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Johnson RF Castro SS Baker 3B Soto C Byrd CF Soriano LF Pena 1B Barney 2B Zambrano P Balanced lineups are only good against righties.

He proved his point..then he opened his mouth. THAT'S WEAK. When you start an argument with the man who throws the ball..you lose. This won't be the end of it because teams remember. Guillen better have his head on a swivel, because somewhere down the line it's coming. It's juvenile more than it's weak. What's weak is being such a hothead that someone acting like an arrogant punk can provoke such a reaction. I'm not saying Guillen doesn't deserve to get it sometime down the road, but I'm not sure how you're measuring win and lose in this argument. Guillen hit the HR, didn't break any rules, and provoked Weaver to get himself tossed one pitch later.

no he really shouldn't. i don't think what he did was intentionally dirty, just clumsy and poorly executed. but you can't let a guy come in two feet wide of 2b, feet high, against the most promising young player on your team without doing something about it, so you hit him in the back or the butt once, and then let it go. repeatedly throwing at him would just be stupid and possibly start a beanball war where a cub player ends up getting seriously injured. Yea, I'm on board with this. But which player are we talking? You know, hypothetically speaking...

What about league names? If no one says anything to our league's commish, we could end up as Default League Name this season.

yes it is. so was yesterday. tomorrow will be to. http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/27/officespace16.jpg

I would like to recant my several previous complaints about Fox baseball not allowing me to watch the Cubs. I appreciate the work they've done in keeping this debacle off my tv screen.

I was frustrated about that one too. But as it turns out, though it was clearly the wrong call (but still VERY close), that's one less Cubs AB we had to sit through. Chalk a point up for the anti-replay argument. :-"

If they had resorted to instant replay after that call, that game would have gone on FOREVER. But seriously. There's nothing wrong with getting a play right and ensuring the right outcome, but no single play can ever carry the weight that single plays in the other of the Big 4 Sports can carry. There's no clock or sudden death, and there are ~4374 outs per season. And as hard as it is to believe, umps get nearly every call right. It's true that the Pirates could very well finish up the season one game out of first and look back on that one play. It's also true that this blown call was the difference between the Pirates losing in 19 and the Pirates losing in 33. They also had 18 innings' worth of opportunities to put an extra run on the board. Also, if they end up a game out of first at the end of the season, there will be this singular what-if among 75-ish other losses for which the blame will fall on simply having a game inferior to their opponent. It's not about the human element, and it's not about keeping a slow game from getting slower, it's about practicality. There are several plays every single game which are replay-worthy that don't amount to anything. There would literally be tens (hundreds?) of thousands of regular-season replays before you could ever definitively point to one call reversal/confirmation that ended up having a significant impact on the end-of-season standings. I'm not at all opposed to replay, I just think its current lack of implementation is plenty understandable.

Yeah, so I made a typo. Was just for your FYI, pointing it out to make sure you didn't enter anything wrong into your data.

What a clutch bat flip.

Quadeball!

Speed, dude.

No, but if the Indians are getting Kouske pretty much for free we should have gotten something better. I'm not saying their top prospect or anything but something better than the return we're getting now. says you. i kinda doubt hendry just took the first offer from the first team and called it a day.

I would imagine Colvin will in RF batting 8th and Barney will probably get moved to lead off. I'm expecting that since the right fielder is playing in the leadoff position today, Colvin will just slip in and bat leadoff. That's what the Quade I know would do. Edit - I was closer. Campana replaces Fukudome at leadoff.

MLBTR tweeting like it's now a done deal. Haven't seen anything on how it will impact today's lineup.

rf fuke ss castro 3b ramy 1b pena cf byrd c soto lf soriano 2b barney p wells Lineup is subject to change pending Fuku deal to Cleveland.

MLB officially acknowledges it was a blown call.

I prefer games that don't involve Hawk being within five miles of a microphone.

Unfortunately there will be a second team on the field tonight. RF Fuke SS Castro 3B Ramy 1B Pena CF Byrd C Soto LF DeWitt 2B Barney P Zambrano

No Cubs lineup posted yet, but it doesn't actually matter. Here's the game's relevant lineup: RF Hart CF Morgan LF Braun 1B Fielder 2B Weeks 3B McGehee SS Betancourt C Lucroy P Greinke

It was the 11th time since 1919 that a pitcher threw a no-hitter that wasn't a shutout. In 3 of the other ten, the pitcher also took the loss. http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=NCw9s

K-Rod was getting some very generous strike calls in the 8th inning. He has to be responsible for 5 or so of those 11 clear balls. And for how late and how hard his pitches break directly downward, it doesn't surprise me that they fooled the umpire, the same way umps sometimes give up on big breaking balls that are able to come back to the strike zone.

I don't get the connection. What does Casey McGehee's amount of success have to do with his son's progress in coping with a debilitating congenital disorder?