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yeah, guys who allow 1.05 baserunners per inning and strike out 8.5 per 9 innings are really getting by with luck and prayers. that works out to what, a 1.08 WHIP in 155 innings over 2 years, averaging just about 1 k per inning? he was a damned good pitcher in that time period.
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That just says that the stuff is still there, but he's not as sharp with his location. Sometimes he's missing off the plate, but sometimes he's catching way too much of the zone. Wouldn't that statement be true of most pitchers who's ERA is high? look at my long post up there. batters have a MUCH lower batting average against prior than against other pitchers, but they hit more HRs off him than other pitchers. He's what, top 5 and bottom 5 in the 2 categories?
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freaking lawyers and their copyrights
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Oh, so this is why Murton is successful........
Careless replied to Larry Horse's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This should almost never be asked. what's the evidence against giant flying ninja hamsters? (hint: there is none) It's very rarely possible to disprove existance. -
I hope she was hot :wink:
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Everyone who says borowski was smoke and mirrors pre-2004 wasn't watching the cubs. And I know that includes a bunch of people here.
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I agree for the most part, but if a player's head suddenly significantly increases in size, there really aren't too many possibilities as to why. You can bulk up any numer of legal ways, but a burgeoning skull has very few explanations. there isn't a workout machine on earth that will expand your skull, only thing that does that is HGH. Does HGH actually make your skull grow? seems extremely unlikely. And if they wanted to, they could make an exercise machine to make your head bigger. work the jaw muscles (which go all the way around the head on men) and neck muscles enough and you're talking some serious volume added.
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They do.
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prior's ER since july 14: 3 3 3 6 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 While 2 runs is ace-good if you're going 7+ innings, 2 of the 3 have been in 6 innings (which is still solid), one was in 7.2. Aside from that, a lot of 4-4.5 ERA games and an ERA just over 4 in that time. 30 BB in 80.2 innings. works out to 75 over 200 IP. 15 pitchers are over 70, including zambrano at 82. So definitely not good, but not bad 94 K's, which is the only ace-like number here. 13 HR, which would work out to 33 over a 200 inning season Pitchers who figure to have 33+ hr against them at the end of the season (I'm not looking at IP here) Milton, already at 40, ouch weaver 34, who doesn't even have the excuse of playing in a hitters park radke and vazquez at 33 wakefield and lieber at 32 (hitters parks) horacio ramirez at 31 3 with 30 who aren't likely to make 33. Lot of not-good numbers here. edit: these numbers are all pre-thursday's game. you can add 1 hr, 4 BBs, 6 IP, 3 ER, 10 K's to that. basically fitting the previous trends perfectly. I did sort of cherry-pick my starting date, as prior gave up 0 ER in his last start before I counted (I just went back 2 months worth of starts), but the game before that he gave up 6 ER. I'm being unusually fair for me there.
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I agree for the most part, but if a player's head suddenly significantly increases in size, there really aren't too many possibilities as to why. You can bulk up any numer of legal ways, but a burgeoning skull has very few explanations. he chewed a lot of gum.
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no reason to believe frank thomas wasn't on steroids for the past 2 decades. no reason to think he is/was other than the fact that he obviously understands the benefits tremendous strength has for his baseball game. It's silly to say that just because he's been huge since before you heard of steroids in baseball, there's no possible way he ever used them. edit: To be clear (since people love making huge unwarranted assumptions) I'm not accusing him of ever using steroids or that there is any evidence he used them
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Imagine?\
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This is the only thing Steriods might have done to improve Barry Bonds' game. Durability. If he took steriods, as he likely did, they impacted his game minimally outside durability. There is no denying he is the best hitter in baseball, and maybe the best hitter ever. Yeah, everyone wishes they were more durable so they could double their annual HR totals
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It's going to take a LOnG time to redact the Magna Carta
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the logical contortions that lawyers went through trying to defend the pledge should be reason enough to conclude that "under god" is a mistake. "The "God" in the pledge could refer to any god, or no god at all" is, I believe, the quote.
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You use an accusation not backed up by facts and then say people who disagree with you cannot do the same?
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... not all muscles contract at the same speed. Whether or not he coined the term, it's a valid concept. fast and slow twitch muscle fibers On that subject, I wonder if there are any people in MLB who have the "wimp gene"
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Can someone please detail these changes to the baseball?
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... not all muscles contract at the same speed. Whether or not he coined the term, it's a valid concept.
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Wrong. Some people would cry foul, true, but others would not. We had this discussion 2 years ago.
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I hadn't seen the "captain intangible" commercial before today. that's hysterical. Fantastic job proving yourself as somoene who knows sports, guy.
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nice run. pathetic tackle attempt by #9
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At least you don't hold grudges. :wink: Can you hold a grudge for something that happened before you were born? Mind you, in a different sport. :) This will probably piss Jon off, but I think I'm rooting for ND for my cousin's sake. The irish side of your family?:wink: don't support ND! their fans are annoying! And that was the dumbest punt return I've seen in at least a year
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:lol: Well, ND earned this win in the 4th, assuming they can cash in
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At least you don't hold grudges. :wink: Can you hold a grudge for something that happened before you were born?