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a move we won t see was why the redflops can but won t win stwombly cs ulowell edu steve twombly writes mo vaughn can hit in the spring b mo vaughn can only hit during the season excellent point i hope to god that ted simmons doesn t get the weird idea of trading for the guy and if he does he had better not include jeff king in the deal oh god what if he traded zane smith and jeff king for vaughn and greg blosser it would be worse than the nichols curse hmm i guess that doesn t sound sincere enough oh well at least i tried jking
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re my belated predictions nl mss netcom com mark singer writes in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes javier lopez is a better catcher than greg olson but has there ever in the history of baseball been a year old or younger rookie catcher who compared favorably among all league catchers in terms of defense and brought a bat wasn t it sandy alomar who was supposed to be that good in his rookie year not wasn t it benito santiago who was supposed to be that good in his rookie year not hrm sandy alomar year old rookie games threw out a few baserunners benito santiago year old rookie games he threw out a few baserunners too ivan rodriguez year old rookies games didn t exactly suck behind the plate i can continue this thread with the others mentioned but you get the point you and others seem to be so quick to dismiss the seasoned veterans in favor of the hot young rookies perhaps just perhaps the management team of the pennant winning braves knows something more than you do and perhaps what they know is that very very few and year old rookies come up to the majors and make an impact true which only makes it more important to realize when you have one of the few lopez season last year adjusted to major league equivalencies was hrs how bad does he have to be behind the plate for that to not be better than olson s mike jones aix high end development mjones donald aix kingston ibm com i would not admire hitting against ryne duren because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense casey stengel
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re espn and expansion in article c u c ucdavis edu itlm dale ucdavis edu donnie trump writes i was watching peter gammons on espn last night and he s got me a little confused while talking about expansion he started mentioning people who might benefit from the fringe players they ll be facing mcgriff hitting home runs sheffield getting rbi s and glavine winning games this was of course all in reference to what happened the other times that baseball has expanded early s late s late s what really confused me though was the mention of al players who would do well next year specifically roger clemens winning games and the likes of mcgwire and gonzalez hitting home runs my question is how in the hell will the rockies marlins help the al the last time i looked there wasn t a lot of talent jumping leagues did i miss something dennis cleary dfcleary ucdavis edu i wondered the same thing when he first mentioned it i thought he was just making a mistake but then he said it over and over and then in the examples from other years he gave stats for players from both leagues even when only one league expanded so since stats never lie i guess there is an effect on both leagues because the expansion draft takes talent from both leagues equally making every team in both leagues dilute their major league talent by calling up players that normally they would not have had there not been expansion make sense
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rockies opening day cast here is the colorado rockies openning day cast pitchers scott aldred l mlb totals games era saves andy ashby r games era saves willie blair r games era saves butch henry l games era saves darren holmes r games era saves david neid r games era saves jeff parrett r games era saves steve reed r games era saves bruce ruffin l games era saves bryn smith r games era saves gary wayne l games era saves the rest joe girardi c games hr rbi sb danny sheaffer c games hr rbi sb freddie benavides ss games hr rbi sb vinny castilla ss games hr rbi sb andres galarraga b games hr rbi sb charlie hayes b games hr rbi sb jim tatum b games hr rbi sb eric young b games hr rbi sb dante bichette of games hr rbi sb daryl boston of games hr rbi sb jerald clark of games hr rbi sb alex cole of games hr rbi sb gerald young of games hr rbi sb dale murphy of seasons hr rbi
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rockies and rangers fans please help me greetings baseballers i have a choice of two more or less identical conferences to attend one in denver and one in dallas both may could some kind rockies or rangers they do play in the dallas area right fans please let me know if there are home dates for that week i d love to catch a game thanks shawn
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opening day of the o s just lost to the rangers a few minutes ago i was not too happy about the pitching of rick sutcliffe runs in innings in the this puts me in remembering the o s season after we didn t do much over winter and we wound up in th now i know that mussina mcdonald and rhodes are better pitching prospects than ballard and milacki but are any other oriole fans scared out there admiral steve c liu p s other scores as of now cincy over montreal i think florida is leading la in the th braves vs cubs in the th futility of cubs batting haunting them yanks beat the tribe i believe admiral steve c liu internet address admiral jhunix hcf jhu edu commander in chief of the security division of the pi club earth chapter president of the earth chapter of the pi club founded april world champions baltimore orioles why not series in the yards stanley cup champions washington capitals committee for the liberation and intergration of terrifying organisms and their rehabilitation into society the only problem is that the abbreviation is clitoris from the polymorph episode of red dwarf the bangles are the greatest female rock band that ever existed this sig has been brought to you by frungy the sport of kings my god man drilling holes through his head is not the answer dr mccoy you know susanna hoffs has a really nice ass comment by m flanagan the pi club creating the largest signatures for the past nine months
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re wohlers to minors in article hydra gatech edu ccastmm prism gatech edu mike marler writes in apr rigel econ uga edu shannonr moe coe uga edu shannon reeves cntr for ed tech writes at times it seems as if no others in the bullpen are used by cox for middle relief marvin only pitched innings this spring he is supposed to be over his surgery and i am wondering if cox is still trying to decide who to use as middle relief and thinks that marvin might be his better choice early in the season i would immediately give mcmchael many chances to pitch after spring and then use bedrock and freeman after that i am wondering how he intends to use howell whatever happened to senior smoke do you mean juan berenguer he was traded for mark davis in the middle of last season exchanged one stiff for another as berenguer hadn t come back from his injury in i think he s retired now anyhow as middle relief marvin ain t that bad he at least can pitch a couple of innings or do mop up work i don t know much about mcmichael was he the mexican league guy but everybody else in the pen is a inning man except maybe mercker eric roush fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu i am a marxist of the groucho sort grafitti paris tanstaafl although the internet comes close
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re minnesota pitching date mon apr from karim edvard ahmed ka k andrew cmu edu since i haven t been able to keep up with baseball much this season i have a few questions about my favorite team the minnesota twins how good does their rotation look the last i heard the order is tapani erikson mahomes banks and some guy i ve never heard of sounds pretty pathetic to me well maybe it will be banks is a year old prospect who hasn t matured as quickly as they would have liked mahomes is a year old who is very highly touted tapani and erickson are also young and have looked very good this spring the last spot was between jim deshaies formerly of houston and s d and mike trombley deshaies hasn t looked very good this spring so i believe that the spot has gone to trombley although they hadn t wanted starters this unproven i personally believe very highly in mahomes and trombley who is playing short and third well scott leius is the shortstop he played mostly b last year but was a ss in the minors and moved back after gagne left to k c b is split maybe between pagliarulo who has had a great spring and terry jorgenson a good looking kid who has languished in portland for years i m not sure how the time will be divided but they seem to be happy with what they have here i like jorgenson but i fear they might give too much time to pags how s winfield doing sorry can t help you here dennis
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re my belated predictions nl well as long as folks are sharing their esteemed wisdom li l karnak sez al west al east nl west nl east chicago toronto atlanta st louis texas new york cincinnati montreal minnesota baltimore houston new york oakland boston los angeles philadelphia seattle detroit san diego pittsburgh kansas city milwaukee san fran chicago california cleveland colorado florida details to follow later pick it apart as you like also if anyone is still taking entries for prediction pools contests could you snag mine and add it to the list thanks i m just glad it s opening day makes up a little bit for the gloom doom weather patterns here lundy dave hung like a jim acker slider kirsch blue jays do it again in kirsch staff tc umn edu new quotes out of context not to beat a dead horse but it s been a couple o weeks this disappoints me punishments discharges jackhammering stephen lawrence
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re with a surge in the last two weeks watch us soar in shouldn t that be watch us stoned in or maybe watch us suck in or even watch us sore in matt montgomery no really i like the phillies
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where can i find baseball statistics i am interested in uncovering statistics on boston red sox players from march present i want to look at changes in batting average hits multi hit games runs stolen bases and on base during every game where can i find this information do any sports magazines log this info or do i have to go directly to the ball club thanks for the info kip
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grateful dead being a baseball fan and a fan of the above mentioned band i was wondering if anyone could clue me in on whether the dead or members of sang the national anthem at todays giant opener i would imagine that it is a bit too early for anyone to know but an answer would be greatly appreciated curious robert robert margesson umaine hockey park st c black bears orono me ncaa champs
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g williams sent down yanks win al east well it really isn t this cut and dry but as a jay fan the thing i feared worst has happened the yanks sent down williams g and are going to start williams b in cf i also believe they kept wickman and millitello in their rotation which is much nicer than that kaminiecki and mike witt combo i thought they d throw out their to the slaughterhouse because of their experience granted witt might be good but i think that they used rationale to keep the youngsters up and not given the job to witt because he was a good pitcher and has experience the yanks are showing that they are taking positive strides forwards the jays with the loss of dave stewart are looking at gigantic holes in their pitching staff the orioles should also be there in the end gord niguma to salvage the season let jj olerud win mvp
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re bo was a good player you shorts plus idiots in article apr otago ac nz guilford otago ac nz writes in article apr princeton edu roger crux princeton edu roger lustig writes in article apr otago ac nz guilford otago ac nz writes bo jackson kcr kcr kcr cws maj maj this is what jackson looked like in with everything converted to a neutral park on the basis of run production his equivalent average started at in was up to in and in so let us say he had established in his last two seasons a level of play that is good very good in fact but it probably doesn t make the top ten in the league the th best eqa in the al in was dave winfield s thomas was first at first in the nl was bonds an incroyable tenth was bip roberts but is better than any season in the past five years by joe carter it is about what mattingly had in what felix jose had the last two years just ahead of time raines five year average better than ryan klesko s mles he got more attention from the media than was warranted from his baseball playing though his hype was a lot better than his hitting that is the basis for the net comments about him being overrated the media would have you beleive he was a great hitter i think he was a good maybe very good hitter he was imo something like the th best hitter in the majors clay d
