Marlins Bandit

BTW Bandit: Some advice from a user who has gotten a second chance on this board...Don't mess with Das. He WILL get you off this board if he wants to...I already made that mistake...Never again... :banghead Cry me a river. I am shaking. :boo-woo

Well sorry Bandit but you can't just come on the board an start sh*t with a respected and credible poster who everyone likes and gets along with. And if you do, PM him! Don't announce it to everyone. Sorry, but you are going to lose this argument to this 13 year old kid, who is just telling you what should be normal logic or common sense! I can do what I please. I am not breaking any laws and I sure as hell am not going to follow rules laid down by an acne-riddled middle school kid who can not even spell Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt's name right in his signature. There is a "d" in Schmidt, get it straight whitehead.

However, it seems every post you make is pessimistic or negative. Sometimes they tend to be, but he can be positive at times. And is very funny... I got your back, Adam... Great... I'm being messaged board tag-teamed by a 13yr old. Cool kid, cool.

hitting .400 in double A doesnt mean that much ultimately. i want to see what cabrera does in triple A first. Just be happy and shut up. .400 isn't impressive and "doesn't mean that much". ROFLMAO Now I have heard it all, what a dumb a**.

So Stratton basically hits mistakes. Great. There are fewer mistakes thrown in the majors. That could be a bad sign. Das, you are the most negative bastard I have ever come across. I don't care if you say you are a realist or whatever. I am realistic too, but I am no where close to as negative as you. You are actually not a realist, you are just a plain pessimist. Now, I am not only talking about Stratton because who cares about him. However, it seems every post you make is pessimistic or negative. Lighten up buddy, lighten up.

bottom line....I have not seen the evidence that Loria truly cares...if he did care, the media would be extremely supportive of him. Dont read into the conspiracy theories you read in the papers. If all the papers have the same theme perhaps there is truth behind it. I think Loria is a true douche bag too and knew what he was getting into before he purchased the Marlins since he did have another club with similar problems like the Expos.

Well, Loria is huge baseball fan. When you can own a team, you automatically become a fan. Great statement. Great statement. I am a Miami Heat fan, but you can sure as hell bet that if I bought the Atlanta Hawks tomororw then I would be a huge Atlanta Hawks fan. No owner is not a fan of their own team.

then why does cuban match every fine he got and donate it to charity. Because he truly is one of a kind and a very nice guy with very deep pockets. cuban spends money to put a winner on the floor...and he is enjoying every bit of it. You're right, but the scenarios are totally different. Cuban does not have to worry about competing with a large market team and crazy spending owner Like George in NY. His sport has a salary cap, baseball does not. When you have to overcome basically a $100 million difference in team payroll it makes the chances of competing....ever...very slim. He also only has a team which starts 5 people and can have one player truly dominate every game, every day. It is a totally different thing, it is like comparing apples to oranges. Plus, he also does not have the stadium difficulties that the Marlins do.

cuban has always been a maverick fan. now he is living the dream of every fan...to own his team. loria has ZERO ties to the area. do you really think he cares? I don't think you are correct here. You might be, but growing up in PA I don't think he was a Mavericks fan. I believe the Mavericks were a franchise up for sale when he had the money and wanted in and he jumped at the chance.

Who do the Nuggets have at SG?I know its a long shot that Denver would take Eddie Jones contract but EJ contract has three years left.He can add veteran leadership to a young Nuggets team. EJ and #5 #3 Sounds like a onesided deal but maybe the Nuggets have some one else rated high on their board. They don't truly have a good SG but they would not want Jones. He is a 30yr old, maxed out solid player. Nobody who is rebuilding and going nowhere would want there.

Nobody really gives a damn about the baseball draft..... When some global concrete rules are established then maybe people will care. Always the optimist, ladies and gentlemen, Das Texan has arrived. Actually, contrary to your (surprise, surprise) negative beliefs, some people do care and adding a globalness to the draft may make even more people care.

