NCCubFan

I've dropped to 80th place with 197 ESPN. Having Weaver on the DL isn't helping any because he can't suck when he isn't playing. I have no real albatrosses so far; my worst "performer" is Podsednik with zero points. Everybody else on my team is positive, although a couple just barely.

Eyewitness report from Tennessee: The Smokies scored at least one run in every inning from the 1st through the 6th (including 5 in the 3rd and 7 in the 4th, batting around both innings). They led 14-0 at one point. Salas, McGehee, and Kroeger all went deep. Salas was the hitting star, going 4 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 5 RBI. Rojas also did very well, going 3 for 5 (plus a walk) and scoring a run. Fox, McGehee, Robinson, and Spearman (who didn't even start) all had 2 hits. Pitching-wise, Berg shut the Suns out for the first 4 innings, but gave up 2 runs each in the 5th and 6th. He pitched 6 innings and gave up 4 hits, 4 runs (3 earned, 1 HR) and had 4 walks and 2 strikeouts. He lowered his ERA to 5.72. Schappert really stunk it up, pitching 1 inning and giving up 5 runs. Mendez pitched 1 inning and gave up 1 run of his own (in addition to allowing all 3 inherited runners to score). Petrick pitched the 9th and gave up 1 run (a HR). Basically, a full game of good hitting and about a half game of good pitching by the Smokies. One thing I thought was funny. The Suns had a pinch-hitter up in the 8th who was hitting .000 for the year with 0 HR and 0 RBI (he was only 0-for-4 in 1 game, so he must have just joined the team). A couple of rowdy Smokies fans were heckling him for the batting average and calling him a home run hitter, so he promptly proved them right by hitting a 3-run bomb. I was able to laugh at that since they were still comfortably ahead. As things currently stand I plan to attend tomorrow night's game as well, which is the last night I'll be vacationing in the Smokies.

He pitches tonight. So Cotts is going to start? That's a very interesting development to this whole 5th starter saga. I did read in one of the articles about sending Cotts down (maybe it was the one on cubs.com) that he is going to start. Maybe that's just to give the Cubs a fallback option rather than definitely starting him when he comes back up.

I do have that effect on closers. :D

I'd like to stick a fork in Hendry. :shock:It's a saying, not something to be taken literally. It means that I'd like for Hendry to be done as Cubs' GM.

I'd like to stick a fork in Hendry.

Not. Even. Close. Do more periods constitute more emphasis? I don't understand this style. Neither. Do. I.

I believe Ohman would have beeded to clear waivers in order to be sent down. I don't think he would have cleared because he is fairly good when used properly as a LOOGY.

Vlad signed when Sosa was still great. Alou is the player that kept the Cubs from going after Vlad. They were paying Moises big money and he was coming off a mediocre year which followed a crap year. That's right -- my memory was off... its still annoying that an impact FA like Vlad hit the market and the Cubs seemed completely uninterested. Alou did have a fantastic '04, but thats still not enough to get over missing out on Vlad. It was Beltran the Cubs passed on because they still had Sosa.

I wound up losing by more than 200 points (I wonder if that's ever been done before) and had the lowest score of the week. I believe I actually wound up with negative pitching points. Like I said before, if I'm going to lose I may as well lose in style. :D

I wound up with only 5 or 6 starts in week 2. I lost one scheduled start due to rainouts (that was the week of the big nor'easter wiping out several east coast games) and I may have lost another start due to injury.

Not at all. I think it's wrong to wish physical harm on someone, but hoping he gets torched so he doesn't get called up is definitely good.

Keep dreaming. :D We play in week 9, right? I'll deal with you later. Oops; we actually don't play until week 10. For some reason I thought we played next week. OK, you get a reprieve so you can knock HBC down a notch. :D

Keep dreaming. :D

I voted for Hardy. I'd put Reyes second and Barroids third.

agreed.... actually the biggest negative for them is the apathetic atlanta fan base But a positive is, we get to hear Chip Carey! No we don't, but we do get to hear Chip Caray. :D

It shouldn't even be a possibility, though. Dempster is a proven failure as a starter.

BOO! I'm planning to go to their games in Sevierville Wednesday and Thursday nights when I'm vacationing in the Smokies, and I wanted to at least see one of them. :( Oh well, I'll probably get a chance later this summer when they play in Carolina.

Just don't warm up until after we play. This could be the best week ever for the Dishmans. We're pushing the 300 point mark and still have 2 starts remaining. I smell a 160 point week next week. Maybe my players are saving their points until next week to make sure I beat you. :D

Fixed.

Holy crap, I may have the single worst pitching day in Roadkill history. Negative points from Moyer and Aardsma even before overnight deductions, and single-digit positive points from Reyes that will probably turn negative after deductions. At least Aardsma's was for a good cause. :D Oh well, if I'm going to lose I may as well lose in style.

Remember when Lou used to say all the right things during the offseason? Very well. Now he's showing he can talk the talk but he can't walk the walk.

Woah, take it easy buddy, this is a family site. Hence the reason I used the term "gluteus maximus" instead of its three-letter synonym. :D

Shove it up your gluteus maximus, Lou. Guzman belongs in the rotation, end of story.

I don't think it is allowable to trade a player on the DL. technically, mark prior isnt on the DL. He is, but it's the minor league DL. I'm not sure if the same rules apply to the minor league DL about trading players.