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Am I the only one who still can't believe that we lucked into getting Derrick Rose?

Mitch Williams on the CC vs Lee matchup- "When you have two aces going against each other, one has to win and one has to lose. Unless they both get no-decisions." Thanks Mitch

Actually he'd still be better than [retty much every analyst on the network. Their on air personalities are unbelievably atrocious. It makes BBTN seem like fangraphs. Yes but unlike Phillips, every analyst on that station(ok...other than Mitch Williams) actually knows what he is talking about. That's like the opposite of what I just said. The analysts on MLBN are atrocious. I don't know how you can say that. I turned it on for 5 minutes the other day and I heard Harold Reynolds use the phrase "clogging the bases" THREE times in that span. Then they cut over to Al Leiter next to a big screen with the Twins lineup to break down how the Yankees would attack it. His plan? To retire the first 2 guys in the lineup. He talked for about 3 minutes about how they should focus on getting the top 2 guys out before Mauer/Cuddyer/Kubel come up. Thanks Al. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to try and retire the top 2 guys in the lineup. Great strategy. Pretty much every one of the analysts on that network relies on batting average, RBIs, and win totals for starting pitchers. It's bruuttttalllll. Maybe you should try watching more than 5 minutes of the MLB network then. Guys like Larkin are breaking down AB"s pitch by pitch,scene by scene,pitch selection by pitch selection and explaining exactly how Lee managed to neutralize hot A-Rod tonight with pitches low and in and low and away. Talked of how lefty Lee's good method of hiding the ball well to the right handed hitters worked to his advantage tonite. Talking all about Lee's off balance stuff and how he is adjusting to the Yankee hitters, instead of the Yankee hitters adjusting to the pitching like what happened in the Angles series. While they are saying this Showalter and Valentine over on Baseball Tonite can do no better than look at the highlights and throw cliche's out there like"Cliff Lee was dominant tonight" and "Yup he had everything working for him tonight" with basically no true analysis whatsoever. How about the pitch by pitch breakdown that got Sabathia in trouble with Utley? Again....you see the video and the watch the atbats to Utley unfold. At bat video shows what leads up to a 3-2 count to Utley with consecutive fastballs inside, ultimately leading Utley to sit dead red on a fastball middle- in(that he'd seen over and over in the atbat) and drive the ball into the seats for his 2nd homer. Reynolds, as annoying as he is actually broke this down well. Saying "Of course Utley knew what was coming, because Sabathia has been pitching Howard and Ibanez the same way all night. He's made no adjustments to these Philedelphia left handed hitters" and then showed the same pitch sequence/selection in the atbat tfrom the previous inning where Howard doubled to back up what he was saying. Over on Baseball Tonite.....they showed Utley's HR. "Wow that went a long way"says Singleton----with no analysis of the bad pitch selection, non adjustments made by CC and the Yankees or the events that led to the home run at all. Some of these guys at MLB may be annoying and obnoxious, but they are heads above any of the analysts over at Baseball Tonite. And less east coast bias too. I've watched much more than 5 minutes. When the network first started I gave it plenty of time. I still watch it sometimes for highlight and stuff also, so I'm aware of what's going on. I expected more than "they might be a little better than BBTN because they break down things more" when the network started. Not to mention I still don't believe that's true. At least BBTN will throw on guys like Kurkjian or Gammons every once in a while. Guys that at least understand how to properly look at stats. Meanwhile the clowns at MLBN keep babbling on and on about batting average and garbage like that. I turned it on a few days ago and they were talking about the decline of Garrett Atkins. The 3 stats they broke down to show his decline? Batting average, home runs, and RBIs (not to mention they didn't even show the AB totals). I'm not interested in Harold Reynolds talking about clogging the bases, or Dan Plesac talking about how Andy Pettitte is a big game pitcher, or Greg Amsinger saying that Ted Lilly shouldn't have been in the all-star games because "he only has a 9-6 record". I don't want to hear Harold Reynolds saying the Cubs would miss Ronny Cedeno more than DeRosa, or Al Leitier saying the Yankees' pitching plan should be to retire the top 2 guys in the lineup before the power. So yeah, I've given the network plenty of time, and I still watch it for highlights and stuff. The only guys on that network that are tolerable are Vasgersian and maybe Barry Larkin. The best way that I can describe it is that MLBN reminds me a lot of cubs.com

I don't think I'd approve it.

