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  1. notin
    You’re also in love with a golfer and you can’t drink legally. That’s life st 20...
  2. notin
    That is cheery news...
  3. notin
    Oh Slash. Why do I think you’re single?
  4. notin
    But according to some, if we don’t pull this put, seaspn’s over. Maybe Dombrowski can have a quick fire sale and start his plans
  5. notin
    Must win? IT’S THE FIRST GAME!!! “Must win” is reserved for games that if you lose, your season’s over. Not for games you don’t want to lose. Even the best teams lose 40% of the time. Get used to it. It’s baseball...
  6. notin
    Good thing Haniger ran into an inning ending out...
  7. notin
    “Summer Catch” was a movie made to put Jessica Biel in a swimsuit. The baseball was a complete backdrop. Despite it being about Yankees, I did enjoy “61*”...
  8. notin
    Technically Nettles preferred super balls over actual cork. There was a famous incident in (I believe) Cleveland where his bat broke and a slew of super balls scattered around the right side of the infield. But what he did was also cheating. Stupid cheating, granted, since doctoring a bat more often can lead to reduced power. But cheating nonetheless. I don’t get why fans get so down on steroid cheaters but have no problem exonerating players who doctor bats and balls (and do so defiantly, like Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry). Some of the PED users weren’t cheating because rules allowed what they did. The same cannot be said for Perry and the bat corkers. (Side note: Perry and the Bat Corkers was the name of my band in high school.)
  9. notin
    How do you people ignore “Little Big League”? Maybe the best written baseball movie of all time...
  10. notin
    But you don’t even know if Beltre was cheating. If he tested positive for an allowed substance like androstenedione, does it change your opinion? So you condemn Beltre, who may have done nothing wrong, but praise Nettles, a known bat corker?
  11. notin
    Y You can also find the viewpoint of Dan Clark using a simple Google search, but that doesn’t make it credible...
  12. notin
    In the NFL, signing bunches of free agents from the same team is often a big part of a rivalry. It seems like every Raider to hit free agency went to the Chiefs and vice versa. And in the Parcell years, the Patriots kept loading up on ex-Jets and the Jets kept grabbing ex-Patriots. Otis Smith went back and forth between the two teams like 4 times. It’s somewhat surprising you don’t see more of that between the Sox and Yankees...
  13. notin
    The least surprising one to me is Mientkiewicz, since he was a high school friend of A-Rod...
  14. notin
    Now I do consider Tony Fossas a traitor. Also, Spike Owen...
  15. notin
    I was trying to think of the most obscure former Yankee to come to the Red Sox. There are undoubtedly lesser players than Mecir who did it, but the impact on the joke stayed the same. Although Mecir was such a quiet addition the Red Sox, I didn’t even know they had him until he was selected in an expansion draft...
  16. notin
    I grabbed Barnes in a mixed league and Mejia (to fill an NA slot) in an AL ONLY league, which means Brasier is probably the closer...
  17. notin
    So you’re not bothered by his presence on the same failed drug test list as Ortiz? Or is your condemnation of failed drug tests limited to Red Sox players?
  18. notin
    Honestly, do you think Henry and Dombrowski are going to avoid a 40% penalty on $2.4mill? They get more than that back by making the postseason (I think)...
  19. notin
    No. If the Sox had used outright waivers, his salary would not be guaranteed (if the waivers are before opening day)...
  20. notin
    That’s because his acquisition announcement was probably buried in a 300 page thread...
  21. notin
    They were probably livid over Jim Mecir...
  22. notin
    Erasmo Ramirez!
  23. notin
    If you want to look for any cause, Ortiz’ production spike was probably related to league expansion in 2003. Whenever new teams get added, it dilutes MLB pitching and some hitters do a better job taking advantage. It’s probably no coincidence that Roger Maris hit nearly one quarter of his career home runs in an expansion year. Or that George Foster - remember him? He was like what? 5’10 150 lbs - managed to crush 52 home runs in an expansion year despite hitting only 79 HRs in the previous 8 seasons combined...
  24. notin
    So you’re saying that your “proof” rests on his numbers spiking AFTER he failed a drug test and AFTER MLB implemented drug testing? And if he failed for something illegal, wouldn’t he be tested more frequently than other random players? Shouldn’t he have been a better hitter before the testing if he was using? Or is your argument that he started using specifically for the drug test? Your argument rests on him using before the testing, but improving after the testing. A better theory chronologically is that his production spiked because he was no longer facing juiced-up pitchers. But even that is not all that likely. A spike in production is not proof of steroid use. If it is, then Babe Ruth and Roger Maris were clear steroid users...
  25. notin
    This is the year for Alex Scherff and Nick Decker to break out in the minors...
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