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Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 11:33 am**

capable_keL wrote:kinda impressed by the way tampa bay rolls with this swagger. i might have to put them ahead of my royals and tigers because they are what a real ball club looks like

https://twitter.com/RaysJoeMaddon/statu ... 7758539776

:copy:

Brawl is on for tonight.

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 1:16 pm**

Big Breeze wrote:Too many Cardinals that matter have been on the DL.

Once they get healthy, we will jack 1st place back.

oh, ok. thanks for the info.

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 6:23 pm**

Paul Konerko deserves more respect. He's a god damn ball player

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 9:58 pm**

Kid That's Lifeless wrote:
capable_keL wrote:kinda impressed by the way tampa bay rolls with this swagger. i might have to put them ahead of my royals and tigers because they are what a real ball club looks like
https://twitter.com/RaysJoeMaddon/statu ... 7758539776

Brawl is on for tonight.

i'm locked in on your club and realizing you've been around a better type of baseball than most and thus deserve room to enjoy the better team or the team ball purists would pick every time

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 10:20 pm**

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 10:23 pm**

Dwight Strawberry wrote:Paul Konerko deserves more respect. He's a god damn ball player

a career .863 ops player with over 400 homers without steroid whispers? fucking kudos to konerko

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 10:39 pm**

Chipper Jones has faced a host of nasty pitchers over his 18-year career, from Curt Schilling to Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez to Justin Verlander, but he said the young Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg is the nastiest of them all.

גHeגs got the best repertoire of pitches that Iגve seen on any one single pitcher,ג Jones said Friday.

Strasburg takes on the Braves and Mike Minor on Saturday.

Jones called Strasburg a hybrid of Kerry Wood in his prime and Verlander, with a similar fastball and breaking ball. But the difference to Jones is how good Strasburgגs change-up is.

גVerlanderגs got a good change-up, but his is a circle change that just kind of fades away,ג Jones said. ג(Strasburgגs) is a 90-plus mph split that falls off the table. When youגre going up there getting geared up for 95, 96 mph and he throws you 90 and the bottom drops out of it, itגs a pretty lethal combination.ג

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 11:12 pm**

props to adam jones btw, the once uber-prospect turned formidable matt kemp-lite pro who was the major piece for the orioles to obtain in the bedard trade

oh yea, props b/c he just signed a 85 million dollar deal for the next 6 years...smart deal by the O's as every metric points towards jones being able to be kemp-lite for a while

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 1:32 am**

damnit. bryce harper is a mormon

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 11:38 am**

Dwight Strawberry wrote:Paul Konerko deserves more respect. He's a god damn ball player

he is crazy good. he lacks the charisma that the media likes otherwise he'd be way more popular. imagine if he played for the yankees or red sox?

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 3:29 pm**

Philaflava wrote:
Dwight Strawberry wrote:Paul Konerko deserves more respect. He's a god damn ball player
he is crazy good. he lacks the charisma that the media likes otherwise he'd be way more popular. imagine if he played for the yankees or red sox?

and he keeps getting beaned in the face and coming back the next day

i like that

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 5:45 pm**

Yeah, who the fuck peaks in their mid-30s without the benefit of steroids? Konerko's performance this season has been mind-boggling. The nerve of this guy to fuck with Josh Hamilton's triple crown.

He couldn't leg out a hit if his life depended on it, and meanwhile, he's gonna enter June with a .400 average.

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 7:47 pm**

konerko keeps on keepin on. he's the melky of the AL

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 9:23 pm**

he's got old man strength and veteran savvy

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 10:30 pm**

ok guys that's enough. don't make it untrendy to dig konerko too soon

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 10:46 pm**

Dude has been the MVP of my fantasy league with my friends from HS. Got him in the tenth round.

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 11:20 pm**

bryce is legit

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 11:52 pm**

Kid That's Lifeless wrote:Dude has been the MVP of my fantasy league with my friends from HS. Got him in the tenth round.

what league?

