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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    hehe, Walker just pulled a bugs bunny on the Wild, got two of them to run into each other.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    They haven't lost it yet. Sheesh. Oooh, horrible call.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Make that four spots. It's down to me and my wife. Three other people have quit since I got here in late August.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I do. I don't get the antipathy to the WBC among baseball fans. They spend decades writing about how the offseason is "The Void" or "The Dark Time of the Soul" or other such poetic stuff. Now they are offering you a competitive baseball tournament. In early March. And instead of getting on your knees crying in thanks, you spend months hoping your team's best players don't play because of the fractional increase in injury risk over playing in spring training. It's competitive baseball. In March. Hooray!
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    can you define the group of people who are likely to not have used? Non-baseball players? I should have said "more likely to have used" and "likely to have used." Players who are known cheaters, players who have unusual career paths, players who have spikes in power that coincide right with when PEDs got good enough to break the balance, players who have exceptionally good bodies, they all go in the "more likely" category.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    1) Testing is irrelevant. The cheaters will spend more money on chemists to come up with new stuff than the league will on testing, every time. The stuff will always be ahead of the testing. 2) "If someone is a known cheater then he should be wiped clean. " Hank Aaron admitted to trying amphetamines illegally once. He's out.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    i don't see the point of making special categories. there were no good reasons to suspect f.p. santangelo and he cheated. there were lots of good reasons to suspect barry bonds and he cheated. i don't really think that circumstantial evidence has been very good at identifying who's cheating and who isn't, so why bother guessing? I think you know that wasn't a good argument. The fact that one guy from the "likely to have used" category and "likely not to have used" category both got caught means that the categories are now populated with equally likely candidates?
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, but this is separating a piece from the whole. The fact that Sosa is a proven attempted cheater is a piece. The fact that he had a slightly late prime, and that his prime involved a huge leap in ability level, is a piece. The fact that all this happened during the exact years offense shot up throughout baseball because of improved PEDs is a piece. Add up all the pieces, and you don't have a conclusive case by any means, but you have a reason to put him in a special category of suspicion.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, if Crede is reasonably healthy, he could really come back to haunt the WS. Generally, your health has to take one heckuva turn for the worse before you are in a position to do any haunting.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Allow me to see your :( and raise you a :cry: I miss Kerry Wood.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Agree to disagree. And when my citizenship application for Canada is being processed, this conversation never happened, plz.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    And they are all Leafs fans. http://stats.theahl.com/stats/schedule.php?view=attendance Hamilton's AHL team is below league average in attendance
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    i'm sure people said the same thing about ottawa when that team was founded; people there were loyal to toronto and the french-speaking people in gatineau were loyal to the canadiens. plus hamilton is less than 50 miles from toronto which is a huge metro area. and hockey is king in canada - if a city like raleigh or columbus or st. louis can support a hockey team then there's no question that a place like hamilton or quebec city could do so. the quebec remparts draw 11,000 a night for God's sakes. 5 of the top 9 teams in attendance are canadian; edmonton is the only team that's outside the top 9 and that's just because they have a smaller arena. basically every canadian team fills up their arena every night. if i become king of the nhl, atlanta, nashville, miami will lose teams and they'll be relocated to seattle, hamilton and either quebec or winnipeg. I'm with you on the losing teams. I'm just not sure those teams need to go anywhere rather than just disappear. Ottawa is twice the size of Hamilton. Quebec City would probably be a little more viable (a little bit bigger, further from another major city, the fierce loyalty to locale of the area).
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not if it's a safety issue. This isn't about competitive balance. The difference between two 225-lb. athletes running into each other and two 350-lb athletes running into each other is huge. But I don't think any sport's gonna put a cap on that. If the PEDs get good enough, I think it'll become a discussed issue at least. And we're getting close.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I agree that there are eithers with the fans being loyal to existing teams, but the comparison to Springfield, MO is inaccurate. Springfield's MSA is about 370,000. Hamilton's is 690,000. Akron is 694,000. But even with the similar population numbers between Akron and Hamilton, there is no much more interest up there. D'oh, I meant Springfield, Massachusetts. I get that there's a ton of interest, but there's just not enough people to sell too. You'd need roughly 3% of the area's population to show up to every home game.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not if it's a safety issue. This isn't about competitive balance. The difference between two 225-lb. athletes running into each other and two 350-lb athletes running into each other is huge.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's a lot of question as to whether it would work in Hamilton. You are talking about a metropolitan area roughly the same size as Springfield, Missouri or Akron, Ohio. And it'd be attempting to draw from a fan base that is already largely loyal to another team.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is where things get murky. We'll soon have some major PEDs that are almost unequivocally good for you. It would be more accurate to say they are banned because they're illegal. True. Kyle's point is interesting though. What happens if a PED is invented that pumps people up and there really aren't any serious side effects? You could have a situation where it is banned in professional sports, but everyone on the street is popping it like candy. If it's legal for everyone, why would it be banned from sports? Two issues I could see: 1) We're growing as a species quite rapidly. When football is played with athletic 400-lb. linemen and 6-9, 350 pound linebackers, the results are going to be ugly. We're already seeing this to a degree. 2) 90 HRs in baseball will make "purist" fans shoot themselves in the head. Okay, so only the first one is really an "issue."
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't know about the European option. It's interesting, but yeah, definitely not realistic. I agree with all three of those Canadian cities. Actually, if the league took Nashville, Phoenix, Tampa and Miami and put them in those three cities and Hartford, I would be a happy human. As much as I'd love to see more Canadian teams, I really doubt they'd be able to last financially very long. If the league isn't working out in the south, just contract.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    We'll certainly see it a few million times. That was pretty cool.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Unless I'm counting wrong, Huet's suck-out streak is about to cross 120 minutes.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    2-0 on a delayed penalty. That goal was a long time coming.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's having such an awesome season. I'm glad we didn't give up on him.
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    1-0
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    That should have been a penalty shot D on Dallas covered it in the crease.
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