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April 29, 2008

Minor League Games Thread - Tuesday, April 29

Filed under: fanhome | by Coop @ 9:32 am
All 7 PM games. An interesting 3 or 4 hours.

The Salt Lake City Bees are at Memphis Redbirds @ 7PM.
Probables: Mike Parisi vs Kasey Olenberger.
I like Mike. Great guy. I hope he does great.
I got bad memories watching him on the mound last year.
Memphis Redbirds: Home
Two articles
Redbirds : Commercial Appeal
AM 560 Sports 56 WHBQ - The Voice of the Fan!
Brad Thompson
STLtoday - Cards Notes: Brad Thompson placed on DL

The N.W. Ark. Naturals are at Springfield Cardinals @ 7PM.
Probables: P.J. Walters vs Blake Johnson.
Springfield Cardinals
JOCK 98.7 FM
First Place
Springfield Cardinals :)

The Palm Beach Cardinals have a scheduled off day.
Palm Beach Cardinals: Home

The Lansing Lugnuts at Quad City River Bandits @ 7PM.
Quad Cities River Bandits: Home

MiLB team schedules
Minor League Baseball: Schedule: Schedule
Minor League Baseball: Multimedia: Gameday Audio

Off topic:
The Big Guys host the Reds.
Probables: Joel Pineiro vs Johnny Cueto @ 7PM.

Cards Website - Home link
The Official Site of The St. Louis Cardinals: Homepage

FSN schedule
FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Schedules

Additions and corrections are appreciated.

April 28, 2008

Desmond Jennings

Filed under: fanhome | by JMUplayer @ 9:56 pm
Anyone know his timetable for return? I thought 3-4 weeks.
He going to start in High A?

what happen

Filed under: fanhome | by mvp23 @ 9:50 pm
did anyone see raw tonight. why did Regal do. he cut off the tittle match

This Is Where “Team Toughness” Gets Its Biggest Test

Filed under: fanhome | by Habsfan84 @ 2:04 pm
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Earlier in the season, a question was brought up to Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau, regarding the Habs lack of designated pugilist, someone who would set the opposition straight when games got out of hand.

Three players who filled the role to different extents last season, Aaron Downey, Garth Murray, and Sheldon Souray, were now gone, and the thinking was that the soft and small Canadiens would be pushed around more than ever before.

It must be stated that while the three players named were often willing to throw punches for team mates, none were highly effective in the role. Downey and Murray scared no one while contributing little in hockey terms, and Souray was so important in the team's grand scheme of things last season that he was well advised to choose his spots.

Carbonneau sidestepped the question with sound logic.

He made his point by stating that the Canadiens were a team who planned to roll four steady lines, and that adding a player whose role would be minimal did not fit into his plans.

Of course, had their been a 10 goal scorer available, who struck fear into opponents eyes, and had the ability to backcheck with regularity, the Canadiens would have jumped on him.

As is the case with any rare commodity in demand, players of the like simply aren't running the streets. Carbonneau wasn't about wish for the addition of a player whose contribution to the team would involved less than 10 minutes of ice time.

Smartly, and with little other choice, Carbonneau called for "team toughness' when the going got rough.

Read the rest at: Eyes On The Prize: This Is Where "Team Toughness" Gets Its Biggest Test

Habs For Breakfast - Crunch Time

Filed under: fanhome | by Habsfan84 @ 2:01 pm
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Game 3 will be a pivotal one for the Canadiens, after having lost home ice advantage in the series against the Flyers. The Habs who have been good on the road this season, good enough for the league's third best road record, haven't fared as well in the playoffs.
read the rest at Eyes On The Prize: Habs For Breakfast - Crunch Time

2008 Playoffs | GDT | Habs vs. Philadelphia | Game 3

Filed under: fanhome | by Habsfan84 @ 1:51 pm















2007-08 Playoff Record:




5-4




5-4









Projected goalies for this game are:


Canadiens


# 31 Carey Price
Wins: 5
Loses: 4
OTL: -
GAA: 2.40
Save%: .914



Flyers


# 43 Martin Biron
Wins: 5
Loses: 4
OTL: -
GAA: 2.73
Save%: .910
















Canadiens Player Stats
Link


Flyers Player Stats
Link











(21)Higgins - (11)Koivu - (27)Kovalev
(46)A.Kostitsyn - (14)Plekanec - (74)S.Kostitsyn
(32)Streit - (40)Lapierre - (22)Bégin
(84)Latendresse - (20)Smolinski - (6)Kostopoulos




