caliber66

1. Seems to me he took more heat for his "money=wins" comment... 2. No question it plays a role. How large a role is what's in question, I guess.

Has anyone done that? Of course money is a factor in building a team. The only thing it gives a team, really, is more options. It certainly doesn't buy championships.

also: "Waits's vocals now sound like moderately well-enunciated barfing."

Oh, I forgot that they just started the season yesterday. The last three games of the ALCS, when the Red Sox were facing elimination, Pedrioa and Youkilis were a combined .577 BA with something like 18 home runs and 47 RBI (the BA is correct, the other two are estimates).

I was going to say something about that one when it happened, but I was frankly just too stunned for words. You say that as if Lugo and Gagne have done a feckin thing. And you're ignoring the fact that Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis and Jonathan Papelbon, all from the Sox farm system, are a huge reason Boston is in the World Series and up 1-0. Free agency is a big part of baseball now. Ideally, a team will use its homegrown resources in conjunction with free agents to put together a winning team.

Fixed it for you.

I'm not switching yet, but this is what I've come up with:

Okay.

How about that World Series, huh?

I've made the same mistake, and I've seen the movies.

That's all well and good, but Ian McKellen played Gandalf, while Richard Harris and Michael Gambon have played Dumbledore.

Seriously, I was actually hoping Hafner's last couple at bats that he would at least put it in play...

He's always got the job of helping Rick Rossovich try to get in Darryl Hannah's pants as a fallback...

Because it comes off like they're cutting off their nose to spite their face.

Yeah, that's how I've heard it used. Working with a New York native for almost eight years, I got used to it. For whatever reason, despite the fact that there are "alot" of these things that really piss me off, I can't think of any specific examples right now. I'll see what I can come up with.

I have never heard a New Yorker (or anyone else) say "I'm going to A scissor that piece of paper."

I'm not sure I could have done a better job of indicating how little I care about the NL these days. Sorry, Rockies fans. Should have known that one. Emoticon.

ESPN isn't a fan, it's a sports network. The Rockies in the middle of the pack in the NL Central isn't news, sorry. The end of their regular season + the postseason is newsworthy.

Clearly, Joe Torre nose what's best for the Yankees is not necessarily what's best for Joe Torre('s nose).

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