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QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 02:22 PM) Is this a highly contested point? Right now, it looks like the real question is...will any of our starting pitchers put up a lower ERA than McCarthy?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 02:08 PM) Just got back from class, how's Danks looking? 4-0 D Backs, top 4th inning, 5 hits, 5 walks, 1 HR given up by Danks. 6 straight pitches out of the strike zone brings out Ozzie. 7.

Podsednik singles. Thus setting up another CS. Bets on which pitch? Erstad singles. Grindingly.

QUOTE(bulokis @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 01:56 PM) It seems like we have no positive thing going on before the season starts. KW opening his mouth again, Hall's injury, pitchers exploding and bats missing. We need to see a turn around soon. Maybe they're just getting it all out of the way now... Pablo cancels the postgame show. And is promptly caught stealing.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 01:52 PM) 2 - 21 - 1 ?

Can't say I've seen them pitch much because I don't have Comcast, but the stats look abjectly awful. ERA WHIP HR Vaz: 8.85 2.07 1 MB: 9.00, 2.00 3 JG: 8.66 2.32 3 JC: 5.09 1.53 2

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 01:42 PM) Farmer said Sabathia left the facility in an aircast....... That doesn't mean anything until the X-Rays come back, it's simply a method of stabilizing an injury so that if it is broken, it doesn't get worse. And it's a real easy way of doing it at that, it's just a splint that you inflate. Takes less than a minute.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 01:35 PM) If we have fifth starter problems this season, we should want KW's head for getting rid of Freddie. If this Molina guy is an automatic out, we're going to be hurting big time when he plays. I say catch AJ 130 games even against lefties. Can he handle 130? AJ played in 140 games last year. The reason everyone is so concerned about this is 2 fold...AJ was bad against lefties, and AJ clearly tired down the stretch and his numbers went way down.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 12:32 PM) Some people argue that the Iran seizure of the British naval vessel has a lot to do with Iranian diplomats currently being held by the US in Iraq. Even if that's 100% their reasoning...how smart is it to try to convince the Bush Administration to back down by escalating a potentially military situation? "No Mr. Bush, I will not give you my lunch money, you're going to have to take it" (Machine gun fire is heard).

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 11:51 AM) Heh. Got me. I forgot Zarqawi was dead. That makes you qualified to run for the Republican nomination. Good luck!

Phillies release Garcia.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 11:53 AM) Haven't seen it yet....anyway you can link that, or is it premium? It appears Premium.

"And he's out from here to Phoenix". -Farmer.

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 11:52 AM) I'm really confused as to how people who were confident going into this spring training with gavin floyd or danks as a fifth starter, knowing they would probably be inconsistent as hell to start off, are suddenly now changing their season long expectations I'm less worried about our 5th starter performing at 5th starter levels than I am about our 1-4 starters performing at 1-4 starter levels.

QUOTE(wcw2323 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 12:21 PM) Charlie's value is at it's highest right now, who knows how he will do this year. I really disagree with this. Charlie is a knuckleballer. Consequently, his value is a lot lower than what it would be if he put up an ERA of 3 in AAA last year but was throwing 96. Because people don't know how to evaluate knuckleballers, their value is always going to be depressed until they prove themselves against big leaguers. He has plenty of room for his value to go up, by either putting togehter another solid season, cutting down on the walks, or getting some wins at the big leagle level.

Decent job of limiting the damage by John. Hopefully he comes out stronger next inning now.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 01:06 PM) Chris Young leadoff?! It's Spring Training, but damn that's surprising. Do they think he can leadoff this year? There has certainly been a lot of talk about Young leading off for the D-Backs this year. We'll see if it works.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 10:57 AM) *yawn* True but the pessimistic side of me can counter most of those. The pessimistic side of me hears what you're saying and agrees with most of it, except for the Logan/Thor parts. I'm pretty pumped to see Booney back. And I think Danks has a good shot at being a pleasant surprise. But beyond that, the whole Anderson/Erstad thing and the early signs from our pitching staff have me exceptionally worried about this being a down year. But consider that me playing devil's advocate on the positive side on this team.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 11:22 AM) Perhaps I should start listening a bit more when he speaks. If you did you'd think Brian Anderson was starting in CF.

Wow. For once it's not his fault.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 10:58 AM) if he's referring to our "war on terror" in general, he may be right. But if he's equating leaving Iraq with failure, then he needs to get his head out of his butt. Pay attention to the names.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 10:56 AM) Has Angelo ever traded up in a draft? I almost would rather have him have the 31 pick and the extra money. Of the six players you have listed as impact three of them serve no purpose to the Bears (Quinn, Russell and Peterson). You are trading Jones, Briggs and your number one for the 6th pick in the draft and the 2nd round flip of picks. Sounds like a-lot to give up to me. It's entirely possible that the Bears might trade up to the 6th pick and then drop back to pick up 2 more low-first/high-second-round picks. In fact, I believe that was hinted at in a lot of press reports this morning, which would be another very smart thing for the Bears to do. Especially if they could get a pick in the high-20's where they could go after that OLB from Penn State.

I'm finding it interesting how similar I find the arguments of the Loose Change guys to the arguments of the anti-evolution or anti-global warming folks. It's always the argument from Ignorance. There's no footage of this. There's no footage of that. There's no good images of this. Why can't we see the footage of this.

John McCain, yesterday.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 10:27 AM) Is there a single positive for this team going into opening day? It seems every facet of the team is falling apart. Jose Contreras's last outing was a good outing. Javier Vazquez's last outing wasn't bad, IIRC. Some of these guys have histories of performing poorly in the spring and coming out in the regular season performing well. Boone Logan and Matt Thornton have been unbelievably dominant. John Danks has actually earned the 5th starter job. Brian Anderson is on the team. Jermaine Dye, Joe Crede, Jim Thome, AJ Pierzynski, and Paul Konerko are healthy. We have not suffered any serious injuries in our pitching staff or bullpen. We have a deep AAA rotation.