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Hopefully each pain-free outing will increase his confidence a little more again, and eventually he will start to really air it out again.

Nook Logan is my hero!! Now hurry up and switch it to the Cubs game!!

It's his mechanics, dude.

Thata boy Prior! Unfortunately I think the radar probably picked up the bat speed.

Middle of the 10th on the Nats-Mets game, I hope they run out of pitchers after the end of this half inning and switch to the Cubs game.

I wish the Mets and Nats would hurry up, it's still top of the 9th with 1 out.

It must be a delayed broadcast or something. XM176 is the Mets and Nats right now, and it's only in the bottom of the 5th.

This is absolutely great news! Now I'm kinda split on what our draft needs are. I'm a big Pat Watkins supporter, and I'm really against drafting a CB in the first because IMO Henry is staying at CB and we've already got quite a bit of money invested there. The offensive line is solidified now, so there's no need for that. WR is interesting since it is such a deep draft for them, but I really like the group we've got with TO, Glenn, Crayton, Austin, and Hurd. We could use a nickel CB, but I like McCauley in 2nd/3rd round area. A backup C is needed too since Johnson left, but Young out of Fresno St. is decent and could be gotten on on day 2. There aren't really any prototypical NT's this year, but players like Soliai, Doughty, Dagunduro could all be had on 2nd day as well. Reggie Nelson is the only person I would really love to see in the first and I doubt he makes it that far. I think there's a decent chance Nelson falls to 22. It's not a certainty, but in this draft it could happen. I want that shut-down free safety. I'd love to get Landry, but he'll be picked with the 8-14 pick, I'm sure. Nelson has a chance to fall to 22, and if so Dallas should take him. If Nelson is gone, I'd like to see the Cowboys trade down. If they can trade the 22nd for two picks in the range of 30-40, they may be able to get Michael Griffin out of Texas and Meacham or Craig Davis. I didn't get to watch any football outside of the Thanksgiving Day games this year, but it's my understanding that Griffin is more of a SS than a FS? Maybe we could trade down to say Oakland for their 2nd this year, and 1st next year and try for Kenny Phillips. Meachem, Bowe, Rice, and possibly Jarrett would be there at the top of the 2nd. I have never been real happy with our RB. Pending his physical I would not mind taking a flyier on Michael Bush and trading JJ. Outside of that the secondary is the biggest need by far. As for that other team in Texas, espn.com is reporting they might have some interest in Quinn. Why try to correct last seasons biggest mistake? There really hasn't been alot of running room the past few years though. JJ is at his best in space, and I think that we'll see a much better running attack this year with the much improved line. Rivera was just taking up room but did very little last year. I think Bush is going to turn out to be another Ron Dayne in the NFL. If we trade JJ, and draft another RB this year I think it would be more of a speedster. We've already got MBIII to be the bruiser so we'd need a change of pace.

This is absolutely great news! Now I'm kinda split on what our draft needs are. I'm a big Pat Watkins supporter, and I'm really against drafting a CB in the first because IMO Henry is staying at CB and we've already got quite a bit of money invested there. The offensive line is solidified now, so there's no need for that. WR is interesting since it is such a deep draft for them, but I really like the group we've got with TO, Glenn, Crayton, Austin, and Hurd. We could use a nickel CB, but I like McCauley in 2nd/3rd round area. A backup C is needed too since Johnson left, but Young out of Fresno St. is decent and could be gotten on on day 2. There aren't really any prototypical NT's this year, but players like Soliai, Doughty, Dagunduro could all be had on 2nd day as well. Reggie Nelson is the only person I would really love to see in the first and I doubt he makes it that far. I think there's a decent chance Nelson falls to 22. It's not a certainty, but in this draft it could happen. I want that shut-down free safety. I'd love to get Landry, but he'll be picked with the 8-14 pick, I'm sure. Nelson has a chance to fall to 22, and if so Dallas should take him. If Nelson is gone, I'd like to see the Cowboys trade down. If they can trade the 22nd for two picks in the range of 30-40, they may be able to get Michael Griffin out of Texas and Meacham or Craig Davis. I didn't get to watch any football outside of the Thanksgiving Day games this year, but it's my understanding that Griffin is more of a SS than a FS? Maybe we could trade down to say Oakland for their 2nd this year, and 1st next year and try for Kenny Phillips. Meachem, Bowe, Rice, and possibly Jarrett would be there at the top of the 2nd.

This is absolutely great news! Now I'm kinda split on what our draft needs are. I'm a big Pat Watkins supporter, and I'm really against drafting a CB in the first because IMO Henry is staying at CB and we've already got quite a bit of money invested there. The offensive line is solidified now, so there's no need for that. WR is interesting since it is such a deep draft for them, but I really like the group we've got with TO, Glenn, Crayton, Austin, and Hurd. We could use a nickel CB, but I like McCauley in 2nd/3rd round area. A backup C is needed too since Johnson left, but Young out of Fresno St. is decent and could be gotten on on day 2. There aren't really any prototypical NT's this year, but players like Soliai, Doughty, Dagunduro could all be had on 2nd day as well. Reggie Nelson is the only person I would really love to see in the first and I doubt he makes it that far.

Sosa is hitting 500 this spring. He's made the team for certain. I'm going to enjoy watching him as a Ranger this year. I agree. I've always enjoyed watching the Rangers, and they are my 2nd team. This just makes it even better for me.

It would be better if he was doing that for the cubs... Did we take him in the major league or minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft? If we took him in the minor league phase where we could place him in the minors I guess it'd be nice to have him. But he's still about the turn 26, has never played above the AA level. Right now the backup OF is kinda filled with Floyd, Pagan, and Ward. It's a nice story, but I just don't see any room for him.

I just saw on ESPN that Mike Hampton has either a broken rib or a torn muscle as the result of a BP session recently, and will miss approximately 6-8 weeks.[sarcasm] I think he'd be a perfect fit if Atlanta would be willing to pick up a considerable portion of his salary. [/sarcasm]

I don't know who Tony "Mustang" Scheiffler is, maybe you're referring to Joe Klopfenstein? Byrd was recently arrested for suspicion of DUI and is also facing charges of assault and armed criminal action after a nightclub fight in downtown St. Louis. He only had 2 catches last year, and is listed 3rd on their depth chart. Klopfenstein seemed pretty good to me as a rookie from what I saw, but McMichael is a proven pass-catching TE that justs adds another dimension to the Rams' dangerous offense. Maybe they're going to run a 2-TE system some this year?

Pie with a gun!

The announcers seem impressed by Miller's movement today, but has there been any mention of velocity?

Pie has been doing really good so far this spring.

Yahoo's depth chart has Teahen starting in RF, but Gordon isn't on there anywhere.

Are they talking about a problem with Randy Wells' glove or just something random?

Now the announcers are ragging on us for giving up good money for Lilly.

Beltre one of the best defensive 3B this announcer has ever seen? I thought one of the knocks on Beltre was his defense?

Nice to see Pie working the count and getting a base hit! Show off the wheels now, Felix.

Who cares about the traffic in Seattle? Ben Howard is the pitcher, btw.

Man, another hard hit ball. Whoever is in there is getting rocked.

The announcers just said Prior was only throwing 83-85. Lets hope that is very wrong.