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How about this one that I heard a couple of years ago: "Why is that wall so high?"

I looked up the teams, and I still don't know. What's the answer?

Would giving the team names give it away?

Bart Starr, Bob Griese, Roger Staubach, John Elway, Troy Aikman.

One of the things that was valuable about him also was the flexibility the team had because he still had options. They could send him down and bring up other needed parts. Will he have options left this year?

...or when no one else is available.

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If he said he'd give his right arm for Bush to win, would you have thought he meant it? I think he was engaging in a bit of hyperbole. I don't know anyone who felt sorry for Bonds, including those who cheat on their taxes and their wives.:dunno: He does a lot of good things and he said he'd bring the title to Boston and he delivered, so I guess I am blind to his annoying qualities. He could take a big stinking dump on the mound and I'd cheer him as he walked to the dugout.

T.O. has gone after his own QB, but he did play the Super Bowl with a broken ankle. He gets props for that. I have no problem with what T.O. says. I think he handled his business negotiations with the Eagles very immaturely. Bonds is just a nasty guy. I don't have a problem with what he says, but with his openly hostile attitude. Curt's a blowhard, but overall he has a positive attitude.

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Schill, says what is on his mind without any PC filter. It's what makes him interesting, and why I am always listening when he has the mike. If he criticizes the personal lives of other players that's okay, because he always stands up and takes the heat for what he says.

Other than Rickey Henderson, who else will become eligible next year?

Goose definitely deserves induction, but I am certain of this. No GM at the time would have considered traded Jim Rice in his prime for Goose in his prime. Rice belongs too. He was the bigger star of the era.

Clemens probably destroyed any chance at winning a defamation action against McNamee when he played the tape. As a public figure, he must prove that the statements were untrue and that they were made with malice. Showing that the statements were untrue would be difficult enough, but after that tape it is obvious that McNamee did not have an Axe to grind with Roger and that he felt very bad about giving him up. The only shot Clemens would have had was to try to establish McNamee as a disgruntled former employee with a grudge against Clemens. The defamation suit is dead. I am calling it here and now. McNamee would have to state that he was told that he didn't give up Roger he'd go to jail.

I was aware of those stats. In one of those years, he had 0 HRs. He had more than 1200 ABs in those 2 years so his HR/AB ratio was about 1/300. That's Jaason Kendall numbers. I wasn't aware if he had been rumored to be using PEDs.

Rice's well-deserved reputation as the most feared hitter of his day among his peers defies the stats. No one who played during that time or who followed the game would put Ken Singleton (a very good player), Jack Clark, Ron Cey (lol) or Dave Kingman (lmao) with Rice. How Kirby Puckett could be in the Hall, but not Rice completely baffles me. Puckett wasn't even the dominant lead off hitter of his day. Rickey Henderson had that honor.

I disagree. Rice was a fearsome hitter with legendary power, and he did not have a home run hitters swing. He had a line drive short swing. He could run very well for a big man, which is why he had a lot of triples, and he was very underrated with the glove. He was overshadowed in the field by Fred Lynn who was a very graceful CFer and by Dwight Evans who was one of the great RF's of all time. Let's not forget that he followed one of the all-time great LFs in Yaz, and that Yaz still played some LF after Rice joined the team.

He would not have been tampering if he had asked him: "why did you lie about me taking steroids?"

Hopefully, this will be Jim Rice's day. Clemens can screw himself some other day.

I am amused by TV and Radio commentary that says there is no evidence. It just one persons word against another. Eyewitness testimony is very strong evidence. If Kato had seen OJ kill Nicole and Ron, he'd be in jail today. On TV and Radio, I have heard this referred to as hearsay. Testimony by an eyewitness to the acts in question is not hearsay. Eyewitness testimony by someone that knows you is particularly strong. He had no motive to get Clemens, unless it can be shown that he was pressured to name Clemens. He was pressured to tell the truth, and he feels bad that he turned in a friend, which makes the evidence more compelling. The investigators wanted full and honest disclosure from him. They certainly didn't want him making false accusations. It's not like this is a murder case where the cops are under pressure to arrest and convict someone. Clemens is 100% guilty. I guess to paraphrase Johnny Cochrane: "Give me one Clemen's fan on the jury and I'll get him off."

So being on drugs can help reduce a sentence for illegal dogfighting? Well, that makes sense.

He never accuses him of lying, because that would be slander. His attorney no doubt coached him not to call him a liar. Bonds must be very interested in watching this. If Clemens succeeds, it will open the doors of the HOF for Bonds, and if Clemens goes down in flames, Bonds is no worse off than he already is.

If Clemens has nothing to hide, they should make the tape public.

I disagree. I think Clemens shot himself in the foot by playing the surreptitiously taped conversation. One thing that tape does for certain. It disarms Clemen's counsel of the defense that McNamee had an axe to grind with Clemens or that he did it out of malice. McNamee was clearly and genuinely upset that he gave up his friend Roger, but in the end he was not willing to go to jail, so he told the truth. Clemens did it without any doubt. Are we to believe that he had no idea what his good buddy Andy was doing? The three of them were tight friends. Clemens introduced McNamee to Andy. Are we to believe that Roger is so naive about steroids that he thinks steroids can grow a third ear or make you be able to pull a tractor with your teeth? What was that all about? Does he think everyone is stupid? Also, he admits taking painkillers and viox like skittles. No one in there right mind would think that doesn't have some sort of negative effect on your body. Athletes do it, because they need it to compete even though the negative effects of long term use of large doses of anti-inflammatories. Clemens said he would never do anything to hurt his body, but he admits to "eating" lots of medications. Does anyone else see the contradiction? That is the way Clemens is. He makes it up as he goes along, regardless of how stupid it makes him look. I am glad he doesn't give a rat's ass about the HOF, because he will not get there in 5 years or possibly ever. At least he will not have to battle over the cap on his plaque.