The first day that Bryant can come up so the Cubs can gain the extra day of control is 4/18. That would be the 11th game of the season, Rain outs do not matter because the clock is based on the last day of the MLB season. Sunday Oct. 4th. The Cubs season clock starts on 4/5.

Theo/Jed seem to bring guys up ion the road and the 4/18 is a home game against San Diego. They may wait until 4/20 at Pittsburgh the 13th game and I am sure PITTMIKE will be there to give us his scouting report.

Super two is for the first 22% of players called up and who continue to accrue service time (be on the 25 man roster or DL). during the 2015 season.

The Sox could call up Rodon as a fifth starter on the day he is needed and then send him down and will have just one day of service time. The Sox. So his 6+ year clock would start when ever he is called up during 2015. The only risk is if he gets hurt during that game and has to go on the DL all those days would count.

If you wait long enough into 2015 you just put off arbtration until the thrid season instead of the second (super two) year..

There are a few more subtlties to it but this is the easiest way to look at it.

Is there a way baseball teams could do a version of Blackhawks' Rockford Shuffle where a pitcher is only up for his start and then he gets optioned back down while some Quadruple-A scrub occupies a spot on the bench for the other days? Would the union stop this? Is a Really Smrt Team already doing this?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I would go but I'm going to two sox games here in June. jorr wouldn't let me be a real so. Fan if I didn't

You drinking already? The typing seems slurred.

The comeback game where he was perfect for 5 innings.

The 16 strikeout-9ip game against the Reds in the last week when he was trying to stop the choke but couldnt.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Is there a way baseball teams could do a version of Blackhawks' Rockford Shuffle where a pitcher is only up for his start and then he gets optioned back down while some Quadruple-A scrub occupies a spot on the bench for the other days? Would the union stop this? Is a Really Smrt Team already doing this?

Your imagination must be a lot different than mine.

I was projecting Prior every time he threw a pitch.

The way he pitched was awesome. Pedro meets Maddux.

96 outside on the black
70 mph curve into a teacup
95MPH at your eyes

Goodnight

Kerry Wood would throw (and I mean throw) pitches that defied what people thought was possible. I watch that game against the Astros sometimes for yucks, that has never happened before and will never happen again. His shit went backwards.

I think you missed the point of my question.

Kerry Wood would throw (and I mean throw) pitches that defied what people thought was possible. I watch that game against the Astros sometimes for yucks, that has never happened before and will never happen again. His shit went backwards.

Was that the genesis of your bernstein hatred?

Prior gets a bad rap for game 6. So does Bartman. The biggest culprits that night were Alex Gonzales and Dusty Baker. 1A and 1B, take your pick.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Is there a way baseball teams could do a version of Blackhawks' Rockford Shuffle where a pitcher is only up for his start and then he gets optioned back down while some Quadruple-A scrub occupies a spot on the bench for the other days? Would the union stop this? Is a Really Smrt Team already doing this?

I don't waste my time with the Cubs.

Well kinda but it is hard....once a player is sent back to the minors (optioned) he must stay down for at least 10 days...unless another player gets hurt...this pretty much rules out Rockford Shuffle.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Yeah they're linked in the sense of WHY ARE YOU IDIOTS PANICKING, THEY HAVE PRIOR AND WOOD FOR GAME 6 AND 7

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

And Zambrano for Game 5. Another guy who didn't live up to his potential, though his issues were mental.

One thing that doesn't get brought up enough was Hendry's lack of upgrading the bullpen. We were trotting out Dave Veres and Mark Guthrie. Alfonseca was garbage by that point and Borowski was one cycle of help from falling apart.

I highly doubt he will have as good a career as Lilly did, but he's starting off with more capablity to dominate hitters than Lilly ever had.

So, He's a highly touted "prospect?"