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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Gameday Open Thread/Brewers @ Cubs

Submitted by Rob G. on

 Yovanni Gallardo vs. Sean Marshall to start the game at HoHoKam Park.

Lineup from Muskat:

CF Joey Gathright, 2B Aaron Miles, RF Milton Bradley, 3B Aramis Ramirez, LF Micah Hoffpauir, 1B Jake Fox, C Paul Bako, SS Darwin Barney and P Sean Marshall.

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Comments

Submitted by CPH2133 on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:21 pm

This is why spring training is boring. Other than Bradley and Ramirez, I couldn't care less about any of these hitters (maybe HoffPOWER a little) and....FIRST!!!!11111!!!11!!1!!

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:53 pm

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/031164.php (1998)Rick Helling, a 27-year-old righthanded pitcher and the players' representative for the Texas Rangers, stood up at the winter meeting of the Executive Board of the Major League Baseball Players Association and made an announcement. He told his fellow union leaders that steroid use by ballplayers had grown rampant and was corrupting the game. "There is this problem with steroids," Helling told them. "It's happening. It's real. And it's so prevalent that guys who aren't doing it are feeling pressure to do it because they're falling behind. It's not a level playing field. We've got to figure out a way to address it.

Submitted by Tito on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:25 pm

Bulls great Norm Van Lier dead at 61... I ran into Norm on the street a couple of years ago and had a very pleasant chat with him. Very sorry to hear this news. RIP Norm

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:44 pm

Barney single... Hughes/Santo justifying Soriano batting leadoff saying that they talked to opposing pitchers and a power-hitting leadoff man is imposing... Clevenger pinch-hitting... and now I'm out for an hour or so....

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:10 pm

bottom 3rd, game 1-1 on Gathright single/rbi. Gaudin pitching vs McClung ARam leading off, walks. Hoffpauir up. Santo: "McClung, big boy, throws hard. If Hoffman doesn't work out cause he's up there in age, McClung could be the closer. 6'6 250#, He's big and not fat." Scales pinch running for Ramirez. Hoffpauir walks. Jake Fox up. BLAST...3run HR. Line drive to Left. 4-1 Cubs.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:29 pm

3 hits in the top 4th vs Gaudin including a long HR by Cameron and a "ringing" single by Casey McGehee. inning ends on a 6-4-3 DP. 4-2 Cubs

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:53 pm

...pulled to be careful ---- get used to that. Marmol showing that he's better in the 7th, 8th and 9th actually he gave up a run on a hit, 4-3 Cubs on to the bottom 5th

Submitted by DC Tom on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:56 pm

Is it wrong of me to be mildly peeved and frustrated that Joey Gathright is 2-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base thus far? Can you imagine what Dusty would say? "Joey's gotten a bad rap, but he's a gamer, he makes things happen. Fact that he didn't score doesn't mean that he wasn't making things happen out there."

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:57 pm

i'd be more worried about the current old-man-who-doesn't-play rather than dustbag or baylor or riggleman...you don't wanna get into a miles discussion or anything.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:05 pm

Justin Bateman pitching for Brewers. Barney out, Castillo walks, Gathright singles, Miles singles/rbi into the alley. 2nd and 3rd. Pitching visit to the mound. Robnett sac fly, Miles goes to 2nd. Gathright scores on very shallow fly. Pat: "most guys wouldn't have tried to score". Scales grounds out. 6-3. End 5.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:08 pm

Dusty would have Gathright leading off for all 162. On second thought he does, his name is Willy Tavares. Stanton now pitching for Cubs.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:13 pm

Stanton tosses a fastball right down the middle to backup catcher Rivera. 6-4. Fuld in CF for Gathright. Andres Blanco at 2B for Miles. current lineup: Fuld, Blanco, Robnett, Scales, Hoffpauir, Fox, Pitcher, Barney, Castillo

Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:56 pm

Anyone here use MLB.TV? Do you like it? How often do you have "glitches"? Do I really need the MLB premium? Are blacked-out games blacked out over MLB.TV, too?

