Outshined_One

Theriot getting the Counsell and Eckstein comps. ...yay?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Yay!

most new ballparks are in the parking lot of the old one. or do you mean the fact the the footprints of the two stadiums will overlap one another? Footprints? I was talking about the parking lot thing.

1-2-3 1st. Nice.

So the Mutts are taking the Cardinals approach to building a new ballpark? Hm. Should be interesting to see what the results look like.

Dusty loves Izturis? What a shock!

Right at Theriot. Yikes.

C'mon Murton!

Nice!

Announcers think Lee will be back tomorrow. However, Sutcliffe just used the words "radical treatment". :shock:

Soriano don't need no leadoff spot!

Anyone need some pbp?

Man Shea is such a pit.

...O'Malley?

Box Scores Iowa lost 12-2 Box Score 2B E. Patterson 1/4, 2 K CF F. Pie 2/4, R, RBI, HR (2), E (1, fielding) DH M. Fontenot 1/4, 3 K 1B M. Hoffpauir 1/4, E (2, pickoff) RF B. Coats 0/4 SS R. Cedeno 0/4, 3 K LF C. Walker 1/4, RBI SP R. O'Malley 5.1 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 5/1 K/BB, 4 HR, HBP, 4-7 GO-FO Tennessee lost 7-1 Box Score CF S. Fuld 0/3, BB, K, CS (3) 1B J. Fox 2/4, R, RBI, HR (5) C C. McGehee 1/3, BB, 2 K PH J. Simokaitis 0/1, K PH J. Kroeger 0/1, K SP M. Holliman 5 IP, 9 H, 5 ER, 5/3 K/BB, HR, 6-4 GO-FO RP J. Henderson 2 scoreless, 2 H, 4/1 K/BB, 0-2 GO-FO RP A. Mendez 1 IP, 1 H, 2 ER, 2/2 K/BB, 0-1 GO-FO Daytona lost 12-7 Box Score DH M. Matulia 1/3, 2 BB, 2B (6), K CF T. Colvin 2/4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B (14) SS R. Chirinos 1/4, R, 2 RBI, 2B (8) SP J. Santo 5 IP, 12 H, 8 ER, 2/1 K/BB, 4 HR, WP, HBP, 5-8 GO-FO RP D. Downs 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, WP, 3-3 GO-FO Peoria with an off day. OVERALL: 0-3

There are a few other difficulties... 1) While baseball has numerous lucrative contracts and plenty of endorsement opportunities, the payoff is not immediate. Unless you're a top level talent taken early in the draft, you won't see the majors in the near future after being drafted. Some draftees get good deals, but the overwhelming majority of players have to work their way through the minors and then are under a team's control for a number of years until they become free agents. In most cases, guys drafted right out of high school will not see a multimillion dollar contract for about 10 years. Factor into all of that the possibility of injuries and whatnot and that payday seems less and less likely. In basketball, all you need is to be a year out of high school. In football, three years out of high school. In most cases, you'll get a shot at making the professional team before being assigned to the practice squad or whatever. You'll get your millions sooner and will also be playing professionally more quickly, which means endorsements will come sooner. 2) College scholarships for baseball are nowhere near as numerous as for football or basketball. Colleges don't have the same incentive to recruit top athletes from high school for baseball as they do for football and basketball. College baseball doesn't bring nearly the same revenue as basketball and football do, so colleges have less reason to focus on it. 3) In a similar vein, the level of exposure college baseball has cannot even come close to college football and basketball. Stop and think about it, how many people know who David Price is compared to, say, Kevin Durant or Brady Quinn? Those two guys are going to get numerous endorsement deals before even playing a second of professional ball. David Price, on the other hand, won't see any of those kinds of deals until he establishes himself at the major league level. So, that's my take.

Seriously, why doesn't David Stern go out of his way to completely sabotage the Pistons? They play an absolutely unwatchable, yet fundamentally sound, game. They have atrocious fans, as evidenced by the Malice at the Palace. Their players whine about every foul called on them, yet make some incredibly hard fouls. Seriously, does anyone outside of Michigan and Texas want to see a Pistons/Spurs series? Don't we all remember how much of a catastrophe that was?

I hate this Southwest commercial. Whoever made it clearly has never driven on the Stevenson.

Lee had neck pain and was originally not supposed to play.

Lilly's curve is not working today.

Scrappy!

Do the Phillies need a beat writer? Can the Cubs leave Paul Sullivan behind? Seriously, I can't stand that hack.