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re young catchers in article mssc dfw u netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes at age alomar had a brilliant rookie year true he was limited by injuries in his sophomore season but his numbers both that yaer and the year following were quite mediocre this season the same bill james projects a ba of ops of the same bill james why do you say that it sounds like you re suggesting bill james had something to do with overhyping the kid to death au contraire he was fairly critical of him after his roy campaign noting that he wasn t all world as a catcher or a hitter he called him basically average when everyone else in the media was predicting the next johnny bench or roy campanella both of these young men were highly touted defensive catchers expected to be among the best ever in baseball the reports i read indicate that lopez is very ordinary defensively which reports are those the dodgers options are parrish and hernandez and now only carlos piazza is as long as he continues with his very hot bat they will keep him in the lineup because they need the offensive production when he cools off look for the much better defensive catcher hernandez only to play more i like hernandez a lot but if piazza can catch the ball you ve gotta play him imho he s a much better hitter although hernandez isn t a bad hitter right now it sounds like piazza will catch most of the time and hernandez will be candiotti s caddy since he can catch the knuckler as long as they play up to their abilities the dodgers could have a very good catching tandem the braves options are berryhill and olson i agree that olson is nothing special but i do think berryhill is better than many people on rsb believe but both the braves catchers are very good defensively calling a game blocking the plate throwing and although they are somewhat weak offenivsively they play on a team that is not so much in need of another big bat i think both are overrated defensively see nichols law of catcher defense but that s something that s difficult to prove or disprove from your viewpoint or mine about the only tangible thing we can look at is opponent s sb and that s clouded by how well your pitchers hold runners catchers era is a possibility but it s subject to way too many biases as for them playing on a team that is not so much in need of another big bat i disagree here too about the only chink in the braves armor is that they re weak offensively at several positions cf c b ss if belliard plays b unless bream and hunter form another super platoon and very weak defensively if blauser plays i d like to see the braves give at least one of mel nieves javy lopez or chipper jones a shot but much like the talent rich jays of recent years they ll be conservative and stick with what they have i m not saying that s wrong just conservative dave hung like a jim acker slider kirsch blue jays do it again in kirsch staff tc umn edu new quotes out of context not to beat a dead horse but it s been a couple o weeks this disappoints me punishments discharges jackhammering stephen lawrence
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes jayson stark i think that s him fits perfectly in this category could be there is a jayson stark that writes weekly for some press syndicate and also for baseball america anyone who writes dean palmer has homers at this pace he ll have home runs should be shot if at the end of april he has and anyone writes at this pace he ll have homers they shouldbe shot too stark has done this sort of thing but he has never been serious about it he usually states that this sort of projection is useless at the top of such columns i think he did it one season and some manager was projected to be thrown out of games and some hitter could expect to be plunked times stark does some really funny stuff his weekly baseball reviews are good collections of strange things that happened during the previous week he also regularly prints kinerisms lance cr o h o smith moments after being named manager for the lsmith cs umn edu oakland a s mr peanut was crushed by a special limited edition red headed loner wielding an aluminum bat r s bb signature murder at the mausoleum
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re young catchers in article apr cs cornell edu tedward cs cornell edu edward theodorus redsox fannus fischer writes sorry this doesn t fly the good players have always been ready for the majors early how many hofers were not contributing major leaguers by the time they were that brings up an interesting point anyone else catch espn s piece about prospects and the relationship between age career length mvps and hall of fame members it was part of their preseason special basically they looked at players that had amassed plate appearances or abs by the time they were and noticed some interesting things for starters they found out such players comprised the majority of mvps in the history of the game they also found out such players represented the majority of the players in the hall of fame the kicker though was that they actually did some number crunching and found that such players careers lasted much longer than the careers of players not in that group they also found that these players produced at both a greater level of performance and produced over twice the raw totals hrs etc of the other players the first group outhit the second something like to in raw ba and blew away the second group in such categories as hrs bs rbis etc it was the most impressive thing i ve seen on espn in recent memory i guess ray knight makes his rebuttal tonight dave hung like a jim acker slider kirsch blue jays do it again in kirsch staff tc umn edu new quotes out of context not to beat a dead horse but it s been a couple o weeks this disappoints me punishments discharges jackhammering stephen lawrence
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red sox win st bosox royals wp clemens lp appier key hit mike greenwell s out tripple with bases loaded
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb bob gajarsky hobokenite writes jayson stark i trhink that s him fits perfectly in this category anyone who writes dean palmer has homers at this pace he ll have home runs should be shot bob i think that stark does this sort of thing as a joke not as a serious prediction i don t really see why we should shoot him for that the guys who ought to be shot are the ones who keep claiming how great the royals chances are in the al west since all evidence indicates that they aren t joking and actually believe it bob davis rbd thor ece uc edu
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re young catchers in article c wo kfy news cis umn edu kirsch staff tc umn edu dave almost cursed the jays kirsch writes that brings up an interesting point anyone else catch espn s piece about prospects and the relationship between age career length mvps and hall of fame members it was part of their preseason special wow espn can repeat eleven year old bill james research literally check the abstract it was the most impressive thing i ve seen on espn in recent memory perhaps in they ll be as reliable as an average sdcn i guess ray knight makes his rebuttal tonight oops maybe not ted frank however teel should have mentioned that though thf kimbark uchicago edu his advice is legally sound if you follow it the u of c law school you will probably wind up in jail standard disclaimers james donald in misc legal
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re finnally the phils have support in article c yxmj ble news udel edu philly bach udel edu robert c hite writes in article apr ulkyvx louisville edu pjtier ulkyvx louisville edu writes everytime i have written on the net about the possibility of a successfuls season by the philadelphia phillies i have gotten ripped from everybody from pittsburgh to calcutta but if all the ignoramouses care to look at this week s baseball weekly they will see that i m not the only one who considers then as division winners the rest of the most respected baseball writers in the country do as well and what was the reasoning of this genius writer that even though their pitching is at best sound they will win on the strength of their offense lesse offense offense thompson incaviglia offense wins division winners at least wins so wins wins thompson incaviglia therefore wins thompson incaviglia what did you learn in school today if you take a math course and your teacher turns out to be rob rains run don t walk to drop add p tierney you obviously don t know what the hell you re talking about no thompson and incaviglia don t equal wins but i ll take the two of them over stan javier and ruben amaro hr ab hr ab i d say this improvement should equate to or wins at least then i ll take lenny dykstra who played games last year and project his numbers hits b s hr rbi sb over games thus hits b s hr rbi sb okay now we ll put these numbers in the leadoff hole and thus i have to bump kruk hollins daulton rbi numbers up just a tad now lesse they knocked in and respectively don t you think it s fair to add about or rbi to each they managed to knock in a pretty nice amount of runs with a leadoff hitter okay bozo do you think it s fair to add maybe or more wins now oh and how can i forget wes chamberlain ab s hr rbi even with a month and in aaa and a horrible first half well project that over a full season to get hr and rbi or so is that worth a win or two finally take the worse pitching staff in the nl last year add the worse injury decimation of okay now we add danny jackson some health and a full season for schilling is that worth at least wins okay we ve been conservative and added about wins so far now we re adding about more wins thanks to the expansion teams okay thats wins lesse dipshit math genuious hmmm i think thats good enough to win the worse division in baseball next time before you say something foolish get a clue first actually i was simply relaying the reasoning of this so called genius bw writer i agree the reasoning was foolish next time before you say something foolish be aware what you are responding to btw wins very funny p tierney
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new uniforms usually one or two teams changes their logo or a minor uniform change per season but the past few seasons have been incredible any thoughts on the new old reds uniforms i remember seeing a pete rose rookie card and unless i miss my guess he was wearing the exact same duds the mets how about doc s performance today have reinserted the mets patch on the shoulder and changed the mets insgnia on the front of the jersey to my knowledge it is the first time that has been changed since and it reminds me a little of the dodger logo many teams have opted for a return to a previous style of uniform or at least uniforms that look more traditional phillies reds expos white sox padres etc and the once bright colors have been altered to gray the trend has also seen the newer baseball fields resembling the parks of the early years as opposed to the cookie cutter saucer stadiums construcrted throughout the sixties with salaries now reaching unbelievable highs no one in the comissioner s office and inter league play on the horizon it s nice to see that baseball at least looks like it was meant to be
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re players overpaid ted frank s list of underpaid players was this p juan guzman p mussina p castillo p eldred p rhodes p militello rp rojas rp beck rp melendez rp hernandez rp nied c rodriguez c piazza b thomas b bagwell b knoblauch b barberie b gomez b palmer ss listach ss pena lf gonzalez cf lankford rf r sanders of plantier what do all of these players have in common they do not qualify for arbitration they were never free agents it s called the reserve clause look it up and a year from now we will whine about how several of these guys are way overpaid and getting outrageous raises in arb humbug king sparky banaian no taxes no new taxes kbanaian pitzer claremont edu no old taxes we are taxed dept of economics pitzer college enough rep alan keyes latest gdp forecast please run alan
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vegas odds does anyone have a list of vegas odds for teams making the world series i d appreciate a mailing thanks rickc corp sgi com
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rec sport baseball fantasy april i am participating in an nl league that uses standard rotisserie rules except that the following catagories are used for position players lowest batting average strike outs caught stealing errors for pitchers losses blown saves higest era taters allowed this is the fifth year that i ve participated in this blowtisserie league last year i won the pennant due primarily to the fact that i had terrible pitching i would like to lower my batting average which is rather high because i do have jose offerman who made up for this by helping me lock first place in errors anyway someone offered andres gallaraga for bud black i can afford to give up bud black because i still have kyle abbott however i am afraid of andres actually doing well this season should i make the trade or not your comments will be appreciated warren usui i m one with the universe on a scale from to
