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are you drunk? :) i am. edit. i realized no one cared, but tha fact remains. At least somebody is.

I think I've read it four or five times and I'm still not sure what Griffey is implying.

I agree. One superstar player is not a substitute for a quality team of players. Felix is good, but we would be mortgaging the teams future. To further put in perspective, we'd be giving up a pretty good reliever, plus the #1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 prospects in our system(BA rankings). I definately don't think you should trade 5 of your best young prospects for a player that is only going to take the field once out of every five days. I could maybe see doing it with a position player like Pujols, MAYBE. But that had better be one hell of a player. Also you have to consider the injury risk. If your one star player gets injured, you're screwed. Whereas if you keep those five prospect and one gets injured, you still have the other four. In baseball, one player doesn't win you a championship. The same goes for football. However, if this was basketball, then it might be worth it since one player can completely change a franchise (re: Michael Jordan). I bet the odds are fairly good that one of those five players will make multiple All Star games in his career and another could make one or two. Throw in an average everyday player, and have the other two washout, and that is still three players that make contributions to your team. So like I said, I would maybe do it for a position player but I would never make that trade for any pitcher. Unless he's going to make 70-80 starts in a year and throw 450 innings. Then I would consider it. But I highly doubt we'll ever see another pitcher like that.

I agree, but history hasn't been kind to phenom pitchers. Here's hoping his career's a long one. The Mariners need to ban the words Dwight Gooden from ever being spoken in their clubhouse.

As for Clemens going back to Boston, I know the team would love to have him back, but I don't think the fans would like him too much. I'm sure if he was pitching well then they wouldn't boo him, but the fans would be much quicker to boo Clemens if he wasn't pitching well then they would another player. Clemens dogged it his last two years in Boston (as evidenced by his two Cy Young years in Toronto) and didn't say nice things when he left. I just don't know how well he would be received in Boston. He would definately get a much warmer welcome in either New York or Houston though.

Agreed (I do think Maddux should go in as a Brave. I was just posing a question for the other thread. There is absolutely no way you can make a legitimate case for either Toronto or Houston. New York you could make a small case for (like Chicago with Maddux) since he did win his only World Series there. But ultimately, he should go in with a Red Sox cap. A majority of his stats were accumulated while was with the Red Sox. Whether or not he wants to wear a Red Sox cap is a whole different story.

This is Jerome's chance to prove he is better than Rusch and deserves a spot in the rotation until Prior/Wood/Miller return. Hopefully he'll pitch like something is on the line (cause for him there is). And it is very nice winning.

all of the online scoreboards are real slow today. Yeah. ESPN.com shows the final score being 8-6 and didn't credit us for the 3 runs in the ninth.

I'm not sure that's such a good thing.

Did anyone ever consider that it could just be a coincidence? What's next? What if there is a day when only 20 HR's are hit; are you going to ask should the mound be raised again? No. It was one day with a lot of home runs and nothing to make a big deal about. If the pace continues over the course of the season, then you have a legitimate question to ask. But we aren't even 2 weeks into the season. Everybody is feeling good and hasn't suffered the normal wear-and-tear of the baseball season yet.

Ah yes. The obligatory Grady Little bullpen joke. Gotta love those. Somebody had to say it.

I live about 20 minutes from the Sacramento Rivercats stadium and the Iowa Cubs are supposed to come to Sacramento May 22 - May 25 and I was wondering about minor league rehab starts. Does it matter where the minor league teams are playing when the MLB team chooses where the rehab assignments are (i.e. preferring that the players start games in certain places not too far from Chicago) or does that not matter. Because based on the tentative schedule it's possible that either Prior or Wood could be making rehab starts around that time and I would really love to go see them. I'm going to go to one or two of the games anyway just to see our young guys, but I'm wondering if it's possible that either Prior or Wood could make a start there if that is how their rehab is set up? Note: I am not saying I expect either of them to make those starts and by no means am I trying to set a timetable for their return. I would never try to jinx them like that. I'm wondering about how teams do their rehab assignments.

Yup, definitely agree. Guzman still sounded rusty and had some problems with the control - especially his breaking pitches - despite not walking anyone. Hill starts tomorrow, Ryu Sunday. I don't mind giving Williams a shot to start. But why are we letting Rusch start again? Why don't we give Hill or Ryu a chance to if Guzman's control isn't up to par? As for Rusch going to the Astros, I would much rather see him go to the American League so we don't have to face him again. You know he would pitch one of those "I'm going to show my old team why they shouldn't have let me go" type games. It's virtually guaranteed.

I'm assuming that means you do the recaps.

usually when i try to go from 3rd to 1st...people just laugh at me and feel bad for me so they let me go back to 3rd :lol: seriously though, you have to be aware of the situation... I really don't know if you were trying to make a joke about his post, but he got it right. I read it the same way sporrer17 did. I didn't realize what it actually said until you said something.

We can only hope that happens. Now this gives me another thing to bug my dad (a Dodger fan) about. First it's Gagne now Brazoban. It just keeps getting worse for them.

4-4 for Walker. Gotta love it.

They pitched out and Slappy still made it easy.

Way to watch the ball Slappy. Here's hoping Walker improves to 4-4 on the day.

Couldnt tell you but he makes ARam and Cedeno look better. It really is amazing how much better a good 1B makes the other infielders look.

Nice stretch by Lee. I wonder how many errors he, or any good 1B, saves over the course of the year by being able to reach balls like that.

Marshall does take some good hacks though. He doesn't look completely out of his element in the box.

Haha. He is 6-6

MURTON!!! So much for Victor Santos. Bet you are happy to be wrong Vance?

Wow. That's my only reaction.