Mplssoxfan

Would you happen to have a link?

Here's a link to the whole column.

Maybe this guy needs a date!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 02:35 PM) 342 homers today isn't much. 342 homers primarily in the 60s is like 500-600 homers today. The same goes for the .277 batting average. Rember we are talking about an era that was the best for pitchers since back into the deadball era. Santo played back when Bob Gibson put up a 1.12 era, a .301 for Yaz led a league in hitting, and it was preDH so all offensive stats during that time are WAY lower. Errors are another stat that is misleading from that time. #1 the fields are in MUCH better condition today. You don't get nearly the bad bounces that you used to. #2 EVERYTHING was an error then. Today generous scorekeepers would rather give a guy a hit than an error if at all possible. There is not a doubt in my mind that errors are WAY lower today vs 30-40 years ago. Don't make the mistake of comparing eras with just bald statisics. If we did that, there wouldn't be a pitcher alive today who deserves to make the HOF. You have to get off of the statsheet and compare how good players were relative to their era. This is the key. If you just looked at raw stats, you'd be forced to conclude that all of the greatest players in history played from 1925-1933 and all the greatest pitchers played from 1902-1912. Y'all can roast me too, but Ron Santo is the best Third Baseman not currently in the HOF. If you'll excuse me, I have to take a shower. Eeeewwww.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Obviously you people left your sense of humor at home. The rape comment should be green. Lighten up people. Actually, my sense of humor is alive and well. I even laugh at jokes told about Clinton that are actually funny. Calling someone a rapist, even if it's "supposed to be in green", both is not funny and not constructive. Not to mention the fact that a great many people won't ever value your opinion on anything after you drop a couple of references like that. I know you probably don't care if I value your opinion, but I also know that there are lots of fair-minded people on both sides of every debate here who probably don't like the level of descussion being dragged down to sophmoric levels. Or worse, as the case may be.

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QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) this is the most ridiculous thing, I think I have read on this board to date. That includes those comments about Timo and Ozzie! :headshake No, no. That's good, constructive political analysis. Call Clinton a rapist -- that'll get people to change their minds, for sure. Whatever happened banning for unwarranted personal attacks?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 08:13 PM) Heck, it's not even that as much...everyone these days in the medical industry knows that there's vastly more money available in drugs like Viagra than there is in vaccines, simpy because if you develop a vaccine/cure for a virus, people need to take it one time, but if you develop a drug like viagra, claritin, a heartburn drug, or something silly like that, the profit margins are massive because you need to take it hundreds of times, as each pill is necessary. That's the same reason why there are only like 1-2 flu vaccine makers available...the market favors drugs that you need to take many times. There is very little market value in actually curing any disease, only in treating a disease. This is one of those cases where the market is driving the wrong way, and the only solution is government investment. The Market would like nothing better than to develop a drug that you need to take for the rest of your life to control the symptoms of AIDS, but if you develop an actual cure, then the makers of all those drugs that you need to take to keep the disease under control would lose tons of money, and so the drug companies have very little impetus to actually develop a cure. Sometimes the government needs to intervene in the private market to force it in a direction it doesn't want to go. Drug research is a prime example (note, the Bush admin. is already doing something similar with avian flu - there is promising research into new techniques for creating flu vaccine but the drug companies don't want to pay for it because there's so little profit in flu vaccine, so the Bush Avian Flu plan included hundreds of millions to try to perfect those better methods to produce vaccine) Beat me to it, Balta. Low economic incentive will always mean that Pharma giants will be reluctant to devote large sums to vaccine R&D. After all, regardless of what their ads tell us, they're not in business to make us all well, they're in business to make a profit.

Wow. Lots to celebrate today! Have a good one, gents!

Happy happy, man. Leave no stone unturned in search of a good time.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Great sig, Jim.

What kind of wine goes best with crow? I may or may not have compared being atop the NFC North after eight weeks to being the tallest midget. Oh well, I'll get to see the NFC North Champs this Sunday at Metrodome.

I'm single and Xmas isn't one of my fav holidays. Therefore, no tree. No wreath, either.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 08:28 PM) Actually, I was thinking of a date which would become infamous many years later. There's a clue in the way I composed this sentence.^^^

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 08:22 PM) Ask Mike Brown. Just Kidding. He did a heckuva job. No, the good Bishop said it was 2348 BC. On a Thursday, I believe. Actually, I was thinking of a date which would become infamous many years later.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) Ah, yes. Layers upon layers. Like an onion, as Schrek would say. Now don't tell me you want on the erudite joke grenade mailing list as well? Okay, smartypants, what's the date of the beginning of the flood?

What are you, some kind of commie? I don't really understand the persecution complex some of these people have.

Aged, smoked Gouda Roaring Forties -- blue cheese from Tasmania L'explorateur -- triple cream brie Humboldt Fog -- goat's milk cheese Parmigiano Reggiano -- the king of cheese I could go on and on. I like my cheese, can you tell?

Poppy with plain Cream Cheese.

That's some tolerance. To be able to walk at .30 is a tough thing to do, but .90? This clearly wasn't this Lativan's first rodeo.

The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol, also known as Scrooge, starring Alistair Sim as Ol' Ebenezer. The echt film version of the story.

I am now officially lost. That is all.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Dec 18, 2005 -> 04:58 PM) RUN DMC- "Christmas In Hollis" My personal favorite. s***, this thread inspired me to put it on right now. Word. Love it, it makes me think of Christmas every time. And it's the only video my parents have ever seen.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Dec 18, 2005 -> 12:43 AM) Jorge Orta Player who caused one of the great Harry Caray quotes: "Orta lost it in the sun! Aw, how could he lose it in the sun? He's from Mexico!" Lerrin LaGrow

QUOTE(timotime @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) DAN PASQUA I almost caught a foul ball hit by Pasqua at the Metrodome. Tried to one-hand it and it glanced offthe bottom of my palm. Some jackass behind me grabbed it, and listening to him and his buddy talk during the game, it was obvious they had been to 10 games between them in their lifetimes. Pissed me off royally.