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  1. mickeymental
    ty cobb (ops+ 168) certainly belongs in the conversation. check out charles leerhsen's ty cobb: a terrible beauty (2015). exhaustive research depicts something far beyond than the bigoted, peer-hated, spike-sharpening monster myth. it instead paints cobb as a hot-tempered but misunderstood perfectionist admired by peers who dealt with a suffocating life as the first media-conjured sports superstar. which is not to mention the 4189 hits ...
  2. mickeymental
    baseball player #1 during a rain delay: "i hope the rain keeps up." baseball player #2: "why is that?" baseball player #1: "so it doesn't come down!"
  3. mickeymental
    stick a fork in him.
  4. mickeymental
    if buxton were leading off it woulda been a grand slam.
  5. mickeymental
    maybe return hicks to the mound and trade him to the national league where he can be an above-average hitter every fifth day.
  6. mickeymental
    few if any are arguing that he's anything but bad right now ...
  7. mickeymental
    similar question: did people think cano or pujols would maintain what they were for 10 years?
  8. mickeymental
    graham > stauffer for sure. but also fair to mention that six of graham's nine inherited runners have scored (six of 13 for stauffer).
  9. mickeymental
    strong theories (aside from the specious mattingly comparison as addressed above).
  10. mickeymental
    mantle mangled his knee early in his career (long before today's miracle surgery) and drank himself into premature decline (famously saying "if i knew i was gonna live this long i woulda took a lot better care of myself"); mattingly is said to have wrecked his back in a bout of clubhouse horseplay.
  11. mickeymental
    mattingly's decline is widely attributed to chronic back problems -- not simply because he "reached his 30s."
  12. mickeymental
    i wonder what your doubts are based on. in other words, how can a guy go from a hall-of-fame-bound hitter to subpar just by being "tired of it all"? he's been a successful athlete in several sports all his life -- i imagine he's frustrated yet driven to reclaim his place near the top. but tired of it all? at 32? i don't see him as the type who's eager to put up his feet and count his millions ...
  13. mickeymental
    back in the '60s and '70s, schoolboy football players who "got their bell rung" were back in the game asap. i can recall guys staggering around and not knowing what day it was ... coaches and other players thought it was funny -- but if you didn't get back in the game you were considered soft. likewise, i'd guess professional athletes of the not-too-distant past hid their symptoms and got back in the game asap. and that accurate records of concussions and their aftermath are scant.
  14. mickeymental
    just seems like his problems must be related to concussions. if so, all bets are off until and unless he recovers.
  15. mickeymental
    astros just lost seven straight. it happens. but the season is 162.
  16. mickeymental
    more like eddie feigner -- the king and his court.
  17. mickeymental
    really? right on, danny!
  18. mickeymental
    an interesting and nicely punctuated trip down memory lane ...
  19. mickeymental
    you mean the song by vampire weekend? or the grammatical annoyance?
  20. mickeymental
    again, thanks everyone. (and one space IS proper modern grammar; at least no space won't bug me anymore!) back to baseball ...
  21. mickeymental
    makes sense -- hadn't thought of that (wait'll you get to be my age!). sincere thanks.
  22. mickeymental
    i'll probably get branded as grammar police, but i'm really curious about the no spaces after periods that some posters seem to favor. by the way, one space (not two) is the modern way to go -- two is from the old days of typesetting. nevertheless (and back to baseball), i'm anxious to see what vargas.2 can bring to the lineup ...
  23. mickeymental
    just curious: what happened to spaces after periods? whynotremovethemall?
  24. mickeymental
    on the other hand, no argument here!
  25. mickeymental
    can't argue that two walks on the season is a little lame. still, he's got a .699 ops overall. and remember -- the original point is that he's a much better bet than the rest of the group you named ...
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