(79)Markov - (8)Komisarek
(3)O'Bryne - (44)Hamrlik
(51)Bouillon - (26)Gorges


(31)Price

Roger Clemens cheated on his wife with a 15-year old

Filed under: fanhome | by djwhokid @ 1:48 pm
Pathetic. I apologize to any poster for ever defending this LOSER! Clemens is scum, period.

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Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in Nashville, a new album and a reality show.

McCready, who lives on a quiet, tree-lined street in Nashville, is attempting a career comeback following a string of legal and personal woes.
Sources: Roger Clemens had 10-year fling with country star Mindy McCready

Roger Clemens cheated on his wife with a 15-year old

Filed under: fanhome | by djwhokid @ 1:48 pm
Pathetic. I apologize to any poster for ever defending this LOSER! Clemens is scum, period.

Quote:

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in Nashville, a new album and a reality show.

McCready, who lives on a quiet, tree-lined street in Nashville, is attempting a career comeback following a string of legal and personal woes.
Sources: Roger Clemens had 10-year fling with country star Mindy McCready

Rule Questions

Filed under: fanhome | by jtur88 @ 12:49 pm
(Again, I'm posting this in two places, because there is no subcategory that it naturally fits into.)

Here's one that just occured to me.
Say the batter grounds in the infield, and the wild over-throw to first is touched by a spectator. But the batter missed first base, and went on to slide safely into second. Is he out on appeal for missing first? Or is he, on the overthrow and fan interference, entitled to at least first base, being one base after the last base he reached safely, interpreted as home while the batter? If the ball was dead as soon as it was touched by a fan, his act of stepping on second occurred during a dead ball, and is not relevant to missing first, right? If the umpire awards the bases after the interference, can missing first be appealed if the umpire has already awarded him second? Or must the umpire observe that first base was missed in making his award, without an appeal having been made by the defense?

36 Triples

Filed under: fanhome | by jtur88 @ 9:45 am
What would it take in the 21st century for a playe to break Owen Wilson's record of 36 triples?

Wilson batted only .300 in 1912, with 175 hits. Only 106 were singles. I am presuming that he played that year with the run-til-you're-out philosophy, since he hit only 19 doubles. Suggesting that he hit 55 gappers, went for a triple every time, but got thrown out at third 19 times. Apparenly, he often didnt even stop at third, as he finished only 3 HRs behind the league leader, But his home run average was about constant through four seasons, so those were probably mostly over the wall.

A generation ago, the triples leader was typically in the mid-teens, and decades would pass without anybody hitting 20. but in recent years, there is usually a player who flirts with or exceeds 20. Relevant to this, though, is that with modern strategy, few players would try to stretch a double into a triple unless there is one out. Risk outweighs the benefit with no outs or two outs. So, unless it ball is still rolling around on the warning track, only about one-third of all doubles would be stretched into a triple. Wilson's Pirates finished in second place, ten games out, but his manager (Fred Clarke) must have tolerated Wilson running him out of a lot of innings. He must have dedicated himself to triples only in that (and the less successful following) season, since the year before, he had 34 doubles, but only 12 triples. He wasn't much of a base-stealer, averaging about ten in an era when dozens of players would steal 30.

Extrapolating from that, one could conclude that a 15-triple player hits most of them with one out, and with disregard for the game situation, might easily reach the 30 mark. I do not know the inning-outs distribution of the triples being hit by recent players with 20---if anybody knows, that would be interesting data. It would also be interesting to see the field configurations of the ballparks that Wilson hit most of his triples in.

Athletes are faster now than in Wilson's time, they wear better designed shoes, and their uniform offers less wind resistance, and they run on a better-maintained base track. (On the other hand, outfield bounces are true on symmetrical fields.) We passed recently through an era when players would steal bases at will, irrespective of strategic benefit. Is it only a matter of time before somebody decides to hit 36 triples? That would require an average of 6 a month, and nobody yet this April has more than 3.
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