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DETROIT 12th??? MARLINS 15th????? WTF??????????

:confused

Does anyone even listen to these reports nowadays anyways?

 

Haven't we learned not to pay any attention to these after last year?

Granted it's based on offseason moves, but did the Tigers really bolster their team (Pudge not counted)

Everybody take a look at that Sosa quote next to the Cubs offseason rating. Sosa saying "this is the first time i've started lifting in December." I find this very odd, and this quote I think could be thought of as almost a confession to taking steroids.

 

Because Sosa is HUGE, and there is NO WAY this guy got that big just lifting weights when until now, he has NEVER started lifiting as early as even December.

"this is the first time ive started lifting in december...thought i could help out the 'medication' a little."

Steroids for sosa.

how did the mets creep into #7? a japanese shortstop and mike cameron had that big of an impact?

 

or how is expecting big things from the former #2 pick overall (beckett) who broke out in the 2nd half last season unrealistic?

DETROIT 12th??? MARLINS 15th????? WTF??????????

Why not? These aren't power rankings - they're rating off-season moves. The Tigers probably have done better to improve themselves since the end of the season. They've improved from historically terrible to simply terrible. We've gotten worse, going from the best team in baseball down to a good solid team who has a good shot at the postseason. We're still better than the Tigers.

 

The Twins are ranked 27th. This is not a poll of relative strength to each other, just what each team has done compared to where they ended last season. We've gotten a little worse since the end of last season - any team that has stayed the same or gotten better will be ranked higher than us according to the parameters of the poll.

 

Sometimes I think we're just too damn sensitive.

 

I gotta admit I don't understand the Trend column. The Orioles are ranked forth because they added a lot of people but the Trend is Neutral.

Granted it's based on offseason moves, but did the Tigers really bolster their team (Pudge not counted)

Rondell White

Al Levine

Carlos Guillen

Fernando Vina

Pablo Ozuna

Bobby Estalella

Jason Johnson

Greg Norton

 

 

yes they did

At least they've got the Braves 3 spots below us. But to put the Tigers, Rangers, Mets, Blue Jays, Royals and Giants ahead of us......it's ludicrous.

But to put the Tigers, Rangers, Mets, Blue Jays, Royals and Giants ahead of us......it's ludicrous.

tell me why

Castro and Cabrera have some good power, but so do Rondell White, Dmitri Young...oh yeah the marlins are better.

Everybody take a look at that Sosa quote next to the Cubs offseason rating. Sosa saying "this is the first time i've started lifting in December." I find this very odd, and this quote I think could be thought of as almost a confession to taking steroids.

 

Because Sosa is HUGE, and there is NO WAY this guy got that big just lifting weights when until now, he has NEVER started lifiting as early as even December.

Umm... You can't just inject yourself with steroids and wait for them to take effect, you know. In order for steroids to work, you must work out as well. They make you bigger than what a normal workout would do for you. But you can't just inject yourself with a needle and hope for it to take effect like an asprin with a headache.

Everybody take a look at that Sosa quote next to the Cubs offseason rating. Sosa saying "this is the first time i've started lifting in December." I find this very odd, and this quote I think could be thought of as almost a confession to taking steroids.

 

Because Sosa is HUGE, and there is NO WAY this guy got that big just lifting weights when until now, he has NEVER started lifiting as early as even December.

Umm... You can't just inject yourself with steroids and wait for them to take effect, you know. In order for steroids to work, you must work out as well. They make you bigger than what a normal workout would do for you. But you can't just inject yourself with a needle and hope for it to take effect like an asprin with a headache. First of all, no logic allowed when i'm dissing the cubs!

 

But second, don't taking steroids make you bigger than regular lifting, and make you get bigger FASTER?? Yeah, so I think this comment was a major hiccup by Sammy, but nobody will notice, because Sammy gets away with everything and IMO is the biggest scam artist baseball has seen in decades, if not ever.

Mags you are one crazy Cubs fan

Mags you are one crazy Cubs fan

Yeah, I know :lol

And :thumbup :thumbup :thumbup 3 thumbs up for 2,000 posts! :cool

Mags you are one crazy Cubs fan

Yeah, I know :lol

And :thumbup :thumbup :thumbup 3 thumbs up for 2,000 posts! :cool I think I reached that milestone on April 30th.

 

*waits for people to process thought*

Mags you are one crazy Cubs fan

Yeah, I know :lol

And :thumbup :thumbup :thumbup 3 thumbs up for 2,000 posts! :cool I think I reached that milestone on April 30th.

 

*waits for people to process thought* Wow, that's some serious spamming you did dood.

sammy sosa in a shameless scummer (corking bat, steroid use, charity fraud...)

 

I don't watch 162 cub games a year, but you can notice Sosa by watching baseball tonight getting bigger and smaller all the time. It's extremely noticeable! It's so obvious he is taking steroids it is not funny.

 

The noly evidence lackinging is a positive test and a picture of him sticking a needle in his butt.

 

But then again sammy might contend he uses that needle only for "exhibitions" to give the fans a show. As sammy said, "That's not the bat I use all the time, that's the bat I use for cheating."

 

okay, I made up the quote.

sammy sosa in a shameless scummer (corking bat, steroid use, charity fraud...)

 

I don't watch 162 cub games a year, but you can notice Sosa by watching baseball tonight getting bigger and smaller all the time. It's extremely noticeable! It's so obvious he is taking steroids it is not funny.

 

The noly evidence lackinging is a positive test and a picture of him sticking a needle in his butt.

 

But then again sammy might contend he uses that needle only for "exhibitions" to give the fans a show. As sammy said, "That's not the bat I use all the time, that's the bat I use for cheating."

 

okay, I made up the quote.

Your preaching to the choir man.

 

This guy is one of the biggest scam artists of our time, and it's so obvious he's on steroids, and the cork was no accident, and he's a jerk of a person in reality, but his smile and backgroud and team he's on fools people.

 

I just hope that one day he is exposed as the no good jerk off that he is.

but dude, he has been totally exposed, but no one cares! short of catching him sticking himself of a needle, I don't see how else his scumminess can be further confirmed.

Small Ball Baby!!!!

Wow, that's some serious spamming you did dood.

:lol

 

Sorry, just thought it was great how you threw the Pubes reference in there...