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Would Baker in a Astros hat ease your pain ETA? :D I have a picture of Baker in a Cardinals hate on my computer at home that I made during the 2003 season (thus proving my long-term distaste for him).

i listened to like 10 minutes of a game once but then i got confused so i read baseball prospectus again

Oh god that's awesome. I'm sending him an email letting him know.

Why do people still bother to argue about dusty with zz? It's an exercise in futility if there ever was one. We're right, he's wrong, move on.

Don't exaggerate, it's not a forfeit. Macias will get a hit about 23% of the time and walk another 2-2.5%. So there. With 2 outs and a runner on (not in scoring position by the way) down by one that situation calls for a hitter with power. Is Dusty really just that dumb or is he too stubborn to give a powerful Dubois a shot. Dubois could'nt have done any worse than Macias. I think Dusty is both. i was mostly being sarcastic i hate macias

Don't exaggerate, it's not a forfeit. Macias will get a hit about 23% of the time and walk another 2-2.5%. So there.

Are you serious??!? Where did you hear this? People are saying Levine said it on ESPN 1000.

man oh man do i love bumping this thread Early reports suggest that Neifi is going to start at second base and bat second today. Probably because he's better than Hairston at nothing.

bump for da dump ster

heres a little diagram showing my mood shifts as i read the last few posts http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/edstevensiscool/moodchart.jpg

He looked very good. Considering he was brought into a game with the Royals already trailing 7-1, it appears they are going to ease him in with mop up duty. I'm pretty sure at this point he's as good as gone. I wouldn't be so sure. There's 157 games to go and he has to stay on the roster for all of them. While he looked good tonight, he may not the next time he's used. Yeah, but they don't give a crap if he pitches effectively for them because their team sucks. Derrick Turnbow sucked as a Rule V pick. Miguel Asencio was bad for the Royals in '02 but they didn't care because they thought he had potential. Johan Santana winning the Cy Young gives even more incentive for crappy teams to hang onto high-ceiling players for their Rule V year. I said it when the draft went down, Sisco would be gone. Thank God we have Rohlicek and Randolph, though. For crying out loud, that's not why he was left unprotected. IT WAS NOT TO KEEP OTHER PLAYERS ON THE 40- MAN ROSTER, HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ON IT. I apologize for the shouting, but it seems many people have ignored this being the chief reason for Sisco's exposure, despite repeated attempts to explain so. I've seen it in some places and not others, and I seem to remember mlpeel saying something conclusive about it (which I can't find), but does this major league experience start Sisco's clock to where he has to stick in the major leagues in three years? I wasn't positive, as I remembered that post, then Tim said something here that his service time clock(6 year arbitration/free agency), but does not start his 3 year option clock. At least that's how I understand it. That's how it reads, but Tim doesn't mention the 3 year clock at all. Would he (or someone else) mind coming in and confirming that?

The amount of slack Cub fans grant Maddux (or Maddux's performance in general) has no bearing on how good Carpenter is going to be this year.

He looked very good. Considering he was brought into a game with the Royals already trailing 7-1, it appears they are going to ease him in with mop up duty. I'm pretty sure at this point he's as good as gone. I wouldn't be so sure. There's 157 games to go and he has to stay on the roster for all of them. While he looked good tonight, he may not the next time he's used. Yeah, but they don't give a crap if he pitches effectively for them because their team sucks. Derrick Turnbow sucked as a Rule V pick. Miguel Asencio was bad for the Royals in '02 but they didn't care because they thought he had potential. Johan Santana winning the Cy Young gives even more incentive for crappy teams to hang onto high-ceiling players for their Rule V year. I said it when the draft went down, Sisco would be gone. Thank God we have Rohlicek and Randolph, though. For crying out loud, that's not why he was left unprotected. IT WAS NOT TO KEEP OTHER PLAYERS ON THE 40- MAN ROSTER, HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ON IT. I apologize for the shouting, but it seems many people have ignored this being the chief reason for Sisco's exposure, despite repeated attempts to explain so. I've seen it in some places and not others, and I seem to remember mlpeel saying something conclusive about it (which I can't find), but does this major league experience start Sisco's clock to where he has to stick in the major leagues in three years?

Meh, I think that one was more of a confidence-builder. But ugh, down the stretch last year was brutal. :evil: Who's going to close tomorrow if we have a 2 run lead in the ninth? Whatever the opposite of a confidence buster is, that's what we're going to see tomorrow if Leroy blows another save. We've all seen the numbers on how Hawkins does after pitching on consecutive days and all that.

ZZ's OK notwithstanding, .250 is a completely arbitrary number and Dunn does not need to reach it in order to be a very valuable hitter.

Glad to see we still feel the need to send Hawkins out there on back to back days so he can close out that four run lead.

GUYS WAIT IF HIS AVG FROPS 40 POINTS HES NO GOOD WE BETTER STOP THINKING HES COOL

I don't really care about the lineup. I won't complain about the order Dusty puts the players in except for extreme cases, like if Nomar is getting a day off so Neifi plays and bats second instead of eighth.

I dislike Dusty a great deal, but Ryan is right. There are plenty of really dumb managers out there that are on the same level as Dusty. That being said, money could be made if someone were to invest in some "Dusty Buster" tshirts and sold them on here.

dunn struck out the next time he came up but did so swinging, which is braggable

Can I go ahead and put Dempster starting tonight down as a bad move by Dusty?

Why are people so upset about the game tonight? I mean, yeah, it was stupid, but I can't say I was even the least bit surprised about either move. This was pretty basic Dusty on display. Why is it that people are changing their opinion on the man based on his doing what he always does? He's the same guy he was a week ago.

I feel so bad for Rocket. He had to go to work after Dunn's last at bat.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6-6 Dunn ties it with a two-run bomb in the bottom of the ninth.

Gotta love Joe. Well, no, you don't really. But he is good to laugh at. How can anyone that's been around baseball be so stupid about it? It's just hilarious because he was so good at a lot of the things that he rails against as being overrated.