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Jack Parkman

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  1. Got fired after 2 days yet again...idk what the hell I'm doing to get whacked so quickly. I don't even have a chance to adapt to the environment before they've already made their decision. WTF? Anyway...on to the next one.
  2. Ah yes...Javier Vazquez. The guy who only had a good year on shitty teams. Could have been an ace if he could grow a pair, but Javi no tiene cojones.
  3. Absolutely. I have no problems agreeing to disagree. Makes life fun, I agree.
  4. Not going there with you. This has been discussed on this board ad nauseum.
  5. That's how every business is run these days. Privatize profits, socialize losses and rake in the dough. Fuck everyone but me.
  6. I didn't know that the chances of him remaining a starter are so low according to scouts. Not that that has stopped the Sox before, but Fulmer is a cautionary tale there.
  7. Anyway, I never started that job because of Covid, but I found another one doing the same thing in the same format that I can work from home and pays significantly more.
  8. They would have coasted to a division title if they had spent money on one more starter.
  9. They said that about Sale too. They can be wrong.
  10. Not sure he'll be there either.
  11. I'm still on the Crochet train. If he hits, it's Chris Sale part deux. A plus slider and Changeup with a 100 mph fastball from a 6-6 low 3/4 delivery from the left side. This is one of those calculated risks you take in the spot where the Sox are picking. Could lightning strike twice?
  12. This is my guy. Boom or bust, but if he hits you have Chris Sale part deux.
  13. No, he'd still be one of the best, if not the best player but he wouldn't be putting up 80+ goals and 120+ assists, just like Chamberlain wouldn't average 40-50 points in a season like he did early in his career. Chamberlain's first 6 seasons are an outlier compared to the rest of his career, where things come back to a more normal level. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/chambwi01.html
  14. No argument there, but it's hard to place the numbers in proper context.
  15. Wilt is kinda like Wayne Gretzky in that his stats are outrageous because of the era he played in. It really can't be compared to anything afterward.
  16. This was my initial post. I said "questionable" and never definitely not. I was relying on those with more knowledge than myself over the last half decade or so. I don't know how 340 lb Shaq and Ewing would fit in today's league, and that was the question. It was never about that they couldn't hang, it was always about how they'd fit. If Shaq never bulked up or did targeted strength training and remained around 315-320 and it was all muscle, he'd still be the freak he was in Orlando and an absolute beast in the modern NBA. The question was more about how the league has gone toward speed and jump shooting.
  17. I agree that he would have had to stay at the weight/mobility that he was in Orlando to stick, and that he couldn't let himself get fat. That's always been my point. 310 lb Shaq=beast in the modern NBA 340 lb Shaq=wouldn't happen. By 2001 even though he was still dominant, Shaq was already pushing 340. I've never said that Shaq wouldn't have a place in today's NBA...my argument is and always has been that he couldn't let himself get fat and still be great like he did.
  18. Of course he was always a bully. But that Orlando dude was a cyborg. It was like you built the perfect NBA center in a lab. Orlando Shaq could move, and that's the huge difference. I was an NBA junkie as a kid, When Shaq was in his prime I was in High School, and he had always been my favorite player(That's not to say I didn't like Jordan too....I just wanted to be different) If we're being honest, the Miami/LeBron thing got me to back off a bit and the Durant thing took me from hardcore to casual. My memory isn't foggy about it. If you want to challenge my memory of Orlando Shaq, that's valid because I was pretty young there but I remember Laker Shaq damn well, and I used to watch every nationally televised Laker game back then. Sometimes facts are facts....and I tend to be more on the side of bmags here. There's no doubting the game has changed in the last decade.
  19. Defensively, Orlando Shaq was better. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/onealsh01.html Better rebounder and more blocks as a member of the Magic than as a Laker. During his early Laker years, maybe...But then he got fat and couldn't move as well. So he became a physical bully. Olajuwon was 250 lbs, Mutumbo was 245 and Shaq was pushing 340. No contest.
  20. Because Orlando Shaq>>>>> he got fat in LA. He wasn't the same guy defensively. The NBA is different now and he was pushing 350 even by the time they started winning championships. Orlando Shaq was an athletic freak. LA Shaq was just bigger than everyone else so he was kind of a physical bully.
  21. This goes again toward my line of thinking. So it's more about being a defensive liability vs an offensive one. Those who watch the NBA regularly, would Lakers Shaq be in trouble here?
  22. Buehrle had his 2nd worst year with the Sox, and the 4th and 5th starters were a black hole. Garland was awful that year and whenever the 5th spot came up and they didn't score 8 runs it was an automatic loss. Colon and Loaiza's excellence shouldn't overshadow Garland and the 5th spot's awfulness.
  23. I still want to know...where did all of the elite centers go?
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