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  1. XZero771679666304
    Hey now. I didn't say it was the worst thing ever, just that it isn't something that can just be let go. I think that maybe a few people here are just rationalizing having done it.
  2. XZero771679666304
    I agree to a point. Severe violations of trust are major factors in affecting how we feel about ourselves and how we view others and the relations we have with others. A severe betrayal can have a profound effect of the quality of one's remaining life. It isn't death, but it isn't to be dismissed, either.
  3. XZero771679666304
    The OP might want to read posts like this that show that his frustration is wildly misplaced. Fukudome has a .360 OBP in the last week. Yeah. he doesn't have an .800 ops for May (.779), but his .417 OBP is #9 in MLB and his May OBP is #19 in MLB. He's still getting a fair amount of walks but it's been a while since he really drove a ball. When I say Kouske in the beginning of the season, he had totally abandoned the fukucopter and looked like a totally different player. Driving the ball all over the park, hanging in there much better. However, lately I've been seeing the old approach and the results are declining. He got on base at a decent clip last year, too, and everybody still wanted his head by September. If he keeps it up, his numbers are going to continue to decline. This I am sure of. The swing was largely the same, it was just that he wasn't missing very much, thus no Fukucopter. I hate to point out the obvious, but the book the league got on him after April last year was still out there when camps broke this year. He has made an adjustment. Don't forget Kosuke's average dipped below .300 a few weeks ago, and he got it back up in the .330's. You are going to see some fluctuations, as with everybody. Frankly I'm more worried about Theriot, whose numbers are really headed south.
  4. XZero771679666304
    Yeah I mean it's been, what, 9-10 months now since we had an All-Star we drafted/developed? Yeah, I know...how quickly I forget, but Geo has me worried that he is merely a flash in the pan..though he has shown signs of life lately. I'm hoping Vitters ends up being the real deal is all I'm trying to say. Jury is still out on Geo; hope my fears end up being unfounded Geo was an out of nowhere guy, certainly not a highly drafted and regarded pick like Vitters. Not that it means anything, but I don't think they make for a good comparison.
  5. XZero771679666304
    I was big into Iron Chef, but Iron Chef America sucks.
  6. XZero771679666304
    I watch The First 48, a lot of Animal Planet, Discovery, Nat Geo and I.D., but no major network "reality" shows.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Given the old Gorzallany treatment. That will happen when you're getting hit harder than Sasha Grey.
  8. XZero771679666304
    Why don't we keep the angry, reactionary posts in the game threads.
  9. XZero771679666304
    It never woke up, it just had a nocturnal emission.
  10. XZero771679666304
    Many of us thought he'd be bad, but I don't know if anyone thought he'd be this bad.
  11. XZero771679666304
    Cuddyer just hit for the cycle.
  12. XZero771679666304
    Ricky has gone from one of the best young starters around to a total disaster in alarmingly short order.
  13. XZero771679666304
    Zambrano is undoubtedly infuriating to non-Cubs fans. If he weren't on our team, we'd hate him. He's not Jose Valverde (who's going to get one of his teammates hurt at some point) bad, but he's in the ballpark. Fans always overlook/spin the behavior of their own players.
  14. XZero771679666304
    Soriano gets a little showy (and he repeatedly pays for it), but I don't see much from Pujols. Both of them like to admire homers (Sori a tad more than Albert), but neither of them are as bad as Braun. I wouldn't have said that with much conviction a while ago, but Braun is just getting worse. In the last Cubs/Crew series when Braun acted like a jackass all the way around the bases, that might have been one of the worst cases I've ever seen. At least most guy's celebratory antics end about 1/2 of the way down the first base line. Add to that the growing perception of the "untuck 'em" as the most disrespectful celebration in baseball. The two most visible guys are Fielder and Braun, and unlike Ryan, Prince is pretty classy the rest of the time. One of these days someone is going to earhole Braun with a heater, and nobody outside of Wisconsin is going to feel the least bit bad about it.
  15. XZero771679666304
    Funny that you say that. Watch for Braun in Web Gems tonight as he made a very nice catch. Because we all know that having a web gem totally validates your defensive prowess. Never said that, but your post mocked his defense prowess for tonight. Tonight he made a play that mot many LF could make. It the sort of thing that should be named "The Jeter Effect", where a player makes routine plays look spectacular, doesn't make many errors (mostly because they don't get to a lot of balls), and develops a reputation that far exceeds the reality of their defensive ability. Jim Edmonds is another notable example of this. Braun will never develop a reputation like Jeter or Edmonds (outside of the Brewers fanbase), but the only reason anyone could say he is a good fielder with a straight face is because of this sort of thing. Now I didn't see the play in question, but I have seen (on many occasions) Braun get fooled, get a bad jump or take a bad route and make what would have been an easy play for most OF look spectacular because of his athleticism. His ability to make recoveries with his raw athleticism is the only thing that separates him from guys like Chris Duncan and Adam Dunn.
  16. XZero771679666304
    Funny that you say that. Watch for Braun in Web Gems tonight as he made a very nice catch. Because we all know that having a web gem totally validates your defensive prowess.
  17. XZero771679666304
    Well if he is a Marlins fan, there is one more in Milwaukee than there is in Miami.
  18. XZero771679666304
    Of course it would. To suggest otherwise would mean you are blinded by jealousy.
  19. XZero771679666304
    and a non-torn labrum too. And a manager that knows how to handle him. I can't believe this Prior is a [expletive] stuff is still continuing as he comes back too injured to pitch every season. What's not to believe? That rap will be with Prior for the rest of his career (if he has one anymore). I can't believe the blame everyone but Mark Prior stuff is still around. he was a great pitcher who became ineffective and then unable to pitch because of arm problems. the only person who's really deserving of blame is dusty baker and perhaps the cubs' medical staff for not diagnosing him properly; what should prior be blamed for? tearing his labrum? i'm sure he's sorry that it happened. No silly. He is to be blamed for not being John Wayne out there. It's not his jacked up shoulder that keeps him out, it's his lack of intestinal fortitude. He doesn't need to be physically intact, he just needs a bigger set of heuvos.
  20. XZero771679666304
    MLBTV's blackout restriction didn't apply to today's game. Saturday games after 1:10 ET are subject to it. Today's game was at 1:05. Well MLBEI didn't carry it, I can tell you that much.
  21. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, and it pisses me off as well.
  22. XZero771679666304
    The Cards are a mess right now.
  23. XZero771679666304
    False. Yeah, today was the first time in almost 2 weeks he has given up an earned run, and the second time all year he has allowed more than one. He's not great by any stretch, but he isn't a disaster.
  24. XZero771679666304
    I remember last year you kept defending Howry pretty hard too TT. Last year there was no reason not to. Don't forget Howry was pretty damned good for 4 consecutive seasons before last year's disaster, and he had historically been a second half pitcher. It wasn't until midseason that it was clear he wasn't going to get much better.
  25. XZero771679666304
    That was so frustrating to watch.
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