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Gagne is getting a strike zone the size of a sheet of paper. At least thats my opinion on it.

Ned Yost = Manager Craig Counsell = Battler DH = Craig Counsell. Seriously - make it LaPorta.

I think its time for the Crew to really look into Greg Maddux. Yes, he is over the hill, but he really knows how to pitch. The nice thing abotu Maddux is you dont have to worry about resigning him because he is sure to retire after the year. So he wont be blocking any of our guys from the rotation. He can teach quite a bit and it would Appeal to Mike Maddux. 13 wins for 20 seasons in a row, 17 gold gloves - he might very well be watching the sun set on his career, but there is too much baseball in this guy for our young team not to have a spot for him right now. I think he would waive his no trade clause to come help his brother out as well.

Its just time for Big Ben to earn that paycheck now. I think the Crew should push hard to get Yo signed to a long term extension while he is out. Try to turn a negetive into a positive. Maybe by showing faith that he will return to form they can get a bit of a discount on his service. The sky isnt falling, Sometimes you dont miss something till its taken from you, and I am hoping that is how Dave Bush feels and comes back up and fulfills his promise.

Its just sick - thats a little child - 12 years old is not at all a woman and does not really have characteristics of a woman. Someone who does this - Malone or Clemens or some sicko on your block - they have some serious problems. Consensual? She isnt even a teenager! There are situations where I would rather look the other way like when its a 17 and 18 year old, but 12?!!? A soph at Lou tech? That makes him what about 19 or 20?

My wonderful wife picked it up for me yesterday. First she told me she tried and it was sold out everywhere and then it showed up in the fridge. I cant wait till the kids go to bed tonight and I can jam this game for a few hours.

a "Possible" Torn Ligament. WHOA. I wonder if this woman is an acting major at Portland State. What the other girls did is what was "heroic" but this girl should have crawled the bases or limped thru them. I have torn ligaments, and yes, it hurts like crazy - but if you love the game and thats your first home run, you can find a way to get around the bases. Id be saying the same thing if it were a guy.

I like Hall at 3rd - and I was not buying into this plan at the start of the season - I wanted Braun to stay and Hall to play Superman again. I dont see what the guy has done to deserve losing his job.

At this point isnt it possible for the Brewers to try to pass him thru waivers and get him on the AAA or AA team to try and work out his kinks? I think there is a chance he would go unclaimed. Winning is a business and Turnbow is bad for business right now.

The problem I have found with Creatine, is once you stop taking it or stop working out you really pack on the fat. Thats at least my experience. It does work though.

Sac Fly - Maybe. Sacrifice Bunt? Wes Helms? He cant do that.

Your odds of getting a double play when Wes Helms is hitting are MUCH better than your odds of Nailing Hanley Ramirez at the plate when he is running on contact. (pared back long nested quote --1992)

Seriously - why wouldnt the team be in double play position? How can you blame anyone but Yost for that? he was clearly giving direction to his infielders when he called the meeting on the mound. it was a dumb dumb play - it was almost as though Yost thought there was no outs. That was a wonderful job of Mismanagement. That wasnt some fat guy on 3rd base. that was Hanley Ramirez!!!!!!!! "It was a really tough play on Helms," manager Ned Yost said. "He hit the ball in just the perfect place. It was a do-or-die play. "It was just one of those games." This team has all the pieces we need except for a Major League manager.

Ephadrine(SP?). Not saying it was smart, but we used to take those for football games, and they would give you that feeling. agreed. This works, but might not be the best way to do it. I suppose cocaine would work as well. Decreases appitite and increases heart rate. The YMCA has some GREAT programs if you can get a script from your doc saying you need to get on the commit to be fit program - 65 bucks a month for a family membership is a small price to pay. You could try the cabbage soup diet - I know a guy who did this and it worked wonders - people say you dont keep that weight off but he seemed to do fine. Celery is the only food I think that burns calories as you eat it. Last thing is Grapenuts for 2 meals a day would help Id bet.

Thats funny cause I am looking for a large quanity of fake grass to turn my back yard maintenance free. Nobody does it

Kitchen nightmares - hells kitchen - house - anthony bourdaine(travel) and forensic files. With 3 kids Idol gets playtime as well.

Barter on Craigslist.

I am a stepdad for 2 kids so I can relate. IF there are streaks in the kid that scares you, you need to tell the woman that and then let her know that for it to work you cant just be the guy who tags along. The boy, if your to be a part of his life, has to be raised your way - when he gets out of line, you establish the punishment and she agrees with you on it. Alot of the reason the kid probably acts the way he does is maybe because he lacks a "father figure". The mom probably doesnt disipline well or coddles him when he acts out. Kids are a ton of work, and step kids are probably even more work. Its not for everyone but what you do have to understand is that you get a great opportnuity to make a difference in this boys life and mold him into the Man that he will be.

HA! I just get a feeling that Yost has never chewed out a player and never will.

No disrespect taken. Maybe he is going to have another freak injury, I dont know. All I am saying is that I forgot how great he is when he is healthy.

Not to be funny but this weekend try wearing one of those insulation masks on your face - see if it gets better. If it does, well then its allergies and not something internal.

What are we going to do? Either sign him before the year is up or he is gone. Its pretty amazing - I have been so down on him the last few years cause of these nagging injuries but seeing him healthy and just flat out dominating really makes me feel like the backside of a donkey. As much as I want Prince here long term, I am starting to think that Sheets is the more important player, especially with Laporta coming thru the system. I am glad that its not my job to figure this one out. The way I look at it though is we are winning without the real prince fielder right now.