Box Scores Iowa won 17-7 Box Score 2B E. Patterson 2/4, 2 BB, 3 R, 2 RBI, HR (5) CF F. Pie 3/6, 2 R, 4 RBI, 3B (2), K 3B M. Fontenot 4/6, 3 R, 2 RBI, 2B (10), K 1B M. Hoffpauir 3/6, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2B (11), HR (7) RF B. Coats 2/5, R LF S. Moore 1/3, 2 BB, 2 R SS R. Cedeno 1/3, 2 BB, 2 R, RBI, E (1, fielding) SP JR Mathes 6 IP, 9 H, 6 ER, 4/3 K/BB, HR, 11-3 GO-FO RP R. Wells 2 scoreless, 1 H, 4/3 K/BB, HBP, 1-1 GO-FO Tennessee lost 11-2 Box Score CF S. Fuld 0/4 C J. Fox 2/4, R, 2 2B (12) 1B C. McGehee 0/1, K (Ejected) 3B J. Simokaitis 1/3, BB PH J. Kroeger 0/0, BB PH M. Craig 0/1, K SP K. Hart 4 IP, 9 H, 11 ER, 5/0 K/BB, 3 HR, 2 WP, HBP, 7-2 GO-FO RP B. Petrick 3 perfect, 4/0 K/BB, 2-3 GO-FO Daytona with an off day. Peoria won Game 1 of their DH 8-5 Box Score CF Y. Carter 0/4, 3 K 2B M. Camp 1/4, R, 2B (4), SB (11) LF A. Joseph 2/3, BB, 2 R, RBI DH R. Canzler 1/4, R, RBI, 2B (5), K 3B J. Lansford 2/4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B (5) C W. Castillo 3/3, BB, R, 3 RBI, 2B (2), HR (4) 1B DJ Lewis 0/4, K SS J. Mota 0/1, 2 BB, R, CS (2), PO (1B) SP J. Renshaw 6.1 IP, 5 H, 6 ER, 6/2 K/BB, HBP, 10-2 GO-FO Peoria lost Game 2 of their DH 5-3 Box Score 2B M. Camp 1/3, BB, R, K LF A. Joseph 1/4, 2 K CF Y. Carter 1/4, R, 3B (4), 3 K 3B J. Lansford 0/3, RBI 1B R. Canzler 1/3, R, RBI, HR (2), 2 K SS J. Mota 0/3, 3 K SP M. Carrillo 3.2 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 1/2 K/BB, HR, WP, 6-4 GO-FO RP O. Bernard 2.1 scoreless, 1 H, 0/2 K/BB, WP, 4-2 GO-FO RP J. Papelbon 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 3/1 K/BB, HR, 0-2 GO-FO OVERALL: 2-2

Box Scores: Iowa lost 11-8, box: 2B E. Patterson 3/5, 3 R, HR (4), RBI CF F. Pie /5, 2 R, 3B (1), RBI, K, SB (2) SS-3B M. Fontenot 2/4, R, RBI, BB, K 1B M. Hoffpauir 1/3, 2 RBI, BB DH M. Kinkade 2/5, R, HR (1), 2 RBI, K SS R. Cedeño 0/2, K SP S. Marshall 5.1 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 4 K/4 BB, WP, 6 GO-6 FO, 97 pitches (54 strikes) Tennessee won 10-3, box: CF S. Fuld 3/5, 2 R, 2B (4), 2 K RF J. Kroeger 2/4, R, 2B (7), 3 RBI, K. CS (2) 1B J. Fox 0/4, 3 K LF J. Cortes 2/3, 2 R, 2B (6), B, K 3B C. McGehee 1/3, 2 R, HR (1), 3 RBI, BB SP J. Berg 2 IP, 2 ER, 1 H, 1 K/5 BB, HBP, WP, 3 GO-2 FO - ouch RP P. Schappert 4 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 5 K/2 BB, 3 GO-4 FO Daytona wins 9-7, box: RF C. Amador 2/5, 2 R, K, 2 SB (12) SS M. Matulia 2/4, 2 R, BB, K CF T. Colvin 1/4, R, 2B (13), 3 RBI LF J. Valdez 2/4, 2 R, RBI 3B K. Reynolds 2/4, R, 2 RBI C M. Reed 1/4, R, 2 K, SB (4) SP S. Taylor 6 IP, 7 ER, 13 H, 1 K/0 BB, 2 HR, 6 GO-10 FO - ouch part 2 RP S. Koerber 3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 2 K/0 BB, 4 GO-3 FO Peoria lost 11-1, box: 2B M. Camp 2/5, 2B (3), K LF A. Joseph 1/2, 2 BB, 2 SB (7) CF Y. Carter 0/4 2B J. Lansford 1/4 1B R. Canzler 1/3, BB, K DH DJ Lewis 1/3, R, BB, K SP M. Billek 2 IP, 9 ER, 8 H, 1 K/3 BB, HBP, 2 GO-3 FO - ouch part 3 RP J. Papelbon 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 K/0 BB, 2 GO-1 FO