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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Win the first playoff series and make noise in the second. Then people will pay attention.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I believe that he believes that.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Urlacher in his prime would have been an absolute beast of a center. Devin Hester would only survive 20 minutes as a full-back, but it'd be a fun 20 minutes.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Toew-zer. Beautiful shot.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow. I got home just in time to see Havlat have glue on his stick or something.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Count me in.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    yes please to both, thank you
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Of course not. But when a player has a peak that is both slightly late and one of the most dramatic peaks in MLB history, and that jump in production coincides with an era in baseball when PEDs became so effective as to be widely noticeable all over the league, then the situation is a perfect example of circumstantial evidence.
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    Depending on your reckoning of prime years, Sosa's came either after them or maybe a one-year overlap. Not remotely the same as Bagwell. Although there will never likely be any hard evidence against him, Sosa remains in limbo as the prototype of what a steroid-aided career looks like. He hit 66 @ age 29. 29 isn't a prime year? It's pre-30. Also, he hit 36 in just 144 games in '95, and then 40 in just 124 games in '96. Ages 26 and 27 are definitely prime years. He would have had over 50 HRs in '97 without the injury that ended his season early, at age 27, a prime year. I'd generally call 25-28 prime years for a hitter, but even if we stretch that to 29, waiting until the last year and then exploding to previously unthought of levels of production is not normal. OPS+ 25-33: 127, 121, 126, 99, 160, 151, 161, 203, 160. You can fiddle with counting numbers and might-have-beens all you want, but there is a clear line to be drawn there, it isn't at 26 or 27.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Me before clicking on the link: "Please don't be Jesse Ventura. Please don't be that idiot." Me after clicking the link: :(
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's spring training. If he needed the work that day, the Cubs would want him to play and everyone would laugh about it, forgetting in a few days.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    But is he rededicated?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Depending on your reckoning of prime years, Sosa's came either after them or maybe a one-year overlap. Not remotely the same as Bagwell. Although there will never likely be any hard evidence against him, Sosa remains in limbo as the prototype of what a steroid-aided career looks like.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    So the connection isn't much yet Sosa has what you call a "proven history of attempted cheating"? I think Sosa did steroids as well, but I don't see how there's any more evidence on him than there was on Bagwell. "Not much" isn't "nothing." A proven history of attempted cheating is something that Sosa has that Bagwell does not. A sudden leap in ability level at at age most players have stopped improving at all is another.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    They don't know he's limping. Griffey is a name, name's put you in the news. Being in the news draws fans.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    What exactly points to Sosa that doesn't point to Bagwell? A proven history of attempted cheating. So, corked bat = steroids? I'm not buying that connection. *shrug* I'm not saying it's much. But it's there. The case against Sosa is circumstantial, but it's better than some other circumstantial cases.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    What exactly points to Sosa that doesn't point to Bagwell? A proven history of attempted cheating.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    What exactly points to Sosa that doesn't point to Bagwell? A proven history of attempted cheating.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    :-k I was thinking Heilman was lefty and would be in there with Harden hurt. Oops.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm rather partial to Heilman, but Marshall is probably better. Another three-lefty rotation for the Cubs.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I never forgave Berryhill for replacing Jody Davis, my childhood hero.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    But we've already established that the players before were using PEDs too. The players of the 1990s just had better ones. So you're problem isn't apparently with players using PEDs, it's with them using really good ones?
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    It sort of makes sense in context, given what they were discussing right before Glenallen launched the small, white spheroid in the positively prodigious fashion that he did, but Chip hams it up so completely and excessively that would could have been a cool call just becomes sort of laughably bad. I'm in the minority that liked Chip Caray, and even I'll say that was awful. It made my ears cry.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Why? Goldstein is in love with Vitters. Because I didn't know that.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Higher on Vitters than I would have thought.
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