Dollarbill13

Prince and Rickie strike out on identical breaking balls a foot from the strike zone...

Ha... Control_Alt_Delete. What a sweet nickname for a closer.

Step it up Ohka

Welcome to the board! I'm playing it. I had to drink for all those pesky comments last inning.

Does this stadium have a Big Mac land? Might be a good target for Weeks.

Where is the thread about flyball outs vs. groundball outs?

Is this league on Yahoo? I'll play.

I'm confused as to what this thread is even about, at this point. In response to bjames' comment about the mental factor playing a big part of the game (having a plan at the plate, etc.), I would say that this is obviously true. However, shouldn't players who go to the plate with a good plan have this mental aspect included in their OPS due to hitting better?

But Jenkins is rapidly cooling off, and Hall is still cold Huh? Two straight 1-4s constitutes cooling off?

I sure hope that the Darron & Bill drinking game includes something about Bill saying "just trying to make contact." You probably would need only that to get thoroughly GP'd.

The NL doesn't have the DH. Thanks for the update. I'm just saying that Ohka has pitched 5 and given up 4 runs and I wouldn't expect Yost to pitch him more than one more inning. Why start out the inning with an automatic out when we have the top of our order coming up? Anyway, I think this 2nd base umpire is calling force outs on these Brady Clark steals.

Why did Ohka hit for himself again?

They did do a round table type thing previewing the minor league season where a few of the big guys (Brian, Colby, Toby, etc.) posted their thoughts on individual players and teams. I'd like to see more of that.

It would have been nice to let Prince bat for Magruder there.

Weeks... back to his old tricks.

Who needs runs? We've got the fighters, the gamers and the hard-workers. That's all we need, right Ned?

Small ball.... yipee... way to not play the %. You have 9 outs left and you give one away, o yeh and you waste your best hitter. I HATE that. Sac bunts aren't the worst thing in the world when it means advancing two runners. According to BP's expected runs matrix, you lose about .14 expected runs by advancing runners to second and third and taking an out.

Why do we even need draft compensation for losing players? If one of your stars signs with another team, you gain money to sign someone else. In most cases, a player's original team does have the opportunity to re-sign him and they opt not too.

CTRL + ALT + DEL shuts down the Cubs.

JJ's GIDP was the first non-3TO of the game for the Crew. Russel the Muscle must be preaching effectively in the clubhouse.

Top 1st: Schmidt pitching Krynzel - K Weeks - BB, caught stealing during Overbay's at bat Overbay - K looking Brewers 0, Giants 0 Bottom 1st: Capuano pitching J. Ellison - bunt single, caught trying to advance on pitch in the dirt during Cruz's at bat D. Cruz - BB JT Snow - BB P. Feliz - BB M. Grissom - K looking M. Tucker - K Brewers 0, Giants 0 Top 2nd: Schmidt pitching Branyan - BB Hart - K Hardy - GIDP 6-4-3 Brewers 0, Giants 0 Bottom 2nd: Capuano pitching B. Dalimore - 2B to left field corner M. Matheny - K J. Schmidt - K Ellison - ground out Brewers 0, Giants 0 Top 3rd: Schmidt pitching Cruz - K Moeller - Home Run Capuano - K Krynzel - Fly out Brewers 1, Giants 0 Bottom 3rd: Capuano pitching Cruz: out Snow pop out Feliz: K Brewers 1, Giants 0 Top 4th: Schmidt pitching Weeks: BB Overbay: 1B ( infield hit) Branyan: K Hart: K Hardy: 5-3 ground out Brewers 1, Giants 0 Bottom 4th: Tommy Phelps pitching Grissom: Fly out to center Tucker: K Dalimore: 1B Matheny: 1B Linden (PH for Schmidt): Flyout Brewers 1, Giants 0 Top 5th: Fassero pitching Cruz: U3 Moeller: BB Phelps: 2-6-3 DP (on sac bunt attempt) Brewers 1, Giants 0 Bottom 5th: Phelps pitching Ellison: Out Cruz: 1B Snow: 4-1 (Overbay missed, Weeks with the backup- makes the play) Feliz: 1B (infield - Branyan backed up on the hop, rather than charging), Cruz to 2nd Wild pitch, runners advance to 2nd and 3rd. Linden: 1B to right center, 2 runs score Brewers 1, Giants 2 Jeff Bennett replaces Tommy Phelps Tucker: 6-3 Brewers 1, Giants 2 Top 6th: Benitez pitching Krynzel: 6-3 Weeks: 6-3 Overbay: FO7 Brewers 1, Giants 2 Bottom 6th: Bennett pitching Dalimore: 6-3 Matheny: 1B, PR Rivera Linden: 1B, Rivera scores, Linden out at 2nd J. Ramirez: K Brewers 1, Giants 3 Top 7th: Branyan: 6-3 Hart: 1B Hardy: 3B standing - Hart scores Cruz: groundout - Hardy stays at 3rd Moeller: out Brewers 2, Giants 3 Bottom 7th: Glover pitching Steve Moss with a "spectactular" catch in right center Chabolla? -BB, steals 2nd 6-3, runner advances to 3rd Niekro: BB Torcato: K Brewers 2, Giants 3 Top 8th: Erickson: 4-3 Cirillo: BB Borders: 1B to center, Cirillo to 3rd Fermaint: out Knox: out Brewers 2, Giants 3 Bottom 8th: power outage... I'm going to let it go at this point.

Much like with WTMJ, you cannot stream the game directly from WIBA's web site. You still must pay.

How good is Ben Sheets?

http://reviews.macnn.com/reviews/madden2000/sweep.jpg SWEEEEEEEEP

Gary Bennett is officially under .200. Now it comes time to predict if he will climb above that for the rest of the year.