Outshined_One

Fun fact: Ray Liotta is indeed related to Ray Liotta.

Well, here's the problem Noah has... This is a weak draft year in terms of the overall quality of players. Prior to the tournament, the top prospects were Aldridge, Gay, Morrison, Bargnani, and McRoberts. I don't care how optimistic you are when it comes to these guys' respective ceilings...that is just a weak group. Thanks to the tournament and shifting around of prospects, he has a legitimate shot at going #1 or #2 overall. He's talented enough to get productive minutes in the NBA at this moment in his basketball career. Granted, he could still use some improvement and hasn't reached his ceiling yet, but that's pretty much true of any draftee. If he stays another year, he runs a number of risks. He could get injured. He'll have to contend with a much strong potential draft class, especially with guys like Oden expected to be available. He's basically where Matt Leinart was last season after USC won the Championship...only the Bulls seem to be in a much better position than the 49ers were. Plus Chicago is a much better place than San Fran. He could hang out with his Florida alum buddies Rex Grossman and Ian Scott. :D

None of the above. Blech.

All of them ahead of Lou. I'd be happy with McClendon, none of the others though, especially Howe. I would hate to have McClendon on this team. All of my Pirate fan friends hated the guy and he never impressed me in the times I've watched him manage a team.

Didn't Barrett lead catchers in runners thrown out at one point last year? He might be mediocre behind the dish and at game-calling, but there are definitely worse everyday starters out there even today...

Freddy Bynum? Joy.

Swing at those first pitches!!!

Remind me again why Rusch is in the rotation?

Rusch sucks at holding the runners today.

A-Ram was the one who fielded that ball, to boot.

Apparently he never hit one with the Pirates. *Shrugs*

Good to see Glendon Rusch is in midseason form. Guh. Why do Cubs pitchers suck against the opposing pitcher?

Todd Walker isn't exactly a gold glover, himself...

Wow, I was expecting a complete meltdown out there from Glendon.

His BA and OBP against Rusch is .333...along with a .952 SLG. This should be a fun AB.

What happened? Freel squeaked a ball past Walker and Pierre came in to shallow right/center to pick it up. Freel was going two all the way, Pierre got the ball to second base on about four bounces.

Holy wow Pierre has an atrocious arm.

Based on Rammy losing his balance and how he made contact with that, I thought that going was foul.

Holy crap.

Looks like a wide plate today.

Morning Bruce! Thanks for the lineups! Aurilia batting fourth? Hee hee hee.

If that's the case, Noah and Roy, plz. Even though I hate Noah right now. There's almost no way the Bulls have the opportunity to take two guys from that list. It depends on which picks the Bulls end up getting, especially if they somehow make it to the playoffs. If they end up missing out on that 8 seed, they could help their draft standing. I think that if things pan out as expected, they should have the #1 and the #12. I'd say the odds are 50-50 that one of Foye or Roy will be there for the #12. Al Horford and Marcus Williams wouldn't be bad picks at 12, either.

You could probably say the same about Tyrus Thomas.

Heh. Nice to see a fellow fan of truthiness. Fixed. :P

That's right folks! Minor league baseball is back and it's better than ever! Stay tuned throughout the season for such exciting storylines as... -Is Mark Pawelek the real deal? -Will Ron Potesta bring back his Matt Foley impersonation? -Can Brian Dopirak get his mojo back? -Felix Pie: Great CF...or The Greatest CF? -Can Eric Patterson make the Cubs fans remember Corey as, "Eric's older brother"? -Who will win the prestigious Cubs Farm System Player and Pitcher of the year awards? This and so much more await Cubs farm system fans this coming season...and it starts on Thursday, April 6th! Box Scores Iowa lost 8-4 Box Score CF F. Pie 0/4, BB, 2 K 2B R. Theriot 2/3, 2 BB, R, RBI, 2B (1), K, SB (1) 3B C. McGehee 1/4, BB, K LF/RF M. Restovich 0/4, BB, R, K 1B B. Sing 2/3, BB, K, CS (1), HBP C G. Soto 1/5, RBI, K RF B. Coats 1/4, K, SB (1) PH M. Fontenot 0/1 SS A. Ojeda (ha ha) 2/3, R, BB PH J. Strong 0/1, K SP JK Ryu 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 4/1 K/BB, 6/5 GO/FO RP B. Brownlie .2 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 0/1 K/BB, 2/0 GO/FO A. Shipman .1 perfect, 0/0 K/BB, 0/1 GO/FO West Ten won 6-3 Box Score CF C. Walker 2/4, R, RBI, 2B (1), 3B (1), SB (1), HBP 2B E. Patterson 3/4, BB, R, 2 RBI, 3B (1) 1B B. Dopirak 1/3, K 1B/PR M. Hoffpauir 0/1, RBI 3B S. Moore 2/5, R, 2B (1), 2 K LF L. Montanez 1/3, BB, R, Assist (Home) DH R. Lewis 1/5, K RF A. Greenberg 0/4, 2 K C J. Reyes 0/3, RBI C T Richie 1/1, R SS C. Rojas 2/3, R SP JR Mathes 6 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 1/0, HR, 12/4 GO/FO RP R. Cherry 2 perfect, 2/0, 2/2 GO/FO Daytona lost 9-4 Box Score CF S. Fuld 1/5, R, RBI, HR (1), K LF N. Jackson 0/4, 2 K C J. Fox 1/3, 3 R, BB, 2B (1), K 1B M. Craig 1/4 SS J. Simokaitis 3/3, RBI, 2 BB PH/DH N. Spears 0/2 SP J. Berg 4 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 4/3 K/BB, 8/0 GO/FO RP M. Weber 2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0/0 K/BB, 3/2 GO/FO RP A. Burrows 2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0/0 K/BB, 1 HR, 4/2 GO/FO RP C. Vaszquez 1 scoreless, 1 H, 0/1 K/BB, 2/1 GO/FO Peoria lost 4-2 Box Score CF D. Gregg 0/5, 2 K RF M. Ciaramella 0/5, 2 K 2B R. Chirinos 1/4, 3 K, HBP 1B R. Norwood 3/5, R, 2B (1), 2 K LF J. Defendis 0/3, BB, K C M. Reed 3/4, SB (1), E (1, pickoff) SS D. Johnston 1/2, BB, K, SB (1), HBP SP D. Veal 3 IP, 2 H, 4 ER, 2/6 K/BB, 1 HR, 3/4 GO/FO RP J. Estrada 3.2 scoreless, 1 H, 3/1 K/BB, 4/3 GO/FO OVERALL: 1-3