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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    How is a goalie not a "right player for the team"? A good goalie is the right player for every team. A good goalie is a good goalie. I don't see how team is a factor... unless yo're talking about his character btw those sarcastic huet comments weren't made towards you. they were at Q for pulling him for no reason after the 1st Huet's biggest weakness is he tends to give up long rebounds. In the playoffs, he'll need a team of big, physical defensemen to keep the front of the net clear. The Blackhawks' defensemen are good, but they aren't that type. Or he'll need to not give up long rebounds, since that's basically death for any goalie. As soon as he starts doing that, let me know.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Major-league roster rules made that inevitable. It was now or March.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm firmly in the "he almost certainly was using" camp, but those photos aren't remotely useful.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    How is a goalie not a "right player for the team"? A good goalie is the right player for every team. A good goalie is a good goalie. I don't see how team is a factor... unless yo're talking about his character btw those sarcastic huet comments weren't made towards you. they were at Q for pulling him for no reason after the 1st Huet's biggest weakness is he tends to give up long rebounds. In the playoffs, he'll need a team of big, physical defensemen to keep the front of the net clear. The Blackhawks' defensemen are good, but they aren't that type.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hopefully, the last few days have been the beginning of a long-term commitment to deleting such posts. It's been lax in the past, but I hope it's applied universally and fairly in the future.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I definitely never said Huet was bad. But I don't think he's the right player for this team.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    The second-line center isn't for offense. Remember the end of a game last week where we were up 1 and under pressure the last five minutes because we couldn't win a faceoff to save our lives.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I thought Khabibulin was fine the last three years. It was the defense that was a problem. It's not hindsight. I've disliked Huet's signing from day one.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    fyp ? huet is having a good year He won't help as much in the playoffs as the second-line center we could have bought with that money.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    fyp
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Think I'll skip this one.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    In 1999 his games played began tailing off. He had only been inured once before that. Bonds began taking steroids in 99. That's more than a bit disingenuous on several levels. First, Bonds turned 34 that year. Aging is highly correlated with injuries. Second, he played an average of 2 fewer games per season from 2000-2004 than he did from 1995-1998. (and I'm not sure you understand what I was saying, because you just restated the correlation)
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Correlation, causation...
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bad Pete Rose argument in 3...2...1...
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Depends on what he was taking and how. There's some preliminary evidence out there that HGH has some major benefits in slowing down aging. If that's all he was on, there's a good chance he'll actually be better off than most.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Using a substance to break cherished records or unnaturally inflate statistics is awesome? If you like seeing big huge goons wack something around, try WWE. Everyone uses substances. It's just a matter of which substance is on which arbtirary list.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's the different natures of football and baseball. Football is a game to bet on, a game where you don't get as attached to players because they have shorter careers and wear helmets covering their faces, a game with relatively little history attached to it. Baseball is (overly) romanticized for its history and its players are expected to be mythic figures.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll take the head size argument more seriously when I see comparable photos examined.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    It should be noted that the Dodgers' other options in LF are awful, unless they have a prospect I'm not realizing, so they get more value from Ramirez or Dunn than others might.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Meh. He'll eat some innings and appear to have decent numbers in LA, but I'm not sure this changes anything for them. They are still a player away.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Agreed. It was a time when almost the entire league was using, the management failed to do anything about it, and it's over. This just makes me sad because it will give meatball sports fans another excuse to hate him.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    True, and I'm sure that's part of it. But there have been offseasons before and it's never gotten this bad. Perhaps, but consecutive division titles mean some fans are now acting like spoiled brats, especially when discussing the relative merits (or lack thereof) of the moves Hendry has made in the offseason. I don't think that has anything to do with it. It's gotten progressively worse each year, regardless of how the season went. There's about a half dozen or so posters that drag the whole board down that need to be reigned in, but the mods won't do anything about it. Almost everyone would agree with that statement. But we'd all have different lists (granted, with a lot of overlap).
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    When they are statues with gloves in left and make 20+ million, yes. Are we talking about Manny or Dunn here? If anyone might offer Dunn $20 million a year, then it would apply to him too.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    When they are statues with gloves in left and make 20+ million, yes.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Aren't those backloaded contracts obstructive to us fielding a more competitive team this year? Not at all! Those backloaded contracts ARE the competitive team this year. A certain level of backloading of contracts is fine. and contract 7,8,9 million in consecutive years is just natural inflation, and or the expectation of increased ability/production in the player. I know Hendry has backloaded more than this (eg Marquis) but its not like he's heavily backloading or deferring ala the D-backs. Those contracts give us this year and nothing much beyond it, I'm guessing. The current core is already moving past their primes.
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