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LOL at anybody thinking they know anything about any of these guys. WTF is a smoak. You read a Phil Rogers column and now you think you're an expert.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 02:18 AM) And Swisher retakes the lead! Yahoo says they're tied at .202

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2008 -> 04:15 PM) Learn how to block a punch. Paint house, paint fence, learn how block punch

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ May 28, 2008 -> 03:24 AM) The day that I let Googles holiday celebrations affect my mood is the day I need to take a long hard look in the mirror and punch myself in the face. Or shove an icepick into your temple. Great thread, though.

LOL

QUOTE (KevinM @ May 25, 2008 -> 03:07 PM) If you don't understand how lucky a .352 BABIP coupled with a 16% LD is-- then you've got, at best, a rudimentary understanding of baseball. Also, if you know about stuff like BABIP and LD, you have most likely never had any contact with a vagina.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 25, 2008 -> 10:27 PM) Hell no to the bolded. He, like Boers and Bernstein, started his radio show in the late morning originally. Nine years later for B&B, and they have a top of the line late afternoon drivetime show, while Rosenbloom's show bombed after a year (if it was that long). If he were so smart, he wouldn't have been forced to run back to the newspaper only after a miserably failed radio show. The Rosenbloom & Baum show was great. It aired on Saturday mornings from 6 AM to 10 AM on the Score, so most people on here probably didn't catch it too often, but I looked forward to it every week (it coincided with my work hours).

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ May 23, 2008 -> 05:45 PM) Whoever said that Rosenbloom is worse than Mariotti has not read Rosenbloom. Whereas Mariotti yells fire! and runs, Rosenbloom will try to justify his writing. He's not always right, sometimes he's downright wrong, but he's always a good read in my opinion. I've been reading his stuff and listening to him on the radio since the early 90s. I'd say that he's on point in the vast, vast majority of cases. His wit is amazingly sharp, and his brand of humor is similar to that of Boers & Bernstein. The Quentin thing is stupid, I'll concede that.

Josh currently leads the AL in all triple crown categories: .335 BA 12 HR 53 RBI

QUOTE (Brian @ May 18, 2008 -> 09:15 PM) Only one I could find. Yeah, I'd do her....with a paper bag over her head! OOOOOHHH!!!

LOL, Reddy. First you don't recognize the save situation with Masset in there, and then you say that the Sox are the exact opposite of patient when we're #3 in the AL in walks. Shake it off and go get 'em tomorrow. Good god, man. That's an atrocious couple of pages that I just read through.

My all-time lineup: 1. Ty Cobb OF 2. Rogers Hornsby 2B 3. Babe Ruth OF 4. Lou Gehrig 1B 5. Ted Williams DH 6. Willie Mays OF 7. Josh Gibson C 8. Alex Rodriguez 3B 9. Honus Wagner SS Bench: Hank Aaron Johhny Bench Rickey Henderson Juan Uribe f*** Barry Bonds

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 16, 2008 -> 05:40 PM) Well assuming there are no large incentives in the deal (which I refuse to believe) it's actually closer to $44M over 6 years. He wasn't going to make much more than $1M in '08 and '09 combined since he's still pre-arb, so it's closer to $7.33M a year over 6 years which is still a HUGE discount but looks a bit better than $5.625M per. I see. How much is Crede looking for, like 10 to 12 million per? If Braun is worth 7 MIL per, then Crede might be worth like 250K if he's lucky.

