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dirtdevil
don't be ridiculous. jim brown's liver would have slapped riggins upside the head, reached down his throat, pulled riggins' heart out through his mouth and eaten it in front of him. with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
July 18, 2013 at 03:33AM View BBCode
Originally posted by tworoosters
Jim Brown lost his liver in a poker game to John Riggins, Riggo ate it with some fava beans and a nice Chianti .......... true story.
don't be ridiculous. jim brown's liver would have slapped riggins upside the head, reached down his throat, pulled riggins' heart out through his mouth and eaten it in front of him. with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
eragon
July 18, 2013 at 03:54AM View BBCode
Hahahaha. How did we get from Jeter to jokes about cannibals? :)
thatrogue
July 18, 2013 at 10:51AM View BBCode
It's the zombie/borg subculture. Resistance is futile...
eragon
July 22, 2013 at 10:53PM View BBCode
And thus begins the wave of suspensions. A-rod, Cruz and Colon better watch out!
dirtdevil
July 23, 2013 at 02:23PM View BBCode
oh wow. golly. ryan braun really was cheating after all. I am stunned.
DougB
?I tried to handle the whole situation with honor, with integrity, with class, with dignity and with professionalism because that?s who I am and how I lived my life."
?I have always stood up for what is right. Today is about everybody who has ever been wrongly accused and everybody who has ever had to stand up for what is actually right."
?I will continue to take the high road because that?s who I am and that?s the way that I?ve lived my life. We won because the truth was on my side. The truth is always relevant and, at the end of the day, the truth prevailed."
- Ryan Braun
July 23, 2013 at 05:18PM View BBCode
what bothers people is the Lance Armstrong-esque denials that seem to try and elevate him to sainthood. Just read them now...?I tried to handle the whole situation with honor, with integrity, with class, with dignity and with professionalism because that?s who I am and how I lived my life."
?I have always stood up for what is right. Today is about everybody who has ever been wrongly accused and everybody who has ever had to stand up for what is actually right."
?I will continue to take the high road because that?s who I am and that?s the way that I?ve lived my life. We won because the truth was on my side. The truth is always relevant and, at the end of the day, the truth prevailed."
- Ryan Braun
tm4559
lolz.
July 23, 2013 at 06:19PM View BBCode
Originally posted by dirtdevil
oh wow. golly. ryan braun really was cheating after all. I am stunned.
lolz.
eragon
July 23, 2013 at 09:37PM View BBCode
Yeah it's pathetic already. When these guys apologize it makes you want to throw up. It sounds like they are reading off a paper that some PR guy handed them. I heard that MLB might try to ban A-rod for life!
dirtdevil
July 24, 2013 at 01:39AM View BBCode
They are reading off a paper that some PR guy handed them.
eragon
LOL I know but at least they should try to make it sound like it is from the heart
July 24, 2013 at 02:21AM View BBCode
Originally posted by dirtdevil
They are reading off a paper that some PR guy handed them.
LOL I know but at least they should try to make it sound like it is from the heart
tm4559
if that happens? you will know that Brian Cashman has the single most awesome powers of persuasion in the entire known world. also, you should realize if that happens the Players Union did not get persuaded by Cashman, they got bought. but just only for this one time, and nobody is ever going to talk about it.
(a liftetime ban is the ONLY way the Yankees are going to get out of the money they so foolishly committed to when they extended him.)
i believe when he misses whole seasons though, on account of injury or suspension, their insurance helps out with the money they pay him. i would think that would also come into play if he never made it back here, got suspended and could not play at all this seasons. of course, the pro-rated money would be forfeit by ARod for the suspenison portion. so that part would be discounted in what the club gets on their insurance payout.
so a lifetime ban would mean the rest of the contract (after they sorted out what part of this season came under the insurance) would free up all those dollars for the Yankees to go to spending, ASAP which is what they truly want, they could perhaps resuce this season even.
to get a lifetime ban out of it would be their true, wet dream scenario. if they get that? wow. they had to pay off everybody in sight. perhaps including selig's favorite charity. which is otherwise known as the Milwaukee Brewers.
July 25, 2013 at 08:20PM View BBCode
Originally posted by eragon
Yeah it's pathetic already. When these guys apologize it makes you want to throw up. It sounds like they are reading off a paper that some PR guy handed them. I heard that MLB might try to ban A-rod for life!
if that happens? you will know that Brian Cashman has the single most awesome powers of persuasion in the entire known world. also, you should realize if that happens the Players Union did not get persuaded by Cashman, they got bought. but just only for this one time, and nobody is ever going to talk about it.
