Jump to content

zen archer

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    990

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Donations

    0.00 USD 

 Content Type 

Posts posted by zen archer

  3. Web Site Design..

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Yeah, but we're providing all the pictures and wording content.

    I've gone years without one, never saw the need and I'm not sure I even do now. But, he brought it up again and I am willing to consider.

    $500 a year to host is way too much , I pay $119 at Network Solutions and have never had a problem!

  4. Baseball Steroid Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I bet Johnny Damon used steroids when he started with KC he had a body like Jacoby Ellsbury but by the time

    of the 04 season he was much bulkier ....and didn't the players say he did chin ups naked in the clubhouse.

    and what about Gabe Kapler , i know on WEEI he denied ever using roids but wasn't he on the same team with Canseco and A-Rod ?

  8. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    and he was the most dangerous outfielder to run on in the American League.

    Balderdash! He must be confusing Rice with his teammate Evans. Or Dave Parker (oops, wrong league.) Even Reggie had a better arm, though getting to the ball was another matter.

    Rice had 137 assists !

    Dwight Evans had 157!

    Assists are one of those stats where a lot of funny things can happen. If someone like Clemente, Vlad, Dwight Evans has a great arm runners are less likely to run, thus resulting in fewer opportunities for the outfielder to get an assist. There are certain years where guys who have average to less than average arms actually run up high assist totals, simply because the 3rd base coach sends more runners knowing that the OF has a subpar arm. Also Rice played in a short LF. The distance from LF to home is shorter than any other AL park.

    Dewey is my Favorite Right Fielder of ALL TIME .....i am just posting stats that are a surprising i never knew Jim had that

    many assist.

  9. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by zen archer

    Manny in 16 years has 1667 strikeouts and has hit into 230 double plays

    Rice in 16 years had 1423 strikeouts and hit into 315 double plays .

    BUT remember Rice suffered his last 3 seasons with bad knees.

    Those are interesting stats....so Rice hit into on average 5 more double plays per year than Manny .

  10. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by zen archer

    The key in that stat is HITS you just don't see guys hitting that many HR's and 200 hits....i just looked up Manny's Career Stats and he has never had a 200 hit year !!!!!..NEVER

    So what? He WALKS more and also usually misses 10 games a year. He also has had hit for a much higher average than Rice, higher OBP, slugs more. He's also hit a lot more HRs lifetime than Rice. I don't mean to belittle Rice's career, but there are more important things than having 200 hits in a year when it comes to being a great hitter.

    All i am saying is that it is impressive to hit 35 plus HR and put up 200 hits , lets see Ichiro do that.

    Yesterday at the press conference they asked Jim about his OBP and he said ..."The Mailman Walks"......nuff said!

  13. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by zen archer

    Only player in M.L. history with 3 straight seasons of 35+ HR and 200+ hits

    That's nice. That's what happens when you walk less than 60 times in a year too. Personally I'll take Pujols 4 straight years of at least 177 hits, 41 HR and .330 AVG. Or Frank Thomas 7 straight years of .300+/.430+OBP & 100+ RBI.

    That's nice ???????.......He is the only player to do that in the Majors ever !

    The key in that stat is HITS you just don't see guys hitting that many HR's and 200 hits....i just looked up Manny's Career Stats and he has never had a 200 hit year !!!!!..NEVER

    and we (Red Sox Nation) think he is the best hitter we have ever seen?

  15. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by zen archer

    Personally, I didn't think that Jim Rice deserved to be in the HOF, but he's in and I tip my hat to him. I think that standards have been lowered in recent years, and that exceptions have been made in the past that shouldn't have been made.

    I don't think that Phil Rizzuto should have been elected. I don't think that Pee Wee Reese should have been elected. I don't believe that Tony Perez should have been elected. I don't think that Sandy Koufax or Dizzy Dean Should have been elected - five great years don't equal a Hall of Fame career. I don't feel that Nolan Ryan should have been elected - won a lot of games because he pitched for a long time; struck out out a lot of hitters; pitched a bunch of no-hitters; but his won lost percentage is terrible. People say that he pitched for bad teams, but Steve Carlton, Ferguson Jenkins, and Walter Johnson pitched for bad teams and had appreciably higher W/L percentages. I don't think that Thurman Munson should be elected to the Hall of Fame.

    I feel that membership in the Hall of Fame should be limited to great players, and that very good players should be seen as very good players but not Hall of Famers.

    Those are my opinions, and I realize that's what they are. I respect all of the players who have been elected to the Hall of Fame even if I may not agree with their election.

