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  1. Dick_Pole
    Semi-serious answer: Duane Ward went down. As soon as he went out, the Jays bullpen went from the best in the league (and lights-out in the Henke-Ward days) to a serious pile of s*** made up of often-injured also-rans and Tony Castillo.
  2. Dick_Pole
    Bautista, Lawrie, Reyes, Rasmus all play 150 or more games this year. If this happens, this team contends. I don't believe it will happen but I sure hope it does especially given the problems with depth.
  3. Dick_Pole
    Here's the full Game Six of the the 93 World Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbh5UitRA8 The bottom of the 9th starts around 2:35. You can clearly see Rickey did not earn s*** lol. A walk on 4 straight pitches, none of them close. Although Rickey did call time out and throw Williams off his game. They were also pumping up Williams' pick off move a few moments before the Carter HR. So I'm glad that part wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
  4. Dick_Pole
    Gene Tenace disagrees with you.
  5. Dick_Pole
    Interesting...I think you're about to stumble into an argument with other posters on this board which leads Joe Carter stifling Shawn Green's career which led to the REAL reason for him wanting to be traded, with Cito Gaston being the conduit.
  6. Dick_Pole
    Haha I like that, mein Führer. I never knew Braun was Jewish until I got a look at this photo and he a spitting image of a pal of mine that's also Jewish. They could be twins even though they were born on opposite ends of the continent. Hmm I think Hitler was onto something!
  7. Dick_Pole
    Didn't Mitch Williams have a wicked pick off move? That's what I recall from doing no research on it and thinking back to when I was a 10 year old following baseball. That would be the only explanation for him giving up so many baserunners and having consistently low to permissible ERA year after year. Don't know of a data bank that tracks and shows pick offs to prove my point.
  8. Dick_Pole
    JPR definitely redeemed himself there. And then how Stewart became chronically injured it was actually a pretty good move in the grand scheme of things. But the treatment of Delgado...the dumping of Gonzalez...then the trading away of Quantrill for that Aussie pitching prospect that went nowhere...then Stewart. People were on edge because it looked like everything he did was for a salary dump. Then Godfrey decided that Vernon Wells was to be paid like a guaranteed Hall of Famer.
  9. Dick_Pole
    If you want to go that far the moment of victory was when Mitch Williams stepped out onto the mound against the top of the order of one of the best line-ups in all-time MLB history. Drawing a walk off of Mitch Williams is not a difficult feat.
  10. Dick_Pole
    I think people hated him because that's who they got back for Shannon Stewart...during Ricciardi's salary dump phase.
  11. Dick_Pole
    Rickey was dogshit with the Jays...except his presence made everybody else better. Alomar batting 6th. A HOF player batting 6th AND that was the right spot for him in that lineup...those were the days.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Alfredo Griffin. Zero tool player at his finest!
  13. Dick_Pole
    Could slap you in the face with each hand? Good for facial symmetry!
  14. Dick_Pole
    Being ambidextrous is a state of mind. You can use any hand for anything as long as you are trained to do so as a child. Even as an adult you can learn.
  15. Dick_Pole
    You're right on the elbow for sure. I recall that Tekulve and Quisenberry were pretty consistent and injury-free (ignoring Quisenberry's career ended with an injury) although being an RP might have had a lot to do with it.
  16. Dick_Pole
    And Rajai failed to dethrone him as the season SB leader!
  17. Dick_Pole
    Also I think the Dan Quisenberry style of underhand pitching could make a comeback. There's a reason why Lawrie's sister could pitch every day with her man-arms and that's because the underhand style of throwing puts much less stress on the arms. Teams would be smart to take some fringe prospects and turn them into submariners and what you lose on velocity you gain in health and a short-term gain in pitching at an unfamiliar/tricky angle until batters adjust.
  18. Dick_Pole
    If I ever have a kid, I'll teach him to throw with both arms. You mess up one, you still have the other. Divide the workload by two and save both arms. Or have a pitcher that can start 40+ games a year, 20 each arm. I don't understand why people don't raise their kids like this. There's thousands of switch hitters but only a handful of switch pitchers in baseball history. It's not that hard to throw from your weak side. I've hit my target from a pitching mound 60-feet away throwing lefty. They were garbage probably 30 mph but they still made it. I can only imagine how much better they'd be if I'd learn to throw lefty since age 5.
  19. Dick_Pole
    Danny Darwin...what a piece of crap...although not sure you can put the blame on a guy who got signed as a washed up has been who wasn't all that great to begin with. Tallet was badly misused Towers was a great pickup for nothing that was mostly effective for 2.5 years. People remember 2005 but if you remember 2004 there was a stretch where he was the ONLY starting pitcher who was getting wins. It's just too bad the team ruined 2006 by putting him out there when he didn't have it anymore. 5 starts should have been enough before dumping him in the minors. I don't think it's fair for these two to be leading this unofficial poll
  20. Dick_Pole
    Only if something worthwhile comes back to Toronto. The Jays without Izturis and without Drew (they probably won't sign him either) is a worse squad. It's not like they will allocate his salary to improve the team half way through spring training.
  21. Dick_Pole
    I like how somehow you know this. Nerd.
  22. Dick_Pole
    Oh my gosh, the morality police. A 16/17 yo girl who acts like a kid is truly not going to be attractive to 99.9999% of the male population anyways. A 17 yo slutbag that looks 20+ and has been f***ing for 4 years is not a child. What's scary is that in some places like states in the US, a regular nice 25 yo guy can go to jail with REAL criminals because he had a 17 yo gf or he was tricked and the girl was underage. We're only a couple hundred years removed from a society where it was normal for a 14 yo girl to get married, often to much older men. Why? Because it's absolutely normal for a guy to be attracted to a girl once puberty kicks in. Any grown man who said he never found himself attracted to a 16 yo before is kidding himself.
  23. Dick_Pole
    lol someday Lawrie's gonna have a mug shot of himself with a black eye after a bar fight. There's a certain sect of the population, maybe 1%, that could kick the absolute s*** out of him. Eventually he will cross paths with that 1%.
  24. Dick_Pole
    lol that ugly MFer's 19 years old? I know it's an unpleasant mug shot but he looks like he's 30+ if not for the acne.
  25. Dick_Pole
    I guess you know some very attractive Kleenexes...
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