Tiger337

So, that justifies government hired thugs shooting him in the face 10 times while he is lying on his back. That is sick. Now I temember why I left this forum. I hear enough of those kinds of sick disgusting opinions in real life.

I wouldn't say that to Ty Cobb.

One year, one of the Cardinals pitchers (Bob Forsch?) helped them win all the water events in super teams but they got destroyed by the football team in everything else.

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SOCCER ITS BORING AND UNAMERICAN REAL AMERICANS LIKE FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL GET THAT REDS FAN OUT OF HERE HARRIS NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING!!! SIGN VALDES TRADE BAEZ AND JOSH JUNG FOR AUSTIN RILEY LETS GO!!!!

Quickest tug of war ever: 1976 Big Red Machine versus the Steel Curtain

Remember the Superstars competition back in the 1970s? Kyle Rote Jr dominated and the baseball players usually embarrassed themselves. That tells me everything I need to know.

2 million (or any big number you choose) would be "reasonable", but reasonable has nothing to do with it. There is a ton of money flowing into the game. Somebody has to get that money, so I think it's good that the players (who are the employees fans are paying to see) are getting a large share. The only way to make it "reasonable" is for fans to stop going to games and purchasing tv packages.

which means it was almost cetainly not random. I wonder if putting Brinkman clean-up was really directed towards Cash? I vaguely remember being a bit disappointed that the line-up had not changed that much. I was only 9, so I didn't understand random samples, but when I heard he picked the line-up out of a had, I was expecting something more bizzare.

Silvestri will fit in well with the rest of team. He's got the look.

One problem with them is that they both sounded alike. I couldn't tell which one was talking. So, I imagine they would do better separately.

It's hard to believe that was over 50 years ago. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197208131.shtml

Youth hockey was crazy even when I was a kid. My best friend played in a league and it used consume is life during the winter. It didn't seem like fun. I imagine is was pretty expensive too.

I'm nicer than Edman though.

The assumption is that the draft would only involve unprotected players on the 40-man roster which doesn't include any of their biggest prospects

Pick up games are no longer popular, but organized baseball is still pretty popular. I believe basketball and soccer are the top youth sports with baseball #3.

I would guess it's because there are limited areas in the United States where it is played very much by kids growing up.

They could draft him and then trade him.

I wish they had one of these every year - not an expansion draft, but more like a high level rule 5 draft. There would probably be some legal or contractual reasons why it wouldn't be liked by certain parties, but it would make the off-season so much fun.

He would have wanted to. I just don't know if it would have been his call.

Apples and Oranges. When Dombrowski took over, they had no useful MLB ready players in the organization and very few future players. He had to build from scratch. I like Harris's long-term vision better than Dombrowski's short-term vision, but it's disingenuous to compare the two in terms of how quickly they had winning teams.

Yes, most will be gone. If they are not, then something has gone horribly wrong.

Most of the team is comprised of Avila "leftovers". He definitely cares about this team winning. It's just that I see a lack of urgency to take advantage of Skubal's final two years.

I am fully aware of the weakness of his rate numbers. I am just pointing out one area where he was superior to every pitcher in that period. I am not saying he belongs in the Hall of Fame. I have rallied against him for years. However, his numbers may not be as bad as many of us have been saying. I would bet that his rate numbers would have been significantly better had he not pitched so many complete games compared to his peers.

I can't imagine it would have been much. How many fans want to watch an old washed up player playing for a 100 loss team? Attendance was way down during his final years.

I have softened my stance on Morris's Hall of Fame credientials is recent years. I don't consider him a big-game pitcher (not after watching 1987), he didn't "pitch to the score" and I don't care about "most wins in the 80s", but he was the most durable pitcher of his era and was the last of the complete game pitchers. Looking at 1980 forward, he had 165 CG. The closest one to him is Roger Clemems with 118. Even if you go back to 1975, he is still #1. although not by as much: Morris 175 Blyleven 165 Ryan 137 Tanana 129 Niekro 127 Carlton 123. https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/baseball/player-pitching-season-finder.cgi?request=1&match=player_season_combined&order_by=p_cg&year_min=1980