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Soriano has just been all kinds of bad this year.

I guess I can watch now that LSU has all but destroyed Arkansas.

I would have been very excited had that happened. Mitchell has some holes in his swing, but I think they are very correctable. He hasn't been playing baseball fulltime until this season.

HR by Mitchell! 6-0 Tigers!

Blake Dean homerun! 5-0 LSU Geaux Tigers!

Tigers only get three after loading bases with none out, but lead 4-0. Arkansas is going to run out of pitchers. They started their closer today. Geaux Tigers!

With this many bowing out, would it be a good time to reboot?

LSU has an opportunity to bust it open right here against the hogs in the third.

Time for LSU to roast the hogs and head to the championship round.

As soon as the LSU game starts, I can tell you what I'll be watching. Geaux Tigers. At least I have a chance to see a championship of some kind for one of my teams this year.

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winner

I think the heart was behind the Gatorade machine.

Why? And why? Why do I think they never used steroids? Their progression and body type never really changed, especially with Griffey and Thome, they both gained more mass throughout the years, but it was never muscle. Also, they never had jump in HRs after they established themselves. As far as Pujols, there's still part of me that wonders how can he be so overlooked despite having played in front of all those scouts that they could misevaluate a bat that in 3 years would become the great rookie season bat of the greatest hitter since probably Ted Williams. His body isn't the same as it was JUCO as well. I'm not going to be a homer, but Pujols was passed on because scouts thought he wasn't athletic enough and that his body was soft. Much like Strasburg between HS and college. Scouts miss all the time. His body isn't the same as when he was a JUCO player for obvious reasons. That was 11 years ago. Pujols easily could have been a juicer, nobody knows. But he's putting up numbers better than ever now, and is being tested. Now that testing is in place, it's seems pretty foolish to accuse guys who haven't tested positive as juicers. I'm not saying that Pujols used, but the not being caught by a test isn't always conclusive. Until this year, Manny had never been caught, but the test finally got him. While Pujols may not be a user, it also may be that he's been able to cycle off in anticipation of the tests.

Pedro for closer!

LSU football- 2; baseball- 5 Cowboys- 4 ( I was born the year of their first Super Bowl). Cubs- 0 In basketball, I was a Laker fan during the Showtime days, but abandoned that team for the Mavs when I lived in DFW for awhile. I could count those 80's Laker championships, but I don't care to.

Are we so sure Bagwell didn't use? or Chipper? or Piazza? I'm not saying they did, and I certainly have no proof they did, but if anything, we should have learned that it could be anybody. No one thought Arod was dirty until recently. I remember just a couple of years ago that people were saying at least when Arod passed Bonds, the HR record would be clean. And with the HOF issue. If voters don't vote guys in who have been caught (Sosa, Bonds, McGwire, Clemens, etc), but vote in others that haven't been caught (Bagwell, C. Jones, Piazza), what happens if one of those who gets in is connected later? They can't vote them out. So, then would they have to go back and re-visit the ones they shut out. What's clear to me is that Canseco's estimates of 75% of players using in some form may have been closer to the truth than hyperbole.

It's always going to be a slippery slope between "illegal" performance enhancing and legal means of enhancing one's genetic make-up. Are steroids illegal because they enhance performance beyond normal means or are they illegal because they are dangerous? If it's the first, then why are they cheating but getting lasic eye surgery is not? If it's the latter, would they become acceptable if the medical community finds a safe way to administer that reduces the medical risks?

why is that?

I have a feeling the Cubs will try to move D.J. back to short, at least initially.

Hawks release roster. http://boise.hawks.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090616&content_id=5356010&vkey=pr_t480&fext=.jsp&sid=t480

I highly recommend taking a game in with Fred.

Game sucked, but I got some autographs from Murphy. I also got Dayan Viciedo, Tyler Flowers, and Jordan Danks to sign balls for me.

Go me!

Will naked Steve Stone make an appearance?