Hatchetman

i always hated garland b/c he had the natural ability to be better than he was..AND he like to blame others for his problem..AND the "i don't give a s***" smirk on his face. however, i do want him to pitch well. however, 3.9 K's/9 innings is horrible. no one will ever succeed with that over the long haul. maddux was about 7.5 in his prime. 48 year old tommy john may have been around 3, but he sucked by that time.

back in the olden days, the bears had a receiver named willie gault, who was a track star in college. he had absolutely no football skills at all, other than to sprint downfield. the defense had to worry about him, becuase 50% of the time he would catch a ball that got to him and he'd be gone. i dunno, maybe he caught 30 passes/year. but he helped the running game a hell of a lot by keeping the safeties worried about the deep ball.

keep him. low post scorers are too hard to find.

i defended cotts all last year, but he's starting to piss me off.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2005 -> 12:05 PM) Its all supply and demand. If the general public were buying up the Sox at 83 wins, it wouldn't stay there, it would go up. If no one were buying the Sox at 83, they would fall. Outside of setting the initial lines, the casinos are only responding to buying pressure when they move their lines around. yeah, by "they" i meant the betting community. seems like "we" are generally more optimistic. on paper i don't see how we could be worse than last year. essentially trading lee for about 8 other acquisitions.

Thanks. 83 wins would seem to be "easy" money. maybe they know something we don't?

I saw something that had us at 82.5. the bookmakers are usually pretty accurate.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 30, 2005 -> 09:04 AM) Why the f*** does a punter have to take steroids? maybe to make his leg stronger?

frank's ultimately responsible for what his lawyer says/does on his behalf.

cocaine didn't help, but he had arm problems. never regained his "stuff."

can you get team stats? sometimes you can see s*** that'll never happen in real life...like harris gets 600 ABs and hits .211.

giambi kind of fell off the earth last year, huh? wonder why.....

i think the breakeven point is a bit lower than they estimate, because basestealers put more pressure on the defense and pitcher....wild throws over to first, throws into center, having to cover first base, having to play a little closer to the bag, defenders out of position on stolen base attempts, pitcher loss of concentration on the hitter, fatigue from throwing over to first, defense back on their heels as runner and pitcher play games....extra bases gained on a run and hit...etc.

btw, i've heard joe and joel and apparently he went by both. anyone know the story there?

horlen is on my all-time sox 12 man staff.

jim thompson and JR promised it would be rebuilt. wonder what happened there....

rogers is on his way to a gammonsesque senility.

he's right about the chickens

his name was pudge because he had the build of a brick s***house, not because he was fat.

this story has the before and after http://www.detnews.com/2005/tigers/0502/18/tigers-94607.htm

finally, a national writer with a clue.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 10:30 AM) Not to defend him. I think steroids are disgraceful to the game, but when Canseco was with us in 2001, he was the most exciting player we had for about a month. When he would come in to pinch hit, the park was electric in anticipation. I agree. The guy could still hit, obviously. He was better than 2/3 of the DH's around the league. I guess teams just didn't want the guy around. He seemed to be pretty popular with teammates...until now.

neyer is a moron.

he's pretty much backup material IMO.

we traded jack mcdowell for that guy.