(a liftetime ban is the ONLY way the Yankees are going to get out of the money they so foolishly committed to when they extended him.)
i believe when he misses whole seasons though, on account of injury or suspension, their insurance helps out with the money they pay him. i would think that would also come into play if he never made it back here, got suspended and could not play at all this seasons. of course, the pro-rated money would be forfeit by ARod for the suspenison portion. so that part would be discounted in what the club gets on their insurance payout.
so a lifetime ban would mean the rest of the contract (after they sorted out what part of this season came under the insurance) would free up all those dollars for the Yankees to go to spending, ASAP which is what they truly want, they could perhaps resuce this season even.
to get a lifetime ban out of it would be their true, wet dream scenario. if they get that? wow. they had to pay off everybody in sight. perhaps including selig's favorite charity. which is otherwise known as the Milwaukee Brewers.
eragon
July 25, 2013 at 09:47PM View BBCode
LOL. The Yankees have an insurance policy that if A-rod does not play a game this year they will be reimbursed for 20 of the 28 million they owe him for this season. Obviously if he is suspended he forfeits the money would be making over that time so the Yanks are praying that he gets a lifetime ban.
eragon
July 28, 2013 at 07:03PM View BBCode
Jeter homers on the first pitch he sees! And then Soriano goes deep. Finally some power from the right side.
cowboymatt43
August 06, 2013 at 12:41AM View BBCode
The only thing I don't like about Jeter is that he has won so many Gold Gloves. Sure, they guy catches everything he gets to...but he doesn't get to much! He's not a great fielder and the eyeball test will tell anyone that who isn't biased.
eragon
LOL read through pages 3-5 of this thread. I think it covers just about every facet of Jeter's game compared to other shortstops.
August 06, 2013 at 05:49AM View BBCode
Originally posted by cowboymatt43
The only thing I don't like about Jeter is that he has won so many Gold Gloves. Sure, they guy catches everything he gets to...but he doesn't get to much! He's not a great fielder and the eyeball test will tell anyone that who isn't biased.
LOL read through pages 3-5 of this thread. I think it covers just about every facet of Jeter's game compared to other shortstops.
eragon
August 06, 2013 at 04:27PM View BBCode
As did plenty of others :) that was the basis for the argument that he isn't he best SS of the Modern Era.
tworoosters
Yes, and it's Jeter's fault that he won five gold gloves, I'm sure he'd gladly trade them for the MVP Award he got screwed out of in 2006.
Then again I'm sure a lot of MVP winners would gladly trade their MVP award for one of Jeter's five World Series rings.
August 06, 2013 at 05:58PM View BBCode
Originally posted by cowboymatt43
The only thing I don't like about Jeter is that he has won so many Gold Gloves. Sure, they guy catches everything he gets to...but he doesn't get to much! He's not a great fielder and the eyeball test will tell anyone that who isn't biased.
Yes, and it's Jeter's fault that he won five gold gloves, I'm sure he'd gladly trade them for the MVP Award he got screwed out of in 2006.
Then again I'm sure a lot of MVP winners would gladly trade their MVP award for one of Jeter's five World Series rings.
cowboymatt43
August 06, 2013 at 06:17PM View BBCode
Jeter is great. He's a first ballot HOFer. But he wasn't a great fielder, despite what the impressionable baseball writers said.
tworoosters
August 06, 2013 at 07:25PM View BBCode
The Gold Gloves are voted on by the MLB coaches and managers, it was the impressionable writers who jobbed Jeter of his MVP award.
cowboymatt43
August 06, 2013 at 08:09PM View BBCode
Oops, my bad. Then it's the dumb coaches who kept give GGs to a statue.
eragon
August 06, 2013 at 10:09PM View BBCode
I think any real baseball fan knows Jeter was not a great fielder. Gold gloves are pretty meaningless.
thatrogue
August 10, 2013 at 03:54PM View BBCode
Originally posted by tworoostersBut what would they have traded for [url=http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/06/gallery-derek-jeters-alleged-female-conquests]this[/url]???
Originally posted by cowboymatt43
The only thing I don't like about Jeter is that he has won so many Gold Gloves. Sure, they guy catches everything he gets to...but he doesn't get to much! He's not a great fielder and the eyeball test will tell anyone that who isn't biased.
Yes, and it's Jeter's fault that he won five gold gloves, I'm sure he'd gladly trade them for the MVP Award he got screwed out of in 2006.
Then again I'm sure a lot of MVP winners would gladly trade their MVP award for one of Jeter's five World Series rings.
tworoosters
That list doesn't even include Tyra Banks, Scarlett Johansson or Vida Guerra, all on the "unconfirmed but likely" list.
August 10, 2013 at 07:00PM View BBCode
Originally posted by thatrogue
Originally posted by tworoosters
Then again I'm sure a lot of MVP winners would gladly trade their MVP award for one of Jeter's five World Series rings.
But what would they have traded for [url=http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/06/gallery-derek-jeters-alleged-female-conquests]this[/url]???
That list doesn't even include Tyra Banks, Scarlett Johansson or Vida Guerra, all on the "unconfirmed but likely" list.