EVIL~! alkeiper

And they have the defense. Notice how Sabathia got significantly better when he had J.J. Hardy playing behind him?

I don't think the Brewers are significantly worse. They lost Sheets and Sabathia, but they get back Yovani Gallardo. They still have their entire lineup coming back.

The Atlanta Braves? Did they suddenly acquire an outfield over the weekend?

Let's talk about the Texas Rangers. I'm on record saying the pitching staff problems are due in part to below average fielding. That's why so many of their pitchers excelled outside Arlington. They have a tough home park and a tendency to make hitting their overriding factor in team building. So you've had Josh Hamilton stretched in center field, Michael Young stretched at short, etc. This team seems to have acknowledged the latter problem by moving Michael Young to third base and plugging in Elvis Andrus (Omar Vizquel is a NRI and a decent bet to take the job to start). The Rangers have the deepest farm system in the majors at the moment. Neftali Feliz throws 100mph fastballs. Lefty Derek Holland is right behind him. They have two center field prospects in their top 10 as well. If the defense brings a spike to their pitching performance, this team could win a division title as soon as this season. Andruw Jones though I wouldn't count on. He looks like burnt toast.

They should do a "Superstars of WCW" set. By acknowledging the individual wrestlers, they could stick to the party line that WCW was a shitty promotion, but had talented wrestlers.

I had it for a month and was satisfied. Check out your local blackout rules. I was under the impression that they didn't have Blackouts. One of the things that pissed me off about Direct TV EI is that all saturday afternoon games were blacked out due to Fox having the 1-7 p.m. exclusive window. I missed out on a Ton of Yankee games the last 2 years. How come you only had it for a month? I simply bought it near the end of a season. Blackouts are regional, if a team claims your area for television rights then they can't air the games on mlb.tv. Here's a handy map. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wvoLtwni0kc/RhUv...MLBBLACKOUT.jpg

And really, considering Superstar Billy Graham was notorious for taking steroids in the late 70s, surely a few other professional athletes picked up on the idea.

The Austin/Pillman gun angle was Nov. 1996.

Honestly, I would hazard a guess that it is but I don't have the facilities to run an adequate search.

The Raw Draft lottery, June 2007.

It even goes beyond athletes. Entertainers take the stuff to look better on magazine covers. Records never bothered me. They are usually just reflective of their eras anyway.

Yeah I disagreed with the pitchers. But considering how hard it is to rank pitchers, I wouldn't get terribly argumentative over it. Gibson and Carlton were very good.

It doesn't bother you if baseball players attempt to cheat? The culture bothers me, but at this point we've gone far beyond individual players trying to game the system.

I had it for a month and was satisfied. Check out your local blackout rules.

I've gone far beyond caring at this point. For some reason, this makes me think no less of Rodriguez. Ditto Clemens, McGwire, Bonds, etc.

Wagner's on there because I needed as least one lefty reliever.

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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.