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:05 pm

I like it for the most part. The quality really depended for me on the internet. You probably won't be able to stroll into your local coffee shop and put in headphones and watch. I used to live in a house with 3 other people, all online a lot, and the feed cut out a lot and I would have to reload a few times a game. Now I am in a nice building with high speed for all residents and I have no problems at all. I have never done the premium. I personally don't have use for any of those extra features. And yes, if game is blacked out due to ESPN or something, you won't get it online either.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 02:20 pm

since my name was invoked, I'll chime in..

Charlie and Neal both have points, I'm not sure what crunch's was...and I'm certainly not qualified to morally judge anyone's actions.

But there are plenty of below-the-line people that put together TV shows, music and movies and they all struggle the same as any other middle-class, even if the job sounds glamorous. So yeah, stealing that shit off the Internet affects us too. And if you say the artists and executives would just pocket that money, you deserve a punch in the throat.

that being said, I've used the p2p thing to view blacked out games, because it's a dumb law and rule. I'm not gonna watch a Dodgers game because you make me. I'd happily pay for a blacked out Cubs game if they made it available.  I can  just tune in the radio broadcast over mlb.tv  instead of watching the game. Not sure why they think the TV broadcast is any different.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 02:17 pm

my point was that "talking point" isn't valid under even slight scrutiny. the lack of the media company's conventional/traditional distribution routes being the only game in town and the profits they provide is hurting domestic sales by far. canada giving huge tax incentives to produce/shoot there are hurting more. i'm not getting into the overseas aspect of it...mind you. there's a lot of places to look for loss of sales before the impact of piracy makes a blip. a lawyer in the thepiratebay.com case this week tried to present lost sales numbers in court based on the assumption that everyone who downloads a copy of something was an actual consumer who would have bought it. the argument brought embarrassing laughter from the courtroom attendance...and the spillover courtroom...as well as the defendants. it's hard to trust numbers and things being thrown around as defenses without looking at the full picture. the real amount of people taking things off P2P is pretty damn overblown compared to people out there still buying stuff. it doesn't help that the traditional media outlets have lost their stranglehold distribution methods to only become licensing businesses for online distros (especially for the music industry).

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 02:51 pm

there are tons of links to all kinds of studies out in the wild. almost all of them are all over the place as far as the numbers. too many of these studies assume people would actually buy a large chunk (or all) of everything they download. the ones being dragged into court (granted, they are argueing international/swiss law in that case) are bringing a bit of unconventional laughter at the case from people in the court room. the music industry is REALLY hating losing it's distribution channels. distribution is where it's at. film still has DVD/Blu-Ray/etc. that the home consumer just can't quite replicate with a similar feel as the digital music distro at least...

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:37 pm

even though the sources/feeds can differ in quality, i'd put it as sub-MLB.tv level, easily. if the game gets REALLY interesting you can run into issues with too many users trying to get on the feed and lagging it. these people feeding games aren't getting paid and they could really care less if you missed an AB because the person feeding it rebooted their computer or the shot is choppy because of too many users on a feed. reliable, no...better than nothing, most of the time "yes." also...these feeds are generally delayed for 2+ minutes to buffer the feed.

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Submitted by The Joe on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:57 pm

It's as legit as any P2P site:) Like others said, the quality isn't always great, but I tend to watch a lot of games at work in a small window. It's great for that. I've also watched plenty of games hooked up to a TV. Clearly, you get more than you pay for (nothing), though. Some times the quality isn't so good, but I've watched plenty of blacked out games through it which had good picture. It was especially nice for the playoffs which were broadcast on some channel I don't have. A game is available if someone somewhere else is sharing it...but, I've never looked for a particular game and been unable to find it. You can also watch Japanese games!...obviously at weird times of the day so I rarely do.

Submitted by Jace on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:04 pm

Chad Fox made it through an inning of pitching without his arm flying out of its socket toward home plate, and getting all dusty.... cool...

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:00 pm

Justine Bateman is pitching? Jason's sister? I think Pat and Ron said Justin. It's obvious they don't work too hard on getting the names right during the season let alone spring training. Pat loves coming up with wacky roster names this time of year although this isn't one of those times.

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