woodchip2153

I agree. Fortunately, the trend is starting to shift as New York State has banned the use of metal bats in High School play recently. Baseball is meant to be played with wood bats. Yeah, but won't this hurt high school baseball there? I doubt that the inner city schools can pay for all of the wood bats the team will go through during a season. How much do wood bats cost? I thought they were in the $30 dollar range... Would it really make that much of a difference? The cheapest wood bats are about $20, but you definitely get what you pay for with wood bats. You can get lucky and find good wood bats for $50 on occasion but your really good (maple) bats are about $80. They do make composite wood bats that come with a one year warranty and those cost about $80, these are probably the most cost effective, but aren't pure wood and it depends upon the rules of the league if you can use them or not.

They could've just put the extra game today and made it a 4-game series instead of a double header sometime later in the season. We are owed a game with them? Yes, there is a day-night double header on 9/15 at STL as makeup for the 4/29 Josh Hancock game that was postponed. The first game will be at 12:10 pm on WGN and the second game (originally scheduled for 2:55pm) will start at 7:10pm on CSN. FYI, I'm sure one of the reasons why they didn't schedule the double header for this series is because the Cardinals are already playing a day-night double header with the Brewers on Saturday (7/28). That is a makeup for a game that was postponed on 4/13. Also, isn't there something in the CBA that says teams can't play more than 20 days in a row. If so, that's why they couldn't reschedule the game for today.

too bad Dempster has thrown 2 of the last 3 days, so Lou doesn't want to use him. This would be almost the perfect situation to use him.

I think this "abysmal offseason" is getting overplayed. Tank hurts some...but Briggs may play. We've added strength at safety with Archuleta and a healthy Mike Brown...we got a TE upgrade...we've got Hester on offense...there's an awful lot of positives that are being overlooked by the national media just because Tank and Briggs were so ever-present in the spotlight. Greatly? I was disappointed in Tank long before any of his legal issues. I think all this "the Bears will greatly miss Tank" talk is revisionist history. Nobody thought of him as a cog until after he was suspended. I'm pretty certain the drafting of Dusty was a direct response to Tank disappointing. The media focuses so heavily on the Lovie extension talks, that they put it in their minds right away that this was going to be a tumultuous offseason. They've created a Rex controversy themselves, so it all just builds. The national media takes a general stance on a team and just sticks with it for as long as possible. Manning and the Colts can't win when it matters (or in any kind of bad weather). Brady and the Patriots can't lose in the postseason. Parcells has Dallas on the verge of a championship. Detroit is up and coming. The Bears are mismanaged and don't have a QB. All of these have been the story for several years now. John Clayton has been pretty fair this offseason regarding the Bears. He has even praised them, especially for there improvements on offense. Yea, but other than him the national media, especially SI has gone a little overboard and seem to be hoping the Bears fall apart.

He sold porn from his dorm room in college.

try this marco: http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/chat/flashchat.php Still nothing. Its in a tab, but the whole tab is blank. do you need to download a plug-in or something?

there's a link at the end of last night's game thread. I'm too lazy to go get it.

104 Thanks, hopefully we can get some runs here, and get him the win.

How many pitches has he thrown?

I'm not so sure there is. there is but it's only when the bases are unoccupied.

:p - Snap. Isn't there a "shot clock" for pitchers? How does it work, and how long is it? Or am I making stuff up again?

this is taking forever

How do suspensions for coaches work? Can Perry be in the dugout prior to the game but has to be somewhere else during the game without contacting the players or managers?

I figure with my wealth and modern technology, I think I can live to 250-300.

USSoccer won my vote with The Simpsons' quotes.

I'm biased, but I think they are worse at Busch. do they scream at every 300 foot fly bally too? sometimes even a 250 ft. It's ridiculous.

I'm biased, but I think they are worse at Busch.

BOOM!

??? I thought he came in to face a lefty?

They said it was blowing in, but it wasn't blowing very hard today at all. ok, thanks. Did Izturis just get a RBI with his glove?

what direction is the wind blowing?

Pat had me fooled. Did he say his usual "that ball's got a chance?" It certainly did. I thought it was killed. Yep, and he got really excited. I celebrated prematurely.

Pat had me fooled.