OleMissCub
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Offensive value and power are not mutually exclusive. His offensive value lies in his ability in getting basehits, not striking out, stealing bases and scoring runs
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that's an outstanding article. I'm excited having him at the top of our order.
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even in the best shape i was ever in my whole life (probably around the time of my avatar...i'm old and chubby now) I was about 6'2, 190 and could barely bench my own weight. I was never able to lift weights or gain muscle very well for some reason.
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Me neither. If you went off looks alone, every running back at the N.F.L. combine last week was on the gas. There's evidence, it's just elsewhere. Football is played once per week, baseball 5-6 times per week. That makes all the difference in the world. I agree, having done the whole D-I collegiate athletic thing and working out in the same gym with Basketball, Football, Tennis, Soccer Players, etc, I think it's difficult for a baseball player to sustain serious mass like that. All sports have different kinds of stress on the body and the physical stress of baseball doesn't lend itself to being able to maintain hulk-like girth.
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I'm not defending Bonds either but he beat the system - MLB never tested him positve for anything to my knowledge. Until they do he is a first ballot HOF - just like Cobb you can't keep someone out just because they are a jerk among other less positive things. I think there is a massive difference in being a douche-bag off the field i.e. Cobb, Dimaggio, Strawberry, Puckett and knowingly cheating to gain a superior advantage. Bonds is clearly, even just taking his pre-1998 numbers, a hall of famer. I still think he'll get voted in, but I wouldn't vote for him.
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I don't think Ty would have used drugs if they had been available. He always stated that "i may have been rough sometimes, but I was never unfair." For several years near the beginning of his career, at Tiger homegames there was a trick the team used where they had a boy in the scoreboard who had a pair of binoculars to look at the catchers sign. The boy would slide a certain card into a slot in the scoreboard if it was a curve pitch coming, one for a fastball, and one for offspeed. For all the years they did this, Cobb told them to piss off and told the kid not to do it when he was up because it wasn't fair...but mainly because "I don't need it anyways" While he was an awful human being for the most part and did gamble on baseball (mainly always on himself i.e. he'd bet the bookies that he'd hit a double to right field, then steal third and steal home, etc...and usually won), I don't think he would use performance enhancing drugs. In all of my research about him, I just don't think it would be in his character to cheat physically. But who can say.
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I've never come across a machine at the gym that can make the skull grow, maybe you have. It's proven that a side effect of HGH is the protuding forehead and enlarged cranium. http://www.newstarget.com/006682.html http://www.scottsdalecards.com/catalog/images/87dbonds.jpg http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/sports/2004/12/1209msmith.jpg
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2006/03/06/bonds.years/index.1.exclude.html wow, nice visual evidence there. I always say, there isn't a single workout machine in a gym that can make your skull grow...but human growth hormone sure can.
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pretty please tell me you have no sympathy for that cheating as*hole
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to put it bluntly, I hate Bonds with a passion. I hope this has the same effect as a pipe to the knee would have. I want him out of the game right now. No way does he deserve to break Aaron or Ruth.
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3/7 Mexico (Lopez) @ U.S. (Peavy) 3:00 P.M. CT on ESPN2
OleMissCub replied to Omar's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Heck ya dude, i've got the Spice Girls on in the background and i'm going to see Titanic with my woman tonite :-) -
if true, what a massive douche-bag
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I can't see them taking such a historic franchise as the Athletics. Maybe Twins, Marlins, Devil Rays, Royals.
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my gosh :(
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Could have been that the same hit done to the old helmet would have shattered it like Sammy's. Impossible to say really. However, it was a hard fastball that smacked him, not like a weaker pitch. He got smacked good, so it may have broken under the old helmet.
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I like Kruk as a human being, he seems like a cool guy and was a fun ballplayer to watch, but his analysis is a bit sketchy sometimes.
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isn't there a chance that a good many of those people are still here, just with different names or IP's or whatever.
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i saw that too
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Didn't ZZ say something about drinking and driving that was inappropriate? He basically argued for 10 pages of an entire thread that drinking and driving was cool. I showed him a picture of my wonderful and beautiful sister who was killed by a drunk driver, in an attempt to shut him up.
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Buck Leonard with the nice double!
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Grissom up, didn't he play in the Negro Leagues? :lol:
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Oh, i understood that part. I just wasn't sure how that tied into our discussion aside from your WWI analysis.
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Considering it was a civil war, I can understand why many Americans were upset about the war. WWI-The US went into the war as neutral despite stronger alliances towards England. Once the threat of commerce terrorism from Germany had become a possibility, the US entered the war. Of course, a high % of the population in the US had just migrated from Germany and Ireland (who supported Germany). Those ties aren't there are anymore that you saw in WWI. I'm not sure what your point is, rephrase it please.
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That's the nature of war. WWII was full of miscalculations. I could write a laundry list of mistakes the American Armed Forces made during that war. Iraq can be compared to Vietnam insomuch as it could be compared to other wars. Fighting Guerilla tactics: - Civil War - Banana Republic wars - WWII - Vietnam - Somalia - Afghanistan - Iraq Unpopular wartime presidents: - Civil War - Vietnam - Iraq Majority of Americans upset about the war: - Civil War - WWI - Vietnam - Iraq
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There's probably a large percentage of soliders in Iraq pondering the same thought as far as an attainable object. I put the poll there to show there are questions concerning the war and the validity behind having all the troops there. Don't we already know that this is a controversial war? Again, with respect, I can't help but think that the poll proves very little, especailly with regards to our debate over a US military comparison to Iraq. I'm sure a good many of the responses are probably just wishful thinking. If you interviewed a grunt in the 28th Infantry Division sitting in a foxhole in the Hurtgen Forest in Nov. 44, i'm sure he'd answer "ya i think we should be outta here in a year". I don't think that poll is indicative of troop morale, especially considering the vast numbers of re-enlistments.