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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Holy [expletive], he looks a lot smaller even under the suit.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Good Lord. I mean, it's great if it's true, though now I'm kinda worried he's going to be too small. I was thinking he needed to drop about 20 pounds or so.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Or why doesn't he at least say something now to help settle his poor stomach?
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Has Aramis ever showed up to one of these things?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    40 pounds in about 3 months? Is he dying?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I'd be willing to be that any performance enhancers he was taking were more along the lines of Viagra and if he was taking injections it was penicillin. I'm not going to say that about anyone at this point. We have no idea what kind of uppers and "helpers" Grace opted to use.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Where are you seeing all of these people (outside of maybe some diehard Cardinals fans) clamoring for him to be in the Hall? I always think tantrums like this ring hollow from players like Clark. He'll get all pissy and rant about the ones who have been busted or admitted to something but God forbid he say anything about any of the players from when he played who were using a variety of PED's. It's just lame and someone looking for attention. I don't look at any player from the last 40 years who goes off like this as someone doing something "good" because they're ultimately culpable and not above being suspect themselves. It's very telling that so many in the game keeps trying to keep the focus on very specific players and a very specific period in time.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    What a stupid idea.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, how do we know that Grace was a "clean" player?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    They seem to have been pretty content to wait the past few years when they started playing better. They should have added Gasol a few years ago, but fell in love with their own roster. They were linked with Amar'e and Garnett at one point too. If a trade is going to obviously improve the team they're going to do it. Sometimes deals just fall through. Yeah, teams often overrate their own guys, but the only big deal we've heard rumored this year is for Bush and it's pretty hard to imagine they'd turn it down along the lines that have been discussed unless Toronto is asking for the moon.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Why would they hold off a trade that would make the team better?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I don't know, if Mac used for 9 years, and, say, 5-10 flyouts per season became homers because of that extra strength, it seems reasonable. I threw 100 out there to be liberal. Personally, I think 50-60 is probably more likely. Mac had a ton of power to begin with. Most of his homers were cannon shots anyway. Yeah, I agree. I was actually replying to the post before yours but you beat me to it. McGwire obviously was helped out in the power department, but to say he'd just be Dave Kingman at best without them seems like an overstatement that we see too often when the issue of steroids come up. People start turning them into this wonderdrug that can turn average or above average hitters into world beaters.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    McGwire was always a tank. Picking on his size as an indicator is barking up the wrong tree. It's not like he underwent a Bonds/Sosa type transformation. http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/mcgwire87tp.jpg http://www.collectselltrade.com/images/mark_mcgwire.JPG http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/124/881/871/43juNrBX7BdkjOn.jpg McGwire wasn't tiny by any means, but there was definitely a pretty significant mass increase that seperates him from guys like, say, Frank Thomas, who were always huge.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Holy crap. Is your friend OK?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    That seems to be giving the drugs a LOT of credit.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Does it help if I tell you, the Celtics weren't at full strength? Obviously. NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE BEFORE I FIGHT YOU WITH FISTS.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Go [expletive] yourselves. I wanted to enjoy this.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Noah keeps doing his thing. Deng continues to kick ass. Rose being Rose. If this offseason actually goes well I'm gonna love next year.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    That's a bit much.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    This is the only steroid-revelation that has truly horrified me and left me questioning my faith in the game, humanity and God.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    For now. Yeah, it looks relatively crappy for the next couple of years. My other point is that the melodrama of the article seems to be a reach. It's not like this is a situation they're indefinitely locked into. Ricketts' actions so far in dealing with the financial aspect of buying the Cubs has struck me as being really smart and the efforts of someone who isn't going to tolerate the halfassed sloppy spending that the Cubs have engaged in under Hendry.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    My point is that it's likely that there's always going to be contracts like Dempster's and Zambrano's hanging around. The obviously bad stuff like Soriano's is one thing, but I'd be stunned if a team somehow managed to not have a couple or more arguably overpriced contracts hanging around.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, them's the breaks of baseball. Even the best GM is going to have contracts where they have more money invested than what is ideal. I'm not saying Hendry gets a pass but it's tremendously unlikely that whoever replaces him isn't going to have to deal with the same situation in the future. It's very unlikely that this, or any other team without an effectively unlimited payroll like the Yankees, won't see some variation of what you're talking about with Dempster and Zambrano repeated over and over and over again.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    It's not surprising at all that such a stupid conclusion would come from someone like Shark.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    He knows how to keep it clean. Just be sure to let him wet his beak.
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