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I flip to see if the WC is back on, flip back...then I hear the crowd booing while the camera pans to Murton, Neifi, and Baker in that order, followed by Brenly saying, "You couldn't play this bad if you tried." Wow.

Anyone else enjoy it when Brenly rips on Ramirez, even if it's just with a seemingly innocuous comment? "That probably wouldn't have been a triple with the way Ramirez came out of the box."

It drives me nuts seeing how bad the rest of the Central is. A better-assembled Cubs team with better managing, some health, and some luck could have been running away and hiding with the division lead by now. But instead, we get this. Guh.

See, this tirade is why I don't want Bob Brenly managing the Cubs. So all they need is Derrek Lee calling a team meeting and calling out people for their mistakes?

At least Marmol and Marshal has shown some sort of talent and poise. Hill has no poise, walked the world, and just was flat out awful with a 9 ERA. So the Maddux thing doesn't apply to Hill I'm guessing? Don't give me that. Hill's been yanked back and forth between the minors and majors as well as starting and relief. Hill was only given four starts this season before being kicked back down to AAA. Any number of pitchers can have four bad starts for pete's sake. These three guys have plenty of promise and talent. But why people rag on Hill so much while Marmol and especially Marshall remain sacred cows is just baffling to me.

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As much as people here have been drooling over Marshall, his numbers have not been all that good this season. He's handled himself well, all things considered, but I don't think he's proven much more than any other pitching prospect in this system. I mean, for heaven's sake, his ERA is 4.92 with an away ERA of 6.53! That's just dreadful. We'll he's young...He barely pitched AA ball. Look at Maddux stats his first year... Look, I'm as big of a fan of the young guys and minor leaguers as anyone else on this site, but people around here have weird double standards. Some people have been yapping about how Marmol and Marshall are better than Hill, when in reality I don't think any of those three guys stand out above each other. A number of people on this site seem to be operating under the assumption that Marshall has been performing quite well this season despite evidence to the contrary. There's plenty of promise for the future, but for right now, Marshall has just as much to work on as Marmol and Hill do when it comes to making the necessary adjustments to being a good major league pitcher. Face it, he hasn't had a good season. I don't know why a number of people on here have not accepted that yet.

As much as people here have been drooling over Marshall, his numbers have not been all that good this season. He's handled himself well, all things considered, but I don't think he's proven much more than any other pitching prospect in this system. I mean, for heaven's sake, his ERA is 4.92 with an away ERA of 6.53! That's just dreadful.

Hey look, soccer's on!

Gotta ride the hot hands, dude.

Gee Jim, I thought you wanted guys who knew how to catch the ball.

wb derrek

Sarcasm? Time to change your sig. :P

Box Scores Iowa won 5-3 Box Score 3B R. Theriot 2/5, R, RBI CF F. Pie 2/5, 2B (13), 2 K, Assist (3B) DH M. Restovich 3/5, R, 2B (17), K 1B M. Hoffpauir 1/3, R, 3 RBI, HR (9) 2B M. Fontenot 2/4, 2B (12), K LF L. Montanez 0/4, K RF B. Coats 1/4, R, 2B (9), K C G. Soto 2/3, R, RBI, HBP SP JK Ryu 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 5/1 K/BB, 7-6 GO-FO RP S. Williamson 1 perfect, 1/0 K/BB, 2-0 GO-FO RP M. Wuertz 1 scoreless, 1 H, 2/1 K/BB, 1-0 GO-FO West Tenn won 6-0 Box Score CF C. Walker 2/5, R, RBI, K, SB (24) 2B E. Patterson 3/5, R, RBI, 2B (17), CS (7) RF N. Jackson 2/3, 2 RBI, K 1B B. Dopirak 0/4, K 3B S. Moore 0/4 C J. Fox 2/4, R, 2B (2) PR/LF R. Lewis 0/0, R SP JR Mathes 9 scoreless, 4 H, 4/0 K/BB, 13-10 GO-FO Daytona lost 15-9 Box Score 2B N. Spears1/5, K DH M. Craig 2/4, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 2B (20) RF R. Harvey 2/5, R, RBI, 2B (11) C J. Muyco 0/3, R SS J. Mota 1/3, R, K SP J. Berg 4 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 2/4 K/BB, 7-2 GO-FO, E (1, pickoff) Peoria lost 5-1 Box Score 2B R. Chirinos 1/3, BB, 2B (20), K, E (7, throw) DH J. Valdez 1/4, R 1B R. Norwood 0/4, K, E (7, throw) SS K. Reynolds 1/4, 2 K RF Y. Carter 1/4, K LF A. Garcia 1/4, K SP S. Taylor 7 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 3/0 K/BB, 9-9 GO-FO Boise lost 8-4 Box Score CF M. Camp 1/5, R DH J. Lansford 1/5 3B E. Puello 1/4, R, 3 K, HBP 1B R. Canzler 1/4, 2 RBI, 2B (2) 2B S. Clevenger 0/3, BB RF A. Joseph 2/4, R, RBI LF R. Episcopo 0/4 SS S. Baez 0/3, RBI, K, E (2, throw) SP D. Downs 3.2 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 3/2 K/BB, 4-3 GO-FO, E (1, pickoff) RP W. Muldowney 3.1 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3/1 K/BB, HR, 4-3 GO-FO Mesa with an off day. OVERALL: 2-3

The sad thing is, with how weak the NL Central and NL in general is right now, the Astros could very well make the playoffs...with a .500 record.

