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  1. Jim Cowan
    Need an RBI man like Joe Carter.
  2. Jim Cowan
    I liked the hard copy of BA 30 years ago because they had minor league stats leaders for every organization.
  3. Jim Cowan
    It's pretty obvious that Avila wasn't losing on purpose tp improve his draft position. He tried to improve the team every year, and wasn't any good at it. If the plan was to lose every year, why did Ausmus get fired? Here's what was said when Gardenhire replaced Ausmus - he would be a calm, wise, veteran presence to guide the core of good young players who were arriving.
  4. Jim Cowan
    I thought he might be from Krypton.
  5. Jim Cowan
    Solak came and went without me learning his first name.
  6. Jim Cowan
    That's a great illustration of why no organization in baseball loses intentionally in order to improve their draft position. The draft picks don't have anywhere near the value that they do in basketball for example where your 1-1 pick is 20% of your starting lineup.
  7. Jim Cowan
    I will definitely accept that about cops, but it doesn't explain support from armed forces people who answered the call that he chickened out on.
  8. Jim Cowan
    When you look at that photo you can almost smell the McPoop.
  9. Jim Cowan
    It always amazes that a guy who so obviously chickened out on military service gets so much support from law enforcement and from certain members of the armed forces.
  10. Jim Cowan
    That's a good read.
  11. Jim Cowan
    I don't see Hinch getting fired, he isn't important enough. His resume is the same as every other manager's... he loses with bad players, and wins with good players, although in his case there is an asterisk...good players treat him with contempt. Nevertheless, I think that Harris has too much class to blame this s*** show on Hinch. Hinch really has nothing to do with it.
  12. Jim Cowan
    I remember the first time that I ever saw the phrase "empty batting average" in print, it was in The Sporting News of course, in the mid-70's and specifically referring to Von Joshua who was really awful but who managed a BA of over .300 one year, back when people thought that that was important.
  13. Jim Cowan
    I wouldn't mind leaving both of them where they are for the full year.
  14. Jim Cowan
    Dingler is going to be 25 in September and hasn't played Triple A yet. His performance at Erie this year is very similar to last year, sort of meh. He isn't blocked by anyone special at Toledo so I'd say move him up there and find out if he is ever going to be of use.
  15. Jim Cowan
    I know, someone needs to tell that guy that he isn't a prospect.
  16. Jim Cowan
    Yes there are firefighters from Australia, South Africa and the United States. It's a common occurrence every year for firefighters to travel to the hottest spot. Last year it was California, there were lots of internationals there.
  17. Jim Cowan
    Disagree with that big time, depending upon what you mean by a "good percentage". Do you mean 15%? Because if you do that's 5 times too high. There is no possible way to water down MBS by trying to whatabout other world leaders, the bottom of that barrel that he occupies is shared with at most 10 other leaders. And right now he is second only to Putin.
  18. Jim Cowan
    Lol, I heard a serious response to that today based on particle analysis in the atmosphere where I live, about an hour west of Toronto. If you were outside at my house today, where the air quality was worse than New Delhi, and stayed outside for 24 hours, it would be like smoking between 7 and 10 cigarettes.
  19. Jim Cowan
    Same here and I think that that is the reason why you don't get any impact players for them.
  20. Jim Cowan
    Yes, I watch that and A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim (the black and white version).
  21. Jim Cowan
    That's how I feel about it too, people are talking about Phil Mickelson as if he "won", but how many tens or hundreds of millions did he already have? He's still an ass and so are the rest of the top guys who took the money.
  22. Jim Cowan
    I think I heard that story about Eddie Feigner, the umpire called a strike and the batter said "that sounded like a ball",
  23. Jim Cowan
    I think that something similar might have happened with Roy Halladay?
  24. Jim Cowan
    The good thing about Danny Worth was that as soon as someone told you his batting average, you already knew his OBP and SLG.
  25. Jim Cowan
    That's fair.
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