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  1. TruffleShuffle
    it'd be terrible to leave of gehrig, IMO. he's the greatest of all time at a position where there have been a LOT of great players. dimaggio only played 13 seasons (missed 3 because of the war). i think that mantle has to rank ahead of him as far as CF go. rivera is really, really awesome at what he does, the best of all time. so i think it's a defensible position to put mo in the top 3 - you'd have the greatest RF (and player) of all time, the greatest 1B and the greatest closer. but i think it should be ruth, gehrig, mantle. they're actually a team that's easy to do a top 10 for. 1. ruth 2. gehrig 3. mantle 4. dimaggio 5. rivera 6. berra 7. red ruffing 8. jeter 9. bill dickey 10. jim leyritz - no really, i guess whitey ford
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    Bears fans? Maybe you didnt read that right, because Bears fans wasnt an option. The arrogance amongst Cowboy and Stl fans is pretty much equal, thats for sure. nah, cowboy fans are a better comp with the yankees... or maybe now the red sox. actually yankees is a better comp because neither team has won a championship recently, but their fans love to talk about how many rings they've won. the yankees have won a lot of playoff games since 1996, though, so there's a difference.
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    or maybe the cubs are just paying bruce off. this is a conspiracy. that's what this is, it's one big damn conspiracy. and everyone's in on it.
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    (a) the cubs are very likely to win the division, so marquis is very unlikely to significantly hurt the cubs' chances of winning the division with his performance in the next month and a half (b) if everyone is healthy, marquis will be left off the postseason roster every game thread turns into a "God i hate marquis" hate-fest, but really it's a lot of hand-wringing over nothing. next year when he's making $9.875M (i think), that'll be annoying. but don't blame the player for that, blame the general manager.
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    little help with a split, mods? this has nothing to do with ron santo.
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    uh, saves up. way up. come on, IMB.
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    this is kinda out of left field, but one of the most depressing baseball stories is herb score. the guy was on the way to becoming one of the great pitchers of his generation - he had an overpowering fastball, and even though his control wasn't great, he was very, very tough to hit (1955-57 he threw 512.6 innings and allowed only 338 hits). in his rookie year he led the league in strikeouts and strikeouts per 9 innings, was 2nd in hits per 9 innings, 4th in ERA, 5th in ERA+, and 6th in wins. in his second season, he again led the league in strikeouts and strikeouts per 9 innings, 1st in hits per 9 innings, was 2nd in ERA, 1st in ERA+, 1st in shutouts, 2nd in wins, 3rd in WHIP. he was 2nd in walks each year, but he still ranked 6th in 1995 and 2nd in 1956 in K/BB ratio. early in the 1957 season he was hit in the face by a line drive off the bat of gil mcdougald, a mediocre player for the yankees. he suffered temporary vision loss and several broken bones in his face. he missed the rest of 1957 and played four more years, but he never was the same after that.
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    you should be happy about that... i'd rather have a team that sucks ass than a team stuck in purgatory.
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    my interest in flaherty has reached level yellow. he gets above 1.000 OPS and it's at orange.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    yeah they've found the next kyle farnsworth. in other news, i've grown very weary of the ryan ludwick charade.
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    yeah i certainly think the cubs CAN beat those rotations, but if they play a 5 game series, fluky things can happen and the cubs can be out in a matter of days. i guess teams with better #1/#2's are a bigger threat to pull off an upset.
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    i don't really care. i guess i'd prefer it to be an NL central team, because the NL west has been lousy and the mets/phillies are likely to be more of a challenge in the first round than an NL west opponent. then again, if it's arizona i don't really feel like watching the cubs lose a road game and then get knocked out because we can't win in the desert. arizona's frontline pitching is also pretty intimidating.
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    i think aramis has a decent chance. he's only 30, and he has some of the nice counting stats that voters like 100 RBI seasons. if he gets up to something like 2500 hits and 425 home runs, he'll have a pretty solid shot. but third basemen have generally been underappreciated by Hall voters - they seem to think that 3B are supposed to hit as well as corner outfielders and first basemen.
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    just admit it, dunn is good. ? I've never said he isn't and I'd gladly take him. I just would rather have a player that passes both the stats test AND the eye test. *shrug* dunn is overrated by a lot of the OBP/OPS community and underrated by the batting average/strikeouts/defense community. he's productive at the plate for his power/OBP, but he doesn't add much else up there or on the basepaths, and he'll cost you about 15 runs a year in the field. i think his deficiencies diminish his overall value by a pretty good amount.
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    He's not as good as his older brother. be careful out on that limb! :wink:
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    hahaha i remember the romo-simpson vacation story was roughly the same time as the les miles to michigan spank-fest. i dvr pardon the interruption; back then i was able to get through it in about 8 minutes after fast forwarding through the non-stories.
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    it's too bad he couldn't get through young, because the 9th inning would've been the 7-8-9 spots in the lineup.
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    that 3rd inning ass-whipping was a lot of fun.
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    How can you say that, when they have barely been on the Cowboys at all? Jones hasn't played a game yet. What were the Bears/Titans supposed to do that they didn't. Don't act like the Cowboys have this magic calming influence on cons. why dont you go back to the "how many wins will the bears get this season 4 or 5?" thread, we're trying to get ready for the playoffs over here How many unhatched chickens you got there? right now im discussing the ramifications of our first round bye with a friend of mine as far as i can see, it just means that your playoff loss will come at home in the conference semifinals, rather than on wild card weekend.
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    dammit, first play i watch is a double :x
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    actually i don't really blame all of that on latroy; he had much worse numbers as a closer than as a setup guy. the evidence was there that he just couldn't deal with the 9th inning pressure, and of course dusty just went ahead and ignored it. what a pox on this organization he was... i should wake up every day and say a prayer in thanks for him being gone.
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    thanks for not doing that in september '04, you a-hole
  23. TruffleShuffle
    we could use a middle of the lineup force... when does ludwick become a free agent?
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    you know the game is lopsided when they spend an entire inning talking about how the minor league teams are doing.
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    good, so when we win this game we'll have another thing to erase 2004 from memory. that team broke my spirit even more than the 2003 team. Same. I still remember skipping class, sitting in my room and watching those games against the Reds wondering WTF was going on... We couldn't score a damn run. And then the games went into extras which made them even more excruciating. I believe Prior was owning in one of them. I remember going into the Braves series like 3 games out, hoping for double sweeps. i'm pretty sure that i was on the verge of killing dusty baker and latroy hawkins.
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