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Manny apologized for the incident and ESPN is reporting that no disciplinary action will be taken. Although Francona is expected to meet with the media shortly. Manny, Take your 20 million a year and hire a freaking secretary to help you plan ahead since you're too dense to think 48 hours or more out, and get your requests done in a reasonable time frame so you don't have to throw a roid-fit on anyone.

I <3 Woody.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe he also quit paying dues, which pretty much puts out out of a union.

Why else would every single team in the league - especially some of those who could really use a DH - pass up on such an obvious solution? I really don't think it's so hard to believe that MLB just wants to move on from the "Bonds Era" or whatever you want to call it. And I can't say that I'm too upset about it - it's been pretty nice not to hear a bonds story on ESPN every single day. I don't think it's intentional collusion, the owners have far too much to lose from something so petty at this point. I think everyone is afraid of fan and potentially sponsor and media backlash if they bring him in. No one doubts he can still hit, but every other possible facet of signing him is a negative at this point. My guess is someone will offer him at the trade deadline when they strike out on other attempts to improve their team. I think several owners are looking at him as a viable last resort type of option right now. Everyone wants to do it without him, but if they dont' think they can, they'll come knocking.

Does anyone know why we don't use any of their traditions against them in the same manner as them draping the L flag? Because they have no traditions.

Sounds like he's trying to bait the league. If no one takes him on his offer to play for free, then it strengthens their collusion case.

Haha. I don't know why Lee has such a high GB rate this year but Perry needs to start working with him. This is going beyond disheartening. Maybe he needs to start hitting to RF again because he is consistently pulling the ball into the ground. And I was dismissed for suggesting we need to move DLee down in the order. He's not a 3 hitter anymore.

Arguing that we have had some luck has no bearing on how lucky the Cardinals have been. We've had some players over achieve, and we've had some underachieve. It's hard to find anyone on the Cards roster that is underachieving right now. no it's not. how about chris carpenter? he has zero innings pitched...i'd say that's underachieving. No, that's what you get when you rely on guys who have had multiple surgeries and have missed multiple seasons before. His innings are being picked up by someone else. What is lucky is that their starting rotation has performed just as well as most would have expected if they had all of those guys that are on the DL healthy and productive. Losing someone the caliber of Carpenter should have been a big hit to the rotation.

Arguing that we have had some luck has no bearing on how lucky the Cardinals have been. We've had some players over achieve, and we've had some underachieve. It's hard to find anyone on the Cards roster that is underachieving right now. Troy Glaus is having his worst year since his rookie year. Adam Kennedy hasn't played near his career levels for about 2 years. Chris Duncan's OPS is 200 points below his career and he is slugging .333. Jason Isringhausen has an ERA of 5.74, the last time he was within 2 runs of that was 2000. Ron Villone is having the worst year of his 14 year career. Hell, there have been 7 pitchers in the bullpen that have ERA's over 5.00. As for the Brian Barton nonsense from earlier, he had 1 homerun in AAA because he played only 25 games. The guy had a career .893 OPS in the minors. Maybe you should look a little closer and use some objectivity. I'll give you Izzy as an underachiever on the roster. Glaus has been on a downhill turn for some time now, his performance isn't underachieving, it should have been expected. Duncan has always been a platoon player because he can't hit lefties. His minor league numbers and past splits show it. His career OPS is inflated due to a fluke 1.037 OPS he put up against righties in about 300 at bats in 2006. His drop as a regular player this year is also to be expected. Villone: See Glaus. He's old and has been in decline, a bad performance is expected and not underachieving. I'll also agree that the Barton analogy was weak, but the others really weren't.

He's either been leading the league or close to it most of the year. Going into today, he was tied with James Loney with 17 GIDP, which leads all of MLB.

