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Dickerson is on emergency family leave so I am guessing Kang will be up for him.

Good win.

<t>Ok, outside of Dickerson would a trade of any of those players significantly hurt the Pirates? We would be thrilled to be able to get anything of value for Freese, Nova and SRod. I wouldn't be in favor of trading Mercer because I think he is worth more than we would get but if they think Newman i...

To be fair to our ace, he should be pitching a shutout right now.

Meadows!

<t>Here is a question: Runner on first and Polanco is up and the shift is on. Polanco hits a dribbler that they throw to first as the runner rounds second to beat the ss running to cover third. Rizzo is going to catch and throw immediately. Would it be dirty/illegal for Polanco to slide into first, ...

This is a game I would have liked to watch but the Mlb blackout rules suck. I heard on local radio that Des Moines is blacked out for twenty percent of the whole Mlb.

<t>Well, it was a base running error because he got thrown out. On the other hand, I wouldn't characterize it as a TOOTBLAN. You want to get a good lead but with the shift he didn't really have much of a margin of error and got stuck. He did do the right thing and not try to get back into second but...

<t>Polanco is starting to remind me of Pedro. He has some awful at bats. He gets to 3-0 with guys on 2nd and 3rd and misses a fastball by a foot and ends up striking out. Like Pedro, he can miss a fastball down the middle of the plate in fast ball counts by a lot. Also, like Pedro, you can see the p...

<t>517C71606776612122130 wrote: Yesterday the Chisox announcers (who seemed not well informed about the Pirates) said Cervelli stated before the game that he was fine and was only sitting because it was a day game after a night game. Hopefully, they got that right. <br/> <br/> <br/> I heard that too...