And the "Mel Kipper JR" award of excellent draft analysis for Baseball is... Marlins Bandit! *(everyone acts shocked and happy)* Thanks, I take this award with great pride

i think Milledge will go in the top 8 Stewart and Allison will be closer to our pick and we may come up short(i hope not) from what I have heard/read, Delmon Young is gonna be some player Yeah Young is supposed to be a great player. Ryan Harvey's ceiling may be just as high and I think Richie Weeks will be great too. I think Allison, if healthy, will end up being the best player in the entire draft. However, I do not think we will have any shot at him. Of the three players I mentioned, Allison is most likely to be gone before we pick. I would be very surprised if he got past the Pirates at #8 from what I am hearing. That might be some combo if they all make it: Sean Burnett, Bobby Bradley, Jeff Allison, Kris Benson, and John VanBenschoten. The Pirates may opt somehow for Stewart maybe or even Maholm. As far as Stewart, the Rockies seem to be most likely for him to be selected and I believe they select 10th. As far as Milledge, the earliest I see him going, which is very likely, is #9 to Texas. However, if he slips past Texas then there is a real shot of him making it to #16.

I am hoping for either Ian Stewart, Lastings Milledge or Jeff Allison. While all three may be gone when we select, almost certain Allison will be, it would be great to nab one. --Allison has been compared to Beckett and maybe an even better prospect than Beckett was coming out of HS. He is 6'2'', 195. Look at his final numbers this year: 7-0, 51 IP, 118 K, 9 BB, 7 H, 0.00 ERA Here is his Bio: Scouting Report: Allison was the ace of Team USA's junior national team that finished third at the world junior championship in Sherbrooke, Quebec, last summer. He had 17 strikeouts in 14 innings, and threw a complete-game four-hitter against Venezuela. He has been even more dominating this spring and had the second highest grade turned in by the Major League Scouting Bureau at one point this year. Allison was a perfect 6-0, 0.00 with 102 strikeouts in 44 innings. He had allowed only five hits and seven walks. Allison's raw stuff is electric, which has made him the top high school pitching prospect in the draft. He has a lean athletic body with a weak upper half, long lanky arms, and muscular legs. He has a no windup delivery and generates serious arm speed from a three-quarters slot which enables him to run his fastball up into the 96-97 mph range with nasty movement. He complements his heater with an above average 86-88 mph tilted slider and a 82-84 mph curve with excellent spin, bite, and two-plane break. He shows an occasional 76-77 mph change and does an excellent job of repeating his delivery and commanding both sides of the plate. Allison has some minor mechanical faults that need to be addressed. At times, he rushes through his balance point in his delivery, causing his arm to drag. He also lands on a stiff front leg, hyper-extending his knee, and has some recoil in his delivery. Scouts say he's cocky, to a point of being uncoachable at times. --Stewart is a 3B who has been compared to Eric Chavez (a better comparison than last year's bum Hermida). He has a great stroke and can hit for average and power. He is a solid 6'3'', 195 and can add more weight as he fills out. If we take him he can play 3B and move Cabrera to OF. His stats are: .487 with 15 HR Scouting Report: Even though he was the star player on the nation's No. 1 high school team at the start of the season, Stewart has actually improved his stock. He was a borderline first-round pick coming in but now ranks as a fringe top 10 pick overall. He has exceptional bat speed and more power even than Delmon Young, according to some scouts. Though his swing is flat and lacks tilt, he projects 35-40 homers a year in the big leagues. His power is to all fields. On the season, Stewart was hitting .487-15-60. A Southern California recruit, Stewart's bat compares favorably to two former Trojan lefthanded-hitting third base recruits: the A's Eric Chavez and the Padres' Sean Burroughs, both former first-rounders. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Stewart would be a certain top 10 talent if scouts were convinced he could play third base down the road, though he'll likely be given every chance to play his way off the position. More than likely, he'll end up at first base or left field. --Milledge is a classic "tools" player with pluses across the board. He has questionable character but was the top HS player just 6 months ago. 6'1'', 185. Stats are .414 with 10 HR. Scouting Report: Milledge's tools stack up well against fellow Florida outfielder Ryan Harvey's, though they come in a smaller package (6-foot-1, 185 pounds). He has one of the quickest bats in the draft, and his arm and speed both rate 70s on the 20-80 scouting scale. He emerged as a prospect before Harvey did and has had a hard time living up to the excessive hype?an almost impossible task in any case. After tying Delmon Young for the Team USA juniors batting lead at .474 last summer, he struggled at the Baseball America/Perfect Game World Wood Bat showcase last October. At times this spring, he showed holes against breaking pitches and an inability to adjust against top pitchers. In 2002, he was investigated for improper conduct with a female minor, and though he never was formally charged, the incident has scared off some clubs. Milledge was gaining momentum as the draft approached and helped his cause with a homer off Sarasota High ace James Houser in mid-April. Milledge could go as high as eighth overall to the Pirates, and he also could drop to the second half of the first round if there's a run on college players.