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jim lefebvre is an idiot i just wanted to let everyone know that i have lost what little respect i have for jim lefebvre after seeing today s cubs game first of all how could he start maldonado over may after the way may played at the end of last year and the way he tore up the cactus league how could you let him sit the bench not to mention that a right hander maddux started i really blew my top when lefebvre pinch hit for rick wilkins with tommy shields how can you do that just because of the lefty righty thing too much is made of that wilkins is twice the hitter that shields is then the next batter was jose vizcaino one of the weakest hitters i have ever seen and who had looked terrible at bat all day and lefebre let him hit while may still sat the bench i think even arnie harris was stunned by this because he showed may sitting in the dugout while vizcaino was batting face it lefebvre has got to be the worst manager in baseball a dishard cub fan
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re best second baseman thf ellis uchicago edu ted frank writes in article mar sarah albany edu js albnyvms bitnet writes personally i think that alomar is all hype he is producing incredibly now but in the long run he will never put up the numbers that sandberg has for this moment alomar may be the best but overall sandberg wins out by a long shot when sandberg was alomar s age he was putting up seasons with no power alomar s oba is points higher than sandberg s career high alomar s career high in doubles and triples is higher than sandberg s sandberg is still better than alomar but only because alomar hasn t reached his full potential yet alomar s got a year headstart on sandberg he has hits sandberg didn t have hits until he was and is likely to put up better career numbers than sandberg in everything except home runs he ll pass sandberg in stolen bases sometime in sandberg is not particulary known for his stolen bases what competition did alomar have sandberg came in a year after ripken and the same year as boggs gwynn and the other magicians so less attention was given to sandberg alomar is the only one in his class to be worth a mediocre besides the numbers don t count national league pitchers are much better pitchers larry on someone elses account mark horan horan cse unl edu ianr unlvm
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re jim lefebvre is an idiot bjgood leo bsuvc bsu edu writes i just wanted to let everyone know that i have lost what little respect i have for jim lefebvre after seeing today s cubs game first of all how could he etc vizcaino was batting face it lefebvre has got to be the worst manager in baseball a dishard cub fan hey he s the only manager so far to lead the seattle mariners to a winning season out of what fifteen give him some credit for that dave the machman machman u washington edu david c carroll c oo big science hallelujah
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re giants gm quinn is a genius in article c nh et odin corp sgi com luigi sgi com randy palermo writes will clark matt williams robbie thompson rod beck all came up through the giants system geez everyone comes up with clark williams thompson these guys were all up in that s ancient history so in the last years noone right beck doesn t count i said solid years btw manwaring lead the ml last season in throwing out baserunners he is an excellent defensive catcher i agree that his offensive skills are limited but he does seem to be improving on them let s see what he does w o the help of a pitchout every other pitch as i remember even bob brenly had a good throwout percentage under roger craig who loved to sacrifice the count for runners being thrown out of course he suffered from ball strike homers a lot too i am not a big fan of manwaring dave
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re harry and candy but i like the way he butchers andres galarraga s name y all lighten up on harry skip ll be like that in a couple of years it comes out like gahlah rrrraggggah and don t forget his frequent references to the great sf giant star bobby bonds harry s a great personality he s the reason i like cubs broadcasts it s certainly not the quality of the team chop chop michael mule michael andre mule georgia institute of technology atlanta georgia uucp decvax hplabs ncar purdue rutgers gatech prism gt e internet gt e prism gatech edu
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a l east is best in baseball is there any doubt that this is true after a few down years the a l east is back to where it was in the early eighties with the emergence of the o s and the yanks it is far and away the best while the n l west has the best team in baseball and the reds aren t bad either they have nothing else the giants astros and padres all have talent they do not have the all arounf teams that are found in the a l east and the dodgers just plain suck as for the rockies who knows the a l east has the defending champs and although they lost a lot to free agency toronto is still one of the best in baseball the orioles have the preseason favorite to win the cy young in mike mussina and you can never forget about ripken the signings of harold baines and harold reynolds don t hurt to much either although i always liked bill ripken while they let a lot go this summer randy milligan joe orsulak bill ripken bob milacki sam horn storm davis and craig lefferts they kept the heart of their team intact my predicted finish baltimore could be a biased opinion ny yankees toronto milwaukee detroit boston cleveland would have been higher if not for the accident go o s
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re my belated predictions nl briefly since i m off to sleep mle s work pretty well for aa nd aaa players players who are and younger will tend to have explosions in their numbers whether mmle s or not in the next years players who are and older at those levels generally have inflated mle s they re about as reliable as having major league stats for a player bob gaj
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb ok sorry about that i didn t realise he was being sarcastic about those sort of things but i ll tell you mike lupica daily news usually says some pretty funny things in his shooting from the lip columns bob gaj
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phils are still looking immaculate ladies and gentleman step one was taken on the phils triumphant trip this year tonight yes that was english mulholland s era after tonight s game nice try drabek ninja jew
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quick easy question here s an easy question for someone who knows nothing about baseball what city do the california angels play out of richard j rauser you have no idea what you re doing rauser sfu ca oh don t worry about that we re professional wni outlaws we do this for a living remember no matter where you go there you are dr banzai
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re finnally the phils have support the phillies were picked to be in first someone replied that the people who picked them were the same people who picked the mets last year my reply yeah that may be true but this is the phillies fritz
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes ok sorry about that i didn t realise he was being sarcastic about those sort of things but i ll tell you mike lupica daily news usually says some pretty funny things in his shooting from the lip columns bob gaj y know if current trends continue the florida marlins will be the first expansion team to go and outscore their opponents by runs ted frank however teel should have mentioned that though thf kimbark uchicago edu his advice is legally sound if you follow it the u of c law school you will probably wind up in jail standard disclaimers james donald in misc legal
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re quick easy question rauser fraser sfu ca richard john rauser writes here s an easy question for someone who knows nothing about baseball what city do the california angels play out of anaheim richard j rauser you have no idea what you re doing rauser sfu ca oh don t worry about that we re professional wni outlaws we do this for a living remember no matter where you go there you are dr banzai
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trivia question ok all you trivia buffs i have a good one for you prior to the foul bunt rule what is the record for the most foul balls by batter during one at bat total pitches who was the batter who was the pitcher same as except after the foul bunt rule associated data would be nice too such as date location teams etc bill wrl pmafire inel gov
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re best second baseman in article pqvusinnmjm crcnis unl edu horan cse unl edu mark horan writes sandberg is not particulary known for his stolen bases what competition did alomar have sandberg came in a year after ripken and the same year as boggs gwynn and the other magicians so less attention was given to sandberg alomar is the only one in his class to be worth a mediocre besides the numbers don t count national league pitchers are much better pitchers you re right thomas gonzalez sheffield and griffey don t even begin to compare with ripken boggs and gwynn so no wonder alomar gets so much attention sandberg got no attention his rookie year because his rookie year was terrible so was his sophomore year national league pitchers are much better pitchers that certainly explains sheffield s hm are you confusing have era s that are lower because they don t face dh s with much better ted frank however teel should have mentioned that though thf kimbark uchicago edu his advice is legally sound if you follow it the u of c law school you will probably wind up in jail standard disclaimers james donald in misc legal
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re espn and expansion in article c u c ucdavis edu itlm dale ucdavis edu donnie trump writes i was watching peter gammons on espn last night and he s got me a little confused while talking about expansion he started mentioning people who might benefit from the fringe players they ll be facing mcgriff hitting home runs sheffield getting rbi s and glavine winning games this was of course all in reference to what happened the other times that baseball has expanded early s late s late s what really confused me though was the mention of al players who would do well next year specifically roger clemens winning games and the likes of mcgwire and gonzalez hitting home runs my question is how in the hell will the rockies marlins help the al the last time i looked there wasn t a lot of talent jumping leagues did i miss something only if you persist in believing that peter gammons is more knowledgable about baseball than the average mailbox okay i m overstating still the man actually had the gall to say that one out of every six pitchers in the nl this year did not pitch in the majors last year huh imo this expansion will not see the explosive jump in offense that the other expansion drafts had since the talent was diluted over both leagues in gammons defense because the talent drain came from the al as well some increase will be seen he also gets credit for mentioning that the jump in offense was due also to the rules changes after the season he s still full of it kurt bose as in daisy not rose kbos carina unm edu if you take out all the f ks this is an page book wally backman leafing though a copy of mets teammate lenny dykstra s autobiography nails
