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I guess if he calls a good game, I suppose I can get over the whole Cub issue. But I'm not hearing great things about him purely as a broadcaster. (I posted some stuff on his affinity for the Cubs in the "Powell leaving" thread. It's pretty gruesome.)
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And, comedic value aside, I just didn't follow the whole Pam-reading-the-letter thing. Did it actually say what she told Michael? And shouldn't the viewer have known, one way or another? (It was just odd, in terms of point of view.) "30 Rock," though? Pure gold. I heart Alec Baldwin.
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Bill Hall out 4-6 Weeks with left calf tear
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Technically I suppose Doug still could since Crede remains unsigned I believe, where he would get the money to do would be a huge question mark thoughYeah, he allegedly wants $7 million. (Not that he's going to get it, though.) -
Loved it last night, but where was Andy? I don't even remember him being in the party scene or anything.
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I wonder if there might be a way to honor/acknowledge Aaron's mark separately as a de facto non-steroid-tainted record. You could keep Bonds on the books but formally honor Aaron's record by calling it something like the "classic home run mark" or something. (That's not a very good idea, but it's better than trying expunge Bonds's HR's.)
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Yeah, the union would go berserk over it (and perhaps rightly so).
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84-78.
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Yeah, the Baltimore situation is even more convoluted when you thrown in the Colts situation. I have a hard time associating my heroes as a kid (especially Johnny Unitas) with the Indianapolis Colts. Unitas sort of personified Baltimore - beyond the franchise, even -- for all those years, and so it's weird for me to think of his legacy being honored in Indy.
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It might interesting to do a composite prediction thread -- just have everyone give a number and then average them out. (Maybe we've done this in the past and I'm just forgetting?)
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Hey, Rickie produces runs and wins in a total vacuum! (I will say that his overall OBP from the leadoff spot is something that I tend to overlook.)
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Nice Verducci column on SI.com about the interview. He highlights Gammons' inexplicably bad interviewing skills and A-Rod's sly refusal to admit that he did steroids (the word never came out of his mouth -- he kept saying "banned substance" and the like).
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For me, the major problems with the interview are: 1.) His claim that he didn't know what he was taking. He did it for three years but somehow didn't know what it was? 2.) His suggestion that it didn't actually help him very much. Why would you engage in risky behavior for three years if you didn't think it was helping you and giving you an edge?
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Hello, defamation suit? (Notoriously hard to win, but I think the elements are there.) The stuff he said about Selena Roberts was pretty wild, and (apparently) completely inaccurate: Rodriguez went on to say that Roberts was tossed from his New York City apartment building, that she had to be escorted off of the University Miami campus by police when she sought out Rodriguez at the campus gym on Thursday and that she tried to break into his Miami home where his "children were sleeping".. . .Roberts, as most would expect, immediately issued a statement through Sports Illustrated saying, "The allegations made by Alex Rodriguez are absurd" and affirmed that she'd never been to his apartment or his Miami home and that she'd never had any run-ins with police at the University of Miami campus.
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Gammons was unbelievable: A-Rod [paraphrasing]: "Selena Roberts will make up anything just to sell magazines/books. She's been stalking me for three years. . . ." Gammons [paraphrasing]: "What would you tell Little Leaguers about steroids?"
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It's what I find so absurd about the coverage that this is getting on TV. Nearly everyone is saying, "Well, at least it's good that he's coming clean and telling the truth." How in the world do we know that's even remotely true? Doesn't he have a colossal credibility problem?
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Certainly could happen, right? A lot could change, in terms of perception. A couple of other things: 1.) How about that "Guitar Hero" commercial with A-Rod and Michael Phelps? 2.) I am not buying A-Rod's "geez, I don't really know what I took" explanation. He knew.
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Do you think it makes any difference (or should make any difference) that he came right out and confessed? I always thought of Pete Rose had come out and just owned up to his gambling and apologized right away that his relationship with Giamatti and Selig would have been much differnent. He may have had the ban lifted. Not sure if it would have been enough to get him in the HOF, but he would have at least had a chance. That will be the argument, I think -- the he is coming clean and not continuing to lie about it. Of course, he has only done this after being exposed, and after he has repeatedly lied about it. I also wonder about how he's going to play from now on. He doesn't have the sturdiest psyche, and this could really mess him up. (Or he could go nuts trying to prove everyone wrong. You just don't know.)
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I am not arguing the pro or con of A-Rod in the HOF, but how can he get in when McGwire is getting only 20-ish percent of the vote now? By the time A-Rod is eligible (let's say, I dunno, 2015), McGwire will have been rejected a bunch of times. There will be strong perceived precedent for rejecting these guys. I'm having a hard time imagining some sportwriter saying, "Well, I didn't vote for McGwire for the last 10 years, but now I am going to turn around and vote for A-Rod." (Again, making the point purely on voter logic, not the inherent merits, either way.)
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OK, I will temporarily stop my annoying hand-wringing over the rotation. At least now there's a little more depth.
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Yeah, that's the thing: I just don't what the return would be on Corey.
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Now I'm wondering how long he used. He put up especially good numbers over '01-'03, but it wasn't exactly Brady Andersonesque; he's been in that 35-55 HR range for his entire career.
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Good news on the Looper front is that the Rockies apparently aren't interesting anymore. So that's one less team to compete with. Rosenthal says Orioles have "serious interest," but otherwise it doesn't look like too many other teams are pursuing him. (And you can probably count out the Dodgers, with this Wolf signing.)
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Yeah, if you got sick of the A-Rod and Madonna story last year, here it comes on steroids (so to speak).
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I was almost thinking that Billy Bob Thornton looked like Beane. (Almost.)
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I'm ambivalent about this. On the one hand, I've never especially liked A-Rod, and he plays for the Yankees, so some mean-spirited part of me is OK with him getting tarred with this brush. On the other hand, this is horrible for the game as a whole, and it means we're looking forward to a summer of renewed steroid mania. Given the Yankee angle, this is bound to dominate the next 10 months of baseball -- a prospect that makes my heart sink. And just in case you were wondering if it's true -- this from the SI article itself: When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."
