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Cleveland won because they beat the, um, heck out of 40 year old Steve Sparks.And speaking of Cleveland, CC Sabathia has, uh, pulled something? and pulled out of the exhibition.It’s an epidemic, ain’t it? But anyhow, they got like Dontrelle and replica Baume & Mercier 6854 Men's watch Roger and, and, and um, well, maybe Dan Wheeler gonna find himself starting…Tomorrow is Baggy Day 1 yes, Baggy is gonna hit.He’s gonna be the DH and he’s gonna lead off.You see, he still rehabbing wonder when we get to see him throw.

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And I excerpted a bit of his latest entry and, uh, sort of, uh, Astros-ized it.(You know your team has gone to heck when you start comparing it to the Royals…) Here goes, from “How Dayton Can Have A Comeback Year:”Strengthen Your Standing in the Community: I use “community” broadly here: the baseball community, the Kansas replica Longines L5.155.4.93.6 Ladie's watch community, your relationships inside the organization.If this Dayton Moore Fast Eddie Wade thing is going to work at all, then ownership has to remain become committed to being the Yankees of the amateur spending market.

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Interesting that Alyson Footer of mlb is talkin like Baggy IS gonna be on the team this year she says he's gonna bat second.Hm.Oh yeah and there's a poll on mlb bout which of 6 guys, Zeke Astacio, Taylor Buchholz, Fernando Nieve, Carlos Hernandez, Jason Hirsh, or Wandy Rodriguez is most likely to make the rotation?Wandy is replica Baume & Mercier 8190 Men's watch leading with 43% of the vote (I agree completely), followed by Carlos Hernandez with 30% (not surprised here the Astros Organization is really talking him up we'll see how he does in the WBC), followed by Astacio with 10% (sorry, I don't give a rat's patootie what his K rate is he had THE highest HR 9 rate for starters in the ML with at least 100 IP), followed by Buchholz with 8% (guess folks wasn't too impressed with his AFL performance), Hirsh with 5% (I keep reading how they “expect” him to start at A) and Nieve with 3% (why?)

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Meanwhile, the Astros sign a mediocre middle reliever to a 15 mill contract and sign a worn out, used up guy to play third at 4.5 mill, blocking yet ANOTHER young guy.sighDrayton McLane apparently is not gonna say no to offers for the Astros.He reminds me of a kid who has received some toy that needs to be put together.So you start doing it for him, and he is dancing up and down and is all impatient and tells you replica Longines L2.642.4.73.4 Men's watch, I wanna do it MYSELF!So you shrug and say FINE, now sit there and put it together.

Who doesn't know that I, um, don't like Bud Selig? (I'd explain all the reasons I don't, but Jean Pierre Allard at Oleanders and Morning Glories, and John Brattain at thehardballtimes have bout said it all.(Along with Doug Pappas, who I still miss and replica Baume & Mercier 8676 Men's watch still can't hardly believe it's been almost 2 years since he's passed.Sob.)Anyhow, the fact is that I am very out of the closet about being a baseball addict.I'd watch 4 year olds playing T-ball.So of COURSE I watched.

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