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Valadius wrote: I wouldn't mind eating this every night - it's freaking delicious! It's horrible right?......but you cooked it so you have to eat it and convince yourself that it's great,I've been there Val.

Yeah Cohen said both are out.

sharpie wrote: In today's Cubs-Cards game Tony LaRussa is up to his old tricks: Joel Pineiro is batting 8th, David Eckstein 9th. Pineiro has a career 0.86 batting average,obviously L aRussa is going by his gut here....hold on ....in day games he's got a .154 BA......plus overall he's got a better BA hitting 8th.... http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/bsplit.cgi?n1=pineijo01 I knew I would find data to back LaRussa up.

84-85, topping out at 87 is about the speed of it,he may have had a few higher but 84 to 87 was where he was consistently on his fastball.

Sometimes I wonder if Val really is Omar on here getting a feel for things...know what I'm saying?

Val really there are two things wrong I can see there,it's Andy Tracy and he's 34.

The Tigers have a 13M club option,3M buyout. contracts. http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

Agree with CF........not much pop in that outfield either,they might hit 15-20 home runs between them at Shea over a full season. As for Green yes I think he would be a good fit playing of the bench,probably play more than the usual bench player though and still contribute. Edit to answer Soupcan...Castillo is a FA.....

Yeah I bet Beane liked chatting with Brian. ] 3. Can you compare your game preparations for AL lineups, compared with when you face NL lineups? BB: When I am preparing for a lineup before a game, I start by building a plan based on the on-base percentage and slugging percentage of each spot in the lineup and their individual history against me. I then take it deeper by looking at how many pitches each hitter sees in an average at-bat and where I might be able to get some quick outs. My personal challenge each game is to throw seven innings in under 100 pitches before I am taken out. Good teams will not only beat you by getting more hits, but by running up your pitch count. I also note which hitters are prone to strikeouts if I have runner(s) in scoring position, and which runners have a high stolen base percentage if it is a tie or one-run game. In the AL, the 7, 8, 9 spots are generally the lower OPS hitters, although some managers will put a high OBP hitter with speed in the 9-hole. The hitters here are generally either young, over-aggressive, or low OBP/high SLG types, and it is crucial that you keep your pitch-count down and prevent them from setting the table for the high OPS hitters at the top of the lineup. In the NL, the most important thing is avoiding putting the 8 or the 7 and 8 hole hitter on base with no outs, because the pitcher will always sacrifice the runners over. If there are already two outs, you will usually pitch the 8 hole hitter with a lot of 2-strike type pitches in hopes he chases, because odds are that the pitcher will be an easier out.

Jay Gibbons is the latest player tied to hGH. Gibbons

Interesting bit here form Oswalt... ] "The pitch to Mo (Alou) was a little bit up," Oswalt (14-7) said. "The ball had a scuff on it after it hit the warning track (on Beltran's double). I was going to try to use it to my advantage and make it move around. It didn't. "It stayed straight. I should have thrown it out and stayed with the game plan I had at the beginning of the game. But that didn't lose the game, either. We had so many opportunities to get guys in. We have to do something to move guys around." So the ump doesn't automatically take scuffed balls out and Oswalt chose to keep that ball,or did the ump not see it....

Sweet Jesus they are fitting Joba for his HOF hat already,if he continues to excel does he stay in the pen or go to the rotation next season....I really don't give a fiddlers fuck but thought I should ask.

Pelfrey - 2.5 Milledge - 3 Beltran - 3 Castillo - 0.5 Wright - 1

Glavine - 5 Heiman - 1 Green - 1 LoDuca - 1 Wright - 1 Wagner - 1

Martinez - 3 Wagner - 1 Feliciano - 1 Heilman - 1 Beltran - 3 Alou - 1

Val,Mets games do not go out on the stream....no idea why.

Same as sharpie.

Outstanding job Lundy and Wolf.

My wife tells me that LL is pronounced as J in Puerto Rico,so it's pronounced Cojazo.

Fucking Omar half screaming in the booth when Sosa got the out.

I think for some of these guys it's not so much about the money but about extending their "brand name",I'd guess that Woods approved Federer and Henry in the current TV commercial they are in.

] "I told him, 'I'm Keith Hernandez. I play for the Cleveland Indians,' " Hernandez said. "He just turned and walked away." Phil Mushnick would just love that line.

Well when you put it like that Val then it's perfectly understandable that AnKiel would cheat and lie. I feel bad for being down on him now.

They have a 07 payroll of $38+ million with $5+ million of that going to Jason Kendall,hard to compete with that money,especially with A-Rod probably looking for $30 million a year.

I don't recall anyone here defending Mota or any other Mets player that was suspended from the game,in fact I recall a lot of talk about weather the Mets were doing the right thing in having Mota back on the team.