Emmz

well you did make a thread about it...

Remember when Jeter used to be the guy you didn't want to see with the game on the line?

I'll drink to 1st place wooooo

You guys must have got what we had yesterday, it was like 100 degrees, and we have 15,000 lakes soooo, you know what's next. I had to drink lots of water yesterday, I started getting really dizzy.

no mo no no fo lowe

Yeah, but the difference is that Salty's been hitting well for a month, sample size is waaaayyyy too small to even say that he might become the player he was projected to be. Martin put up solid (for a catcher at least) offensive numbers for entire seasons until his last two.

He's basically saying what I said within Twitter's character limit, except without the stats. It's not even close, MJ is in his own realm of greatness unlike any sports icon. In most other sports, there's usually a close comparison, MJ doesn't really have that. Even Wilt declined and MJ until his comeback had a higher scoring average than him lifetime, and in a far less advanced era. Lebron is not in an era advanced from MJs era. The 80s and 90s were just as competitive and advanced as the 2000s, and probably were even more competitive because of how many teams were good. Even when the Bulls were winning those titles, they never had an easy playoff run, they almost lost a lot of times because of how competitive the league was back in the 90s. Teams didn't just overload their rosters with the best players, and make it a 5 or 6 team race. Right now, the league consists of like 5 teams that have a legitimate chance of winning, in the 90s, the entire playoffs consisted of teams that could give each other a hard time. MJ dominated in what is probably the toughest era in basketball, and that's what makes it so impressive, and so silly that Pippen could say anything but that MJ is the greatest of all time.

Lmfao

Idk about annual all-star. Maybe because of fan voting, he's still not in league with Mauer or Martinez offensively. His best season is like every year for Mauer and Martinez. Ik I shouldn't be comparing him to the two best offensive catchers right now, but his lifetime OPS+ is still barely over 100. He's not really as good as some people seem to think, it's not outside of Salty's reach IMO.

It is a spit in the face to Jordan. I think James is going to end up one of the best players I'll live to see, but he's not on MJ's level. I'll say this again, for 10 straight years that MJ played a full season in the NBA, he won the scoring title. That's from his 3rd year to his last year with the Bulls where he played a full season. That means the two years he was gone, and the one year where he came back later in the season where he wasn't even qualified, and probably rusty, he didn't win it. Oh yeah, he also had the most points in his rookie season, and was not qualified in the 85-86 season. So really he won the scoring title from his rookie season until 1998 that he played start to finish. Incredible, isn't it? That's absolutely unheard of since Wilt Chamberlain. I promise you, we will never see a player more overpowering and dominant than Michael Jordan was from 1985-1998 in our lifetimes. Promise. I know it sounds like a huge stretch, but sometimes I feel like people don't understand how much better than everyone else MJ really is.

Eh, I think Salty could become like Martin, but the career averages really, really do favor Martin. For one, Salty has yet to put together a 100 game season, so it's obviously tough to compare due to the sample size differential. Martin has consistently put together 100+ OPS+ seasons, whereas Salty has not one 100+ OPS+ season, and has a career 84 OPS+ to Martin's 102 OPS+. Salty could definitely improve, but so far he hasn't really done it. He's been mediocre to say the least, and even this year he's only got a 96 OPS+. I'd like to think Salty's on the way up, but there's not much to suggest this is anything but a hot streak that he's on right now. His OPS for this month is inflated severely by an unsustainable SLG%. Edit: I'll take what I can get from Salty, I'm not complaining.

MJ is seriously head and shoulders above every other player, I don't know wtf Pippen was smoking when he said that stuff, but he made it sound like Lebron was superior. I don't think Lebron has any aspect over Jordan. Jordan was the superior scorer, like Pippen said, but Lebron is the most overrated defender in the NBA just because of how often ESPN shows his fastbreak picks and blocks. He's good, but there have been better defensive forwards that I've seen play, Pippen himself is probably the best defensive forward of the past 20 years. Jordan is arguably the best defensive guard of all time, and is certainly the greatest offensive player of all time. I really can't see how Lebron is even comparable to Jordan. At this point in their careers, there's absolutely no contest, it's Jordan all the way, and Jordan never really declined until he returned with the Wizards for those two years, and he was still a huge threat.

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Hey hey hey, don't be putting VMart's defense in with Mauer's m'kay.

Hey, Mauer plays gold glove defense buddy.

Where do you come up with this crap?

ugh, Wake at NYS doesn't sound so good. But Burnett could have one of his off nights. Either way, WINNING.

Oh yeah right, Colon and Garcia are aces and you don't even know it.

THAAAA RED SAWX WIIIIINNN!!!!!!

Swisher uses it wet, Papelbon uses it dry. That sounds so f***ed up.

That's RSFFL's thing buddy.