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Just bullpen help. Oh, and he'll be up for 4 games, not 3. My mistake. But why not Wuertz if you are going to do that? Ryu has not pitched out of the pen at all this year. That would have been the logical choice to me. He seems to have regained whatever it was he was missing to begin the season. He's been solid the last couple of weeks out of Iowa.

Why couldn't the Iowa-CSprings game be in Colorado instead! I'd love to go to that here. The solar sox have a pretty nice stadium for a AAA team too. Iowa doesn't go to colorado at all this year. :x

How about a menage-a-tois for a multi homer game? with the hooker AND the wife? For a multi-homer game, his choice

I'll pitch in another $50 if that turns out to be the straw that broke the camels back...

I don't. There must be thousands of Dusty-bashers out there, maybe more. There's bound to be a couple of idiots out of those thousands.

How about a menage-a-tois for a multi homer game?

It depends on how much they need that 600 million right now. To put it another way, if you owned a $500,000 two story apartment building that made around $20,000 a year in rent after expenses/taxes, would you sell it for $600,000? I wouldn't. I probably would. You're looking at trading $20K a year for a one time shot of $100K, but you're overlooking the opportunity to reinvest the original 500K while keeping the extra 100K (or better yet, reinvest the whole 600K, if you're a little lucky or savy, you could turn the 600 into more than 20 a year).

Wuertz has had a few good outings in a row, if I'm not missing any appearances. It looks like he's finally figuired out what he had been doing wrong this year. I'm hopeful he can come up and add another dominant arm to the pen. Question is, who comes down to make room for him if they decide to bring him up? Ohman?

Did Alcantara kick the guy in the face? In the chest protector. It didn't look like he was aiming anywhere in particular, he just lifted his right (back) leg and kicked the catcher before he took off after the pitcher. He's lucky he didn't hit him in the throat, which would have been the worst place to kick him, since his body and face were protected.

I don't think this was an attempt to intimidate an umpire, nor do I think umpires are/were/are going to be intimidated by the threat of that. Complete non-issue in my mind, I don't think I can express how little a factor that is.[\quote] Whether or not he intended to intimidate an umpire, it could still have that affect. The only way to ensure the umps aren't intimidated is to let them know that any form of physicality aimed in their direction will be dealt with a heavy hand. quote="Transmogrified Tiger"] Not condescending at all. This is pretty much an opinion driven situation, and I knew I was going to vehemently disagree with the majority of people with no chance of changing people's minds. That's why I should've stayed out of the thread, and it's why I'm now done with it. Your comment "Undermine the integrity of the game? I knew I should have stayed out of this thread" was highly condescending. There was no argument offered against that point, just a "you have to be kidding" attitude.

Or Ruschs'

I don't believe so. I think it sends a message to him and anyone else that that sort of behavior will not be tolerated. Compared to what? Does he think it will be tolerated if he only serves 25 games? It's way out of line with MiLB's previous decisions in these situations. To what are you comparing it to? When was an official attacked with a weapon? I know if I do that at the local softball game, my ass is fired from my job, and charges are brought against me for battery. Delmon got off easy. When Alcantra kicked the catcher in the face. 6 games. Kicking someone is not nearly as bad as throwing a bat at them. Attacking a player doesn't undermine the integrity of the game like intimidating, threatening, or attacking the officials does. They're not similar incidents in the least. There's no way you can argue that the bat throw was more dangerous or more insidious than what Alcantra did. If the situations were reversed in when they happened and who perpetrated them, people would be calling for the kicker's head too. Undermine the integrity of the game? I knew I should've stayed out of this thread. So you believe there should be no additional penalty for attacking an umpire? You don't have a problem with umps being intimidated by people who don't agree with their calls? Let's keep the condescending crap out of it.

I don't believe so. I think it sends a message to him and anyone else that that sort of behavior will not be tolerated. Compared to what? Does he think it will be tolerated if he only serves 25 games? It's way out of line with MiLB's previous decisions in these situations. To what are you comparing it to? When was an official attacked with a weapon? I know if I do that at the local softball game, my ass is fired from my job, and charges are brought against me for battery. Delmon got off easy. When Alcantra kicked the catcher in the face. 6 games. Kicking someone is not nearly as bad as throwing a bat at them. Attacking a player doesn't undermine the integrity of the game like intimidating, threatening, or attacking the officials does. They're not similar incidents in the least.

I don't believe so. I think it sends a message to him and anyone else that that sort of behavior will not be tolerated. Compared to what? Does he think it will be tolerated if he only serves 25 games? It's way out of line with MiLB's previous decisions in these situations. 50 games is about right. Letting a player off easily for "accidentally" hitting an ump with a bat sets a bad precedent which would threaten to undermine the game. What previous decisions are you referring to? I've never heard of anyone flinging a bat and hitting an umpire before. Much less right after getting tossed...I don't see any comparable precedence to which you refer.

lol? Zambrano "failed to step up as a leader" because he didn't win games? Tough to win when your offense, as you stated about 47 times, doesn't score. Funny...seems that Z's only start since we REALLY went into a funk, he threw 7 shutout innings. Seems to me he stepped up when we needed him most, but unfortunately, we got shut out and lost in extra innings. Can't blame him for that.

1,000 home runs??? Is he insane? That's an average of about 35 home runs per season until the age of 50. Not even steroids can pull that off. Here's the link to the full story. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2438887 I would say 800 is about as reasonably ambitious as anyone should be with Barroids.

The Mets would make that deal as soon as the Cards trade Pujols for Maddux and Neifi. What if we threw in the innefiably Freddie Bynum?

Yeah, the "Sergio Mitre Experience" is coming back to reality lately too. I can't imagine Koronka will keep this up in Texas of all places. TX should see if they can flip him to the Mets while his value is peaking.

David Wright is about as untouchable as they come. He is the centerpiece of their whole marketing scheme. The fans chant MVP when he touches a bat or a ball (they did that in week 1), and buy his jersey/shirts by the dozens. I'm sure we could get Minaya to trade him. You just have to sell the deal to him right. Everyone's got a Wright jersey now. Trade him for Aramis, then that makes how many million fans out there that will have to go out and buy another jersey? The added payroll will pay for itself in no time :wink:

Too bad Joe G didn't get a job in Pittsburg instead of Florida, because then we could call him up!

Depends on who we bring in. An overpriced vet in the twilight of his career like Shawn Green? Heck no. Another promising young corner guy with his prime ahead of him like Conor Jackson? If the extras in the deal made it an even deal, then sure.

i don't care how big of a piece of crap Bonds is. it's not funny to hit a guy in the head regardless of whether the roids have given his head an extra layer of cover. as for kerry, with the way Marshall and Maddux are pitching, this rotation could be real good. It would be Bonds fault if he got hit in the head though...he's juiced up so much that his head is so massive, it has it's own gravitational pull! I'm just waiting for the day he pulls a baseball into an orbit around that huge nug of his.

Are you predicting more shut-outs? (naively) From Wood and Prior, yes...

I agree that this year's mess is not Dusty's fault. Hendry put together a flawed team. On the other hand, 2004 was Dusty's fault. That team had plenty of talent to get the job done and Dusty let the "us vs the world" metanlity implode on that team. I would disagree...I wouldn't put all of the fault on Dusty, the roster is a big part of it. However, Dusty has yet to show us a fundamentally sound baseball team, and that should be realistic to accomplish every year regardless of how talented the roster may or may not be.

Rusch could actually get back in my good graces and score some cool points if he puts one in his ear or rib cage every time he faces him.