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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Alou would be the best OF on the team, it would be insane to platoon him. And I can't see the Giants giving up a 900 OPS from the coach's son at a price of 6M.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    This thread is depressing.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Geez Barrett again getting shafted. If that starting 5 only gets 75 decisions, I'll eat my hat.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I'd much rather see the ball softened and the parks bigger, the RF line at Yankee stadium and older parks with smaller dimensions should obviously be grandfathered in. But, the dimensions at Minute Maid (Crawford Boxes) as well as the GABP are too small and should've been larger. I'd much rather watch a game built more around pitching and player execution on offense that extends beyond hitting the ball 450 feet. Manufacturing runs is a concept that doesn't work well in today's climate, but it is better to watch, IMO. Didn't you hear?? OZZIEBALL~!~!~!~! won the world series. PITCHING AND DEFENSE!!! MOVING RUNNERS OVER!!!!! BUNTING!!!! TRYING FOR ONE RUN RATHER THAN 4!!!! I didn't read the article because like others in this thread I'm sick of old-timers whining, especially in Gossage's case when he's doing it to further his HOF agenda, but does anyone else remember pretty much the same quote from Gossage last year? Is this an annual thing with him or are they quoting him from the past?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Am I wrong in thinking the Bears clinch a playoff spot with a win tonight. With a max of 3 losses to NFC teams, I'm assuming they'd have the best conference record compared to Dallas and Minnesota. Along with having head to head win over Atlanta.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I agree that the Brewers are starting to get really overrated. I think they win about 77 games next year. '07's their year to contend.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    So does anybody want a tonic?
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Do you say, "Q-tip" instead of cotton swab or "Kleenex" instead of tissue? Big difference. A q-tip is a q-tip. It doesn't matter what brand, same with a kleenex. A coke, pepsi, sprite, dr. pepper, mountain dew, etc are all very different. what? Q-tip is a brand name and so is Kleenex. You can get Scott's tissues and you can get CVS brand cotton swabs. There is no difference. What's the difference between Q-tips and generic cotton swabs? Between Kleenex and Puffs? Very little. Now what's the difference between Coke and Mountain Dew? Very little. They're both syrup based caffienated beverages.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    vaball pretty much sums up what I would say, but the Cardinals owners WERE NOT losing money the past 5 years. The books in baseball are so cooked it's ridiculous.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    "Sammy Sosa will be our RF in 2005"
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Sounds like he should be a baseball owner!
  12. SouthSideRyan
    New York is a Yankees town, Chicago is a Cubs town.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Ha! Missourians said "screw you" when billionaires attempted to strong arm the taxpayers into financing a new stadium, the only purpose of which is to increase revenue for said billionaires. Don't get me wrong, I love the Cardinals with all my heart, but tax money, especially in a time of huge budget deficits, should not go to building cash cows for private billionaires and their millionaire employees. Selig's mafia will be by soon to silence you.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Of course they wouldn't repeat if they got Tejada. Because they probably actually would be the best team on paper in baseball. They can only win when they're not a great team apparently.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I never said Corey would be an above average RF. The fact that he only played half a season in '03 doesn't mean he wasn't well above average for that year. The fact that we have another CF on the roster doesn't mean Corey wasn't above average in '04.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    How could that be true, don't they now have the money they would have paid Clemens? Last year the Astros payroll was around 85 million dollars. This year, they owe Pettitte 17.5 million, Bagwell 17 million, Berkman 14.5 million, Oswalt 11 million, and Biggio 4 million. That's 64 million for just 5 players. Lidge and Ensberg will get nice paydays in arbitration. They do have some money to spend, but they have to be careful how they allocate it as there's just not a lot of wiggle room there. In addition, that money to Clemens was always referred to as "special money" by McClane. Still seems hard to believe though with that added revenue from a WS run.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think Dusty has a high opinion of his ability to get water from rocks. He has a high opinion of the rocks. Just like Dusty said Dempster and Hollandsworth weren't in the running last year? No wait. Every quote from Dusty last year showed that Hollandsworth would be his starting LF and Dempster would be in the rotation. He paid lip service to an open competition. He has gone on record as saying Mabry is not a starter. Saying nothing about an open competition, nothing about a proven track record, nothing about showing what he's done throughout his career.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    O_O, I've heard from a couple places that the Stros payroll is pretty much tapped out assuming Bagwell is back for the full season.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Could we stop saying Mabry is going to be the starter. There are tons of legitamate gripes about this management, and instead you have to make things up like Mabry starting despite Dusty "open competition" Baker himself saying Mabry is not a starter.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Ok we trade Walker, Cedeno, and Williams and get bact Michael Young? And I thought we overpaid for Pierre. No thank you. Why not just take that same package and offer it to Baltimore for Tejada straight up? The Cubs would have to get another player in the deal. Considering age and cost Young > Tejada Young is supposedly a horrible defensive SS.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Corey, IMO, was an above average player in '03 and '04 when factoring in his CF defense. I have no clue what happened to him last year to make him fall off a cliff, but those '03 and '04 seasons still happened, and you still have to factor them in when considering his value.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    I understand that that money very well may have been used to up payroll in the past few years, but I think the Cardinal organization was at least somewhat misleading when talking about payroll with regards to the new stadium.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    STREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTCH. I could see the argument that Oregon is a better team than Georgia, and there's little doubt in my mind that they're better than FSU. But Penn St.?? Texas???
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Wow, that seems to be really underrating the Cardinals to say they don't look to be a 90 win team next year. It's possible they could regress to below 90 wins next year, but I think on paper they definitely look better than that.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    But Rincon is a mil cheaper than King would have been.. King wasnt all that great either.. and no I'm not saying Rincon is either.. Could do worse though.. Sure King would have been OK to keep but we got 3 alright players for King's price.. Not too bad IMO. Who are the other 2?? Bigbie maybe if something explains his falling off a cliff last year. But Aaron Miles is no damn good.
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