ahhchon

really, that's rather interesting... http://sports.yahoo.com/mlbpa/players/6763/splits?year=career&type=Batting he had 25 pre asb hr and 21 post asb hr's.. i guess that's sizzling out.. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlbpa/players/6763/splits?year=2004&type=Batting john

ba is blown way out of proportions. a walk in the leadoff spot is just as good as a hit. OBP is more important, especially out of the leadoff spot imo. john

i don't want to hear any of the we should have kept pedro no matter this or that, it's over with, he's gone.. i'm probably one of the biggest pedro supporters/lovers/fans whatever you want to call us. petey is my boy and always will be. the guy is great, but there is no way we could have predicted how well he was going to pitch in 05, let alone in the years to come, especially for the pricetag the mets put on him after outbidding us. yeah, pedro's showing some awsome stuff, but remember, it's only one game of the 30-35 games he'll pitch all season. it's 12k's now but take out 2 from pitchers. 10k is still impressive for opening day. just like last nights loss to the yankees, yeah, it was bad but it's just one game, there are many more to come. good luck with the mets pedro. john

BINGO, i was one of the few fans that actually wished the guy back to good health and a good career, the rest just bashed him into the ground and set the stone. john

even if it wasn't april first you shouldn't take ANYTHING bdd says seriously. :-D john

not as nasty as my fantasy pitching staff of: johnson, sheets, petey, zito, sabathia (yeah, i know he's injured) and kazmir.. MWA HA HA HA HA, K/9 is one of the categories. my god am i going to DESTROY everyone in that. john

we don't have to pay for kim? arne't we eating 5.6 million of his salary? personally i'de rather keep him if it's only costing us 400k, but that's just me. john

where does it say that we aquired jason young for him? it states we wanted young but the rockies didn't want to give him up i believe. sara- you always have a responce to my posts, unfortunately i don't have anything to say to you, it's really not worth my time. take it however you want to. john

bingo, it is a shame.. hopefully he can regain his old form for another club. it'll probably happen somewhere, but definately not in boston. it's still tough for me to see him go, especially getting nothing in return. if they had trade on their mind they should have definately done it before spring training. john

c'mon yeszir, i thought you were better than that. yes, if you take my little paragraph it sure sounds like that, but that's not what i'm saying. take it with the paragraph before it. i'm just saying that people should try to see both sides of things. no, i'm not saying he should have taken steroids but i can see why he did. i mean, who doesn't want to be the best? when you have as much money as bonds what more could you want? he wants the title of greatest player who has ever lived. granted he COULD (imo) have done it without steroids (we'll never really know) but now he'll forever go down as mr. barroids. i honestly think the bonds thing is blown out of proportions. he's obviously a great baseball player and obviously can do it without roids. i feel that steroids provided him with greater longevity rather than greater ability to hit the ball. i personally don't believe steroids can help you walk 180+ times and k under 100 times during the course of one season, that stuff takes some serious skill. having larger muscles do not increase the chances of someone hitting a baseball, nor does it increase the ability to hit a baseball. larger muscles help increase the distance a baseball is hit and increase the ability to hit the ball harder ( therefore increasing distance).. either way you look at it steroids helped bonds hit more homers. his ability to actually make contact with the baseball is the reason why he's so damn good. the media doesn't help the guy. guys like dan shittessy live off this stuff. lets think, would they rather talk about ozzie smith retiring or barry bonds on steriods? bonds on steriods obviously. it's an eye catcher and a money maker. people can judge all they want but as much as i don't like the fact that barry has done roids i don't think he's a bad person or any of the things some people have said. all these people who think to know barry's character etc. personally i would be pretty annoyed with reporters hounding me and asking me the same questions 50 times a day. hell i get annoyed when asked the same question twice. like you were always taught as a child, don't be so quick to judge anything. professional atheletes are humans just like you and me, they don't have to live certain standards so kids can use them as role models, they are human and make mistakes just like you and i. have you fully admitted to the public every mistake you have made? everyone has deep dark secrets, imagine yours was exposed to the world and reporters bugged you everyday.. i'm not even sure how i would react... john p.s.- i'm not looking to start any arguements, it's late, i've been studying all day, this was just me rambling just to get my mind off of school .

