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blanco against anyone is uggggh. soto can't play every game. See sig. :D :lol:

What did I miss?

Psh, Andrew Jones is worse.

I knew Cap 3 was pretty much out anyways, but I figured I would just toss that in there, just for the hell of it. I really like cap 1, but the one that Truffle has. As for those who said either "None of the Above" or "They're all ugly, but I was forced to pick...etc" show me a link or a photo of what cap you think is awesome. Thanks.

I am pretty sure that Lou thinks that Carlos just needs to pitch it out, like a basketball player just needs to shoot through their slump. I sure wish one of our favorate reporter (Paging Bruce Miles, Mr. Miles, please report to the game thread) would bring up the issue that Marmol is being abused as it's has been mentioned on here numberous of times that Marmol has pitched way the hell too much for a reliever, not to mention that there are other pitchers to use, noteably Lieber, Howry, etc. Come on, give Marmol some days off, especially this whole week. If Marmol gets tanked or injured, well then, we just lost our set-up man.

Weather.com says 76°F Cloudy wind 5 mph WNW ESPN has the same line up you posted. Good deal. I guess MSN was correct after all. Either way, it's a good lineup. Can't complain too much about it.

Weather.com says 76°F Cloudy wind 5 mph WNW Man, sure wish I could watch the game, or at least listen to it. Oh well, I guess it's better to have gameday/sportstrax than nothing at all.

I looked up Yahoo and Cubs.com but nothing that I could find.... ESPN has the Yankees game line ups, but not the Cubs yet. Here's what Fox Sports on MSN says.... 1. E Velez, LF .202 0 9 8 2. J Castillo, 3B .256 6 28 1 3. R Durham, 2B .287 3 29 6 4. B Molina, C .286 6 54 0 5. A Rowand, CF .292 8 47 1 6. J Bowker, RF .283 9 37 1 7. R Aurilia, 1B .278 8 35 1 8. O Vizquel, SS .153 0 9 3 9. K Correia, P .100 0 0 0 1. R Theriot, SS .317 1 25 15 2. K Fukudome, RF .281 7 36 8 3. D Lee, 1B .304 15 55 5 4. A Ramirez, 3B .289 17 66 1 5. G Soto, C .287 16 55 0 6. J Edmonds, CF .260 8 24 0 7. M DeRosa, LF .283 11 49 3 8. M Fontenot, 2B .267 7 20 2 9. R Harden, P .250 0 0 0

I looked up Yahoo and Cubs.com but nothing that I could find....

Yeah, I wish I could find a bar that would carry CSN in the KC area, but that's like finding a needle in a haystack.

I don't see why everyone still hates Marquis. I think he has shown he can pitch well over the last couple months. Earlier, we were saying this game was a loss. What does Marquis do? 7 IP, 3 H, 0 ER. I don't have any problems with Marquis, since it's been well-established that he is a "solid to average" pitcher in the first half of the season, and goes from "average to terrible" in the 2nd half.

I'm sure everybody would agree with you, but at least we took 2 out of 3. What could have been worse was the Cobs getting swept by the Reds.

Hudson is pretty damn good. Don't forget Haren. Either way, you can't relate this to Harden in any way. He hasn't even gotten the chance to be overused because of all of the time he's missed. That's true, about that he hasn't gotten the chance to be overused, since he's been spending time in the DL, for the most part. Still though, as it has been mentioned everywhere, it has a high risk, but it also has a high reward, provided he stay healthy. I'm just simply pointing out that the A's, for the most part, have been spot on. I thought they made a mistake to let Zito go, but apparently they knew what the hell they were doing. Same with Mulder. Hudson is pretty good, no doubt, but I don't think he's the ace that many people thought that he was supposed to be. As for Haren, I just completely forgot about him.

Another thing that makes me a bit concerned is that sometimes I just do not trust Moneyball anymore. Looking at one side of the fence, some people may not trust any pitchers coming from Oakland. Look at all of the stud pitchers that spent any significant amount of time there that was traded recently. Zito... turned to crap. Mulder... even bigger bust. Hudson... the best of the three, but definitely not the ace he was supposed to be. Oakland overworks their starters and then gets rid of them at high values. Then they break down and are never the same.

It'd be a good choice for the Cubs to get Greinke, but I don't think the Royals are thinking of parting ways with him, especially when he has shown some improvement after his battle with depression/anexiety issues. And given with Dayton Moore's philosophy, which is pitching and defense, I doubt he will give up a young arm, but this is just me speculating. Anything is possible, I get that. But if I was the GM for the Royals, I would think Greinke would be almost untouchable, unless there is a deal that really blew me away that I may be tempted to take. Coach I have heard they are trying to lock him up like they did Soria and the Brewers did with Braun. I don't know how true that is, but like you have hear Moore is really set on the Atlanta model. I don't think we have what it takes to trade for him. That's one thing that been rumored around in the KC area that the Royals are wanting to lock up Greinke. Of course, there isn't anything written on stone yet, so anything is still possible. I know that KC desperately need some bats in their lineup, especially in the middle. Guillen can't do everything by himself, and unfortunately for KC, Billy Butler is looking to be a bust than a boom right now, and Mark Teahen is becoming more of a gapper player instead of that unexplained power that he showed in 2006. Although, we're already halfway through the season, and he has 9 HR's, which would round up to 18, give or take in a full season, provided he stays healthy. KC really need a 30-40 HR guy in the middle. But that's just my opinion. Another issue that I have aganist KC is that, for some unexplained reasons, that they still tend to keep around crappy players (i.e. Pena Jr really comes into mind) instead of DFA'ing them right on the spot. His numbers is worse than Neifi Perez, which I didn't even think it was possible to be more crappier than Neifi Freaking Perez! And what's even worse is that KC franchise has a freaking bobblehead for Tony Pena Jr, who is OPS'ing .380.

I think he's probably upset that it wasn't a Glenallen Hill shot.....

Not to totally derail from his health status/issue, but has BP or PECOTA updated their information on Harden as well as Gaudin?

Affects millions and millions of angry customers. This blackout rule is possibly the most stupidest thing I ever heard of in my entire life.

That's assuming that Harden ends up a Cub long term. I'm usually pretty confident in the Cubs keeping our good free agents around. Aren't you? At the very least, we should have him through 09 and be able to get a better gauge on his health situation. Of course, I suppose that (keeping him around) depends on who winds up owning the team. Is the 2009 option a player, team, or mutual? I think it's a club option, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Either way, thank you for the memories, Sean. I will be rooting for you, except when you do play aganist the Cubs. :D :wink:

That's okay, you're critical of everyone...and you're usually wrong I might add. Okay, then explain why he's wrong then, instead of doing a hit-n-run, eh? There are one or two that I may disagree with Truffle, but other than that, he's spot on.

Phils up 3-2 in the bottom of the 8th. Brewers lost to the Rockies.

Finally. And somebody please tell Lou to start using other guys instead of Marmol all the freaking time. Marmol is getting a crash-course on how Wood and Prior felt under Baker's regime, it's ludicrious.

After looking at his numbers, yeah, he's not that good. I wouldn't take a flyer.

I'm in the market of purchasing a new Cubs cap. I am not interested in shelling out 30 some bucks for a one size fit all cap, or a authenetic cap. So, I have found the following 3 photos of caps that I like, and would like your input/votes into this. Thanks..... Cap 1 Cap 2 Cap 3

Hmm... wonder if he's worthy of being looked into.... :-k