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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Have you been watching the game? I know, total blowout city
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Homophones confuse them.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Or the bleachers.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Yep, it's gotten to the point that I can't have a well-reasoned discussion about the Bulls anymore.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Yep, one beer ought to put a professional athlete well over .08. He didn't do a breathalyzer, fwiw. Which probably tells you something.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    http://k41.kn3.net/69DF9FD17.jpg
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Yep, one beer ought to put a professional athlete well over .08.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Who was our old water efficiency partner?
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Isn't Price a FA after 2015? Does he even have any surplus value?
  10. SouthSideRyan
    I slept through most of that, how'd we manage that?
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think we'd offer less than league minimum.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    So if someone gets hurt late in their career, they are probably on steroids. Oh, and also if they don't get hurt, too. Got it. Only if you didn't like the guy. You just passed Sports Journalism 101
  13. SouthSideRyan
    I imagine this carries through 2019.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not turning a blind eye and don't give a [expletive] about who used what. I am greatly annoyed that the narrative is Sammy Sosa, proven steroid user, most other guys, clean all-american boy. Honestly, I don't get that impression at all. For one, I think people would talk about McGwire the same way even if we didn't have the proof we ended up with. I see Bagwell even come into question, and he never seemed to blow up out of nowhere, from what I remember. There's like a handful of the big HR hitters of that era that I feel get the pass that you're talking about. Thomas, Thome, and Griffey come to mind. Yes, and the 3 of them combined failed as many tests as Sosa did, had as many indictments as Sosa did, have the same smoking guns that Sosa did. I think the only difference (and the main thing that gets those guys the pass) is the (perceived?) lack of a dramatic body change. It's stupid, but those few guys are clearly the outliers. Thomas was an SEC football player and Griffey was constantly injured late in his career(Which is clear sign of steroid use. That or staying healthy for too late into your career) Oh and in addition to those guys everyone who didn't [expletive] tons of home runs or was a pitcher not named Clemens.(This will probably include admitted user Andy Pettitte.)
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not turning a blind eye and don't give a [expletive] about who used what. I am greatly annoyed that the narrative is Sammy Sosa, proven steroid user, most other guys, clean all-american boy. Honestly, I don't get that impression at all. For one, I think people would talk about McGwire the same way even if we didn't have the proof we ended up with. I see Bagwell even come into question, and he never seemed to blow up out of nowhere, from what I remember. There's like a handful of the big HR hitters of that era that I feel get the pass that you're talking about. Thomas, Thome, and Griffey come to mind. Yes, and the 3 of them combined failed as many tests as Sosa did, had as many indictments as Sosa did, have the same smoking guns that Sosa did.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not turning a blind eye and don't give a [expletive] about who used what. I am greatly annoyed that the narrative is Sammy Sosa, proven steroid user, most other guys, clean all-american boy.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    I'm an optimist, I want to believe there's a guy with all 4 of them on the ballot together.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Unless you're talking about corking his bat, you don't know that. Oh, come on. We know he did (well, assuming you consider using steroids to be cheating given the landscape of the game at the time). And that's fine. They all did (mostly). They all still should. Why even bother clinging to like the 2% chance that it was all Jeff Pentland? Because a 2% chance means we don't know he did? Because everything we "know" we have 100% irrefutable proof of. Most things we "know" we have some proof of. I don't think I'm setting the standard too high here.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Unless you're talking about corking his bat, you don't know that. Oh, come on. We know he did (well, assuming you consider using steroids to be cheating given the landscape of the game at the time). And that's fine. They all did (mostly). They all still should. Why even bother clinging to like the 2% chance that it was all Jeff Pentland? Because a 2% chance means we don't know he did?
  20. SouthSideRyan
    And that's the end of that chapter.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Who cares?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    So, Stinnett Tseng Mitchell Sands Blackburn Zastryzny Caratini Vogelbach are all in the top 30. Villanueva and Jeff Baez are not.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Unless you're talking about corking his bat, you don't know that.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Wow, I thought we might have only had 6. The actual designation doesn't mean much, but that'd be pretty sweet to see Torres crack it.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Seriously. Get out.
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