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 12:10 am**

capable_keL wrote:
Kid That's Lifeless wrote:Dude has been the MVP of my fantasy league with my friends from HS. Got him in the tenth round.
what league?

The league I'm in with my friends from high school. I'm mediocre in

leagues, but :copy:

ing that one.

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 12:52 am**

Here's a statement just released by George Brett on getting passed today by Derek Jeter for No. 14 on the all-time hit list with 3,155 hits:

"Iגm always kind of bummed out when guys pass you because you had your own place in the records book for a while, and I had that one there for a while. But a guy like Derek comes around and passes you, really, I think it all depends on the type of person that did it. I have the utmost respect for him. Iגve only met him one time, very briefly, but for a guy to play as long as he has in New York, and Iגve never heard one bad thing said about the guy, heגs definitely a team player, heגs a clutch player. Heגs been the backbone of this organization for a long, long time and when a guy like that passes you, Iגd like to shake his hand and look him in the eye and say congratulations.ג

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 1:12 am**

Kid That's Lifeless wrote:
capable_keL wrote:
Kid That's Lifeless wrote:Dude has been the MVP of my fantasy league with my friends from HS. Got him in the tenth round.
what league?
The league I'm in with my friends from high school. I'm mediocre in leagues, but ing that one.

nice

dominating non phila leagues means nothing to be anymore

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 1:18 am**

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 9:01 am**

capable_keL wrote:
Kid That's Lifeless wrote:
capable_keL wrote:
Kid That's Lifeless wrote:Dude has been the MVP of my fantasy league with my friends from HS. Got him in the tenth round.
what league?
The league I'm in with my friends from high school. I'm mediocre in leagues, but ing that one.
nice

dominating non phila leagues means nothing to be anymore

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 12:56 pm**

i'm just glad no one wanted him more than auto-draft did.

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 1:33 pm**

mike trout vs bryce harper will be a debate we discuss for the next twenty years. shit is crazy. they're both so fucking good at such a young age.

two things are clear as fuck: trout is a better stolen base threat and is a better fielder by far when using UZR (although trout's arm isn't as much of a threat as harper's and harper has held cats to sticking to their base and not attempting to tag up or holding cats to singles when they'd normally get doubles, etc. shit that uzr doesn't incorporate enough imo)

but then some other shit is clear too: harper has a better eye (not by a big margin). he's fucking 19 years old (a full year and two months younger than trout by the way) and has the highest bb% of all rookies while having one of the lower k% rates.

all the comparisons won't be fair until next year imo. trout had his major league debut and subsequent growing pains done last year and is now raking. harper had his debut and growing pains but showed much more results at a quicker/younger stage than trout, so i don't think it's fair to throw harper under the bus and just definitively say trout is better...it's even more absurd to me that buster olney has no problem quoting a scout who says trout will be the best player in the game by next year or listing stats that justify why olney thinks trout is one of the best already, all while ignoring bryce harper who is on a team that is winning more who has comparable/better offensive stats than trout in equal sample sizes (both with about 27 games and 120 PA...only don't forget trout had 40 games/135 PA under his belt from last year already)

BB%/K%/ISO

12%/16.2%/.238

vs.

10%/23.9%/.189

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 4:05 pm**

matt moore vs chris sale...so far a sick pitching dual...

sale is nasty! crazy 3/4 delivery that looks closer to sidearm and just filthy stuff

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 5:18 pm**

sale just left with 15 Ks... was a pleasure to watch today.

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 5:43 pm**

wuk wrote:sale just left with 15 Ks... was a pleasure to watch today.

i guess the elbow is ok then?

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 6:22 pm**

The debate we should have for the next 20 years is Mike Trout vs Tim Salmon vs Kevin Bass.

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 9:45 pm**

Positive A wrote:The debate we should have for the next 20 years is Mike Trout vs Tim Salmon vs Kevin Bass.

Mike Carp want in on that one too

Tim Lincecum is currently the worst pitcher in the Giants starting rotation

PEACE

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