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Posted Monday October 13, 2008, About: Giants interested in Gonzalez
there are always my favorite posts. bring the lawlz.
Posted Sunday October 12, 2008, About: Giants interested in Gonzalez
Too soon to trade away good picks for Gonzalez. Boss hasn't even been thrown to very often, and he hasn't looked as bad as people say. I think he just needs to be given more time before someone as good as a 2nd rounder goes...not exactly like the offense is struggling.
Posted Tuesday September 16, 2008, About: Skins not happy with Cooley's blog
Hahaha. The quote from Cooley's blog used in the above has nothing to do with confidential information on the team's player quizzes. It has to do with the fact that he showed the world his genitals. C'mon SI...tell the truth.
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Giant accuses 'Skin of cheap shot
It's such B.S. to say "Samuels should have done it, because if he didn't, Kiwanuka would have lit into Campbell on the play."

Basically you're saying, because Kiwanuka was about to do his job, in a legal, fair, manner, it was within Samuels' rights to take a dive at Kiwanuka's legs and do something totally illegal and unsportsmanlike to prevent it?

On the last play of the game, a meaningless snap, Kiwanuka was going all-out as he's supposed to. Samuels' response should have been to go all-out and not get burned on the outside like he did...not to take an ankle-dive that could have ended a player's season. It was a cheap, unnecessary shot. He got beat, and he should have accepted it. Since it was the last play of the game, it had no relevance to the outcome, so Samuels had no business doing something ILLEGAL to potentially injure a player who was doing something entirely LEGAL.
Posted Tuesday September 02, 2008, About: Royals GM promises changes
"Can someone let me know when the first major push was made?"

WHY, GIL MECHE OF COURSE! Were you not paying attention at that GAME CHANGING signing?
Posted Tuesday September 02, 2008, About: Royals GM promises changes
Oooh...big changes coming to K.C.

Maybe a Mark Teahan bobblehead night to replace the Jose Guillen one?
Posted Tuesday September 02, 2008, About: Giants Add Needed Depth at DE
Leave it to a Pats fan to bring them into a story that has nothing to do with them. Typical Boston attitude.

You would have thought they'd quiet down a bit after 18-1 happened.

Either way, this is a solid move for the Giants. Low-risk, high-reward move that shores up the depth chart and offers the chance to a still-talented player to prove his worth.
Posted Tuesday September 02, 2008, About: Brady expects to play opener
The moron's been on the Patriots "probable" portion of an injury list since, like, the Truman administration. We're supposed to care about a news story about it now? Please.

18-1, for those whose memories haven't failed them.
Posted Monday July 28, 2008, About: Manny eyeing Angels move?
The fact that the article even HINTS that the Angels might have Vlad coming off the books this year is hilariously absurd. It shows that only a truly baseball ignorant moron could have written it. The Angels have an option on him, and there isn't a chance in hell it isn't exercised.
Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, About: Poll: MLB's most overrated player is...
I like how absolutely no one who has commented has bothered thinking about this at all.

FIrst off, saying someone is overrated is in no way, shape, or form a slight against the player himself, a personal attack on him, or even a remark about his talents. It is merely an indication of how OTHER PEOPLE perceive him relative to his actual talent. Considering the world has universally agreed on Jeter being amazingly clutch, and consider he actually, for his career, bats 30 points BELOW his averages in late-and-close situations (along with a lower batting average in the postseason than regular season), it is completely fair to say that the man is overrated. The consensus on his level of play in the general public does not necessarily always match his numbers, even if his numbers are good. Furthermore, we're talking about a guy who has won 3 gold gloves SOLELY on reputation and on people getting a limited selection of ESPN highlights to judge on. It is statistically (and visually) verifiable that he is a below average, and perhaps just plain bad defensive shortstop...with 3 gloves on the mantle, when there more than just a few more deserving shortstops every one of those years. And hell, if you want to bring salary (relative to other players in the game, and as a whole), then he's just all kinds of ridiculously over-hyped.

Second of all, yes, players in the poll are probably jealous (some of them, anyway...I doubt Chase Utley, Vladimir Guerrero, Ichiro Suzuki, Johan Santana, Manny Ramirez, etc., etc. are particularly "jealous"). But part of that jealousy, to them, is warranted BECAUSE they feel he gets more credit than he deserves (and he does...even beyond the statistics, people talk non-stop about Jeter's intangibles which are, frankly, utter ****). Furthermore, resorting to just saying "OMG THE OTHER PLAYERS ARE JEALOUS," (which, by the way, shows the exact kind of defensiveness and over-zealous stance-taking that is generally associated with a too-close-to-true statement) how about more time be spent on actually considering that maybe, just maybe, there is a marginal amount of truth to the comments?
Posted Saturday June 21, 2008, About: Poll: MLB's most overrated player is...
Before we get carried away TOO much with the "Jeter is so clutch" stuff, let's remember first of all that his playoff career stats are actually marginally BELOW his regular season stats (and if we take away his Maier homer, they're even slightly lower), and that last year Jeter had a lower postseason batting average than his ever-so-lampooned 3rd baseman teammate. Furthermore, he's been a virtual non-factor in the last several postseasons, and is also quickly climbing the all time GIDP charts.

