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[SaintsFAN]

How is Ching Chong Wing Park still a viable Major League pitcher??

Does anyone else think ARod needs to chill out?  They haven't been throwing at him..

[dewcrew88]

And by the way, have you actually looked at the Salisbury results this year?  Two very close games against the leaders of the USAC, a loss to the #3 team in the country and a loss to a D-2 school.  Salisbury's record to me is meaningless based on the awkward scheduling that school is forced to do right now.  That is a tough team, period.

OK Frank, you win.  But next time you give DC a hard time about being a homer, go look in the mirror.

The point I was making with DC was that it was in published pieces in a non-partisan website.  I've never said I'm not a Union fan and supporter, Lew.  DC and I are still friends -- he knew I was ribbing him a bit just to be an ass.

[EDIT:  And honestly, I'm not sure how your statement fits here.  I'm not saying Union is better than X, Y and Z teams in the country.  I'm comparing the 2009 Dutchmen and 2009 LL to prior years.  The discussion hasn't been focused on bashing teams or over-propping other teams.  In fact, Susquehanna could still end Union's playoff hopes without a doubt in my mind.  That's a tough, tough team.]

And also, those kinds of comments make me a better writer, which never hurts. I know Frank wasn't doing it just to be a dick, it's to remind me that there are 32 teams in the East, and not to focus to much ink on one just because I went there.

DC, U89 gives you a ton of credit for not being overly sensitive to the criticism....I saw no problem with the articles, but I guess others did......everyone has their own tastes I guess.

I always try to be as fair and far-reaching as possible. You guys all know that.

[dewcrew88]

DC like dlip has said before, he thinks your ATE is the best publication the site releases on a weekly basis. **** could you imagine if dlip wrote it? Weekly headlines would look something like this:

Week #1: Union begins season with a bang!
Week #2: Union Union Union
Week #3: Union team meeting's are cool
Week #4: Union is ****ing awesome
Week #5: Union's practices go like this....
Week #6: Garnet is a great school color
Week #7: The Dutchmen locker room is cool
Week #8: RPI ****in Sucks! (Only week where Union isn't in the title)
Week #9: Union making playoff run
Week #10: Union is just beautiful
Week #11: Union
Week #12: Union

awesome +k.

DC, I think we would all chip in $5 if you made your next headline "Union Team Meetings Are Cool".

Pat writes the headlines. I can suggest it, but I don't know how far it'll get.

[maxpower]

How is Ching Chong Wing Park still a viable Major League pitcher??

Does anyone else think ARod needs to chill out?  They haven't been throwing at him..

Three HBPs in two games, all to the exact same location? His only other ABs have been walks and a HR? Why not try to wear him down?

You can swallow the Tim McCarver kool aid if you want, but I'm not convinced...

[Knightstalker]

DC like dlip has said before, he thinks your ATE is the best publication the site releases on a weekly basis. **** could you imagine if dlip wrote it? Weekly headlines would look something like this:

Week #1: Union begins season with a bang!
Week #2: Union Union Union
Week #3: Union team meeting's are cool
Week #4: Union is ****ing awesome
Week #5: Union's practices go like this....
Week #6: Garnet is a great school color
Week #7: The Dutchmen locker room is cool
Week #8: RPI ****in Sucks! (Only week where Union isn't in the title)
Week #9: Union making playoff run
Week #10: Union is just beautiful
Week #11: Union
Week #12: Union

awesome +k.

DC, I think we would all chip in $5 if you made your next headline "Union Team Meetings Are Cool".

Pat writes the headlines. I can suggest it, but I don't know how far it'll get.

If Dlip were writing ATE the headline after a union win would be.
Whoa Look what I found in my dlipping pants

[redswarm81]

How is Ching Chong Wing Park still a viable Major League pitcher??

Does anyone else think ARod needs to chill out?  They haven't been throwing at him..

If the pitch hadn't hit A-Rod, this yahoo behind the plate might have called the pitch a strike.

Three HBPs in a short series is a tad frequent to be mere coincidence.

[SaintsFAN]

That's not Tim McCarver koplaid' that's common sense.. They HAVE to get inside so he can't extend his arms.. And when they haven't established that, he's killed them.. I think its obvious they need to pitch him inside..

[maxpower]

That's all true.... it's just weird that all three of those pitches were in the exact same location... I think it deserves more than just a "oh it's not the right situation" look....

[PBR...]

That's all true.... it's just weird that all three of those pitches were in the exact same location... I think it deserves more than just a "oh it's not the right situation" look....

A-roid is a putz....the scouting reports all say the same thing to get A-roid out you have to pitch him inside. guess what if you pitch a guy inside he is going to get hit at times. plus A-roid is like barry bonds he has armor plates all over his body up there. Lastly why the he|| would they hit him there? they had people on base already and makes the situation worse. As the announcers who played the game stated u dont settle scores in the world series. Thats what spring ball and the regular season is for....A-roid needs to stop juicin and control his roid rage

[JQV]

The mere fact that you would consider those pitches to possibly be beanballs just goes to show how soft Bud Selig's rules and YES Network broadcasts have made your brains Max and RS.

