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Just checked the stats for tonight Giants/Phillies game tonight.
Philly is 30 games under .500. Wow.
Philly is 30 games under .500. Wow.
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That's quite a record only 88 games in. That should give them about 50 or so wins for the season.:rolleyes2: -- Al
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Arod sends his love..I posted your comment on his twitter feed...^&grin Michael
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They are proving how good they are right now, an 8 run 4th inning for the Giants. All of the Giants pretty much got a hit that inning expect for Crawford, he was responsible for 2 of the 3 outs!
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That is just freakin' hysterical Michael . . . I hope George doesn't unfriend you.{sm3} Seriously though, It's only one game. If the Yanks win the series the Sox will be pretty much buried at 6-1/2 or 8-1/2 back at the All Star Break, but if the sox manage to take the next two they are still right in the mix at 4-1/2 back.
As George would say, I just hope Sherman Klump isn't starting either of the next two games . . . {sm4}
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ARoid is really proving to be a team player, nice to see his parents taught him at a young age to share, which he's obviously doing with horseface, he of the 20 plus home runs and 60 plus RBIs at the all star break; this from a guy who was done based on the past two years.
And I'd say the same thing about Napoli wherever he lands next year as the past two years, specifically this year, he's showing that he's toast, so if he puts up huge numbers next year, something is rotten in Denmark............
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Unlike Arod, Tex is an absolute boyscout. He suffered a number of injuries the past few years, which limited his field time and production. This year, he is totally healthy. Anytime baseball wantsto test the YANKS, THEY ARE WELCOME, but lets hope they would check out some of the usual suspects, also... Michael
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It would be unrealistic to think that, because of his past actions and lying, he wouldn't be tested. Moreover, it would be exceedingly shortsighted on his part to take any performance enhancing drugs because, if caught, he could be subject to a lifetime ban.
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The issue Brad is it goes without saying that an athletes skills deteriorate as father time catches up to them.
Sports is all about money; the better you perform, the more you make. Not to mention the science of better performance through chemicals evolves/improves all the time, new drugs that go undetected, new masking agents, on and on it goes.
Aroid is a cheater, a known cheater, a proven cheater; he was banned for a year for cheating. Now that he is back, he's still on the sauce. One thing about athletes which I am sure you know; they are very proud, don't want to go out there and make a fool out of themselves, so Aroid doesn't want to go out a shell of his former self.
So, he's going out guns blazing and on his own terms; he's got no shot, as in zero for the HOF, so what does he care at this point?
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
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Tex is the same guy who said after he choose the MFY's over the Red Sox he signed with the MFY's because he wanted to be closer to his wife's family in Maryland; if that's the case, then why didn't he sign with the Orioles?
What a boob................he's THE one Yankee I truly love to hate.
Well, him, Aroid, McCann the coconut head, Gardner with the goofy way he runs and that bulbous head of his, Sherman Klump, etc, etc, etc....................
And please, please, please; for the love of God, stop with the Ortiz references.
Guys on steroids do not have big stomachs, which he clearly does, he's borderline fat and you're not fat on roids, you get ripped and shredded on roids.
Get a clue.
All-star break! Good thing for my teams. O's wobble into the break at .500 and in 3rd place while the Nats limp into the break in 1st place but desperately banged up. Injuries have really handicapped the Nats. Currently, 2/3 of the starting outfield and 1/2 the starting infield are on the DL and they are all key offensive pieces. Without Harper's big year the season could have been lost by this point. I think the Nats will be in good shape if and when they get healthy, meanwhile Harper and Scherzer will have to keep carrying them.
Don't know what to say about the up and down O's. Lots of Hr's but not very good with runners on. Good bullpen but the starting pitching is underperforming with the exception of Jimenez and Chen and Chen has a 4-5 record for his efforts. Would like to see the starters go deeper into the games as they are averaging under 6 innings per start as a group. But I have been saying that for the last few seasons and it seems to work out ok. O's just need to put it all together for a while and quit scuffling about. -- Al
Don't know what to say about the up and down O's. Lots of Hr's but not very good with runners on. Good bullpen but the starting pitching is underperforming with the exception of Jimenez and Chen and Chen has a 4-5 record for his efforts. Would like to see the starters go deeper into the games as they are averaging under 6 innings per start as a group. But I have been saying that for the last few seasons and it seems to work out ok. O's just need to put it all together for a while and quit scuffling about. -- Al
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George, George, George, I am putting you in for a Red Sox fan intervention. The first sign in any drug issue is family deniability that there is, was a problem. Big Poppy in his heyday was built and bulked. He was and is great friends with Arod. He was listed on the failed drug test report, yet was given a pass and allowed to not answer for it during the past 10 years most have known about it. He is beloved, and Arod was not. But one of the big signs of drugs is the eventual body breakdown, with constant nagging injuries. Big Poppy has had them for some time. Arod was down, also...Maybe Tex had a problem. The bottom line is that you cannot close your eyes to your teams past drug issues and any tainted championships and constantly wail about my guys. Who knows, the next knock on your door, might be Red Sox nation, crying for those super milkshake years again..I am concerned for you..:redface2:Michael
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A couple of years ago someone asked Pablo Sandoval about PED's. One of the other Giants answered for him and said that if cheeseburgers ever made it onto MLB's banned substance list then the Panda was in for a lifetime ban.