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re bo was a good player you shorts plus idiots in article c m d dv murdoch acc virginia edu drw l delmarva evsc virginia edu david robert walker writes bo jackson kcr kcr kcr cws maj maj this is what jackson looked like in with everything converted to a neutral park on the basis of run production his equivalent average started at in was up to in and in so let us say he had established in his last two seasons a level of play i m not quite sure how these numbers are generated it appears that in a neutral park bo s hr and slugging tend to drop he actually loses two home runs or do they what is equivalent average one thing when looking at bo s stats is that you can see that kc took away some homers normally you expect some would be homers to go for doubles or triples in big parks or to be caught and for that matter you expect lots of doubles and triples anyway but bo despite his speed hit very few doubles and not that many triples so i would expect his value to have risen quite considerably in a neutral park that is good very good in fact but it probably doesn t make the top ten in the league the th best eqa in the al in was dave winfield s thomas was first at first in the nl was bonds an incroyable tenth was bip roberts but is better than any season in the past five years by joe carter it is about what mattingly had in what felix jose had the last two years just ahead of time raines five year average better than ryan klesko s mles felix jose has been a player in a fairly neutral park i would offhand guess the bo at around a player maybe not even close he got more attention from the media than was warranted from his baseball playing though his hype was a lot better than his hitting that is the basis for the net comments about him being overrated the media would have you beleive he was a great hitter i think he was a good maybe very good hitter he was imo something like the th best hitter in the majors i d put him about there too note i hadn t realized the media had hyped him so much i thought he was always viewed by them as a better football player and only so so at baseball he did only have one hr rbi season and kc wasn t winning note i maybe have harped on this a bit in the past but there is a mistake being made by the sdcn s as they are known on this group with respect to players like bo and deion and lofton and perhaps others we find that if you look at a large group of players their past major and minor league numbers will predict their future numbers fairly well their are some caveats the younger they are the less good the prediction the lower the minor league the less good i imagine the more recent the player has left college ball etc now of course this prediction involves quite a bit of error sometimes a player with poor mle s dave justice the ventura becomes a star some hitters develop shane mack brian downing some don t oddibe mcdowell mickey brantley this error involves real things there are real reasons why oddibe didn t hit and shane did it may who knows involve parks and batting coaches and wheaties and injuries and lifting and so on but still you have this big pool of players and things work pretty well one of the reasons for these predictions accuracy is the common background of the players one thing we know about professional baseball players is that all of them or almost all have spent a good deal of time playing ball their backgrounds are similar what hasn t been established is what happens when you encounter a player with a different background is there some reason to believe that a bo or a deion or a lofton or a tony gwynn or an ainge or so on has such a different background that the standard model and standard assumptions fit this person slowly it hasn t been established that you can use mle s with two sport players it hasn t been established that you can t but then statistics is after all an art i personally think otherwise lucid individuals continually make completely nonsensical statements about bo and deion and lofton look at those good but not great minor league numbers they say well what happens if those numbers simply don t mean what they usually mean it might mean that ken lofton suddenly has a better year in houston than tuscon it might mean that deion suddenly has a better half year in atlanta than greenville then again it might not ken and deion might go right back in the tank this year live up to those poor mle s but you guys don t know what s worse you don t know that you don t and you don t know that there are other players you won t know about injuries and lifting and wheaties again you seem to think that the model is perfect and eternal it s not it s got some error oh well bill guilford still thinks hairy butt is truly ugly might be right
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re my belated predictions nl in article mssc zyo jsc netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes i ve said the braves would improve by injury as well here s how javier lopez is a better catcher than greg olson ryan klasko is a better firstbaseman than bream chipper jones is a better shortstop than anyone the braves put out there mel nieves is better than nixon sanders that s how it forces them to play the young guys bob gaj i continue to be amazed at these comments while lopez might some day be a better catcher than olson i find it totally amazing for you to suggest that this year old with three seasons of professional baseball is now better than olson a five year mlb veteran who is noted for his ability to call a game and who has a better than average arm oh perhaps you are talking about hitting well sure lopez might hit better perhaps he probably will but has there ever in the history of baseball been a year old or younger rookie catcher who compared favorably among all league catchers in terms of defense and brought a bat wasn t it yes ivan rodriguez last year batted and threw out of the baserunners not too shabby for a rookie from aa years old last year sandy alomar who was supposed to be that good in his rookie year not wasn t it benito santiago who was supposed to be that good in his rookie year not i can continue this thread with the others mentioned but you get the point you and others seem to be so quick to dismiss the seasoned veterans in favor of the hot young rookies perhaps just perhaps the management team of the pennant winning braves knows something more than you do and perhaps what they know is that very very few and year old rookies come up to the majors and make an impact the beastmaster mark singer mss netcom com roy f cabaniss wait till tommy meets the lord and western kentucky university finds out that he s wearing pinstripes all opinions contained herein gaylord perry talking about lasorda are all mine own and that s the sin baseball what a way to spend a day
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re jim lefebvre is an idiot i totally agree with each point you made jose viscaino looked like a single a hitter up there who swings on count with maddux pitching and your teams down by a run and you haven t touched the ball all day i also think too much is made of that lefty righty thing watching the cubs games i get the feeling steve stone knows a lot more about what the cubs should be doing than lefebre does harry said it best when he stated after another terrible vizcaino at bat we can t wait til sandberg returns
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re new uniforms in apr virginia edu tek q virginia edu todd karlin writes usually one or two teams changes their logo or a minor uniform change per season but the past few seasons have been incredible any thoughts on the new old reds uniforms i remember seeing a pete rose rookie card and unless i miss my guess he was wearing the exact same duds the mets how about doc s performance today have reinserted the mets patch on the shoulder and changed the mets insgnia on the front of the jersey to my knowledge it is the first time that has been changed since and it reminds me a little of the dodger logo as far as i know toronto pittsburgh and new york nl change their uniforms every year every other year e g new york it will say mets in cursive new york in cursive or new york in all caps minor changes but they do change them often last year i think they had new york in all caps did toronto have blue jays or toronto last year what about pittsburgh many teams have opted for a return to a previous style of uniform or at least uniforms that look more traditional phillies reds expos white sox padres etc and the once bright colors have been altered to gray the trend has also seen the newer baseball fields resembling the parks of the early years as opposed to the cookie cutter saucer stadiums construcrted throughout the sixties i hate the gray they should opt for more color like the white sox i hate white team versus gray team spring training uniforms look much better with salaries now reaching unbelievable highs no one in the comissioner s office and inter league play on the horizon it s nice to see that baseball at least looks like it was meant to be
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re jim lefebvre is an idiot in c uc bl news cso uiuc edu ada uxa cso uiuc edu driftwood writes i totally agree with each point you made jose viscaino looked like a single a hitter up there who swings on count with maddux pitching and your teams down by a run and you haven t touched the ball all day oh this is an easy trivia question the answer is any cub not named sandberg or grace i also think too much is made of that lefty righty thing watching the cubs games i get the feeling steve stone knows a lot more about what the cubs should be doing than lefebre does harry said it best when he stated after another terrible vizcaino at bat we can t wait til sandberg returns david m nieporent only one thing wrong with theory niepornt phoenix is stupid is stupidest theory i ever heard princeton edu baltimore orioles who s the dangerous cult the bds or the batf
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re billy gets cheers in baltimore in article apr jhuvms hcf jhu edu doctor jhuvms hcf jhu edu jason abner miller writes orioles vs texas at camden yards april opening day batting th for texas playing second base billy ripken the hometown crowd gave their favorite ex nd baseman a minute standing ovation as billy wearing flashy shades took the cheers smiling and waving consummate role player in the words of p a caller jon miller tim hulett failed to receive similar cheers when announced mainly because he didn t have the courtesy to show up wasn t hulett injured yesterday after being hit in the face with a ball while running bases i heard something about him recieving stiches and a possible broken nose is he at the park fernando was warmly received good to see that let s see how they feel when he s and with a era i have my doubts about fernando f y i when cal was announced jon miller says it seems like yesterday when this young man began a consecutive game streak time all star time mvp time gold glover our future hall of fame shortsop batting rd cal ripken the standing o lasted about seconds less than billy blargh well when a fan favorite gets dumped he s gonna get an outstanding ovation on his first return let s add up the ovations cal has recieved over the years during the game and compare that to billy btw sutcliffe s getting knocked around pretty good rangers up in the bottom of the fourth rob
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes anyone who writes dean palmer has homers at this pace he ll have home runs should be shot the dodgers after one inning of play have committed one error at this rate they ll have errors this season well maybe i m right this time warren usui i m one with the universe on a scale from to
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re designated hitter rule in ekdfc ttacs ttu edu ekdfc ttacs ttu edu david coons writes in apr bsu ucs ecgillespi leo bsuvc bsu edu writes i am doing a postition paper on the designated hitter rule any information or even opinions would be greatly apprecitated ecgillespie magic should be rescinded the rules say baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each let s keep it that way not any more the rules don t say that so that s a pretty dumb argument david m nieporent only one thing wrong with theory niepornt phoenix is stupid is stupidest theory i ever heard princeton edu baltimore orioles who s the dangerous cult the bds or the batf
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re rickey henderson in article apr ra msstate edu js isis msstate edu jiann ming su writes i say buy out henderson s contract and let him go bag groceries next season you ll be able to sign him for nothing that goes for any bitching ball player stay in school you have a lot to learn
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re designated hitter rule actually there can be any number of players on a side you can have a man roster a man roster etc ryan robbins penobscot hall university of maine io maine maine edu
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re why the redflops can but won t win don t knock vaughn for being a spring training hitter but a regular season hitter around games played isn t an indication of how good any hitter is and the quality of pitching is way down ryan robbins penobscot hall university of maine io maine maine edu
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re david wells has david wells landed with a team yet i d think the tigers with their anemic pitching would grab this guy pronto dc
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re cleveland tragedy in article apr ns cc lehigh edu gaf ns cc lehigh edu gail a fullman writes i wonder if ojeda will sue anyone because his career may be over not due to the accident he just got a really bad haircut now if you meant due to his floating fastball well mark atchison a k a atchison cis ohio state edu graduate student in the computer science dept the ohio state university not an ohio state university any plagiarisms seen above are not my own
