Failed Bridge

1.) The Simpsons 2.) Seinfeld 3.) Married...With Children 4.) Arrested Development 5.) Cheers

Anybody else find it funny that a guy who spent his night posting on a messageboard is criticising somebody else for not leaving the house last night? I want a better ignore feature. I don't want to see that these people have made posts and I don't want to see their posts when I hit the Add Reply option. an improved search would be good too

When did I say Blalock was a better player than Beckett? I said they're about equal in value and a one for one trade would be fine. Blalock has issues with his power away from Texas, but that can change. Beckett has been on the DL 9 times in 4 years. Both are very talented but haven't been able to put everything together because of their short comings. Blalock has also played in a division known for tough pitching via the Angels, A's and sometimes the Mariners. Move him to the NL East which isn't as strong pitching wise as it once was and he'll do better. The only pitchers tht have given him trouble in that division are Tim Hudson and Billy Wagner (if he stays in that division). Tom Glavine might give him problems as well since he doesn't fair too well against lefties. He's not going to have to face Bartolo Colon (6-34 with 10Ks), Rich Harden (3-21 with 8Ks), Ricardo Rincon (3-19 with 4Ks), Kirk Sarloos (2-12), Barry Zito (6-29 with 7Ks), Shigetoshi Hasegawa (3-16), Jamie Moyer (7-32), Joel Piniero (5-36 with 13Ks). Now he might not put up great numbers at Florida but he should do quite well in the games he'll be playing at Alanta and Philli as both of those are launching pads. On to Beckett. He's got great stuff but has never stayed healthy enough to utilise it. As I said previously he's been on the DL 9 times in 4 seasons. Not to mention he's never pitched over 200 innings in a season and the closest he's come to that is 178 2/3ip this past season. Before that he had 156 2/3 in 04, 142 in 03, and 107 2/3 in 02. He did well in the 03 playoffs but Derek Lowe did very well in the 04 playoffs. You can't look at a small sampling and proclaim the guy an ace. Beckett needs to be able to pitch 200 innings and make 32-34 starts along with going into the playoffs. a one for one trade would have been fine for both as it gives them each a player with the potential (potential being the key word) to add something they've been missing (Florida with a young power threat that can compliment Miguel Cabrera, Becket a young pitcher that could be a legit ace if he puts the stuff together). I don't think Texas should have been willing to take on Lowell's contract and give up a fairly good prospect as well.

watch out Al, your scrotem's getting tugged on pretty hard here.

and yet I proved one thing he had to say wrong on the previous post. I enjoy talking to Al quite a bit, I just don't enjoy the people that cling from his testis and can't formulate their own thoughts.

link June 14th against the Cubs he had to leave early because of the blister and then was placed on the DL. link Oh noes! Al was wrong! The galaxy is going to crumble~!

It would be interesting to see somebody disagree on some things with Al rather than dangle off his nuts all the time. His scrotum must be in alot of pain. Beckett left a couple starts this season with blisters and one with an abdominal strain. In 2004 he did nothing but leave games due to blisters. Try looking things up before taking Al's word for the gospel.

I'd like to note that I was watching the Batman Begins DVD when this thread was made, and then I was sleeping while the thread continued.

and if anybody can come up with a better title for this thread then it'll be renamed. I didn't feel like being creative.

nobody parties harder than bob_barron

at the moment you probably are, although I continue to lose weight so be warned! I'm not going to Harry Potter until like Tuesday during the day. That way its been out for a little while and all the kids will be in school.

I don't care what channel picks it up so long as a channel does. As long as I can keep watching it only via DVD then I'm a happy camper.

your present will probably be getting blocked and then you'll recieve a PM later on saying "hi". That's what I got

infact you've never added anything of substance. I don't know how you stayed off my ignore list until now.

Mik, you're an absolute homer though so your opinion doesn't matter.

The BC Eagles are playing like crap and somehow they're still beating Maryland.

Red Sox apparently have interest in Beckett too. link If they expect a team to take on all of Lowell's contract then they can't be asking for two top prospects from the Red Sox and one top prospect with Hank Blalock from Texas. I'd be ok with Hanley Ramirez and David Pauley going to Florida, but not Lester or Sanchez.

He average 6ip per start in the 05 season, which was his best. He's got very good stuff but he's never proven he can be that Ace that can give you 200IP. I think he and Blalock are about equal in value.

how many of those starts did he come out real early because of blisters though?

Please keep TNA subjects away from horrible UTSU

The Marlins need another bat, and Beckett is never healthy enough to fully utilise his talents. I feel its a fair trade from both sides

Blalock for Beckett straight up should be fine. If I'm Texas then I don't want to get rid of Diamond, nor do I want Lowell's contract. Texiera just won a glove at first base but his natural position was third base. He could always go back to third and they can have Adrian Gonzales play first base.

I still believe that was the last good Aerosmith album.

its an insult to MMA to place it in the same category as WWE. LSD isn't Pop Culture...I mean, the porn videos of celebs are but when you have guys like Dama in there talking about his one night stand aborting his Boomer-Sooner love seed then its no longer Pop Culture.