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Hey, lets have a pissing contest for which team is worst! Perhaps we can have a 3-4 way tie! The Braves are 56-71, 15 games under .500. The last time they were 15 or more games under .500 was 1990. I heard Pete Van Wieren say that in the last 75 games, they are 28-47, 19 games under .500! That's pretty bad, in case you didn't know that! In 20 games since the trade from the Angels, Casey Kotchman is hitting .157 He had been tearing the cover off the ball right before the trade. He missed the game last night because his Mom has been ill, perhaps that is a reason why he hasn't been playing too well?(Plus he was sick and Booby insisted on playing him anyway-Cox said this himself) I think the team has hit 8 homers for the month of August. All but one of the starting pitchers from the start of the year are injured the 8th and 9th inning guys have been injured all year, the starting left fielder(Matt Diaz) was not hitting, and hurt his knee months ago, and still hasn't come back(And Steinbrenner has never seen a team with as many injuries as the Yankees? ) Francoeur had a 3 and 4 hit game last week to bring his average all the way up to .230....and now Cox will no doubt run Jair Jurrjens in the ground(Most innings of his career, and still 5-6 weeks to go) Steve Avery Jr they should call him. Just no fun to watch. No call ups worth a damn, traded so many folks to the Rangers. We are supposed to have a few swell arms in A and AA, but they won't show up til next spring. Sad to read how little hope B3 and AL have in their teams right now, when they were so high on them earlier in the year. Heck, as Van Wieren pointed out on the radio, the braves were a better team than the Mets earlier this year when they beat them 7 out of 9 games. Now we look like a AAA team. The Giants even beat us up!

I hate trying to search through 2000 cds from a seller(you'd think they'd find a way to do that for marketplace sellers, but then again, they don't want it to be too easy to by from those sellers, perhaps) But this guy only has about 70 items up(only about 40 classics). I grabbed several cheap ones the other day(He has some cheap, some very expensive) I do need to mention that almost all of them had slight dinging of the booklets by the cd case....and one cd had a slight scratch....he claims everything is perfect, which ain't the case. Shipped very quickly though.... http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/index.html?...Desc&page=1

Try setting system restore back a few days....I can't tell you how many minor issues that solved through the years....

Listen carefully as he whispers his closely guarded secret to long life ...

Hey, it is what it is. I smell another three-game sweep around the corner. ... So, do you ever feel like just giving up guessing what the Rangers will do??? Glad to see one of the 5 guys from the Tex trade (Harrison) is starting to pay off....I bet by the time all is said and done, it's going to look like that Boof Bonser, Francisco Liriano, and Joe Nathan for A.J. Pierzynski trade, I betya....

F*ck Manny with a donkey dick. Good riddance to him and his inability to hold a turd for an inning. I wish you Red Sox fans could just let go, and tell us how your really feel!

Ghost, years ago, we took in a stray male, then a stray female, and by far we had more trouble getting the female to get along with the youngest female. It took months to get them to get along...or as close to along as you can get. We stayed in the room with them they were in. Since they both still had their claws, we couldn't just let them go at it. The tiny cat we had first was the bully, the one that had been outside, was and still is, a chicken. all the other ideas mentioned are very good....but buy a spray bottle and fill with water....better than trying to get between 2 cats!

Lets see how some hitters are doing since being traded.... since the July 29 trade. Tex: .340 in 13 games (17-for-50) for the Angels with two doubles, four homers and 13 RBIs. Kotchman: .173 in 14 games (9-for-52) for the Braves with two doubles, one triple and 5 RBIs. Man, those NL pitchers must be real tough! Xaiver Nady. 6 HR's 17 RBI's, .323 BA in 16 games. Jason Bay, 1 HR 11 RBI's .340 BA in 12 games. AL Pitchers are pussies! Is there anyone important I forgot?? Oh yeah.... Manny 5 HR's 16 RBI's and .467 BA in 12 games. Amazing what the man can do, when he, you know....tries.

I thought Detroit was nuts to offer him a 3 year deal. I didn't realize how blah his season was last year, 25 HR's 75 RBI's and a .265 BA 2 for his last 22 after starting to hit. Tigers will have to pay for all of next year, won' they???

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Adam Dunn traded to the Diamondbacks! I guess they felt they had to do something to try to counteract the Manny trade, but he ain't no Manny. Perhaps having the lowly, sickly braves take 3 of 4 had something to do with it.... http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/08/dunn-traded-to.html

They're both really, really old????

interesting, did not know that.... 78K for the surgery in the US is beyond ridiculous as well....

