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Overbay singles in 2. 3-0 bad guys.

What is up with Looper's teeth. He looks like a horse out there with this new grimace he's got. Kinda threw like a horse tonight too.

I have a confession to make...this was all my fault. After last night's game, and the upcoming August schedule, I let myself start to think "Wow, this is the type of game that can really set off a nice little run."Last time I thought that was the Cliff Floyd game against the Angels. Sorry guys. My bad.

What a curious little trend we're on. Sunday, Ishii v. Oswalt...Ishii gets knocked out early, we win anyway.Yesterday, Zambrano gets knocked around for 4 homers in 5 batters. We win anyway.Tonight, get a quality start from Pedro, we lose anyway.Strange strange game.

Funny. I've gotten so used to our version or Ron Hodges/Dickshot that the real one doesn't look right.

Shades Padilla becomes the 7th inning man.Pedro's toe that may or may not be injured suddenly heals and he throws 2-hit shutouts the rest of the way.Reyes solves OBP problem by figuring out a way to steal first.

First the good...it’s the classic underdog boxing story about a kid from nowhere making it big. Clint Eastwood is terrific as the grizzled, stubborn coach with his own baggage who wants nothing to do with training a girl, but eventually gets charmed/guilted into doing it, Morgan Freeman is great as the washed up fighter who now works for Clint emptying spit buckets, and Hillary Swank’s portrayal of the lead character is endearing at times and fist-pumpingly exciting at others. There are cool sideplots too, like Freeman’s recount of how he held on too long at the end of his career, the kid who trains at the gym that clearly has no talent, and Clint’s curious habit of going to church and taunting the priest. And of course, Morgan Freeman narrates the movie which automatically makes any movie half a star better. Sometimes I think Freeman could read the dictionary out loud and make it sound compelling.In any case, as the movie rolls along with fantastic fight scene after fight scene, you find yourself rooting for Swank like these were real fights. I was having such a good time, I started thinking whether this movie might crack my list of “Top Five Movies I Ended Up Liking Even Though My Wife Picked Them Out.�

LF wrote:there's now been 3 calls in 3 days that I've never seen before.- First the Cameron drop on the glove/hand transfer- Then the 'I'll run into this pitch while bunting and get awarded 1st even though it was a strike' call- And now this 'Oh, I called time for no fucking reason even though the play was still in progress so we're going to erase that out you just recorded' callThe first one I can understand...bad call, but I understand the justification. The last two...how on earth did the umps justify these calls? Do we know what the explanation was? How can the ump randomly call time out when a play is in progress?

Wow. How dumb to you have to be to continue juicing now.

Well, we've already scouted Jesus. I guess we should send someone to check out Mary and Joseph.

Four strikeouts his last game. A careless error in this game. Getting picked off first after nearly getting picked off just moments before. #@$%@ #!)#(!) Cameron. Sorry. Had to get that off my chest.

"How many times do you see it? He gets ahead 0 and 2 and then starts nibbling, you cannot pitch that way in the big leagues.""And how many times have seen this...you can't pitch from behind. I was always taught come in, get strike one, strike two. 2-0, 3-1 you cannot pitch that way in the big leagues.""Look at that...just a meatball right over the heart of the plate. Big league hitters are going to be all over a pitch like that. You cannot pitch that way in the big leagues."

Nah. It was he that was adopted.

I think we should stop saying how this team is poised for a run when they come up upon a "soft" spot on their schedule.This series sucks donkey balls.

"The first out is the most important out of the inning."

Snoopy switched positions so he could be my avatar. He didn't grumble like Mike Cameron either.

It's an unnamed music source close to the situation. He's very reliable I assure you.

Oh stop. I heard you liked the Macarena.

I stick by what I said earlier.

I liked Independence Day when I first saw it...it was one of those movies that are mindless and entertaining, and if you suspended reality enough, you could just take it for what it is and enjoy the ride.That being said, I can't stand watching it now. Will Smith has beat that character to death in so many mindless movies since then that you want to stab yourself in the eye when you stumble upon one of his movies...Men in Black, Wild Wild West, I Robot, Bad Boys...enough is enough already. It was like back in high school when some people actually liked that C&C Music Factory song when it first came out...but after they released 6 more songs that sounded exactly like it you wanted to run them over with a truck.

Exactly. If he vetoes the trade, no one should ever know anything about it.Of course, it is possible that in most situations it does happen this way...but it's still unfortunate when it doesn't.

What was said in the original thread? Can you summarize?

I think you might have a typo regarding Washington's win total. Same as Atlanta, no?

God bless Mini-Knight...I wish I could go back to the time when just being at the ballpark was so great they could serve anything and it tasted good. In any case, I just had the italian sausage, Nathan's fries and a large bag of peanuts and I had no complaints about any of them.

Penny was suspended five games for something or other. Is he appealing? Does that affect his start this weekend?