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sorry, i've gotta get that 'we' out of there. it implies that i think that way, when really i mean 'people'

baseball hasn't changed as much as other sports. baseball is more measurable than other sports. and since in other sports we can see that the players of today are so much bigger and stronger than the players of yesteryear that people assume any comparisons to be unfair, and since the baseball players of yesteryear have similar achievements to players of today but without all the modern advantages, people assume that the only way they could have overcome the lack of modern advantage is to have been far superior than today's players. also, warner wolf is an idiot, and is probably hinging his objection to guillen's opinion on total hits, as opposed to any more meaningful metric.

AG/DC wrote: No offense, but that's nose-to-spite-your-face terriitory there. 'Sides, there are plenty of dotless blue hats available. I'd be happy to buy you one. i'd like to get in on that action, too. the, uh, owners of black hats action receiving free orange-buttonless blue hats, that is, not the buying a blue hat for a guy who owns a black hat action

jose needs some sliding into home plate lessons. he made that into a much closer play than it shoulda been...

="Benjamin Grimm"]="metsmarathon"]soupcan misspelled pelfrey, too. does that merit a yelling? HE DID WHAT??? much better. thank you.

i would expect it to funnel winds even stronger along the east face of citi and into left field, swirl around a bit inside, and exit out right field. the end result being more balls to left field knocked down, perhaps some adventures in center, and something of a tailwind going out to right.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Coolmax? What's that? only one of the greatest inventions ever. tis fabric that doesn't get wet. it wicks moisture away from the body, maintaining cool, comfy skin temperatures in toasty weather. it also works well in cold weather to take away the chilling cold sweat from the toasty body, helping again to maintain temperature. i haven't worn cotton t-shirts to run in in about ten years. http://coolmax.invista.com/

oh. well. fine. soupcan misspelled pelfrey, too. does that merit a yelling?

Pelfrey 2.7 Easley 1.9 Pagan 1.7 Sosa 1.6 Delgado 1.3 Muniz 0.8

somebody's gonna get yelled at in today's voting thread...

maybe to increase our team's popularity with girls, we'll go with pink alternate jerseys. mrs marathon would so love that.

i need to start my own exclusive club just for people who actually don't hate the black...

i wonder what that must feel like

i wonder - do they say 'welcome a-trachsel' in chicago? no, probably not.

jeez... '99... i think i had barely begun to consistently lurk at that point.

yeah, if perez is left in to finish the 6th, and gets a nice, easy, uneventful ground ball out, he leaves the game with a health 4 beers, and knocks delgado down to 3 beers. his thirstiness, then, falls on willie's head, presuming oliver would've gotten that lone uneventful out, of course. but i've long been holding it against pitchers who cannot start a game without getting a quality start out of the affair, and there's a reason (aside from just managerial incompetence) that willie took him out when he did. failing to get that quality start can really hurt a pitcher when i vote. also, this year, i started tracking bequeathed runners, and having bequeathed runners, perez gets the hit there. delgado is helped, of course, by the fact that nobody else was doing much schaefer-earning. OE. does any blame for the error go to reyes? i mean, i just looked at the relay, and honetly, i'm not sure where delgado could've thrown the ball to get around utley, to reyes. should reyes have given more of an inside target, albeit forcing delgado into a more unnatural throw more across the basepath and his body? perhaps delgado should've recognized that and gone to first for the sure force instead?

Delgado 3.9 Smith 1.8 Muniz 1.0 Perez 1.0 Beltran 0.8 Pagan 0.3

my schaeffering is upside down from everybody else! i'm giving almost 4 beers to delgado, and only a single beer to perez! delgado gets credit for the go ahead home run, another single, and turning a dp all by his lonesome, with demerits for two unproductive at bats including one lob, and the error. perez gets gredit for 5.2 ip, 2ks, and leaving in line for the win, with demerits for 3 hits, 3 walks, 2 hbp, a balk, failing to turn in a quality start, and bequeathing two runners.

anyone else see that the braves top OF prospect, jordan schafer, has been suspended for HGH use? i was tooling around baseball prospectus and noticed this little nugget in bp unfiltered: bp wrote: how did he get caught? HGH is not detactable under the current testing structure, yet there it is. Stories are beginning to come out of an investigation of Schafer and other Braves teammates that led to a confession from Schafer, but it sounds like this could get ugly, if these early stories are true. sounds like we're in for a fun season, no? have there been any other banned-substance suspensions this season? i think this is the first.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish writes: "Will pay you to stick around." _______________________ OK by me. And then I'll pay you back some but not all of what you pay me to teach me how to get other poster's quotes inside of that neat quote box and also, to tell me what a Bordick reference is because I looked but did not find the answer to that one. Thanks to everyone for all the welcomes coming my way here. see the orange bar that separates the individual posts on this thread? look all the way to the right hand side of the bar, and just below it is a button labeled "quote" click on that button. it will take you to a "post a reply page" with the quoted text conveniently placed within a pair of matched [ quote ] [/ quote ] brackets. (without the spaces) to tailor the quote, feel free to delete words. to misquote people, put in new words (this is always fun, and a good way to end up in the red light forum!) you can type in the quote-brackety things at any time, like if you want to make it look like you're quoting a newspaper, another website, or an imaginary friend, see: ="m.e.t.b.o.t."] greetings human m.e.t.b.o.t. never wrote that, but i quoted him just the same. what fun! welcome a-bordick derives from a standard greeting of welcome aboard, combined with the aforementioned mike bordick. it was used as a headline on some local new york news paper, iirc, after he hit a home run to win a game in his met debut. the home run hitting and the helping to win games would not continue to be done by bordick, but the greeting lives on. maybe it could be viewed as a cautionary - we're glad you've joined us and started contributing. but don't drop off like this guy (bordick), or you might just end up unappreciated and unmissed, maybe even reviled. but, hey, at least we didnt give up melvin mora for you. well, that's my conjecture anyways...

can i get paid, too?

huh...?

Elster88 wrote: What the fuck is a stopper? someone who never, ever fails. except in meaningless games.

grr...

my bad. i clicked over to see the rest of the forum activities, saw hte reyes, rickey and robinson thread and started skimming. then the phillies scored another run. sorry about that. if it makes anyone feel any better, my brain hurts now.