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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    how dare espn sully pacman's good name. He is an upstanding citizen and all . . . I think that's actually a valid defense against libel. A person whose reputation is so bad they are essentially libel-proof.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think maybe All-Star Games are one of those things that seem awesome as a kid and then get steadily less awesome.
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    Donovan McNabb didn't know that NFL games can end in ties. These guys aren't selected for their intelligence.
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    Baines had eight seasons that Buckner couldn't have dreamed of.
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    A former leader in a nearly meaningless stat, a decent career average in a nearly meaningless stat, and a bunch of pretty counting numbers for a guy who played a million seasons.
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    Cubs are still the best team in the division and are fine for the playoffs. Their chances for next year are barely worse than they were this year.
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    Lee would have helped them a lot more. When your pitching staff puts up ERAs of 2.20, 2.63, and 3.00 in three postseason series, my pregnant wife would be a good fit in left field.
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    Buckner was a very mediocre player who hung on too long. He had three decent but overrated seasons sandwhiched around that career of mediocrity.
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    They didn't win because of him. They won because of their pitching. I'm sorry, but a .700 OPS from an outfielder (or anyone for that matter) is just not good. You cannot argue that he is a good player. He's not. I said, "in part." Yes, they did win because of their pitching. But it's not like he had nothing to do with their success. Luis Castillo's career OPS: .722 Maury Wills career OPS: .661 Bad players? So, going back to the original discussion, any trade is a good one as long as the player it nets has not nothing to do with a team that wins while they are on it? As was mentioned, the problem isn't Scott Podsednik's OPS alone. It's the fact that he posts that OPS as a mediocre defensively corner outfielder. If, like Castillo, he was a middle infielder, it'd be different. Wills was also a middle infielder who played in a pitching-dominated era. If any of those applied to Podsednik, he'd be a better player.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Awards voters once gave a gold glove to a DH. Awards voters aren't really authorities.
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    Well, they got a ring out of it. Worked out pretty well for them in '05. Pods was also pretty damn clutch in the postseason, if you'll recall. That ring might have had something to do with their fantastic pitching. That Pods-led offense was pretty mediocre, even in the postseason. The pitching was fantastic. No argument there. But mediocre? Really? In 12 games (49 ABs), he hit .286 with a .375 OBP and a .551 SLG, had 2 HRs (1 was a walkoff in the World Series btw), 1 double, 3 triples, 6 SB, 6 RBIs, and scored 9 runs. That's mediocre? There's also something to be said for chemistry, something no one has mentioned yet. I didn't say Podsednik was mediocre. I said the offense as a whole was mediocre. If we're going to start judging guys by postseason performance, then Alex Gonzalez was the greatest shortstop in Cubs history. Offensively, at least.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, they got a ring out of it. Worked out pretty well for them in '05. Pods was also pretty damn clutch in the postseason, if you'll recall. That ring might have had something to do with their fantastic pitching. That Pods-led offense was pretty mediocre, even in the postseason.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Do you honestly believe that? That there's no player in the entire league (or even theoretically possible?) to have a player with a contract so bad no one would take him for free?
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Soriano's contract was only three years, he'd have some value. That's the second time I've seen lately on this board someone try to diminish the value to the player of having their post-prime years locked in by a long contract.
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    Teixeira is not 33, and Soriano is not Ramirez. At the very least, please stop the "stupid" and "ignorant" crap in every post, you are embarassing yourself badly enough as it is. You are exactly right about what they are willing to pay. Two years ago, nobody was willing to pay what the Cubs were willing to pay. The only thing that has changed is that Soriano is two years past his likely prime and the economy is collapsing, so there's utterly no reason to think anybody would be willing to pay that again.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Teixeira is not 33, and Soriano is not Ramirez. At the very least, please stop the "stupid" and "ignorant" crap in every post, you are embarassing yourself badly enough as it is.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Yankees might. Nobody else would. And I'm honestly beginning to wonder if you actually watch some sort of alternative universe baseball there's actually inflation in the free-agent market and the Red Sox didn't have Manny Ramirez, Kevin Youkilis, J.D. Drew and David Ortiz last season.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then why didn't they give him that contract to begin with? Are you serious? LOL Absolutely. Every team in baseball had a chance to valuate Soriano when he was a free agent. The Cubs presumably valued him more than anyone else, or else someone else would have given him more money. He has no trade value at his current contract. None. Zilch. And its impossible that his value changed due to inflation or the fact that he is improving his career numbers? To say he has no trade value is about as stupid as it gets. There's been no inflation and he's coming off two seasons that were worse than the one before his contract. Something's definitely as stupid as it gets here...
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then why didn't they give him that contract to begin with? Are you serious? LOL Absolutely. Every team in baseball had a chance to valuate Soriano when he was a free agent. The Cubs presumably valued him more than anyone else, or else someone else would have given him more money. He has no trade value at his current contract. None. Zilch.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then why didn't they give him that contract to begin with?
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I love how you don't have time to respond to me when you can no longer defend your weak arguments because you "have a fie and kid", yet you constantly take shots at me and reply to my other posts. awesome and yeah, you're right. a professional baseball player stepping awkwardly on his leg is just freaky. i mean, what are the chances of something like that happening? just.. weird. I thought we agreed that professional baseball players step awkwardly their legs fairly frequently. The occurrence is not unusual. In fact its commonness is precisely what makes it freaky when it results in a torn ACL. You'd have to be a fool not to realize that torn ACLs are very rare in baseball. So when one happens, the reasonable conclusion to draw is it was a freak thing, and not evidence that the player involved is weak or fragile or what have you. When it happens as part of a series of injuries, it's intentionally obtuse to ignore the probability that the player is fragile.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not sure and the Hawks announcers aren't sure why that whistle was blown. It was weird.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, this team is back from that brief interruption against Detroit.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    How did Versteeg get that puck in there?
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't like this new "shoot every chance you get" philosophy of the Hawks. They skate into the zone and fire off a wrister from 35 feet every time, never getting any possession going.
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