Sarge should probably stop whining and thank god that some idiot GM gave him about 5 times what he was worth. He keeps whining about wanting to play, but if he was given the option to void his contract and become a free agent (and get a chance to potentially start somewhere for way less), would he do it? I highly doubt it.

Like someone else mentioned, I don't think Scioscia would want Bradley.

I still don't trust UZR, but I just checked it out for Matthews and holy crap does it not like him. It had him as consistently well above average from 02-05, mediocre in 06, and atrocious from 07-09, which would make sense considering his age. Do not want

Matthews Jr does not play a good center field, at all.

Matthews has actually been pretty crappy defensively over the last couple seasons. He is terrible.

I did like this though

Vernon Wells? [expletive] [expletive] Sigh wat

Haha. I was reading an article about Garner a week or 2 ago and he was almost acting like he had it wrapped up or something. Whoops.

Actually he'd still be better than [retty much every analyst on the network. Their on air personalities are unbelievably atrocious. It makes BBTN seem like fangraphs. Yes but unlike Phillips, every analyst on that station(ok...other than Mitch Williams) actually knows what he is talking about. That's like the opposite of what I just said. The analysts on MLBN are atrocious. I don't know how you can say that. I turned it on for 5 minutes the other day and I heard Harold Reynolds use the phrase "clogging the bases" THREE times in that span. Then they cut over to Al Leiter next to a big screen with the Twins lineup to break down how the Yankees would attack it. His plan? To retire the first 2 guys in the lineup. He talked for about 3 minutes about how they should focus on getting the top 2 guys out before Mauer/Cuddyer/Kubel come up. Thanks Al. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to try and retire the top 2 guys in the lineup. Great strategy. Pretty much every one of the analysts on that network relies on batting average, RBIs, and win totals for starting pitchers. It's bruuttttalllll.

Kind of funny that by the time this finally got finished, Peavy is on the White Sox and Kevin Towers isn't even a GM anymore.

I bet it happens a lot more in those places, actually. I think the Cubs players are just the only ones who complain about it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4599262 He was a minor league manager for the Cubs at 1 time.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/news/story?id=4596157

i ended up with a ton of rb's too. steven jackson, gore, reggie bush, mendenhall, parker, choice, and maroney. im gonna package some and try to upgrade somewhere else. Your running backs have been pretty lousy this year. eh. steven jackson is still on pace for like 1500 yards and lots of receptions, he just can't get into the endzone. gore scored a ton of points for me in the first 2 weeks before he got hurt, so i think he'll be fine. mendenhall has been nice since he's been starting. the others pretty much suck, but i've gotten good weeks from choice and bush as fill ins.

and a much worse save percentage

Actually he'd still be better than [retty much every analyst on the network. Their on air personalities are unbelievably atrocious. It makes BBTN seem like fangraphs.

ridiculous goal by kane

my awesome luck continued this week. i'm going to finish with the 3rd lowest point toal this week (out of 12 teams) and i'm still going to win, 93-90 starting cutler over carson palmer was a poor choice

i ended up with a ton of rb's too. steven jackson, gore, reggie bush, mendenhall, parker, choice, and maroney. im gonna package some and try to upgrade somewhere else.

More awesomness...... - the birthmark is on his junk, apparently http://www.fanhouse.com/2009/10/21/now-showing-on-espn-fatal-attraction-ii/?icid=webmail|wbml-aol|dl4|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fanhouse.com%2F2009%2F10%2F21%2Fnow-showing-on-espn-fatal-attraction-ii%2F So not only is she an uggo, she's a pyscho too. Good job, Steve.