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QUOTE(flippedoutpunk @ May 1, 2005 -> 04:23 PM)
i love BBTN i love hearing below average former baseball players tell me how superstars can fix their swings

 

Since when do you have to be a great player to know hitting theory ? Look around the majors , hitting coaches typically were not great players. Greg Walker wasn't a great player . Charlie Lau and Walt Hriniak were considered great batting coaches and they didn't do squat in the majors. It takes talent to be a superstar, it takes knowledge to coach. Don't get the two mixed up.

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QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 1, 2005 -> 05:48 PM)
Since when do you have to be a great player to know hitting theory ? Look around the majors , hitting coaches typically were not great players. Greg Walker wasn't a great player . Charlie Lau and Walt Hriniak were considered great batting coaches and they didn't do squat in the majors. It takes talent to be a superstar, it takes knowledge to coach. Don't get the two mixed up.

 

so it doesnt take knowledge to be a superstar? :crying

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QUOTE(flippedoutpunk @ May 1, 2005 -> 06:34 PM)
maybe id take kruk more seriously if he would have kept his former hair cut

 

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party in the back baby

 

My all-time favorite John Kruk story:

 

Early 90's, Spring Training with the Phillies, Kruk is at a team function/party and he fires up a heater.

 

Random Woman: "What are you doing? You can't smoke! You're an athlete!"

 

Kruk: "Lady, I'm not an athlete, I'm a ballplayer."

 

 

Kruk is a funny guy and was a good hitter, IMO.

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QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 1, 2005 -> 06:26 PM)
well Reynolds made an all star team and stole 60 basses and Kruk had a lifetime 300 average so your below average statement was pretty foolish

The only thing people will remember about Kruk's .300 average is that he quit once he reached it.

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Reality is beginning to set in for them:

1) Uribe, Ozuna, Thomas, Gload all out

2) KC 7-18 11 gb

3) CLE 9-15 9 gb

4) DET 11-12 6 gb

5) MIN 15-9 2.5 gb (needs 3 wins coupled w 3 CHW losses to catch us)

6) CHW 18-7

7) NHL wise: CHW 36 pts, MIN 30, Det 22, Cle 18, KC 14

8) Rested Bullpen. RP IP: CHW 60, MIN 69*, CLE 73*, DET 70*, KC 79

* - projected to 25 GP

9) BMC

10) Offense well below career averages

 

May games:

MIN vs CLE (10 gms).

DET has a schedule that would make any one weep.

CHW, it's a tough schedule but starts off with KC at home.

 

If CLE can play their best ball vs MIN, & the CHW win more than any ALC team in May we can really stretch the distance betw ourselves & the rest of the ALC. Not bad for a team where Koney's hitting .209 & Thomas has yet to bat.

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QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ May 1, 2005 -> 06:39 PM)
Reality is beginning to set in for them:

1) Uribe, Ozuna, Thomas, Gload all out

2) KC 7-18 11 gb

3) CLE 9-15 9 gb

4) DET 11-12 6 gb

5) MIN 15-9 2.5 gb  (needs 3 wins coupled w 3 CHW losses to catch us)

6) CHW 18-7

7) NHL wise: CHW 36 pts, MIN 30, Det 22, Cle 18, KC 14

8) Rested Bullpen. RP IP: CHW 60, MIN 69*, CLE 73*, DET 70*, KC 79

* - projected to 25 GP

9) BMC

10) Offense well below career averages

 

May games:

MIN vs CLE (10 gms). 

DET has a schedule that would make any one weep. 

CHW, it's a tough schedule but starts off with KC at home.

 

If CLE can play their best ball vs MIN, & the CHW win more than any ALC team in May we can really stretch the distance betw ourselves & the rest of the ALC.  Not bad for a team where Koney's hitting .209 & Thomas has yet to bat.

 

juggernaut... your obsession with stats is mind boggling :P

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QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 1, 2005 -> 06:46 PM)
Yeah but look at your sig!  :bang  :lol:

 

That is not compareable.. When I have Garlands stats equaled out to NHL stats, then you can call me obsessed :lol:

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QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 1, 2005 -> 05:48 PM)
Since when do you have to be a great player to know hitting theory ? Look around the majors , hitting coaches typically were not great players. Greg Walker wasn't a great player . Charlie Lau and Walt Hriniak were considered great batting coaches and they didn't do squat in the majors. It takes talent to be a superstar, it takes knowledge to coach. Don't get the two mixed up.

An observation from pro sports. The best coaches/mangers were fringe or average players. My theory is that they had to be fundamentally sound and think through the game more than the superstars. The superstars had more God given talent but the fringe players had that extra something that they learned.

 

Of course it could be that the superstars made more money and don't need to manage or coach.

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QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ May 1, 2005 -> 07:39 PM)
Reality is beginning to set in for them:

1) Uribe, Ozuna, Thomas, Gload all out

2) KC 7-18 11 gb

3) CLE 9-15 9 gb

4) DET 11-12 6 gb

5) MIN 15-9 2.5 gb  (needs 3 wins coupled w 3 CHW losses to catch us)

6) CHW 18-7

7) NHL wise: CHW 36 pts, MIN 30, Det 22, Cle 18, KC 14

8) Rested Bullpen. RP IP: CHW 60, MIN 69*, CLE 73*, DET 70*, KC 79

* - projected to 25 GP

9) BMC

10) Offense well below career averages

 

May games:

MIN vs CLE (10 gms). 

DET has a schedule that would make any one weep. 

CHW, it's a tough schedule but starts off with KC at home.

 

If CLE can play their best ball vs MIN, & the CHW win more than any ALC team in May we can really stretch the distance betw ourselves & the rest of the ALC.  Not bad for a team where Koney's hitting .209 & Thomas has yet to bat.

 

 

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

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