Geez. The sheer level of concentration, timing, and luck needed to make that shot was just unreal. That was indeed a once in a lifetime shot for Rodriguez. Damn.

Anyone else think Mexico's regretting that own goal right now? Heck of a shot.

Overtime!

Reunite Dusty with one of his "boys"? BRILLIANT!

Was the guy who scored that offsides? It was hard to tell.

Box Scores Iowa lost 10-4 Box Score SS R. Theriot 2/5, 2 R, E (8, fielding) CF F. Pie 1/4, BB, R, K 1B D. Lee 1/4, RBI LF L. Montanez 0/1 LF/1B M. Restovich 0/3, BB, 2 K DH M. Hoffpauir 1/4, R, 2 RBI, 2B (4), K 2B M. Fontenot 1/2, 2 BB 3B C. McGehee 1/4, RBI RF B. Coats 2/4 C J. Reyes 0/4 SP R. Wells 3.2 IP, 9 H, 7 ER, 5/0 K/BB, HR, 3-2 GO-FO RP J. Williams 3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2/0 K/BB, HR, 2-5 GO-FO West Tenn lost 5-4 Box Score 2B (?) C. Walker 1/4, R, K CF (??) E. Patterson 1/4, R, RBI, 2B (16), K, SB (23) LF/RF N. Jackson 0/3, BB, R, 2 K, SB (12) 1B/LF B. Sing 0/3, BB, K RF M. Negron 0/2, K 1B B. Dopirak 1/2, RBI, K 3B R. Lewis 1/4, R, RBI, 3B (2) PH S. Moore 0/1, K SP B. Brownlie 4 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 3/1 K/BB, HR, 5-4 GO-FO Daytona lost 5-4 Box Score 2B N. Spears 1/5, R, K, SB (7) 1B M. Craig 1/3, BB, R, 2B (18) RF R. Harvey 1/4, 2 K, PO (1B) SS J. Mota 2/3, R, RBI SP C. Perez 7 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 7/0 K/BB, HR, WP, HBP, 10-4 GO-FO RP G. Johnson 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/0 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO Peoria won 9-7Box Score 2B R. Chirinos 0/4, BB, R C M. Reed 0/5, RBI, 3 K, CS (5) LF J. Valdez 1/4, R, RBI, 2 K 1B R. Norwood 2/5, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 HR (9), K, E (6, fielding) SS K. Reynolds 1/5, 2B (4), 2 K RF Y. Carter 0/3, BB, R, K CF D. Gregg 1/3, R, RBI SP M. Atkins 4.1 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 5/4 K/BB, HR, WP, 3-5 GO-FO RP M. Avery 1 perfect, 1/0 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO Boise lost 5-1 Box Score CF M. Camps 0/4 3B J. Lansford 0/0, 4 BB, R RF A. Joseph 0/4 LF DJ Lewis 1/3, BB, PO (1B), E (2, fielding) 1B E. Puello 1/4, RBI DH R. Episcopo 0/2, K PH/DH R. Canzler 0/2 SS S. Baez 1/3, 2B (1) SP M. Pawelek 4 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 1/1 K/BB, WP, 9-2 GO-FO Mesa lost 11-6 Box Score DH A. Pagan 1/3, K PH/DH L. Rosario 0/2 3B V. Heredia 1/5, RBI, K CF C. Andersen 1/4, BB, 2 K C M. Mercedes 0/2 RF R. Brown 1/1, 2 BB, R, RBI LF W. Inoa 1/2, BB, R, RBI, K, HBP SS P. Lopez 1/3, BB, R, 2 RBI SP R. Dolis .2 IP, 4 H, 6 ER, 1/2 K/BB, 0-1 GO-FO RP R. Hernandez 2.1 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, WP, Balk, HBP, 5-1 GO-FO RP A. Astorga 2 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 2/1 K/BB, 0-3 GO-FO OVERALL: 1-5

Please. No way would the CWS been able to hit Mulder's 87 MPH fast balls w\o cheating. You owe TLR apology. It's posts like these that make me wish you were a Cub fan. ;)

To Podsednik nonetheless. :shock:

I'm 99% sure that was on the road. Correct you are sir.

The next in the line of position players getting a tryout at pitcher down in Mesa? 2B Pedro Lopez! And yes, for those of you John Wayne fans out there, the Royals have a pitcher named McLintock(!) in their system.