poor cubbies. having lou p. as their manager might have been their best shot. looks like another 100 yrs.
^^Actually in my time playing in the spring league in Ft. Myers FL, many, if not most MLB outfielders play sans a cup as it is cumbersome and the chances of taking a line shot off the nutbag is very low…
Having said that, I might want to protect them after a shot like that… 
Well I got to watch my team get no-hit last night. Even worse, I predicted it. The Tigers have already been bad and inconsistent hitters (except for Cabrera) all year and now we’ve got Magglio, Guillen and Inge all out and it’s a lineup of .200-hitting AAA guys. My brother lives South of Tampa and I told him he needs to go to one of the Rays/Tigers games this week so he can see a no-hitter. We were facing Garza, Shields, Niemann and Price and I figured with our horrendous lineup, one of those guys would be able to do it. I wasn’t really that serious and it happened anyway. You watch…David Price will probably get his own no-hitter on Thursday. Twins and Sox fans don’t worry…the Tigers are toast.
Sorry Brett! I mean err, yeah way to go Tigers… 
I will say the Twins are feasting on crap last place teams, so I will not proclaim the team to beat… I hope our pitchers can hurl the ball against the Pale hose and the Yanks etc…
That is the big key here!
Go Twins, but I am still thinking we are a playoff team with slim WS hopes…
Pei went to the Indians/Yankees game last night rooting for the Yankees, teehee.
Well they lost, which makes me smile, I hate teh Yankees… 
So Stephen Strasburg was put on the disabled list yesterday.
Of course, the Nationals are saying its just precautionary…yeah right.
According to some pitching coaches, they think his career will be a short one.
Here is one coaches thoughts. Interesting if you’re into Pitchers.
Chicago White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper:
Being compared to Mark Prior cannot be good. (This coming from a Cubs fan. 
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I don’t know much about the mechanics of pitching.
But I do know having shoulder trouble this early in your career cannot be good.
How long you think Strasburg will last?
I give him 4 years tops.
^ I honestly think that this is just precautionary. They are being really careful with Strasburg. Cooper could be right on though don’t get me wrong, but I honestly think this was being extra careful. I mean he was in the bullpen and he was literally scratched right before the ballgame. They were going to shut him down in Septemeber anyway so why not put him on the DL and have him miss a couple of starts.
Remember that scouts have also said the same thing about the Freak. He’s still going strong. That’s not to say that something won’t happen to this arm, but pitching coaches were righting him off from the get go. Let’s also remember that all the scouts, analysts called Mark Prior’s mechanics flawless…woops.
Strasburg will have a major surgery in the next 3 years…
Francisco Lariano had an odd delivery/violent motion and he blew is elbow out fairly soon!
Too bad for Stephen, but if that Pitching coach is spot on, that sucks!!
I don’t buy the whole “the way he pitches, his arm will explode” crap. We’ve seen guys with wacky deliveries play for years and guys with normal deliveries be injured every year. We’ve got Joel Zumaya on the Tigers who throws 100mph on every other pitch and he’s injured every year and folks say it’s the pitching style. Yet we have Verlander who also hits 100 on the gun and I don’t know if he’s ever been injured. Zumaya’s just injury-prone and that’s it. Plus, once you’ve been injured once, your chances of getting injured again go up…it’s just natural.
The only thing to worry about with guys like Strasburg and Lincicom isn’t whether they’ll get injured. It’s whether they’ll still be able to pitch like that in 5 years when they’re older and get closer to their 30s. A lot of these guys just aren’t strong enough physically to do it when they’re older. You saw it with Dontrelle Willis where he just couldn’t do that high-leg kick anymore as he got older. So then he tried to change his style and it never worked and he could never find the strikezone. THAT’S what you may need to worry about. But, hey, if you get five good years out of him, who cares, right?..given how pitchers are dealt these days, it’s a miracle that any pitcher is on the same team for more than five years. The Marlins still have that 2003 championship from when Dontrelle was good anyway.
Damn the Twins could have won last night, now we have to face Price…
Come on Twins, take 2/3 here! lets go!!
GO CUBS GO!!
GO CUBS GO!!
Hey Chicago what do you say
The Cubs are going to shit the bed again today!!!
Well, play the -.500 teams and whip them! Play the +.500 teams and continue to lose, not good!
Come the FUCK on Twins! I mean the Tigres are out of it and the Pale Hose are not that good of a team…
WTF… 
hey guys. guess who is still a first place team.
who’s got my heady bullpen?
Not the Red Sox… they need Fuentes and/or Scott Downs. Fuck. Their team is better than in my lifetime and then everyone gets injured and four solid bullpen guys ALL decide to fuck up in the same season. God damnit. Fuck the rays, fuck the yankees, and fuck a-rod’s steroid stained 600 HRs.
For those of you that are interested in how arm angle affects long term arm health, Chris O’Leary is the SHIT:
chrisoleary.com/projects/Bas … index.html
oh baby my cubbies put up a big old 15 runs today. maybe in 3 years we can make the playoffs! then again maybe not…
Those 15 runs exceeded their quota for runs scored in the month, so I fully expect nothing but 1-2 run outputs for the remainder of August!
Thank you Rudy Haromio! You really are a God-sent! 
He may be lacking a lot as a sports hero, but you have to give the devil his due. He joins an exclusive club of home run hitters to be sure.