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no, you said "who would you rather try to tackle?" i think most nfl players would rather try to tackle ron dayne than, say, barry sanders in his prime.

you know a rb who wasn't real big and didn't have big legs? http://nbadraft.net/profiles/largepics/bsanders01.jpg

gordon's dad shouldn't be discussing any moral issues. doesn't he work for sales in a pharmaceutical company? in other words he makes his living stealing sick people's money with overpriced drugs. cant wait for his son to be sitting on some NBA bench next year so we can stop hearing about them! i think a lot of people would take issue with your characterization of their line of work.

pretty much, it's "oriole park at camden yards"... but camden yards is a neighborhood in baltimore. calling it sears park at wrigley field just seems completely redundant, basically it's just naming the ballpark twice.

the orioles don't have a corporate name

Original 2/15 Projections Central (Record, Club, RS /RA) 89 - 73 Chicago Cubs 845/759 87 - 75 Milwaukee Brewers 829/765 79 - 83 Cincinnati Reds 772/794 74 - 88 Houston Astros 725/798 72 - 90 St. Louis Cardinals 711/796 71 - 91 Pittsburgh Pirates 715/822 so we'll win an extra game by scoring two fewer runs and giving up six more runs. i like it.

i think the impact on his base-stealing prowess is a lot less worrisome than the loss of range in the outfield, the greater potential for injury, and the possible loss of bat speed.

btw did anyone notice that tampa is projected to win 89 games this year? i don't buy it. i know they have a buttload of talent, but i think pecota often overrates young players and assumes that they'll mostly be able to translate their minor league success into being good in the bigs. i also don't think it accounts for the adjustment time that a lot of young players experience. not to mention that they've always been bad. not even average, but BAD. it'd be quite a leap to go from a perennial bottom-feeder to contending with the red sox and yankees.

He definitely is IMO...but I'm thinking maybe they were trying to dump salary. I believe he was owed 2.4 million next year. Dumping salary for a 6th rounder is BS though. I'd like to hear an explanation on that move. take the $2.4M and use it for someone who is actually good at hockey. sounds like a solid plan to me.

did you miss the hearings a couple of weeks ago? the republicans totally went after mcnamee, while the democrats went after clemens. it's pretty obvious that clemens has a lot of friends on the right (wrong) side of the political spectrum. it is possible that the justice department will simply decline to investigate clemens. what's going to happen to them if they don't? it's pretty clear that the executive branch and the attorney general are not going to go after clemens.

i believe the more appropriate emoticon is: :^o

uh huh, like you don't have the Garth Brooks Greatest Hits cassette in your Chevette right now... whatever man, reo speedwagon 4ever!!!

i think this would probably be really funny if i knew anything about country music, or this song in particular.

i will say this, if zell is going to do this under the guise of "trying to win a championship," he'd better go the whole nine yards. chop down the ivy and line the bricks with ads. put ads on all the seats in the park. put ads all over the uniforms, a la nascar. that'd generate a hell of a lot of revenue.

this is a cop-out

yeah that thing looked really stupid all along.

this would actually be a really smart move for the d-rays (i refuse to call them the rays). for a lot of teams, there's no point in taking on the sideshow and the negative publicity that comes with signing barry bonds. but nobody cares about the d-rays, not even people who live in tampa. any publicity for that franchise would be a good thing.

i've never seen someone fawn over mike hart like brent musberger did. the guy averaged about 3.5 yards per carry against psu this year, and you'd think he was walking on water. that being said, he's a pretty good announcer IMO, but he does get caught up on slurping certain players. billy packer is horrible. wonder if brent will bring his good buddy jack arute to do some on-field reporting?

incomprehensible pittsburgh steelers announcer passed away today. no truth to the rumor that he called 911, but nobody could understand him, so they hung up. a sad day for pittsburgh and pittsburghese.

I still call it Comiskey. And it's a flipping NAME of a ballpark. Who really cares? maybe you don't care, and that's fine, but judging by the number of people who have called sam zell a piece of crap in his thread, i think it's safe to say that a lot of people - probably the majority of cub fans - cares that the name of the place where the cubs play continue to be named "wrigley field" and i'll repeat my point that, as far as i know, there is no precedent for renaming the most historical arenas in any given sports. this goes for baseball (yankee, fenway, dodger), football (soldier field), basketball (madison square garden). i don't care if sam zell is a shrewd businessman; steinbrenner and john henry are both very shrewd businessmen, and neither one of those changed the name of the park in which their team plays.

I would be willing to wager that only the youngest players actually "revere" their managers. i didn't say "revere" i don't know that josh hancock was an alcoholic. just that he went out and partied a lot.

as you mentioned, this has not been done with the older, most venerable stadiums. Yankee Stadium is still Yankee Stadium; Fenway Park is still Fenway Park; Dodger Stadium is still Dodger Stadium. In fact, there is no precedent whatsoever for slapping a corporate name on a 50+ year old stadium. I don't buy the idea that this was inevitable, that's completely bogus.

i'm not sure, but i find myself asking that question frequently. I think it's pretty clear what my point is. Blaming LaRussa for the deaths of players and for steroid use is one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. Hence, the McDonalds analogy. If these players are behaving dangerously outside of TLR's realm of responsibility, then there's really nothing he can do about it. We live in a society that, in general, is pretty cavalier about drug/pharmaceutical/alcohol use. This is going to be reflected in any enterprise our society is going to engage in, regardless as to whether or not we glorify those people or the things they're doing. Being shocked that these players were injecting themselves with whatever to attempt to get ahead or partying hard after games strikes me as not only completely ignorant and unrealistic, it's DUMB. Furthermore, blaming Tony LaRussa for decisions made by the players in an environment/league/industry/society where NO ONE WAS DOING ANYTHING OR TELLING ANYONE IT WAS A BAD IDEA is just monumentally idiotic. It's ignoring context in a situation where context determined everything. Plus, the heaving of clumsy moral judgments kind of reminds me of monkeys in the zoo tossing around their crap. It's a display to let the other monkeys know you're around, but ultimately you're just taking a dump in your hand and trying to hit something with it. Kind of like following me around, failing to comprehend my sentences, and then calling them stupid. people don't look to a mcdonald's manager like baseball players look to their manager for guidance. it's a dumb analogy. there are a lot of examples of baseball players taking cues from their manager. like the patriots, they talk about "team" a lot more and don't get carried away with individual accolades, even though they have a lot of great players. or the cubs under dusty, they seemed to make a lot of excuses for their mistakes and failed to have much in the way of accountability. i'm not saying that larussa is responsible for people using steroids or for josh hancock going out and getting drunk. but there have been a lot of stories about how this behavior was pretty common for hancock. maybe if the manager set a better example by not driving drunk himself, or by having a chat with his player when he shows up hung over the the ballpark, that the player might have shown better judgment himself. i guess some will say that it is completely random, but i think it is not a coincidence that certain universities' athletic programs, and certain professional organizations, are consistently embroiled in legal problems, while others are not. a lot of it comes from the example set by those high up in the organization, and the type of behavior that they preach to those whom they lead.

sweet, i look forward to another five years of failure from the professional franchise that is most synonymous with the word

latroy hawkins must've just missed the cut