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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 17, 2006, 11:15:27 AM »

I'm in.

And NO autodraft, I want to pick the boys I'm going to war with...until I drop 'em. Offline draft I think.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 17, 2006, 09:13:17 AM »

I appalled someone at work by saying I was pulling for Cuba to knock off the USA, you know, even Steven for invading their country in 1961 and all.

Now I'm pulling for the Koreans. If they win the DMZ will be spontaneously overrun by joy and love and the two Koreas will unite forever and Kim Jon Il will be carried through the streets in a bear cage and it will be free botox for everyone and Japan will sink into the sea.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 13, 2006, 12:52:02 PM »

Then there is this imponderable. What are people going to think or say if Bonds hits .320 with 40HR this year? McGwire w/o steroids fell apart in his last year and hit only .187. Sosa turned into a windmilling whiff machine.

Now I'm sick of it.

Does anyone do fantasy baseball leagues, I never have.

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

« on: March 13, 2006, 12:34:03 PM »

I'll take that one...what if the Kingston Trio had REAL balls...that's Unit 4+2.

Soriano, a take on winter, the season, if you please.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 10, 2006, 05:00:43 PM »

Lets see those little * next to McGwire, Canseco, Sosa, Gagne, Palmiero, I. Rodriguez, Sheffield, Giambi and the probably hundreds of others (especially pitchers) who shot Arnie into their asses to get paid. Buncha dumb jocks, and the Suits looking the other way and cashing the biggest checks of all.

Okay, in a court of law, you ask an expert: "How many homers EXACTLY did Bonds get from steroids? Could you tell me which specific homers were perfectly ordinary crush jobs that would have gone out in 1992, say, but merely had an extra 30 feet tacked on, and which were pure roids-driven and would have died on the warning track?"

No one will ever be able to say for sure, even Bonds.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 10, 2006, 04:24:12 PM »

The US really kicked apartheid in the ass today...finally!

Everyone's waiting for the Dominican-USA showdown, it'll be like the All Star game if the players actually cared who won.

After some spring exposure I still like the A's to take it in the AL, but no NL team is running away with an overwhelming impression. Boring old Atlanta looks pretty good.

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

« on: March 10, 2006, 04:17:46 PM »

Re: Chomsky. I'm a 'Deterring Democracy' man myself.

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

« on: March 10, 2006, 10:08:00 AM »

And if Sub Mutilation are merely passable, how about a take on this $$mediocrity$$:

http://cgi.ebay.com/MCRAD-MC-RAD-ABSENCE-OF-SANITY-LP-80S-SKATE-PUNK_W0QQitemZ4843112214QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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

« on: March 10, 2006, 10:01:12 AM »

The most toxic office environment I was ever in, by FAR, was an indie rock record distributor run by a frothing maniac and staffed with some of the surliest passive aggressive swine I have ever met in any venue. My current office gig is like floating in nutrient solution for 8 hours a day by comparison.

A take on Nick Tosches? Uncle Noam? Graham Greene?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 09, 2006, 02:41:12 PM »

Well, according to the book excerpts I've read, he tore his elbow apart in 1999 due to the increased muscle just overwhelming the tendons. That cost him half that year. Then there's 2005, when his knee gives out due to carrying all that extra muscle around, misses the whole season. I think time lost DUE to steroids probably exceeds what normal wear and tear would have cost him, which is about 20 games a year. Most modern stars in their 30's miss that many games to rest up anyway, usually play in about 140-odd.

I say Bonds shot himself and his legacy is the ass just to hit those 73 gaudy homers and stick it to McGwire and "White America", which as we all know is obsessed with hating Bonds, probably ever since he was born. I know that every time a black guy hits a home run, or buries a 3, or wins a medal in speed skating, oooooo, I just CLENCH up inside.

Here's an alternate HR history for Bonds, without the two shortened roids-injury years:

1999 42
2000 40
2001 51
2002 46
2003 41
2004 39
2005 38

That's 297 HR and not at all a freakish or impossible line for a maturing slugger like Bonds who took good care of himself and took time off to heal. Hell, I have Bonds hitting 42 at the age of 34, when Mays was hitting 51 at the old Candlestick. There have been other 40-year olds who hit 40+ homers.

How many did he hit with the 'roids? Same number, 297. He'd be entering this season with the exact same number of homers, 708, and smelling like a rose.

Dope.

 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 09, 2006, 12:44:35 PM »

Nah, Bonds hit 40 three times before '98. I remember his first year with the Giants in '93, the first three months of the season it was Bonds and Everybody Else, he was clearly the best player in the league and it wasn't even close. Hitting close to .400 and leading the league in EVERYthing close to the All Star break. And stealing bases and playing Gold Glove D. 