It will not be Carrasco. He's right-handed and, more importantly, not on the 40-man roster. I think the most likely candidate is Piggy. He's a lefty (which I think the Cubs would definitely want to replace Eyre) and he's on the 40-man roster.Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought we only had 39 guys on the 40 man right now? If that's the case, then it wouldn't be an issue to add someone if needed for this kind of scenario. But, I agree, I doubt it'd be Carrasco.

Arguing that we have had some luck has no bearing on how lucky the Cardinals have been. We've had some players over achieve, and we've had some underachieve. It's hard to find anyone on the Cards roster that is underachieving right now.

Let's pick one stat to ridicule from the list and ignore every other grossly over-achieving player! Yeah!

Z's carpal tunnel? It didn't land him on the DL, but it was an issue for awhile.

I guess with the DH, we can afford to be down a reliever, but the way a lot of them have been throwing lately, I dont know. Basically, Lou will be forced to go with Cotts as a loogy, and we might need to see more Wuertz than we'd like. I trust Demp for the most part, but I hope Gallagher and Marshall can step up. Having a DH means you can get by easier with one less bat on the bench, not with one less reliever in the pen. You're facing more hitters and less pitchers, so more relievers is better. You don't have any double switches due to pitching changes, so the bench doesn't get chewed as quickly. Not having Eyre for the Sox series is not good if we don't get another pitcher up.

And you would still hate the Cubs.

They can speak all they want. Until then, I'll simply reply: "3-0"

Technically he can, the commissioner can make any changes at his will that he deems to be vital to the survival of the league. This is why he gets so much flak over handling the steriods issue. He could have implemented a program at any time then forced the MLBPA to publicly denounce steroid testing, which would have been a disaster for them, or accept it. Logistically, it would be a foolish move. I read somewhere that Louisville Slugger, or whoever the main supplier of bats is, along with other bat manufacturers, wouldn't immediately be able to keep up with the demand for ash bats if a change were made without notice. In fact, I think they said they'd need 12 months lead time to change up their production and procurement processes to adjust to the shifted demand. I don't know if I buy 12 months. I bet they could get their act together in an offseason if MLB went ahead without then and started soliciting new companies to make bats. Regardless, if he pulled the trigger on such a move without notice, they would run out of bats fairly quickly.

No, he was "only" 1 for 2, with a home run, 2 RBI, 2 runs scored, and 3 walks.Cut the baseclogger already!

I'm afraid I have to agree. I'm liking his bat and adequate defense. I still don't like his penchant to make routine plays look more than they are by taking a step or two in the wrong direction first, which he still does occasionally. He doesn't seem to do it as often as he did when he was a Card, but it might just seem that way because I'm not watching him as critically as before since he's not a card anymore.

Hell no. That wouldn't be any fun. I never whined about the cardinals or believed in the pixie dust until after you guys started whining about the whiners.

Kind of hard to score runs when you have had offensive forces like Jacque Jones, Cesar Izturis, Cliff Floyd, Jeromy Burnitz, and Todd Hollandsworth hitting behind you I realize that but for a guy who has hit .300+ with 30+ hr's to never score 100 in 5 or 6 years with that production is pretty rare. Guys in awful offenses who are the guy in that offense still manage to score 100 most seasons. Combine the jokers that have hit behind him with the missed time, and it's really not that surprising. The missed time is the main culprit. He's missed around 30 games due to hamstring problems most of those years, hasn't he?

Which further dissolves with the same one or two whiners crying about others crying about how lucky the cardinals are.

I would look into it, if only because it would be like another Jim Edmonds signing, but this time pissing off Sox fans instead of Cards fans. Assuming he gets his stuff and velocity back that is...

or their players are actually good. no no, you're right, it's magic and pixie dust Please explain Tony Womack's 2004 season. Go ahead, try not to use pixie dust. statistical chance? womack wasn't amazing in 2004 or anything. he got lucky on balls in play. he still couldn't hit for power and didn't draw many walks. are the cards lucky because they got an okay tony womack in 2004? Yeah. What kind of Tony Womack did we get? any other team that got him?