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Percy probably needs to be THE pitching coach plus a decent contract dollar wise to entice him out of retirement and his part-time activities at UCR -- if he's still doing that over at UCR - he's helped the program out quite a bit........

I would like to see the A's win --- I like Torii and the Tigers, too - and think that Detroit is the better team -- but A's have been under-estimated all season long including all last season. If A's get into the next round they become everyone's underdog favorites. Cards over Dodgers in Six.

the Spring Training meeting this year will be held in Salt Lake City..........go Bees.

don't look back -- no Kendrys........ Trumbo -- keep him that's OK. Trumbo ? Trade him for starting pitching -- either works for me.

I knew all along it was this Picciolo guy's fault. If we would have made this move in May, we might be in the playoffs now. Yeah, what's his name again, Picciolo -- all his fault......... LOL!!

GREAT......I mean Uribe has played well the past two months and into the post-season........but where has he been the prior two/three years since he signed with the DOGs. Yeah, let's get this guy and pay for past performance once again......

As a prior post said..........welcome back Mickey Hatcher.......... OK -- the 2013 season, the issue is pitching -- so we fire the batting coach and the bench coach............and the pitching coach stays? Good move, front office.......

right, second and third -- even more of a reason to play up, IMO.......... if there's a guy on first, at least by playing back you're looking for the inning ending GIDP. but with a guy on third -- the argument is that you're trying to prevent the go-ahead run (on second) to score on a shot through a drawn in infield. but I'm all for cutting down the guy at the plate and not letting the tying run score.

Freddy Garcia the journeyman comes through with a fairly decent six inning performance -- don't think he'll be coming out to the mound in the 7th........ that last groundball by AJ Ellis (with two guys on) to end the 6th was a pretty hard hit ball.

I think Ervin stays in KC.........

OK guys -- Madden call in the 9th....... Rays are up 4 to 3 ninth inning, one out, Red Sox have guys at first and third.......... and you play the INFIELD BACK, get the force at second but let the tying run score???? Ninth Inning........you lose and you stay home. GEEZ. I'm a guy who believes in playing the INFIELD UP or half way at least even in the early innings (an exception depending who's at the plate, some slow guy we know who hits rockets through the infield but if he hits a ground ball, it's going to be an inning ending GIDP).......anyway, couldn't believe infield was back in the ninth inning in that situation..........oh well. Walk off saved Madden and Rodney.........hey, Fernando Rodney's performances in the playoffs are surely bringing back memories.........cue up the song "I'm up on the tightwire"

Prior to Weaver -- and I'm talking about being excited about a guy who everyone knew would be a key starter who everyone thought would become the ace........ GEEZ, I'm thinking it's a while ago --- quite a while ago -- Chuck Finley -- that long ago -- but then maybe, Jarrod Washburn --- but Washburn sure fizzled out quick but was sort of a phenom. Perhaps the pitcher (not a starter) who created the most buzz in and around the ballpark and the league when he first came up and for the first year or three there -- was K-Rod.

Weaver and then we signed him long term for a home town discount. Good deal then, good deal now........He will bounce back next year and pitched well this year when healthy. With all the bad stuff and performances and such surrounding the 2013 Halos, it's easy to lose sight of some of the good things.

well the good news / bad news about 'team chemistry' issues in MLB these days, if there's a roster full of folks who don't get along, not too worry, unlike the days of past.......a team's entire 25 man roster will be turned over in 3 to 4 years........... check any MLB team roster this year, and with a few exceptions (and now we have guys like Rivera, Pettite and Helton retiring this year) you be hard-pressed to find any MLB roster than has 4 or more players still with the team that were with than team just four years ago -- 2009. so if the team-mates don't get along, just wait a year and it'll be about a 50 percent turnover and in three it will be about 80 percent turnover of personnel. welcome to MLB 2013/14 present day -- which is partly why the game is losing the market share to the NFL, NBA and even the NHL.

My take is that we've taken our share of this long term multi-million dollar contracts that get you a key player (mainly on past performance) at ONE position but reduces the front office's ability to field quality players in the rest of the line-up as well as significantly affecting the team's ability to pick up that key 23rd to 25th person on the roster -- the key set-up guy out of the pen, the key MIF utility guy off the bench, the key slugger part-time DH........when all is said and done it is often the difference in the quality of those roster spots between the teams that make the difference come stretch time. and then there's the issue discussed on another thread on this board -- team chemistry.......a 10 year $150 million or whatever contract for one guy while another guy is making less than one tenth of that tends to cause some 'clubhouse chemistry' issues. So I say NO to any more long term contract.

Navy beats Air Force 28 to 10 at Annapolis........ this means the Army/Navy game will once again this year decide the winner of the Commander in Chiefs Trophy (won by Navy last year and I think by Air Force the Five years straight before that).

time to start humming the refrain from the song in the film Major League: "We can't win, we've lost the game even before we begin............"

interesting take on all this -- has some validity (the 2013 results for one) I suppose...... but then I think the 1962 Mets and even the 2013 Houston Astros had 'great chemistry' in the clubhouse.

saw this in the LA TImes (wire) story on it today. not sure what this accomplishes, usually this type of thing ends up with no winners and both sides losing........ not sure how this benefits Pujols at all and could come back to bite him.......reminds of the Pettite/Clemens stuff.

WOW.........he's really fallen off -- Downs had some effective outings and time with our Halos.......he started to lose effectiveness (yes, letting runners on base when he entered the game score) and then we moved him out of here........he sort became unraveled there at the end of his time here. the comparison to Justin Speier is apt........although I think Speier downward spiral was steeper than Downs' was............

Well that's great if we get Girardi here --- I like him as manager -- I liked it when he just up and quit (where was it? Colorado?) because management wasn't supporting him or something. He had had a good season for them but wouldn't give him the authority to make certain personnel decisions, so he said "I'm outta here" Scioscia sort of did the same thing when he was managing the Dodgers AAA team in Albuquerque -- they micro-managed his player personnel/ line up stuff and he finally had enough and just quit without having another job lined up. Girardi reminds me of a younger Scioscia in terms of managing -- I've always liked Scioscia but I think he's grown stale in the job and we might need a change. A guy like Girardi (or I like Matheny, Cards manager, too) would fit the bill........

No Wedgies -- thanks, but NO.

Nice evening for Russell Martin - I liked the guy when he was with the Dodgers. Couldn't figure out why they let him go and then the Yankees did as well. Martin's pretty good D behind the plate (not quite Yadier Molina, but good). His hitting has always been streaky --- had 2 HRs tonight.........but he can go into prolonged offensive slumps. Pittsburgh- St. Louis -- GO CARDINALS!

am who-ever is on the radio is better than the telecast announcers.......

I'd rank the worst (bottom three) team fans in this order: Worst - Red Sox fans. Runner up - Red Sox fans 2nd runner up -- Red Sox fans. 5th (no fourth) -- Dodger fans.