Yes, he's clutch (sometimes), and a great player, but the media has done a fantastic job of basically self-fulfilling their own prophecy of how clutch a player he is by playing up his successes, never mentioning his failures, and blasting his more talented teammates.
Posted Sunday June 08, 2008, About: Will Bonds DH for Boston?
This would be the worst thing to ever happen to a typical baseball fan. ESPN would (somehow) manage to turn the network into an even BIGGER grandstand cheering section for the Red Sox. If it's possible for them to devote any more time to that franchise, the addition of Bonds would assure it. They'd probably have to create a new Red Sox channel just to fit it all in...and I just might have to kill myself over it.
Posted Thursday April 24, 2008, About: Hunter reveals racist Fenway taunts
Anyone who knows anything about history knows Boston has an undeniably dark history of racial tolerance. The city practically exploded in the 70s over racial tensions from the school bussing system. They took forever to get black players on the Red Sox, and just last year Gary Matthews Jr. said it's the only park where anyone ever uses racial slurs against him.

Maybe instead of such staunch denial and refusal to admit what these players have no reason to lie about, people should try to embrace the idea of advocating some change in the city, because it is historically, somehow, rather racist. Hunter has nothing to gain by lying. Yes, other fans in other cities are likely obnoxious...but two players have now said that a city with an already documented racist history, is the ONLY one where they hear this kind of stuff. Other fans may be crass, but the racism is apparently only experienced by them here. And it's not a surprise in the least, sadly.
Posted Monday April 14, 2008, About: Hamstring sidelines hot Kendrick
Because the country developed east-to-west, and baseball on the west coast is still, relatively speaking, a young practice. Also, sports media is a financial interest, and they have to serve it. There are more fans of the yanks and sox (as you noted), and catering to their desires is a better way to ensure a profit line than doing so for west coast teams. It also helps that places like ESPN are located geographically in the dead center of New York and Boston (Bristol, CT).

What happens is, in serving the financial interest of their company, ESPN HAS to ignore the west coast...larger fan bases aren't gonna stick around to watch Angels highlights or Dodgers highlights, or hear about how some piss-on like Howie Kendrick is better than their fan-favorite like Melky Cabrera who is, realistically, no where near a top-50 player. This isn't really a matter of "maybe he's close, but not quite there"...he is just legitimately not a good player, and is not going to be. Just average at best. And most of all...the east coast is ASLEEP when half of west coast teams are playing. The best players in the west coast don't seem to get half the attention of the good/above-average ones on the east coast (more people know Kendrick than Pedroia, but I can tell you right now who is better by a mile).

Howie Kendrick is a career .360 hitter in the minor leagues, who has never hit below .320 at any level. He was baseball-america's #12 player in the country for 2006, and would be a household name if not for fluke injuries (HBP) last year. He makes contact almost every time at the plate, and every scout who has ever written a report on him agrees that he'll spend his entire career winning batting titles, with 15-20 homer power, and 20+ SBs. Given his track record, its not unreasonable to see him, if healthy, push .400 at some point, or be going for 3,000 hits before his 40th birthday. All he needs is health...the rest follows. His skill set is essentially that which suggests it would be EXTREMELY unlikely for him to bust out like some of the high-K/low-BB power prospect (see: Chad Hermansen).
Posted Monday April 14, 2008, About: Hamstring sidelines hot Kendrick
That wasn't my point at all. I was sarcastically saying that SI.com/ESPN.com shouldn't report on west coast baseball because it "doesn't exist." I wasn't saying fans should be posting more on this specific thread, because there's really not much else to say other than "yup, he's injured all right."

My main "issue taking" is actually with an espn.com list a few weeks ago of the top 50 players in baseball over the next 5 years in which Kendrick was absent from the list, but somehow Melky Cabrera made the cut. There was one AL West player on the entire list. The slant in coverage by sports networks is pitiful. See: faux yanksox rivalry headlines from this weekend, ie the David Ortiz jersey plant. **** like that is likely pure fabrication, and is at best, worthy of a blurb on the back page of a New York rag...not of ESPN special coverage and long articles.

Oh, and for the record, I'm a Mets fan.
Posted Monday April 14, 2008, About: Hamstring sidelines hot Kendrick
Probably the most underappreciated young hitter in the game. Angels are hurt without him.

But hey, he doesn't play for the Yanksox, so why should we talk him? We've got Melky Cabrera's below average bat to chat up as if he's the next big thing instead.
Posted Monday April 14, 2008, About: Yankees remove hexed Sox jersey
The problem was that they realized that the majority of the country doesn't give a **** about the Sox/Yankees rivalry, so they had to manufacture another fake headline to force down our throats to remind us that they still exist.

WHO
GIVES
A
****
Posted Friday April 11, 2008, About: Guillen claims ump hates him
Wait. An umpire dislikes one of the biggest **** in baseball?

How dare he!

"Endearing" or not, Ozzie's attitude directly parallels that of someone who would, outside of the sports world, be considered a monumental ****. Deal with it or change your personality.
Posted Saturday March 22, 2008, About: Willis struggling with Tigers
Hey, um...sacked. Yeah, hi.

Just so you know, Barry went from the AL to the NL last year. Not the NL to the AL.

And Pedro made the switch from the NL to the AL well over a decade ago, long before any real discrepancy between the two leagues.

Plus, you know...Josh Beckett almost won the Cy Young last year, and still won the most games in baseball last year after switching from the NL.

You = fail.
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2008, About: Brewers-Angels spring training feud
Field Marshall is right. The 2008 favorites to win the American League West, and the division champions in 3 of the last 4 years are so, so irrelevant.

And so are these piss-on contenders to win the NL Central.

So irrelevant. Why talk about them at all?
Posted Friday February 22, 2008, About: Bonds: I can't get fair trial
Hate him or not (and I do), he's right. The so-called typo has damaged his chances in a trial a considerable amount. You can't unring a bell.

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