    I disagree with you on Jim Rice ....check out these stats :

    Dick Bresciani, the Vice President of Publications & Archives with the Boston Red Sox, recently mailed out his arguments for the inclusion of Jim Rice in the Baseball Hall of Fame (an argument with which I agree, by the way).

    Bresc's many points were very compelling. Here are but a few:

    CAREER (1974-1989)

    Led A.L. with 382 HR and 1451 RBI in his 16-year career, all with Boston.

    Rare Power & Average: Seventeen players with 300+ HR and a career AVG as high as Rice have been on the HOF ballot. All but Rice are HOF:

    Aaron, Brett, DiMaggio, Foxx, Gehrig, Greenberg, Hornsby, Klein, Mantle, Mays, Mize, Musial, Ott, Rice, Ruth, A. Simmons, T. Williams.

    8-time All-Star

    8-time 100 RBI

    7-time .300 hitter

    6-time Top 5 in A.L. MVP – more than anyone else during Rice’s career (Murray 5)

    4-time A.L. TB leader

    3-time A.L. HR leader

    1978 A.L. MVP (.315 AVG, 46 HR, 139 RBI, 406 TB, .600 SLG, 213 H, 15 3B)

    Only M.L. player to lead either league outright in 3B, HR, and RBI

    Only A.L. player with 400+ TB since 1937 (Joe DiMaggio)

    A.L. record for biggest margin in TB (113 over Murray)

    Only A.L. player with 46+ HR between ’69 (Killebrew) and ’87 (McGwire)

    3-YEAR STRETCH (1977-1979)

    Only player in M.L. history with 3 straight seasons of 35+ HR and 200+ hits

    Tied A.L. record of 3 consecutive years as TB leader (Williams, Cobb)

    Ruth and Foxx are the others in A.L. with 3+ straight 39+ HR, .315 seasons.

    A DOZEN YEARS OF DOMINANCE (1975-1986)

    Twenty M.L. players have hit .300+ with 350+ HR over a 12-season stretch (Babe Ruth was the first, from 1915-1926), but Jim Rice stands alone in his dozen years (1975-86).

    He is the only M.L. player of his generation who accomplished the feat (linking 1974, when Hank Aaron became the career HR leader, to 2001, when Barry Bonds became the single-season HR leader). All players on the following list who have been on the Hall of Fame ballot have been elected – except for Jim Rice.

    From 1975 to 1986 Jim Rice was the most dominant player in the American League. During that 12-year stretch he led the league in 12 categories and ranked among the top five in two others. His numbers are indicative of a player who was dangerous in nearly every situation.

    He led the league over that period with 350 home runs but unlike most sluggers of his day, he ranked fourth with a .304 batting average. He collected the most hits over that time period and also ranked first with a .520 slugging percentage. He legged-out 73 triples, including 15 in 1977 and 1978, and he was the most dangerous outfielder to run on in the American League. In every category he ranks above or among existing Hall of Famers.

  16. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I always found it surprising how many people knocked Rice, when, if you followed baseball during those years, it was a given that he'd wind up in the HoF. It was a big deal, I don't how many times I suffered through the line by an announcer: "The great left-field tradition of the Red Sox, Hall of Famers, Williams, Yaz, and no doubt, when he retires, Jim Rice." All. The. Time. I. Had. To Listen. To. That.

    PS: When's Mike Greenwell getting in.

    Well old Gator ain't getting in but the tradition will continue when Manny goes in with a Red Sox cap. :g

    The thing about Rice is that he fell of a cliff at a relatively young age. There's no doubt if he had gotten over 400 home runs and maintained the .300 BA, he'd have gone in a long time before. But his extremely marginal case was his own creation.

    At the same time, what I can't stand are the people who act as if the Hall is unbelievably sullied by this election, and that others will now make it who don't belong. Every choice is a new one, based on the merits. Did any writer who wrote a column about Jim Rice say "well, we elected Tony Perez, so on that basis, I couldn't deny Rice"? No - every body who voted for him looked at his numbers, stacked up against the rest of the league during those years, and said "this guy belongs".

    I need to keep an eye on MLB Network to see if they dig up some Rice-related game broadcasts in the coming week, or else at the end of July (same with ESPN). Would be cool to see one of those crazy games at Fenway - I seem to recall at least one where Rice, Evans, Fisk, Hobson, Lynn, Yaz and Scott all hit homers. Or most of them hit homers. Or most of them hit homers, and some of them hit more than one. :g

    On EEI they were saying that half the writers that vote don't report on the game any longer ?....thats crazy.

  18. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Encouraging news about Saito's elbow:

    The Red Sox put Saito through an extensive physical over the past two days, including an MRI. Epstein said Saito has "no pain whatsoever."

