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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 24, 2006, 03:31:39 PM »

I missed the Ejector Set Follies in Denver last night, did anyone see it? Did Matt Morris really try to hit those guys or did the umpires go all 9/11 and try to 'protect the children' at the expense of the game?

Hey Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuers what's Fielder hitting these days? Yup, yup, but Doug Davis walking 9 guys is not gonna do it, that a one-way ticket to arm strain friend. Carlos Lee is in a contract year, I forgot about that, so that adds 20 points to the BA and 4-5 more HR. Don't sweat the early record, they'll come around.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 18, 2006, 11:01:58 AM »

Bradford is a total submarine pitcher, like that Korean guy Kim. That's too hard for me, I just went across my body and held the ball with a two-seam grip. All pitches tend to go down in the zone, it's the natural rotation, so when they go up instead it's like a fast-softball pitch. And there's no batting practice prep for that either so they all have to go in cold. It's moida. Very hard to hit homers off those guys, you get a loud hit when their control is off and the ball flattens out, otherwise it's popups and strikeouts.

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.... once Sheets finds his feets, lookout...fantasy leagues, draft/trade for Sheets now. I think he'll respond to a real pennant race with an amazing year. 18 wins.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 18, 2006, 10:27:28 AM »

Walker won't be around for long at this rate, they'll try a hot hand from AAA before they let him cough up too many more leads. There's probably lots of pitching coaches in the league who would okay a trade for him thinking they've got the magic fix. Hitters are ahead of pitchers all across the league at this point, lots of quality starters with ERAs in the 7.00 range...it won't last.

Munter should be a starter, I would be into seeing that guy frustrate people for 7 or 8 innings rather than 1 and a third. He pounds down down down then throws an 86 mph fastball at the letters and hitters eyes pop out then they swing under it every time. He reminds me of John Tudor from the 80s Cardinals. I'm so old. That was how I used to pitch, sidearm sinkers down down til they got frustrated, then my mediocre fastball a little out of the zone and they'd chase it.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 18, 2006, 09:52:40 AM »

Swisher is for real, haven't you read the Book? I see .280/30/100ish for him this year. He's not a big guy but super compact swing. If I were the A's I would be worried about Loaiza, his career shows one terrible year every three. He's due for a KRAP year.

Sweeney's home run was pure Will Clark circa 1988, the looooong rainbow homer to right that gets caught in the jet steam and lands in the retracted football seats at old Candlestick. I had no impression of Sweeney whatsoever before this year, he looks like a Hollywood actor with that meaty jawline.

Vizquel, some national experts said he was overrated, now that I see him every night I can say they are crazy. He is a pure professional, and he looks like he *gasp* enjoys playing. With his body type he can play til he's 42. Bonds is just a half-inch away from having 5 homers. That 'single' he hit bounced off the right field fence in a half second. That D'Backs pitcher, Batista, I don't see why he isn't an 18-game winner, his stuff looks like Pedro's but he still gets hit. Weird.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 17, 2006, 09:20:37 AM »

The Giants don't need Bonds, or any offense at all, really, they are gonna win every game 3-1.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Soriano, what's yer take on....

« on: April 12, 2006, 08:59:21 AM »

SS, what's your take on this article in Foreign Affairs that sez instead of building an army up for Iraq, we should threaten to take sides in the **civil war** and thus use our military as essentially just another big militia in the mix, to force all sides to the bargaining table.

Your take on the powers-that-be (since Foreign Affairs is an organ of the State Dept and DC insiders) finally admitting that Iraq is in a for-real civil war?

Finally, your take on what we should do. Leave now, stay for another 10 years, just nuke the place as we watch the fireworks from ships in the Gulf? My g-friend has relatives in Iraq, some on their second tours and morale is getting loooooooooooooow.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 12, 2006, 08:32:34 AM »

If Feliz hits .270/30HR/95 RBI like I expect him to, is that a 'breakout'? He's 30, he's in his contract year, and he's got lots of guys on base when he comes up. If Bonds plays 120 games, he could drive in 110 with some luck. As a hitter he's now very similar to Jeff Kent when he first joined the Giants. And if he hits his numbers he'll get a nice little 3 year/$25 mil contract from somebody...

