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I doubt Graffanino would outproduce Todd Walker or Jerry Hairston in a full season.

Date Time ET Network Site Match-up March 2 9:30 p.m. Deportes Tokyo Korea vs. Chinese Taipei March 3 4:30 a.m. Deportes/ESPN2 Tokyo Japan vs. China March 3 9:00 p.m. Deportes Tokyo Korea vs. China March 4 4:00 a.m. Deportes/ESPN2 Tokyo Japan vs. Chinese Taipei March 4 9:00 p.m. Deportes Tokyo Chinese Taipei vs. China March 5 4:00 a.m. Deportes/ESPN2 Tokyo Japan vs. Korea March 7 1:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN Orlando Dominican Republic vs. Venezuela March 7 4:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN2 Phoenix U.S.A. vs. Mexico March 7 7:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan Puerto Rico vs. Panama March 8 1:00 p.m. ESPN2 San Juan Cuba vs. Panama March 8 4:00 p.m. ESPN2 Phoenix U.S.A. vs. Canada March 8 7:30 p.m. Deportes San Juan Puerto Rico vs. Netherlands March 9 1:00 p.m. Deportes Orlando Dominican Republic vs. Italy March 9 7:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan Cuba vs. Netherlands March 10 1:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan Panama vs. Netherlands March 10 7:30 p.m. Deportes San Juan Puerto Rico vs. Cuba March 12 1:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan TBD March 12 4:00 p.m. Deportes Anaheim TBD March 12 8:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN2 San Juan TBD March 12 11:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN2 Anaheim TBD March 13 1:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN San Juan TBD March 13 7:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN2 San Juan TBD March 13 10:00 p.m. Deportes Anaheim TBD March 14 7:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan TBD March 14 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Anaheim TBD March 15 7:00 p.m. Deportes San Juan TBD March 15 10:00 p.m. Deportes Anaheim TBD March 16 7:30 p.m. Deportes/ESPN Anaheim TBD March 18 3:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN San Diego Semifinal #1 March 18 10:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN San Diego Semifinal #2 March 20 9:00 p.m. Deportes/ESPN San Diego Championship

What are the specific requirements/qualifications that a baseball writer must meet before they're allowed a hall of fame vote? Any possibility of making the writers' hall of fame ballots public? That way, if a writer votes for someone like Walt Weiss, he/she can be publicly criticized for it, and maybe even get their vote taken away! Thanks for your time.

The Reds signed Scott Hatteberg. Can you say first base logjam?!?!

Wouldn't you say that the Cubs and Reds haven't? The Reds don't use him every game like they could. The Cubs let him go. I think the MLB rulebook they have restrictions on the usage of KENT.

you mean there are people who don't understand the greatness of mercker?

Probably wasn't a serious candidate.

i choose dunn, but i still don't understand what you're looking for

All of your 10 posts have been anti-Cardinals or to rip on a Cardinals poster here. Maybe someone else should get a life.

Cedeno is the same or worse than Neifi? Murton is the same or worse than Hollandsworth/Dubois/Lawton? Not in my eyes. I don't see it as any certainty that Cedeno would significantly outproduce Neifi's 2005 production in a full season. If you would like to place a wager on it I will. Even with neifi's amazing april/may, his final numbers were still just plain awful. Cedeno will easily best those numbers. And Since I'm the bandWGN driver, I have to show my support and faith - so if people want to be totally pessimistic, I'm willing to place down a friendly wager.... I said I don't think it's all that likely that he would SIGNIFICANTLY outproduce Neifi next season. I won't bet on whether Ronnie outproduces Neifi next year. Though, for fun, I'll bet that Cedeno doesn't eclipse a .700 OPS in a full season (min. 300 ABs for the sake of argument).

Cedeno is the same or worse than Neifi? Murton is the same or worse than Hollandsworth/Dubois/Lawton? Not in my eyes. I don't see it as any certainty that Cedeno would significantly outproduce Neifi's 2005 production in a full season.

9th in runs scored in the 16 team NL. That's bad. Below average is bad. 4th in OPS doesn't come close to telling the whole story. The OBP side of OPS should weigh more heavily than the SLG side. The Cubs are good with the SLG, but absolutely terrible with the OBP. This offense is not among the worst of the worst, but it's far from good at the same time. It's an enormous problem. That's one (entirely pessimistic) way of looking at it. Take away the time that Aramis Ramirez missed, and the team would be above average in runs scored. Maybe even top 5. I think the Cubs were already out of it when Aramis missed time.

i can't wait for bill simmons' article on this where he can reference popular movies

How come having a beard indicates you are of a lower class? What stupid crap this rule is.

Indians win the World Series this year.

the baby clydesdale commercial was adorable

i guess

that game was BORING. plus i hate the steelers. what a waste of a superbowl.

a division title in '03, it aint much but its more than the mavs have managed How?

if there's one thing we need, it's more second basemen.

i remember seeing a hilariously offensive albert pujols shirt outside of wrigley last time i went maybe you should try there

But the people owning the team refuse to put in different people to run baseball operations. And if a new owner came in, they'd automatically fire Hendry and co.? Hendry is probably one of the more respected minds in baseball, I'm sure his job would be safe, even if a new owner came in.

thx len!

Our owners now give us a 100 mil payroll? What more do you want?

Reagan was a huge CUB fan, not just baseball. Besides working Cub games for WHO, he went to Eureka College and was born in Dixon, the guy was true blue Illinois all the way. You can change your home base in your adult life, and he did, but you can NEVER change your baseball roots, as we all know. Dutch was a Cubbie, and like my Grandpa never saw the Cubs win a World Series. :-( reagan was history's greatest monster. Ugh, I know that's a line in the Simpsons, but I forget who they were talking about. Jon?