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Yep ever since I posted his horrible line he's been raking, I'm like the anti jinx.

I guess the way the show was written sure, but the very back of restraunt? I just don't see it is all.

Dish does have the most HD content at the moment as that's what I have, but I'd do Direct TV in a heartbeat over cable. I was paying $150 for no movie channels and RoadRunner. With Dish I ended up with the HD package all of the movie channels but Stars, and my bill before my movie rentals is about $115. Before HD I was at about $95 a month so with Road Runner still costing me $50, it was a wash but I had twice as many channels and all the movie channels I wanted. I'll never go back to Time Warner, they screwed me over for years with digital cable.

ha! you guys rule!

My whole problem with this supposed single gun shot is that you wouldn't cap someone inside the restraunt because there are too many witnesses, unless you don't care about getting caught. It's just not very mobish, if they gun people down in public, they do it outdoors and in such a way as to get away easy. The way Sonny died in "A Bronx Tale" is much more believable, crowded bar, party going on, a young kid bent on revenge for his father. This didn't have that sort of feel to it, I have to think if the guy came out of the bathroom that Carmella would have seen or said something right there at the end when she looked up, like yelling his name "Tony!" and then a cut to black. After reflecting I think the series was just meant to be opened ended, but I'll probably be proven wrong by the commentary on the DVD.

Soundgarden by far... I hate to say it, but in my early 20s when the Pumpkins were big, every single video they put out there irritated the hell out of me for some reason. Remember the irritational player hatred thread last year? Well if we had one for bands, Smashing Pumpkins would be #1 on my list.

I was hoping to come home today and see at least 1 top 10 guy signed... ohh well.

This Palm Beach series is huge for BC, keep the wins coming boys!

If Yo can find a way to be more economical with his pitches he's got the potential to be very good, a 1 or 2 type starter. In his interviews he talked about losing focus early, walking batters, wasting pitches... I'm still not sure how I feel about that, it's good that he knows where he needs to improve, but yet, he hasn't really improved any of those areas in the month. We shall see, I'll continue to hope for the best.

Vargas was probably scheduled for a Bullpen session today anyway, I highly doubt that would affect his availability.

I don't like Big Love at all, you're the first person that I've come across that likes the show Colby. John from Cinci wasn't what I expected from the promo 15 minute thing they ran this weekend. The show has lots of actors that I like and Rebecca Demornay whom I've always had a soft spot for. It started slow, but I get what's going on, and will give it a couple of episodes. Getting back to the topic, I didn't miss an episode for the first 3 seasons. The show just started to wear on and I got to be a pretty casual viewer and maybe caught an episode here or there when I happened across one. I pretty quit watching after Tony got shot and the episodes were dreams and such, because it was like Max Payne to me, it was't original but with this being the last season I didn't miss one. I'm still pretty indifferent about the final episode, it just didn't do it for me. I guess I grew up with MASH and Cheers, and those shows tied off the show and generally made me feel a sense of loss. I was watching tonight fully expecting Tony to die, and I realized about halfway through that I was nervous, so maybe they accomplished their goal. I was into it, still rooting for Tony, and with the ding and then black, I stood up and swore out loud, and then sat down and let it sink in.

Wow I fall asleep during top of nine, wake up and see extra innings, a blown save, and then Gameday tells me, "in play, run scoring play" as I flip back from checking the game log. It's like I didn't miss a thing! edit. wow JJ's 1 for 7 looks pretty crappy.

6 minutes left and I catch myself holding my breath all the time. Nothing earth shattering is going to happen to Tony. edit. nm, this diner scene doesn't look promising. double edit. Well they sure left alot hanging out there, wow.

Dillard giving up hits at a .310 clip is a little distrubing as well, his WHIP was always a bit up and down from year to year, but I'm beginning to think that his season in BC was just an anomoly.

I wouldn't be surprised if he stayed in at WV all year, then again, it wouldn't suprise me if he got promoted either. There's really no reason for the organization to rush him, but if they think A+ will help his game it's all good.

