hammerhead johnson

Sweet. I just saw "Napoleon Dynamite" for the first time tonight. Sweet is my new word.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Mar 12, 2005 -> 06:10 AM) Hey hammer, that was our boy chandler that may have won the game for us. Beautiful

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 09:24 PM) $250 for cars, $500 for pedestrians. I know, I learned this in Drivers Ed 2 days ago. This one dumbass that I grew up with got a $500 ticket when he drove around the gate at the Grand & Harlem station. It's technically a good block or two from Chicago, though. I guess that it depends on the city, town, village, etc. If it were up to me, I'd have a $2000 fine at the very least.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 08:28 PM) You sure are giving Vick a lot of credit considering he has started only 36 games in his career. As for Pennington, I am not even going to get into that. Sure, but when I say that Lebron James and Dwyane Wade are absolute studs and in my Top 10 NBA players list, could you claim that it's an inaccurate thing to say since they've only been in the NBA for 1 1/2 seasons? Certain players just come along and break the mold. And Chad Pennington....I'd have to reiterate once again (third time in this thread) that he has a career rating of 94 going into his 4th season. What is it about Chad that doesn't merit a spot in a Top 10 QB list?

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 07:25 PM) I strongly disagree. As you said we are talking the earliest 5 yrs after he retires. How big of an impact with AB's & OPS have on the voting by then? I think it will have the biggest impact of any other stat. How many years has OPS been the de-facto standard? We are talking another 10 yrs before Thomas is considered. OPS will be the major mark. As for the roids scandal in MLB it's captured the nation's attention since McGuire yrs ago. It's not going away & it seems to be getting stronger not weaker. If it is a non-factor then it will be due to MLB cleaning the stuff up. In that respect we should expect to see declining OPS #'s for potential roids. That's only going to solidify Thomas' stance as being one of the best hitters of all time. Helton - Will lose out to Thomas (> 6000AB), & never reach (>9000AB). Ramirez - Will lose out Thomas (> 8000AB). McGuire - Done. Thomas has beaten him (> 6000AB), & Thomas is likely to reach 8000AB. Berkman - Will never pass Thomas at 6000, 8000, or 9000BAB . Will never reach 9000AB Guerrero - See Helton. Thome - Will never pass Thomas at 6000, 8000, or 9000AB. Never reach 8000AB. Walker - On the decline now. No chance to pass Thomas but likely to reach 8000AB. Giles - See Helton. There is no current player in the top 20 OPS list right now who is likely to pass Thomas. That means Thomas is likely to finish in the top 10 OPS list. Translation Thomas is among the 10 most best hitters of all time. Still think he's not a 1st ballot HOFer? Up & Coming: 1. Alex Rodriguez (28) .9549 R - NO CHANCE! 22. Jason Giambi (33) .9508 L - FUGHEDABUTIT! 23. Jeff Bagwell (36) .9507 R - NO CHANCE! 24. Carlos Delgado (32) .9488 L - NOT EVEN CLOSE BUB! 26. Mike Piazza (35) .9470 R - LUCKLY TO KEEP THAT! 32. Joe Jackson .9401 L - Should be there. 34. Ken Griffey (34) .9372 L - PLEASE! Chipper Jones (32) .9372 B - DOUBLE PLEASE! 39. Bobby Abreu (30) .9290 L - Not going to happen! 43. Gary Sheffield (35) .9282 R - Ummm .. no. 44. Jim Edmonds (34) .9277 L - Sorry bub! 50. Nomar Garciaparra (30) .9187 R - A Cub fan might think so 57. Juan Gonzalez (34) .9040 R - I'd bet all I own that he will not pass Thomas in this list. Scott Rolen (29) .8980 R - No. 65. Sammy Sosa (35) .8923 R - I can't stop laughing 66. Magglio Ordonez (30) .8893 R - I still can't stop laughing 68. Rafael Palmeiro (39) .8888 L - Not even w roids! 72. Ryan Klesko (33) .8877 L - Please. 75. Tim Salmon (35) .8863 R - Nada. 76. Fred McGriff (40) .8860 L - Done. No chance at all. 88. Moises Alou (37) .8796 R - Declining. Nada. 93. Richie Sexson (29) .8769 R - In his dreams. Nada. 98. Bernie Williams (35) .8753 B - Declining. Nada. 99. Mike Sweeney (30) .8751 R - Fell way off pace. Nada. 100. Ellis Burks (39) .8737 R - Done. No active player in the top 100 list threatens Thomas' top 10 standing. More reasons: OPS progressive leaders Leading Active Player Years Best 1991 Wade Boggs .9058 Frank Thomas 1.0056 1992 Fred McGriff .9194 Barry Bonds 1.0796 1993 Fred McGriff .9202 Barry Bonds 1.1356 1994 Barry Bonds .9303 Frank Thomas 1.2168 1995 Frank Thomas 1.0436 Edgar Martinez 1.1070 1996 Frank Thomas 1.0503 Mark McGwire 1.1977 1997 Frank Thomas 1.0526 Larry Walker 1.1719 1998 Frank Thomas 1.0274 Mark McGwire 1.2224 1999 Frank Thomas 1.0133 Larry Walker 1.1681 2000 Frank Thomas 1.0184 Todd Helton 1.1617 2001 Frank Thomas 1.0153 Barry Bonds 1.3785 2002 Todd Helton 1.0319 Barry Bonds 1.3807 2003 Todd Helton 1.0414 Barry Bonds 1.2778 2004 Barry Bonds 1.0533 Barry Bonds 1.4217 1881 Cap Anson 5 yrs straight 1887 Dan Brouthers 10 yrs straight, then 4, then 2! 