Mephistopheles

Marky Mark will always have a special place in my heart for what he did in 2003. He was the Cy Young Award winner, fo sho.

and if only we could steal Kawasaki from Japan vrooooooooom http://www.motorcycledaily.com/kx65.jpg he's left handed, a shortstop, and lightning fast (like ichiro fast). GG defensive guy too.

Fukudome's not a new development kids. He was in the WBC you know....and kept Ichiro in RF while he played center....

Don't do Crystal Meph kids.

Because he doesn't bat from the wrong side of the plate, duh. It isn't rocket science, it's Jim Hendry science. Modern science's little brainchild.

And some of them were Zook recruits. I'm just saying...Miami won 3 national championships while in jail. It'll be nice to have the UM/UF rivalry next year..

It is time for me to make another epically correct suggestion. As I brought to your attention, each WS winner since 2003 has had at least on Japanese player on their roster, and the percentage of Japanese on the WS roster has gone up or stayed the season each year. If we're to win the World Series next year, we need at least two players born in Japan, preferably three. The success of teams with Japanese players is nearly identical to the success of teams who first adopted African Americans and Hispanics on their rosters. (I'm serious, do your homework). Well, with Fukudome looking like he's heading to the Cubs (well not really but it's not official yet) that will leave us one Japanese player short. The Cubs want fast guys who hit lefties and play the middle infield. Our options are dwindling quickly. Brian Roberts is not the answer, he costs too much and he's not that good. Now if we give up just one of the prerequisites, we might end up with a better 2B than Mark DeRosa. His name is not unheard of. We're not chasing Big Foot (Yulieski Gourriel) here. We're chasing World Series dreams, man! Over the last two years this player has been every bit as good as Mark DeRosa and will allow Uncle Lou to go Mark McLemore on DeRosa. Sure he's not as good as Brian Roberts, although their numbers are similar. His name is Tadahito Iguchi. He also brings our Japanese player total up to: 2, which statistically speaking is something we need if we're to win the WS next year. Now Tadahito Iguchi isn't great, he's an above average secondbaseman who can EqA in the mid .270s, but he's better than the other token Japanese player we tried to acquire, Kazuo Matsui. And cheaper. There's very little interest out there for his services. At the very worst we'd have the best backup second baseman in baseball. Which is going to be needed when Mark DeRosa gets caught for 'roiding up (seriously he's probably gonna be in The Report next week). http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f189/kctigers23/StampofApprovalSmall.png

Do those happen often? Does anyone know? About as often as Missouri beats Oklahoma.

Heh. If that's the way you want to look at it, fine ;)

I weighted them, but even then it's still not likely that I win against how many 2 dozen teams? Even if my picks are the best.

You do realize that even if my picks are "more right" than others, the odds are that I won't win this thing, right? It's like playing hold 'em with pocket rockets and five guys in for the flop. You're the favorite, but the odds of you leading after the flop are pretty low, although higher than any other individuals.

To be fair, his prospect ranking usually have a positive slight towards the Cubs favor on them. Sorry to be the Devils Advocate again

Dude, you started rooting for Florida because they're good, not because you have any connections whatsoever to the school. You have absolutely ZERO room to talk trash. Have you ever even been to the state of Florida? Yes considering I rooted for them through the Zook era and all. I mean it's just like I woke up overnight and started liking them..I have as much as a connection to the Gators as 1/3 of this place does to the Cubs so shut up about it. Besides criticizing any Cubs fan as a fair weather fan is a little absurd, don't ya think.

Figures

He was on the roster, just didn't play. Do you really think they'd leave him off the roster after The Steal?

It's amazing how this mirrors the late 1940s and 1950s.....

Dave Roberts is half Japanese. His mother is Japanese and his father was African American and stationed at Okinawa. He was born there. It's funny how it works that way 2003 - 0.0 Japanese on the roster 2004 - 0.5 Japanese on the roster 2005 - 1.0 Japanese on the roster 2006 - 1.0 Japanese on the roster 2007 - 2.0 Japanese on the roster 2008??????

The 2003 Florida Marlins were the last World Series Champions to not have a player born in Japan on their World Series roster. 2004 Red Sox - Check 2005 White Sox - Check 2006 Cardinals - Check 2007 Red Sox - Check

Tostada's too

Florida's receivers laugh in the face of Maclin and the rest of yours.

The Kendall deal isn't all that bad.

bp likes rate2 because they can find rate2 as long as they have a boxscore. ex they can use it for guys like ty cobb

greene's a +5-10 defensive ss

rate2 sucks

I really could see that happening.