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Are those real quotes? Pretty hilarious if so

lol ricketts. what a joke. hendry and sandberg next season. absolutely great. as if my interest in this team could get any lower.

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http://techrights.org/files/trolltracker/20080528154853/troll.gif good one

So how old were you when you suffered the massive head trauma? Seriously, I could never see myself sitting down, popping in the DVD to watch the video of a sporting event that I already know what happened and just about every other side story that went along with it. youre weird and you know the DVD isn't just replays of the games, right? it's highlights with interviews and footage we haven't seen you before. i don't understand why you don't understand why people watch them.

it's asinine and oblivious to think that hr/fb ratio on it's own doesn't prove anything? ha

I'd almost be satisifed with this just because I'm convinced Sandberg is taking over next year

Just out of curiosity, if not bad luck, why do you think he has fewer fly balls leaving the park than in the past? because he isn't hitting fly balls far enough to go out of the park? if a guy hits 20 straight medium depth fly balls, is he unlucky that none of them left the park?

stevie y is making some things happen in tampa

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I agree, but the only reason I cited it was because it goes with what people having been saying on orioleshangout, which is that his defense has gotten bad.

For what it's worth, Markakis' HR/FB ratio is at a career low 5.7%. His career average is 10.2%. With his LD% and BABIP hovering around normal (BABIP's a tad high), I think some of the power outage this year is due to some bad luck. Markakis definitely dropped off a bit last year, but his peripherals show he's bouncing back again this year. I think buying on him now would be a good idea. Oh I'd definitely be fine with getting him if the price was right. I'm just saying he hasn't turned into the stud that it looked like he was going to be. He's just pretty good. 10Mil isn't bad for a "pretty good" player. Nobody's calling him a stud. But he leads the league in doubles, that combined with the above stats shows to me that he has been unlucky. Because 26 year olds don't typically lose power as you suggested, especially if they haven't completely lost grasp of the strikezone. Still think he will be a 30 HR hitter by next year and going forward. Like I said, I'd take him. I just don't see any evidence of him developing into a 30 HR guy. If he was making progress year by year I could see it, but he's holding steady with his power output (and even that is only if you consider his FB/HR ratio this year to be unlucky).

i still can't believe they won the cup

You do if your top player is LeBron, Kobe, or Wade. Rose is not the type of player who will be the man on a championship winning team. He is a great player, but not good enough to do that. You still want him to believe he is. Especially if you don't have anybody better

i'm gonna miss big brad's gang signs after he knocks down a big 3

For what it's worth, Markakis' HR/FB ratio is at a career low 5.7%. His career average is 10.2%. With his LD% and BABIP hovering around normal (BABIP's a tad high), I think some of the power outage this year is due to some bad luck. Markakis definitely dropped off a bit last year, but his peripherals show he's bouncing back again this year. I think buying on him now would be a good idea. Oh I'd definitely be fine with getting him if the price was right. I'm just saying he hasn't turned into the stud that it looked like he was going to be. He's just pretty good.

sucks that jiminez will get it because of the wins and era

i don't get it

Hmm. Let's see: -26 years old -.897 OPS at age 24 -elite BB/K ratio with 50 walks to just 51 Ks -leads the league in doubles -power stroke is coming back as he had 24 doubles thru June 30, with only 3 HRs, but has hit 3 HRs since and only 4 doubles -baseball reference lists Carl Yaztremski as his 3rd best comparable thru age 25, who just happened to blow up and put it all together at age 27. There's a ton of appeal for Markakis and I think it's well worth paying $10Mil/year and trading prospects that may never make it for a LH hitting, plus defending, corner OF entering his prime year. Markakis is a bad defender. I'd take him, but he's not that great. It's hard to get too excited about a corner outfielder who doesn't hit for a lot of power, doesn't steal bases, and isn't a good defender. Where do you get he is a bad defender? That's the reputation he's gotten, and the UZR backs it up, so I tend to believe he's not very good out there. What does Fukudome have to do with Markakis? Except for this year, where he's on pace to hit 11. Also, this is the 4th straight year that his home runs have gone down. The only reason he even hit 18 last year was because his walks were way down and he got 642 ABs because of it. His power is getting worse, not better. Markakis is a fine player, I'm just saying he's not that great. He definitely hasn't turned into the great player that it looked like he was going to a few years ago. His power is going the opposite direction, and he completely stopped stealing bases.

Rose said in an interview like the day before "The Decision" that he talked to LeBron a couple times and also texted him a couple times during FA, so why are we even talking about this? Becuase some writer made an ambiguous statement about how Rose didn't try to "recruit" him?

Hmm. Let's see: -26 years old -.897 OPS at age 24 -elite BB/K ratio with 50 walks to just 51 Ks -leads the league in doubles -power stroke is coming back as he had 24 doubles thru June 30, with only 3 HRs, but has hit 3 HRs since and only 4 doubles -baseball reference lists Carl Yaztremski as his 3rd best comparable thru age 25, who just happened to blow up and put it all together at age 27. There's a ton of appeal for Markakis and I think it's well worth paying $10Mil/year and trading prospects that may never make it for a LH hitting, plus defending, corner OF entering his prime year. Markakis is a bad defender. I'd take him, but he's not that great. It's hard to get too excited about a corner outfielder who doesn't hit for a lot of power, doesn't steal bases, and isn't a good defender.

Yeah I wanted him back, but I can't blame him for taking that. That's ridiculous

Nothing Rose said would have ever gotten LeBron here. So with that in consideration... do you want our franchise player to be a guy begging for the services of an ego-maniac, or do you want him to be a guy saying "[expletive] that, I'm the man and I'm gonna show everybody by doing it myself" Rose has the attitude of a real competitor, just like Durant. They want to beat the best, not join them. Now, can Rose be that guy? I don't know, but I'm really glad he thinks he can be. I'm not saying Rose getting involved would have gotten LeBron here, but just [expletive] do it if it could help. There's a huge gulf between begging and what the article describes, though who gives a [expletive] if he had kissed some ass? Do what's best for your team and the bottom line is that getting LeBron would have been great for the Bulls. The confidence is great, but really, whoopdy-[expletive]-doo. [expletive] this [expletive] of "oh man, it's so awesome he didn't kiss LeBron's ass." [expletive] it, he should have been licking LeBron AND Wade's taints even if it just seemed like a sliver of a chance they would come to the Bulls. If he did that and this still went down as it did, oh well, go and kick the [expletive] out of them on the court. Doing nothing was just dumb, and all this talk about his 3-point shot better not be [expletive]. So you want your superstar to be a begging bitch. Rose DID talk to LeBron (unless he's lying, which I doubt). He just didn't beg him.

Once again, Lou chooses to intentionally walk the bases loaded with a wild Marmol.

Another reason to love Kevin Durant... we get to see awesome tweets like this