It's not fair to make DICK throw from the mound, he should be reclining on his throne of human bones in the lower boxes and be able to just flick it onto the field. I hadn't noticed before, has Cheney always been twelve feet tall, heavily muscled and weighing in at 700+ pounds? And since when did he get that shoot-lasers-from-the-eyes ability? More taxpayer dollars down the drain.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 11, 2006, 10:49:15 PM »

Every fan who booed was singled out on security cams and is looking at both a thorough five-years-back tax audit and a curious inability to get onto an airplane.

The best part of the show was when Cheney chased down and killed Livan Hernandez with his bare hands. THAT really got the crowd back on his side to judge by the nervous applause.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 09, 2006, 05:08:09 PM »

Lunny-

Who is Lance Niekro fan Numma One?

The A's might be the first team with a pair of 20 game winners since the 2001 D-Backs.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Soriano, what's yer take on....

« on: April 07, 2006, 09:14:19 AM »

The process SSR is referring to actually has a name, it is called 'Starving the Beast', and it is a mindful and planned program initially devised by a cabal of business conservatives and their economist egghead enablers back in the late 1960s. Reagan was the first president in a position to enact the central tenants of the program, which are:

Cut taxes for the rich
Expand spending in the defense sector
Cut spending for everything else, EVERYthing else

The hoped for results are:

Social Security 'fails' due to lack of funding
Unions are priced out of existance
All social legislation (public schools, Medicare, etc.) is thrown out as 'inefficient'

Their goal is to return the US to about the 1830s on a societal level, a compliant eternally mobile workforce without any solidarity and an entrenched business elite that answers to no one but each other. Sounds like paranoid conspiracy theory, but the 'free market' ideals that they champion all lead to this final product. There's also plenty of frank discussion of these goals in many ultra-right economic forums. They don't hide a thing. Hell, they even make a 'free market' argument for reintroducing indentured servitude, which is basically good old-fashioned slavery. See, you can 'monetize' anything, so the day when you sell one of your kidneys to pay for your kid's preschool is just around the corner...

The added wrinkle in the last 15 years or so is the Religious Right's agenda. They also want this economic stuff to go down, but they want to add one thing to the formula: turning the Federal government into bald-faced Christian theocracy. The Repubs are currently battling internally over these two factions: the 'rationalist' Straussian neocons and their Big Biz friends vs. the frothing religious kooks who want to prep the USA for Jesus' return. We can only hope the kooks split off and form their own faith-based party.

 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 06, 2006, 09:00:07 AM »

brrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Wait til Fielder gets his first hit, it'll be a 480 foot bomb to center, then he'll go 0-12 after that. He's just trying too hard.

The Tigers were my pre-season pick to surprise, but the Central talent will wear them down by the end of the August. I'm thinking 83-79.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 06, 2006, 08:22:57 AM »

All the A's have proved so far this year is that Zito can't beat the Yanks, but the TEAM can beat just about anybody.

Bad Boy Bradley is poised to have his breakout year if he can just keep a lid on it.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 06, 2006, 08:05:55 AM »

Feel better now lunny? That Petco Park effect shuts down offense for both sides.

Finley looks good in center, I knew last year's numbers were a fluke.

Frank Thomas is the monster DH the A's haven't had since the late 80's, when they rolled Dave Parker out there.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 04, 2006, 02:37:52 PM »

Because as the ever-onnit Bruce Jenkins opined in today's Chron, the heavy, heavy anti-Bonds vibe is going to follow the team around like a shadow out of Mordor all year long, sapping alot of joy for some of the team. Of course, some of the more red-assed will be motivated by the booing, just like Bonds will be.

The real question is, if Bonds passes Ruth in a road game, WHAT will the reaction be? Will the crowd actually BOOOOOOOOOOOO #715? That would be pathetic on several levels.

Don't sweat the game results, jeez, Peavy led the majors in ERA in '04, and in strikeouts last year. He's one of the half-dozen best pitchers in baseball now.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: April 04, 2006, 02:23:20 PM »

I watched that Big Hurt AB last night, almost the same sort of tension that Bonds generates, minus the Olympic Gold Medal round Syringe Toss.

Tonight we see the real Padres, Shawn Estes vs. Matt Morris.