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Some shit referring going on so far today. Though if the USA hadn't stood around looking lost and helpless for 50 minutes, the referring wouldn't have mattered/

Philly likes to be super patient with their prospects. There's a chance he might not see AAA until next year. Though I didn't realize he was in AA for a month or two last year. He'll be in AAA by July, I would think. They need him to be ready to replace Werth.

Jesus Montero is a good bet to get called up for the Yankees. He's gotta be the top prospect in baseball right now, despite a slow start in AAA. He was generally 3-4 before the season, and everyone else is up.

Pirates call up top prospect Pedro Alvarez. Year of the prospect continues!

Holy upset, Batman! Spain loses to Switzerland.

How about the fraud that is the French team?

Nope Stanton's just a big RF. Was supposed to play TE for USC before we signed him. Though when Bill Parcells saw him in Spring Training he said he was "a little wormy" for football. Hence his nickname, the Big Worm.

So with Hermida and Kouzmanoff as company, I think the most important thing to do is temper expectations.

Jeremy Hermida did that too. Pinch hit, no less. Stanton's a natural RFer. Don't think he's played a game of 1B in his career in the minors thus far. Logan Morrison is our big 1B prospect. Top 20 prospect by Baseball America coming into the season.

That is awesome. I really want to see them again...

Fuck it. If we're changing everything, let's just make it 10 conferences of 12 teams each, shorten the regular season to 11 games + a conference championship for every conference, and then a 12 team tournament with each conference winner and two at large, top 4 ranked teams in the tourney get a bye. Just get rid of all the time in between the conference titles and the bowls.

Unfortunately, our bullpen continues to be stinky-poo. Could've used the old, white Mike Stanton too.

Well, Beckham's young, that happens with young players. Chris Coghlan's been almost as bad, ignoring a recent 10 game hot streak, and he was even better than Beckham last year. Quentin seems to not be fully recovered from that wrist injury 2 years back, and those kinds of injuries can just kill a young power hitter. He simply never may recover. As for Floyd and Peavy, both are probably the recipients of a little bad luck, but that defense doesn't look too hot to me. I'm not a big fan of Ozzie, but I'd take him as my manager. At the very least, he's interesting.

Can I ask why he has lost his grip on the team? I haven't heard anything about trouble in the clubhouse. Is it just because they are old and suck? Because that's not really his fault.

This has been an crazy year for prospects, with guys like Mejia, Heyward, Smoak, Neftali Feliz and the likes all being top prospects playing pretty big roles for their teams. But it's about to get even crazier. Stephen Strasburg (Nationals vs Pirates) and Mike Stanton (Marlins vs Phillies), basically the 1 & 2 prospects in the minors make their Major League debuts on Tuesday. I'm excited.

Didn't bonds win 3 MVPs and get robbed of a 4th while in the same division as Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz?

We have an agreement.

Can somebody say that Ken Griffey Jr was a better player than Barry Bonds in the 90's so I can rant?

Hope you get to go, that was our plan until this Atlanta show was announced. Should be a great weekend. I had tickets for their show in Atlanta in 2007 and had to give my tickets away when a friend bailed. Coincidentally, that friend ended up marrying me, so we agreed that if they came anywhere within a reasonable driving distance, we'd be there.

I saw it live too, and I had no idea whether he was safe or not. If I hadn't seen a replay, I would have been fine with whatever call the ump had made, based on my initial reponse. I don't see anyway you could say for certain in live action from a wide angle. I would say at normal speed, the difference between foot hitting bag and all was less than 1/10 of a second. His foot wasn't squarely on the bag until the runner's foot was in the air and about 2 feet from the bag maybe less. It's super obvious in slow motion, but that was kind of the definition of a bang bang play.

Sounds awesome.

Oh yeah, she likes them more than I do (And they're a top 5 current band for me). They are playing Lollapalooza on her birthday, I was thinking about trying to take her to that, but Atlanta's much closer for us (though still not particularly close. The Arcade Fire must really despise Florida.)

The only thing I could have thought was that he kind of sno-coned the ball and then popped it into the glove. Maybe he thought it was bobbled.

It was an exceptionally close call. If it happens in the 4th inning, you go "Shit, he missed it, but it's a close play and he's human" and move on. Maybe Lou Pinella gets tossed, but that's about it. Dan Le Batard's column on this was great:

Did you really think it was safe without a doubt in real time?