How long is too long to wait for a cancer operation? Article Comments (262) LISA PRIEST From Saturday's Globe and Mail August 9, 2008 at 2:19 AM EDT The tumour in Debbie Trelenberg's abdomen was so large she was unable to fasten her jeans. She feared the mass might rupture – a sentiment shared by her family doctor – but an operation to remove it in Edmonton was nearly four weeks away. So Ms. Trelenberg packed a bag, put on sweatpants and headed to the United States. A grain farmer near Leduc, Alta., south of Edmonton, she paid $78,000 – money borrowed from her mother – for treatment that included surgery and a hospital stay in Amarillo, Tex., around this time last year. In doing so, she raised an increasingly relevant question in a health-care system afflicted with disquieting waiting times: How long is too long to wait for a cancer operation? Enlarge Image Debbie Trelenberg, with her dog Bobo at her Leduc, Alta., farm. (John Ulan/Epic Photography) In Ms. Trelenberg's case, she said it's a good thing she didn't wait. By the time the tumour was removed, on Aug. 8, 2007, it had nearly doubled in size from just two weeks prior, reaching 25 centimetres. “It was becoming more painful by the day; it was growing,” said Ms. Trelenberg, now 44. “If you bent over slightly, there was this feeling that this thing is gonna blow.” The bulbous piece of purplish flesh was diagnosed as a high-grade ovarian cancer. She was also found to have endometrial cancer. Despite the tumour size, her cancer was early stage, so it is highly likely she will be cured of the disease. Since her operation, Ms. Trelenberg has twice been refused reimbursement by the Alberta government, most recently in June, when the Out-of-Country Health Services Appeal Panel said a wait of about four weeks was not found to be unreasonable by the surgeon who initially saw her. Ms. Trelenberg obviously disagrees, and the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists of Canada is working to establish a benchmark on waiting times for such surgery. “We really want to push the issue,” said its president, Marie Plante, “because we think it's a critical issue at this point.” Establishing acceptable waiting times on the best available data will be a powerful tool for gynecologic oncologists and their patients to “obtain more resources if those wait times are not respected,” said Dr. Plante, division chief of the gynecologic oncology unit at Laval University. Ideally, patients who have aggressive ovarian or endometrial cancers should be operated on within two weeks of being seen by a surgeon, Dr. Plante said; others with less aggressive cancers can, in some cases, safely wait up to four weeks. Ms. Trelenberg felt she had no choice but to act quickly. “It was like a monster, almost like an alien, you had this thing in there,” she said. “You couldn't avoid it, you could feel it, and it was just scary. You are scared to death to wait another month to take this thing out.” Instead of waiting 26 days for a tentative surgery date of Aug. 28 in Edmonton, Ms. Trelenberg travelled to Amarillo, where she saw Sean Tedjarati, a gynecologic oncologist. He operated on her the next day. Dr. Tedjarati confirmed he operated on Ms. Trelenberg, but referred to a letter he wrote to the chair of Alberta's out-of-country health services committee for additional comments. In that letter, in which he appealed for the committee to reconsider its decision, Dr. Tedjarati wrote the “mass had significantly grown in size, at least from a documented 13 cm to easily 25 cm within a two-week period.” Ms. Trelenberg, he wrote on March 28, 2008, “acted appropriately in seeking care that needed to be expedited.” Her family physician, Alison Sails, also wrote a letter to the committee chair, saying Ms. Trelenberg was right to obtain the treatment in the United States on an urgent basis. “Given the speed with which her tumour enlarged and the aggressiveness of the cell type,” wrote Dr. Sails in the letter dated March 7, “I am convinced that it could easily have ruptured at any moment.” If that had happened, Dr. Sails wrote, it could have resulted in the “spillage of massive amounts of malignant cells through her abdominal and pelvic cavities.” (Dr. Sails could not be reached for comment.) Steve Buick, spokesman for Capital Health, said there was no clinical recommendation that the patient travel to the United States for surgery because the province provides “fully satisfactory access.” Typically, such patients undergo surgery two to four weeks after being seen by a surgeon. “There is no reason that we would send patients out of province just for faster access,” Mr. Buick said. In Alberta, as in the rest of the country, the government will pay for out-of-country care so long as the services are medically required, are unavailable in Alberta or elsewhere in Canada, and are not experimental, among other things. More than half of Alberta patients – 47 out of 84 – who sought funding for out-of-country treatment had it approved in 2006-2007, the latest figures available. Two additional patients had their treatment approved on appeal; 35 applications were denied in that same time period. Now that Ms. Trelenberg has lost her appeal, the next step, should she choose to pursue it, is to make an application for a judicial review. However, Tracey Bailey, executive director at the Health Law Institute in Edmonton, said such a review typically focuses on whether the “decision was made in a fair and reasonable way” and not on the medical details of the case. Still, Ms. Trelenberg, who completed chemotherapy in Edmonton in December, 2007, has seen a lawyer and is contemplating applying for such a review. “I believe this thing would have ruptured,” she said. “There was such a drive in me to get this thing out.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/National/home

