And I-Rod broke Pudge's games played at catcher record. I always respected I-Rod, I just have to assume he's got steroids in his past with his power and build.
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vacocrew |
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Absolutely the size of the park matters, but it's still an impressive feat considering those June Tuesdays against the Devil Rays and such.
And I-Rod broke Pudge's games played at catcher record. I always respected I-Rod, I just have to assume he's got steroids in his past with his power and build. |
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BaderBaderBader |
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Did you purposely called each by their nicknames in hopes of confusing people with the Pudge reference?
joe.bader@gmail.com AIM - badercubed www.badercubed.com
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vacocrew |
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Yes and no. There is only one Pudge.
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GreatNortheast218 |
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500 straight sell outs is impressive. but you're right the size of the park does matter. but at the same time, if Fenway held 50k-60k people, i still think
it would be 500 straight sell outs.
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NeedAHunnyBunny |
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The trailblazers record at 700 and some games is ridiculous...
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vacocrew |
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I'd say baseball would be the hardest sport to set that record with. 81 games a year is a lot of saturation, plus high 30s to high 50s in thousands of
fans depending on the park.
Basketball would be the easiest (as the record stands) due to only having 41 games and 18-21,000 fans a night. Football won't ever matter regardless of how easy it is to sell out every game due to the 8 game (soon to be 9) home schedule. |
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NeedAHunnyBunny |
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good point. Baseball is a grind... No matter how many seats a stadium holds, those mid week games still being sold out night after night is impressive.
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Ay Jayy |
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NeedAHunnyBunny wrote:agreed, for a pretty small market and a team that wasnt great. |
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Weeba |
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Clyde the Glide!
...if you feel it, why don't you sing along... |
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vacocrew |
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NeedAHunnyBunny |
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I've never seen that... pretty cool
The first time he did it i thought my computer froze and made the video skip. |
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Chillinback |
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can someone with an espn insider account copy and paste the mauer in pinstripes article by olney?
tia |
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themakeadeathwishfoundation |
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so that kid with the cool bat trick. a local news station has asked him to come and do it live on air, and as far as i know he has not accepted the challenge.
just putting that out there. i still can't 100% tell if it's fake or not.
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MNDylanFan |
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Chillinback wrote: FYP |
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BradDarby |
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Chillinback wrote: this is all i'm finding.... Mauer staying power?Joe Mauer could become a free agent after the 2010 season, and given that he's a catcher and he's one of the game's best pure hitters and he'll be 27 years old at the end of next season, there's going to be a lot written and said about whether he might be headed to the Red Sox or the Yankees or the Angels or Mets or some other big-market team for huge dollars. Johan Santana, after all, left the Twins under similar circumstances. But the Mauer and Santana situations might be a lot of apples versus oranges. Mauer, of course, is from Minnesota, unlike Santana, and he is represented by Ron Shapiro, who as the agent for Cal Ripken and Kirby Puckett kept each of those stars with his original team. Mauer will make $12.5 million next season and he will, of course, be in line for a huge raise; if he wanted to chase the biggest offer he could do that, and the Twins probably would be outbid. But the Twins will probably be aggressive in trying to keep him, by their standards, and in the end, it's possible that Mauer will decide -- as Ripken and Puckett did -- that he preferred to stay with the team that drafted and developed him. Michael Cuddyer on Mauer's improvement as a hitter: "I think he's gotten better in that he knows what pitchers are trying to do to him. He's not afraid to let it go [with his swing] now, when the situation is in his favor." In other words, Mauer will attack pitches when he's ahead in the count and he's reasonably sure what the pitcher is going to throw next. Cuddyer mentioned that, in the past, pitchers would fall behind in the count against Mauer and feel comfortable pounding the strike zone with a fastball, believing that the worst thing that could happen is that Mauer would smack a single. But now Mauer is jumping those fastballs. Cuddyer has noticed recently that pitchers have become much more careful with how they pitch to Mauer in those situations, preferring to give him nothing to hit rather than firing a cookie fastball over the plate |
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Chillinback |
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thanks. it was one of those subtopics on the espn homepage. didnt realize it'd be a pointless blurb that any person already knows.
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themakeadeathwishfoundation |
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Wow a fire sale in Pittsburgh? Didn't see that
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irishfury01 |
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Rev,
apparently you guys are scouting Jermaine Dye and Victor Martinez. |
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themakeadeathwishfoundation |
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pass. do we really need another catcher or outfielder?
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Literacola |
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ahh, the steroid list...allegedly.
not too many shocks here from reading the names, it seems about 80% got injured and have not been the same since. not a big coincidence imo.
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