1908 Honus Wagner 3 yrs 1911 Ty Cobb 4 yrs, then 5 yrs 1915 Joe Jackson 2 yrs 1922 Babe Ruth 14 yrs 1936 Lou Gehrig 4 yrs 1940 Jimmie Foxx 6 yrs 1946 Ted Williams 15 yrs straight! 1961 Mickey Mantle 8yrs 1969 Willie Mays 4 yrs 1973 Hank Aaron 4yrs 1981 Mike Schmidt 6yrs 1987 Wade Boggs 5yrs 1995 Frank Thomas 7yrs Barry Bonds has only been the top Active Player in OPS twice in his career 1994 & 2004. His comparison to Ruth & Williams on this list is shocking. Sosa has never & will never appear on this list. Let me put this list in perspective. Thomas first made the list for year's best OPS in 1991. He then made it again in 1994 (the strike season). From 1995 to 2001 he took over as having the best career OPS amongst active players. He did not relinquish that title under 2002. That means he was the best hitter in the game from 1991-2001. He wasn't the best every year but his OPS was consistent enough to vault him to his 7 yr reign. Now again tell me how he's not a first ballot HOFer? Beautifully done.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 04:52 PM) cool out hammerhead, your geting on my bad side Hey, at least we make the playoffs . I'll go back to watching my superbowl highlight tapes now I'll make a note of it. At least there's only one of you, though. There are Dolphins fans everywhere on this board. Just a few that come to mind: Man Of Steel, False Alarm, Rowand44, Be Good, cwsox, a nooooobie who said that Dan The Man is the greatest QB ever, etc. I gotta watch what I say. I thought that I was in the clear with the Broncos.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 04:21 PM) i'm going to have tp disagree with you on this. Im a packer fan so of course im a huge Brett Favre fan. Peyton Manning, Donovan Mcnabb and Daunnte Culpepper are probably better than Favre now. But Tom Brady? Yeah he has the super bowl wins, but he is a product of a good system, put him on Dolphins and lets see how good he is. Drew Brees? The guy had one good year, he has been a average Qb all other years. Roethlisberger? Good rookie year, but he was super over hyped, he threw almost as many picks as he did tochdowns. David Carr and Carson Palmer have looked average at best, they every once in a while will look good but its way to early to start calling pro bowlers. Has Chad Pennington even played a full year yet? He has really weak arm and can't handle pressure. I'm not even going to get into Mike Vick. By the time 2005 comes to a close in the case of the young guys like Palmer, Carr, Roethlisberger, Brees, etc. I'm not rating guys going into 2005. Pennington's career QB rating is 94. Michael Vick? .700 career winning percentage with not much of a supporting cast? Easily the best rushing QB in NFL history? Led his team to the NFC Championship game with a below average to average OL, not a single pro bowl caliber receiver, an average defense at best, and a rookie coach? You wanna see an absolute nightmare of season? Put Favre in Atlanta. It's the difference between going 6-10 and going to the NFC Championship game. Yeah, you're right. 36 year old Favre owns him, or pwns him, or whatever.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) Well, how many 2-time MVP's are not in the HOF=1 Plus if Giambi was not juicing in 2000 Frank would have won his third MVP crown, and there is no doubt that a three time MVP should be in the hall. Even so, the fact that he is a 2-time MVP, will have 500 hr's alone will get him in the hall. Plus he is starting to get positive press for being the only one willing to testify about steroids, this may help his public image in the long run. The MVP awards are not a definitive argumentative approach considering how many guys in MLB history are damn good for a few years, and then flame out without having put up great stats over at least a decade. Guys like Juan Gonzalez and Roger Maris have won 2 MVP awards apiece. Are they HOF worthy? No way. Ted Kluszewski was an absolute beast of a hitter for a number of years...easily a top MVP candidate every year for at least 5 years straight. Is he a Hall Of Famer? Nope. Besides, the MVP is uusually a BS award. Otherwise, Jordan would have won it every year. Sportswriters like new blood. It's retarded.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 03:11 PM) What do 9 of those 10 guys all have in common?? They all played the field when they retired or going to. When was the last year Frank went and played the field? This will hurt his status unless he hit # 500. There was no DH in baseball up until the 70s, correct? You honestly believe that guys like Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, and Ted Williams wouldn't have taken advantage of the DH role back then?

