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He's just mad he looks exactly like Chris Young (white).

Given that for most of them the playing time will be extremely limited and meaningless, I really don't have an issue. Reward the guy for playing well, just as long as they don't get stupid about thinkng he has a future. Yeah, I mean this is the year to do these sorta things. Who cares if he gets 30 AB's? Seen Pena, know the story.

Still don't believe. He looks like every 33 year old crappy middle infielder who has ever played the game. Yes, Blake DeWitt is not good. And he looks much older than 26. I don't think we need to discuss him going home this offseason, working on his game a ton, hitting the weights every day and returning a really good hitter.

I'm all for this, still. Do it Boren. I hope something like this happens solely because it means that Iowa State would be closer to going to a non-BCS conference which would be hilarious. How do Iowa & Iowa St keep a decent rivalry considering one of them never wins? Though I guess this was true with ND and a bunch of schools up until a few years ago.

Yeah, Sunday was the season finale. A few of their guys might show up in Boise. @BruceMiles2112: #Cubs Rookie ball team in Mesa is done. Going to Boise (A) are IF Javier Baez and RHPs Tony Zych, James Pugliese and Michael Jensen. Additionally, Kyung-Min Na is returning to Boise as OF Pin-Chieh Chen and RHP Yao-Lin Wang are returning to Taiwan. Does that just mean returning as in 'going home for the offseason'?

Was thoroughly unimpressed with pretty much everyone I saw there this year.

Just drive to the stadium and park on a close street, it's extremely easy for a weekday game.

Think that was a joke to an earlier comment you made Will be at this one tonight, thank God it's nice outside. Hoping for something less than a 3 hour game and a Cubs W

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-castros-lack-of-focus-under-fire-20110822,0,3237476.story Like the response Castro feels terrible, knows that can't happen in a game and won't again. Soriano apparently said something to him about it after the game.

Actually saw the whole thing last night and am 50/50 on how it played out. Tim's got it right in that Bobby V pointing out Castro "isn't always 100% focused" is the real issue here. Not taking his glove off or chewing seeds. They were certainly over the top in pointing out all those little things but I'm chalking that up to ESPN being what they are. I think the best thing they talked about during that segment was the possibility of a veteran SS being around to work with Starlin on what it means to play 162 games of winning baseball year in and year out. Right now, I just don't think he knows; and how should he? The fact is that this will be his, along with 1-2 other players', team going forward and he will be counted on to be a leader. Just for example, I guarantee you that if someone like Derek Jeter, Omar Vizquel, Barry Larkin, Ozzie Smith, etc. were to sit down with Starlin and watch video of him playing the field they would tell him many of the same things that Bobby V was talking about as far as his pitch-to-pitch, inning-to-inning focus is concerned. Just being into every pitch, anticipating where the ball will be hit, communicating with the infield. He even said that right now Starlin just enjoys hitting much more than he does fielding and someone needs to point out how much of an impact he could actually make there as well. I had no problem with Bobby V pointing out this part of his play, but the other stuff was just fodder.

Interesting but unfortunately not that shocking....the bold part is not true though. I know almost every team has someone who records the players, but that person isn't necessarily a "qualified tech-geek".

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56205&start=75

That's Henry Melton

I love that the first sentence of the post is calling other posts ridiculous. He had a temper tantrum. He'll apologize and be back. He didn't leave during the game, or do anything that was so awful that he can't come back. Silly overreaction. It was an overly emotional post, but your response isn't much better. He's had too many temper tantrums. He's not worth the headache anymore. What's the headache here? Presuming he comes back today and says "Hey guys, sorry. Lost my head last night. Was pissed off that I had a [expletive] game."....what's the damage? What's the headache? Are you mental? How many times can a guy say I'm sorry? Why are you defending him? I really don't understand. He has proved he's a joke and really doesn't respect anyone. How would you feel if someone making 10 times as much money as you at your job pretty much acted the way they wanted all the time and made others look like fools?

The first page of this thread is fairly ridiculous; I can't believe there are actually some defending Zambrano and trying to spin it against hack writers and crappy TV show hosts. Let's face it, Z is an idiot who pretty much sucks ass at baseball now. He basically gets paid $500,000/week to jog, take BP and throw 120 pitches. Since he's been here, there's never been an authority figure to put him in his place. Not Dusty, not Lou, not Hendry, certainly not Quade (yet...I hope). I have been a huge Z fan over the years. He's typically been a fun player to watch on a crappy team and he can do some crazy things with a bat in his hands. But seriously Carlos, please retire, get the hell out of here and never come back. Z is now making Cub fans look like fools for even attempting to defend him over the past 2 years. If I had a kid who saw this guy I don't even know what I'd tell him. This is how guys I played with (and myself) acted at age 13. Get lost forever Z

Is that what ultimately happened?

Will go to this one tonight, probably catch the Santo statue thing.

Bet you didn't know that Zambrano has a 3 game hitting streak on the line, eh? oh, btw...... Birthday Greetings, young'n !!! But he couldn't hit that chick softball pitcher yesterday.....

Kosuke should be playing ball in the Yukon Territory

I guess I don't get it then, he isn't even batting leadoff

With help from the Cincy LF bouncing off the padding in left, just beyond the Cubs bullpen. Ball bounced off wall and rolled to fence, and the LF stumbled the whole way there. Yeah, Len described him as a "Soriano-esque leadoff hitter" when he had his AB in the top of the inning and said the Reds want him in the lineup for his bat but it's an "adventure" with him in the OF. Talk about an understatement. As bad as Soriano has screwed up that was just brutal. Len was talking about Drew Stubbs when he said that I believe. Edit: Unless he was referring to Alonso as a leadoff hitter in other games....?

Yahoo Fantasy compares him to Drew Stubbs (fantasy production wise)....is that at all accurate in real life baseball world? I'm assuming he at least is not gonna steal as many bases.

I would highly, highly doubt it.

Sullivan confirming the prospects are Abreu and Smith. Colvin will be called up to play RF. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-report-indians-pursuing-cubs-fukudome-20110728,0,471140.story

Yeah, don't think it should be more than 3 weeks or so.