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MILTON BRADLEY ejected from a spring training game again! I guess some players work on hitting,some on running,some on their fielding,and some just continue on their road of stupidity.
He will be missed here in CHICAGO, he was a perfect fit for the CUBS,losers of a feather stick together.

You and he seem to have a lot in common Wally, and would probably get along very well.

And Kerry Wood is out for 2 months with a backache.

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Malort. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

This might be my very favoritest thread in the whole wide world if you guys stop talking about the Cubs and actually start talking about baseball.

[quote="TPATHYou and he seem to have a lot in common Wally, and would probably get along very well. [/quote]

I heard a rumor that BRADLEY want's to move to INDIANA so perhaps you can share a cup of joe together

You are right, but for some reason bashing the CUBS has become one of my favorite things to do [old age is the culprit]

HEY! That's enough outta you.

Ok lets go to real stories in spring training like:

2009 overall #1 draft pick Nats' RHP Stephen Strasburg Optioned to Double A

LHP Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds could be the opening day starter

Defending WS champs New York Yankees still don't have a 5th starter

St Louis Cardinals still don't have a clear cut starter at 5th starter and 3rd base.

Anything to add, GUYS?!?

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

I don't have anything to add about spring training. But I have an old-timer story:
I was playing STC at Damon's back in 1995 and a question comes up "Which player hit a home run in his first at-bat but never hit another in his career?" I figured that they were asking for Hoyt Wilhelm before the answers came up, so I hit it when it showed. A stranger sitting at the table next to mine leaned over a couple of seconds later and said "It's Hoyt Wilhelm." I told him that I was on it. He asked if I was familiar with Wilhelm, and I said "You bet. Why do you ask?" He told me that Hoyt was his grandfather and got out his wallet to show me pictures of them together over the years. What are the odds?
Of course, the baseball historian in me couldn't let him get away without suggesting that his grandpa could have had a bigger slice of baseball history if he would've grooved one to Maris in game 154 in '61...

Twins losing Joe Nathan could be huge. They have the makings of a good team this year. Decent offense. Decent rotation (if they can keep them healthy). They always have great defense. This is a situation where we can assess if a top notch closer is an over-rated position. Will they do Ok filling the position from within, or by June will they be looking to make a deal?

Despite this, I drafted Strasburg on Saturday...after I found out.

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C Joe Mauer sign to Matt Holliday-size contract.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

CUB fans rejoice! [color=#BF0000]PUJHOLS is out! [color=#000000]the bad news,the CUBS are still gonna suck. [/color][/color]

I'm going to the Jays Opening Day game this year for the first time in 25 years

I just want to ask that if anybody corresponds with that idiot asshole Colin Cowherd, who said the Dodgers should be alright this year 'cause their division is so weak, could you kindly inform him the West was the strongest division in the National League last year? It's amazing how some people don't know how to do basic arithmetic.

There's only one caveat, and that would be you have to factor in that the divisions play different AL divisions in interleague, and the NL West did get the AL Central, which had none too good a year. But, taking that into consideration, the West was 30 games over .500, the East was 20 games under, and the Central was 34 games under. I think that margin negates the interleague factor, except possibly between the other two divisions.

Keeping in mind, that all could change in the blink of an eye...must be all this free agency, but I'm pretty sure the West went from strongest to weakest in one year a couple of years ago, and back again. Doesn't speak well for consistency, but there it is. I'm just tired of putzes like Cowherd, who push the common wisdom without the slightest honest analysis.

He's such a Common Wisdom Priestess, it's pathetic. I enjoyed catching him in an illustrative contradiction: West coast teams are less competitive because life is so easy out here, says he. Ok...then he says during the Olympics that Canada is a loser compared to the U.S. His way of pointing that out? That all the best Canadian entertainment talent comes to Hollywood. Yeah, dumbshit, it wouldn't be because the big money is centered here or anything.

But wait! Hollywood took away the movie industry from NY-NJ early last century. Could it be because of our shooting-friendly weather? Can't be, according to Colin! It has to be because we're tougher competitors than New York! But that can't be, 'cause our loser teams are so much less competitive!

Help me Colin, I just don't know what to think!!!

I'm going to the Astros Opening Day against the Giants.

I myself took a passadena on WHITE SOX opening day tickets, I am content watching at home or in a bar.

Pat Venditte pitched 1 1/3 innings for the Yankees yesterday. Gave up a run on two hits and a walk.

Would not be a big deal, except that he pitched both left-handed and right-handed during his outing:

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Pat-Venditte-throws-with-both-arms-in-appearance?urn=mlb,231182

I will not be at either the Sox or Cubs opening day, unless somehow I get free tickets, Unlikely.

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Frank

Saw that on ESPN. He need to be established before he can do that again.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

[quote="TCHCNB


Twins losing Joe Nathan could be huge. They have the makings of a good team this year. Decent offense. Decent rotation (if they can keep them healthy). They always have great defense. This is a situation where we can assess if a top notch closer is an over-rated position. Will they do Ok filling the position from within, or by June will they be looking to make a deal?


My question is how will they fare in a way different enviroment then the Metrodome? Most of us WHITE SOX fans [and even OZZIE GUILLEN] admire the fact that the twinkies are always bringing up talent from the minors to replace the talent that they lose via free agency,and they always play hard. It's a shame that teams can outbid on players that you have the smarts to draft,it's sort of like robbery.

Hey Coorsya! How about Big Z in his 2010 season debut? He is SO much better than Bueherle.

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RAN D, ZEBRA and I went to the Yankees game on Friday

[quote="BGTUNA"]Hey Coorsya! How about Big Z in his 2010 season debut? He is SO much better than Bueherle.


The big Z is nothing without SAMMY, since SAMMY left the big Z has no cork connection.