greatest all time? ted williams. who can argue against this guy, he went to WAR for 3 years and still put up HOF numbers (hence why he's in cooperstown). imagine he didn't go to war? a case can be argued for pedro, but not starting and ending his career in boston hurts his chances. pedro was the all time great if you take 5 year samples. john

so? you could have said left field, it makes no point.. john

i understand they have a 3b.. but i don't see how that possibly relates to what i said.. :-/, crazy yankee fans.. john

i would still like to understand what you were trying to say when you said he wasn't going to be a 3b. john

i never doubted the fact that the trade for cabrera was bad, it was good. yes, nomar had his share of popups but to all us real sox fans we knew that for every popup he got on base 10 times. (figure of speech for you bitches out there). and you're a sad little man that has nothing better to do than sit on talk sox and refresh until the name "ahhchon" comes up in a thread. the difference is that i voice my opinion on everyone, you have nothing better to do than to focus on me. it's flattering either way. you're right a sox fan is a sox fan, i have nothing against the fact that he's a fairweather fan, i have a problem with the fact that he's bashing nomar when he never even saw what nomar really did for this organization. that's my problem. it's great that you agree with zenny, if that helps you justify your post then by all means agree with him, hell, i agree with him too. OMG OMG OMG :thumbsup: john

you reak of a post 2003 sox fan. yea, we were better off with cabrera last year due to the defensive upgrade. we don't know how we'll do with renteria, right now it's all speculation and assumptions. of course we all wish for the best. nomar garciapopup, HA. more stuff backing you are a post 2003 fan. nomar was the man. you obviously never watched nomar, the guy who rarely struck out and batted 372/434/599. zip your trap. john

that has nothing to do with the fact that he won't come close to putting up the numbers helton does offensively. john

you're kidding me right? this kid doesn't crack baseball americas top 35 prospects and you think he's the next tod helton? being hopeful is one thing and being crazy is another. tod helton has a career ops of over 1.000, his obp is always hovering around .450 and he slugs around .610 every season, along with that he takes a lot of walks and k's little. one of the games best hitters. of all the players in the mlb how many are at heltons level? 7, maybe 8? bonds vladdy manny pujols berkman rolens edmons beltre (if he replicates last season) honerable mention to : melvin mora john

do you know anything about damon other than the fact that he's a self proclaimed idiot? as much as we all like damon we understand that his asking price could be too high for the sox, especially if his production decreases (in which we know it will continue due to increasing age). damon is a fan favorite but if his asking price is too high he will be let go. hanley ramirez might be a small name right now (to some "fans") but if all goes well it'll be a household name years to come. john

first off: chill out man, the world is not against you. s***, we have a few arguements here and there but i take none of it seriously and have nothing against you. who honestly has a grudge over someone online? damn.. secondly: i never said you were a girl, in fact if you read my post (key word, read), you would have noticed that i said exactly what your name really was. lastly: stop making these absurd judgements on me. everyone lives their own lives their own way. if i wanted to take steriods, smoke pot and drink everyday i would. but i don't. i have never taken steroids, i have gotten drunk twice since september and smoked pot a total of 4 times. to some people that is a lot, but to me it was all done in moderation with friends of mine. you might not be a girl but your post sure make it hard for us to believe, take a chill pill. john

the only good stuff you have against me is stuff that i set you up for. s***** aye? john p.s.- yeah, i totally set myself up for that one. :-D

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sara is a girl????????????????? i thought so at first too, then i though, nahh, she's never signed her posts by sara and i figured it was for saratosa. OH MY GOD. i just wasted time in my life arguing with a girl. if i knew sarasox was a friggan girl i would have NEVER gotten into it. wow. i should have smelled the V-factor from a friggan mile away. john

now c'mon, lets play nice. insult with constructive arguements that rip apart the other persons post, not with pictures that make me crack up. ;-) john

my knickname isn't "hammer" for nothing. john

i'm not exactly sure where in my post i came across as not being calm. i was completely calm when i wrote it. don't get me wrong, i feel bad for his family and whoever cares about him because losing a family member/friend sucks, but for him, non whatsoever, he could die over 10 times and it would mean squat to me. i'm still very skeptical on what the issue was. what directly killed him? the patch or the pot. what indirectly killed him, his stupidity or the pot? from what i have read so far it seems as if the patch was the direct cause of death (due to being on longer than 15mins) and the indirect cause of his death was stupidity. one could easily blame it on pot due to the fact that he might have fallen asleep due to the effects of some strains of marijuana but the underlying fact is that he's stupid. again, this is opinoin is concluded from the information given to me. john