EVIL~! alkeiper

Brien Taylor wasn't a terrible pick. He was a fine enough prospect until he got hurt. Bush has yet to even crack AA.

One more quick comment on Michael Phelps. I am not a marijuana fan by any stretch. I hate the stuff. But if Michael Phelps can smoke the stuff and then become the most successful Olympian of all time, how harmful can it possibly be?

And this thread was sliding harmlessly off the page before now.

31 extra base hits in 86 games is hardly a power failure.

Mexico's 2-1 though. If they win today, they have Venezuela tomorrow with a chance of tying the series.

Probably not. After all, you have a finite number of wrestling fans you can draw. There's the law of diminishing returns at work. Most of the fans you draw with eight big stars would have bought the show if you had four big stars. Most of the WCW guys in question were making six or seven figures. Is it worth paying that kind of money for marginal returns? You can create great looking fantasy cards, but it just can't work in practice.

Also Marciano's best wins were over a grandpa Joe Louis, two light heavyweights in Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott. He retired before the division got good with Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, and Sonny Liston. Marciano ranks in my top 10 overrated list. You're thinking of Archie Moore as the second light heavy, Walcott weighed between 180-200 most of his career. In fairness to Marciano, he never weighed more than 190 for a fight. He'd be a cruiserweight today if he so chose. I think Marciano could've beaten Johansson and Patterson. Johansson had a great right hand and a so-so chin. That's a recipe for utter disaster against Marciano. Now Liston might've gotten it done, but Marciano would have been legitimately over the hill by the time Liston was a contender. Speaking of Johansson, he just passed away last week.

I suspect 909 wrote his post before I posted mine, and he wasn't directly responding to my question. A misunderstanding here. Floyd if he retires undefeated is probably the best undefeated fighter of all time, even over Marciano. Rocky had at least two fights where he escaped by the skin of his teeth.

Honestly, no. I stopped watching television on a regular basis.

Apparently this turned up in the midst of the Rangers' physical exam.

Good list 909. I'd put Michael Spinks at light heavyweight, Jones at Super Middleweight and Mayweather at super featherweight. Mark Johnson at flyweight, IMO.

Look at the first half of their careers. Frank Thomas from 1990-1997 was one of the greatest pure hitters of all time. I think Pujols will have a better career, but this is a merit list, not speculative.

How many Hall of Fame caliber fighters have retired undefeated? Rocky Marciano, Ricardo Lopez, Laszlo Papp come to mind.

Pretty insane. Schmidt was a more valuable hitter in context. Chipper led the NL once in batting average, once in OBP and once in OPS. Schmidt led three times in OBP, five times in slugging and five times in OPS. Schmidt at one point led the league in OPS four years in a stretch of five. On top of being the best hitter in the NL, Schmidt won ten gold gloves. I think you can make a case for Chipper #2, but Schmidt is pretty clear cut.

I honestly think Roger Clemens is the greatest pitcher of all time, dead or alive.

Jeter can also hang at SS even if he's terrible defensively. Nomar can't play short, or any other position on the diamond at this point in his career. That significantly drops his value even if he was healthy enough to get 400 at bats. The bat isn't good enough to carry him at DH, so where exactly does he fit in? The Phillies want him as Utley insurance and then a reserve infielder, which makes sense.

Tugboat was Summer '91, he turned on the Bushwackers during a six-man tag. Regardless of the storylines, Hogan and Warrior were the biggest stars of the promotion. It was the match I think most casual fans wanted to see. If the entire crowd would've known Hogan was winning, what of Hogan/Slaughter? Everyone knew Hogan was taking the title there as well.

Like Cheech said, the problem is that MTV in its current guise is immensely popular. Those shows are widely watched. Of course, I think the people watching them are morons, but facts are facts.

A writer on ESPN.com writes that Nomar provides better value than Jeter, and wonders why he is not drawing more interest. The problem is that Nomar has to play through pain, and from accounts does not know if he even wants to keep playing.

WWE really hadn't run a friend turns on Hogan angle since Savage in '89, had they? Besides, when Bruno was champion they did it all the time and hardly ever faced a backlash.

This upcoming Tuesday is the release date.

How about WWE eschewing Hogan/Warrior II at Wrestlemania VII in favor of Hogan/Slaughter? Could Hogan/Warrior II have drawn a big enough crowd to justify the LA Coliseum?

Isn't that exactly what happened? Bischoff tried to negotiate a sale at $600 million one year prior; Vince bought it for $2.5 million. Yeah. WCW lost tv and thus Bischoff's group fell through. Vince bought WCW and about 22-24 of the talent contracts.

The History Channel. Between shows about the future, shows about the paranormal, shows about ice road truckers, do they even cover history anymore?

Nolan Ryan is almost certainly the most overrated player in baseball history. He's a Hall of Famer yes, but people put him in their all time rotations. In this case, Ryan never won a Cy Young award in his career. Pedro has three. If you're going to be one of the best ever, shouldn't you have been the best for at least one season? Derek Jeter. He's third among living shortstops with 1,000+ games, but let's take out everyone's decline phase. Jeter falls to fifth in OPS+ up to age 34 behind Rodriguez, Ernie Banks, Garciaparra and Barry Larkin. Cal Ripken and Robin Yount are close enough that defense gives them the edge. So among living shortstops the highest I can comfortably rate Jeter is 8th. As for Manny Ramirez, his teams have made the postseason ten times so I can hardly say his antics are a detriment to his teams' success. If you want a different outfielder though, I suggest Duke Snider who is still alive into his 80s.