Well, that's because he was on a team then... No, there is one huge thing nobody has touched on (I believe), that will ultimately sway his decision. He has children who lived with him (he is divorced) in Arizona. That is why he rejected the Colorado deal initially too. Now that he is released and has no choice but to move, who knows.

i think we would all rather have Kearns over Dunn.... Dunn was batting 1st because he usually can get on base 40%(although he is slumping) Dunn may have a stronger arm(he can play OF) but I dont have any facts to back that up Actually his OBP is 32% and that is not the main reason he batted leadoff yesterday. You don't bat a man who is leading the league in HRs and only possesses average speed leadoff for his OBP. Also, of all the Red's regulars, only Felipe Lopez, at .316 has a worse OBP than Dunn. He also sat out two consecuitive games for a reason recently. Bob Boone has also talked about him platooning because he has had so much trouble hitting this year. The fact is the reason he batted leadoff was a hope by Boone that he would get more pitches to hit and hopefully shake things up and get more hits overall, that is how bad he has been since the all-star break last year. (aside from HRs this year). He has a ton of potential but unless he learns to hit and tighten up that swing then it is all gonna be a huge waste.

and whats the point of getting on my case? none. thanks :plain I am only on your case because it seems to me that you try to rule the board and get on other people's cases. As soon as I posted you tried to start up with me, especially on that Cavs winning the lottery thread. Don't expect to do stuff and not have it come back to you. Plain and simple.

then the nuggets need to get him into the weight room and teach him to defend and rebound..... give them a nice core of carmelo, tskitishvili, and nene in the front court. We will see, that is what I would do but who knows. Only time will tell. Adding a JWill or a Crawford and a Pietrus would not be bad either. I would rather have Anthony than any of them, but I am not them so who knows.

but you said he was just as deserving. In my opinion, he is. The effort shown today made me want to vomit. Anything that bad is deserving.

just because Nikoloz Tskitishvili is a 7 foot SF does not mean anything if you suck. One again Das, that is wonderful, truly great. But when a franchise invests the #5 pick in a 19-year-old kid, they tend to usually give him more than one year to try and develop.

please... pavano due to his complete game earlier in the week cannot be the worst marlin of the week. maybe for the game...or the weekend... but not for the ENTIRE WEEK. That is part of the reason I did not vote for him, but an effort this bad deserves consideration.