    I can't quite figure out why an elbow ligament "sprain" led to a recommendation of Tommy John surgery - isn't that for when the ligament actually has a full tear? But if the ligament damage no longer shows up in an MRI and he reports "no pain", this could be a huge addition to the bullpen.

    How many pitchers can the Sox carry ????......it seems like the whole team is pitching !

  19. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I think Tampa's achilles heel will be the bullpen, which is unlikely to duplicate 2008 (a lot of variation is inherent in middle relief performance, the likelihood of everyone pitching as well again is pretty slim, plus their closer gave everyone heart attacks on the best days) but David Price is a big upgrade to a pretty strong rotation; the Sox will be in trouble if Lowell and/or Papi don't bounce back (more so if Papi isn't Papi, I think that Youk is fine at 3B and Kotsay is good backup for Youk at first) but if they do, they'll be strong, and if the medical reclamation projects workout, they could be a juggernaut; the Yanks have questions about the back of the rotation plus Burnett, and a lot of aging players are relied on to come back and be as good as they were (Posada, Matsui, Jeter, plus Damon is no spring chicken).

    Plus will Mo Riviera finally start to become human......how old is this guy ?

  20. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Yeah, it seems like the odds are pretty good that we'll see something approximating the old Smoltz, instead of getting Old Smoltz. ;)

    According to the Globe

    There remains one opening: a backup first baseman, a role Sean Casey filled last season. "We've made a lot of progress in our attempt to fill that spot," Epstein said. "I think it will be important for the versatility of this club, usually only having a four-man bench because of our 12-man pitching staff, to have a backup first baseman also be able to play solid outfield. I think we're getting close to being able to fill that spot with someone that we trust to play good outfield defense and also play a good first base. Maybe more on that next week perhaps." Epstein might be talking about Mark Kotsay, who finished the season with the Sox after he was acquired in August. Kotsay was looking for a starting position, but might be relegated to a backup spot because of a slow-developing free agent market.

    And now the Herald's Sean McAdam and Michael Silverman, Kotsay has indeed agreed in principle to a one year/1.5 million dollar contract.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basebal...sox#articleFull

    This is fine news, as we know he can back up Drew if Baldelli can't, and he's insurance if Youk has to play 3B for Lowell, particularly at the start of the season.

    Now if they re-sign Varitek, a bench of Baldelli/Kotsay/Lugo/Bard is pretty darn good (as long as Lugo doesn't have to play too much).

    Oh, and I saw that Rosenthal is reporting that the Sox still won't give up Clay for Salty, but might give up Bowden or Bard. As long as its not both, I could probably deal with that.

    I bet you Lugo is the starting SS on opening day !

  21. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Well, if those 5 anchors holding Smoltz's shoulder together, hold his shoulder togother....should be a very interesting season...not for braves fans, but still interesting.

    From the ajc beat writer David O'Brien(buried within about 900 posts)

    Boyer on Smoltz’s mound sessions (Boyer has seen them all): “I tell you right now, if he wanted to, he could be ready start of the season. He’s throwing all five pitches, and throwing [his fastball] over 90 [miles per hour]. It’s just freakish. No other way to put it. He’s a freak of nature.

    “I’ve never seen anything like it. If he was 22, it’d be ludicrous what he’s doing — and he’s 20 years older than that. It’s unbelievable.”

    More Boyer stuff in my main story that should be up online, or soon if it’s not.

    This is GOOD News !

  22. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    It's not going to be any fun being a braves fan this year!!! :(

    The Red Sox are getting perhaps the most competitive player in the game, no matter what the age....the question will be what he can still do....

    http://www.ajc.com/braves/content/sports/b...tz_red_sox.html

    I guess thats good especially if he can bounce back from this surgery ....BUT what we really need is a catcher and a 4th outfielder!!!!!

    My guess is that Smoltz would take over Masterson's spot, and JM would return to the rotation. This frees up Buchholz for the Saltalamacchia trade.

    Saw this morning that they're in talks with Rocco Baldelli, which addresses the 4th OF spot nicely, IMHO.

    The Rocco Baldelli deal is done !

  25. 2008-2009 Hot Stove Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Just found this info on a blog ...interesting.....

    Brad Penny - will be 30 in May, guaranteed $5 million for one year, lifetime - 1460inn., 1.34WHIP, 4.06ERA, 94-75.

    AJ Burnett - 32, guaranteed $82.5 million for 5 years, lifetime - 1376 inn., 1.28WHIP, 3.81ERA, 84-76. Both have injury histories. Burnett has won more than 12 games once. Penny has done it 3 times. Is Burnett worth $77 million more than Penny?

×
×
  • Create New...