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Pre said:
I had no idea he could be this good. I've always seen him as one of those guys with a lot of potential who can't quite put it all together. Maybe this is the year.
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I think he put it together last year. I just wasn't sure he could do it again. He led the AL in strikeouts last year, while having less walks than King Felix.
 
CajoleJuice said:
I think he put it together last year. I just wasn't sure he could do it again. He led the AL in strikeouts last year, while having less walks than King Felix.
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It's not like he has ever been particularly bad. Guy has been consistently pretty good. The difference this year is that he isn't giving up the long balls.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
BTW, salted peanuts are the worst.
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Windu said:
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At Fenway there is a guy who since I was a kid, sells bags of fresh peanuts salted/unsalted. the unsalted ones are delicious and has since been a problem while traveling to other ballparks. They all seem to have supermarket pre-packaged bags of salted garbage peanuts.

Also, I have a question for Historian-AGE. Besides Cobb are there any other over the top shady characters already in the hall of fame. I need to do a mini-presenation and just needed another example or two.
 
eznark said:
It's not like he has ever been particularly bad. Guy has been consistently pretty good. The difference this year is that he isn't giving up the long balls.
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It's just taken him this long to get the stink of Jeff off of him. But he'll start giving up a few more HR, as his groundball rate is still really low.
 
Got tickets for tonight's Yankee game, woo.

After collecting five hits in his previous 10 at bats, Derek Jeter(notes) went 0-for-4 on Monday night, dropping his batting average to .244. He has just two extra-base hits in 86 plate appearances – among the 189 players with at least 65 plate appearances, only five have fewer. Jeter has not stolen a base, and has only attempted to steal once. His ground-ball rate is an off-the-charts 73.5%, easily highest in the league. This is all made further damning by the fact that only a handful of players in the league are seeing a higher percentage of fastballs, which he has been producing negative value against for the first time in his career.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/mlb/news?slug=bf-funston_skinny_point_of_no_return_042511

Yow.
 
jakncoke said:
honey roasted peanuts are win
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Applaud this man.

Also, it's probably time for Jeter to go back to his old swing - and be moved down in the order. I still refuse to believe that he's just finished - he's too good for that.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
Eating a salt packet = Eating a salted peanut.
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What the hell did you do with the Show league? Why is everyone showing 6 games played? And why aren't you answering questions in that thread!?
 
eznark said:
What the hell did you do with the Show league? Why is everyone showing 6 games played? And why aren't you answering questions in that thread!?
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PSN has been down for almost a week now, not much I can do.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
Eating a salt packet = Eating a salted peanut.
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The best are green boiled peanuts. Then come the roasted peanuts with kosher salt (not too much). Then unsalted if roasted correctly. A fountain Coca Cola on shaved ice and good roasted peanuts are bliss.

Sanjuro said:
Also, I have a question for Historian-AGE. Besides Cobb are there any other over the top shady characters already in the hall of fame. I need to do a mini-presenation and just needed another example or two.
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Burleigh Grimes

A heavy drinker, a spitballer long past the 1920 ban, Grimes refused to shave before games and acquired the nickname ‘Ol’ Stubblebeard.’ His grubby visage could only have been worsened by the slippery elm bark he chewed to increase the effectiveness of his saliva. Grimes also had a predilection for throwing directly at batters’ heads.

Grimes’ attitude wasn’t helped any by his having perhaps the worst single game of any pitcher ever. While pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the fifth game of the 1920 World Series Grimes gave up the first-ever World Series grand slam, and a few innings later surrendered the first-ever World Series home run by an opposing pitcher.

As sour, unshaven and hung over as ever, Grimes went on to manage the Dodgers in the late ‘30s. The team was terrible, and after one particular drubbing, a 12-year-old fan asked Grimes for an autograph. Ol’ Stubblebeard punched the kid in the gut.
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Pretty much every turn of the century player fixed games, hated blacks and beat women. Cobb is only singled out because he was so damn prolific!

King Kelly and Rube Waddell are two of the biggest pieces of shit to ever play the game and both are in the hall. I mean, Rube fucking shot people.

Cap Anson essentially kept blacks out of baseball in the late 1800's (when it was actually fairly acceptable). He changed the course of the game that way. Had he not made his famous stand in Toledo in 1883 it's unlikely that the Negro Leagues ever exist.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
At Fenway there is a guy who since I was a kid, sells bags of fresh peanuts salted/unsalted. the unsalted ones are delicious and has since been a problem while traveling to other ballparks. They all seem to have supermarket pre-packaged bags of salted garbage peanuts.

Also, I have a question for Historian-AGE. Besides Cobb are there any other over the top shady characters already in the hall of fame. I need to do a mini-presenation and just needed another example or two.
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I don't know if there are any Hall of Famers nearly as infamous as Cobb. John McGraw was kind of a dick, apparently.

Alternately, you can just mention Hal Chase and hope no one calls you on it.
 
And I remember hearing about Ted Williams telling the rest of Red Sox team the first day he played with them, "I'm going to make more money than the rest of you combined". I think he did. He also caught more fish.
 
Vizcaino's injury yesterday was a back thing, not arm related. Also apparently the Braves' High-A team has a coach named Ty Cobbs. Go figure.
 
Wellington said:
What would MLBGAF think of this trade: Kemp + Gallardo for Halladay?
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What would the person getting Halladay be hoping to accomplish? Gallardo will be close in strikeouts, whip and probably ERA. I mean, I guess if you think Kemp is essentially valueless then yeah, great trade!
 
eznark said:
What would the person getting Halladay be hoping to accomplish? Gallardo will be close in strikeouts, whip and probably ERA. I mean, I guess if you think Kemp is essentially valueless then yeah, great trade!
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Gallardo is NOT going to be close in WHIP.

But Kemp is probably just as valuable as Halladay by himself so...
 
The question is really more about Kemp regressing than anything else. He's sporting a .470 BABIP, his wOBA right now is off the charts compared to a typical Kemp season (.485 to .354). This season he already has a WAR of 1.5 versus his career high of 5.

Please stop me if what I'm saying is incorrect
 
Wellington said:
The question is really more about Kemp regressing than anything else. He's sporting a .470 BABIP, his wOBA right now is off the charts compared to a typical Kemp season (.485 to .354). This season he already has a WAR of 1.5 versus his career high of 5.

Please stop me if what I'm saying is incorrect
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Dude, just don't make the trade.
 
Wellington said:
What would MLBGAF think of this trade: Kemp + Gallardo for Halladay?
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Awful, horrid trade. Kemp > Halladay.

And Sanjuro is correct. Unsalted peanuts = win. Salted peanuts are like pouring half-and-half and three scoops of HFCS into your coffee. Nice bag of unsalted roasted peanuts and some brews on a hot day watching live baseball is fucking heaven. I always bring a bag of unsalted peanuts to minor league parks and say I have sodium diet issues so they don't confiscate them.
 
CygnusXS said:
Man, you guys are nuts. Almonds and Cashews are the only legumes worth thinking about.
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Almonds are the best, but I ain't eating a bag of almonds during a ball game cause shit'll cost $40.
 
Got some tickets to the Brewers game tonight, hopefully Estrada doesn't lay the team out for sacrifice like Narveson did last night.
 
I'm going too, my mom managed to get tickets 10 rows behind brewers dugout. hopefully will be better than saturday/monday's game!
 
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