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Many minor league parks have "greased guns". Lets see him do that in a Major League park.

There will still be a fee, but probably not as high.

Definitely StubHub, although they will get you big time with shipping/processing fees.

All is well that ends well.

[expletive] this season. I have now seen it all.

Also...in the playoffs, it does not really matter how good your pitching staff is as a whole, but in a lot of cases, just how good your starting rotation is 1-3 and your 8th and 9th inning guys. So, I think that the Padres/Reds would have problems with the Giants, Braves, Cardinals, or Phillies, especially in a short series. The Padres have the best pitching staff overall from top to bottom, 1-13, but that does not necessarily mean much in the postseason. But I'd still like their chances more than the other teams listed in the original post. But yes, as Fish said, it depends on who is hot.

Nothing would surprise me, really. I think the Padres would surprise me least of that group because of their pitching.

Good Lord, the Chiefs are awful.

The one group of people I do not feel sorry for are Nationals "fans". Obviously, this is not including the hardcore fans who have been supporting them and waiting for them to be good since the time they moved to DC. This must be devastating for them. I am talking about the people who don't bother to show up to the park the 4 days of the week Stras is not pitching. To hell with them.

Of course, right when Danys Baez starts pitching reasonably well for the first time all year, he hits the DL with back spasms.

Lol how can you say he is a bust? He is 22 years old with arguably the most raw talent of any pitcher in baseball history. There are plenty of examples of guys who have come back strong from TJ surgery, including Josh Johnson and Chris Carpenter. I do think he needs to slightly alter his delivery, however. Also, the potential is unfortunately there for him to be Mark Prior 2.0, but everybody saw exactly how Dusty Baker and the Cubs ruined him, and with as much as the Nationals have invested in Strasburg, I think they probably learned from the Prior incident and will do as much as it takes to avoid that here. This is is pretty [expletive]ty news for baseball, though, since it will be without one of it's biggest stars for a full season.

For me, MLB>NHL>NFL>College Football>College Basketball>NASCAR>NBA>whatever else.

I know they do this [expletive] every year, and every year (to this point) they have recovered, but the [expletive]ing Houston Astros should not be coming here in the end of August and sweeping a 4 game series.

They do this a lot. Out of the 5 "main guys" in this lineup, 2 are just off the DL and still searching for their swing, one can't hit for [expletive] with runners on base, one is in a season-long slump, and well, Placido Polanco is really good but he is not the kind of hitter who can carry a team by himself. I think strikeouts are overrated (from a hitting standpoint), but when you have a whole lineup of guys who strike out a ton (with the exceptions being Carlos Ruiz and Placido Polanco), these slumps will happen. It is infuriating, but they do it several times every year.

Strike out prone, streaky offenses FTW!!! [expletive]. Only two positives from tonight. Roy Halladay was really, really good as usual. Only made 3 bad pitches by my count, but with the way this offense is going, that was more than enough for the Astros to win. Also, the crowd gave Scott Barry hell. Loudest booing I have heard since Scott Rolen's first game back. But [expletive]. I know the first two games were heavily influenced by poor officiating, but the Phillies cannot be losing 3 straight games at home in August to the [expletive]ing Astros.

Also, I am going to the game tonight. Can't wait to see Scott Barry get introduced.

That basically sums it up. Except for Chris Wheeler's "analysis" on the Howard video, as usual he is totally clueless.

Might just be a scheduled day off. His swing has not looked right since he came off the DL. They did the same thing with Utley a couple days ago.

Ryan Howard is not in the lineup tonight. Suspension???

IDK, but it is pretty sweet that he and Joey Votto are fighting for that. Maybe Placido Polanco [expletive]s both of them over by winning the batting title!

I think Damon made the right call, TBH. He has already experienced playing in the AL East and he already has 2 rings. He has accomplished almost everything there is to accomplish in baseball. He seems happy in Detroit, and more importantly, he will get to pad his numbers against much weaker AL Central opponents for the next year or 2, or however long he continues playing. Believe it or not, his numbers are borderline Hall of Fame worthy right now, a couple more productive years may make him a lock.

That would work!

He is usually the most chill dude ever. I have never seen him go off on an umpire like that.

For real, Major League Baseball needs to reevaluate some of it's umpires. Unfortunately, Joe West has a lot of tenure so he is probably going nowhere, but the league needs to do something about the little "minor-league fill-in" pricks like Scott Barry. The Ryan Howard incident last night was not the first time Scott Barry crossed the line, he did something similar to Ryan Zimmerman about a week ago.