At least there’s always the Cubs to make me feel better about being a Jays fan.
Can’t wait to watch Jose Bautista and his career .329 OBP batting lead-off, and seeing Vernon Wells and his limp dick 88 OPS+ drive him in from the clean-up spot.
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Actually I thought it was something that happens in the NFL a lot, but I can’t remember the last time it happened in baseball.
Frank Thomas should have done it, but I guess he hates Kenny Williams too much.
only two i can think of are:
jeff conine did it couple of years ago with da marlins
billy crystal and the yankees
It doesn’t happen too much in baseball. It’s pretty common in football, though.
But Nomar was pretty openly suspected of juicing up here by the Boston media. Thing is, he had all the signs of a juicer, both in a suddenbulk-up and he had that Barry Bonds thing, where a seemingly minor thing would just linger and linger and cost him twenty or forty or sixty games a season, and a propensity to break the small bones in his extremities.
If it does turn out, though, that he used PEDs, he’d basically be the poster boy for every reason they should be banned, and why every player that uses them is beyond stupid. And that’s one of the reasons why Boston really lets rip on PEDs. Because Nomar really was an absolutely incredible player, with roughly a .325 AVG and an awesome amount of power for a tiny little guy. He could do everything, from fielding to hitting to running to being a huge boon in the locker room and he’s still almost definitely the single best shortstop to play for the Red Sox.
It just really, really sucks that he, possibly, ruined his own career. He slipped by the Mitchell Report and didn’t get fingered when there were plenty of his teammates weren’t so lucky (Mo Vaughn, Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, Eric Gagne, etc.), and he claims to have some condition that is hereditary that his father had, so it’s possible that he really was clean. Still, though, Nomar on the Sox is a lot like Griffey to the Mariners, in that they’re both great big “what if…” questions.
Don’t forget watching him run Scott Downs into the ground!
Hopping on the Tampa Bay bandwagon for two reasons: 1) I have a perpetual boner for prospects in fantasy baseball and 2) I can troll spudly when Boston loses to them.
imo.
I don’t dislike the Rays. And it’s not like the Sox are in a position where they can beat them every time.
am i reading this right…yankees are 4-5 in spring training?
You actually think spring training has any meaning? Aka pre-season.
Nothing with “pre” means anything. Colts 0-4 in preseason when they won SB. Lions 4-0 in preseason when they went 0-16.
yeah but its the yankees…i dunno i just expect more from them even in spring training.
Probably. It’s spring training. Hard to think of anything that matters less than spring training w-l record.
That’s probably true. I think the only way I can effectively troll you is to hop on the Yankees bandwagon, but if I did that I might as well give up my brain and turn into Nori.
imo.
World Baseball Classic.
it’s all joba’s fault
6 innings 97 runs!!!
and the rays are better than the red sox so why can’t you see them beating them?
If Yankees fans had brains, they’d be Red Sox fans.
No, the World Baseball classic games have meaning for, at least, some people in America.
i think imma be sticking around more this yr. lol…though i dont truly understand baseball stats like u guys. any place i can learn to understand that stuff?
Fantasy baseball places. They’re all about the stats.
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Yeah, you can learn the basic stats anywhere. Like spuddly said, you can check out fantasy baseball and see/compare everyones basic stats.
What i probably love the most about baseball though are the sabermetric stats, which are basically stats that are used to objectively show ‘how valuable’ a player really is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetric
Ive liked baseball for most of my life, but after i found out about how deep it was stat wise compared to any other sport, it took my like for the game and made it into a love for the game lol
I guess what im saying is baseball is fun checking out the old school stats, but is fuckin awesome when you start checking out the newer age stats.
man, forgot about this thread. but as for whitesox. AL central is extremely weak. I dont see detroit or cleveland doing anything. Twins are always in it, but i think the peavy addition will put the sox ahead
You never know with Detroit. But then again, even if they’re on top of the division on the last day of the season they’ll blow it somehow.
We need some Royals bandwagoners.
Wait, who am I kidding? Nobody’s that desperate.
