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[quote name="Silsbee88" post="688527" timestamp="1256740443"] I predict a forfeit!  ;) Seriously, how many kids were still left in this program after the injuries? Prayerful in Silsbee for Chester ISD. [/quote] Chester did make the decision to cancel the rest of the season.

[b]Vidor[/b] @ Nederland Orangefield @ [b]Bridge City[/b] [b]West Brook[/b] @ Baytown Sterling Channelview @ [b]PA Memorial[/b] [b]Barbers Hill[/b] @ Houston North Forest Houston CE King @ [b]Dayton[/b] [b]Central [/b] @ Livingston Ozen @ [b]PNG[/b] Lumberton @ [b]LCM[/b] Diboll @ [b]Carthage[/b] [b]Jasper [/b] @ Rusk Hamshire Fannett @ [b]Silsbee[/b] Hardin Jefferson @ [b]WOS[/b] [b]Cleveland[/b] @ Coldsprings [b]Kirbyvile [/b] @ San Augustine Selbyville @ [b]Newton[/b] [b]Woodville[/b] @ Hemphill [b]Anahuack[/b] @ Warren [b]East Chambers[/b] @ Kountze Hardin @ [b]Buna[/b] Burkeville @ [b]Sabine Passs[/b] [b]Evadale [/b] @ Chester [b]West Hardin[/b] @ Hull Daisetta High Island @ [b]Colmesneil[/b]

C: Ruiz/Posada: This one is a toss up do you take the proven vet Posada who has struggled Defensively, or do you take Ruiz who is solid defensively and has been swinging the bat well in the post season? I'll go with a PUSH on this one 1B Howard/Texiera: Howard has been crushing the ball in the post season Defense has been improved but shaky at times. Tex all around stud with the glove and the switch hitting ability however for this one Going to take Howard 2B Utley/Cano: Utley has been down in the post season has an injury that he will have to get taken care of at the end of the season and is not talking about, Cano is playing well but this one has to go with Utley just because SS Rollins/Jeter: Rollins better Glove than Jeter and has hit in the 9th innings for the Phillies this postseason. However Jeter is still Jeter Mr. Postseason himself gotta give the nod to Jeter how could you go against him 3b Feliz/ARod: Feliz has a great glove and gets hits at times. Who are we kidding AROD his blistering hot at this point in the postseason AROD not even close RF Werth/Swisher: Werth has come to play this postseason multiple Homeruns and driving in runs. Swisher has been bad Werth not even close CF Victorino/Cabrera: Victorino a pesky hitter good D much to the same of melky. Melky connects yankees lineup very well PUSH LF Ibanez/Damon: 2 very different style players Ibanez had a very good start to the season but has slowed down. Damon has been average in this post season. Ibanez first time in the bright lights of the WS think he is going to bring it Ibanez DH: Dobbs/Francisco/Stairs/ Matsui: Matsui has to be considered better here Starting Pitching: Phillies hit CC in the past Lee has been on fire Slight edge Phillies Bullpen: with Mo Rivera yanks get the checkmark This gives 5-4 edge Phillies After comparing the players head to head I like Phillies in 6.  But this doesnt take into effect Home field advantage, fan noise, travel fatigue etc.  Phillies winning games 1,3,5,6

This is so true "If you think it's silly to give a manager a three-year contract but don't mind throwing $100 million of your ill-gotten gains at Carlos Lee, you probably need to have your head examined (though of course something similar might be said of half the owners in the majors)."

Rob Neyer of ESPN.com said this Manny Acta was the guy they wanted. The Astros liked everything about him. His presence and personality. How he forged relationships with players. His ability to run a game.I said from the beginning that there was no right answer in this search for a new manager. Manny Acta would have been terrific, but then so would Phil Garner, Bob Melvin, Tim Bogar, Jim Fregosi and a dozen or so others. But the Astros settled on Manny Acta. Ed Wade and Tal Smith went through the list and the interviews and decided he should be the guy to lead the Astros through an important period in their history. There's no use surgarcoating what happened these last 48 hours. Drayton McLane refused to offer Acta a three-year contract. He offered two, and even when the Cleveland Indians offered three, he held firm. --snip-- He operated the Astros that way when they made the playoffs six times in nine years, and he's operating them this way now. I believe in my heart of hearts that his heart is in the right place, but he has some odd thoughts about putting a team together. He'll allow his people overspend on some has-been player, but veto spending on draft picks and managers. Now the Astros will move on. They've got some tough spinning to do when a manager finally is hired. It's not just that the new manager won't be their first choice. It's that the Astros lost their first choice for a relatively small amount of money. If you don't trust your baseball people to choose your manager, you should get new baseball people. If you think it's silly to give a manager a three-year contract but don't mind throwing $100 million of your ill-gotten gains at Carlos Lee, you probably need to have your head examined (though of course something similar might be said of half the owners in the majors). It's not likely that failing to hire Manny Acta is debilitating, because it's not likely that Manny Acta is a great manager. I mean, it's certainly possible. It's just that there aren't many great managers -- to the questionable extent such a beast might be identified, anyway -- and so the odds of any particular manager being great are small indeed. What's debilitating is a sense of the organization, both within and without, that the owner and his top lieutenants aren't on the same page. Whether that characterization is fair or not, often the perception becomes the reality.

and so did Garner and so forth.  I give it till August

Sad to see and must have been a hard decision.  I just hope for a speedy recovery for the injured guys. 

