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  1. treebird
    JIM BULLINGER
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    i thought i still might have it saved, but i don't. i do have this though -- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/edstevensiscool/dutchvaluebandwgnJPG.jpg
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    No, that's absolutely not possible. He's Rich Hill. Whatever happened to him was the fault of someone else. we all know that rich's only problem is that he's mentally weak, so i guess that means that if he starts pitching well again, he's not. the cubs probably just gave him some peyote or something in arizona and now everything is going to be awesome.
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    peoria will be home the 16th-21st, but has the 22nd off and 23rd away. oh well.
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    as many have stated, if rich hill is good, no one can hit him anywhere, so the location of the start is meaningless. go throw strikes.
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    to protect your kids? no, I usually don't take the kids. a 5 and 2 year old tend to get bored after about 1/2 an inning so why do you bring it? i'm not making fun of you (in this thread, at least), i just don't understand the psyche of a gloved baseball fan. I used to have season tickets for the local Short-A minor league team. My seats were 3 rows behind the 3rd base dugout, so a lot of foul balls (both liners and pop ups) headed our way. Again, I hardly bring one anymore, I just don't understand why someone shouldn't. The only reason I've heard is "it's not impressive to catch a ball with a glove" and "because it's dumb" why didn't you wear a helmet?
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    Plus, we've all seen foul balls deflected after hitting a few upstretched bare hands. I really don't want to be in the path of a hard hit ball after it was deflected by a guy two rows in front of me, but if I am in the path I definitely want a glove. IMO, if you're reasonably facile with a glove and you are sitting along the foul lines, I see nothing wrong or embarrassing at all in bringing it. You are decreasing the risk to you and those around/behind you who might not be paying enough attention, or do not want to deal with a foul ball coming their way. After it's deflected, it's not as dangerous. I want the glove for the balls that are smoked right at me. If someone else wants to be a tough guy and barehand screamers, that's their prerogative. If I am in the bleachers or way up in the terrace or mezz, I don't bring one. I am talking about right down the lines, from the dugout up. if you don't care about looking like a dork and are afraid of getting hurt, why don't you take a freaking shield or something that would actually be useful? if i were legitimately frightened about my safety because i had such awesome seats, a stupid glove would not be first on my list of things i would bring to protect myself.
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    here's why it's lame to take a glove catching a foul ball barehanded: very nice catching a foul ball with your glove: not impressive AT ALL
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    i just want to add that i was sitting pretty close to the bullpen on saturday and that marmol looked awful warming up. he threw almost exclusively fastballs, and they were almost exclusively in the area of what would be the left handed batter's box. granted, this information doesn't really mean a lot since i don't know what he looked like warming up when things were going well, but it helped make me look like a genius when i told people sitting around me that he looked bad and would probably suck.
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    PHEW (first of many harden-related phew's, unfortunately)
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    pretty basic info; probably more analysis tomorrow. Bold prediction: Christina Kahrl will hate the deal for both teams. why do you say that? she liked the sabathia deal on both sides.
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    athleticsnation HATES the deal, and they're generally pretty pro-beane. http://www.athleticsnation.com/2008/7/8/567387/a-s-trade-harden-and-gaudi#comments consensus seems to be that cupcakes blanton should have been included instead of gaudin, and that they should have gotten vitters.
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    i'll tell you guys what happened (since i will be there)
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    YES also, guess who has tickets to the games friday and saturday. i'm awesome.
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    http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4194/boiseyx2.jpg those are hot.
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    I would too, but you aren't going to do that anytime soon. Not this year, and probably not in this offseason either until you see if Laporta can hit. yeah, it's not going to be this season, but i'd definitely try to see if i had reason to be confident in laporta this season if at all possible, with an eye towards trading prince in december.
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    The only way to get over it is to go get a hooker Then some Heroin, I mean a ton of it Then shoot a little while she waits Then Kill her before she gets any I promise after this you won't even think about this game again. thanks a lot a hole. she turned out to be a cop. Youd think she could have told me before step 4. you probably should've used your one phone call for something besides a dial-up internet connection. i hope your lawyer has aim.
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    he couldn't jog at a moderately high rate of speed because he was too busy staring at the right fielder, hoping he would toss the ball to the cutoff man, thus negating the need for jim to make an effort. that play made no sense at all. i can't believe it was close at all.
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    fielder doesn't seem like a guy who's going to have a very typical aging curve. if i were milwaukee, i'd see if anybody viewed him as a future hall-of-famer (or just short of that).
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    i didn't want to hang out anyway I'm more of a skol man personally. skol has its place, but now that i have more than six dollars in my pocket, that place is not inside me.
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    We already knew HGH was involved, so that's .333. I keep waiting for Jose Canseco to write a tell-all book about how Tony LaRussa is essentially an unlicensed pharmacist who supplies all his players with enough amphetamines, HGH, steroids, and horse tranquilizers to kill a herd of bull elephants. enough drugs to kill a herd of elephants and yet only the crappy pitchers ever seem to die. still more cardinal pixie dust.
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    i didn't want to hang out anyway
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    the o/u was 8.5, and i took the over, so i guess that's something positive.
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    i'm going to sit in my underwear and drink smirnoff straight from the bottle. what is everyone else doing tonight?
  25. treebird
    i don't want ankiel to beat us
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