Baseball Playoffs, 2009

[Shawnee123]

Question. Are the Reds still in it?





bwahahahhaa

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Question. Are the Reds still in it?

In what? The major leagues? I'm not sure....

[Radar]

Originally Posted by classicman

But please?!?!?!?! Since when have you ever shied away from flaunting your opinions or spewing your opinion all over the board?

Band wagon jumpers suck. Especially those that wait till a team is leading in the World Series.

Band wagon jumpers? You've got nerve man. I was born in New York. I've been a fan of the Yankees since I was 4 years old. I made my first bet on the Yankees in 1977. I've been watching them all my life.

I wear a hat I got at the original Yankee stadium. You have no idea what you're talking about.

[Radar]

For the record....

EVERY SINGLE TEAM IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES..would sign Derek Jeter if given the opportunity.... including the Angels.

[Undertoad]

But they can't because the NYY payroll is 2.5 times the median.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Radar

Band wagon jumpers? You've got nerve man. I was born in New York. I've been a fan since the dawn of time. I made my first bet on the Yankees in 1977. I've been watching them all my life.

I wear a hat (bwahahahah) You have no idea what you're talking about.

Thats the Radar I know and love - Well done sir.

FWIW - I own a seat from the original Yankee Stadium. I have more memorabilia than most can imagine. Yet I am now a Phillies Phan. I live here I have for 30 years - It was the right thing to do.

I admit that I still have a lingering fondness for the Yankees though.

[Shawnee123]

My younger brother got to see The House That Ruth Built in the last season there, much like he saw Boston Garden before it went the way of so many neat old sports venues.

I get a little choked up thinking about it, and I'm not even a big baseball fan. Maybe it's my love of old buildings, and the memories therein.

I'm betting my bro shed a tear upon seeing Yankee Stadium. He did his usual "show up a couple hours before the game and check the whole place out" before it's overrun with humans.

We were brought up with the Reds, of course, but you can't deny the history of the Yankees, and what they are to baseball.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Radar

WTF!?!? Derek Jeter is the most universally liked person in baseball. He's a humanitarian. He's classy. He's cool. He's a great leader.

No, I've actually met the dude. He's kind of an ass. Not as big of an ass as Barry Bonds, not by any stretch of the imagination... but he's not as awesome as his PR rep would have you believe.

[Shawnee123]

Is this a baseball thread, 'cause this would be a good time to talk about the assholiness of one Ben Roethlisberger. Jackass.

[W.HI.P]

Originally Posted by Radar

For the record....

EVERY SINGLE TEAM IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES..would sign Derek Jeter if given the opportunity.... including the Angels.

wtf are you on about?
thats simply stupid.
the man is old, overpaid, and past his prime, why tf would any team with a decent ss want him?
because you say so?
who tf are you?

[W.HI.P]

Originally Posted by Radar

For the record....

EVERY SINGLE TEAM IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES..would sign Derek Jeter if given the opportunity.... including the Angels.

lol
for the record, the angels have recieved offers, some ridiculously high offers for aybar, which they've declined.
the yankees, to my knowledge, have not recieved any offers for derek jeter this year.
aybar who is 10 years younger than jeter, who is clearly a better defencive player than jeter at this time.
he's clearly faster than jeter.
and appears to be a greater prospect at bat than jeter did at his age.

now you say any team would sign jeter... thats funnier than it sounds.
you're saying that the florida marlins would sign jeter.
ok, so lets take a closer look at that scenario.
florida, now owns jeter, so what options do they have, use him as a bench player?, like a designated hitter?
or would they bench hanley ramirez?
batting .342 this season with 106 rbi's.... yeah, like thats gonna happen, and again, just like aybar, hanley is a decade younger than jeter....wake tf up
looks like you didn't really think this through, so i can only assume that you meant trading hanley for jeter?
well, sure, but the yankees would have to include texiera, chamberlain and a couple young prospects in the deal, and even then, i'm not so sure the marlins would agree.

don't get me started here.
how about the mets? the yankees would have to put in all the above to get the fastest shortstop in the game jose reyes.
or how about colorado's tulowitzki?
all of the above players offer more on the field than jeter, either with their bat, or their defencive skills.
and all are 10 years younger or more.
if i owned a baseball team, i would consider short stops like young, orlando and azdubul cabrera, even guzman might be preferable to jeter.... hell i'd even take a lesser calibure player with an underage prospect for the future rather than jeter.
most teams see it that way, and do so.
you must be living in the past when jeter's arm was stronger than it is, and he actually had a future.
as it stands, his years are limited, thus making his trading value close to nil.
next time you make a statement, get your facts straight first.

[Shawnee123]

next time you make a statement, get your facts straight first.

You say this all the freaking time to people here. You don't agree, fine. You rebut, fine. Why do you always end with "get your facts straight you mindless idiot?"

You are not the superior being you fancy yourself. I do like the opportunity to remind you of that from time to time.

[W.HI.P]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

You say this all the freaking time to people here. You don't agree, fine. You rebut, fine.

this is not about wether i agree or not.
this is about wether the baseball teams agree or not with his statement

Why do you always end with "get your facts straight you mindless idiot?"

i only use the word idiot, when the person i'm speaking to is being an idiot.
radar, was being stupid, so i didn't use the word idiot, i used the word stupid.

idiot.

[Shawnee123]

I'm not an idiot. Next time you make a statement, get your facts straight.

[W.HI.P]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I'm not an idiot. Next time you make a statement, get your facts straight.

maybe you're not, but you're acting like one