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  1. Elster88
    I watched it purely out of morbid fascination. I'm no psychologist, but my guess would be the man had few human friends and hated his life, and living around bears made him feel loved. Not something I'd watch again. Relatively little actual footage involving bears. Most of it was people talking about him or footage of himself talking to a camera.
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    seawolf17 wrote: Silver's right... that's just being a dick. I can't say there aren't Mets fans who are dicks. We have our fair share. Exactly.
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    Bret Sabermetric wrote: It's kind of funny and kind of sad, the fury you feel towards Yankees fans. They feel none of it towards you. To them, you're something like chafed skin on the scrotum--you annoy them for a few seconds, but they reach down and scratch, and you go away. You'll annoy them again the next time they have to think about you, but you're really never going to get anything like true hatred out of them, not the kind you have for Yankees fans, anyway. Way too many analogies around the male member these days.
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    Matsui was activated 8/6. IIRC, he could've been activated even earlier. He should've been put into the lineup immediately, due to Cairo's intense suckage and because there was still a wildcard race going on. As your link kindly points out, he didn't become the regular until 8/22. Again, IIRC, this was around the time Cairo got an owie himself.
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    Yancy Street Gang wrote: All I do is bend the brim. A lot of new caps come "pre-bent" but you may want to customize your bend. Years ago, a lot of caps shipped with the brims completely flat, and whenever you'd see someone wearing it that way they'd look, like, totally dorky. The new style among youngsters is to leave it completely flat and to leave the sticker on the underside of the brim. It looks idiotic.
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    After Matsui was healthy, Cairo spent a lot of time in the starting lineup hitting .150. I know this because I bitched about it incessantly.
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    ]One of my complaints about Willie's testosterone-level has to do with his ability to recognize and fix a problem regardless of salary involved. Obviously, Matsui and Piazza got me started on this, but let's leave those aside to address a hypothetical because I don't want to fan old flames just now. I think that his handling of Matsui clearly shows his ability to play who he thinks is better regardless of contract size. He did everything he could to keep Cairo in the starting lineup over Matsui, and Matsui obviously makes a shitload more money.
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    ]Let's specify that first time through the rotation, he had his normal lifetime ERA, and was hitting 90+ MPH regularly, and then in the second time through, he had twice (or three times) his lifetime ERA and couldn't hit 85 MPH--in other words, clear evidence that he belonged in the bullpen--eventually. I don't think that Willie will ever put Pedro in the bullpen, no matter how much he gets lit up. And that's a bad thing.
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    Maybe now would be a good time to mention that my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek when I said Julio should definitely be demoted by mid-April. I had heard of the crazy theory before that says "Evaluate the players based on performance rather than deciding what to do in early February."
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    It still cracks me up when I hear on the radio "If he can regain his form from 2002". I have no scientific proof of this, but my contention is that a player tends to stay at the level displayed in the previous three seasons, rather than the one before that.
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    particularly if Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine, et al, stay healthy. That's a big if.
  12. Elster88
    I will refrain from passing judgement until I see how long it takes Julio to get sent to AAA. Anytime after mid-April is unacceptable.
  13. Elster88
    Happy 1969th, FK.
  14. Elster88
    Gotta go option 1, IMHO. We're going to be down to the bare bones as it is with 20 teams.
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    20 teams is going to be f-ing hard. I'm up for the challenge, but I hope I don't finish 20th.
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    They're probably reserved for the paying leagues.
  18. Elster88
    http://fantasysports.yahoo.com We should go ahead and pick a draft time as soon as possible. The good ones go fast.
  19. Elster88
    Reyes has diesel abs.
  20. Elster88
    Let's just contract the fucking team and be done with it.
  21. Elster88
    Projecting Nady over Diaz these days? Not that I'm arguing against it, I just don't remember how that came about.
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    Nymr83 wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]I predict the pornstache makes a BIG TIME comeback in '06. he is married now so he'll need approval from the boss first haha Please.
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    Willets Point wrote: Ah, don't you just love free market capitalism? IIRC from economics, only one cable provider is allowed per area because it keeps from millions of cable lines crisscrossing the skies. Same with electricity and phones. Thus, those monopolies are legal.
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    I say the opposite is true. Of the guys penciled in to start next year, let's say the lineup and rotation, how many came up through our system? 4 out of 13. Maybe this is just cherry picking this current year, but I'd guess that the majority of players are going to come from outside sources. You don't have to ever just "buckle down and trust your farm system." I'd guess in fact, that whenever possible you don't want to trust your farm system, if you can get someone who has performed well at the major league level. There are the occasional guys who turn out exactly as advertised, like Wright and Reyes (hmmmm, actually just Wright so far), but for the most part it's a crapshoot. This may come as a shock to those who were clamoring for Hernandez over Matsui last year, but minor league production does not ensure major league production. Edit: Like I said, I'm only cherry-picking this year because it's easiest for my small mind, but I'm curious of the actual ratio throughout baseball.
  25. Elster88
    That's a high pitch for a lefty that Beltran is swinging at.
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