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  1. CubinNY
    In the pink, means healthy.
  2. CubinNY
    True, but Jones not even trying to report to camp in shape does reinforce his claim that he doesn't care. For $1 mil a year, I'd hire an entire training staff and a personal chef specializing in healthy cooking to get myself into the absolute best condition I could be. For his salary?There's no excuse for being out of shape, especially if it affects the way you play. However, put yourself in Jones shoes and some jack-ass sports writer challenges you to go on a diet with him and then mocks you every week. To me there's to ways two go about it 1) get all pissed off and threaten to kick his ass and 2) pretend like it doesn't bother you. Everybody has pride. I'm sure Simers has pride in his terrible sports columns.
  3. CubinNY
    Ned Yost, super-genius.
  4. CubinNY
    T.J. Simers is a corporeal example of what's wrong with sports journalists. He's right up there with Rick Riley and his piss cup in the pantheon of immature and immoral sportswriters.
  5. CubinNY
    Not that I necessarily disagree, but why?
  6. CubinNY
    Momentum is bunk.
  7. CubinNY
    !@#!#$!$!@$!@#$@#@##$ !$#$!$ !#$!@#$
  8. CubinNY
    The Rookie is falling to pieces. C'mon Lee. Hit it to the NSBBers.
  9. CubinNY
    Lou needs to tell Theriot that he cannot steal. If Lou is giving the steal sign Trammel should kick Lou in the backside.
  10. CubinNY
    A beard
  11. CubinNY
    It makes sense to me that he'd be considered one of the best by the people who agree with his methods, while people with opposite viewpoints would not hold him in high esteem. You've lost me.... are yo saying you agree/disagree with his methods? Do you know his methods? What he's saying is, is that people who agree with his methods will hold him in high regard. People who don't agree with his methods don't hold him in high regard. I don't think goony has an opinion one way or the other.
  12. CubinNY
    That's not a fact. Its as much as a fact as the Felix Pie would be great given the chance to play full time arguement. More of a speculation. Could you kindly point me in the direction of a post that said that Pie would be great if given full time playing duties? Meanwhile, why don't you invest just a few minutes looking at Pie's history of performance in professional baseball and then get back to us about the "speculation" part. Sometimes one can learn things on the internet if one tries.
  13. CubinNY
    Siddhartha/Budda was left handed and had a 100 mph fastball and shoulder to toes curve, too bad baseball wasn't invented for another 1500 years. He would have thrown a no hitter. But his career would have been cut short by weight issues.
  14. CubinNY
    Or it could just be the fact that he's, you know, in his late 30's. And had several concussions. I've been told they do wonders for the hand/eye coordination. I use to make fun of him, but secretly I've always admired his skills on the baseball field. He's probably the best defensive CF in the last 25 years. Are you kidding me??????!!!! He is without question the most overrated defensive CF probably to ever play the game. He made his entire career out of making routine flay balls look like amazing catches. Yeah, he was good at making the diving catch, but if you judge the ball correctly off the bat and take the correct line on it (like Andrew Jones) you have to dive a lot less often. Don't let your biases cloud your judgment. He's not. He's completely accurate in saying Edmonds made a whole lot of more difficult than average catches look like you had to be a superhero to make them. However, he was in fact a very good CF, but not even close to the best of the last 25 years. Griffey Jones Hunter Puckett Lofton Just to name a few that were as good or better than him on an every day basis. Kirby Puckett?
  15. CubinNY
    Or it could just be the fact that he's, you know, in his late 30's. And had several concussions. I've been told they do wonders for the hand/eye coordination. I use to make fun of him, but secretly I've always admired his skills on the baseball field. He's probably the best defensive CF in the last 25 years. Are you kidding me??????!!!! He is without question the most overrated defensive CF probably to ever play the game. He made his entire career out of making routine flay balls look like amazing catches. Yeah, he was good at making the diving catch, but if you judge the ball correctly off the bat and take the correct line on it (like Andrew Jones) you have to dive a lot less often. Don't let your biases cloud your judgment.
  16. CubinNY
    Not even close, IMO.
  17. CubinNY
    Or it could just be the fact that he's, you know, in his late 30's. And had several concussions. I've been told they do wonders for the hand/eye coordination. I use to make fun of him, but secretly I've always admired his skills on the baseball field. He's probably the best defensive CF in the last 25 years.
  18. CubinNY
    That's great. I wonder though, they seem to be able to produce ML pitchers by the bushel. I guess Mark is a square peg in their factory.
  19. CubinNY
    May 12.
  20. CubinNY
    Holy crap, if they send Sean G. down AAA will have a damn nice rotation.
  21. CubinNY
    "Fat part of the bat to the ball, and with his tremendous bat speed and barrel awareness." Not as erotic as some, but still a little creepy. What the hell is barrel awareness? Never worked much with a hitting coach, eh? No, and I never used nonsensical phrases to describe a good hitter either. I hope Vitters pans out and becomes an every day ML player.
  22. CubinNY
    "Fat part of the bat to the ball, and with his tremendous bat speed and barrel awareness." Not as erotic as some, but still a little creepy. What the hell is barrel awareness?
  23. CubinNY
    Specifically, what do you take issue with? You can't be disputing that Snider was seen as far more polished and "major league ready" than Vitters, who was more of a "project" right? I mean, I'm not saying he was a (Braves) Cody Johnson type project, but I remember the Guerrero comps, the raw tag, etc. Just a couple quick snippets from different reports on Vitters: I have seen exactly one scouting report that even gives a hint of Vladimir, with this quote: The scouting reports pretty much agree with each other though. Polished line drive hitter, short pretty swing, bat is very advanced, defense needs work. He's certainly not raw offensively, not at least in the minds of all those who wrote the reports. In fact, many said his bat is still certainly good enough to hit at a corner outfield spot if he cannot stay at third. I think the scouts can fall in love with the swing and what not, but his high school numbers were in no way near that level of gush. Those comments are almost sexual.
  24. CubinNY
    I don't understand the panic. Not ours, Lou's. The Cardinals are not going to runaway with this division.
  25. CubinNY
    Someone help me understand why a group would want the Cubs and not Wrigley. Try not to use, "they can afford the Cubs but not Wrigley", because that would seem like nonsense.
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