One of the big problems expecting to win every year, is it's very hard to develope young pitchers. Tom Glavine's ERA his first year??? 4.56 (back when that was considered bad) 7 wins, 17 losses. Smoltz had a 5.48 ERA after his first 12 starts. Maddux was 6-14 with 5.61 ERA his first full year. Of course, they were all 21-22, and Buchholz is 23....still damn young..... Let's see, we have lost Glavine, Smoltz, Hudson(For next year as well) Mike Hampton for 2/3'rds of the season. Chuck James had a partial tear in his Rotator cuff, and looks like he was a fluke his first 2 seasons...Rafael Soriano, who was supposed to be the closer all season long, has pitched 14 innings, and has some mystery elbow issue. Peter Moylan, the 8th inning guy had Tommy John surgery....Mike Gonzalez missed more than half the season. So, in other words, "we" are more than willing to take that asshat off your hands. Perhaps s trade for our can't miss asshat, Jeff Francoeur?

Very sad news!!! By the way Chris, it says Isaac Hayed has passed.

Didn't I hear that the Cubs play something crazy like 16 of their last 21 games on the road?????

That happens in the NL too? I thought it was just an Oakland A's specialty over the last month. You should really trade for our back up catcher Corky Miller(DNF'ed finally, but for some reason at AAA) was hitting .093 or thereabouts. I think I counted 5 braves pitchers with higher BA's

And what is wrong with Brian Giles??? Nah, who wants a change to play in the playoffs, I'll stick with this horrible last place team, and have plenty of time to sit around watching others sweat in October....

Yeah, nothing screams baseball like a .100 hitter coming up with runners on 2nd and 3rd with two outs...and swinging like a girl while striking out....

Don't know much about him other than what I've seen in games. Can't argue with fortifying an already solid bullpen. And the way they lost in Seattle last night, they could have used him. It's a numbers game at shortstop, but it'd be nice to see Zobrist stick somehow. Was also glad to read they benched Upton for a game for not running out a ground ball. And even Longoria got a little talking-to in the dugout in Seattle last night after jogging to first on a single to left. I'm pretty certain Longoria will get the message, hope Upton does, too. I see Bradford gets a ton of ground balls, so the perfect guy to come in and get a DP.. And it's Evan Longoria, not even Longoria!

Au contraire, mon frere: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/080805 Everytime I see highlights of Street pitching, he looks like a guy that has serious arm issues. As for saves being overrated....sounds like its from the same school of thought that if your OBP isn't high, you are worthless. (Was reading some Keith Law chat where someone asked why there was little love for David Murphy from Law, and the dumb ass said basically who cares about him and his .317 OBP....I guess those 74 RBI's don't mean a thing, he should walk 30 more times, drive in 30 less, and be a real star) Teams that don't have a guy who can "save" the game in the 9th, don't win, period. The Cards would be in first place if Isringhausen hadn't blown 7 saves. If they had Brad Lidge,(0 blown saves this year) they wouldn't be a lot better off???

Allen, I agree completely!

More likely '29 or '30. No thanks for trying to answer your initial question? I was afraid it might upset you to have me thank you! Thank you! Don't know the name Fred Cusick , but I know of Arthur Schutt of course. Funny how little footage is out there of jazzmen of the late 20's/early 30's.....reminds me....I need to find a way to transfer some laserdisc shorts I have of Red Nichols with a very young Pee Wee Russell in his band(Eddie Condon as well) looking like Benny Goodman without glasses! May be on youtube, will have to check.