There used to be a time when you could throw over the inner-half to keep a guy like A-Rod from lunging.

PLUS, Tim McCarver may be a crazy old man but there are maybe two people on earth that knows more about beanballs than McCarver.  After all, he was in the bucket for the entire career of the game's best beanball thrower.

[PBR...]

Rensselaer's Jackson Highest Paid College President, Study Says

    Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) --  Shirley Ann Jackson, president of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was the highest paid leader of
a U.S. private college in 2008, a year in which only one Ivy
League president was among the 10 best compensated.
    Rensselaer, in Troy, New York, paid Jackson $1.6 million in
salary and benefits in the year ending June 30, 2008, according
to a survey released today by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Columbia University, in New York, paid Lee Bollinger $1.38
million. Bollinger, in sixth place, was the best paid president
to lead one of the eight schools in the Ivy League.
    Presidential compensation rose 6.5 percent to a median of
$358,746 in fiscal 2008, according to the survey of tax data
from 419 nonprofit institutions. That growth outstripped the 4.8
percent rise in the consumer price index. Median pay at the 32
biggest research universities grew 16 percent, the Washington-
based Chronicle said. Some of Jackson's compensation included
deferred bonuses and other benefits, reflecting increased
complexity in the pay packages, said Jeffrey Selingo, the
editor.
    "It's not the presidents who set these salaries, it's
their boards and many include people from corporate America,"
Selingo said in a conference call with reporters on Oct. 30.
"For them, these salaries and pay structures are not unusual."
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many universities have
experienced declines in their endowments and have since frozen
pay for presidents, Selingo said. In some cases, presidents are
returning a portion of their salaries to the schools, he said.

    The second-highest paid private-school president was David
Sargent, at Suffolk University in Boston, who received $1.5
million. He was followed by Steadman Upham, of the University of
Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma ($1.49 million); Richard Meyers, of
Webster University in St. Louis ($1.43 million); and Cornelius
Kerwin, of American University in Washington ($1.42 million).
    Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania,
in Philadelphia, was the second-highest paid among Ivy League
leaders, and 12th overall, making $1.23 million.
   She was followed by Richard C. Levin, at Yale University, in
New Haven, Connecticut, who made $1.18 million; David Skorton,
at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, who made $836,382;
Ruth Simmons, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
who received $818,462; Shirley Tilghman, at Princeton
University, in Princeton, New Jersey, who was paid $783,459;
Drew Gilpin Faust, at Harvard University, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, who made $693,739; and James Wright, the former
president of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, who
was paid $603,983.

**** good to know the millions gro/LD/reg contribute to RPI are going to a good cause ****

[SaintsFAN]

That's all true.... it's just weird that all three of those pitches were in the exact same location... I think it deserves more than just a "oh it's not the right situation" look....

A-roid is a putz....the scouting reports all say the same thing to get A-roid out you have to pitch him inside. guess what if you pitch a guy inside he is going to get hit at times. plus A-roid is like barry bonds he has armor plates all over his body up there. Lastly why the he|| would they hit him there? they had people on base already and makes the situation worse. As the announcers who played the game stated u dont settle scores in the world series. Thats what spring ball and the regular season is for....A-roid needs to stop juicin and control his roid rage

pbr -- maybe his pisstivity level is so high (thank you, Ochocinco) because he KNOWS his playoff history of sucking... and knows if they pitch him inside he may go back to pre-2009 levels of suck in the playoffs?? 

He's a big boy... he can take getting hit...

[redswarm81]

The mere fact that you would consider those pitches to possibly be beanballs just goes to show how soft Bud Selig's rules and YES Network broadcasts have made your brains Max and RS.

There used to be a time when you could throw over the inner-half to keep a guy like A-Rod from lunging.

PLUS, Tim McCarver may be a crazy old man but there are maybe two people on earth that knows more about beanballs than McCarver.  After all, he was in the bucket for the entire career of the game's best beanball thrower.

You act as if the pitches that hit Rodriguez were no more than an inch or so off the plate.

You're so right, Bud Selig has made my brain soft.  Bud Selig knows that the pitches that hit A-Rod were just barely off the black part of the plate.  Bud Selig makes perfect sense.

[JQV]

You act as if the pitches that hit Rodriguez were no more than an inch or so off the plate.

Are you saying it's always dirty to go off-the-plate inside?

Brushback pitches do not equal beanballs.  Ever.

The pitches wouldn't be so far inside if ARod didn't hang his lead elbow over the plate.  He moved up on the plate three or four years ago when he stopped being able to drive the ball to the oppossite field with just his wrists.

Thus, if you want to throw him strikes on the outer-half (like Blanton's strikeout pitch) you have to move him off the plate by coming in.  Pitchers have only been using this strategy for 150 years, I can understand why you find it so apalling.

Let me ask you this question, is Blanton's pitch any dirtier than Rivera throwing his cutter off the plate to lefties?

[SaintsFAN]

He moved up on the plate three or four years ago when he stopped being able to drive the ball to the oppossite field with just his wrists.

aka, stopped taking steriods.