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If you can't wear out Marquis the traditional way, just shatter your bat into his face. Boy that looked bad.

I wonder if he was ever unhealthy in the first place. He had an unhealthy command of his fastball, is that's what you mean. In regards to Capellan, I would echo what others have said. I'm just happy I don't have to hate the guy every time he gives up a run now. Listening to some of the interview he did while in AAA ealier this year I got a true feeling of his attitude and it wasn't a good one. He needs PR help, and a change of scenery is probably good.

Jai Rodriguez wins.

Why do you need an invite to use this site? What makes them so special?

What's with Weeks?

Sheets against the bottom of the Cubs order with a 7 run lead and a pitch count of 94 doesn't bother me too much.

Ron Santo is an unprofessional slob I enjoy Santo for pure comedy. There is nothing funnier than listening to Santo after a Cub drops a flyball.

JP is hillarious during Braun's double. "It going to take Froemming a long time to get out to the ivy. He's running, now he's jogging, he's running, he's walking, he's running, he's walking. He's out there now and rules it a double. Do we have any fan mail to read while we wait for him to make it back to 3rd base?"

Just when I was thinking, "all these runs and no HRs".

Nice work by Sheets giving up nothing after a leadoff triple.

Kevin Mench = BB machine.

It's a quality documentary into the lives of minor leaguers. I'm sorry I don't have the link, but it's available to download somewhere online for a small fee.

I like the looks of this game after 1 inning. Gallardo with 7 pitches gets 3 outs.

I was watching the highlights on epsn of a game that the Nationals recently lost something like 15-1. Apparently the Nationals are so bad that the fans bring white flags with them when they leave for RFK. No joke a fan was waving a white flag during the highlights. They are still better than the Reds right now by .030 PCT, but their X W-L is still easily the worst in the League.

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Of the outfielders you mention I really like Byrnes numbers this year and if LaRussa did pick a 4th outfielder I would hope it would be him. I like Corey Hart's recent surge and he has good numbers, but I still think his name isn't big enough, plus he spent a lot of time on the bench earlier in the year. Also, don't forget about Dunn he would be another strong choice after Holliday/Bonds/Lee.

I was also thinking about Morris just because the game is being played in SF and the Giants should get more than just Bonds to represent the city. I like Snell over Gorzelanny. Gorzelanny only has one more win, and Snell's stats just look a little better if you throw out the W-L. Valverde's got an ERA of 2.78 and a WHIP of 1.11 on top of his 25 saves. I can't see Wagner going, because the Mets will already have enough guys, I'd like to see Hoffman though.

Outfield is a position where a lot of players have the statistics to make the All-Star team, as Ely pointed out, but several teams will only get one representative. I think Colorado and Houston will have their only representative at outfield. I tried to play Tony LaRussa put together a roster. I tried not to give any one team too many representatives. I also tried to take the best player on teams with only one representative, even if it was at the expense of a more deserving player at that position (D. Young over A. Gonzalez or D. Lee at 1B). Starters P - Jake Peavy C - Russ Martin 1B - Prince Fielder 2B - Chase Utley 3B - David Wright SS - Jose Reyes OF - Carlos Beltran OF - Ken Griffey Jr. OF - Alfonso Soriano Reserves SP - Brad Penny SP - Chris Young SP - Brandon Webb SP - John Smoltz SP - Ben Sheets SP - Cole Hamels SP - Aaron Harang SP - Ian Snell RP - Francisco Cordero RP - Takashi Saito RP - Jose Valverde C - Brian McCann 1B - Albert Pujols 1B - Dimitri Young 2B - Dan Uggla 2B - Brandon Phillips 3B - Miguel Cabrera 3B - Chipper Jones SS - Hanely Ramirez SS - ?? OF - Matt Holliday OF - Barry Bonds OF - Carlos Lee Washingston is the hardest team to pull a representative from. Zimmerman, Young and C. Cordero are all equally good (bad). Holliday is deserving in my opinion. Houston would either send Oswalt or Lee and starting pitching is a lot more crowded on the roster than outfield. I think a pitcher or two is probably going to be upset that they were left off the roster when the final one is announced. On the roster I made out, I could have easily swapped in Derek Lowe, John Maine, and Trevor Hoffman or any number of other pitchers. What do you think?

^^^It's to get a true measure of how badly you actually want those players to the All-Star game.

A silver lining thread with no cloud?

Player of the game - Damian Miller.

Corporations have the sole interest of making money. While any corporations goal is to make a profit, this doesn't automatically mean that they are heartless money grubbing machines. ESPN has made many large donations and started several viable charitable organizations ESPN's V foundation for instance has raised over $60 million for cancer patients since it's inception is 1993. Every dime raised by the V foundation goes directly to cancer research. On top of that Disney-ESPN donated $2.5 million dollars of their earnings toward Katrina. ESPN has also started "ESPN's Play Your Way" program and is the number one corporate donor at The Special Olympics. You can read all about ESPN's contributions HERE at the website that they have set up dedicated to giving. In short, they are doing a lot for charity that we never get to hear about. The "My Wish" show that we are talking about is about just one of the 5000 kids every year that Disney and ESPN grant a wish to. Disney-ESPN are the number one granter of Make-A-Wish wishes. What I am talking about when I say, "I don't understand where you are coming from", is how people can get so upset at ESPN for showing one tidbit of the charity that they do every year and still claim that they are money hungry whores. If you claim ESPN is just doing this segment for ratings, fine, but those ratings fuel the sponsers who pay ESPN, who in turn gives it back to less fortunate people.

Jim, thanks for making the donations that you have. I don't think there is anything self centered about making a donation and then telling people about it. What I see ESPN doing is helping Make-A-Wish gain publicity and encouraging more people to donate. I just don't understand where you are coming from.

Man you guys are harsh. I think it's a nice gesture for a dying child. I'm not a huge Sportcenter fan, nor a BBTN fan, nor a David Ortiz fan, but I am certainly a fan of seeing a smile of a terminally ill child. Lighten up people.

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