YAZMAN

Classic, textbook mjriv. It's almost like being back at the Herald.

Ummm, I threw up some stats on page two that you conveniently ignored: Quote: Originally Posted by example1 http://www.talksox.com/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif Do you really expect 10 more years of A-Rod "only" hitting .280/.361/.483 in the playoffs? Manny Ramirez's career postseason numbers: .260./362./508 He's a choker too, apparently. My Reply: You inadvertantly left out a few very important numbers: Manny - 315AB, 22HR, 52RBI (now - 322AB, 23HR, 58RBI) Payrod - 147AB, 7HR, 17RBI So, Mr. Almighty Sabermetrician, what do you do with that? Go ahead, extrapolate Arod's playoff numbers since past performance is such a great indicator of future results at Pocket Protector Park. Oh, wait, "sample size is too small" is starting to echo across the page. How big of a sample size can you get of postseason results? Wouldn't these numbers be a large sample compared to the postseason results of all MLB players? If you can't prove that clutch hitting doesn't exist, then you can just be quiet. Quite simply put, Arod's value to the Sox boils down to this: After a few years of yelling "Yooooook" when our first basemen came to the plate, it would be an easy transition to yelling "Doooooosh" when our third baseman/SS now did.

Your arguement is ridiculous. For starters, my problem wasn't balls, it was wheels. The scouts timed me first to third with a sundial. But please find where I made a claim about my personal skills, ability to compete at that level, or value as a professional baseball player. Second, I've never disputed his skills or regular season numbers. But the fact of the matter is his 54HR and 156RBI are home now while the Sox are playing. He's a douchebag and a player who doesn't produce in the real spotlight. "Amatuer" and "normal" games of baseball? No, a choker is a choker and you can find them in all walks of life. He doesn't need a hitting coach he needs a sports psychologist to figure out why he folds. And until he figures it out, come October he'll muck quicker than seven deuce off suit.

Clearly it's the only thing that could save the franchise at this point.

Makes sense. But it ain't so. I'd respectfully say that to come to that conclusion that you haven't spent much time on the field. Some guys get it done. Some don't. It's really that simple. And it is character. Or balls, or clutch, or whatever you wish to call it. It is what Arod isn't.

Guess the Picture Puzzle by: bbdoc http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/images/coffeepot1sm.jpg First correct answer wins one reverse dickpunch.

Theopuppet made him throw that... ...with direct orders from the FO, of course.

Gagne's screen name is Carbo... ...nitwit.

Manny walks. Sabathia looks like the best pitcher in baseball during one AB and the worst in the next.

You inadvertantly left out a few very important numbers: Manny - 315AB, 22HR, 52RBI Payrod - 147AB, 7HR, 17RBI You do the math. Better yet, go back and see how much of an impact the HRs and RBIs had in the outcome of the game. Yes, Payrod hit a HR in the ALDS - team was down 6-2 wit nodody on base, not exactly a huge juncture in the game. Manny hit one that followed Papi's in the deciding game which gave the hometown team a 2 run lead in a game that was scoreless to that point. The other one he hit in the series was only a bottom of the 9th walkoff blast that may still be in orbit.

Yeah...I forgot about all that...see what happens when a guy is clutch in the playoffs.:joke:

BTW, what's up, BB?

Meh, it's probably time anyway. I heard the dumpster behind the club has been like a ghost town lately.

He did when we needed him to, he'll be remebered more for the Fall of '04 than the abortion that was his last year in Boston. No, O'Neill is too old.:harhar: FTR, I didn't want Drew either. No, I'm saying he's a fraud for it. He's a bad person for doing things like running around on his wife with a silicon infested douchebag of a bleach blonde. They're not looking to sign for the GNP of a third world nation. Don't ask me, ask any Y*ankee who played in October with both of them. I know you want them to sign Lowell and Manny. I also knew going in that you would respond point by point to my rant. Using statistical analysis, the argument to sign ARod is a no-brainer and can be backed up in a myriad of manners. But statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive but what they hide is crucial. Exactly, and Bor-ass wants ten years. So in the last half of that surely bloated contract, you lose half your team because you can't afford them. But that's OK because ARod may or may not be chasing the HR record. There was bound to be one hiding in there somewhere. We did send Belli packing. Surely you remember what happened, ending with him being escorted back to the field by the Mass State Police in a caravan for Wake's start. Minaya is nuts, likes to be the center of attention, gets caught up in all this ********, and potentially could get better pitching by dangling Reyes than trying to sign one of this year's free agent pitchers. Thanks. I don't think the Hamburger Helper guy gets nearly enough press these days. Look, I hate the f***ing ******* and don't want to see him be a Red Sox player. Is it based on numbers or performance? Hell no. It's based on close to 40 years as a Sox fan and all that comes with that, the disappointment of '75, the summer of '78 which destroyed my childhood culminating with the afterschool elinination game...ah, f*** it, I just hate ARod.

I hope they all read the writing on the wall with the way Torre is being treated and jump ship.

First off, let me precede any point I make by saying I hate Payrod, I can't stand looking at the self-centered, pussified excuse of a man. Does he have talent? Yes, maybe more than anybody else playing the game right now. But that's all he has. What he doesn't have is balls, the desire for his team to win so badly that he excels in the biggest situations. If he really just wanted to win then how the hell did he wind up in Texas in the first place? Sure he puts up numbers, but it's about him and him alone. Regular season numbers are great but it's all just a qualifier for the playoffs, the real games, the reason they're playing in the first place. When talk of his career comes up, ask Bucky f***ing Dent what people want to talk about. We don't need a lineup full of superstars, look where that's gotten the Y*nkees in the last dozen years. Their previous success? It came from solid players with balls like Paul O'Neill and role players with bigger ball like Scott Brosius complementing the marquee players forming a solid team - success together, each feeding off the other. Screw Payfraud and the antithesis of everything that is baseball, the deceiver Scott Boras. Resign Lowell and Manny. Save the rest to sign Papelbon, and then Buchholz and Jacoby Ellsbury or whatever holes wind up not filled. You know it won't be cheap, and with Gayrod's contract exceeding some team's payrolls you couldn't do it all with him around. If there's one thing we should have learned following 2004, it wasn't that we could get the job done. It's that you can't f*** with the chemistry of a successful team too much and stay viable - the current Y*nks of the past half dozen years solidify that point. Maybe Minaya will sign him and trade Reyes for some pitching so they can take the NL next year. I've been patiently waiting 20 years to revenge 1986. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/BoNeato/ArodHamburgerHelper.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/BoNeato/pay-rodchop.bmp http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/BoNeato/gayrod.jpg

seabeachfred will be right there.

Mr. Boras, Omar is on the phone for you...

Never mind her ass, if he winds up in Chicago his ass will be bigger than Rosie O'Donnell's head.

He should fire them and just get one of these instead: http://z.about.com/d/golf/1/0/R/9/ballwasher4.jpg

Yeah, they gave Rajaa the call, but evidently his cell phone dropped it.

Cashman will sign Schilling to four years @ 52mil

WTF are you talking about? He handed you guys your ass on a platter.