Rockies Lineup
- Dexter Fowler, CF
- Jordan Pacheco, 1B
- Michael Cuddyer, RF
- Ramon Hernandez, C
- Casey Blake, 3B
- Brandon Wood, SS
- Tyler Colvin, LF
- Chris Nelson, 2B
- Wilkin Castillo, DH
- Pitcher: Guillermo Moscoso
Cubs Lineup
- David DeJesus, RF
- Marlon Byrd, CF
- Blake DeWitt, 2B
- Alfonso Soriano, DH
- Ian Stewart, 3B
- Junior Lake, SS
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B
- Welington Castillo, C
- Brett Jackson, LF
- Pitcher: Matt Garza
Is this Rizzo and Jackson’s first game starting?
@ WaLi:
Yeah, Dr. Dan’s picture makes me suspicious of his doctoring credentials. Not that there aren’t any sunburnt redneck doctors in the world.
BTW, the game is also on WGN radio for those within the signal range.
Is there a Daily FacePalm today?
No.
Nice first inning by Garza. I think we’ll win the World Series.
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/companies_that_have_stopping_advertising_on_limbaughs_program/
@ mb21:
I missed it, what happened?
@ WaLi:
I haven’t paid as much attention to it as I’m sure others here have. He called someone a slut and prostitute. Limbaugh is an idiot. Maybe it’s just the people I’ve known in my life, but do people really still care about women having sex with multiple partners? I guess I don’t hang out with the crowd that does.
What happened? Limbaugh being Limbaugh.
@ WaLi: I downloaded Been All Around the World a few weeks ago. Love it.
Soriano still has power.
@ josh:
Followed by him giving up 2 in the 2nd. We will lose 162 games.
@ Rice Cube:
Only when leading off an inning.
Welington still likes Spring.
B Jax with a three-run bomb. Sweeeeeet.
Not sure how I missed this one, but there’s a final career projection for A-Rod toward the bottom (entire post is good too): http://www.rlyw.net/index.php/RLYW/comments/looking_ahead_to_2012_-_alex_rodriguez
So…Brett Jackson in May, right?
@ Rice Cube:
Brett Jackson is trying to tell Dale Sveum that Brett Jackson is ready to go right now.
@ mb21:
Good god.
@ mb21:
What’s the counter argument? David DeJesus?
mb21 wrote:
in a nutshell: New regulations required insurance companies to cover birth control and required hospitals and pharmacies to dispense it. the upper echelon of the Catholic church in the US objected, so the administration tweaked the regs so that the insurance companies still had to cover it, but it could come from somewhere else. House republicans convened a hearing on all of this, with only men testifying. The Democrats tried to bring one female witness, a law student from Georgetown who had lost a friend to a condition that the pill would have presented. The Republicans barred her from testifying, and Limbaugh called her a slut and a prostitute on the radio.
@ ACT:
Yeah and though I haven’t looked at the stats recently, I don’t think he exactly made up for that on the front end of the contract. Just a terrible contract.
the person who wrote this
There’s an article on cubs.com about Sutcliffe working with Volstad. That’s the second one of those I’ve seen (Rodrigo Lopez). Makes me wonder what Bosco is doing.
@ mb21:
2008 (the first year of his contract) was right on the money. Since then, not so much. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1274&position=3B/SS#value
Sori leads off with a double this time.
@ ACT:
Using rWAR, it appears that ARod was overpaid by about $120 million. Unreal.
mb21 wrote:
You know Bosco?
Oops. That’s how much he’ll be worth using the projected value moving forward. That makes him overpaid by about $155 million. Wow.
Actually that entire Richard Jeni bit is funny as hell, but the Bosco bit has always cracked me up.
mb21 wrote:
MB21 ————————> Zonk
It should be interesting to see how the Yankees try to cut salary with that huge millstone around their neck. Fortunately, Yankees fans are reasonable, level-headed people, and won’t take out their frustration on A-Rod himself.
ACT wrote:
That would be true, but A-Rod is not a real Yankee.
@ Suburban kid:
I did it intentionally based on something I read here.
Tyler Colvin got a hit! The change of scenery is working!
@ mb21:
What the hell happened there? How did they think that would be a good idea?
@ ACT:
Yeah, this time last year he was at Hohokam Park and today he’s at Hohokam Park. Totally different.
@ josh:
They probably didn’t care too much. They thought he’d be better and he was projected to be better than he was, but he took a step down quickly.
@ mb21:
Was he wearing a Rockies uniform? I doubt it.
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/vote_how_much_for_arod/#15
After reading that comment and maybe the last few, check out the polls at the top of the page. He was paid about what fans expected him to be paid.
@ ACT:
Can you prove it?
If I was allowed to post pics I’d post the one in this link:
http://fuckyeahspringfield.tumblr.com/post/16031705847
@ Mish:
You can post images.
@ mb21:
Yes.
@ ACT:
He could be wearing a Rockies jersey under that Cubs shirt.
@ josh:
It’s not scenery if you can’t see it.