QUOTE (Mplssoxfan @ May 16, 2008 -> 06:45 PM) If Williams or Musial hit leadoff, they'd be the best leadoff hitters of all time, too. Same with Bonds or Ruth. They are much more valuable in the spots in which they actually hit, though, just as Cobb was. Cobb might have finished with great OPS numbers, but he wasn't your prototypical slugger. His profile = table setter. Guys like Bonds, Ruth, Musial, and Williams were there to knock in the table-setters. 4000+ hits, .433 career OBP, 300 triples, 700+ doubles, 2200+ runs, and 900 SBs = greatest table-setter of all time as far as I can tell.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 16, 2008 -> 05:26 PM) SHould have been modern era. Cobb is well known as probably the best player in the "dead ball era" but we cannot compare players between the two era's. The dude had a career .367 batting avg, that just couldnt be done now. Look at the league batting average numbers. Ty Cobb between the ages of 22 and 32: 1909 Cobb BA: .377 League BA: .257 1910 Cobb BA: .383 League BA: .258 1911 Cobb BA: .420 League BA: .287 1912 Cobb BA: .409 League BA: .269 1913 Cobb BA: .390 League BA: .263 1914 Cobb BA: .368 League BA: .260 1915 Cobb BA: .369 League BA: .261 1916 Cobb BA: .371 League BA: .261 1917 Cobb BA: .383 League BA: .255 1918 Cobb BA: .382 League BA: .256 1919 Cobb BA: .384 League BA: .274 From 1920 to 1929, the league BA was consistently in the .288 to .300 range, and Cobb had also turned 33 at the beginning of this period, so he was no longer finishing like 130 points above league average, but really, the 1909-1919 numbers speak for themselves.

QUOTE (Mplssoxfan @ May 16, 2008 -> 05:43 PM) Cobb was a better hitter than Rickey, but he didn't bat leadoff. He was a 3 - 4 hitter. Therefore, I stand by my statement earlier in the thread. Baseball Library Article: I also have some HOF book that says pretty much the same thing. He didn't hit exclusively out of the leadoff slot, but he got enough bats out of that spot to qualify for our purposes. Furthermore, if you're putting together an all-time lineup, there's no doubt that Cobb is leading off. No doubt whatsoever.

QUOTE (Mplssoxfan @ May 15, 2008 -> 06:39 PM) Rickey was, quite simply, the greatest leadoff hitter in history. I'd have to go with Ty Cobb. 11 batting average titles, 10 OPS titles, 7 OBP titles, 8 SLG titles, 6 SB titles, etc. Highest lifetime batting average in MLB history, a .433 career OBP, over 4000 hits, 2250 runs, 900 SBs, 300 triples, 725 doubles, etc. Consider this: Rickey Henderson never had an OBP of .440 or higher, but Ty Cobb did it 13 times: .456, .467, .456, .467, .466, .486, .452, .444, .440, .452, .462, .468, .440.

LOL, less than 6 million per year? That's insane.

May Stats: 50 AB .580 AVG 1.140 SLG .644 OBP 7 HR 7 2B 18 RBI 19 RUNS 9 BB Season Stats: 151 AB .391 AVG .808 SLG .472 OBP 15 HR 16 2B 1 3B 32 XBH 43 RBI 45 RUNS 25 BB He reached base three times in five plate appearances on Thursday, and his May OBP actually went down from .648 (35/54) to .644 (38/59).

Words could never, ever begin to describe how much Jimmy Fallon sucks.

He went 3-4 tonight with two more extra-base hits. His batting average is up to .393, and his slugging percentage is an even .800. May Numbers: 39 AB .641 BA 1.205 SLG .689 OBP 5 HR 7 2B 13 RBI 16 RUNS The guy is clearly out of his mind.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2008 -> 05:27 AM) For the White Sox? Kidding

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2008 -> 05:17 AM) 3-4, 2b, homer for Berkman tonight. He has 24 hits in last 9 games. That's 30 extra-base hits in 39 games.

QUOTE (daa84 @ May 13, 2008 -> 04:53 AM) yeah, frankly i think hamilton is the more likely player to keep this up too Volquez is looking like a guy that can lead the NL in strikeouts. The Texas Rangers currently have the worst starting rotation since baseball started back in the 1860s. There is no argument. You keep the potential ace.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 13, 2008 -> 04:48 AM) You don't trade Volquez period, even if you have 4 other great starters, his stuff is just phenominal. Right, but it's all the more pathetic when you have barely any pitching talent in your organization. Texas is without question the dumbest baseball franchise of my lifetime.