MrRain422

I have no idea if her live show is actually good or not, but I've seen a lot of pretty good live acts seem stiff on SNL. Playing one song when the director yells at you to play isn't the same as a regular live performance.

Geraldo....is right? My head is going to explode.

Is MacDougal still on the team? I assumed he would be the closer-in-waiting, although I really don't know anything about the young guys that are new this year.

Actually, by most accounts Buck O'Neil was a borderline Hall of Fame player anyway. And seeing as his quality of play was so close anyway, everything else he did more than tips the balance that way. His exclusion is, in my mind, the #1 travesty in the Hall of Fame right now.

Schilling's K/BB is a shit ton better than Brown's. I know that Schilling will get in easy, but I think a fair evaluation of him and Brown puts Schilling as a bordline HoFer, and Brown definately out. And I think Rose's banning from the Hall of Fame is more justified than any hypothetical one on Bonds would be, simply because Bonds's steroid use, while wrong, was not actually against the rules of Major League Baseball. Rose broke the #1 rule in all of baseball over and over and over again. Really, both of them should be in the Hall, but I personally think there's a better case for excludi

What's the standard of proof for barring them though? Bonds, Sheffield and Giambi were proven to have juiced through leaked Grand Jury testimony. Does that count? We only know about that evidence because someone broke the law in leaking it. The only potential Hall of Famer who has actually failed a test so far is Palmeiro. Not much of a ban on juicers if it's really only effecting one guy (and a guy who will likely simply get left out by the writers anyway, as many of them doubted his qualifications anyway, even before he was caught).

You wouldn't happen to have WARP numbers for these years, would you? I think Bonds probably still comes out on top, but I think that Griffey's fielding probably closes the gap in how good they were, and it's only fair to consider defense when you're evaluating how good a player a guy is, and not just how good a hitter he is.

It is a fact that Bonds took steroids, and yes, his physical appearance changed dramatically so it was obvious. However, many other guys have been busted since then, and they didn't look as bloated. Palmeiro sure didn't look like a juicer. We simply cannot know who did steroids and who didn't simply based on who looks like a steroid user. Excluding proven steroid users from the Hall of Fame sounds good on its face, but all it really does is reward the guys who didn't get caught. The fact of the matter is, we don't know how widespread steroid use was/is in baseball (although the evidence

I really hate Bonds. Really. Hate the guy. But he's easily the best player of my lifetime hands down, steroids or no.

Pretty much all of Bonds's biggest accomplishments were before steroids were officially against MLB rules.

It's early, but I'm feeling pretty good about my Grady Sizemore MVP prediction right now.

I'm undecided on how to judge Bonds, due to the great many other players doing the same thing, and the fact that we really don't know just how much the 'roids helped him. The fact that he never failed a test is completely meaningless though (beside the fact that he did in fact fail a test for amphetimines). The leaked grand jury testimony proves that he did in fact use steroids. The lack of a test means nothing, because we know he was on steroids anyway.

And Barry Bonds hits #1 of '07.

You can have Jason Grilli instead if you want.

No, he's a Marlins fan and is trying to pad their hit numbers.

Tigers bullpen was awful today. Hopefully not indicative of the season to come. 9-0 lead, and they end up eking it out 10-9. Phew! Up to .500 now and hopefully never looking back.

That's a huge ballpark too. I talked to my brother last night, and he was still in awe of a homer one of your Fish hit on opening day (I think it was Uggla).

Every player should probably be thrown up against a wall at some point in their career in order to release their maximum potential. It should probably be done in Little League, so no great talents get overlooked.

Eric Davis looks like he can't even believe that happened. Funny stuff.

I bet Mario and Rod like to throw a few back after the game. So the Neifi Index finally has its first SB of the season, courtesy of one Mr. Barold Bonds.

I really don't find this very surprising.

All of the above.

It's on.

As an FJM reader, I was right on top of this. It's a pretty common criticism of him though. And I think there's some validity to criticism of guys who strike out a ton without doing much else, but Dunn's power more than makes up for the K. And he walks like crazy too. He's underappreciated because people look at batting average to much.