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re pinch hitters was re denny walling rickert nextwork rose hulman edu john h rickert said and i thought mota didn t really start pinch hitting for a living until after depends on what you mean by for a living was the year he led the league in pinch hit at bats with but he d been getting a lot of ph abs earlier than that and was never a full time player ph abs early in his career a year just before going to the dodgers and in the peak years we re talking about a guy with a year career as an outfielder a career batting average and or so career hits david m tate i do not know what it is about you that closes posing as and opens only something in me understands e e can the pocket of your glove is deeper than pete rose s dy cummings nobody not even tim raines has such soft hands
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re marlins win marlins win dwarner journalism indiana edu said i only caught the tail end of this one on espn does anyone have a report look at all that teal bleah maybe it s just me but the combination of those young faces peeking out from under oversized aqua helmets screams little league in every fibre of my being david m tate i do not know what it is about you that closes posing as and opens only something in me understands e e can the pocket of your glove is deeper than pete rose s dy cummings nobody not even tim raines has such soft hands
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re new uniforms in article c vwc lru usenet ucs indiana edu bodom silver ucs indiana edu br ian odom writes as far as i know toronto pittsburgh and new york nl change their uniforms every year every other year e g new york it will say mets in cursive new york in cursive or new york in all caps minor changes but they do change them often last year i think they had new york in all caps did toronto have blue jays or toronto last year what about pittsburgh it depends on which uniforms you are talking about for the last couple of years i believe toronto and pittsburgh has used the same uniforms or at least very similar the home jerseys had the team nick name blue jays or pirates but the road jerseys had the name of the city toronto or pittsburgh i believe this is the way most teams design their uniforms chris
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o s lose openr at home to rangers sutcliffe gives up hrs gonzales palmer and mills gives up hr gonzales to lose sutcliffe texas lefferts baltimore sutcliffe jody hagins hagins avlin us dg com data general corporation linthicum md
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mlb logos part i have posted the logos of the nl east teams to alt binaries pictures misc hopefully i ll finish the series up next week with the nl west darren darren reiniger reiniger ug cs dal ca arishem ac dal ca centre for marine geology dalhousie university halifax n s canada people who wonder where this generation is going should remind themselves where it came from in the first place
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my predictions i thought i d post my predicted standings since i find those posted by others to be interesting sorry this is after opening day i certify that these were completed before the first pitch al east new york yankees the most only improved team in this division toronto blue jays stewart and morris no way milwaukee brewers they always seem to do better than i expect baltimore orioles pitching but devareaux anderson and hoiles will drop cleveland indians still don t seem to know what they are doing detroit tigers all key players but fryman are another year past peak boston red sox any team with clemens and viola might be beter than th al west this division was the toughest for me to pick whoever of the top gets pitching should win it minnesota twins young pitchers seem to have best chance for success texas rangers i don t know why i have them here jose canseco chicago white sox frank thomas but no pitching oakland a s larussa is the best manager and would keep any team close seattle mariners i like pinella but don t see much here kansas city royals will score no runs california angels will win no games nl east montreal expos good all around plus no wallach st louis cardinals jeffries whiten jose clark no galarraga pittsburgh pirates youngsters will take up more slack than expected new york mets some good players still not a team philadelphia phillies they don t impress me florida marlins they know what they re doing chicago cubs they don t know what they re doing nl west the best teams in baseball are in this division atlanta braves awesome starters but offense could be a concern cincinnati reds would not surprise me if they won it all houston astros any team that signs uribe won t contend closer to than san diego padres plantier could be the sheffield of los angeles dodgers better pitching than the giants san francisco giants because the rockies just stink colorado rockies will become the seattle mariners of the nl nlcs montreal d atlanta braves fans yes i m probably contradicting what i said in my nl west comment alcs new york d minnesota world series new york d montreal hating the yankees will be fashionable again nl mvp barry bonds or maybe mcgriff nl cy young jose rijo al mvp frank thomas will deserve it again but fielder might win it al cy young roger clemens at least will deserve it again david kenney kenney tribe b d ingr com
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day day day disabled list questions i ve a curiousity whenever a person is put on the day day or day the person is on the list longer than the specificed time i ve seen a person on the day for maybe months last year i don t remember what i just need a little clarification on the disabled list specifications scotyy scott allen steinbrink go cleveland cavaliers nba finals netcom derich netcom com go cleveland indians world series digex derich digex com go cleveland browns super bowl
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re young catchers mss netcom com mark singer said we know that very very few players at this age make much of an impact in the bigs especially when they haven t even played aaa ball yes but this is irrelevant you re talking about averages when we have lots of information about this player in particular to base our decisions on i might as well say we know that very very few people are more than feet tall so chances are that manute bol is really only foot no maybe i need to improve my writing skills lopez who is very ordinary defensively is not likely to hit so well at age having not played at aaa level that it is probably not a good idea to rush him into the braves lineup in why isn t lopez likely to hit that well he hit that well last year after adjusting his stats for park and league and such he hit better on an absolute scale than olson or berryhill did by a lot as for rushing if there really is a qualitative difference between the minors and the majors that requires a period of adjustment and i don t believe there is then wouldn t you rather waste lopez s year old good season than his year old very good season or his year old excellent season the sooner you get him acclimated the more of his prime you get to use lopez was hitting over ab when he was cut from spring training what does he have to do to earn a chance maybe not a full time job but at least a couple starts and a few ab for him to prove his worth gee i don t know abs sounds pretty good to me about as good as your reasoning that the kid should play a back up role rather than start every day at aaa talk about me as a gm the point was not that ab is a significant sample but rather that he hadn t done anything in spring training to cause even a blockhead manager to question whether his minor league numbers were for real or to send him down until he gets warmed up ok most players are not ready for the bigs at age most players are never ready for the bigs what does this have to do with javy lopez most players benefit rather than being stagnant or hurt by playing at aaa see above most catchers need to be solid defensively players to help their clubs in the bigs those are the arguments against lopez for the braves for this year but i could apply the same reasoning to frank thomas or barry bonds most players aren t that good so they probably won t be that good this year either now the braves have two catchers who have demonstrated solid abilities to call games to work with the pitchers to throw out runners and demonstrated inabilities to hit their way out of a soap bubble not superstars mind you but solid experienced veterans not superstars not stars not even good players maybe average if we re being charitable the braves have a very solid lineup with two big bats in the outfield an excellent platoon at first a solid mvp candidate at third and one of the better hitting shortstops ummm justice is a very fine hitter pendleton might have another big year in his bat but he might also spend the season in hamstring hell gant is a big question mark the bream hunter platoon is decent not excellent and has rotten obp or slg depending on who s in blauser is a very valuable bat for a shortstop the center field platoon will probably hit however good lopez bat might be given the above it won t be so much better than what they have to offset the differential in experience and defensive ability wanna bet the difference between lopez s bat and olson berryhill could be or runs over the course of the season given a choice between a player with experience and a player who can play i ll take the latter every time the kid will improve playing at aaa just like keith mitchell did i am just so surprised i have to spell all of this out my goodness do you believe the other poster who thinks lopez is being held down because of his future earning potential that was me and you so far your only counter proposal is that they really don t understand how good lopez is or overvalue experience or some combination of the two i think my interpretation was more flattering to the organization are they idiots who have built this ballclub well argued but inflammatory reply deleted david m tate i do not know what it is about you that closes posing as and opens only something in me understands e e can the pocket of your glove is deeper than pete rose s dy cummings nobody not even tim raines has such soft hands
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re young catchers mss netcom com mark singer said in article blue cis pitt edu genetic pitt edu david m tate writes well perhaps if the braves had no one else worth playing this year it would be lopez in there but they do have others worth playing at least in their opinion catcher is their weakest position with the possible exception of second base they have a chance to simultaneously replace their biggest offensive problem spot with a well above average offensive player and acclimate a highly promising potential star with no pressure on him to carry the team and they want to play olson and berryhill instead i disagree in that i don t think it is a tangible skill any more than leadership is i don t deny that it is a real skill and that some catchers may be much better than others at it but i really don t see any way that we could ever know who they are nichols s law of catcher defense is eerily accurate far too often for me to take defensive assessments of catchers very seriously sorry new don t know nichols law a catcher s defensive reputation will be inversely proportional to his recent offensive level of performance thus mickey tettleton goes in the media from being a no hit defensive whiz to a slugging thumb finger in two short years the rule doesn t apply to perceived superstars who get the gold glove offensive transfer effect instead greg olson is probably considered to be a good defensive catcher precisely because he can t hit don t believe in catchers era but i am interested in pitchers eras with different catchers aren t they the same thing in other words we know more than they do so the only logic behind a different decision than we would make must be financial either that or just stupidity i presume we feel this way about other franchises than atlanta no of course is it fair to the young players no does it make organizational sense i think it does well if it does make organizational sense one can hardly fault them for their decisions i mean please don t tell me how to run my business especially when i m being successful one could make the same sort of argument in other cases pete rose in pursuing ty cobb s record was a huge gate attraction and national media magnet the reds made a lot of money off that they also wasted the prime of eric davis that may be good business but that doesn t mean i don t loathe them for it david m tate i do not know what it is about you that closes posing as and opens only something in me understands e e can the pocket of your glove is deeper than pete rose s dy cummings nobody not even tim raines has such soft hands
