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WHEWWW.... Graffino misses a grand slam by about a foot...brewers done...tied 2-2

Generally putting 2 on for Howard is not a good idea

Brewers tie...runners on 2nd and 3rd 1 out.

As part of the compromise with MLB, DirecTV gets the Phillies and Padres feeds that are unavailable on the cableco EI packages. That is really strange...Why Philly and the Padres? Previously, Cox (San Diego) and Comcast (Philadelphia) wouldn't allow DBS or EI access to their in-house sports channels, primarily as a means of making DirecTV and Dish Network unattractive to fans in those cities. Without cable, you couldn't get the games. In order to gain access to EI after DirecTV signed the exclusive agreement earlier this year, the cablecos made numerous concessions, including the release of these channels. So they went from cable exclusive, to not cable at all? Or not EI Cable at least....again...odd...oh well...that's what...5 games a year?

As part of the compromise with MLB, DirecTV gets the Phillies and Padres feeds that are unavailable on the cableco EI packages. That is really strange...Why Philly and the Padres?

I KNEW he was a good pick up!

Come on Kendall....

Yeah...I'm charter...maybe its a DirecTV/Charter difference..

Lets Go Jones....

It must have to do with the game being on "The U" in Chicago. Never seen a game from Ch. 26 on EI. And EI never seems to have the PHI feed of games, so between the two, I guess they shouldn't show it. We get the Comcast CHI feed tomorrow night. EI always does the home team's feed, so that's why you don't see the Philly guys in this instance. I'm getting the Phillies feed on EI. That's odd...I figured the EI feeds were the same everywhere...

It must have to do with the game being on "The U" in Chicago. Never seen a game from Ch. 26 on EI. And EI never seems to have the PHI feed of games, so between the two, I guess they shouldn't show it. We get the Comcast CHI feed tomorrow night. EI always does the home team's feed, so that's why you don't see the Philly guys in this instance. Philly doesn't have a home TV feed? Or they just won't sell it to EI?

How is this game not on EI?

XM just reported.

Pie, Gallagher, Murton and Jones? that's a bit steep...

St. Louis reporter Derek Gould reports the Birds get Joel Pinero for a PTBNL

Is there a way to know where different teams are at on the Waiver list? I'd assume the Angels are pretty far down the list....

Now THAT makes more sense than Jay Payton ever did.

Tejada is my candidate for "Big move no one is talking about" this year....lord knows the O's aren't going anywhere...it would make sense...that means it won't happen.

Miguel Cabrerra. I'd trade Pie, Fox, Gallagher, Veal, and the Ghost of Frank Chance for Cabrerra. He can play right, right?

He did say that they were very serious about 2/3 weeks ago, but with Jones and Pagan playing pretty well they now see no reason to get someone like Jay Payton.

did he say anything else Cub-related?? Not really...lot of talk about the Dodgers, D-Backs, Padres...talk about having no clue why the Astros made that trade yesterday...a little bit about Dye, but not in relation to the Cubs.

Rosenthal on XM radio just said the Cubs are no longer interested in Payton. Thank you.

I'd kind of like to see Murton in there...I'd hate to see him gettting stuck on the bench up here again....

He's been terrible all season. I don't see the point in pretending that people are making a judgement over 5-6 games. They are judging him on his numbers, all season long. He's been awful, all season long. Except June.

In the month of June he hit .295/.326/.432. And it barely put a dent in his terrible season. He hit 2 of the 3 HR he's hit in 3 years during that month to inflate those numbers. We can't realistically expect him to hit even 1 the rest of the way. And I think there's very little hope of him even putting up a .300 OBP the rest of the way. Why do you insist on pretending people are only giving him 5-6 games? He's played 86 this year with well over 300 AB and his numbers have been absolutely atrocious. Not struggling. Not off. Absolutely freaking atrocious. Old guys disappear in baseball. How many times do you have to see marginal players finish their careers in a Cubs uniform before admitting they have an awful tendency of thinking guys have more left in the tank than they actually do? Jim Hendry pays far too little attention to the negatives involved in older players. He's convinced himself that guys peak in their 30s when all the evidence indicates it's well before that. Why is it so hard to imagine that he and his scouting friends were impressed by, and fooled by Kendall's 3/3 1HR day against the Yankees and therefore mistakenly thought he could help? I don't see why anybody would want to give the benefit of the doubt to an old catcher who is obviously nowhere near the player he once was and is going through not just a slump, but a completely terrible season. Because for the last week (hell, after his first game) there has been a ton of "See, he's awful"...and that has been over 5-6 games. His hitting coach from when he was pretty solid is our current hitting coach, I give some creedence to the idea that that could play a role...he also put up quite a bit better numbers on the road than he did in Oakland...so I take that into consideration, again his June was solid, he's much better against righties than lefties so if we play our switch hitting back up against lefties his overall numbers go up and he gets some of that rest you spoke of earlier, strangely enough, he's put up great numbers the 2nd time he sees a pitcher in a game so that tells me he has a pretty good approach at the plate... To be worth while he didn't need to be better than Johnny Bench, he needed to be better offensively than Koiye Hill. I'm willing to give him the chance to do that. And what about his 2007 suggests that he should be given a chance to do anything? Um...exactly what I just typed.