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Manny Jr being Manny Jr?

I have not been studying this like you, but if Frazier is the best player in the draft, what makes you think he will be available to us at #7?

Agreed. At most Theo gets is a second tier prospect and a guy from the instructional league. Theo missed the boat on Garza. When he took over the team, he could have gotten a nice haul of prospects. Garza has done nothing except diminish in value since then.

1967.

It will be interesting to see if Puig can set the baseball world on fire in LA like Fernando Valenzuela did in the 1980's when he was a rookie.

If MLB imposes 50 or 100 game suspensions for 20 or so players during the season, I'd have to question the wisdom of such a move. I don't think it would signal anything to the fans. Those of us who have been paying attention realize that the baseball establishment willingly let PEDs infect the game when it was good business to have HR records set and shattered. Now, they are trying to prove a point 20 years after PEDs started to ruin the integrity of the games records. IMO, this is too little too late. This move could turn pennant races and playoff hopes upside down which could be very disheartening to the fans. Sure we will be happy if 3 or 4 Yankee stars get taken out, but we will not be so happy if they only get ARod from the Yanks and Ortiz is also on the list. That would completely stink. Penalties like this should be imposed after the season ends. The fans of teams affected would have the opportunity to pass on buying tickets if their team is adversely affected. Right now, many millions of tickets have been purchased across baseball. Mid season suspensions would punish the fans in addition to the guilty players. MLB botched the PED issue from the beginning and like whores they used the dirty players to make big profits and rejuvenate the game after the '94 strike. They should fine and suspend themselves as aiders and abettors. Instead, they are making a major push to induct into the Hall of Fame the head whore, Bud Selig.

Puig has been lighting it up for the Dodgers in his first 2 games since getting called up.

Yes, especially against these guys who are a top tier team.

I think they are pissed that Braun got away with it in the botched test. And they are probably sick of ARod's continued usage.

Did you guys read Yeszir's post. I think he is serious.

Tex not helping Yanks at all.

Doesn't Iggy train with ARod?

^ Good stuff.

Last season the rumors were rampant that Cano was going to get suspended. Gammons reported on that one, so everyone assumed that the rumors had legs.

7-run rule. They must teach it at manager's school.

:lol:Ortiz needs some Oxygen.

I am worried that Remy continues to miss games.

I have Standing Room on ignore, because he obviously has continued to bait me. I have not engaged him since I put him on ignore today and I will not refer to him in my posts from this point on. I hope that helps, but I fully expect that his behavior will degenerate and he will be banned once again. He really can't be compared to any other TalkSox member, because he has never shown the slightest bit of good faith in his many incarnations.

Thanks Ital. That may be the most objective analysis of me that I have read. I have admitted many times on this forum that I can be a prick, but it almost always in response to someone else behaving badly. I realize that 2 wrongs don't make a right, but today, I just pointed out that UNs post had nothing to do with baseball then it degenerated from there with Dutchy jumping in and egging on UN along with a few others.

New Rule; It is prohibited to send around on pm or post on the forum pictures of crushed heads with brains hanging out. New Rule #2-- After you have been perma-banned under 10 or more different identities, you will not be welcomed back. Standing Room has probably doubled that, so completely lacks credibility with regard to governing behavior on this forum.

And this was answered by a post that said nothing else other than "thank god you don't run the team." Let's not forget other baseball opinions that were met with responses such as "you are making my head hurt" or "that is the stupidest thing that I have ever read." And other stuff to that effect. It's a complete lack of tolerance of other points of view, and his posts are more about criticizing posters than about baseball. Enough already.

Agreed

RF at Yankee Stadium is a joke. I laughed when the Met announcers said so on one of their telecasts agains the Yankees.

Hey, I am having fun.