In your opinion who will win and how many games will it take.  I would love nothing more than good long series. 

I give him until August and Astros Fans will be calling for his head.

But why not use the technology that is available to them.  I don't want every strike or ball replayed but things that could easily change the game.  I understand that mistakes will be made, that is the human effect on the game.  I have no problem with the Yankees spending the money on players or any team for that matter.  You make money you have two choices you can spend it on yourself or reinvest it back into your team.  That is what Yankees owners have done.  I pick the Yankees to win and it will be hard to see.  I recently did a regression analysis on when the Astros actually spent money and how their profits attendance and other factors went up.  I know you will always have teams like the Pirates and KC complain about it but look at what the Marlins and Rays have done in recent years. 

Good pick. Unfortunately they will not get any talent around him and he will have a sub-par year

I hope Phills in 7 but deep down believe Yanks in 5.  Man that was hard to say. 

How and why is Silsbee on the list?  They have a losing record and they are one of the best in Small schools.  Beating WOS must give you 67 points or something.

Now down to 4 Dave Clark Phil Garner Manny Acta Brad Mills

There has been so many blowns calls this post season.  Makes you wonder if Vegas controls who wins.  I am puzzled why MLB doesn't give in to the pressure and begin to use instant replys and different camera angles on close calls or disputed plays. The NFL instututed replays years ago after resisting it for a long time and allowed officials to review the play, and that is the right thing to do. I'm not talking about reviewing the calls of balls and strikes- just plays on the field. Players don't like getting called out when they were safe, or vice versa. The only reason i can imagine why MLB doesn't go the way of the NFL is to protect the umpires and that reason is not valid any more since TV will show the blown calls. The fans see the instant replys and camera angles and know when an official makes a bad call anyway. No umpire intentionally makes a bad call, but everyone is human and all of us make mistakes. MLB or the Major League Umpires Association just needs to be honest with themselves and admit the truth. A close play could easily be reviewed and the result stands if the call was right or reversed if the call was wrong. The fans deserve a fair game, and as long as bad calls are allowed to stand, fairness to the players and the fans is in doubt. No one would want to see a championship won based on a bad decision by an umpire. Why won't MLB move into the 21st century and take advantage of the technology we have available? Someone please give me a justifiable reason not to do it.

Evadale will just have to bring their offense tonight.  It should be a good game.  Evadale 18 WH 6

[quote name="dascoon08" post="682809" timestamp="1256201740"] i have a question. what is up with evadale just walking out of the tunnel? in my day we had the tunnel shakin about to pop and we came rumbling out. i have only seen one game so far this season and i did not hear nearly the decibal level we had last year nor did i see even close to the amount of rage we had coming out of that tunnel, to me that was one of the best parts of the game. im just asking whats up with the calmness the rebels need to bring back the storm!!!    oh and my prediction.                                                           Evadale 55 WH 0    no copeland, no problem [/quote] I wonder if it has to do with their Motto "Hard Work and Swagger"  Maybe they are Swaggering out the tunnel

Angels are the ONLY team that can beat the Yankees. Being a Red Sox Fan, I will be pulling out my Rally Monkey.

They have only given up 20 points this whole year. I doubt SP will score over 10 points. My guess is shutout.

