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  1. XZero771679666304
    Every time Ramirez really runs it looks like an injury waiting to happen. I just don't think the guy was blessed with a runner's body.
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    MD 20/20 is what my friends and I drank to get hammered when we were like 16 or 17. It was dirt cheap, and the local drunks would be happy to buy a few bottles for you if you let them keep one.
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    well he's been pretty bad for kc. granted he's still young and there's room to improve, but i guess the poster just doesn't think he's as good a prospect as most people think he is. i'm kind of in the same camp... i think there's a pretty good chance that he's a bust. Didn't he play a good chunk of his milb games in an extreme hitter's park and have some really lopsided splits? I remember reading that.
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    I actually feel bad for Lincecum. After the Soriano HR the look on his face said "[expletive], that's a loss". The Giants offense is just abysmal.
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    You need grizzled, gritty white guys to groom your up and coming players, duh. They'll show them how to play the game the right way. Besides, you can't really expect Jackson and Byrd to relate to each other. What would come next? Cats and dogs living together?
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    The only can of beer I haven't been able to finish It seems to be a favorite among the drunken bums here.
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    Busch Light, Old Style, PBR and Keystone are all battling it out for dominance in the shallow gene pool market. You can go straight to hell for lumping PBR in there He forgot about the Beast, but he was right to lump PBR in there. The best [expletive] beer is still [expletive] beer. He also forgot Schlitz and High Life. And, of course, Natty Ice. I don't know how I forgot about Natty Ice.
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    Busch Light, Old Style, PBR and Keystone are all battling it out for dominance in the shallow gene pool market.
  9. XZero771679666304
    The average dipstick gloms on to people he/she can identify with, and marketing departments know this.
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    As long as there is a white trash segment to cater to, there will be.
  11. XZero771679666304
    I find it a bit odd that people are conjecturing that the Cubs "are hoping to re-sign Pena in the offseason" when the GM who will allegedly be given near total autonomy and will be conducting said offseason has yet to be determined. I really think it's as simple as the offers being worth less than a prospective comp pick.
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    Why not they've asked Cashman in NY. There are plenty of reasons. Even if you don't want to go anywhere you can make it seem more of a possibility if you feign interest. Free agent players play teams against each other all the time in the media. Also, I'm pretty sure people have asked Pujols about being a Cub. Why wouldn't you? Its just part of being a good journalist. 99/100 times they aren't going to give you anything but there is always the chance they might and then you have a pretty interesting new story. Im pretty sure Friedman wouldnt say anything (not going to comment while under contract) or would just say he's not interested in leaving but there's always I chance he might give some indication and there's not harm asking. People will ask, but you can't possibly expect to get anything other than a dodge, lie or really cryptic answer. In other words, it's a waste of time.
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    You have to factor into any evaluation of Cashman the fact that the Steinbrenners (both George and Hank) have forced some pretty ill-advised signings on him. Because of that he's a little harder than some others to evaluate, but he has spoken of a commitment to building through the farm in the past few years and seems to value the farm system and developing from within more than the Steinbrenners do. Because of the questions surrounding what Cashman would do out from under the influence of the Steinbrenners, however, I prefer Friedman to him. Yeah, it's hard to say just what Cashman would have done free of meddling from above. But because he has essentially been a puppet of the Steinbrenners, he is sort of an unknown quantity.
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    Re-read the thread.
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    If I drank, I'd be drinking right now.
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    This. Between this and the amateur side changes, he's looking pretty golden to me right about now.
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    Yes, yes, more more
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    I go out for a couple hours and come back to this? WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! But I actually feel kind of bad for the guy on a personal level. But mostly WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!
  20. XZero771679666304
    Exactly. People point to Soriano as a reason not to spend, overlooking the fact that yes, it was as ill-advised as you could imagine. You had a player who was already 30, coming off a career year (which was an outlier), two dimensional, with much of his value in his legs, and you sign him to an eight year deal. And he was signed not because he was what the team needed, but because of either PR or need to boost the value of the franchise for sale purposes, depending on what you believe. Drawing parallels between the Soriano deal and a potential Pujols or Fielder (especially Prince) deal is totally myopic.
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    But that's kind of inconsistent with your earlier views about comparing modern players to guys already in the Hall. If you are all about comparing players, then if an extra 3-4 years helps a modern player get a milestone stat, that's not fair to many guys who played earlier and achieved certain stats without the ability to go DH. No, the point was we don't really know with certainty how things would have played out if the DH wasn't an option. That's why I don't like it being an issue. Right. A guy like Thome should be judged based on the era(s) he played in, not hypothetical musings as to how players who died before he was even bored would have done with a DH. It's impossible to have any kind of flat base to judge all players in terms of the "ideal" player. Exactly. In contrast, we could speculate on what kind of diminished numbers the great players in the past would have put up had the talent pool not been an inch deep. Or how they might have benefited from modern nutrition and training. But that would be an endless waste of time. The game is constantly evolving, and the numbers are what they are. Trying to balance them out in relation to their context is a fool's errand.
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    But that's kind of inconsistent with your earlier views about comparing modern players to guys already in the Hall. If you are all about comparing players, then if an extra 3-4 years helps a modern player get a milestone stat, that's not fair to many guys who played earlier and achieved certain stats without the ability to go DH. No, the point was we don't really know with certainty how things would have played out if the DH wasn't an option. That's why I don't like it being an issue.
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    Maybe so. Or maybe they hang around as part time/platoon player. The point is that it is all conjecture - we don't really know what would have happened. I agree with Derwood in that you shouldn't hold a guy's position against him. Just because a guy was a DH doesn't mean they had to be. And if being a DH is essentially an asterisk on a guy's career, it needs to be done away with.
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    The DH thing is tricky, IMO. It helps a lot of guys prolong their career, but at the same time I don't see guys like Thome, Thomas, Ortiz, etc. as losing massive chunks of their careers without it. You don't just consign guys like that to the scrap heap because they're awful defenders. Not having it would have diminished their numbers for sure, but I don't think you can just throw out several seasons because they were spent at DH. I think they should scrap the DH, personally. Or institute it in the NL, but the inconsistency has to end at some point. But that's a whole other issue.
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    totally disagree with this statement. That's your right. You can debate it, but if after a minute or two of consideration you still wonder if he's worthy, I think that's absolutely nuts. I think much of the post steroid era "statistics have been cheapened/we now need to be uber-stringent" backlash has gone way too far. I'm not advocating for using a guy like Maranville as a baseline at all, but you can't just ignore the fact that many guys like him are in and then propose the maintenance of super-lite standards for admission, at least not without openly owning the hypocrisy of it all, at which point the whole affair becomes a joke. There has to be some sort of middle ground, one where people don't wring their hands over the potential admission of a guy like Jim Thome, who clearly deserves it.
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