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 03:52 PM) I dont like the idea. As the Broncos have proved for years, if you have a good line, any running back can be a stud. Thomas Jones was fine last year, and he's signed for 3? more years at a very reasonable price. If the Bears are looking to trade for an A-List player, I'd rather it be a receiver or QB or TE. Well, I dunno if any RB in Denver can be a "stud". Most are good system guys (Anderson, Gary, Griffin, Bell, Droughns), one's a legend (Davis), and the other is damn good, but not necessarily elite (Portis). And besides, the Broncos in the playoffs since Elway retired: 2000 Baltimore 21 Denver 3 2003 Indianapolis 41 Denver 10 2004 Indianapolis 49 Denver 24 I don't think I want to copy/imitate anything that the Broncos have been doing.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 04:32 AM) Yeah I've had a few of those. Last week was prolly the scariest. I was running late for baseball and was approaching a railroad crossing where a train was sitting there at a complete stop. I live right by these tracks and have drove over them a thousand times. The gates began to come down, and so I decide that I should go around the gate because I'm running late and didn't want to go all the way around. I had my music blaring so I didn't hear that another train on the other track at the same crossing was speeding at me. If I would have left home 3 seconds earlier, I probably would have been on the tracks and smashed by the train. I don't consider it near death, but it was near-near death. Now I have been playing my music a little quieter and driving a little bit safer. You know it's like a $500 fine for crossing the tracks when the gate is down? Not that I'd ever play russian roulette with my life, but that $500 fine should be plenty to wipe out any thought of crossing when the gate is down.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) I like yuor list, but as I said they are all relatively young. Brett Favre has done this over a long period of time. These other QBs you have listed, especially 6-10, have done it for only 1 or 2 years. Micheal Vick is definately not consistent in what he does and has been injured often and he is in your top 5. It is hard to put those young QBs ahead of Favre when they have not done it and proven themselves over a longer period of time such as Favre has. Again, this is just showing that the NFL is in a great deal of turnover at the QB position. This does not by any means prove how great Favre is by todays standards. I hear you, but I'm not ready to compare the QB position to the Center position in the NBA. There is just far too much young talent, as you stated. I went to look at Montana's first year with KC (when he was 37). There were still a good number of legendary quarterbacks doing their thing (Young, Elway, Moon, Kelly), and only a couple of damn good up-and-comers (Aikman, Bledsoe). Today, you have a s***load of up-and-comers and hardly any HOF caliber veterans that are over 30 years of age. If anything, guys just aren't lasting as long as they used to (McNair, Aikman, etc). But that could all be bulls*** as well.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 02:57 PM) in my book Alexander is above and beyond better than Edge. He might be, but not by much. Alexander is above and beyond better than Thomas Jones or somebody like that. Shaun is not exactly a legendary RB like Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, etc. He can't be considered above and beyond a phenomenal, hall of fame caliber RB like Edgerrin James. Personally, I'd go with Alexander as well on the strength of injury history. But if we're talking about performance when healthy, James is a beast...same as Alexander.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 07:15 AM) Name 10 QB's that are better and do more for their team then. Here are the key stats as far as I'm concerned: Against NFC Division Opponents: 13 TD 3 INT Against The Rest Of The NFL: 17 TD 14 INT Against Very Good Defensive Teams (PHIL, CAR, WASH, JACK, TENN): 6 TD 11 INT He can still light up a weak defensive team like Indianapolis or St. Louis, and he definitely has it easy in the NFC Central, but he'll take a s*** in the playoffs -- that's just about guaranteed. I have him in my All-Time Top 10, but not my current Top 10 (or what I think it will be when 2005 comes to a close).

