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  1. a700hitter
    Why is a team more likeable if it builds from its farm system? I just don't understand that. You are right that it is very hard to compete with a good team that goes out and signs three top studs. The Red Sox need to add a couple of major pieces if they want to compete with the Yankees.
  2. a700hitter
    I think the Phillies need a couple rainouts to win this series. Tomorrow should be a blowout against Bubble Ass Blanton. If the game gets rained out, Lee would face off against CC on Monday. That would give them a fighting chance.
  3. a700hitter
    The only thing about this game that makes me happy is that Clemens probably wants to throw up that his backstabbing friend Pettitte won the game.
  4. a700hitter
    Pettitte has settled down and will go deeper into the game than I thought he would.
  5. a700hitter
    Girardi is going to have to use the pen tonight before he gets to Mo. Who will he trust with the ball?
  6. a700hitter
    Any chance of a rainout?
  7. a700hitter
    That's certainly part of it, but the Yanks did win the AL and the Mets came in last losing 109 games and outdrew the Yankees by more than 30% (400,000 fans). To me that is pretty astounding. In 1976 when the New Yankee Stadium opened they outdrew the Mets, but the Yankees won the AL that season and the Mets finished 15 games out of first.
  8. a700hitter
    Yes, they had identical records in those seasons and the yankees had more attendance.
  9. a700hitter
    I think if you check the attendance figures you will find that there were a number of seasons where the Yankees finished as high or higher than the Mets in the standings, but finished behind the Mets in attendance. I don't think there is a single season when the yankees had more attendance, but finished as as low or lower than the Mets in the standings. Generally, the attendance has related to winning, but not in every instance. One glaring example was 1964 when the Yanks were the AL Champs, but drew less people than the last place Mets team with 109 losses. Your own figures disprove your premise that there is no room for the Mets in NY. In the 47 years when they have co-existed, the Yanks have a only the slightest yearly attendance advantage over the Mets despite having a much more successful 47 year history in terms of Division, League and World Championships. Your original argument was not that NY was not an NL city, but rather there was no room for the Mets in NY. Your own research refutes your premise.
  10. a700hitter
    While the Yankees were winning 20 of their 26 World Series, more NY fans went to NL ballparks. Even when the Mets were tremendous losers from 1964-1968 they out drew the Yankees. They continued to out draw them until 1976. In 1977, the Mets traded Seaver and became a little league team for years. Beginning in 1984 the Mets drew more fans than the Yanks each year until 1993. I don't know how hold you are, but historically throughout more than 100 years, NY has been more of an NL town.
  11. a700hitter
    When Boston had two teams, it was more of an AL town as the Red Sox always drew many more fans than the Braves. In NY, more fans went to NL games than AL games until 1958 when the Giants and Dodgers moved west. NY was an AL town until 1964 when the lowly Mets started to outdraw the AL Champion Yanks, and the Mets outdrew the Yanks every year until 1976 when the Yankees opened the second Yankee Stadium. In the long history of baseball in NY, it has been much more of an NL town than an AL town.
  12. a700hitter
    It's too bad that you live in a world of denial. For all of the Yankee Empire garbage, they have to share their own city with the Mets and before the Mets, they shared it with the Dodgers and Giants. Baseballs roots in NY are very heavily NL roots.
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    If that were true, there would be no Divas and prima donas, because they would not be tolerated.The reality is that baseball always has a few divas sprinkled around, and they are always star players. You never see a bench player who is a diva, because he'd be unemployed real fast. Teams tolerate the diva routine from stars. Hence, my "he's earned it" comment. I didn't say that it was right. It just is.
  15. a700hitter
    Pedro has earned the right to be a bit of a diva. Just sayin
  16. a700hitter
    Maybe I used the wrong word when I talked about personality. The problem with Pedro is not his personality, but his diva persona. The Sox FO doesn't want to deal with it.
  17. a700hitter
    At the same price, I take Harden, but if Harden wants $8-10 million and Pedro will take $3 plus incentives, I go back to Pedro. You don't need to worry though. Pedro has too much personality, spunk and controversy for the taste of this FO, which prefers blander personalities who they consider to be "consummate professionals" like Smoltz. They'll never sign Pedro at any price.
  18. a700hitter
    ... and used my material in your interview. You phony! You're probably not even a cab driver.
  19. a700hitter
    It was his bum arm that was causing his leg injuries. With his arm repaired and rehabbed, I think he can pitch a full season. I think he'll be more durable than Wakefield has been the last couple of years. I don't see him making 35 starts, but I could see him making 25-30 starts. Harden's arm is on borrowed time. It can blow on a moments notice. Plus, I think he will want a multi-year contract whereas I think Pedro will sign for 1 year for much less money. I see Pedro as the better value, seriously.
  20. a700hitter
    He'll be three years removed from the surgery next spring. He's been fully rehabbed and regained significant arm strength and his velocity is better than it was when he was with the Mets before he went down with the injury. If the sox are going to go for a surgically repaired or injured pitcher, I'd prefer Pedro over Sheets, Bedard, Harden, or most others, because he is probably healthier than they are. Obviously, I would prefer a young healthy pitcher over Pedro, but that would involve a huge cost in either prospects, cash or both.
  21. a700hitter
    Is he worthy of a rotation spot for the Sox?
  22. a700hitter
    Crashing in a plane in the off season would be perfect symmetry
  23. a700hitter
    Gom is stealing lines from my posts and giving them to the Daily news as quotes. Can he be banned for this? Gom as quoted by the Daily News: My post: http://www.talksox.com/forum/general-baseball-forum/13409-2009-world-series-phillies-yankees-26.html#post495083 You decide.
  24. a700hitter
    Prediction: Hairston knocks himself silly running into the OF wall and Matt Stairs legs out an inside the park HR followed by a massive coronary that kills him. The game is suspended until Sunday out of respect. When it resumes, the Phillies win, but Charlie Manuel can't remember who should be playing because he lost the original lineup card..
  25. a700hitter
    Agreed. Who would acknowledge missing a ball if it didn't really happen? It's not the kind of thing that you brag about. I've caught one foul ball in my life and gotten part of my hand on a few others. I can tell you who hit the ball I caught, the ballpark and the opponent. I remember very little about the misses. One miss that I have not lived down was a t-shirt drop at a Hockey game. I had a beer in one hand as the tee-shirt came at me. Unlike a baseball that can be snared with one hand, you need to use 2 hands to grab the tee shirt. I was not going to drop the beer. There was no chance of that. I decided to bring the tee shirt into my body with one hand and trap it against by body. It came in higher than I expected and when I tried to trap it against my body it bounced off the top of my chest into the row in front of me. I have been hearing about that for about 4 years from my son.
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