SouthSideRyan

I'm really excited to see the Phillies become the early 2000s Orioles.

The game will be over by 10 AM?

Isn't that accounted for in the WAR? In the historical WARs, yes. IMO the better balance means the future WARs should trend better. Why? Does a decline phase not affect baserunning and defense??

Yeah but his English, not so good.

As I've said repeatedly, I'm willing to stick my neck out on a massive contract. Just not for either of these two guys, on anything longer than 6 years. I mentioned Teix and Gonzalez as two guys I would have been happy to sign at the years and dollars they received. Elite offensive, elite defensive, young and in shape players are out there -- just not this offseason. How's that Teix contract working out? You realize this does not support the argument for signing Fielder, right? Sure it does. Your ideal, perfect world scenario is going to be a terrible contract under your narrow-minded definition. In retrospect you wouldn't sign him and would sign Jay Gibbons to play 1B, and your team would be terrible.

How do you feel about Ron Santo? I'm not following. Santo was more of a loveable goof as an announcer. I've heard stories that he was disliked for various reasons as a player, but that was a time when it wasn't in fashion for the media to go after celebrities and politicians. If so, there wouldn't celebrity scandal rags to keep up with them. If they did try to make a name for themselves or expose someone of power, they were eithe given hush money or dealt with as many conspiracy theorisits think that the CIA did Marilyn Monroe, or course that would pertain more to politicians than general celebs. lol what I was hoping we'd all agree to pretend that never happened.

From People Magazine on the Kutcher twitter issue:

I find it hard to believe that everyone in college football knew Sandusky was a scumbag and there was never anything brought to light about it.

I thought he was "worth" like $19-20m a year based on his WAR with the Yankees. Maybe thanks to UZR, his offense took a huge drop-off after the first season, and then declined further. Using the davearm decline theory, he should be replacement level by next season.

Fantastic.

$$$$ Yep, if he was still heavily connected to PSU and its alums, it wasn't an enemy they wanted to make. Ok Jerry, you can stick around, but no more raping promise?

This goes back to gooney's point about the wife facilitating this stuff. [expletive] this is awful.

good no? Or am I missing something? Already in the type of big contract decline dave gets hard over.

I hate to defend these guys if it turns out they had any prior knowledge, but I think of a board of directors for a charity loaded with celebrities like that as pretty damn hands off. (pardon the phrase) I can't imagine Cal Ripken was doing much more than making an appearance or 2 per year and giving the occassional donation.

As I've said repeatedly, I'm willing to stick my neck out on a massive contract. Just not for either of these two guys, on anything longer than 6 years. I mentioned Teix and Gonzalez as two guys I would have been happy to sign at the years and dollars they received. Elite offensive, elite defensive, young and in shape players are out there -- just not this offseason. How's that Teix contract working out?

I've mentioned it before that if Carlos Zambrano did some of the things Ted Lilly did they'd be marks against him, instead it makes Lilly a bulldog who just wants to win.

And Joey Votto will still be older than Prince Fielder 2 years from now.

Isn't Madden the guy that wrote the article back in April about Sandusky? Yep

What did Levy say?

Wasn't Urbina's murder a result of his family member being kidnapped as well?

I wondered if something further came to the attention of the board leading to Paterno's ouster or if it was just public pressure.

Or whatever they are.

I'm not convinced yet, I want to hear about more terrible white guys who people didn't say were awesome.

So you think all the guys he said are lazy are lazy.

not to defend Kaplan, but just to be clear...you don't think Z is hot tempered and you don't think he reported out of shape? I think both of those are true. I think those are true of a lot of players, but the ones being pointed out share one characteristic. Then he is a bad example in the argument. Z is one of my favorite Cubs. I was at the game in Atlanta, and argued with the Braves fans around me that there's no way Z was throwing at Chipper based on the situation. Unfortunately sportscenter the next morning showed replays which made me a liar. I still think Z is awesome and should be brought back. But I also think he's at Andruw Jones level of, "man this guy could be so much more". We're establishing a pattern here. I do not, however, think there's any reason to believe that Zambrano is lazy. And more to the point, I believe that if Zambrano were white, then those same attributes would either be given a pass or lauded. I could make a list of Santo incidents and Zambrano incidents, scramble them up, and I bet the average non-Cubs baseball fan couldn't tell which ones belonged with which player. Yet Zambrano's incidents prove that he's an unacceptable, lazy clubhouse cancer, while Santo was a fiery competitor and beloved hero. Soriano gets ripped for taking Felix Pie clubbing. When Mark Grace led numerous young players into drunkenness, it's just part of his charm. Mark Grace didn't need steroids, he had Marlboro Reds!!