Sammy Sofa

Should be Marmol.

[expletive], I love Valverde.

But if he stayed with Cleveland and he never won a championship, wouldn't his fame take a good hit? There's risk that he wouldn't win no matter where he went. He'd still be an amazing player wherever he went and he'd be THE guy on that team...except if he went to the Heat. Obviously, he still has a ton of talent, but his role is potentially going to change drastically, and this is already being looked at as clearly being Wade's team. He must have realized that would have happened, and that's what's so lame about it. He basically weighed all of his options and decided, "yeah, I'm cool with being the second in command."

Hopefully this is true. What if the alternative is Sandberg? Death.

Yes, it's obviously it's all about his ego...that's why I'm so let down by it. OK, so he wants to be famous, hey, great. It's that he opted the relatively easy route to more fame while not maximizing his talent that seems like such a cop out to me. He could be one of the most famous athletes in the world AND one of the very best, but he's willing to let the latter fall relatively to the wayside for the sake of the former.

What an oaf.

I keep thinking it has to be Alfonso given the socks, but if it's him someone dubbed his dialogue because it's way too accent-free.

Who needs Ichiro when you can have a Fukucopter? Don't humor him.

EWWWWWWWWWWW, [expletive] GLEE, WHY?!?!? The backlash against that show can't start soon enough.

Someone apparently rousted Harrison Ford from the grave.

It really is sad the more I think about it. He basically only had one choice out of his options where he wouldn't have been THE man on the team, and he went running towards that choice like he was terrified of anything else. I think he would have seriously considered going to the Lakers instead if they had somehow had the money and still had Kobe. Have we ever seen a player as highly regarded as LeBron so willfully and blatantly choose to be the second banana?

Hopefully this is true.

Prior managing some kind of comeback would be like a nice hug for my heart.

OR ELSE.

Sounds pretty par for the course if they're planning to get rid of him after the season is over.

Whhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy does the Colvin at 1B idea keep coming up?

Santo would drag them waaaaaaaaaaaaay down.

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/LIVING/worklife/06/10/lw.napping.work/art.sleep.atwork.gi.jpg

He's already got a bum arm and shoulder and now you want him to pull an ankle? =D> http://static.open.salon.com/files/gun_to_head1241048759.jpg

I really wish he had some insane demand, like he wanted to be forever preserved Lenin-style in some ridiculous crystal coffin that is suspended and rotating above CF in Yankee Stadium at all times. Clank one off the old man and it's a ground rule double!

George is gettin' UPSET!!!

I'll throw down dough that Wade is too busted for that to be the case in 3 years. This is gonna be fun to watch, but I have a hunch it's not going to last too long.

It's largely redundant. If a hitter is a good hitter in general then it's likely they're a good, or at least serviceable, hitter with RISP. It's highly unusual when you have players who are consistently good or useful hitters who are basically randomly not also good or useful with RISP. Those "unclutch good hitters" are essentially myths created by hack sports journalists, radio shows and the meathead fans that eat up their every word (aka A-Rod Syndrome). I am not sure at what point it becomes significant but there are some long tenured players that have pretty big differentials in their runners on/ risp and bases empty stats. Kevin Youklis is over 70 points worse with nobody on in his career. Ortiz, Maglio Ordonez, Bobby Abreu also have pretty big differntials over their careers. Others are pretty much spot on - Jeter I think was almost dead on. Arod is pretty consistent although there is a bit of a drop with RISP and 2 outs - although his seems to be slightly more most players seem to have a bit of a drop. (...well I certainly didn't look at most players) Soriano is better with nobody on by a pretty big margin but that probably has something to do with him batting leadoff so much. Exactly. It's largely meaningless, in the grand scheme of things. Most of the time significant variation between numbers with nobody on and RISP typically can be chalked up to where the hitter hits or has hit in the lineup and/or is also skewed by the quality of the players around them more so than the player actually hitting significantly different in those situations.

AND JUMP.

Take my hand.