Napalm wrote:I watched Natural Born Killers for the first time last night (sick movie) and in the delete scenes, Denis Leary rants about a bunch of things. In it he mentions that in 1947, the pittsburgh pirates were scouting fidel castro and were going to sign him, but then rescinded their offer along with other teams. He then to goes on and talk about how many things in history would have been avoided.

Can't find much online about it, is this true? Pretty crazy to think about

It was supposedly the Washington Senators -- a team that had signed a few Cuban players over the years.

The story is supposedly TFBS though. Castro really wasn't very good at all.

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp

Jack Wilson to the Braves

I doubt that'll be annoying

Pitchers and catchers report one month from Wednesday


A quick look at who's still out there in FA:

Prince Fielder, Derrek Lee, Carlos Pena, Casey Kotchman, Brad Hawpe, Russell Branyan, Xavier Nady, Dan Johnson, GLOADS
Edgar Renteria, Miguel Tejada, Omar Vizquel
Wilson Betemit, Wes Helms, Eric Chavez
Carlos Guillen, Orlando Cabrera, Aaron Miles, Bill Hall, Alex Cora, Felipe Lopez, Willie Harris, Craig Counsell, Ryan Theriot
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Yoenis Cespedes, GLUE, PtB, Magglio Ordonez, Ryan Ludwick, Juan Pierre, Cody Ross, Kosuke Fukudome, Jonny Gomes, J.D. Drew, Johnny Damon, Rick Ankiel, Corey Patterson, Austin Kearns, Dewayne Wise, Ryan Spillborghs, Conor Jackson, Marcus Thames, Jay Gibbons
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Chris Snyder, Jason Varitek, Pudge, Ramon Castro, Jason Kendall, Dioner Navarro, Ronny Paulino, J.R. Towles
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Vladimir Guerrero, Hideki Matsui, Manny Ramirez, Milton Bradley
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Oswalt, Edwin Jackson, Javier Vazquez, Livan Hernandez, Jon Garland, Chris Young, Brad Penny, Sergio Mitre, Rich Harden, Tim Wakefield, Vicente Padilla, Rodrigo Lopez, Kevin Millwood, Brandon Webb, Armando Galarraga, Ross Ohlendorf, Kyle Davies
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Joe Saunders, Jeff Francis, Zach Duke, Scott Kazmir, Doug Davis
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Lidge, Dan Wheeler, Shawn Camp, Todd Coffey, Chad Qualls, DURBZZZ, Scott Linebrink, Jamey Wright, Luis Ayala, Jason Isringhausen, Juan Cruz, Micah Owings, Michael Wuertz, Ramon Ortiz, Jeremy Accardo, Danys Baez, Pat Neshek, David Aardsma, Peter Moylan, Tony Pena
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Arthur Rhodes, Mike Gonzalez, Damaso Marte, Brian Tallet, Trever Miller, Hong-Chih Kuo
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Francisco Cordero

fair amount of talent still out there. maybe the price will come way down on someone we can use

crazy that scott kazmir started game 1 of the WS 4 years ago and is now basically outta baseball

Yeah, but I got his rookie card. Rooting for him.

PrattRules wrote:Yeah, but I got his rookie card. Rooting for him.

i have like a jeter, marino, montana rookie cards. i looked them up the other day. these things are worthless nowadays

thats funny because jeter is worthless nowadays too

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:

PrattRules wrote:Yeah, but I got his rookie card. Rooting for him.

i have like a jeter, marino, montana rookie cards. i looked them up the other day. these things are worthless nowadays

I have a Joe Namath football card that was once supposedly worth $1500. I never really believed it though.

Oh wow, here it is.

http://www.footballcardgallery.com/1965 ... oe-Namath/

interesting look at the best players in baseball (over 5 year stretches) from 1969-present, using WAR

mike schmidt had the best WAR in all of baseball over a 10 year period, from 74-84.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/ ... -a-history

Napalm wrote:interesting look at the best players in baseball (over 5 year stretches) from 1969-present, using WAR

mike schmidt had the best WAR in all of baseball over a 10 year period, from 74-84.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/ ... -a-history

Just read that. Pretty good, but JoPo did the same thing (it might have been three year periods though) last year.

New Barves alternate jersey:

everyone hopping on our off white alternate uni's

Napalm wrote:interesting look at the best players in baseball (over 5 year stretches) from 1969-present, using WAR

mike schmidt had the best WAR in all of baseball over a 10 year period, from 74-84.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/ ... -a-history

this is awesome, thanks

schmidt is a god damn legend

Adrian Beltre has a legit shot at 3,000 hits. Would not have guessed that.

i'm gonna be so pissed when Bonds doesn't make the HoF.

jamiethekiller wrote:i'm gonna be so pissed when Bonds doesn't make the HoF.

I think it's more ridiculous that Mark McGuire isn't in the Hall of Fame. Steriods or not, he still had a huge influence getting people back into baseball after the 1994 strike.

BigEd76 wrote:New Barves alternate jersey:

Very Pretty, BigED. Very pretty.

But can they FIGHT?

Victor Martinez has a torn ACL, he's out for the year. Wow.