wash on coke business?

and Engel strikes out

working the count. Still strikes out though.

He is an idiot when it comes to baseball. I watched Lincecum give up a HR to Choo on mlb an hour ago-should he go to the bullpen, too?

I guess I fail to see the problem with Grant’s stance if his argument is simply that Feliz would help the Rangers more in the bullpen this year.

I actually agree with that. Pitching in the big leagues, like most things, takes growing pains. We let guys like Harrison, Holland and Hunter take their lumps last year and I expect all (but especially Harrison and Holland) to take major strides this year. With Harden, Feldman, Hunter, Wilson, Holland, McCarthy, Harrison and Lewis in the mix, why not let Feliz spend another year shutting down opponents at crucial spots late in the game? All that does is give him probably around 80-100 extra innings of ML experience and, should we fall out of contention at some point, we can stretch him out in the minors and let him come up in September as a starter. I guess I fail to see why that’s a bad option.

Can’t believe I hadn’t shared this story earlier, but the Greggo comments last thread made me think of it:

One of my best friends recently ran into this girl that we both knew back in our early 20’s (when she was around 17-18) and in catching up with her, found out she wound up dating Greggo about the time he confessed his Percocet addiction. Said he was a complete freak.

What’s even stranger- this chick ran around with a group of other girls, who we also knew back then. One of them was Ashley Esposito, the infamous “babysitter” who broke up Esteban Loaiza’s marriage. Both Ashley and this other girl used to hang out at my place when I was rooming with the guitarist from Elysian Fields.

Yeah, they were both hot, and no, I never got to.

Flash

Can’t believe they used to play that song live.

2nd, 3rd nobody out for Wilson.

And am I really seeing Gameday right and CJ has 21 pitches for 21 strikes?

CJ gets another ground out. 2 outs. Runners still at 2nd and 3rd

3 straight ground outs, Cubs scoreless for the inning

just the one HR… plus getting behind on the last couple of batters?

must just be getting some work in, eh?
’cause this game is ovah

Liam – hope lives!

the pitcher graduated from my high school a year after me

I suppose knee jerk is the best word for it, but man our hit count per game so far in ST is turrible

I never get tired of seeing her. She’s exactly one month older than me although I look 6.5 times older.

:(

What is happening?

Kris freaKKKKKKing davis

11 K’s

that’s what I like to see

Jurickson Profar (Live BP/BP):

Ben Henry vs Profar: Profar made good contact against Henry’s FB, but didn’t elevate the ball with much authority. Henry’s CB fooled Profar several times resulting in weak contact or awkward lunges.

Profar struggled against off-speed stuff today, especially when hitting from the RH side. It’s not surprising, given his age and current fastball timing. He’s a quick study, so I don’t think he will ever wear the label of a hitter that can only hit fastballs. … See More

When hitting RH, Profar tends to tuck his hands a bit and will inside/out the ball to the opposite field. His swing isn’t as fluid and he lacks the same pop.

Profar is one of the few young hitters I have seen that will be uber-selective during coach thrown BP. He simply won’t swing the bat unless it’s a pitch he thinks he can work with. The early hints of an advanced approach are starting to show up. The majority of cage hitters will swing regardless of the location, just to put the bat to the ball. Profar takes BP like a player trying to get a hit with the game on the line, as if he simply doesn’t have a pitch to waste.

So after Feliz and Beltre’s outing, both of them started jogging on the warning track. I decided to go get me a sharpie and attempt to get an autograph from both. So I wait in line in the Cubs gift shop for a $5 sharpie (damn!). I buy the sharpie and then I went to the left field railing on the foul side of the foul pole. I see Feliz is still jogging, I look below me and Omar is standing there. I yell “Omar” he looked up and I made a signing gesture on my hat and ask “Can you sign my hat”. He graciously shook his head yes. So I drop my hat and sharpie over the railing for him to sign. At this time, Feliz is jogging our way and I look at Omar while pointing at Neftali and asked “Can you get Neftali to sign it, too?”. Feliz shook his head no, which was fine because I think he didn’t want to get horded by the other fans around me (I think I was the only one with a sharpie or pen, but whatever). It was still cool of Omar to sign, though.

So back to Mesa, and HoHokam Park. That place is terrible, ugly, and there were way too many scalpers there. I would encourage people to stay AWAY from the Cubs facilities if you were to ever make the trip out to Mesa. There is no good parking, I had to park in a gravel lot for $3, which is fine, but it was a ways from the field (Parking is free in Suprise, FYI). The park is located across the street from a damn cemetary, as well as being adjacent to several run down residential homes. The park itself is run down, old, and ugly. The Cubs fans are annoying as well. Scalpers were trying to sell tickets at $75 and up. They even try to get you out of line by lying and saying tickets were sold out, which they almost did.

The only good thing about today was the autograph, watching Feliz and Omar pitch, getting Omar’s autograph, and Smoak’s homerun. I also got a free lawn seat, which I just stood on the walkway on the 3rd base side, anyways (the lawn was full).

So, overall, if you come to Arizona for Cactus League ball, stay AWAY from Mesa. If you do choose to catch the Cubbies, order your tickets well in advance.

Man, the way CJ and Maddux are talking, CJ went a loooong way toward claiming a rotation spot today.

But we got shut down by Carlos fucking Silva today.

Spring training or not, that’s a FAIL.