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mlb standings and scores for tue apr th mlb standings and scores for tuesday april th including yesterday s games national west won lost pct gb last streak home road atlanta braves won cincinnati reds won san diego padres san francisco giants colorado rockies lost houston astros lost los angeles dodgers lost national east florida marlins won new york mets won philadelphia phillies won pittsburgh pirates st louis cardinals chicago cubs lost montreal expos lost american west won lost pct gb last streak home road oakland athletics won texas rangers won california angels chicago white sox minnesota twins seattle mariners kansas city royals lost american east boston red sox won new york yankees won milwaukee brewers toronto blue jays baltimore orioles lost cleveland indians lost detroit tigers lost yesterday s scores national league american league montreal new york cincinnati cleveland atlanta texas chicago baltimore los angeles boston florida kansas city philadelphia detroit houston oakland colorado california idle new york chicago idle pittsburgh idle milwaukee idle st louis idle minnesota idle san diego idle seattle idle san franciscoidle toronto idle joseph hernandez rams lakers jtchern ocf berkeley edu kings dodgers raiders jtcent soda berkeley edu angels clippers
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braves win opener well maddux looked excellent as the braves shutout the cubs justice drove in the only run with an rbi single in the first get ready for him to have a monster year he is now hitting the ball to the opposite field with a lot of power to go with his natural power to right field and his good batting eye if he stays healthy which he should his back is full strength this year he should get over rbi and close to hr in another note the marlins got off to a good start beating the dodgers i believe the score was but i m not sure i wish them and the rockies well this year hell i think it would be funny to watch the dodgers hit the cellar again this year dan smith
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re rickey henderson in article apr ra msstate edu js isis msstate edu jiann ming su writes in article ls d vinns appserv eng sun com str maredsous eng sun com todd rader writes stay in school you have a lot to learn learn what i know that million dollars is a lot of money i know rickey henderson doesn t have a career out of baseball i know if he didn t have baseball he wouldn t be making near the money he is now and michael jackson jack nicholson and bill cosby wouldn t be making near as much money if they weren t entertainers so what s your point i just don t understand how some athlete who only plays a sport for a living for millions of dollars say he is not being paid enough if nobody will sign him for his asking price he will be the one hurting the a s will still win without him will they you can t usually take away one of the team s best players and still expect them to win or do you think the pirates will continue to win without barry bonds remeber many of these athletes have nothing if not for their athletic ability nothing they are getting paid much more than most hard working citizens and they are complaining of not enough pay so again jack nicholson gets paid much more than most hard working citizens and much more than rickey henderson for that matter i don t have a problem with them making millions my problem is when the say they aren t being paid enough when they already get million also their numbers get worse the reason the latter often happens is that many of these folks start making the real big salaries late in their career when they are on the decline there are exceptions of course dave parker fell apart after making his first million because he put most of that million up his nose jim mann stratus computer jmann vineland pubs stratus com
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white sox mailing list hi gang i d like to subscribe to the white sox mailing list if one exists can someone please e mail me the address thanks alot john jhunter mta ca
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re new uniforms while i enjoy the trend towards the more classic style of uniform and i disagree with the person who wants a return to the non gray road uniforms it should be remembered that one of the if not the reason for the redesigning of uniforms especially hats re the new road all green a s caps and the cardinal navy blue road cap is the marketing money to be made in sales of new merchandise jeffrey popovich jpopovich guvax georgetown edu
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help looking for cleveland sports mailing list info i m looking for the address to join the cleveland sports mailing list if anyone knows it i would be greatful if they could email a copy of it to me if you are a member just mail me one of the list s letters i could probably figure it out from there thanks mm mm fffff michael j fath m m m m f dept of microbiology and molecular genetics m m m fff harvard medical school m m f boston ma fath mbcrr harvard edu
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re brewer notes in mar music lib matc edu pfan pfan music lib matc edu writes for those of you who know who bernie brewer is he s back the team mascot if you will was given his walking papers a few years ago but the fans voted him back last season and he will be perched in the his familiar home in the outfield and will again slide down into a barrel of beer when home runs are hit that is great to hear i just may have to take a raod trip to milwakee this year and see that again last time i saw bernie brewer was at the age of and i am now thanks for this post one final note bill spiers is leading the brewers with rbi s in exhibition play looks like he s bouncing back nicely from back problems good to bill is getting better form the limited coverage we get here in iowa i know that this will be a great season for the brew crew pete fanning computer operator leadership is action office of information technology not position milwaukee area technical college d h mcgannon email pfan music lib matc edu internet or pete fanning f n z fidonet org
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re grateful dead in article io maine maine edu io maine maine edu writes being a baseball fan and a fan of the above mentioned band i was wondering if anyone could clue me in on whether the dead or members of sang the national anthem at todays giant opener i would imagine that it is a bit too early for anyone to know but an answer would be greatly appreciated it is my understanding that the dead will sing the na at the giants home opener on mon the giants are opening today in st louis luigi randy palermo luigi csd sgi com fax silicon graphics computer systems n shoreline blvd mt view ca play an accordion go to jail that s the law
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re day day day disabled list questions in article derichc gje fja netcom com derich netcom com scotty tissue writes whenever a person is put on the day day or day the person is on the list longer than the specificed time i ve seen a person on the day for maybe months last year i don t remember what i just need a little clarification on the disabled list specifications i believe we are down to two the day and the day i don t remember a day but rather a day anyways it s gone now the period length is a minimum not a maximum you can keep a guy on the day for as long as you want if he s still certified as injured the player must be periodically re evaluated to determine if he s still injured thus you cannot park a player on the dl who maybe is out of options and you do not wish to expose to waivers if you get someone qualified for the day that reduces the frequency of re evaluations there is no longer i believe any limit to the number of players you can place on the dl when there was you often had to choose and juggle your injured players between the lists king sparky banaian no taxes no new taxes kbanaian pitzer claremont edu no old taxes we are taxed dept of economics pitzer college enough rep alan keyes latest gdp forecast please run alan
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re mo sanford in article apr ra msstate edu js jazz cc msstate edu jiann ming su writes does any know if mo sanford rockies pitcher got cut he use to be with the reds but was drafted in the expansion draft i believe he was sent down to aaa
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re my predictions for in article apr oswego oswego edu iacs oswego oswego edu kevin mundstock writes since everyone else seems to be running wild with predictions i ve decided to add my own fuel to the fire they might seem a bit normal but there are a few albeit small surprises al manager of the year buck showalter what makes you think buck will still be in new york at year s end with george back keith keller let s go rangers let s go quakers kkeller mail sas upenn edu ivy league champs next time you go over my head i ll have yours on a platter cmdr benjamin sisko
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re new uniforms jpopovich guvax acc georgetown edu writes while i enjoy the trend towards the more classic style of uniform and i disagree with the person who wants a return to the non gray road uniforms it should be remembered that one of the if not the reason for the redesigning of uniforms especially hats re the new road all green a s caps and the cardinal navy blue road cap is the marketing money to be made in sales of new merchandise no kidding just ask the white sox too bad really john neuharth neuharth u washington edu
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re jim lefebvre is an idiot rickc krill corp sgi com richard casares writes in article apr bsu ucs bjgood leo bsuvc bsu edu writes i just wanted to let everyone know that i have lost what little respect i have for jim lefebvre after seeing today s cubs game a dishard cub fan yes i also wonder if they can win with this manager i never believed managers had that much to do with winning until i saw how much they had to do with losing i like the mariners a lot but my heart belongs to the cubs you can imagine my frustration when i saw the cubs nabbing lefebvre arhgghrghh john neuharth neuharth u washington edu
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re marlins win marlins win genetic pitt edu david m tate writes dwarner journalism indiana edu said i only caught the tail end of this one on espn does anyone have a report look at all that teal bleah maybe it s just me but the combination of those young faces peeking out from under oversized aqua helmets screams little league in every fibre of my being hmm it seems the little leaguers didn t do too badly against hershiser strawberry e davis and the rest of the dodgers yesterday eric smith erics netcom com erics infoserv com ci
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re harry and candy f violet ccit arizona edu greg franklin writes rvesterm vma cc nd edu writes i m watching a cubs rockies spring training game and i thought you d all like to know the particular way that harry caray butchers maldonado it seems to be mal n dal nado but i like the way he butchers andres galarraga s name it comes out like gahlah rrrraggggah and don t forget his frequent references to the great sf giant star bobby bonds what about thaaammy thotha i for one was really sorry to hear that the cubs had sent heathcliff slocumb to the minors eric smith erics netcom com erics infoserv com ci
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re young catchers in article blue cis pitt edu genetic pitt edu david m tate writes mss netcom com mark singer said we know that very very few players at this age make much of an impact in the bigs especially when they haven t even played aaa ball yes but this is irrelevant you re talking about averages when we have lots of information about this player in particular to base our decisions on do you really have that much information on him really why isn t lopez likely to hit that well he hit that well last year after adjusting his stats for park and league and such he hit better on an absolute scale than olson or berryhill did by a lot i don t know you tell me what percentage of players reach or exceed their mle s in their rookie season we re talking about you know as for rushing if there really is a qualitative difference between the minors and the majors that requires a period of adjustment and i don t believe there is then wouldn t you rather waste lopez s year old good season than his year old very good season or his year old excellent season the sooner you get him acclimated the more of his prime you get to use if that were your purpose maybe offerman spent getting acclimated if you will the dodgers as a team paid a big price that season perhaps they will reap the benefits down the road do you really think they would have done what they did if they were competing for a pennant lopez was hitting over ab when he was cut from spring training what does he have to do to earn a chance maybe not a full time job but at least a couple starts and a few ab for him to prove his worth the point was not that ab is a significant sample but rather that he hadn t done anything in spring training to cause even a blockhead manager to question whether his minor league numbers were for real or to send him down until he gets warmed up for a stat head i m amazed that you put any credence in spring training did you notice who he got those hits off of or are you going to tell me that it doesn t make a difference the kid will improve playing at aaa just like keith mitchell did wait a minute i missed something here first forget keith mitchell are you saying that a kid who moves from aa to aaa and then does not improve would have been better off making a direct leap to the majors if a player does well at aa and then does not improve at aaa isn t that a sign that maybe he doesn t belong in the bigs now keith mitchell as i recall no stat books handy surprise he jumped from aa to atlanta in he did so well that he was returned to the minors where he didn t do very well at all now his career is in jeopardy so how does he fit in with your point good mle s in aa moved him right to the big club now he s one step away from being traded or moved out of baseball duh that was me and you so far your only counter proposal is that they really don t understand how good lopez is or overvalue experience or some combination of the two i think my interpretation was more flattering to the organization well i ve cast my lot certainly you may understand better how good lopez is and i may overvalue experience but neither one of us runs a baseball team the beastmaster mark singer mss netcom com
