EVIL~! alkeiper

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.

Second basemen? Let's see. Obviously there's Joe Morgan and then a chasm. Craig Biggio is probably second, he racked up a huge number of win shares. Rod Carew actually would rank third on my list. An amazing 18 All-Star appearances there. I think Roberto Alomar has as good an argument as any player to rate fourth. A higher OPS+ than Ryne Sandberg. And this may come as a stunner, but Bobby Grich takes the fifth spot on my list. To summarize: 1. Morgan 2. Biggio 3. Carew 4. Alomar 5. Grich http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/qNrs That's a list of lefty relievers in baseball history. The gap in ERA between Wagner and the rest is HUGE. I mean, I don't see any intangibles in the world closing the gap on that.

Check again, he's my first baseman.

From time to time I've tried coming up with an MLB Dream Team. Always a fun idea, but it leads to a lot of tough cuts. Particularly when it comes to an established ancient player like Honus Wagner or Babe Ruth where the statistical evidence is overwhelming. If we limit the player pool strictly to surviving players though, we get players who are still relatively fresh in the memories of the fans. Players of whom we actually have footage. Let's see what we come up with. LINEUP C: Johnny Bench 1B: Stan Musial 2B: Joe Morgan SS: Alex Rodriguez 3B: Mike Schmidt LF: Barry Bonds CF: Willie Mays RF: Hank Aaron DH: Frank Robinson BENCH C: Yogi Berra C: Mike Piazza IF: Frank Thomas IF: Cal Ripken IF: George Brett OF: Ken Griffey Jr. OF: Manny Ramirez UT: Pete Rose STAFF SP: Roger Clemens SP: Greg Maddux SP: Tom Seaver SP: Randy Johnson SP: Pedro Martinez CL: Mariano Rivera RP: Goose Gossage RP: Rollie Fingers RP: Bruce Sutter RP: Dennis Eckersley RP: Billy Wagner P: Sandy Koufax P: Bob Feller M: Earl Weaver Feel free to come up with NBA, NFL or NHL versions if you wish. Or post criticisms of this one.

Would WWE have drawn enough extra money though to cover the added expense of bringing in all those big names?

Bailing out newspapers? What good purpose does that serve? The entire industry is sliding.

No. Not everything in the world needs to be dumped into CTDWAT.

I was at that show!!

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