WASHINGTON -- Right-hander John Patterson, best known for his years with the Nationals, announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from baseball because of persistent pain in his right forearm. Patterson, 30, has had forearm problems dating back to the 2006 season, and two surgeries were unable to fix the problem. "I started throwing about a month ago, and it hasn't been going well," Patterson said by telephone. "I have my good days and I have my bad days. So I decided to not play anymore. I'm going to retire." Patterson played six seasons in the big leagues and was 18-25 with a 4.32 ERA during his career with the Diamondbacks, Expos and Nationals. His best season came with Washington in 2005, when he went 9-7 with a 3.13 ERA in 31 starts. He earned the nickname "The Big Nasty" after blanking the Dodgers, 7-0, on Aug. 4 of that year. "That's a year I look back on and go, 'You know, that year really went right for me.' That's the way my career was supposed to be," he said. "I worked hard. I prepared myself. I didn't get the wins I should have gotten." But it went downhill after the '05 season. Patterson would make just a combined 15 starts the next two years because of nerve damage in his forearm. In 2008, Patterson proclaimed that his forearm problems were behind him, but he was hit hard during Spring Training and the Nationals released him on March 20. Patterson was 0-2 with a 7.00 ERA in nine innings, and opposing hitters had a .317 batting average against him. It didn't help that Patterson's fastball was clocked in the low to mid 80s. General manager Jim Bowden had said that he was looking for Patterson to have his fastball around 90 mph. Three days later, Patterson signed a Minor League contract with the Rangers. Unfortunately, Patterson's forearm problems returned during an extended spring game in early May, and he was forced to miss the rest of the season. Texas released Patterson later that month. Patterson was advised to rest the forearm until January 1, but he started throwing during the first week of December. The pain in his forearm returned two weeks later. "It's just one of those deals where you scratch your head and ask, 'What went wrong?'" Patterson said. "I was taking care of myself and trying to do everything the right way. It just didn't work out for me. After time, it starts to wear on you. "I'm tired of hurting. I'm tired of going through the pain and putting in the work. It's not moving forward. That's the best way I can say it to you. ... It's a tough decision for me. It was not a decision I wanted to make." Patterson, a Texas native, declined to say what he was going to do with the rest of his life, but acknowledged that he has been doing a lot of hunting this offseason. "There are a few things I have going here in town with a friend of mine -- business-wise," Patterson said. "Now that I have made the decision to move forward in my life, maybe some opportunities will open up for me. As of right now, it's up in the air." [Hidden Content]

Red Sox are bluffing. They dont believe there is a higher off as Scott Borass has said there is. Tex is crazy if he wants to be an O or Nat. They will never win in the 8 years he is there.

The current management group of the Boston Red Sox has done, for the most part, an admirable job of protecting young pitchers while still developing them to the point where they have been able to help the big club, in many cases much sooner than people expected. The recent successes of Jonathan Papelbon and Jon Lester are two good examples. The Red Sox dropped the ball with Clay Buchholz, though, in a big way. Maybe it was the lure of all that talent that shone through last September 1 when Buchholz, then only 22 years old and in his second big league start, threw a no-hitter against Baltimore, striking out nine, in a 10-0 victory. Maybe it was the notion that the problems Buchholz started having in early May could be worked out while in the rotation. Or maybe it was simply a situation where, with injuries to Curt Schilling, Bartolo Colon and Tim Wakefield, the Red Sox felt that they simply could not afford to demote the youngster to work out his problems. Whatever the reason, Boston's handling of a young pitcher with a tremendous upside has backfired. After his start on May 2, when Buchholz went 5.1 innings, giving up five hits and one run in a 7-3 victory over Tampa Bay, he had evened his record at 2-2, with a very respectable 3.71 ERA. Since that time, however, everything has fallen apart in what has been a slow-motion train wreck that has been excruciating to watch and undoubtedly even more painful for the 23 year old to live through. In ten appearances since then, nine of them starts, Buchholz has pitched just 42 innings, giving up 43 earned runs on 62 hits and 27 walks, for an ERA of 9.21! Oh yeah, and in those appearances the kid has racked up an impressive 0-7 record. His season ERA has jumped from that 3.71 mark on May 2 to where it currently stands, 6.75. He has given up runs in every single appearance and pitched a total of just 6.1 innings in his last three, giving up eleven earned runs. The wheels fell off the bus a long time ago, and now the entire bus has fallen apart around him. You didn't have to be a pitching coach to see this coming, either. For at least the last six weeks, it has been obvious to anyone watching that Clay Buchholz has been pitching without the slightest confidence that he can get anyone out, and yet the Red Sox have been sending him out there time and again to put on a blindfold, smoke one last cigarette, and get the firing squad treatment from an assortment of different teams. What, technically, his problems are is a mystery to me, and apparently to the Red Sox, since they weren't able to fix him. After his last disastrous appearance against Baltimore on August 20, when he went just 2.1 innings and gave up five earned runs, he was given his ticket down to Double A, where, hopefully, he can work his problems out without the pressure of a pennant race hanging over his head. Clay Buchholz was not ready for this, and Boston management should have seen it by mid-June. He may very well get his act together in the minor leagues and come back and be a dominant pitcher for years, but if that doesn't happen, some people should be made to answer some very tough questions about why they let this kid twist in all the wind generated by guys running around the bases on him for three months before they did anything about it. [Hidden Content]

Call me crazy but Red Sox Vs Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks have great pitching staff and the edition of Dunn. Completely Useless By September

Maybe he can gain some confidence. He gain fame too fast when he threw his no-hitter. The kid is a stud and he has a lot of learning to do. For example when he called off his catcher. PS: He has got a pretty fine GF but he might be losing focus on the game. Clay will bounce back.