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  1. Valadius
    Francesa is going to be insufferable.
  2. Valadius
    It makes me wonder why they didn't lock up Adam Dunn.
  3. Valadius
    Jim Hickman?
  4. Valadius
    Looks like Backpack Girl is still hanging out at cranepoolforum.com.
  5. Valadius
    A pox on every moron on the Veterans' Committee who didn't see the light. RIP Ron Santo.
  6. Valadius
    Buh-bye, weirdo.
  7. Valadius
    Well, I'm not content to just let this thread slide off the front page. I'm willing to defend Larry Walker's Hall credentials up and down. Yes, he played in Colorado during his most productive years, but unless you can prove there were steroids in the air at Coors Field, the altitude in Denver is as much a part of baseball as the Green Monster, the wind in Candlestick Park, or the Astrodome. It's a ballpark feature. Deal with it. The fact is, Larry Walker was a pretty complete player. He hit for average, he hit for power, he was a very good right fielder (check his range factor numbers and assists), and he even knew how to steal a base. Yes, injuries hurt him. Yes, he walked away from baseball without all his counting stats in order at the age of 38. But as I look back on it, there wasn't a hitter I personally feared more in the late '90s in the National League than Larry Walker. He's a Hall of Famer in my book.
  8. Valadius
    That sounds vaguely similar to Isiah Thomas' rationale for how all his crappy signings with the Knicks were somehow part of a master plan to bring LeBron James to New York - that these players all "played AAU basketball", so they would therefore be friends with James. Sorry, bit of a stretch in logic there, but I still can't get that insane interview Thomas did a short while back out of my head.
  9. Valadius
    batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Shocking that I am the only voter so far in this..... I wonder how Adam Rubin would vote. Or Marty Noble.
  10. Valadius
    As long as they're not throwing an 80 mph fastball with no movement like Brian Lawrence, I'm cool.
  11. Valadius
    My ballot: Alomar Bagwell Blyleven Larkin E. Martinez McGwire Palmeiro Raines Trammell Walker Unfortunately, thanks to the stinginess of Hall voters, we've got a very crowded ballot. It's going to get even worse when the mega-class of two years from now comes up and we haven't put a big chunk of the players up this year in - some deserving names will likely fall off the ballot altogether. Fortunately, nobody up for the first time next year is Hall-worthy.
  12. Valadius
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: Is this the first time around for Bagwell? Yes.
  13. Valadius
    I've gotta say no, as much as I would love to take a flyer on him, because I just don't trust him to be honest about when he's hurt.
  14. Valadius
    I see no utility in trading a homegrown superstar during his peak years in NEW YORK. We're not exactly the Florida Marlins here. Unless you sign Carl Crawford I see no reason to part with him.
  15. Valadius
    Reminds me of the media's reaction to Alexander Ovechkin in the NHL. Either you like Ovie's antics or you live in Pittsburgh or Canada.
  16. Valadius
    Eh, due to the fact that they split the book in two, it doesn't have any kind of satisfying ending. I'm glad they split it, because it would be impossible to cram all the important plot points into two and a half hours, but they could have chosen a better spot to make the split.
  17. Valadius
    Vazquez is probably the most unreliable pitcher I've ever seen, in a different way than Ollie Perez. Vazquez always seems to have wild swings back and forth from being a very good pitcher one year to being very bad the next.
  18. Valadius
    Why do our recent run of managers sound just like a Fox Sports broadcast team? I mean, come on, Jerry, Terry, Bobby and Willie, for God's sake...
  19. Valadius
    I think he's Javier Vazquez waiting to happen.
  20. Valadius
    I would actually love to see His Intangibleness go to the Dodgers to play for the Yankee Outcast.
  21. Valadius
    Cabrera second, Cano third.
  22. Valadius
    Aubrey Huff, he of the ridiculous radio interview a few years back, has re-upped with the World Champion San Francisco Chris Russos for 2 years and $22 million.
  23. Valadius
    Benigno and whoever the hell they paired him with after I left the tri-state area.
  24. Valadius
    I do find it pretty hilarious that we're going from Jerry to Terry. I don't think I'm likely to call him that, though. I prefer TC.
  25. Valadius
    Hooray! I kind of like the fact that we hold onto guys for longer than four or five years, even if they're not franchise cornerstones.
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