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Wonder why they pulled him mid-game and not before or after when they've probably known the exact date they planned to call him up for awhile now.

Using that MLE calculator, Rizzo's season at Iowa would translate to .285/.337/.546/.883 with 14 2B, 17 HR, 46 RBI

Hrmmm... .273/.348/.475 14HR 46RBI That's pretty much around what I was expecting...possibly a little bit higher OBP, but I think the SLG and BA are right on.

I was listening to an interview with Kuc on the Score on Saturday from the draft, and they specifically asked him if he had heard anything at all linking the Hawks to the bigger FA, and he said absolutely not thing, and he expects Bowman to make smaller moves to not shake up the team too much. Which if true is the dumbest thing Ive ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0e-eLzscqQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Whiny White Sox fan cries about Lilibridge getting traded. oh yeah and he's 5

Depends. The Bulls apparently are very interested in Barnes. Say they end up with Biedrins, Wright and Barnes. They now have a replacement for Deng, a guy who can score off the bench in Wright, and Biedrins. After next offseason, you can probably take Biedrins' $10 million and trade it to a team for a good player with a longer-term contract,. I'm worried that they'd be considering Biedrins as an Omer replacement in the increasing possibility that another team makes a huge offer for him.

Scary that you nailed my childhood Christmases right there

You are surprised that the Cubs didn't give up prospects to acquire a 33 year old player whose numbers have deteriorated and is a FA after next season? I'm not sure the Cubs would have had to give up prospects, considering all it took was a junkballer and a 25th guy /devil's advocate Still I'm really not sure what use Youkilis would be for the Cubs. I guess if they could get him without giving up any meaningful pieces they could hope that a change of scenery gets him going again and attempt to trade him at the deadline next year. But it doesn't seem like a move Theo would make at this point, thus why it's not at all surprising that the Cubs didn't have any interest in trading for him.

Seriously. You Don't have to start him tomorrow. Put him on the bench and maybe give him a pinch hit AB if the opportunity comes up. But whatever it's the difference of one day.

lol. It's an innocent joke that has been said many times and will be said many more times whenever anyone talks about going to see a bad baseball team.

You are surprised that the Cubs didn't give up prospects to acquire a 33 year old player whose numbers have deteriorated and is a FA after next season?

LOL I just clicked on page 42 and read the first 2 posts and thought "I bet it was WSR".

San Diego is just so pesky. They won't go away!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0624-anthony-rizzo-cubs-chicago--20120624,0,6809614.story Damn it. I'll have to go Tuesday too if this is the case. How you suffer !! Have you been to many games this year?

14 hits, 1 walk

Is it bad that Soriano has a higher OBP than Castro despite having a BA that's 35 points lower?

I didn't mean to imply that Shark is now garbage. Yes he's been bad the last month or so, but when he was on to start the season, people were praising the movement on his pitches and his control. Rick Sutcliffe picked Shark #26 in a 'who you would build your team around' draft. The guy obviously does have talent and his pitches are good..it wasn't a fluke that he started so well (back me up here FIP guys), but there's probably going to be a few bumps in the road. Maybe he'll just keep on sucking and we can call him a bust, but I think its just as likely that he gets it going again and becomes a reliable starter for the next few years

If the Cubs can't come back from a 6-1 deficit, then in Shark's last 7 starts he's 1-6 with a 6.18 ERA with a 1.61 WHIP Edit: Wait, I was assuming the runner on 3rd with 0 outs would score. He'll only be 1-6 with a 5.94 ERA and 1.61 WHIP

It's certainly reasonable to cry broke when you have to sell your house and cars because you cant afford them anymore. I mean yeah no ones gonna feel sorry for him but to him he's broke. The reason I look down on him for claiming he's broke is because he could easily make at least a chunk of that money back. Even though a lot of people can't stand him, his personality and celebrity allow him access to high levels of income that the average person don't have. And of course there's always investing what he has left, which is a gamble (as he now knows), but if you play it relatively safe he can at least make more money off the money he has. If all else fails, he can bet against the Nets for an entire season.

I hate when that happens. You meet someone who is a Cubs fan while living far from Chicago and are initially excited to have another Cubs fan to talk to. Then you find out he's a meatball who has no idea what's happening on a week to week basis but still loves talking Cubs. Now everytime you run into him he's excited to bring up the Cubs and talk about how mad he is that Tony Campana isn't playing everyday. Eventually you try to avoid the dude whenever possible because it's more annoying than it should be to engage in conversation with the meatball.

Oh man, that Cuban stuff is awesome. He is really hitting on the reasons why the sports media sucks nowadays. It's all groupthink of generalized stories/typecasting of individuals and teams. You can go through so many teams and players and come up with a 1 sentence description of how they are painted in the media. LeBron James (until the Finals) - Great player amazing talent but doesn't have what it takes to be a winner Kevin Durant - What is right about the NBA, great player and even greater guy. Will predictably take LeBron's crown as great player who can't win. Chicago Bulls - 1 superstar and a bunch of role players. Great regular season team but not enough offensive star power to go all the way San Antonio Spurs - An aging core with a group of unheralded role players molded into a team by the great Popovic Kobe Bryant - A winner, personification of Michael Jordan And whenever ESPN brings up these players/teams, its like the same conversation every time. "The Bears are great but they are only going to go as far as Jay Cutler takes them and he's not a winner" "Crazy Rex Grossman does nothing but throw interceptions" It's not that these generalzations don't have a hint of truth to them but its just the same recycled conversation and there's no original thought involved, no understanding of why this is the prevailing thought, and very few people willing to offer an opposing theory unless their job is to oppose all popular thought (Skip Bayless).

I guess, but I'm kinda ok with the disagreement being with the 4th or 5th best team being pissed than the 2nd best team. At least we've moved the discussion further down the "ladder". What if a 12-0 Boise State left out after winning @ MSU, @ TCU and vs. Utah. Of course you could make the argument that they should have played a tougher schedule, then BSU fans say they tried, and we're left with the exact same argument as before. What is Boise State really is the best team that year and don't get selected? What if there are 5 teams with 1 loss and relatively similar resumes, to the point where the number 1 team could just as easily been 5. I know these are a bit of extreme scenarios and many years there will be a clear gap between 1 and 4, but as soon as something like the above happens, there will be controversey. And the first time a 4 seed wins the title, there will be more scrutiny towards the selection process.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/6/21/3109494/dan-gilbert-cleveland-cavaliers-lebron-james-miami-heat Holy crap, dude has lost it. "I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS HIS SECOND" Yeah ok. Maybe if you didn't get him Antwan Jamison, Delonte West, Larry Hughes and Mo Williams he would of stayed. You do know that wasn't a real open letter from Dan Gilbert right?

Wow, the Hawks finish with a home and home against the Blues. The last season the Hawks didn't finish against Detroit was 2006-2007.

They've been tinkering with the BCS formula for years and still haven't gotten it right...that's what worries me the most about doing it that way. They usually tinker the formula whenever an injustice occurs so it happens a year late. With the selection committee, if there's a clearly deserving team that for whatever reason doesn't do well with the computers, you have a chance to fix that immediately, instead of a year too late. I'm sure one of the reasons why they are doing this is because there is more drama for more teams going into the last weeks, as opposed to having (hypothetically) 3 undefeated teams and 6 1 loss teams. In previous years, the team who is last in the BCS 1 loss team totem pole has pretty much no hope unless they have a huge game left to play or there are a lot of upsets above them. With a selection committee, each of those teams have hope that they will be selected. I dunno, I'm not in love with the idea of a selection committee, and I know they are going to [expletive] it up at times, but I can also see some benefits to it in theory.