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 05:43 AM) Bears need him. He's was pretty good from what I remember. I fixed that one up for you.

Just based on what I've seen, throwing the numbers completely out the window and guessing how my Top 10 QBs will be ranked once the 2005 season comes to a close: 1. Peyton Manning 2. Donovan McNabb 3. Michael Vick 4. Tom Brady 5. Daunte Culpepper 6-10 in no particular order Drew Brees Chad Pennington Ben Roethlisberger David Carr Carson Palmer Palmer tore s*** up in his last 6 games with a 100+ rating. Carr kinda faded down the stretch, but he's just too damn good not to put up an 85 to 90 rating in what will be his 4th season. Pennington has a career rating of 94, so he could be the most underrated QB in the league because you rarely ever hear him mentioned when people (other than NY Jets fans) talk about elite QBs.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) We had like 25 more shots than them. Yep, primarily due to 15 offensive rebounds and the fact that 7 different players on the Blazers had 2 or more turnovers (22 altogether). The Blazers beat themselves.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 11:29 AM) 6'5" 230 Well, if Frank lost about 50 pounds, he'd weight 230, which is very close to what Barry Bonds weighs in at. On Frank's Leaf rookie card, he's listed at 240 pounds. On Barry's Fleer rookie card, he's listed at 185 pounds. Both players have gained somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 pounds since they were rookies (Bonds from the roids and Frank from the biscuits and gravy).

QUOTE(The Critic @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 04:12 PM) I thought Wood would make a good closer, too, but something I heard on the radio kind of changed my mind a bit. I forget who it was, maybe Hendry, but he mentioned that it might be tougher on a guy's arm to warm up several days in a row, maybe getting into a game, maybe not, than it would just to warm up and perform every 5th day. With that in mind, moving into the closer's role might not necessarily be easier on his arm after all. That makes sense to me - warming up to enter a game has to be rougher on the arm than a side session after your regular turn in the rotation. Good point. It seems like closers who rely heavily on the fastball get injured frequently.

The Blazers won the FG% battle, the rebounding battle, the turnovers forced battle, and they smoked us in FT% (82% TO 65%). Our center had 1 defensive rebound in 32 minutes. And yet, somehow, we manage to win by 13 in their building. I can't complain.

It appears as though Curry wants the opponent to get as many second-chance shots as possible. The dude had one defensive rebound in 32 freaking minutes. The Bulls, as a team, had 23 defensive rebounds. Curry had 1. 25 points on 12-19 shooting is nice, but come on.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:02 PM) If I want to win now, I'm gonna take Zambrano-Prior-Maddux-Wood-Rusch/Dempster with an OF of Hairston-Patterson-Burnitz over Zambrano-Prior-Maddux-Rusch-Dempster with an OF of Hairston-Patterson-Teix. Prospects are nothing until they come up and do well. You can also get solid OFers at the deadline for much less then an ace, which is probably what the Cubs would need. I would take a risk on a guy who has shown he can be a stud in the past but has injury problems over a stud offensive player...yes, that's basically what I'm saying. I'm not saying I wouldn't consider the trade...if Texas threw in another piece, I might just make the deal...but I don't think I'd do Wood for Teix Right on. As long as Wood is healthy come playoff time, that's all that really matters. I'd take him over Teixeira in a heartbeat.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:49 PM) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Horse...G=Google+Search Basically you pull the skin up & twist it. It's a pinch without nails which is why it shouldn't leave any marks. Much better pain response than a spanking. Try it on yourself Interesting to see it mentioned with martial arts. Never thought about in terms of self defense but I guess it could work. My mom used to pinch the s*** out of me when I was a kid. I'd always have bruises on my arms.

QUOTE(T R U @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:23 PM) I live in K Town and I walk around with my hat tilted to the right all the time.. like Flip said, I wear my hat how I want to.. doesnt mean im in a gang, a thug, a gangster, or any of that.. but I do consider my self playa How could you live in K Town if you're in Texas? He's talking about the streets between Cicero and Pulaski on the West Side. And yes, if you were to walk through there with your hat busted to the side, you'd probably get beaten to within an inch of your life. Were you busting your hat to the side 5 years ago? Or are you just trying to be like the clowns that you see in them rap videos?

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:12 PM) Horse bites are perfect for this action. I tried to do an online search to find out about "Horse Bites", and I couldn't come up with jack. I found this gem, however. I just figured that I'd share. Horny Horse Bites Man To Death