Allergies. Or a government conspiracy which is spraying us from airplanes chemtrails.

Turnbow gets in these slumps though. Its normally reserved for the 2nd half of the season but for whatever reason he is going thru it now. I dont think we should be writing Turnbow off unless we are willing to write Prince Fielder off. TBOW hasnt lost velocity so its not physical IMO. Cant they put him on the 15 day DL for shoulder inflamation and have him go to extended Spring Training to get his stuff back together? Does a player have to accept an assignment to go to extended spring? I admittingly do not know the rules.

I dont think people should be worked up over this move but over the move that is going to come shortly. I dont think that Weaver is going to report to Nashville for a few weeks yet. The Obvious is that we have 4 players (that can be considered expendable) who are not yet performing up to par in Dave Bush, Turnbow(who i wish we would hold onto), Seth McClung, and Gabe Gross. Coming back we have Yo and Cameron and TGJ. I believe that means that at least 3 guys have to go. Bush and Turnbow in my opinion would have alot of value to some teams so are too good to cut. Jeff Weaver can really eat innings. At one point this guy was thought to have Ace potential. If he were the long guy out of the Pen I can handle that. I like the following article : http://ussmariner.com/2007/08/13/jeff-weaver-junkballer/ Jeff Weaver, Junkballer By: Dave and filed under Mariners After yesterday's performance, Jeff Weaver now leads the American League in complete game shutouts. I bet you could have gotten 1,000-to-1 on that being true back in May. To close out a successful 5-1 road trip, Weaver threw his best game of the year, dominating the White Sox in a way that makes you ask how it happened. Weaver's been a lot better since his return in early June, but he hasn't had any starts like this. What made the difference yesterday? To try and answer this, I dove into the Pitch F/X system to look at the velocity and movement of his pitches yesterday in handy sortable form. There are some pretty noticable trends that jump off the page. Breaking Ball, thy friend is Weaver. Thanks to Weaver's repertoire, categorizing his pitches is extremely easy. Unlike Felix, who has an assortment of pitches that travel in varying velocities anywhere from 78-99, there's a significant velocity difference between Weaver's pitches. He threw 51 pitches with a velocity between 87.0-92.6 MPH, but his 52nd fastest pitch was 83.6 MPH. He didn't threw any pitch between 84-87, making the distinction between fastball and offspeed pitch very easy to recognize. On the day, not counting the two HBPs that the Pitch F/X system didn't register, Weaver threw 51 fastballs and 62 off-speed pitches. The slow stuff was an assortment of mostly sliders and curve balls with a few change-ups mixed in, but he clearly decided to attack the White Sox with breaking balls. This became even more dramatic as the game wore on. Of his final 30 pitches, 25 of them were offspeed pitches. That's 16% fastballs and 84% offspeed stuff. On the day, of the 113 pitches the Pitch F/X system recorded, only 22 of them were 90+, but 36 of them were 79 or slower. The best pitch is strike one. Here's how Weaver started each hitter he faced: Owens, fastball, called strike Fields, fastball, called strike Thome, curveball, swinging strike Konerko, fastball, ball Pierzynski, curveball, ball Dye, fastball, called strike Podsednik, fastball, foul Uribe, fastball, called strike Cintron, curveball, ball Owens, fastball, called strike Fields, fastball, called strike Thome, curveball, called strike Konerko, fastball, called strike Pierzynski, curveball, called strike Dye, fastball, ball Podsednik, hit by pitch (no data) Uribe, fastball, swinging strike Cintron, slider, double play Owens, curveball, called strike Fields, slider, swinging strike Thome, slider, ball Konerko, curveball, called strike Pierzynski, fastball, called strike Dye, slider, called strike Podsednik, curveball, ball Uribe, fastball, called strike Cintron, curveball, called strike Owens, fastball, groundout Fields, slider, pop out Thome, curveball, called strike Konerko, fastball, called strike Pierzynski, curveball, called strike Dye, fastball, called strike The White Sox were content to go up to the plate staring at Weaver's first offering, only swinging six times. 19 times, they stared at strike one. He only went to six 1-0 counts the whole game. When you're working 0-1 on almost every single batter, you're at a huge advantage. Don't throw anything straight. Even when Weaver threw a fastball, it was moving. Without getting too deep into the complexities of how the Pitch F/X system calculates movement (essentially, it takes the movement minus the expected break of a hypothetic pitch with no spin), you can look at the PFX value and see that he only threw one pitch that could be defined as arrow straight, and it was out of the strikezone. When he put it in a hitters zone, it was diving all over the place. Essentially, yesterday, Weaver pulled a Moyer. He commanded everything with movement, threw strikes, mixed his pitches, and attacked the hitters with offspeed stuff. It worked to perfection, obviously. The White Sox aren't a good offense, but as we saw, that ballpark is a total joke in the summer, and even ordinary flyballs can get out of there once they get up in the air. Weaver avoided pitching to contact and took advantage of Chicago's take-then-hack philosophy, peppering them with pitches they weren't expecting nor could they do anything with. We probably won't see a better pitched game by a Mariner all year long. The August 12th version of Jeff Weaver is a testament to just how successful you can be with command and movement. Let's hope Felix was taking notes. This entry was posted on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 7:18 am and is filed under Mariners. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.