EVIL~! alkeiper

Why not? Burnett turns 31 in January, has once made 30 starts in a season, and his career high in wins is 12. And oh yes, his best season as dictated by ERA+ would rank tied for 170th in this decade

The O's should trade Roberts, honestly. He's 30 years old already and could bring some value back in return. How old will he be the next time the O's field a competitive team?

Why not? I imagine it's probably less wrestling ops based than you think, more advertising and distribution directed. Do you have a job description handy?

The Vets' committee elects five to the Hall. Former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Walter O'Malley, Barney Dreyfuss (Pirates' owner), and managers Billy Southworth and Dick Williams. Dreyfuss owned the Pirates from 1900-32, he owned the Louisville Colonels until the league contracted after the 1899 season. Southworth managed the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and the Boston Braves to a pennant during the 1940s. Williams managed the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox of 1967, the Oakland A's to World Titles in 1972-73, and the San Diego Padres to their first pennant in 1984.

If you make that point, can you really criticize Disco Inferno for never having a good match if YOU'VE never had a good match?

Bedard last year had a 3.17 ERA along with just 141 hits in 182 innings with as a lefty with a shortstop in quotation marks. Just out of curiosity, Miguel Tejada missed a month due to injury. During that time, Bedard went 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA. Now that could be a statistical anomaly. But if you put a real shortstop behind him, look out.

I think there's an exception to the going on last rule, and that's if you're running a live show and building towards a rematch. It helps to announce a return match following intermission.

Kmart is running WWE dvds at 25% off this week only, for dvds normally priced $14.99-19.99.

I took one cheap shot. It's hardly an organized campaign.

I think the show is decent. I was just saying the weightlifting and contract signings knock it down from being a good show to just decent. And what the hell was the point of putting the Stallions/Islanders match after The Rumble? I know they were trying to kill time but couldn't they have just put it earlier in the show and served the same purpose? WWE did the same during the Saturday Night's Main Event era. Big matches always came at the beginning or middle, with a "walkout" match at the end.

I guess they'd like to get rid of Jon Lester then? Now that I think about it, I wouldn't let him hold up a big trade.

I have my doubts when it comes to the Red Sox and Johan Santana. People forget that Fenway Park is not a particularly good ballpark for left handed pitchers. It's been 50 years since the Sox really had a great left handed pitcher, and the only lefties to win 50+ with the Sox since were Bill Lee and Bruce Hurst.

The '88 Rumble is a nice show, but that Stallions/Islanders is as dead a match as I have ever seen.

Really now. This has the potential to become more nauseating than the ESPN thread. And that is saying something. A bunch of football fans bitching about calls as if their sport matters. And NBA fans after every single game. And Yankee fans of course. Fuckin' you're more nauseating than the ESPN thread. This is an idiotic response. We don't care about your opinion as thread or sport judge here, al, you just have to moderate your precious baseball threads and ignore everything else. Really. That's all we're asking. Please. My my, someone's a little sensitive. I'm only expressing my opinion as a poster, not a moderator. Sport fans going off about bad calls in general are generally tiresome people. There is about one time in a hundred where the complaints are truly warranted.

The Wrestling Gold dvd set has a Savage vs. Rude match from Memphis, if I'm not mistaken.

Really now. This has the potential to become more nauseating than the ESPN thread. And that is saying something. A bunch of football fans bitching about calls as if their sport matters. And NBA fans after every single game. And Yankee fans of course.

Seriously people. You shouldn't be so literal. So, let's rephrase the question, "If your house were "hypothetically" involved in a fire, and you could only grab 3 of your favorite DVD's/VHS and/or Beta/Reel-to-Reel/etc. that held wrestling content on them, and they weren't in a box, or if they were in a box, the box wasn't by your bed/living/kitchen/bath/game/jacuzzi/garage/laundry/parlour/pool room window and the wrestling tape fairy told you to grab your 3 favorites without any of your family members risking death (pets included), which would you choose?" Ah, fuck it. Who cares? Let's just forget the question and talk about why Chris Daniels is so great. Chris Daniels is great because if his house were on fire, he'd grab a fire extinguisher.

I can accept the premise that wrestlers are not better at selling than their predecessors. I am not certain it is the case, and it really is not something I notice as a difference between classic and current wrestling. But I think it's a gap in logic to assume that selling has gone bad due to the influence of the internet, and that in turn has hurt business as a whole. Also, this sounds like it was written five years ago.

This is a different list though, created by polling scouts. It is extremely tools based. Wood has not stalled, he gets promoted every season and just had a productive season in AAA. He's fine.

I got tickets for Smackdown on January 8th, Section 103. Accurate spoilers will come.

Why's he dogshit at third then? Terrible with ground balls, poor reaction time, bad range? I would be very surprised if they put him in center field. Not that it can't happen, just that I'd be surprised. 16 of his errors were throwing errors compared to ten fielding errors. Here's a list of batters who played 112+ games at both third and center. http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/7ePS

I've heard it suggested that Braun could play center field, since he's a good athlete and can run. With six triples and 15 steals last year, he's not exactly a flat-footed slugger.

Tickets go on sale for Smackdown in January today in Wilkes-Barre. I'm going to try and pick up tickets (unfortunately I work until 1pm). I doubt there will be another limo explosion, but it should be a fun show.

Johnny Cueto? Geez, if the Reds just wait a year he could BE that #2 starter. This is the wrong market to aggressively pursue starting pitching. As for the clutch hitting stuff, if you read James he never claimed that clutch hitting did not exist. Never. He always claimed the same thing he does in this article, that you can't prove its non-existence. I think he believes it does, but is cautious to really tout it because you then get endless arguments with fans who say "yeah but he's CLUTCH~!" and you have nowhere to go in the argument. Clutch hitting as an argument has been a way to state your player is better than another's in the absence of evidence. Clutch hitting in general is a bad thing to research. You have a million ways to define it and when you do, you don't have enough data to make anything of it. Give a hundred .250 hitters a hundred at bats, and 14 of them will hit .300 simply as a result of random variation. 15 will hit .200 or lower. So if you do have a few clutch hitters or unclutch hitters when you define the data, it proves nothing because you are supposed to have outliers.

Primarily because the Twins could turn and trade him to Boston, who might then sign him to an extension.