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  1. XZero771679666304
    The same thing that Chris Kramer had, I think. There's always at least one in the league at any given time.
  2. XZero771679666304
    Morrison was crying strictly over the result (presumably). I think there's more to it with Leonard. That and Myers didn't make as much of a spectacle of himself.
  3. XZero771679666304
    Don't stick it in your head, it hurts. Not for long. Forehead injection bypasses the blood/brain barrier.
  4. XZero771679666304
    That was one ugly basketball game.
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    What are the odds that it ends up on the lawn at some drug dealer's estate when Loria sells it after the Marlins' next title? That's be some kick ass tacky yard art, and not at all out of place in Miami.
  6. XZero771679666304
    I grew up in a fairly small town that was very sports oriented. Just about every kid played baseball or softball in the spring and summer, and there were plenty of municipal leagues for all ages, and all you really needed was a glove, spikes and money for a uni. Unless you played in one of the Babe Ruth leagues you didn't need your own bats or anything until high school. When we weren't playing organized ball, my friends and I (often as few as three of us) would play on the street and pepper the neighborhood with tennis balls (one hitter, one pitcher, 1-3 fielders rotating after three balls caught on the fly). Of course such friendly scenarios are the exception.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Not if some random guy says Cespedes to Cubs, but if there's somebody who at least passes it off as somewhat credible, IE Cespedes to Cubs on 7/42 deal as reported by WGN 720, I'll tend to entertain it to some degree. There was a lot of that type of thing on the Darvish posting night. I've got news for you: random people often make [expletive] up and cite credible sources. Googling a player's name in search of credible news is not a sound strategy.
  8. XZero771679666304
    The culture certainly has some to do with it, but I don't think it's as negative a force as some out there think. Since doing the RBI stuff in Jackson I've never gotten the vibe that they dislike baseball, they are just indifferent to it. A lot really do like it though and jump at the opportunity to play. Yeah, this is really why things like RBI are so valuable; it's really not an issue of the kids actively disliking baseball. Most of them simply don't even consider it in the first place. I wasn't saying kids dislike baseball here, but that kids in Latin America love it. It's just not on the radar for many black kids and that can be changed.
  9. XZero771679666304
    I really don't understand this. Off the radio. I guess you'd have to read the post in context to understand it. A) Radio doesn't provide much in the terms of breaking news. B) If you give a crap about it it is extremely easy to listen to radio in other cities. C) If any Chicago area radio station breaks anything remotely interesting it will be everywhere else momentarily. Yeah, the dissemination of information is pretty much instantaneous on the internet. If one is being vigilant, they'll probably know what's going on before the sports talk radio host has time to spit it out.
  10. XZero771679666304
    Probably soccer as well. Football depending on position. A QB isn't going to step into the game late. A defensive lineman or wide receiver may be able to. Although, there probably aren't any high level hockey players that got into it late either. Hockey is definitely in the same category as baseball when it comes to skill, but you see even fewer blacks playing it than baseball. And it's not like rinks are on every street corner, to say the least.
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    It pretty clearly involves more skill. You can get your foot in the door (so to speak) with raw athleticism in sports like football and basketball, but baseball requires a strong skill base that has to be built up over age (with rare exception).
  12. XZero771679666304
    they have room to play in those countries. finding playable fields to practice on that aren't five miles outside the city is a problem for the kids around here. Not only that, but more and more MLB, individual players and individual teams are investing in the baseball infrastructure in countries like the DR, encouraging and facilitating kids. But there is also a huge culture around baseball that there isn't in inner cities here. That could be changed with the proper allocation of resources.
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    I really don't understand this. He's doing it wrong.
  14. XZero771679666304
    I agree, but thought black kids found baseball boring and that was more why they were avoiding baseball. No, I think that the issue is that some sports require more resources than others to really get into. Hell, I came from an upper middle class family and my parents weren't always willing to spend what I would have liked them to on baseball equipment when I was a kid. I can't think of too many sports more expensive than baseball to get into.
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    I don't doubt they'll try it and intend it to be a solution. The only question is how long it will take for them to abandon that strategy.
  16. XZero771679666304
    In the early/mid 2000s I thought they should have been named the Houston Honkys. yeah they did have a ton of white starters back then: Bags, Bigs, Ensberg, Ausmus, Everett, Kent, Berkman, Oswalt, Clemens, Pettitte, Wade Miller, Lidge That team was so homogeneous it made Omar Minaya say damn.
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    In the early/mid 2000s I thought they should have been named the Houston Honkys.
  18. XZero771679666304
    I took 4 years of Spanish in high school and I have no clue what you are talking about with regard to the pronunciation of Jose. http://www.forvo.com/word/jos%C3%A9/ The Spanish you learn in a midwestern Spanish class is going to sound markedly different from the Spanish you'll hear in most Spanish communities.
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    The Houston Crude
  20. XZero771679666304
    I point you to the Darvish example and what we offered him... They appear to not be willing to overpay for FA or non-MLB talent (Japan, DR etc...). None of us have any clue what the Cubs bid for Darvish. For all we know they bid 50.9MM.
  21. XZero771679666304
    It's just a matter of time before the NL adopts the DH. The need for equality between the leagues will become more and more evident and has been said, the MLBPA won't stand for the elimination of the DH. I don't have a strong affinity for the DH or the "strategy" involved in working around the pitcher's spot, but I think one or the other is going to become standard and I don't like the chances of the latter.
  22. XZero771679666304
    Just saw this....wow, that is one stupid contract. He'll be able to DH, but I would still want no part of that.
  23. XZero771679666304
    Even in the best of recent times it was pretty clear Hendry was just flying by the seat of his pants. Having a sound organizational direction and philosophy is an absolute revelation.
  24. XZero771679666304
    He has talent now. That's what is so scary to me. That's what so depressing. He's wasting it.
  25. XZero771679666304
    That's why he gets paid the big bucks.
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