a regular foul ball. The only other possibilty and I don't see this making the cut is reviewing whether it was s catch or not because like the other examples you know for sure what would happen if it really was a catch. If they called catch and it wasn't of course you don't know how far the runner would have gotten but you can just have the rule that it counts as a single no matter what and all runners advance only one base. It might suck if the runner was clearly rounding second when the ball was dropped but it sure beats getting the out it would have been without replay.

Do you really have to ask? Let's see Swisher is batting 100 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Ellsbury is batting 34 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Hermida is batting more 25 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Sizemore is batting 35 pts lower and has one hr more and less rbis. Oh and Upton has a .392 OBP (the highest of them all) which helps OPS I mean come on dude its a no brainer. Yeah if I were just basing it on production for the first month and a half of the year, it would be an easy decision. But Upton's BABIP is 412 right now. He simply can't sustain that. When he comes back down to earth, and Swisher starts playing up to his career norms (in a much smaller ballpark)... Now Hermida vs Upton is a much tougher. argument. I want to keep Ellsbury around for his runs and stolen bases, and I'm obviously not going to drop Sizemore. Swisher's career norms??? What his career high .262 batting average or the fact he's never had 100 Rbis??? Swisher likely won't get a whole lot better. Something few talk about is Guillen must be a horrible manager for batters. Everyone on that team has 0 patience and its because he always wants them swinging for the fences. Thome=HR's low BA; Konerko=Hr's low BA; Dye=Hr's low BA; Swisher is just another in the group. I've been waiting for them to realize that when they were a good team they played small ball with guys like Pods. Upton is consider one of the best young players and everyone has expected him to be a dominant player at some point it looks like this his breakout year. A .310 average 6 hr's or mid 20's rbis aren't phenomenal just very good and about what people have expected of him. I would put Upton second in the group behind Sizemore and tied with Ellsbury.

Do you really have to ask? Let's see Swisher is batting 100 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Ellsbury is batting 34 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Hermida is batting more 25 pts lower and has less hr's and rbis. Sizemore is batting 35 pts lower and has one hr more and less rbis. Oh and Upton has a .392 OBP (the highest of them all) which helps OPS I mean come on dude its a no brainer.

Having had to watch two-thirds of IU's games last year I wouldn't touch Gordon until 8-10 or later. Two really important things worry me about him. One he can't handle the ball and if you are going to be a SG you can't have so many turnovers. He can dribble just fine but his passing is bad. He had a lot of turnovers on arrant passes. The other a little more troubling problem is he just disappears. He doesn't demand the ball (probably because he turns it over too much) and 3/4's of games he was just a spot up shooter. He would just catch and shoot. If he was struggling he would go sometimes 5 minutes without having any affect on the game and barely touching the ball offensively. Now he's obviously young but there are a lot of other guys his age that don't disappear which is something superstars do well. They are always having a major impact on the game.

is that Professor Xavier or is it King Richard

If you are talking about Mike Fontenot then you're wrong. He's 28, that's how he played college with Theriot.

Doesn't matter they will still manage to under perform and lose. Team Rocket blasting off again :good: .

You're kidding, right? You're complaining that ESPN went away from a Cubs game in May to show a potential no-hitter, and by a 24 year old cancer survivor, no less? ESPN broke away from a game that was just like every other game this day to show history, and you're actually downplaying it? (Cue the Sabersheep jumping in to point out that a no-hitter is meaningless...) Did you miss the part where I said I can understand it. I know why they did it. A majority of watchers would rather see a no-hitter get finished then a Cubs-Houston game but that still doesn't mean I get be pissed about it. ESPN would have broken away from a Yankee-Red Sox game for a potential Cubs no-hitter. So out of around 1 of every 5,000 starts someone throws a no-hitter. I would think that it a much bigger deal than you are letting on to. A no-hitter happens a couple times a year but it seems like it is one of the most lauded after things in all of sports. People over value it. But like I said it is still a major accomplishment and I understand why ESPN went away for the coverage of it. And again being a Cubs fan thus have a major bias I can and was pissed when they did it. It also didn't help that it was the Red Sox and they are on ESPN every other day.