I'm so glad tendonitis was really tendonitis for once.

His SO to BB ration is just barely above 1, but much like Brewer, the early returns are very encouraging.

I would think they picked up something on the pitcher, no one steals 8 times in one game on the catcher. I could be wrong, but 8 steals screams that they had something, none of the steals came in the 8th or 9th. Salome did have 2 passed balls and another throwing error in the game so maybe it was on him. He is supposed to have a cannon, but the game log doesn't help with this sort of issue. I would think it was something to do with McClendon, as I can't remember anywhere near this many steals on Salome in the past. McClendon doesn't throw hard and is a sinkerball pitcher, so I could see Salome having to dig a bunch of balls. Obviously, balls in the dirt are good to steal on.

Big come from behind win for BC, but Palm Beach keeps matching the Mantees game for game. Hopefully the promotions can push BC over the hump and help secure a playoff berth. edit. changed the team name, I was thinking about the Power promotions and put that in instead.

Brantley is surprising to say the least.

It's nice that instead of giving Colby his due for all the time and effort it takes to maintain the draft forum basically by himself, we instead end up debating semantics. So I guess by that definition Mass doesn't add any value on Minor League forum because all he does is link 30 stories and a mountain of information for us every single day in the Link Reports? I'm trying very to hard to be civil, because honestly, those posts really ticked me off. You don't have to agree with us, but give the man his due for his efforts...

Well it's not so much innings as it is the pitches. Dillard was pitching complete games on 85 pitches, he was ground ball machine, that's something that no one really does, he's unique. Yo! is much more statistically dominant, but he's lucky to get through 6 innings with less than 100 pitches, Inman's pitch counts aren't as high usually, but I think you can see my point where an inning for one pitcher isn't the same as an inning for another. Comparing 1 pitchers innings from 1 year to next is much more valid, as that's a determination of how much stress the organization is willing to put on a pitcher's arm. In Dillard's case his innings actually went down as hitters began to work the count more against him (from A+ to AA), but I'd venture a guess that he through more pitches, but I've been unable to come up with the exact number of pitches he's thrown, maybe my google skills stink.

I thought the rankings were pretty much right on the money with the exception of the DFEs, I would have thought they'd be higher, but I can live with their placement until they prove something. However, 5-10 spots at the tail end of the 50 doesn't mean all that much, it's not where they start it's where they finish. I've been reading the P50 for almost 4 years now, and watching the minors since I found the site, and there are some universal truths I've learned... Production at A and A+ while nice doesn't mean anymore than production in the rookie leagues. AA is where the cream starts to rise to the top, I refuse to get overly excited about anyone in A+ or lower. The guys that wash out before AA never really had a chance, Brad Nelson was pretty spectacular at AA before his injury, look where he is now... I've only been paying attention for a few years and can name a ton of guys with super potential that washed out before AA or AAA, being at the higher levels means more about a player's MLB potential. Very rarely will 2 people have the same opinion on a player. This why I like this current method with 3 people callaborating the best. They may be Mass' comments this time around, but the rankings are the average of all 3 people. Being injured 1 time drops a top prospect down a bit, but not more than 15 spots usually. There's a reason why someone is/was a top prospect, it's prudent to give them the benefit of the doubt until they return, then the production speaks for itself. While a certain people may not have their favorites ranked where they want, it's certainly nothing to get that worked up about. I would have probably slept on it before dropping a rant like the above, why are one person's opinion any more valuable than another's? It's important to remember that there's not a whole lot of fact when evaluating and ranking players, it's all pretty subjective. Just because you think it so, doesn't make it so.

Awesome job as usual. Jones gone from the 50, Nelson nearing the bottom... my first power 50 memories turned out to be nothing but a pipe dream. Ohh how the mighty have fallen.

So I was looking down the draft boards of the various teams in the NL and the Padres have 12 picks already. I don't know why, but it really chaps my rear the more I think about how lame this draft system is. Comp picks, international players not included in the draft, and so on... Sorry for the rant, I need to vent and the cats don't seem to care.