kfitz73

Brooks?

:funny: :funny: I'm sorry, but reading this made me think of the scene in The Naked Gun when Ricardo Montalban (sp?) falls off the building, then gets run over by a car, then a school bus, then a steamroller, then the marching band, etc... :funny:

Congrats!!! How does slick get this exclusive??

So we just hop on a plane and go to South Beach? Big Willie Style???

RIP Scooter...

But they do help turn a 380ft out into a 402ft home run...

Indeed...

Guess who was just named AL co-player of the week? (2 more rbi's today)

Aside from the rbi / sb advantages they're practically equal. As I said before even if Roberts is slightly better now (which I don't think he is), the difference is so minute that picking one over the other isn't gonna win or lose you any more games. Since it's pretty much a dead heat, the next thing gm's would look at is age/potential/salary and that breaks the tie... We don't live in a vacuum. Whenever you consider these "who is better" arguments, any advantage a player has in age/potential/salary makes them "better" even if it can't be reflected on a stat sheet. If Cano was a .270 hitter with 20 less rbi's I would agree with you. However, most of the numbers are very close and with the Yankees scrambling to make a playoff push and the O's headed south I expect Cano's numbers to be better over the next two months. It's like comparing Pujols with A-Rod. They both put up ridiculous numbers, but part of the equation is that Pujols is 4 years younger so you have to take him over A-Rod no matter what numbers A-Rod ends up with, even in a sort of "down" year for Pujols...

Ask any GM in the game who they would rather have and they will tell you Cano. Roberts is a much better base stealer, while Cano is a much better rbi man. Beyond that, the differences are very minor. So any instance where Roberts might have a negligible advantage gets far outweighed by Cano's age, salary, and the numbers he should be putting up 5 years from now...

One is a leadoff hitter and one is a number 9 hitter. That might explain the disparity in runs. Aside from the SB's the differences are negligible. Roberts is as good as he's ever gonna get. Cano projects to a future batting champion with around 20-25 hr's a year. What he's doing now is just the tip of the iceberg...

I was thinking about this thread... I was waiting till the end of the season to bump it... Judging by the last few years, it seems like Roberts is more of a first half guy while Cano gets stronger as the season goes on...

Should be great for 2 or 3 months...

I still don't think they can handle the best of the west in a 7 game series, but clearly they can compete for a finals berth in the (l)eastern conference. That is provided the big 3 can stay healthy for a lot of the season...

It was a pleasure... See you in 5 years!

Trading Schwab was absolute genius...

Indicted... http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2940065

A youtube video would be better... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ls0enW0ddg

Still the best PSA of all time:

We'll soon find out... By DAVID SCHOETZ July 11, 2007 Texas authorities will conduct drug tests on a toddler appearing in an online video to determine whether the girl may have been given the drug Ecstasy and whether any criminal charges should be filed. A second child -- a baby -- included in the same footage, as well as the teenagers and adults who joked on the tape about the toddler being high on the powerful street drug, also face drug testing, Lt. John Martin of the Harris County Sheriff's Office told ABC News. The drug tests will be performed by Texas Child Protective Services, which has taken over the bulk of the case, according to Martin. The FBI's Houston field office, which helped identify the young women in the video, remains involved in the investigation. "If the children don't test positive but the other people do, that may raise concerns that they were exposed to some type of drug activity even if they were not directly exposed to it," Martin said. Both young children are staying with relatives while the drug tests are conducted, Martin said. Authorities said Tuesday that the women in the video deny that the child was given any type of drug. "Their story is basically that they told the little girl to act that way, and they were basically filming her doing what they said," Martin said. In the disturbing video, a girl roughly 2 years old sits huddled on the floor in the back seat of a minivan, her eyes rolling back in her head as the young women in the car tease, laugh and poke at her. At times, she looks unresponsive to a teen playing with her face and sticking iPod speakers in her ears. At least four females, who appear to be in their teens or early 20s, are captured on tape laughing at the little girl as she sits stone-faced throughout most of the 2½ minute clip. The second child, also not wearing a seat belt, can be seen in the back seat of the vehicle. "She's taking that hit like a soldier," a female voice says. "She's rolling, girl, she's rolling." "Rolling" is a term commonly used to describe the effects of Ecstasy, a potentially lethal street drug that is often associated with the club scene. MDMA, the active ingredient in Ecstasy, acts as both a stimulant and a psychedelic, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In total, there were nine people in the minivan, including three adults, the toddler, an infant and four teenage girls under 17, Martin said. One of the adults, he said, was the 21-year-old mother of the toddler featured in the video. Authorities used clues from the video -- including a brochure that said "Jackson County" and background radio sound from a Houston-based station -- to help identify the vehicle's occupants.

Brooklyn

South Beach can hang... Besides, I really doubt beach quality is a consideration when people move here...

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=2917803&searchName=Neyer_Rob&univLogin02=stateChanged Torre's bullpen blunder posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | Feedback | Print Entry I'm 100 percent sure that Joe Torre is trying to win. Well, maybe 99 percent sure. I know just enough about quantum physics to know I can't be 100 percent sure about anything. But I'm 99 percent sure that Torre is trying to win. After all, someday he's going to be elected to the Hall of Fame as a manager, and there aren't many Hall of Fame managers who weren't really, really trying to win. You had to wonder last night, though. You had to wonder, while watching Scott Proctor walk home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning, with Mariano Rivera never having thrown a single pitch in the game. As a friend wrote me last night, a few seconds after Corey Patterson trotted home with that winning run: It's just insane. There is no logical reason why, facing a situation WHERE YOU CANNOT GIVE UP A RUN, OR YOU LOSE (and fall two games under .500), you would choose Proctor over Rivera. This is managing to a statistic -- the save -- rather than to win. According to Torre's logic, you use Proctor when you simply can't give up a run, and you use Rivera when you can. Absurd. Indeed. I've been harping on this since (at least) Game 4 of the 2003 World Series, when the Yankees lost a 12-inning game and Rivera never left the bullpen. But Torre keeps making the same mistake, over and over and over again. Last Saturday in San Francisco, the Yankees lost a 13-inning game. Rivera never left the bullpen. In fact, every relief pitcher pitched except the Yankees' best relief pitcher. Granted, Rivera had thrown 20 pitches the night before. So we'll cut Torre some slack there. But last night? Rivera hadn't pitched at all since that 20-pitch outing last Friday. Last night he was as well-rested as you'd ever want your closer to be. No slack on this one. In Torre's autobiography he wrote, "I'm more concerned about winning the game than trying to cover my butt." Really, Joe? Next time you're on the road and the game's tied in the ninth, prove it.

Then dive right in!