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Drugs like HGH, which most of the players used or are now using, actually speed up recovery time from injuries, they don't break the body down. Roids do, but roids are yesterdays news.
So the league cut Ortiz a break because he's a swell guy but they busted ARoid because he's a jerk?
Wow, that's news to me.
Tell you what; when the league catches Ortiz and bans him for a year, then come tell me "I told you so."
Super milkshake years? You make it sound like the Red Sox haven't won a WS title in six years; they've won two since the Yankees last won one, one of which was a whopping two seasons ago and three in the last 11 years vs one for the MFY's in the past 15 seasons.
You need a strong dose of reality, this isn't the salad days of the MFY's either Michael.
Typical MFY fan.
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George,
I happen to agree with you that it is very likely Tex is on something. Call me cynical, but if you've hit 40 homers in a year, or throw a 98+ mph fastball, I presume you are on some kind of performance enhancing drugs, be it HGH or steroids. We can both remember back in the early to mid-1970's when the only fastball breaking 98 mph in the league was the Ryan express, and greats like Reggie Jackson and Jim Rice would only hit around 35 homers a year. The legit all-time home run king, Hank Aaron, never hit 50 homers in a season, and these bozos hit 40+ year in, year out. Every team has at least 2-3 guys coming out of the bullpen throwing 98+.
On the other hand, wake up and smell the coffee. Big Poppi never hits more than 20 homers a season, then comes to the Red Sox to play alongside known steroid cheat Manny Ramirez, and suddenly is one of the biggest home run hitters in baseball. And he, like A-Roid, was not suspended for his positive test because it was the one test agreed to by the Union and MLB that was supposed to be anonymous, and for which there could be no suspensions, and his name was leaked just like A-Roids. Sadly, we live in an era where we cannot trust the vast majority of our biggest stars are playing legitimately. I used to be a huge fan of both Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. There were these incredible reports of the crazy workout routine they both did to stay on top of their games. Then it came out they were both on performance enhancing drugs, and unlike some Yankee fans, they were both dead to me. You and I are lucky that we got to see Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia play for our respective teams. Two hard nosed old fashioned players who run hard until they are out, sacrifice their bodies, and, oh, by the way, never hit 30 homers in a season.
So yeah, there is a very good chance Tex is cheating. But there is just as good a chance that 99% of the guys throwing 98 mph heat are too, and just about every guy hitting 40+ homers is too. Ryan Braun. Melky Cabrera. A-Rod. Barry Bonds. Mark McGuire. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramirez. A-Roid. Jason Giambi. Big Poppi. Remember that light hitting guy on the Orioles back in the mid-90's who had never hit more than 12 homers in a season, than suddenly hit 50 homers one year? I want to say his name was Brady, but I can't remember. I've just learned to accept it, and automatically ignore power numbers when it comes to deciding whether a player is really great.
Louis, the O's player was Brady Anderson. He played 15 years and hit 210 total Hr's, 50 of them in 1996. His two most prodigious years after that were 24 and 21. His career average for a 162 game season was 19. His big year in 1996 was an obvious experiment with something but apparently it was only a flirtation because he never came close to those figures again, before or after. Virtually every career high for his batting stats came in 1996. Anderson was a talented ballplayer and started in the O's outfield for over a dozen years but he was no big Hr hitter. 1996 sticks out like a sore thumb for Hr's and RBI's, but it was a one year thing and not a years long abuse of something or other as was the case with other players. -- Al
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Louis,
I agree; I don't trust any of them, sorry, I'm 1000% with you in that 99% of them are cheating.
To me, the more potential to earn dumptrucks full of money there is out there, the more cheating there will be; teams cheat, players cheat, they do what they can to win, what they can to make more money, do what they can to extend their careers.
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I disagree that 99% of them are cheating. If we think that that a great majority of them are cheating, then what is the point of watching the games. I don't want to watch a sport where things are not relatively equal.
I'm sure there are some who cheat but I'd like to think that it is a relatively clean game. As I said if it's not, then there is no point in watching.
I'm sure there are some who cheat but I'd like to think that it is a relatively clean game. As I said if it's not, then there is no point in watching.
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I'm not saying 99% of players are cheating, I am saying 99% of players either (1) hitting 40+ homers in a season or (2) throwing 98+ mph are cheating. That's probably more like 10% of players, but it is a majority of players winning the MVP, homer run title, RBI title, Cy Young Award, etc.
Why do I still watch? Because of clean, hard nosed players like Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia, who manage to become stars in this PED era without any signs or even allegations of PED use.
As a Yankee fan, I will hate the Red Sox to the day I die, but I respect the hell out of some of their players, from guys like Carl Yastrzemski , Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, and recently, Dustin Pedroia. If I had a hall of fame vote, I would vote for Jim Rice, based on how much I feared and hated him as a kid. If Pedroia mantains his present career course, I would vote for him, just like I would hope Red Sox fans with votes would vote for Derek Jeter, and for the same reason: they play the game right.