I think Barry would have kept hitting 35-45 HR/year from 1999-last year without the roids. Willie Mays was still a super-powerful slugger in his late 30's, doing in the worst park to hit in for a right-handed batter in baseball, so there is precedent. With no roids Bonds would have hit roughly the same number of HR, with more RBI, and fewer walks. The historical trend for guys like Bonds as they get older is to hit for more power, a lower batting average and to lose their foot speed. He wouldn't have hit .370, but a more realistic line for 2002 would be say .295/42/120. Ya see, if they aren't walking the dude 200 times a year, that means more chances to actually swing the bat with men on base. It think it evens out. His slugging and OBP go down because of the extra AB, but big deal.

People talk about wiping his stats out, Olympics-style. That's stupid, and will never happen. There were 17 other guys on the field, all generating stats at the same time, you can't just subtract one guy's stats and pretend he never played the game. What about the opposing pitcher's achievements? The frickin' final score of the game?

What you could do as punishment that is Olympics-standard would be to take away his "medals", those 4 MVP awards he racked up, and give them to the runner-up in the voting from each year. That would give you these MVPs for his 'roid years"

2004: Adrian Beltre, Dodgers
2003: Albert Pujols, Cardinals
2002: Albert Pujols, Cardinals
2001: Sammy Sosa, Cubs (HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAH!!! 3rd place is Luis Gonzalez, D-Backs)

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 09, 2006, 11:41:10 AM »

Hey non-Bay Aryans, how are you gonna react when Bonds shows up in your park on a sunny Saturday in June and hits a 3 run homer to dead center off your closer in the 9th to win it? Booing? Silence? A half cheer?

Speaking on behalf of the tortured SF b-ballers, the whole thing produces a huge sigh and a desire to see him retire soon, sooner, soonest.

The ironic thing, if you look at the stats that Bonds has put up, the only year where his homers were really distorted by the 'roids was '01. If he hadn't hit those 73, he wouldn't have been walked so much in the years that followed and would have hit about the same number of homers, around the mid-40's, just with fewer walks and more a-bats to do it. So Bonds trashed his rep, and his body in the process, to hit about 20 extra HR for one frickin' year because McGwire was getting too much press. If he had finished with, I dunno 680 HR and zero steroid rumours I think there would be a legit bandwagon going to name him the best ballplayer of all time. Not now. Whadda maroon.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 07, 2006, 10:32:11 AM »

Kirby will be bouncing off the big Center Field Hefty Bag in the Sky now. It was always weird to see that little porky round guy go straight up in the air to pull home runs back into the park, like a point guard dropping in an easy layup.

There isn't a player quite like him in the league today, not with his body type and stats. Who is five foot eight and 210 pounds and hits .330 with power out of center field?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 03, 2006, 10:48:18 PM »

Dusty Baker is a great 162-game manager, but not a crunch-time guy. The easy-going player-friendly nature that keeps the clubhouse loose for the grind does not work in the playoff pressure cooker. His own decision-making in those situations has sucked in the past, from giving the ball to a shaky rookie for the pennant-deciding game in 1993 to the infamous giving-the-game-ball-to-Russ Ortiz in the 7th inning in Game Six of the '02 Series, which totally pissed off the Angels. How about this: he hunts down that antelope with infinite patience but can't give it the brutal neck snap once he pins it down. Being a red ass on a Baker team would be real torment.

Alou would be a great playoff manager I think. This is a man cheated out of a WS ring by the 1994 strike when his Expos team was a who's who of mid-90's All Star talent. Alou has the coldness necessary to yank a guy who sucks, or to ride a fucker with a hot hand and fuck the whiners.

I'd go to PNC for a game, for sure, how long is the bus ride from SF to Pitt?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Baseball...

« on: March 03, 2006, 04:14:15 PM »

The Cubs actually had a damn decent contending-quality team circa about 69-72, and one of the highest payrolls in baseball too. Fergus Jenkins' best years. But that's forgotten in the midst of the marketing-driven 'lovable dopes' krap. The Cubbies will win 90 this year I think, it's just not enough.

Despite thier owner, I always wanted the White Sox to win just to stick it to Cubs nation a bit. Plus, if any team was actually cursed it was the Black Sox.

The Giants have been on the outside of the championship circle since 1954. Now it's just the Cubs and the Indians who have waited longer than us to have an excuse to flip some cop cars over downtown. We've tried to channel that into our anti-war demos but it's just not the same.

The Royals won the Series in '85, feels like 1885...