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  1. NCCubFan
    The break seems to be a good time for people to post where they stand. I'm #385 with 274 ESPN. My latest setback is Sexson being released. I already lost Jacque Jones (released) and Jason Jennings (injury; out for the year). On the other hand, every single player on my roster has a positive ESPN (even Theriot). Jones is still m biggest scorer, but he will likely soon be passed by Kendall and Eaton (unless Philadelphia gets smart and realizes a pitcher who's 3-8, 5.71 has no business being in the rotation for a contender).
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    Jerry Narron to be specific. The Narron family (of which there are several other members involved in baseball at some level) and Hamilton are both from North Carolina, and Hamilton already had some contact with the Narrons (although I'm not sure about Jerry specifically).
  3. NCCubFan
    Tell that to Luke Hagerty. But yeah, for the most part TJS has become routine and most pitchers come back as strong as (or stronger than before). For the most part its more of a speed bump than anything else. It takes up to a year to rehabilitate and up to another year to fully regain effectiveness, but after that the pitcher is often every bit as good as before.
  4. NCCubFan
    I read somewhere that the Cubs coaching is saying that he is hidding the ball better...whatever that means. I guess if you can't see it, you can't hit. Maybe it means he was tipping his pitches before and that's been corrected now.
  5. NCCubFan
    Why would anybody want to drop Sexson? :D
  6. NCCubFan
    Manning will play. He never misses any action; he'll find a way. As far as Favre is concerned, if he wanted to be the starting quarterback he never should have retired in the first place. He can't expect the Packers to put their future on hold while catering to his every whim whenever he chooses to change his mind.
  7. NCCubFan
    For the gazillionth time, the Cubs drafted him for the Reds all along (without even knowing his identity until it was their turn to draft). They weren't ging to draft him (or anybody) for themselves.
  8. NCCubFan
    In the Southern League All-Star Game, the North Division beat the South 6-1. As mentioned Deeds, Spears, and Veal represented the Smokies, but only Deeds played. He played the entire game, going 1 for 4, with 2 strikeouts. His 1 hit was a solo home run which represented the North's 6th and final run. The MVP was Carolina 2B Chris Coghlan, who hit a 3-run bomb to break the game wide open (it was 2-1 before then); naturally the hometown crowd was quite happy with the selection. Interestingly, a former Cub farmhand (Miguel Negron, now with the White Sox organization), made the final out of the game. A highllight was Harry Canary leading the 7th inning stretch. The game may have lost a little luster when Cameron Maybin (currently playing for Carolina) went on the DL with an injured back and missed the game.
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    And they were the two years immediately following his rookie season. His MVP season of 1954 was his first year back.
  10. NCCubFan
    I think asking for so much now is just a diplomatic way of saying they're going to wait and see what offers they get from other teams.
  11. NCCubFan
    Who if he WHAT? DON'T LEAVE ME HANGIN' LIKE THAT! Here's the complete quote:
  12. NCCubFan
    If time travel is ever invented, screw killing Hitler. I'm going back in time and watching Cobb, Ruth, DiMaggio, Williams, Mays, Mantle, etc in their primes. You could then bring Mantle into the future (relative to when he played) when surgical techniques were much better than they were when he played. As good as he was anyway, it would have been interesting to see how good he could have been if his knees hadn't been bad.
  13. NCCubFan
    Both of you cool it. This thread WILL NOT be turned into another pissing match.
  14. NCCubFan
    Way under (like 31 under). I really don't think he'll play.
  15. NCCubFan
    The 1974 NC State team beat 1992 Duke to win the championship. The NC State team was the David Thompson led team that ended UCLA's long run of consecutive titles. The 1992 Duke team was their second consecutive championship (first team to win back-to-back titles since UCLA). That was the team that beat Kentucky in the regional championship game on Chistian Laettner's miracle buzzer-beater.
  16. NCCubFan
    Since the game is being played at Carolina there was a fair amount of coverage in the Raleigh newspaper today. One thing mentioned in one of the articles is that they are considering moving the game to the break between the first and second half of the season, rather than coinciding with the MLB break, in the future. This is mainly so that player could play in both the All-Star Game and the Futures Game. I'm crossing my fingers for the weather. The last forecast I heard sounded like it could be rather stormy tomorrow. Truffle, help! :D
  17. NCCubFan
    There was also mention of it on the Futures Game telecast, especially while interviewing Brian Cashman and Tino Martinez.
  18. NCCubFan
    Bad scheduling with the game overlapping with the Cubs game. DVR to the rescue. What I'd really like to see scheduling-wise would be to do away with the Sunday night MLB game the day before the break starts and have the Futures Game in the evening instead, without having any MLB games scheduled opposite of it.
  19. NCCubFan
    BOO! :twisted:
  20. NCCubFan
    My team's had a good Saturday and Sunday. Too bad they forgot that Monday through Friday count as well.
  21. NCCubFan
    IIRC, there's a service in Colorado Springs called "Bobby Bonds Bail Bonds" That would be hilarious if true (especially since Barry's father was Bobby). I checked Google out of curiosity and found a Bobby Brown Bail Bonds in Colorado, but not Bobby Bonds. That doesn't necessarily mean there isn't one; maybe they just don't have a web site. Or maybe there used to be one but not anymore.
  22. NCCubFan
    He's their closer now with Cordero out for the year. 17 saves, 2.91 ERA, 146 ERA+, 1.01 WHIP, and 42/6 K/BB in 46.3 IP. Nice.
  23. NCCubFan
    Jon is apparently the spokesman for NSBB. :D
  24. NCCubFan
    Holy overreaction, Batman. Neither Lilly nor Marquis even come remotely close to "brutal." Both have winning records and ERAs of around 4.50 (Marquis slightly below, Lilly a little higher). Both have some starts that are stinkers, but neither has numbers out of line for a 4th or 5th starter.Seriously? You are using W-L record as an evaulation of a pitcher? Is that still allowed? he also used ERA, neither of theirs' are bad. a sane person realizes that jason marquis and ted lilly have not been brutal. It's really the ERA, not the won-loss record, that I was basing my comments on. I can see why someont might interpret it otherwise since I did mention the won-loss record. But my basic argument is that, while they haven't been great (or even good), they've been far from brutal.
  25. NCCubFan
    I'd be fine with either 4 or 5 starts. 4 might be appropriate since it's the equivalent (one start per day average) to 7 starts in a full week.
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