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was at the Rock Cats game tuesday night. sano looked pretty good, really smoked that double in the 12th. his single was an infield hit and he really busted his ass down the first base line in order to beat lindor's throw. had a bad 1st pitch pop foul out and was a little impatient on his strike out but was able to work a walk in a previous at bat if i remember correctly. he was solid at third base as well. may pitched pretty well, 2 ugly errors contributed to the first run he gave up. otherwise he had a handful of strike outs and was sitting at 92-93 on the gun throughout his outing (not sure how accurate the stadium gun was though). rosario had 2 solid singles and looked pretty smooth at second base. danny santana was pretty impressive as well...he was on base 3 or 4 times and caused a little bit of havoc once he was on. angel morales and bigley looked completely overmatched at the plate. between the 2 of them i think they struck out at least 6 times and they weren't even close to making contact. overall, it was a pretty good showing by the better prospects and i am glad that i took the trip down to see sano before he is in the show.

Does anyone know when Sano is supposed to be back in the lineup? I'm supposed to be making the trip to New Britain on Tuesday but I'm not going to take the ride if he isn't going to be in the lineup. (I apologize if the answer is already posted, but I don't feel like looking thru all 10 pages). P.S. this benching is a bunch of crap!!!

cats are the worst, most would probably look the other way

Thanks Dave

I've never been to Wrigley, but I can't imagine it's any more of a dump than Fenway. Fenway is the worst place to watch a game.

I'll be at the game Saturday. Going up with a bunch of my buddies for my Bachelor Party. Going to the game and then staying over in NYC...it's probably going to get pretty ugly.

haven't been to as many as i would like, but for me its: 1. Target Field - place is amazing, could very well be the nicest stadium in baseball, twins got it right with this place. 2. Camden Yards - as stated by someone above, first retro ballpark and just a great place to hang out and watch a game. boogs bbq above the right field wall was awesome 3. New Yankee Stadium - place is a palace. been twice and going back next month to see twins-yanks for my bachelor party. had the great experience of getting free legends seats to a twins game a few years ago, beer was pricey but made up for it with the free pre game buffet and free food throughout the game. 4. Old Yankee Stadium - the last year it was open. the history in that place was great, looking out at monument park was a cool experience. i was lucky enough to see rivera come in for a save in the 9th. "enter sandman" entrance music was cool, place goes crazy. 5. Metrodome - only went 1 time when i was a kid back in 1990 when they were brutal. got to see nolan ryan pitch against my favorite player of all time kirby puckett. watching batting practice from behind the plexi glass in LF was a fun experience. 6. US Cellular - its probably nicer than the Metrodome, but i just can't put anything of the White Sox ahead of the Twins. the Cell seemed plain to me, nothing really jumped out at me. nice, but standard. 7. Shea Stadium - went there in its last year, glad i made it before it was torn down, but hte place really is a dump. 8. Fenway Park - being from Rhode Island i've made probably 100 trips up to Fenway to see games, with many of them being to see the twins. i will admit its cool to go to this place for the history and to see it once. but other than that the place is an absolute dump!!! how anyone can go to Target or Camden but then say that they prefer watching a game at Fenway is beyond me. the seats are too small, behind poles and not angled properly. everything is beyond expensive from the ticket prices, hotdogs, beers, and parking. the whole place now seems like just a gimmick to me. people complain about Yankee stadium being a launching pad for lefties but this place is much worse...302 down RF line. 317ft pop ups for home runs in left. Fenway has history but it a terrible place to watch a game...tear it down. - going to a game at Petco Park in September while on my honeymoon, definitely looking forward to that. i'm sure that Petco will instantly jump up into my top 3 or 4

no excuse for missing that call. the LF and RF have 1 job to do and that is get fair/foul calls correct. Cuzzi was maybe 15ft away from that ball and he blew the call. until the MLB institutes full instant replay for stuff like this or begins to hold umpires accountable this stuff will continue to happen. and by accountability i'm not just talking suspensions or whatever i'm talking getting up in front of the media and answering for how they screwed up just like the players do. how many times did joe nathan get up in front of the media and answer questions about how he crapped his pants multiple times against the yankees. everytime he sat there and answered the questions while he felt absolutely awful. umpires want to make the game about themselves in many instances so they should be forced to answer the questions when they screw up or play a major role in a game. like it or not phil cuzzi played just as big a role in that game as any player did and he should be held accountable by at least having to talk about it, not hiding behind closed doors while the umpire crew chief issues a statement about how bad the guy feels.

UCONN!! 2004 Graduate myself

carroll needs to have his plate appearances kept under 401. there is no reason to have his $2M option vest for 2014.

haren/marcum and jurrjens and the roll the dice on the scrap heap

absolutely!! i can't believe that comparison was just made.

you're high if you think the cubs would give castro up for that garbage

the off season has officially begun...we have our first mark derosa post.

i suppose no one is "untouchable" but sano would be about as close as they come to that tag.