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  1. OleMissCub
    Nope, it'd just mean you are voting for your own kind i.e. Cubs fans and the Cubs organization.
  2. OleMissCub
    Northerners = winners Southerners = losers White Sox = winners Cubs = losers a vote for Rocket is a vote for the Sox
  3. OleMissCub
    I do keep up with what's going on internationally, it just doesn't get my blood boiling like some of the things that have to do with radical Islam. It's cool.
  4. OleMissCub
    I noticed that 99.7% of the stories he posts about politics and international events concern themselves with Muslims. I also made no judgement about this practice, so simmer down now Well if Christian, Hindu, or Jewish zealots are letting 12 year olds saw people's heads off, I'd love to know and I'd for sure post about it. isnt' there big world news happening in China, Africa, Japan, Russia, etc, South America? Not much of the kind that I'm interested in. Do you have to be a fan of every team in the MLB because you like the Cubs? Should I chastise you for not caring about those other teams so much?
  5. OleMissCub
    I noticed that 99.7% of the stories he posts about politics and international events concern themselves with Muslims. I also made no judgement about this practice, so simmer down now Well if Christian, Hindu, or Jewish zealots are letting 12 year olds saw people's heads off, I'd love to know and I'd for sure post about it.
  6. OleMissCub
    JD's unite! RYNO!
  7. OleMissCub
    http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/head_in_sand_small.jpg I guess my hatred for LSU makes me hate people from Louisiana as well. Naw, I'm not intelligent enough to separate the two.
  8. OleMissCub
    Yes, thankfully Bonds' new record (should he get it) won't last that long thanks to A-Rod. He'll be top 10 baseball players of all time when he's done I think.
  9. OleMissCub
    i think this for sure With a ton of luck and a world class hitter like Ichiro this could be approached...it's unlikely, but it could be done. Luck has little to do with having a .367 lifetime BA or 5700 career K's, etc.
  10. OleMissCub
    If anything the dead ball era helped pitchers, not hitters. They used the same ball throughout most of the game. If a ball was hit foul the fans had to throw it back onto the field. Interesting note: Ty Cobb has the highest lifetime BA of anyone against Walter Johnson and the only reason he did was because he knew that the Big Train was such a nice guy that he was scared to hit people with his fastball. So Cobb, knowing that Train was such a perfect control pitcher, crowded the inside of the plate, forcing Train throw pinpoint on the outside corner from fear of hitting Cobb. Apparently at the first Hall of Fame banquet Cobb admitted the secret of his success to Train to which he responded, "then I should have drilled your ass every time."
  11. OleMissCub
    I'll concede most of those except the pitching distance. Young had only been pitching 3 years when it changed from 50 feet to 601/2. Probably, but I think the same could be said for the hitting greats of their time. You bring Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, or Honus Wagner up to today's ballparks and they'd destroy. First off, the usually only played with one ball the entire game which pitchers were ALLOWED to scuff up, spit on, grind in dirt, etc. So by the later innings it is said that the pitch looked like a knuckleball but at the speed of a fastball. Second, their bodies weren't taken care off like the players of today. They had to be tough or they wouldn't play. Hell, Cobb had his tonsils removed with anesthetic minutes before a game against the White Sox in like 1915 and still had like 3 hits. I think in the end it's all relative. Great talents are great talents regardless of the era. People like inflated averages like Cobb's or Hornsby's and they'd naturally want to say "well, I guess everyone had averages like that", which isn't true. League BA's are the same back then as they are now. But indeed, respect or not, Cy Young's records are just absurd and his era should be taken into consideration, but I don't think an asterisk is fair.
  12. OleMissCub
    Pretty hardcore. I don't like the disrespect that I see some modern baseball fans showing to earlier era's in baseball, as if people back then didn't play the type of bang-bang, in your face, sport. Some say "well, they didn't throw as hard." That's bullcrap. Sure, some people with conditioning these days might be able to throw harder than some guy back then, but people on the most part threw just as hard. If guys out of 1A highschools in Podunk, Mississippi can throw 90+, then so could full grown men back then if they just had the talent for it. Hell, they obviously threw hard enough to kill a man, since Chapman got killed by Mays. I think some people just have rubber arms and they are born that way. Back then guys with weak arms would have been weeded out because of the stress and so the only guys who made it to the bigs and could deal with the stress of constant pitching were guys like Livan Hernandez or Zambrano or Randy Johnson. I could almost guarantee you that Zambrano could throw every third day.
  13. OleMissCub
    What's AROD on pace for? About 160
  14. OleMissCub
    I like the thought of platooning Griffey and Floyd because then that reduces the risk of both of them getting hurt, but i would not give up marshall for this....if you can keep the rotation together and get griffey i'm all for it I wouldn't give up what it would take to get Griffey just to put him in a platoon with Floyd.
  15. OleMissCub
    Nein danke Just keep Floyd in RF for now.
  16. OleMissCub
    I'd take that. Gives us 3 LSU players. :-)
  17. OleMissCub
    Really long term, it's a lock to be broken with advances in medical technology. I wouldn't bet against players regularly playing until they're 50 or 60, if not indefinitely in 200 years. You can't be serious? C'mon. Maddux has pitched 22 seasons using a low stress delivery and he's still nearly 200 shy of Cy Young.
  18. OleMissCub
    Yep, that one truly is impossible to break.
  19. OleMissCub
    What do y'all think is the hardest record to break? I'd have to say, in no particular order other than the first one - Cy Young's 511 wins - Cobb's .367 lifetime BA - VanderMeer's back to back no-hitters others?
  20. OleMissCub
    my buddy hit a hole in one using john daley. the best part was that he was too high to get off the couch, so he swung the wii controller from his sitting position and canned it...amazing :shock: Buddy of mine just sold his Wii to some dude yesterday for 700 bucks. That's ridiculous.
  21. OleMissCub
    WE SURRENDER!! http://www.paris.org/Expos/Liberation/gifs/surrender.gif
  22. OleMissCub
    I'd like to see a brawl where the entire team gets suspended. How are the Iowa Cubs doing? Bring them all up for a week.
  23. OleMissCub
    That was pathetic. Jones is terrible. It's so bad. I've seen fans from the outfield throw to the infield on one hop. like kevin from american pie? Probably the only actor in Hollywood to just receive "simulated" oral from Tara Reid.
  24. OleMissCub
    That was pathetic. Jones is terrible. It's so bad. I've seen fans from the outfield throw to the infield on one hop.
  25. OleMissCub
    My main reason why it's lousy is because the freaking rules of baseball say "9 AGAINST 9".
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