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  1. abuck1220
    uh oh, jared leto may have a second wind...
  2. abuck1220
    you know that part in fight club were edward norton beats the hell out of jared leto and then he just keeps punching and punching and punching until jared leto's all limp and bloody and they have to pull edward norton off him and everyone is just disgusted?
  3. abuck1220
    i don't think many people thought iowa was terrible, except for overly-cynical iowa fans. it's certainly no walkover for penn state, but they certainly have a larger hurdle to clear before heading out to iowa city. iowa was terrible early in the season...no real two ways about it. of course they've since stopped playing christensen and they've gotten much better.
  4. abuck1220
    if i've learned anything in this thread it's that kurt russell doesn't have a very impressive filmography.
  5. abuck1220
    they're spread out over like seven years. and he's had a couple very good individual series. did he go from unable to hit postseason pitching in the '01 alds to being ok with postseason pitching in the '01 alcs to back to sucking in the '02 alds to back to being awesome in the '03 alds?
  6. abuck1220
    sorry, but that list doesn't really bowl me over. there are too many crappy guys in the "good" area and too many good guys in the "crappy" area for me to put too much stock into that. also, guys at the "bad" end of that spectrum have had good playoff numbers as recently as this year (hunter, braun) and a few of the "good" guys (theriot, r martin) have sucked.
  7. abuck1220
    see, there you go...unanimous board love for a guy that everyone should know is terrible. thanks for proving my point. VICTORY.
  8. abuck1220
    because 1) he really doesn't swing and miss at every low and away slider and 2) throwing a pitch exactly where you want it every time is easier said than done.
  9. abuck1220
    i'm so sick of this board and its undying love for joey gathright. everywhere i look i see people clamoring to trade for him, giving him mvp votes, etc. it's sickening...he had a 55 OPS+ this year...55!!! that's terrible. you guys are such idiots.
  10. abuck1220
    so because smoltz's best pitch is his fb, he's like "well, i could get him out by throwing crap out of the zone (which i'm perfectly capable of doing), but because my best pitch is my fastball, i'm going to throw him one so he can hit a moonshot off me."
  11. abuck1220
    wow, this is just an atrocious post top to bottom. everyone realizes that soriano has a tendency to occasionally swing at garbage. however, if it were as simple as just throwing breaking pitches low and away, don't you think "control artists" like haren and smoltz would do just that to retire him? i mean, they're "control artists" after all.
  12. abuck1220
    where are you getting this delusional idea that everyone here loooooooves josh hamilton?
  13. abuck1220
    i wish the yankees would hurry up and trade cano and melky in one trade to some stupid gm so we wouldn't have to hear anything about them ever again.
  14. abuck1220
    this is not going well for you.
  15. abuck1220
    soriano has good career numbers against wakefield, escobar, lohse, carpenter, snell, garland, smoltz, haren, kevin brown...all righthanders who are capable of throwing offspeed stuff out of the zone if that's all it took to retire soriano every time. not to mention good numbers against lefty soft tossers like mulder, glavine and lilly.
  16. abuck1220
    i like the idea of marmol starting.
  17. abuck1220
    missed the game...how did toni kukoc look?
  18. abuck1220
    a lot of people believe ryan theriot is better than hanley ramirez...when in actuality, a quick perusal of their numbers shows that this isn't correct. welp, won that argument.
  19. abuck1220
    Dunn is overrated. There's alot of people who consider him to be just a small step behind Pujols as an elite hitter, when he's not even close. He is very good, but calling him great is probably stretching it too much. He's slow, he's one of the greatest defensive liabilities in the NL, and I'd put the over/under on his OPS+ next year at 125, which is very good, but not great. Everyone acts like he's a guy who traditionally puts up OPS+s over 150 or higher every year, when his career high OPS+ is 146, his career average is 130, and his 3 year average is about 127. That's very good, that's not great, and it doesn't consider his other liabilities. He's regarded as comparable in value to players like Berkman, Utley, H Ramirez, Chipper Jones, etc. Some people seem to think of him as highly as Manny (not many, but a few) as a hitter, and he's not even close. I think most people think he's a better hitter than Aramis, who has just as good of a 3 year average OPS+ wise (and, ironically, the exact same OPS+ this year). Aramis is comparable offensively, plays a tougher defensive position and is much better at it. Dunn is likely to get at least 15 mil a year this year, which is about what Aramis gets now. He's not worth Aramis money, not with the other holes in his game. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that he's overrated. lol...nobody thinks any of those things.
  20. abuck1220
    if 56 XBHs in 109 games is garbage then i'd quite like an entire roster full of garbage I mean the little things. Like not being lazy, swing at a strike, that kind of stuff. so the little things are more important than the big things? so confused...
  21. abuck1220
    far more embarrassing than soriano's performance in the NLDS, actually.
  22. abuck1220
    I like his shirt... and watch. i like his "suck it, cub fans" attitude.
  23. abuck1220
    I just can't get over the fact that the players typically care about the results less than we do. well, that just isn't true. and if it was true, and you really do care more about the cubs postseason than the players, you should probably re-examine your priorities in life.
  24. abuck1220
    he should definitely be in tears. or at least doing the charlie brown walk.
  25. abuck1220
    just give him a good shakin'.
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