RonnieWooWooSanto

The Reds win the pennant! The Reds win the pennant!

Wait. No they didn't. It just appears that way.

Cox ain't crap without Shuerholtz...he was the magic.

 

 

Cox does have one heck of an eye for talent. Chipper Jones was HIS DECISION. He also help signed Latino's like Furcal, Lopez, etc, etc. The problem with Cox is that he can't coach up the talent he finds....

 

Come on. Chipper was the number 1 overall pick and spent less than two years in the minors. Only a really dumb person would have passed on Chipper.

Todd Van Poppel was the consensus number one pick that year. But Van Poppel said publicly that if Atlanta took him he would not sign with them. The Braves (including Cox) wanted Van Poppel. They got lucky that they were forced in a position to take Chipper over Van Poppel.

he is one cranky old bastard

Didn't he beat his wife a few year ago? Or atleast was accused of it.

Al Trautwig was so much cooler when he was on Classic Sports Network.

I remember in the early to mid 80's he had a late night sports show that aired nationally. I believe it may have followed Nightline. It may have lasted a year, if that.

having trouble thinking of a really soft player off the top of my head...maybe marian gaborik? even that doesn't seem right...he's just made of glass.

rico fata & kessel

 

i don't like Havlat being called a top-5 forward, without the condition 'offensively'. there are many other players i would prefer to have considering their all around game. he is instant offense though.

 

fata isn't in the NHL any more and Kessel really made strides towards the end of last year. watching the bruins i never got the sense that he was soft...i think he's just in over his head atm.

What about Gilbert Brule?

The name of the pitcher currently pitching for the Aussie women's softball team: Tanya Harding. She kinda looks like her too.

The new pitcher is named Hardie.

What I heard was they process their birth cert. through the Dominican Republic

Albert Pujols is next up on floor exercise.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/beijing/2008-07-27-notes_N.htm?123

 

The color gym sorta hinted at that.

 

LOL, so this is extremely fishy now. Here's the quote:

 

The Times reported International Gymnastics Federation officials acknowledged questions about He's age had been raised. "We heard these rumors, and we immediately wrote to the Chinese gymnastics federation," Andre Gueisbuhler, the secretary general of the international federation, told the newspaper. "They immediately sent a copy of the passport, showing the age, and everything is OK. That's all we can check."

 

So let me get this straight. All they have to send is their own passport? What about checking the records of the newspapers that reported the age @ 14?

 

BTW, doesn't matter anyway because the USA girls are pretty much nuking themselves. But still.

Yep, the passports that China provided to the IOC is good enough and apparently one Canadian coach is satisified.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=c46b0f84-71e1-44e8-9719-db36acc15b0d

"It's really bigger than gymnastics," began Carol-Angela Orchard, who coaches Canadian gymnast Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs. For the record, she is one of few coaches here who is not accusing the Chinese of cheating, heading into tomorrow's team competition.

 

"I can't go to the Canadian government and say, 'Please give me a passport for Elyse that will allow her to compete at the Olympic Games [before she is of age].' That simply can not happen," Ms. Orchard said.

 

"So, if it's a passport that the government supplies, if they have documentation from their government that says that is their age, then that's their age."

 

Bela Karolyi, former coach to Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton, now coaches the pixies of the United States team. He spoke out last week about the Chinese.

 

"This is a joke," he said. "We are people who have had children of our own, so we know what a 16-year-old should look like. They should not look like they are seven and maybe still in diapers."

 

The New York Times reported irregularities in the ages of the Chinese gymnasts last month, finding online records that showed two gymnasts, He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan, may only be 14. The state-run Chinese Central Television Web site also posted a profile of Yang Yilin indicating she too was 14, the Times reported.

 

In turn, the Chinese have produced documentation that satisfies the International Olympic Committee, a fact that does not surprise Canadian coach Tony Smith at all.

What happened with him in Milwaukee?

 

Similar tothe Manny/Boston situation, they accused him of not really trying because he wanted out, which he was vocal about.

 

But then again, I could be confusing it with his Padres exit. I know it happened with him once early in his career.

IIRC, he hated the idea of playing in small market/abysmal team Milwaukee. I think he relied on his uncle (Dwight Gooden) as a mentor and really wanted the big market glitz that Gooden had in NY.

This was when Sheffield came up as a shortstop. I think he was the reason the Brewers moved Yount from SS to CF.

Yep, it's hard for me to talk to anyone around my immediate area or from high school about hockey because the majority of them don't care and won't unless I pressure them to watch the Hawks this year.

Is hockey the reason you're in Finland?

This is probably a place to ask.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/

Re: The rivalry

 

I didn't hate the Cardinals til I went to Champaign. It's a non-Chicago thing.

 

Although, I think it's growing in Chicago due to Cardinals fans coming to games at Wrigley and being all St. Louisy.

My hatred for the Cardinals grew after the division realignment. As a kid, the team I loathed the most was the Mets. I still did not like the Cardinals, but nowhere near the dislike I had for the Mets.

But, after a couple of years of the NL central the Cardinals claimed that most hated spot in my eyes.

Lovie Jung on the women's softball team named after a Gilligan's Island character. Wow.

Not if you spelled her name correctly she isn't. Mrs. Howell's first name (actually nickname) is spelled Lovey. You spelled it the way the Bears' head coach spells his first name.

That's how Lovie Jung spells it. Her parents must not have known the actual spelling.

When's steeple chase?

 

not sure, but i like it.

 

I worked my first ever track meet earlier this year and Steeple Chase was one of the events. It's perhaps the stupidest, most bizarre event ever.

Equestrian for people.

nothing less intimidating than hearing a male gymnast say "that's how we roll, right there"

Reminds me of Mitch Gaylord in 1984.

We need to drop goofy sports like football at the HS level and set up Olympic competition instead!

 

 

Can't let these peon third world countries take the gold.

 

 

Oh ya, like that is going to happen here in Texas :banghead: You may apply green text anywhere in this post

 

peon third world country? china is the largest country in the world and their olympic teams aren't just highly trained, they're bred especially for competition.

 

That is why I do not want to lose to them, esp. that swimmer who coaches himself and all the ones not with the sponsors or with profession coaches(and had to work at home depot) those are the people I respect the most. Ya, I love the "we are the world " crap but when it comes down to it I want to kick some major commilist butt. (commilstic=communism and capitalist)

 

and this makes me want to root for the chinese.

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