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  1. Wilson A2000
    17-20 or something like that in his career and a bunch of bad INT's at the end of last year. He is getting better, but he isn't great yet.
  2. Wilson A2000
    Millen was a decent analyst before he became a GM though
  3. Wilson A2000
    I'm pretty sure.
  4. Wilson A2000
    Three sliders on the outside corner should do in Soto.
  5. Wilson A2000
    Phillips thought Piniella didn't handle Fukudome's transition very well. I have to go with Lou on this one. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-03-cubs-bits-chicagomar03,0,1666194.story
  6. Wilson A2000
    Luol is not as injured as once thought. He might be playing very soon. The best lineup is Salmons at the 2 and Luol at the 3. The good Luol that is. I like how Paxson pretty much said that Rose better be playing at the end of every game. I doubt Vinny is going to be gone. Do you really think the Bulls are going to be paying for three head coaches next year (Skiles, Vinny, new coach)?
  7. Wilson A2000
    http://espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=290301004 The ESPN announcer must not know who Dustin BI-FUGE-LI-EN is.
  8. Wilson A2000
    No one is taking Deng's contract. He has been injury prone, the economy stinks, and he will never be the player most people thought he would be. Salmons has better defensive skills, but I don't know if I want to put him up against 6-9 swingmen consistently.
  9. Wilson A2000
    A good QB is the single most important position in all of professional sports, so it makes sense to land Cassel. But the Patriots better hope that Brady is ready to go in September. Being traded to the Chiefs is tough. Yeah you make 15 million, but you are on the Chiefs.
  10. Wilson A2000
    I saw this game too yesterday. Boy was everyone skinny. Maybe it was just me, but the pithers seemed to throw a good 5 MPH slower back then. I liked Bowa's aviator sunglasses. I couldn't imagine wearing those playing baseball today.
  11. Wilson A2000
    Japan doesn't have any better pitchers than Ichiro? Can he throw a curve, a change, or a slider?
  12. Wilson A2000
    Deng is one dimensional. He can only shoot the 15-17 fotter. He can't play defense, he can't dribble, he can't shoot the three (which you need to do as a 3 in the NBA), he can't post-up, and he isn't physical. Paxson has made a bunch of bad moves. I would have kept Chandler. He hired Vinny. He got Wallace. He passed on Roy and traded Aldridge. He drafted Thomas and Noah. He didn't want to trade Deng. He signed Deng. He didn't pull the trigger on Gasol, Kobe, or Garnett. His parting gift better be trading for Amare. Paxson briefly turned the Bulsl around after the Floyd mess. But he overvalued the Bulls in a terrible east. When was the last time the Bulls had and All-Star? The Jordan years?
  13. Wilson A2000
    I wish Del Negro would leave with Paxson. Man I had high hopes for Paxson when he first signed on, but he has made a ton of bad moves. I don't think Jerry is not wanting to pull the trigger on Amare. He hasn't been afraid to make the big move beforehand. Concerning Amare, does microfracture surgery diminish his long-term health, or will he always be 100%? I miss Scott Skiles. Paxson should never have fired him. Skiles looked bad because he had nothing to work with.
  14. Wilson A2000
    I won't give up on the game. Designer steroids will continue to be a problem, but I still enjoy the game.
  15. Wilson A2000
    The clean minor leaguers who didn't get jobs. Or clean established Major Leaguers who didn't get a better contract because their numbers weren't as good as someone who had steroid inflated numbers. Exactly. They also stole from Roger Maris and Hank Aaron. They stole from the game of baseball itself.
  16. Wilson A2000
    Yes I dunno about that. Let's assume the vast majority (say more than 70%) of players used PED's in any given year. Isn't the point of cheating to gain an unfair advantage? Is the advantage unfair if everyone has access to the method and no one is punished for utilizing it? Yes cheating is getting an unfair advantage. 30% of baseball players did not have that advantage. Your train of thought punishes some people - the people that played by the books for doing what was right and not taking advantage of a situation where the league and the player's union decided not to do anything. They are the real perpetrators here. They share about as much blame as the players who were on the juice. I have never seen so many people defend illegal activity. I'm hardly "defending" it. What I am doing is asking how some activity can meet the definition of "cheating" if most everyone is engaging in it. Forget how some governing body defines cheating. I am asking the question in more of a broad sense. The problem is that the governing board is the only thing that matters in this case.
  17. Wilson A2000
    Which is why when the complete truth does come out, he will look bad. Does ARod think we are stupid? Professional athletes don't take anything trainers give them. This is the route Barry Bonds is taking, and I hope at his trial his is exposed so other athletes don't try and go this route.
  18. Wilson A2000
    Yes I dunno about that. Let's assume the vast majority (say more than 70%) of players used PED's in any given year. Isn't the point of cheating to gain an unfair advantage? Is the advantage unfair if everyone has access to the method and no one is punished for utilizing it? Yes cheating is getting an unfair advantage. 30% of baseball players did not have that advantage. Your train of thought punishes some people - the people that played by the books for doing what was right and not taking advantage of a situation where the league and the player's union decided not to do anything. They are the real perpetrators here. They share about as much blame as the players who were on the juice. I have never seen so many people defend illegal activity.
  19. Wilson A2000
    Barry Bonds was great before he took steroids. He was going to be in the hall. But he wasn't going to be arguably the best player to have ever played without the juice. Steroids created this Barry Bonds - the greatest player ever. Semantics. They didn't make him a great player. If you wat to argue that they made a great player greater, fine...I still don't see the "tragedy." Going from a top 10 all time player to the best ever and taking two of the biggest records in sports history with you is not semantics. His head, arms, chest, and legs would beg to differ with you.
  20. Wilson A2000
    Barry Bonds was great before he took steroids. He was going to be in the hall. But he wasn't going to be arguably the best player to have ever played without the juice. Steroids created this Barry Bonds - the greatest player ever.
  21. Wilson A2000
    Yes
  22. Wilson A2000
    Good point. By the way, the lady who wrote the article for SI personally talked to Arod before the article came out to get his side. He denied everything. She gave him two days to come out. He didn't, so she did.
  23. Wilson A2000
    Maybe as of right now, but longevity is key. He needs to stay injury-free.
  24. Wilson A2000
    What if Sabathia and Burnett were on that list. Should they eat 400 million to prove a point? No way. From the interview I just listened to on the Score, the lady who wrote the SI article had been working on a piece on ARod for a while. She heard rumors that he used to be on roids. She talked to some sources to follow through on those rumors. It didn't sound like she ever saw the list, but she wouldn't say whether she knew what other people on the list (which means she does).
  25. Wilson A2000
    There is no way ARod will be punished by baseball. MLB promised the players that. He could be charged with a federal offense though since steroids are illegal. He could also be subpoenaed to testify against Clemens or Bonds. Whatever list the reporters from SI got, was the type of drug that they took on the list, or just a number of players? My guess is that there is just a list, because ARod wouldn't have said that he didn't know what he took if the drug was attached no his name. Is there a black market list? The MLB cannot release the rest of this list. They promised not to. It shouldn't have gotten this far. I have heard that the MLB kept the list around and the samples from 2003 in order to check them at a later time to discover false positives once more technological advances sprang up. Boers and Bernstein made a good point - if ARod took steroids because he wanted to produce as the result of getting a big contract, what would he have done once he got to NY? But as it was stated above, his numbers have dropped off lately.
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