Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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1. Gonna break my Rusty Kuntz and run . . . Arbitol posted on December 07, 2012 at 09:10 AM # hit 0 | hit 0"Yes, I am!"
\got nuthin'
When the Topps 2012 midseason Update series comes out, and it includes a card of you doing this, it's a pretty good hint that you're done:
http://www.amazon.com/Topps-Update-Baseball-Cleveland-Indians/dp/B009L7G7M8
http://www.sears.com/topps-update-2012-topps-update-series-baseball-card-us166/p-SPM6930375913
at least it was Chipper's choice
I've tried several times - using the 2012 roster set - to get some of the older fellows to milestones. I add Omar Vizquel, Ivan Rodriguez, Vladimir Guerrero, Jamie Moyer, Bobby Abreu, and Jamie Moyer.
Damon always seems to fall apart quickest and I have yet to be able to get him to 3000 hits... Vizquel and I-Rod almost always get to 3000 hits. Vlad, I can get to 500 HRs about half the time. I get Abreu to 2500 hits usually. Moyer, I've only been able to get to 300 wins a couple times.
However, Damon inevitably falls apart -- I've only been to get him past 2900 hits one or two times and never really come close to 3000.
The same is true for Renteria. 3,000 is just not the breeze it's sometimes made out to be.
Waterboy?
I think you mentioned a few months ago that we have a bet for a BP sponsorship regarding whether Damon makes it to 3,000 hits. I apparently have yes, and you have no. Am I correct about this? I don't recall the actual bet but I'm happy to honor it. Please confirm. If we make it to the All Star break and Damon remains unsigned, I will make good on the bet.
Sounds good. And while you have graciously not demanded proof of said wager, the thread is here if you'd like a reminder. (And no, I didn't have it bookmarked).
Size issues aside, wouldn't that be conditional on the centaur not rejecting a cross-species transplant?
In which case, we need to decide what percentage of each Jeter and ARod base hit would be credited to Damon. Also, I'd think Youkilis would be interested in his hair.
You mentioned this with Moyer a while ago and I gave it a try recently. I got Damon to 3000 hits by going into commissioner mode and unretiring him whenever he tried to end the misery. It took him 4 years, the last of which he spent as a DH hitting .140.
Which team was that with?
The expansion Brooklyn Owlbears, of course.
I enjoy the idea of Damon being physically forced onto the field every day while he desperately begs the league to let him please, for the love of God, just go home.
As opposed to Rickey! who would just randomly appear on rosters ala Willie Mays Hayes in Major League...
"Nuh"
Don't you remember that Loverboy song? "Caveman and Centaur DNA Just Don't Splice!"
Damon and Pierre on the same team ... priceless.
Their long-toss across the outfield would resemble children skipping stones across a pond
Much.
One could play deep left, the other could play shallow left. On a ball hit to the wall they could serve as a double relay, meaning that the shortstop wouldn't have to go more than 20 or 30 feet off of the infield to get the relay throw.
.245 .316 .351 .667 85
.222 .281 .329 .610 73
The bottom numbers are Damon's 2012, but the Hawaiian was .255 .321 .383 .704 91 last year. And 39-for-45 stealing bases.
The Victorino signing is similar in timing to when Damon signed with the Yankees. They gave him 4 years.
Also, bringing up Victorino in reference to Damon to imply that Victorino is in irreversible decline is odd. Damon wasn't "done" after a 83 OPS+ at 27, or after a 94 OPS+ at 29, or a 96 OPS+ at 33. I'm not crazy about the Victorino signing, but when analyzing it why place so much focus on a 1/3 of a season (the numbers you quoted) rather than his whole body of work? For Damon's last 2 months with the Sox, his OPS+ was in the 80's, but that didn't mean he was about to become a terrible player.
The Mariners.
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