How am I wrong.... Because you said that I knew nothing about basketball since I stated that Hank Goldberg was not incorrect in reporting the Nuggets may trade their pick instead of drafting Carmelo. I simply stated that any talks of trading Carmelo are idiotic. Nah, not that simply you did not. Nikoloz Tskitishvili is not going to be a better player than Carmelo.? At 19, Carmelo will be leaps and bounds better than Nikoloz Tskitishvili and will only get better. Agreed. I never argued that. If the Nuggets are smart...which I find hard to believe they are that dumb....they will realize what they have on their hands.....They can draft a guy who will be a star in this league for years to come, barring injury. If I am the Nuggets, it's a no brainer. I dont like Jay Williams or his game.? He is overrated.? Period. I don't like him either, but many people and organizations do. By putting a and b together...you can assume that you are comparing him to the elite players in the game...who are anolomys...not the standard. No, you read way to far into it. You asked a quesiton and I answered it. It doesn't matter if they are an anomoly or not, apparently in some way Skita is one too since he is a 7ft SF as of now. Anyways, don't assume, because you know what happens when you assume don't you? Nikoloz Tskitishvili will only be successful if he can prove able to defend perimeter players.....or able to pull down rebounds....he will be an elite player if he can do both. Even when Garnett came into the league he could rebound and play down low.? Nikoloz Tskitishvili cannot. Thats wonderful, truly great. However, that has no basis for this argument. Just another copout reasoning for nonsense by yourself. As a Heat fan, I truly could care less if Skita becomes the next Jordan or the next Pervis Ellison, I am just answering your questions.

Unlike Almanza Pavano destroyed all hope early. Also The Bats were going no excuse. I don't care if he was The Channeled Spirt of John Belushi, he should have won that game. Just like one bad inning can wreck a releiver a game should wreck a starter's credibility. I 100% agree. Although I voted for Almanza, Pavano was just as deserving. I could have pitched better than that in a drug enduced coma. It was just truly awful, embarrassing and pathetic. Whats with all the nicknames Ramp? Mikey, DW, Cabs, Mando, JP and calling everyone kid, aren't you just a kid yourself? Kinda creepy. :whistle

JWill will not succeed as a point guard...he is more of a shooting guard trapped in a point guard's body. And answer me this...what Dukie has truly had a long career that flourished.? Grant Hill but then he got hurt. Who else...Elton Brand?? But he cant lead his team to the playoffs yet..... I can name Dukie after Dukie who has struggled to be a star in this league. The Nuggets cannot 'settle' for the Bulls garbage if they trade down (which would be the most idiotic thing) And as far as the Hall of Fame....you named me 1 hall of famer, and 1 future hall of famer.........what else am i to do....are you trying to tell me that he can succeed....and be a hall of fame caliber player?? cause thats the impression i get. You are the biggest copout I have ever seen. You twist and turn and manipulate things to make them seem different then they are. Das, face it...YOU WERE AND STILL ARE WRONG!. End of discussion. I never once said he would be a hall of famer. I did not give that impression, I even made that clear in my last post! You said name one guy his height that is a Small Foward (not shooting foward) and I did! Then you twist the argument again, like usual. Grant Hill was a great NBA player before his injury. Just because he sustained a freak injury does not make him an NBA failure. Gale Sayers is in the NFL hall of fame, after what, 4 years playing. He had to retire due to injury but nobody knocks him. Now you knock Elton Brand. The man, who in his short career already has been an all-star, led the league in offensive rebounding, won rookie of the year (with steve francis), was a 1st team all-rookie, college player of the year as a sophomore. He has averaged around 19 and 11 for his career and he is not good? Ok, you are officially on crack! By the way, his teammate from Duke and now in LA, Corey Magettee has been coming along well too. Lets see who else "could not make it as a point guard" at one time or another in their career, because they had too much shoot first mentality. We have a list that includes Billups, Arenas, Jason Williams, Cassell, Marbury, Alvin Williams and Gary Payton. All of them have been pretty good, huh? Don't be stupid and manipulate words and try to copout. You were wrong, I should the proof, answered your questions now sit down and shut up. :dork

Adam Dunn can/could be a great player. Who knows, I like him but alot of you are missing the point. You sing his praises like he is the 2nd coming of god, yet hate on a player putting up numbers superior to him while adding far and away better defense. Also, Adam Dunn is not even the best young OF on his team, Austin Kearns is!