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  1. DanzaSlap
    This reply is 6 weeks late (I had forgotten I posted in this thread), but I'd just like to say that I can't believe that the photo of Kansas (on like, page 8 or something) holding up that trophy is real. The Insight(.com) Bowl has the stupidest trophy I have ever seen.
  2. DanzaSlap
    From Frangraphs, a writer seems to think he'll bounce back with St. Louis (or that he wasn't all that bad to begin with). The comments are pretty great. I kinda want me to meet that "Nick" character.
  3. DanzaSlap
    Actually, all three of those cities have larger metropolitan populations than Columbus.
  4. DanzaSlap
    I don't think this is that bad of a deal. Rios has some talent, just not enough talent to justify his outrageous contract. But considering the White Sox are a large-market team and have some contracts coming off the books at the end of this year (and they have a payroll of about $34mil less than the Cubs this year), it shouldn't seem like they'll be that hamstrung by his bloated contract (they're certainly in a better position to handle that contract than Toronto).
  5. DanzaSlap
    I know, right? Way to go all-out for that foul ball for your child, who has Down Syndrome. LOL!!
  6. DanzaSlap
    Oh. Yeah, I guess I'm the idiot here. Cardinal fans do love us some Whitey Herzog.
  7. DanzaSlap
    Did you just say LaRussa hates players who aren't "lilly white" (sic)? Sorry to attack the poster here, but you are an idiot.
  8. DanzaSlap
    Geech -- I love you for posting that. That's one of my biggest pet peeves.
  9. DanzaSlap
    Is that you, George Will?
  10. DanzaSlap
    I take issue with the whole "3 true outcomes" thing. If a guy throws a good hard sinker, and gets a ton of ground ball outs (I don't watch Haren enough to know if he does that, I'm just making a general point), shouldn't get some credit for that? And can't he control the quality of contact a guy gets on a given pitch by controlling the quality of the pitch itself?
  11. DanzaSlap
    Exactly. The headline I just saw was "Arroyo admits to using PEDs." Well, maybe, but everything he took was legal (and if you want to include amphetamines on that list, then I'd wager 90% of all players who ever played were on the "juice").
  12. DanzaSlap
    How did Enos Slaughter react when the National League allowed Jackie Robinson? And, regarding Cobb, sure, he may have liked that guy and tried to get him onto the Tigers. Slaveholders loved their slaves, too, so long as they knew their place. I'm sure Cobb was the same way -- so long as that catcher didn't overstep his bounds, I'm sure Cobb would have been fine. Had that same catcher tried to date Cobb's daughter, well... "Integration" and "equality" are two totally different things, and just because you advocate one doesn't necessarily mean you advocate the other. And, because part of the BASEBALL Hall of Fame's requirements are character issues, I think a racist attitude would preclude someone from induction (or, at least, it should, especially if we're going to keep people out because of the character issues involved with steroids). And, yeah, I pretty much totally agree with XZero on everything else.
  13. DanzaSlap
    Bill Mazeroski. Gotta be. And I think it's funny that some people will freak out that we have (at least) one steroid user in the Hall of Fame, but don't bat at an eye that we have two confirmed virulent racists (Ty Cobb and Enos Slaughter). Some people should get their priorities straight.
  14. DanzaSlap
    If I were the players who agreed to the testing in 2003, I'd be filing a lawsuit against the MLB Players Union for not doing their job in making sure these results and samples were destroyed. Somebody really screwed the pooch on this one.
  15. DanzaSlap
    Where do you go to grad school?
  16. DanzaSlap
    I guess it's relative. After living in New York, Chicago just seems second rate.
  17. DanzaSlap
    Don't be silly. It's gonna be Tug McGraw that comes back for Philly's stretch run.
  18. DanzaSlap
    The next photoshopped trophy should be made out of Mark Mangino's breasts. It'll be larger than the Stanley Cup. (That's because he is really, really fat.)
  19. DanzaSlap
    +1
  20. DanzaSlap
    Because Cabrera isn't good? They'd be better off keeping Cameron and letting him walk next offseason. Eh, I'd rather take a chance that Melky could maybe find his bat (not that he was ever great, but you never know) than sticking with Cameron, knowing either way, we were gonna win 75 games. Maybe getting out of New York will do him some good.
  21. DanzaSlap
    I don't think this trade is really that bad. If I'm wrong, Cameron is a free agent after this year. So why not take a flier on a young infielder who needed a change of scenery? And if Melvin thinks the Brewers aren't going to compete in '09 (I have no idea how he feels about this), then I say it's a decent trade. Not the best, but not as horrible as everyone here seems to think it.
  22. DanzaSlap
    Watching the Mizzou-OU game, I have just one thought -- The Sooner Schooner is gayer than two men making out. Also, a schooner is a boat. I guess I have two thoughts.
  23. DanzaSlap
    wrong. To be considered one of the greatest bands of all time, you need more than 3 good albums, with a 5 year window of good music making. That's more than most musicians get, to be certain, but I'd not rank them in the top 10 musical acts of the '90s, let alone of all time. But that seems to be where some would want to rank them. I heartily disagree. To each their own I guess, but to say a band that made four albums in seven-year span of the 90's that went platinum (including one that went 4x platinum, and a double-album that went 9x platinum) and had albums peak at #1, #2 and #3 on Billboard wasn't one of the greatest of their era is kind of crazy, IMO. Commercial success is an inaccurate measurement of "greatness." Titanic is the highest grossing movie of all time, after all. I just think there were many bands from the '90s who were as good, if not better, even if they didn't achieve the album sales of The Smashing Pumpkins.
  24. DanzaSlap
    wrong. To be considered one of the greatest bands of all time, you need more than 3 good albums, with a 5 year window of good music making. That's more than most musicians get, to be certain, but I'd not rank them in the top 10 musical acts of the '90s, let alone of all time. But that seems to be where some would want to rank them. I heartily disagree.
  25. DanzaSlap
    His induction speech will be incredible. It will be perhaps the only speech ever done entirely in the third person. I hate him, but he's easily a Hall of Famer.
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