READ IT: Guide to FanPosting

meanwhile i am upbraiding people on other posts who are telling people “it is a business grow up” by reminding then that we are fans here.

In other words,,, i have no idea what you are talking about.

The fact that the Angels were willing to offer better players than what The Blue Jays traded for indicates to me Halladay wanted to be a Philly and just did not want to come to Anaheim. You can’t fault Reagins for that, the Angels made numerous legitimate offers.

please.

The next time that the site fails to react when you try to click on the word “reply”, click on the word “actions” right next to it. 10 times out of 10 it will open up and let you rec or flag the post to which you wish to reply. But, instead (!), now the “reply” should work. Go ahead and click reply and get on with your post.

which is NOT due to Rev, but a series of dumb fanposts.

One man with all the power combined of all the baseball blogs in the world will not get laid with it.

Nobody is saying you can’t hold an unpopular opinion. The issue is the waste-of-space, make-us-all-dumber fan posts that have no valuable info, or could have just as easily been posted as responses to other threads. What makes this blog so great is that it isn’t (or wasn’t) filled with grammatically atrocious ramblings from dummies that want to see their posts on the front page, sorta like the clown at the ball game on the cell phone waving to the camera and telling his friend to turn on the game to see him.

We have a cool little area of the internet carved out over here, and I think we’d all like to see it stay that way.

I’ll just focus on making dinner now and go away…

I’ve got Midge, too. She’s a red-head.

My Barbie was a Christmas present in 1961, when I was 11 and almost too old to play with dolls, except she wasn’t like any doll I’d ever seen before. My dollies were baby dolls, but not Betsy Wetsy or Tiny Tears because they cost too much, so it was a shock when Mom and Dad popped for Barbies for me and my sister. Let me tell you, the subterfuge and intrigue involved in getting your hands on a Wii or a Cabbage Patch doll was nothing compared to what went on with Barbie, Christmas 1961, and my unassuming mid-western mother, raised on a farm, outsmarted the mobs, but that’s a story for another day, as is the one about the fake Barbies she bought for half price from the Sears catalog that same Christmas; she didn’t know the difference but we did. I told my younger sister not to mention it but she immediately showed it to Mom and said, “It’s not a Barbie! It doesn’t say Barbie on her bottom!” (or Mattel. Can’t remember which). The fakes were ugly little dolls and I was too young to know but I’ll just bet Mattel threatened Sears with a massive lawsuit.

  My Kansas City cousins had The Original Barbies, the first moment they were test-marketed. The dresses had hand-sewn linings and some of them were silk. Amazing.

The dresses I bought for mine were amazing even though they were not silk. My mother said she wasn’t paying for Ken when he was introduced, so I paid $3 for him, an enormous sum of money. Then they gave me a Midge doll for Christmas that year.

You: What man?
Me: The man with the power.
You: What power?
Me: The power of “Hoodu”.
You: “Hoodu”?
Me: You do.
You: Do what?
Me: You remind me of a man….

(I love old movies)

97 wins last year, 100 the year before, 94 in 07. There is still a lot of questions, but I think it is very likely they will win 90 games.
Lackey was 11-8 with a 3.83 era. He wasnt really all that significant in the angels winning 97 games- he only played in 27 of them, and his first he only made it what, 2 pitches in?
Figgins is a good player, and he had a career year last year. But if Wood contributes, he brings something completely different to the table. Something that isnt a walk and a steal and a man left on base.
Vlad is more than offset by Matsui. Sadly Vlad was too injured to be Vlad most of the season. He spent too much of his time GIDP and limping down to first.

Sure, we may end up choking it this year and missing the playoffs. But we might just as easily win 100 games. If Wood breaks out and our top 4 pitchers step up and deliver like they can, if Matsui goes all Godzilla on some baseballs, this team could be unstoppable.
We’ve all seen in flashes what our top 4 starters can do, they have all looked like aces in the past. We all know what Matsui can do to a baseball, and we have reason to believe wood with 500 ab is going to hit .275 with 25 HR.

if they do win more than 90, nobody will ever have reason to cry about roster turnover again…