Youk Of The Nation

I have to agree with Palodios, despite his offensive avatar. The defense is almost certainly going to show a dramatic increase in competence this season. At worst, his stats dip slightly but still stay at an elite level or he turns in a nearly identical season. At best, he is even better than last year, wins the Cy Young and cures every form of cancer without turning it into a Will Smith movie.

I have read several books about Ty Cobb, including one whose title escapes me, told from the point of view of an author who actually spent time with Cobb in his later years. Ty Cobb was a great player, but not only is he certainly the biggest douchebag in the history of baseball, he might actually be one of the worst people in the history of professional American sports. He makes OJ Simpson look like a Boy Scout.

What about the order for 6-7-8-9? Do you have a preference?

Edwin Encarnacion is a 3B, isn't he? Wouldn't that be E5? Like A-Rod?

I think they realized that most of us here could not possibly care any less about foot-fairy ball.

In all honesty, I agree with most of the people on the first page. Waaaay too early to even try predicting HOF inductions. The only one I would consider is Ortiz, and that's only for the Competitive Eating HOF.

Yeah, Reddick is a certainty. They'll probably induct him along with Daniel Nava and Darnell McDonald.

1. War trophies, mostly. Ears, fingertips, the occasional tooth. Also Star Trek books. As for Red Sox stuff, usually just whatever body part I can salvage during the chloroform-induced sleep. I have Jason Varitek's left kidney, Julio Lugo's entire central nervous system in a jar (explains a lot, no?), three of Jacoby Ellsbury's teeth, the section of Jonathan Papelbon's brain responsible for regulating aberrant behavior, Lynn Jones' eye, Dale Sveum's rotator cuff (too late to do any good), and a perfectly preserved plaster casting of Nomar Garciaparra's face, obtained at great cost from someone who assured me that she was not a prostitute. 2. Since I was old enough to wield a scalpel and taser 3. I started collecting Red Sox 'trophies' when my local police force began looking for a pattern in the disappearance of so many homeless people and strippers. 4. On a shelf in my basement is a large pickle jar, filled to the top with specially designed chemicals, containing the prehensile tail that was removed at birth from Johnny Damon 5. I try not to, the last girlfriend I showed my collection to threatened to get a restraining order. A complete overreaction, as she admitted under carefully supervised treatment, but I still keep it hidden, mostly because convincing her that everything was okay used up the last of my supply of pharmecuticals and leather straps. 6. To be a fan means to exist so as to continually rotate your blade in order to provide either breeze or exhaust for the organic denizens of Earth. What kind of question is that, anyways? Moving on. 7. It's best not to go into that. Sufficent to say, it involves a lot of footwork, a lot of forgery and the sporadic but intense use of hydrochloric acid and good old-fashioned elbow grease (read: other kinds of acid). 8. I have tried on occasion, but sadly the recession seems to have seriously dried up the customer base for questionably-acquired human tissues. No one is safe from the ravages of economic failure, it seems. Though I find Craigslist useful now and then. Well, I hope this helped. Please, feel free to include your observations of my collection in your report, however I must ask you not to share your information with any police department, the FBI, NSA, CIA, the US Marshals, the Secret Service, the American Medical Association, MLB, Harmon and Bale's Pharmecuticals in Hartford, Connecticut, or Interpol. They may confuse your research with another unrelated issue that I am in no way involved in.

I didn't really watch baseball until about 2002, so a lot of these names are guys I only know of by reputation. Some of them played in their primes before I was born. So I'm going by your opinion, and I have to ask, was Nolan Ryan really a bad fielder? I mean, how many chances does a pitcher get to really be classified as bad?

Probably this guy I went to high school with, he's easily 300-350 pounds.

Okay, over/under on Bautista hitting more home runs combined in the life of this contract than he did last season.

Do it.

No. Maybe I'll watch it later. I've ripped on that song enough myself.

Seriously, you guys are just doing this to piss me off now. :banned:

1.Lester 2. Pedroia 3. Youk 4. A-Gon 5. Buchholz 6. Crawford 7. Papelbon 8. Beckett 9. Ellsbury 10. Bard I can't really rank the other 15.

A-Rod AND Brady?! I don't think there is any way for me to hate you more than I do at this moment. What's next? Sidney Crosby and Aaron Rodgers?

Tell him to turn around, I think I found it.

Kiwi Softball sounds like it might get messy. I guess it's much safer than Coconut Volleyball, anyways.

I will bet you one dollar that the Red Sox play cricket instead!

Red Sox Twins Rangers WC: Yankees Phillies Cardinals Giants WC: Rockies World Series: The Philadelphia Holy s*** What a Rotations over the AL in four.

I am so happy for Blyleven.

is the main suspect The pitcher shot and killed the player insisted he was not involved in the New Year’s Eve shootings. Simon could face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong... I'm not saying for sure if he did it or not. The police think he did, obviously. They might have evidence. But then, it's not my job to decide if he did or didn't. ...and it's not a journalist's job either. It's their job to report on the facts, unless it's an editorial column, which this isn't. The writer seems to already have made up their mind, even though the law hasn't. Also, I'm sure the victim's families are comforted that a full quarter of the article dealing with their loved one's death is devoted to the alleged killer's pitching history.

Good. I hope he dies in prison.