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I don't think it's satire because of the way that he seems to be propping up Jeremy Brown's failure as his anti-Moneyball vindication. IMO, it would read a lot more like satire if not for that part.

Nah, that was a sober pick, SON. haha, I wrote that and I was like, "maybe i should edit that cause it looks like i'm making fun of his pick instead of laughing at him for deleting the formatting for the small text". but then I decided I liked it the way it was. SON haha.. whoops

I will never understand why some people are so hell bent against progress. It's not just baseball. You see it with a lot of things.

Nah, that was a sober pick, SON.

Scratch that... Soriano will be in the lineup tomorrow, according to Bruce's post in today's game thread.

Soriano took BP yesterday and should be back in the lineup early next week. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-080306-jason-marquis-cubs,0,7530068.story

1. Alex Rodriguez 2. Albert Pujols 3. Hanley Ramirez 4. Jose Reyes 5. Ryan Braun 6. David Wright 7. Chase Utley 8. Jimmy Rollins 9. Miguel Cabrera 10. Johan Santana 11. Matt Holliday 12. Ryan Howard 13. Grady Sizemore 14. Prince Fielder 15. Jake Peavy 16. Troy Tulowitzki 17. Victor Martinez 18. Carl Crawford 19. Alfonso Soriano 20. David Ortiz 21. Carlos Beltran 22. Brandon Webb 23. Vlad Guerrero 24. Ichiro 25. Derrek Lee 26. Russell Martin 27. Joe Mauer 28. Brandon Phillips 29. Brian Roberts 30. BJ Upton 31. Derek Jeter 32. Corey Hart 33. Josh Beckett 34. Manny Ramirez 35. Dan Haren 36. Robinson Cano 37. Justin Verlander 38. Erik Bedard 39. Aramis Ramirez 40. Cole Hamels 41. Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones 42. Adam Dunn 43. Mark Teixeira 44. CC Sabathia 45. Carlos Lee 46. Lance Berkman 47. Roy Halladay 48. Carlos Zambrano 49. Scott Kazmir 50. Francisco Liriano 51. John Smoltz 52. John Lackey 53. Chris Young (the outfielder) 54. Curtis Granderson 55. Brian McCann 56. Ian Kinsler 57. Magglio Ordonez 58. Jorge Posada 59. Khalil Greene 60. Carlos Guillen 61. Garrett Atkins 62. Felix Hernandez 63. Aaron Rowand 64. Geovany Soto 65. Chris Young (the weirdly proportioned pitcher) 66. Roy Oswalt 67. Aaron Harang 68. Ryan Zimmerman 69. Carlos Pena 70. Joe Nathan 71. Matt Kemp 72. Francisco Rodriguez 73. Dan Uggla 74. Gary Sheffield 75. Jonathan Paplebon 76. Daisuke Matsuzaka 77. Hunter Pence 78. Tim Lincecum 79. Rich Hill 80. Nick Markakis 81. Rickie Weeks 82. Kosuke Fukudome 83. Kenji Johjima 84. Fausto Carmona 85. JJ Putz 86. Takashi Saito 87. Jose Valverde 88. Todd Helton 89. Javier Vazquez 90. Nick Swisher 91. James Shields 92. Miguel Tejada 93. Brad Hawpe 94. Hideki Matsui 95. Travis Hafner 96. Edgar Renteria 97. Alex Rios 98. JJ Hardy 99. Chone Figgins 100. Billy Wagner 101. Joba Chamberlain 102. A.J. Burnett- picking for IMB 103. Bobby Abreu 104. Shane Victorino 105. Mariano Rivera 106. Placido Polanco 107. Kevin Kouzmanoff 108. Jason Bay 109. Josh Hamilton 110. Brad Penny 111. Michael Young 112. Torii Hunter 113. Adrian Gonzalez 114. Matt Cain 115. Eric Byrnes (IMB) 116. Huston Street 117. Adrian Beltre 118. Howie Kendrick 119. Brett Myers 120. Andruw Jones[/size] 121. Justin Morneau 122. Bobby Jenks 123. Ben Sheets 124. John Maine 125. Matt Capps 126. Delmon Young 127. Pedro Martinez 128. Francisco Cordero 129. Rich Harden

HAHA... Hilarious! Lou is going to blow a gasket over spring training games. looooooooooooooooooooooooooool

You hadn't heard of this before?

Yea, 90% of the time all the ESPN Insider stuff offers is just links to the different local newspaper reports for different teams. They just put them all neat in one place for 5-10 bucks a month. Quite a racket they've got going there.

This is a total tangent, because I'm obviously not talking about stereotypes, but since when does race only determine the "color of your skin?" Obviously, things like karate and crap need not apply, but there are attributes that are different among the different races beyond just skin color. Certain physical/biological attributes are simply (in some cases, much more) more common in some races than others.

Lowrie's more 2B than SS. So is Theriot.

Can we move this ridiculous karate chop discussion to rants or something and keep this thread on the subject of, I don't know, at least the lineup?

oh the ironing

seriously If I'm Roberts I'd be getting more vocal about it. Either trade me or keep me! I'm pretty sure we heard that he said that to the O's.......about 2-3 weeks ago. :shock:

His person is also saying that he has received no indication that the deal is close, and bb actually went on to say that it was his opinion that Roberts wouldn't be traded. Plus, today is the Orioles longest road trip, so most of the regulars didn't make the trip. I hate when they do that. I hate when real reporters do it to. I don't care what your opinion is. Report the facts/what you heard. Don't throw in your own thoughts. Nobody cares. /rant

Thanks for the update. I'm assuming all hell is breaking loose (par for the course) at OH.

I wouldn't worry about it. He doesn't walk a lot of guys. Might be a result of him trying new stuff with his deliveries.

This will no longer be the case this year. All road broadcasts on WGN and CSN (even WCIU, if I remember correctly) will be in HD. I'm pretty sure Bulls road games are already being broadcast in HD on CSN. At least, I watched one a few nights ago that was.

I couldn't disagree more. You can't take deep routes out of the play book and turn Grossman into and dinker and dunker. Grossman's biggest strength is the 15-20 yard pass. And he needs to throw the occasional deep ball as well. What they need is to do a better job blocking. I think the problem is the Bears idea of a passing game was often either throw a bomb or dump it off. They need to work on that intermediate game, but keep the deep game as a threat as well. Yea, I was scratching my head on that one too. Take out the deep routes with Grossman in? Huh?

I remember reading at some point that he was looking bad (as he usually does this time of year) and bouncing sliders or something like that. Also know that he was there for photo day when they mislabled his pics as Jason Marquis (IIRC).

The Indians would be absurdly good if they did.

So we're still waiting on Fuku's first line drive into the OF, huh? I'm slightly worried. Slightly.

I believe this post is about right. That's about the same that I've heard. A lot of people seem to be confusing HGH with anabolic steroids.

I'm down.