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re marlins first rbi in article psgriinni rpco acslab umbc edu cs umbc edu cs writes hey i was watching the orioles game on tv yesterday monday when a report came in to the booth that the first runs came in on a three run single did this really happen if it did how they said that the leadoff man knocked them in what exactly happened thanks walt weiss tripled just barely inside the right field line and into the corner driving in santiago and conine these were the first two rbis the third came later when weiss was knocked in daniel
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re my picks with only one comment in article psbg inngjj master cs rose hulman edu rickert nextwork rose hulman edu john h rickert writes in article jfr ra msstate edu jfr ra msstate edu jackie f russell writes psg pitt edu paul s galvanek writes national league west cincinnati houston atlanta argh here is where you are obviously dead wrong not since the yankees of the s and s has a team been so nicely setup as this years and years to come braves i don t think that the all star team will be able to beat this may be an appropriate comparison the yankees finshed nd rd and nd finshing and games out of first in and they also finished second though they were only and games out even great teams can lose that s why they play the season on the other hand i m still picking the braves to go all the way um surely you didn t intend to compare the reds with the philidelphia a s the yankees were finishing nd to a team that was as good as the yankees while the yankees had aged some from their peak years ruth and gehrig couldn t play every position simultaneously imo given the various ages of the braves and reds this season that the braves will be closer to their peak while the reds have slightly passed their peak also if you re going to compare braves and yankees a more appropriate comparison to the braves might be the yankees after falling short two years in a row in exciting world series both teams won will win the series this year despite the heroics of some old fart on the other team casey stengel dave winfield eric roush fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu i am a marxist of the groucho sort grafitti paris tanstaafl although the internet comes close
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re quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb in article apr locus com aardvark spica la locus com warren usui writes in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes anyone who writes dean palmer has homers at this pace he ll have home runs should be shot now on the other hand juan gonzales probably does have a shot at hr s the dodgers after one inning of play have committed one error at this rate they ll have errors this season well maybe i m right this time actually you might be underpredicting eric roush fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu i am a marxist of the groucho sort grafitti paris tanstaafl although the internet comes close
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re yankkes game closer my god hope we don t have to put up with this kind of junk all season in article w axe acadiau ca w axe acadiau ca jason walter works writes the n y yankees are now one game closer to the a l east pennant they clobbered cleveland on a fine pitching performance by key and two homeruns by tartabull first m l baseball to go out this season and a three how many home runs by tartabull just right you must be thinking of dean palmer or juan gonzalez both of texas who each had homers run homer by nokes for all of you who didn t pick boggs in your pools tough break he had a couple hits and drove in a couple runs with many more i don t know how many to follow but he was for go yanks mattingly for g glove and mvp and abbot for cy young spare us please
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re marlins win marlins win look at all that teal bleah indeed if the color teal on a team s uniforms is any indication of the future the marlins are in dire trouble refer to the san jose sharks for proof but i have hope for the marlins i was a sometime member of the rene lachemann fan club at the oakland coliseum and have a deep respect for the guy he s a gem and of course walt weiss gives that franchise class but yeah whoever designed those uniforms was guilty of a paucity of style and imagination ugghhh lloyd r nebres uc berkeley internet lloyd uclink berkeley edu vox or never underestimate the bandwidth of a carrying a ton of cd roms
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re young catchers in article mssc ril e netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes your speculation and others that lopez will produce better than the two proven veterans is nothing more than speculation no matter how well founded your speculation that the two proven veterans will produce better than lopez is also no more than speculation it does make a difference whether the speculation is well founded or not obviously the braves believe they can win with the catching they have and i agree if they change their minds they ll call up lopez though this is a good point the one speculation is safer because it can be reversed cheers valentine
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call for votes dtbl mvp and cy please vote the regular season of the davis tabletop baseball league has just come to an end to help us with next year s league i would appreciate it if you would take a couple of minutes and vote for our league mvp and cy winners these awards and players standings in them will inflate their salaries for next year s league please vote for in each category in order for example barry bonds frank thomas biff pocoroba shooty babitt lips lundy please do not vote for pitchers in mvp voting for this league each team in the league gets one candidate for mvp and one for cy defensive position is listed where applicable along with an abbreviation of their performance there e excellent v very good a average p poor b very poor thanks please reply by april for the record the season was games long thanks for your help mvp candidates name g ab h b b hr r rbi bb k sb cs ibb ba obp slg def griffey p emartinez a sandberg v ventura e mcgriff p mcgwire e ralomar p dykstra a butler b deer v bonds e hrbek p jgonzalez b some players missed time due to injuries others were sat down at the end to avoid the possibility of injury there are better players than those on this list but each team gets one and only one candidate some players played more than games due to being traded to teams with more games left in the same time span now on to the pitchers name era g w l s ip h bb k hr gs cg sho wp dmartinez dibble rijo mussina benes khill smoltz cone drabek tewksbury clemens tomlin farr there you have it curt schilling threw a perfect game during the year and ken hill threw a no hitter rob dibble had pitched scoreless innings to start the year only to choke in the last two games to cost the perot s giant sucking sounds a playoff spot if you want stats of more players they are available by request please take the time to reply if you can thanks gary huckabay kevin kerr the al feldstein of the mid s a living argument for if there s anything we love more than a huge existence of parallel sig it s someone quoting lines to add universes or new ones and consecutive posts too o o ooo ooo david zavatson mein schatz es ist soweit unsere liebe ist vorbei
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re young catchers since i was the one responsible for these divergent threads of approx posts going back to the braves could be better off if an injury happens i may as well inject a little more fuel to the flame back at the beginning of spring training i though lopez would make the squad easily olson was still recovering from his late season injury knee i believe and there were questions as to whether he would be able to play before june and then berryhill was dinged up i was looking forward to this because i believe that lopez can hit and field the position before last season he was the braves defensive catcher prospect while brian deak was the braves offensive catcher prospect besides olson and berryhill couldn t hit their way out of a wet cardboard box and don t walk enough to be useful but olson recovered quickly berryhill recovered and the braves went with the two vets i still say that if one of those two had been down at the start of the season he wouldn t have gotten his job back there is a certain logic to keeping olson and berryhill around after all ml catchers are in short supply and suffer from wear and tear there are teams out there without one average ml catcher california and seattle come to mind certainly trying to move olson or berryhill through waivers would be unlikely to work plus you d have to eat that salary which isn t huge but isn t tiddleywinks either i think olson s at about berryhill at but that s only what i recall yes i think arbitration eligibility may have a role to play in this also what is it that of the year players aren t eligible for arbitration only the that were on the roster the longest are eligible of course the system may change but the extent of that change is not yet known from a business standpoint it may make sense to keep lopez down until june the first time olson berryhill go on the dl i am still disappointed that lopez isn t on the team i still prefer to think of myself as a fan when it comes to the braves and the truth is that i d rather see our best team on the field which imo includes lopez of course today we play the cubs hopefully we won t need him as for the schuerholz cox conversation i imagine it went like this remember they ve both been gm s the following is not meant to be read by the humor impaired cox ok we ve sent jones down his fielding could be a little smoother besides blauser can hit ok and his fielding is better than it used to be schuerholz well we ll have to send nieves down too deion just won t sign that baseball only contract we can t count on him in october so we have to keep nixon around for the defense besides gorman s not ready to give up on billy hatcher yet once hatcher s gone and deion signs we can move nixon for frankie rodriguez that ought to give us some pitching depth in cox yep that ll be nice too bad deion won t sign ok i ll look for nieves when justice starts having berry berry er back problems again now what about klesko schuerholz well we ve still got to fork out another mil for bream if we keep klesko we either lose the money or cabrera i keep dangling sid in front of dal maxwell but somehow he doesn t seem to be the same gm first jeffries for jose and now whiten for clark if he gets rid of brian jordan then i d have to believe that he and whitey herzog switched bodies at the winter meetings cox ok keep trying on bream and i ll wait til the trading deadline for my hunter klesko platoon maybe i can get a few extra at bats for cabrera while we wait try california if snow starts slowly maybe whiteydal will bite on sid and if that doesn t work then perhaps sid s knees could be persuaded to act up there s always the day dl mwa ha ha ha ha schuerholz what about caraballo cox well he s not that much better than lemke maybe if he starts in richmond he ll start walking more besides if he s going to be arbitration eligible better to stretch him out so that we actually get some value from him before he makes the big bucks schuerholz now let s see that leaves lopez cox nooooo i gotta keep lopez sure i didn t think olson would recover this quickly maybe i can talk caminiti into running into him again schuerholz nope lopez has gotta go you know that he ll get million in arbitration may as well put it off that one extra year besides until olson s shown his stuff a little bit i can t trade him besides berryhill s a left handed hitter you know how rare that is cox don t you mean a left handed whiffer pretty common if you ask me i mean he made pat borders look good in the world series pat borders schuerholz hey you re the one who wouldn t write lopez into the lineup cox well you re the one who went out and got me jeff reardon besides i thought lopez wouldn t be used to our pitching staff s stuff he got some time with them this spring looked pretty good come on surely we only need to keep one stiff behind the plate schuerholz yeah but which stiff whichever one we keep will be hurt by may cox ok ok you made your point keep them both surely one of them will be on the dl by june at the latest then i can call up lopez and then we can win games the pennant the world series i ll be up there with john mcgraw casey stengel earl weaver oh they laughed at me in toronto but have you ever had to deal with george bell i ll finally get my just reward mwa ha ha ha schuerholz easy bobby have you been taking those happy pills left around by chuck tanner why d you ever hire that guy anyhow cox don t ask me ask ted eric roush fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu i am a marxist of the groucho sort grafitti paris tanstaafl although the internet comes close
