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no. he deserves little credit for 2007 and 2009. they were mediocre teams built with a huge payroll. that is not an achievemtn. once again though, you reply with a post that is intentionally obtuse. i've seen 2 other people in the past few weeks mention this behavior, and they're right. you constantly do it when you have no real argument. you pretend like the other person is saying something theyre clearly not.

yesss. he's projected to do 25 in my league and he only has .98 i have colston and he's outscoring brees by almost 6 points

this is just a beatdown

LOL yes, just before back-to-back division winning seasons. you really love to give him props for that 85 win (in a terrible division) nc central title in 2007, don't you. really he probabably deserves more credit for the 2009 team than he does the 2007 team. the 2009 cubs played in a much better division than the 2007 cubs and only won 2 fewer games. i guess it's more of an achievement to be surrounded by crap teams though.

yeah, that does look like a pretty good option right about now

steven jackson, mendenhall, or ganther?

i'd rather have byrd at 2/12 than damon at 2/20

Its not the games Milton would have cost us by being a jerk, it's the games he might have cost us by not playing to his full potential. I am in no way defending the move, or Milton, but you have to take into consideration the fact that he DID NOT want to play in Chicago. He made that abundantly clear. so you're saying you think milton dogged it and didn't try to hit?

at this point i just want whoever takes a one year deal. i'm less concerned about the 2010 cubs and more concerned about hendry giving out even more bad contracts before he's gone.

god i hope milton bradley has a monster season next year and the mariners make the playoffs

remember when this team actually scored a lot of goals?

i met theriot outside a bar one night and he said one time he got an 0-2 meatball and just as he was about to rip it he remembered how milton was in a pissy mood earlier and swung through it

oh god just shut up. did bradley ruin chemistry in texas when all his teammates loved him? acting as though seattle got anything but a great deal today just makes you sound like a [expletive] Texas wouldn't take Milton back due to his issues and thats one place where he didn't actually run himself out of town. I not defending this deal at all. It's terrible. To think at this point that MILTON isn't Insane makes you a . The man is a nut case, he thinks everyone is out to get him, everyone is hates him , everyone hates black people, blah blah Milton is a really really sad person. i never denied that bradley is a headcase. i'm saying that pretending like the mariners got a bad deal because of some make-believe effect he has on teammates is [expletive]. p.s. how do you know texas wouldnt take bradley back?

oh god just shut up. did bradley ruin chemistry in texas when all his teammates loved him? acting as though seattle got anything but a great deal today just makes you sound like a [expletive]

release silva immediately and release a bm all over jim hendry's disgusting face

why wouldn't they be ecstatic about the trade? they just hit the jackpot

halladay pitches in the al east. there are some big parks in the nl west. also halladay goes deeper in games

need to choose a 3rd running back. frank gore and steven jackson are my locks. keep in mind the scoring for this league gives you a full point for a reception, which is significant because you don't get extra points for rush attempts or completions. so if you catch a ball for -1 yard, you still get .9 of a point. here are the guys im choosing between mendanhall- i've been starting him almost all season and he's been solid at a 3rd rb (12 team league), but he was terrible last season and has to go against GB (2nd best run defense in the nfl and have been shutting down everybody lately). reggie bush- bush is a little more valuable in this league because he gets a lot of receptions. last week he was great, but was coming off an injury the week before and was out the 2 games prior to that, so i don't really have much to go on. maroney- this is probably the way i'm leaning right now. he's been up and down and i havent started him because i never know how much work he's going to get (and he doesn't get many receptions), but he's going against buffalo, who have the worst run defense in the nfl and have been getting lit up even worse lately. so, maroney?

Not to mention we have a good chunk of money coming off the books after this coming season, unless Hendry decides to extend Lee and Lilly again before the season is over. Also have Aramis' salary potentially coming off the books if he opts out. If all 3 leave after the seaosn that's $40 mil off the books. There should be no reason not to consider Crawford in the offseason if that happens assuming, like you said, that Tampa doesn't extend him if all 3 of those guys leave we're going to have a lot of holes though it sucks because the contracts that are coming off the books are the good contracts, the ones you don't want to end. Wait, so Hendry entered into several *good* contracts? I thought your whole schtick is that he is a completely incompetent, overspending boob incapable of such a thing. yeah, i always have said that hendry has never given out a good contract, right? your posts don't even make sense anymore. you're just making garbage up. then when i call you on it (like how you claimed i said 2/15 for cameron was good just because rob said it... even though i said it before rob said it) you don't say anything. anyways, i can name plenty of really good moves hendry has made. harden, ramirez, lee, derosa, lilly, barrett, nomar..... i've never said that jim hendry is incapable of making good moves, and i've never said that he's close to the worst gm in baseball (unless I was obviously joking).

unless you're an awesome hitter and there's a rule that allows one player to not have to play the field. then, you really should be on a major league roster.

it wasn't yahoo, it's the official box score that changed. they usually make minor corrections late wednesday night/early thursday morning. they usually make lots of small changes. these are some from this week alone-

i think he settles in as a healthy jd drew with more average but less walks. or pre-2009 david wright with a little less power.

booze or, you know, adrenaline

Maybe. I think he's still behind, as Holliday has had one or two standout seasons to go along with his steadily good overall performance, while Ramirez is about as consistently very good but not elite as you can get. A quick-and-dirty control for park effects shows: Holliday: .808 career OPS on the road (.284/.353/.454) Ramirez: .830 career OPS on the road (.280/.334/.496) It's not perfect but it does illustrate that these guys aren't too different as hitters. yeah but that's kind of skewed due to those guys having different types of careers. ramirez struggled for a while before he figured it out, and those early ABs bring his career numbers down. it would be more useful to look at his road numbers from like 04-09 or something like that. holliday was pretty good right from the beginning so his career stats are a more accurate reading of who he's been. I also wouldn't necessarily compare someone equally on road splits if one guy was in the NL West and the other guy was in the NL Central. San Fran, LA and San Diego are really bad hitting parks and AZ is a hitters park. All the NL Central parks are middle of the pack parks. From the stats above, and without actually looking, I would imagine that Holliday's stats are lower than what I would imagine they would be. yeah good point with the other nl west parks.

i like the dh. i like seeing big ogres massacre the ball. it's much more fun than watching a pitcher lay down a bunt or a manager pull a double switch.