southsider2k5

A players ceiling is what he believes it is. If Borchard thought he could be an average player, that is the best he would ever do. With his atheltic gifts, the guy should believe he has a "tremendous" potential. The last thing i want to see is a player bad mouth himself like Willie did earlier in the year.

After he was asked about it... he didn't bring it up.

It won't help, but as a middle market team, you don't spend at least $11.2 million on a guy who might never be the same again. We could be looking at Bo Jackson part 2 unfortunately.

I hate to say it, but there is no way I want to see Brandon start next year in Chicago. Let's be sure the kid is ready, we don't need to crush this kids confidence by rushing him. Hell I would rather see him all charged up and king of the world, than to have him come up and giving Munoz-style starts.

Definately not all of his struggles, but it goes to reason if you either let Neal finish his own jams more often, or relieve him with a RHP who can pitch in the clutch REASONABLY well, his era could be about a run lower. Jackson let something like 75% of his inherited runners score, and it seemed like Jackson was always relieving Cotts. I look at Neal's peripherals, such as his baa and K/9 and see that his numbers could be a hell of a lot better. I know BBs have always been a problem for Neal, but he has always been able to pitch over them. His ML peripherals indicate to me that he would do way better than the assclowns who have been letting all of his runners score.

The lockout is official

Like I said in another thread. I would like to know how many of Neals ER are from inherited runners scoring while another pitcher is on the mound.

I hope they catch them too. Cleveland is the Kings of Bandwagon fans. Within two years of their streak, their attendence fell by about 50%. Greatest fans in baseball, my ass.

If I understand the play correctly ( I didn't see it) there is one way this can happen. When it comes to runners on you can't assume a DP. If the error was made at second, that runner becomes an unearned runner, but you can't assume Willie would have turned the DP if he hadn't have screwed up whatever he did. So the runner at first gets credited with a FC and is an earned runner.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5971842/site/newsweek/

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1882081

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...arthastewart_dc

Glad to see that you can still always find the negative in something...

Well maybe if we change 1-800-boobies to a base stealing hotline, this idea might be crazy enough to work

That is the big thing the refs have been told to watch out for...

But he knows where the phone is right?

Now the only question is, did Willie Harris call the booth to b****?

Someone want to tell me how big of homers Hawk and DJ are again?

And deserves every dime of it. It isn't like the woman spilt hot coffee on herself. Some moron threw a chair into a crowd of people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5974183/

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/...14townsend.html The kid renounced his college baseball eligiblity and then went back to class, and now they aren't sure whether he can still negotiate with Baltimore or not.

I just forwarded that all over the place

They can't do anything about assault weapons, but they can get their payraises done :rolly http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/...e.ap/index.html