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re binaca blast deep drive derby bbddd returns the engimatic vincent gray writes king cogsci ucsd edu jonathan king writes even less publicized than this however was that the didn t come from the padres but from an un named source and that the money didn t go to the blue jays in toronto the money was diverted into a london bank account owned by a shadowy character named vincent gray i should be so lucky the account number must have been rejected oh come on everybody on the net has heard about plausible deniability you re not fooling anybody soon after that gray and palmer sent word to ottawa that canada had achieved absolute superiority over the united states in the field of baseballistic research as she controlled both the acker cook pitch alike contest and the binaca blast research institute the prime minister smiled i hope not to think that i would inadvertantly give any pleasure to mulroney really ruins my day note how quick vince was to make the inference that my post claimed that mulroney was smiling at the baseballistics news this sure looks like guilty knowledge to me realizing the taterific importance of this work john palmer and i concluded that we might be able to pool some resources i e the grand who will be the stars this year can anyone hope to combat brad arnsberg s record start to last year the early money has to be on tom tom bolton who contributed that clutch grandslam in his first appearance but i expect lots of strong contenders this year many of them right here in san diego jking
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cubs behind marlins how i ve noticed that is has become fashionable lately in rsb to predict the marlines to finish ahead of the cubs how first base grace vs destrade could destrade be the second coming of cecil fielder i doubt it if destrade performs to the height of expectations then even otherwise edge to cubs second base sandberg vs barberie no contest sandberg will be back may edge to cubs a big edge shortstop vizcaino vs weiss vizcaino is excellent defensively but is an automatic out at bat weiss isn t much better with the stick even third base dave magadan vs buechelle magadan has a higher obp and is a better hitter buechelle has more power and is better defensively i think edge to florida catcher santiago vs wilkins wilkins is ok but santiago is better edge to marlins left field conine vs maldonado wow for yesterday i know conine has potential i watched him play at omaha the last couple years until he actually proves himself i give maldonado the edge however like at b this is position where florida might be even or better if the player there has a huge year center scott pose vs wilson may edge to may even if wilson hopefully the cubs will use may and save wilson for pinch running and the like may isn t ken griffey jr but he will hit with homers if he plays full time right felix vs sosa felix jose has occasional power and a bad obp so does sosa but sosa also has speed and a good glove edge to cubs starters aquino armstrong hammond a lot of fifth starters here the cubs won t remind anyone of the brave staff but morgan castillo guzman hibbard is average to ok better than the marline edge to cubs middle relief even the cubs have some decent middlemen and so do the marlins carpenter anf klink or decent but so are assenmacher and mcelroy closer a healthy harvey is a big edge to the marlins meyers is decent but no harvey of course the cubs may have a few more games to save look for saves blown from meyers and saves blown with a better era for harvey edge florida overall an edge to chicago neither of these teams will threaten to win anything of course e msilverm nyx cs du edu go cubs one likes to believe in the freedom of baseball geddy lee
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re when did dodgers move from ny to la in article apr ncar ucar edu tparker music scd ucar edu tom parker writes i have a bet with my buddy on when the dodgers moved from ny to la does anyone know what year they moved the dodgers first year in la was
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re best record ever in baseball in article psl jinnam jhunix hcf jhu edu admiral jhunix hcf jhu edu steve c liu writes of all teams i believe the cubs have the best record ever in baseball sometime way far back and something i think it was the cleveland indians with
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re my predictions in article apr infonode ingr com kenney tribe b d ingr com writes i thought i d post my predicted standings since i find those posted by others to be interesting sorry this is after opening day i certify that these were completed before the first pitch nl west the best teams in baseball are in this division atlanta braves awesome starters but offense could be a concern cincinnati reds would not surprise me if they won it all houston astros any team that signs uribe won t contend closer to than san diego padres plantier could be the sheffield of los angeles dodgers better pitching than the giants san francisco giants because the rockies just stink colorado rockies will become the seattle mariners of the nl nlcs montreal d atlanta braves fans yes i m probably contradicting what i said in my nl west comment alcs new york d minnesota world series new york d montreal hating the yankees will be fashionable again nl mvp barry bonds or maybe mcgriff i guarantee that if bonds wins the mvp the giants will finish higher than th luigi randy palermo luigi csd sgi com fax silicon graphics computer systems n shoreline blvd mt view ca play an accordion go to jail that s the law
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reds without sleeves was re new uniforms am i the only person who thinks the reds sleeveless uniforms are ugly yet another reason why they won t win the nl west eric roush fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu i am a marxist of the groucho sort grafitti paris tanstaafl although the internet comes close
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re joe robbie stadium not for baseball in article apr oswego oswego edu iacs oswego edu kevin mundstock writes from iacs oswego edu kevin mundstock subject joe robbie stadium not for baseball date apr gmt did anyone notice the words not for baseball printed on the picture of joe robbie stadium in the opening day season preview section in usa today any reason given for this i would assume that the words i saw the picture indicated that those seats will not be available for baseball games if you look at the picture of the diamond in the stadium in relation to the areas marked not for baseball those seats just look terrible for watching baseball now if they should happen to reach the post season i would imagine that they would consider opening some of those seats up but that is surely a worry of the future sam lubchansky spl po cwru edu in the champion people see what they d like to be in the loser they see what they actually are and they treat him with scorn sugary condiments secure initial pleasure but fermented grain is decidedly more parsimonious of time
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re best lifetime record in baseball history in article apr corning com cecce aj corning com writes speaking of the marlins winning the opener based on lifetime percentage of games won who has the second best record in baseball history soon to be the best record again if i had to guess i would be forced to say the yankees on the other hand the blue jays might be up there too hmmmmm tony blue jays no way hell but the yankees probably do remember the yankees had the best record of any team in the s and probably take the s through s as well
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re yankkes game closer in article w axe acadiau ca w axe acadiau ca jason walter works writes the n y yankees are now one game closer to the a l east pennant they clobbered cleveland on a fine pitching performance by key and two homeruns by tartabull first m l baseball to go out this season and a three run homer by nokes for all of you who didn t pick boggs in your pools tough break he had a couple hits and drove in a couple runs with many more to follow the yanks beat an up and coming team of youngsters in the indians the yankees only need to win more games to get the division go yanks mattingly for g glove and mvp and abbot for cy young jason jason i am going to a yankee game wed night at cleveland stadium i am so happy but cleveland is a very bad team who lost severalrs they were an up and coming team now they are just a sad excuse for a better average abbot will not win the cy melido perez will as bold a prediction as they come well herot be in last place by the end of the season mike lurie speaks and the world listens
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yankee meditations do you realize that the yankees are paying matt nokes dollars this year geesh and maas only gets by the way the yankees are going to win it all yankees are the best by the way jt snow an ex yankee will be rookie of the year
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re joe robbie stadium not for baseball in article apr oswego oswego edu iacs oswego edu kevin mundstock writes did anyone notice the words not for baseball printed on the picture of joe robbie stadium in the opening day season preview section in usa today any reason given for this yes and the answer is simple to create a better feeling in the park the seats will be folded back for baseball games where you saw those words
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mile high runs how many runs will be scored in denver i don t know but some idea can be gotten by looking at the runs scored in mile high stadium during the last few years of the bears zephyrs tenure in the american association here s the total runs scored per game in zephyrs games all league games and the ratio i found the same ratios for hr year rpg lea ratio hrpg lea ratio it seems pretty clear that denver will have a large effect on runs scored i ll stick with my prediction from last year that it ll be one of the top in the nl this year and a fairly large effect on homeruns though apparently not as large as atlanta wrigley cincinnati and san diego still it ought to be a pretty decent home run park john rickert rickert nextwork rose hulman edu
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re my picks with only one comment in article news duke edu fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu eric roush writes in article psbg inngjj master cs rose hulman edu rickert nextwork rose hulman edu john h rickert writes in article jfr ra msstate edu jfr ra msstate edu jackie f russell writes psg pitt edu paul s galvanek writes national league west cincinnati houston atlanta argh here is where you are obviously dead wrong not since the yankees of the s and s has a team been so nicely setup as this years and years to come braves i don t think that the all star team will be able this may be an appropriate comparison the yankees finshed nd rd and nd finshing and games out of first in and they also finished second though they were only and games out even great teams can lose that s why they play the season on the other hand i m still picking the braves to go all the way um surely you didn t intend to compare the reds with the philidelphia a s the yankees were finishing nd to a team that was as good as the yankees while the yankees had aged some from their peak years ruth and gehrig couldn t play every position simultaneously imo given the various ages of the braves and reds this season that the braves will be closer to their peak while the reds have slightly passed their peak also if you re going to compare braves and yankees a more appropriate comparison to the braves might be the yankees after falling short two years in a row in exciting world series both teams won will win the series this year despite the heroics of some old fart on the other team casey stengel dave winfield perhaps so i was only responding to the yankees of the s and s part of the comment if those teams were a sure thing and lost then it s probably not so unreasonable for someone to pick another team not that i did john rickert rickert nextwork rose hulman edu go brewers
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