Urk wrote:
It wasn’t just that he called her a slut and prostitute, though that’s not great he does stupid shit like that all the time. He also showed a complete lack of knowledge of how birth control worked, assuming that the more times she had sex the more pills she needed, and said that if the government pays for the birth control we should all be able to watch her having sex.
On a related note, I cannot believe that they do a live video stream of his radio show. They always use the clips on Daily Show/Colbert whenever he’s in the news and it only reinforces his image as a bloviating gasbag just to watch the way he talks.
Nope, can’t post images. (dying laughing)
EDIT: helps if you link to an actual image file.
I at least get a broken gif.
Have the Cubs lost yet?
@ Berselius:
Not yet, but relief pitching is in, so give it time.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
All you need is the img src part.
@ mb21:
And to use an actual gif/jpeg link, which I failed to do, because I’m a bone-head.
Ha just got to 2B on a deep flyout to CF. Baserunning lessons might be working?
@ Rice Cube:
I’m down with better baserunning, if they can do it without TOOTBLANing every other play.
I’m pretty sure it’s “A-deuce-ee” not “A-dewtch-ee”
That code is pasted below the post comment button. It’s an image so you can’t copy/paste it, but it’s pretty damn simple. Obviously you have to replace your image url with the domain.com/image.jpg.
mb21 wrote:
(dying laughing)
I just bookmarked this page that mb posted when the image posting cock-up first happened.
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/images.php
I copy and past the code there, and then paste over the image name/location
Nevermind.
Cubs….w-win?
@ josh:
I see I can’t use long words at this time. So, Dear Chris:
fuck ass cunt shit cock piss tits twat jizz jag
Enjoy your evening.
@ mb21:
The funny thing is I know html and have been properly using the img tags. I have no idea why it didn’t work earlier.
Also, Peyton Manning —> will be released tomorrow
@ Mish:
DEN needs a QB
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
My thoughts exactly. (dying laughing) Jets, Denver, Arizona, Dolphins, Vikings are teams that came to mind initially.
The Denver media could be fun to watch the next few days. I bet at least 3 articles get penned on why the Broncos don’t need Manning because they have Tim Tebow.
KC needs to on that list, too.
Raiders……
Raiders have too much sunk into Palmer. Doubt they make a move.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I thought it was just a trade for a year. The Raiders were even dumber than I thought.
@ Mish:
Quotes around the url? That’s something I frequently missed several years ago.
@ Rice Cube:
From ESPN:
Today in ignorant NFL players: http://hawkcentral.com/2012/03/06/former-hawkeye-bowen-says-bounties-part-of-nfl/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
No wonder I was a fan of the Raiders. That way I could root for the two most incompetent franchises in sports.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Oy. Not to mention they have like no draft picks between now and whenever Palmer’s contract runs out
The Raiders used to be so good. Wife is still a fan and I’m a fan by default, but the organizational stupidity is a killer.
Yeah KC should be on that list, dunno how I forgot them.
http://batmanrunningawayfromshit.tumblr.com/
I just mentioned this on twitter, but will post it here also. Apparently I’m alone because I actually enjoyed the PS3 commercial about the Cubs winning the World Series. I mean, I knew it didn’t happen. I knew it was a commercial for a game.
@ mb21:
Who’s being a funsucker? That commercial was awesome.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I also wanted to say that this was the best thing to every happen to Batman on Tumblr.
Rice Cube wrote:
Thiz
@ Rice Cube:
I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on twitter today. One person Brett was talking to was so pissed he/she was never going to buy that game again. Don’t get it.
That’s the closest we’ll get to a Cubs world championship so we should enjoy it. (dying laughing)
mb21 wrote:
That’ll show em.
mb21 wrote:
Oh, that was just a commercial for a video game? I thought the Cubs really won and I just plum forgot about it (dying laughing)
@ mb21:
I don’t get why people are so offended. As a Cubs fan you’re almost required to have a sense of humor.
Anyone over the age of six who spends time watching grown men play a game with balls should have a sense of humor about it. It’s probably the single most ridiculous waste of time in the universe.
@ Rice Cube:
I don’t get it either. Cubs fans would have been upset if it showed them losing and they’re upset it showed them winning. I guess from now on they’ll show the Cubs going 81-81. Imagine the outcry if the commercial had the Cubs collapsing in game 7 of the World Series.
@ ACT:
Exactly.
@ WenningtonsGorillaCock:
(dying laughing)
Mish wrote:
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
The Redskins are going to throw stupid money at Peyton. And if they miss out, they’ll trade 5-6 draft picks to the Rams for RG3
@ mb21:
A commercial based around the Cubs going 81-81 might be the single greatest thing of all time.
For Aisley:
I like this Yellon in Current Events meme. He already blogs like Forrest Gump.
@ GBTS:
Where did the original Yellon-on-phone pic come from? Was he standing in the bleachers?
New shit http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/projecting-the-2012-cubs-paul-maholm.html
@ GBTS:
(dying laughing)
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(dying laughing)