You're kidding, right? You're complaining that ESPN went away from a Cubs game in May to show a potential no-hitter, and by a 24 year old cancer survivor, no less? ESPN broke away from a game that was just like every other game this day to show history, and you're actually downplaying it? (Cue the Sabersheep jumping in to point out that a no-hitter is meaningless...) Did you miss the part where I said I can understand it. I know why they did it. A majority of watchers would rather see a no-hitter get finished then a Cubs-Houston game but that still doesn't mean I get be pissed about it.

Pretty sure Houston did that a couple of years ago thought they had an injury but i could easily be wrong

Dusty will ensure us that we have nothing to worry about when it comes to the Reds. I'm worried about it being his first season with them, because of '03 with us. But I hear you. yep that's why I don't write off the Reds this year or expect Dusty to f up a game every chance he gets. Well maybe I expect him to mess up but I'm not surprised when he doesn't.

Oh and congrats to Lester ... even though I had to hear my Red Sox fan roommate cheer and his fiance cheer as if she actually knew what was going on.

Yeah ESPN was esstatic when he got close because it meant the could show a Red Sox game for the 30th time this year. It's great and everything and can understand it but I was still pissed they went away from a 4-2 Cubs game for a 7-0 blow out. There's one or two no-hitters every year and while its a great feat its not as big as everyone makes it out to be.

I couldn't be happier. When something bad happens in my life I just think "hey the Brewers are in last" and then start to giggle.

So I know I'm late but I would've done a sign that said "Pittsburgh: At least you're not in last." It points out how Pittsburgh always sucks and more importantly gets a dig in on Milwaukee.

this is just as dumb:" Kerry Wood has held the bullpen together with 10 saves." no, carlos marmol has been by far the most valuable part of the bullpen. yeah its typical ESPN crap. The story has very very little insight and none for Cubs fans who follow the team and it gives the bullpen credit to Wood because he's the bigger name and everyone knows who he is. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an ESPN article here in a day or week talking about the Wood revival.

I am always annoyed to no end when I watch a game that has an unearned run because the pitcher made an error. I think of ERA as an overall gauge to how good the pitcher is and the pitcher's fielding ability is part of that. The part I hate the most is a majority of fans who look at the boxscore will think the pitcher got screwed by the guys behind him because a lot of people don't look to see who committed the error. I saw a Ball State game either this year or last where the pitcher made two errors that allowed 4 or 5 runs. However his stat line for the game was 5 innings 0 ER. That's not right. Maybe the public at large should grab onto a new stat that accounts for this like ERAE. Earned run average + errors or something like that. It would be similar to the OBP for hitters.

It is mind-boggling. You'd think I'd get used to it, but there is simply no explanation, and it gets more ridiculous every year. By 2010 I firmly expect I will be hitting in the high .300s with 15 homers by mid-May for the Cardinals. if you can hit .300 than i can hit .500

I know they are different players but I had my fill with a Patterson in that bloodline playing CF for us (in all honesty I would accept him if was our best option).

wasn't he a big deal in the 70's??? I wouldn't call him a kid anymore.

So what are the chances of Zambrano sucking tomorrow and then Marquis pitching well? 0-1 odds in my calculation any takers?

You must a lot of hate, then. I'm used to it, I was raised catholic No, that's guilt. wow this exchange is one of the better ones I've seen. it's like my shirt that lists why sh** happens for each religious view says for the Catholics ... sh** happens because I deserve it.

How'd you like to be that bank teller. what, you think he'd be annoyed that someone asked for a thousand pounds of pennies? No the one that Fogg took them to to get them deposited. They would have to count them.

Brian Roberts to 2nd DeRosa to RF Fukudome to CF (joking but only 80%)

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