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Exactly, this has been a horrible job by Rivera.

What a horrible start. Next time on offense, I'd bring in Adrian, to mix it up and set up playaction.

I don't need much ammo to rant against Moose, that should've been caught. I don't see this getting reversed.

It would give me a chance to rant on Moose to tell if that was a catchable ball, but Fox is terrible w/camera shots. Adrian style's of running is better against the Panthers than Jones.

Use the run to set-up the pass.

You deserve to lose if you don't double Smith on every play.

We'll see how well Big Ben can throw next week, he looked bad after that hit.

No one is more happy than Bettis.

Alright, Broncos fans are cheering and the best team has been eliminated.

Damn, I hope the Steelers hold them. I look too far down the road.

It was another poor article in a series of poorly written articles this off-season. When I saw this... I took it as the author putting himself in Baker's shoes and answering the questions on how Baker would answer them rather than a typical Q&A with him.

Unlike the assumptions being made, I was basing it on how it was worded before any of the potential Dusty quotes were made and NOT based on the content of the quotes.

LINK Definitely rough to watch someone dig their own hole, just as rough to watch no one help him out of that hole. I would have no problem if the Cubs had a vacancy in the coaching ranks either at the major or minor league level and he would fill it.

I hate these types of remarks, I've never heard a coach say anything close to that. It becomes a point of convenience and against everything a public forum like this stands for. I'll quote "Bobo" Brayton who coached 44 years at the collegiate level and 32 years at Washington State. He is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and Washington State University halls of fame.... "If you have ever played or coached a game, or if you are a baseball fan, you are a member of the baseball family. This gives you the right to enter any baseball park in the world after paying the admission fee. This gives you the right to be an expert on baseball playing and management. This gives you the right to cheer for any team you wish. It also gives you the right to second-guess any coach, manager, player, or management personnel. You can choose to associate yourself with any subfamily, whether you've been invited or not. If you're a Red Sox family member, you can declare war on any Yankees family member. If you're a Trojans family member, you're automatically at odds with any Bruins family member (Raisin). You can wear a Cubs shirt and be a Cubs family member even though you've never been near Chicago, much less Wrigley Field. With these rights go the privilege of responsibility. None of us are bigger than the game. We owe the game; it doesn't owe us."

How disappointed are KU fans w/Self?

This is a bad UK team, they did better offensively, this team has no business shooting 22 3s. There's a good possibility they might not make the tourney, coaches get canned for that. (I would not though) 1st time since Sutton that a non-1st year coach has not made the tourney.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/14/SPGOUGNGEP1.DTL Agreed, don't except it Dusty. O:)

It's a double edged sword that is almost impossible to find out. The thin air has a major effect on one pitch, the curve. The curve is the best strikeout pitch and the toughest to hit, is thrown well. You take away a pitcher's best strikeout pitch, the numbers will drop. Of course, being that the air makes it a little league park, players tend to try and hit the ball 500ft and overswing.

I like Clement and worry about his health even before the liner, he just gets fatigued almost every second half. Him, Prior, and Wood appeared to have a great relationship. We'll see what the pitching looks like after next off-season and whether or not Wood comes back, how pitchers like Guzman, Hill, Marshall, etc progress. But, if they have a spot in the rotation that needs to be filled and Clement is a FA, I'd have no problem with them going after him. I think he's a pitcher that needs a similar workload closer to Maddux than Zambrano though.

There's a HS coach in the Phoenix area by the name of Bill Swift who disagrees. His teammate Van Landingham also disagrees. As does Estes, who never had the same velocity as he did early on in his Giants career.

I watched Maddux extend himself last year as well, despite being tired, he went beyond his normal outing. It's human nature. Z was dead tired when he pitched almost 140 pitches last year.

I hope Kerry would be mad. It doesn't equate to throwing him out there despite him being injured and little to be gained from it. That's about as dumb as a manager going out to the mound late in an important ballgame and asking the pitcher if he's alright? The pitcher could be stalling between each pitch and throwing everything high and still say he's alright.

So did I, I still miss him. His back will go out before the elbow, his delivery is more geared towards shoulder problems than elbow..

If you want to see a pitcher spooked, Clement in the playoffs or late in the year, had another liner right at his head. After that, his glove was by his head about the same time his pivot foot landed.

I think him not finishing the pitches was psychological. Same with Clement.