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  1. TruffleShuffle
    yes but he won 4 gold gloves (yeah i know) and was generally regarded as a very good defensive shortstop. bill james has him with 318 win shares, which is roughly equivalent to ernie banks, ozzie smith and pee wee reese, who are hall of famers, and barry larkin, who will be a hall of famer. so i guess if you don't like WARP then that's fine, but i've yet to find a metric that suggests anything other than "alan trammell should be in the hall of fame."
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    http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2007-12/34347749.jpg
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    in before lock/title change
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    Wait. You are comfortable enough with Fuld to hold up the necessary hitting attributes for a 5th OF, but not Cedeno? you betcha
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    yeah but fuld would actually be pretty good as a 4th/5th OF; cedeno probably wont be a good fielder and definitely won't be a good hitter
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    cedeno is pretty good defensively at ss, what the hell is the point of this
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    the difference is that santo actually deserves to be in the hall of fame; rice doesn't.
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    i'm surprised that you're not sure about trammell. actually i'm surprised that anybody is unsure about him, which makes the 18.5% even more depressing. I'm very selective about the Hall. I haven't looked up Trammell recently enough to be sure. higher WARP3 in fewer games than raines. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/trammal01.php http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/raineti01.php
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    Imagine the ****storm if Flyers' coach John Stevens or GM Paul Holmgren had said this? But of course it's the head coach of a Canadian team, so the trash media up there won't make a big deal about it.
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    holy hell, st. louis lost to gw by a score of 49-20. yes, that's ncaa division I college basketball. and yes, i said final.
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    not the image, but the "Mike Richards is Cannon." thread has become legendary on the flyers HF page. Ovechkin is outstanding, one of the best in the world, but I don't know that in today's NHL, it's cost-effective to have a huge-scoring forward. The $9-10M per year it takes to sign them eats up so much cap space. Still, if you're a team like Washington you just can't let a player that good walk. He's amazing. anyway, flyers 6 rangers 2 tonight. we got simon gagne back tonight, which is huge, and scott hartnell potted a hat trick and is finally playing like the $5m man that we signed him to be. marty biron has been stellar this year, but antero niittymaki has been tremendous in the last three games, stopping 120 of 125 shots. he was the mvp of the 2006 olympics and i have always been big on him. his numbers were poor last yaer, but he had a torn labrum and a horrendous defense in front of him. we've now won 6 of our last 7, and nitty has started the last three - tonight's divisional opponent being the most important - so i guess this is the obligatory flyers' goaltender annual controversy.
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    please please PLEASE trade colvin if the orioles really want him.
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    i'm surprised that you're not sure about trammell. actually i'm surprised that anybody is unsure about him, which makes the 18.5% even more depressing.
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    just make wilfred brimley the successor to joe tiller... nobody will notice the difference
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    this is pretty high up on the unintentional comedy scale... http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/07/12/fanhouse-exclusive-miss-gossip-interviews-greg-oden/
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    Agreed. I never thought of Clinton's elections that way. I'd say the last 2 were definitely "lesser of two evils" elections though. oh yeah... last one was definitely a turd sandwich vs giant douche.
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    We're very likely to have two prospects in the top 30 in baseball this year. Just curious, who? I'd guess Vitters and Colvin. holy crap, if colvin is considered one of the top 30 prospects then a lot of baseball people are even dumber than i thought.
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    i never considered clinton to be a "lesser of two evils." i consider him a good leader with generally good policies, who happened to have some pretty significant flaws in his personal life. i don't want my president to be raping high schoolers or sodomizing dogs, but i don't expect him/her to be perfect either.
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    i must have missed all that experience that dubya picked up while not holding political office until 1994. i'm glad obama is running now. after the 2004 election i became convinced that it's advantageous for a senator to run for president as quickly as possible. if you stay in congress for 10-20 years there will inevitably be votes that look bad in hindsight, or votes that end up being reversals of previous positions. hence the republican attacks on kerry, who was certainly not a poor candidate for lack of experience. if republicans manage to bring down obama, that will mean that their radio and tv network is just too powerful, and they can pretty much bring down any candidate for any reason. but i don't think that is the case.
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    can't blame you. next year should be a very special year for missouri football... i could honestly see them winning the title; they legitimately have one of the 10 most talented teams in the country.
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    i quote this not as a cub fan but as an admirer of the game, and a desire that those who are most deserving of the highest accolade are recognized for their greatness. vote him in, morans.
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    at the risk of angering everyone on this board, i say that andre dawson does not have much of an argument to be a hall of famer
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    5-1 in the last 6 for the fly guys. hartnell has finally decided to show up, and the young guys (richards, carter, umberger) are playing some of the best hockey of anyone on the team. the game the other night against toronto was another horrendously-officiated game - HNIC games hosted in canada tend to be that way. braydon coburn got boarded by a maple leaf and lost some teeth and required dental surgery: http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii56/rpv7482/coburnboard.jpg but the ref somehow "missed" the call, even though it a blatant boarding infraction. here's a video of it: http://broadband.tsn.ca/tsn/?vid=25786 by the way, enjoy the commentary by the TSN guy. He accuses derian hatcher of going "airborne with the elbow" which is completely untrue. then the boarding on coburn is described as a "big hit" - despite being completely illegal. And the downie penalty is described as a cheap shot - which it was, and it was penalized, but the reason that downie took that shot is that the leafs ran our goalie half a dozen times without any call of goalie interference. The NHL officiating has been a joke this year and i guess with them being influenced by garbage stations like TSN, it's not going to change.
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    i would vote for hillary if i knew that bill would be pulling the strings, but i know that wouldn't be the case i'd vote for her over most republicans, but i'd vote for mccain over hillary. probably not romney and definitely not huckabee. in other words, i have no idea how to answer. i'd vote republican if it was one guy, and grudgingly vote for clinton if it is most other choices.
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    tim raines: 2500 games played, 123.9 WARP3, 24.3% of votes alan trammell: 2293 games played, 129.4 WARP3, 18.2% of votes bert blyleven: 692 games pitched, 146.1 WARP3, 61.9% of votes ... jim rice: 2089 games played, 83.2 WARP3, 72.2% of votes andre dawson: 2627 games played, 105.3 WARP3, 65.9% of votes. what a joke. i'm still convinced that trammell's omission is the most egregious, and aside from ron santo, he's the most deserving person not in the Hall to deserve a spot (not counting people whose off-the-field issues are keeping them out: shoeless joe, pete rose, mark mcgwire)
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