Stan from Tacoma

Kahn: "The book also says you came to bat 620 times and that was the only home run."

Roe: "Yep. You got a secret weapon like that, you don't want to go showing it around."

Just a shame for Laker fans that Bynum was not available for the championship series.

Yeah, that Nasri is pure class. That second goal was classic Arsenal football. What a beautiful pass from Cesc. I'm surprised you made no mention of ManU being at full strength, while Arsenal were without quite a few players. Replace Bendtner with Ade and it could have been embarrassing. Clichy completely pwned Mr. Balloon D'or all game, Rooney looked lost, and Berbatov is nothing when he's not getting the ball at his feet. Gunner fans needed that result BADLY.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc4ZDi-bCEs&feature=related

...and how long will it be 'til that happens with '08 too? :(

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The Rose Bowl was in our grasp.

I stand by my prediction.

But Saturday will be the day that Eric Stephen will get to say "How Do You Do?" a lot. Or we'll get to hear Pete Arbogast cry.

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http://insidethedodgers.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/11/back_in_town.html

I can't see YouTube at work, so can't see the player you are referring to. Is it someone from the Bergkamp/Overmars generation or older?

Has anyone been more consistent over the last five years.

Penn State's loss was huge, but the Alabama OT win was a crusher. It's up to Mississippi St & Auburn, and/or Florida State to do the dirty work.

John Brattain puts on his rubber boots and gloves and wades into "Boras' latest manure pile"
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/battling-boras-round-2/

I finally got around to reading Moneyball for the 1st time. Great book, one question though. The chapter about the pitcher having little to no control over BABIP (which I believe is true, too much eveidence not to). DePodesta brings up an interesting point, he believes a pitcher has no can control BABIP but he can control XBH's. Two questions, has a study on IsoPBIP (isolated power balls in play) been done to see if this is acutally true? Second, if Paul is right wouldn't IsoPBIP be a much more useful tool than BABIP?

Since I don't think there's a lot of guys who allow a lot of doubles but not many home runs (I could be wrong here) it seems like home run rate serves a very similar purpose.

And like cargill said, the Angels are poised for a collapse. Teixeira's gone and may or may not get replaced, Vladi's getting older every year, K-Rod's probably gone, Joe Saunders can't really be expected to repeat his career year... that's probably an 85-win team next year depending on how much money they throw at the free agent market.

"The A's are not acquiring him with the intention of flipping him or even trading him in July. The team is in position to increase its payroll to as much as $80 million, and plans to contend next season.

To that end, the A's also are targeting free-agent shortstop Rafael Furcal to be their leadoff man. Furcal is drawing interest from about 10 clubs, according to his agent, Paul Kinzer. The acquisition of Holliday could help persuade him that the A's are serious about competing."

The Rox were asking for Ludwick/Schumacher/Boggs from the Cards. I wonder what they settled for???

It must suck to be a Rockies fan. Their crowds just completely fell off after the mid 90s. I doubt trading their best player will help bring them back now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-hollidaytraded111008&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

And there's that whole silly "gotta ask for more from a divisional rival even though we're not contending this year."

Carlos Gonzalez is actually going to be very good. Should be the centerfielder of the future for the Rockies.

Rox would be smart to flip Street down the line.

Gonzalez has a great ceiling but he's yet to put up impressive numbers at any level. He was probably the only guy in the organization other than Cahill that had a chance to become a star.

Looks like both could be centerpieces in landing superstars (Johan & Holiday).

Doubt if the Angels have as much trouble as Eric suggests. Remember they had the division won when the got Teixeira, he was just frosting for the postseason. They will spend some money this off season and they will have another 90 plus win season in 2009.

Strange to see the A's going with a veteran team. In years past the team was built with great young kids who peaked just before free agency. To bad the A's did nothing with those draft picks. Luckily Haren infused the team with some good blood and it looks like they used some of that to nab Holliday.

Lineup:
SS Furcal
2B Ellis
LF Holliday
DH Cust
3B Chavez
RF Cunningham/Buck?
1B Barton
C Suzuki
CF Sweeney/Davis?

Sheets, Duchsherer, Gallagher, Eveland, Gio?

Is this even a .500 team?

Perfect example of how all large companies make big mistakes with their customers. I have loved Sprint from the start, and it has been nothing but a pleasure for me. AT&T (the cell company) on the other hand is the bane of my existence.