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McLouth is a Cub-killer wannabe.
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Bleh. That's no fun. Fukudome almost got that -- in the air and off the bounce.
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Hart out, Marshall in.
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Yay! (again)
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I have my own good news: I'm cleared to play again. The last couple of months I've been plagued by a combined median/brachial plexus issue stemming from two injuries sustained in one indoor game. The first was a one-handed save I made on an incredibly hard shot from about 8 feet (sometimes making a lucky save isn't a good thing). It numbed my hand immediately, and compressed the median nerve areas in my hand. The second was a real poor sportsmanship injury. A player on the opposing team grabbed my arm about halfway through my throwing motion. The braxial plexus stretched, and I'm lucky I didn't separate or dislocate my shoulder. It'll take another 3-5 months for it to completely heal. In the mean time, I can play, but I will get periodic numbness shooting down my arm into my hand.
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Barrett is a catcher with lots of time served behind the dish. Last season, he was also in his age 30 season. It's not that far out of the norm for a catcher to begin his decline at 30. I doubt he'd have remained awful all season, but I imagine that his age had something to do with it -- along with injuries. His defense was never great, and without his bat to offset the defense, it made sense to make a change. It should have been to Geovany Soto. But we all knew that already.
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I hate those rankings, but there is no real way to do it outside of having people vote. Not that I would trust the people of FIFA to any kind of vote either. Oh God, no. There's no way you could trust them. Just do an ELO system like in chess, rather than the garbage they currently have. I particularly don't like the regional strength aspect of it (Regional strength -- Based on results in last three FIFA World Cups (wins per confederation per match)).
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It means that they have yet to read the PM. When they do read it, it will move to the sent box.
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I imagine Peter Angelos doesn't agree with you. I'm sure he'd rather defend what share he has of the DC area market than attempt to sell his team across the rest of the US... unless MLB lines his pockets enough to cover the difference. That's great and all, but exactly how does blacking out games in the claimed markets help Angelos? It's not other games that are blacked out, it's his own Orioles and Nationals games that are blacked out. MASN shows 160+ Nationals and Orioles games (they have a MASN2 alternate channel). If some cable company in North Carolina or southern Virginia decides not to carry MASN, then a viewer in that area won't see Orioles or Nationals games. At all. How does this help Angelos? If a fan in Roanoke, VA wants to see an Orioles game and is paying for EI, why should Angelos care? The amount of money he receives for the EI contract is the same either way, so why punish the viewer -- the fan?
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The blackout stuff is ridiculous in the modern "broadcasting" era. There are no longer home territories to protect from interloping signals, instead, teams should be trying to show as many games as they can to broaden their own, as well as baseball's, fan base. The more people watching games, buying merchandise and generally enjoying baseball, the better it is for MLB and for the individual teams.
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There's the run. Whew. Now some insurance, please.
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Indeed. Two walks for the Theriot.
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Lieber has pretty strong lefty/righty splits. But Bautista is a lefty too. And better than Malphabet. Jose Bautista is a righty. Isn't there a lefty Bautista -- or was that Batista?
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Wow. ...sorry :mrgreen: :flame:
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Instead of posting wow 48 times, can someone explain what in the hell just happened? Did Bautista bunt (moron if true)?
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Holy moley... we got Sanchez out to end the inning.
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the pitch was a strike. awful call by runge. (previous batter)
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I'd say this is prophetic, but it really wasn't a stretch to assume this would happen.
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I think it's because he was jsut up and likely won't bat again. I didn't see the swing, but that would be my guess. He'll be the 9th batter... and so is double switched out of the game.
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It's the right time to pull Rich. He made a couple of mistakes, but not bad all in all. Now, if only the offense would do something.
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Be nice to get Pie on, and then see Ward.
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Hahaha.... Theriot.
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It was pretty cool to see. The announcers were pretty stunned. Too bad Resop isn't very good.
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That was terrible to watch.
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College Basketball Coaching changes/hiring's
brinoch replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Other Sports
The Bloomington Herald Times confirms that it will be Crean. I think this is a better hire than Bennett, and he has a much longer record of success than Miller.