Comments on: The Indians get better; the Browns keep looking

By: alan t.

alan t. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:31:35 +0000

For the record, a couple of other guys who recently switched from shortstop to third were Matt Williams and Vinny Castilla … they won gold gloves at third, too. Of course, Williams had to borrow some of Hafner's hGH and 'roids to do it, but that's besides the point.

By: terje

terje — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:37:31 +0000

"By the way I believe Fryman was also a shortstop early on with the Tigers. And A-Rod has made a fairly successful transition, too."

yep.

i'm going to go out on another limb and guess barry has already had his encounter with the dull spoon.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:09:39 +0000

So Peralta sucks at third too, barry? All the more reason to have him at short!

By the way I believe Fryman was also a shortstop early on with the Tigers. And A-Rod has made a fairly successful transition, too.

By: barry

barry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:31:09 +0000

responding to the only cogent comment i noticed, i have often wondered why the brain trust has not considered moving peralta to 2B, where the major requirement is the ability to turn the DP.
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now for the less-than cogent comments:
1) for those of you so willing to "go out on a limb" and make a prediction, if you're wrong, do you promise to sterilize yourself – with a dull spoon – so you won't produce similarly stupid kids?

2a) if 3B & SS are so interchangeable, why is it that the last person to make the shift successfully at the major league level was cal ripken?
2b) if peralta could be a capable defender at 3B, don't you think that we would have already moved him there while we still had omar and were playing blake there after fryman retired?

3) peralta got the chance to hit 4th ONLY after hafner and martinez were both injured, AND garko failed miserably. HE WAS THE FOURTH OPTION!!!!!

4) derosa did hit more HRs, but it's hard to credit steroids for drawing more walks while averaging around the same number of K's the last three years.

By: terje

terje — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:48:14 +0000

football was always too homo-erotic for me and i sucked at baseball. hoops for me. when i was younger i skipped all my classes at cleveland state and went to every open gym there was (hence, me paying my own college tuition 8 years later). run in the days with the students and at night with the ballers. played any chance i could until age 30 when i turned one of the fingers on my right hand into a whammy bar. softball? that is for the beer gut crowd.

p.s. alan is the one with the groupies. i'm just a part of the backing band.

By: Dennis Blue

Dennis Blue — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:58:27 +0000

I guess we'll just wait and see what the results are this summer……until then, back to the cave. I understand the Mitchell Report, but it's all media-fueled – ever watch ESPN? Wow, now I need to suspect all the big-headed people in the world. You know, Terje, I really don't care. I'd take Bonds right now, and I would take Clemens if he were younger. It's always guys like you, who never played a sport with any distinction, who worry about a guy that might have bent a rule or two. Barry Bonds is the greatest player of my lifetime – it was Mantle before him – and it doesn't matter to me at all about the steroid years. C'mon, you can fess up. You never played anything, did you? And after the real athletes graduated from HS and college sports, we played softball…..and you umpired because you couldn't play! Guys like you are easy to spot….just like the big-headed drug-users! I won't be back on here, but I'll be reading; hopefully, by mid-August, when the big guy is closing in on thirty dingers, you'll admit to your groupies here that you were wrong. That would get my respect. Thanks, enjoyed the debate, have a wonderful New Year.

By: terje

terje — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:34:29 +0000

i forgot all about that. i used to go to rangers training camp every year in the early 2000's in port charlotte because it was near where my parents live. i remember seeing pudge, juan gone and raffy all chatting by first and thinking "wow, that is 3 hall of famers right there". so much for that thought.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:25:25 +0000

terje, in your statement of the patently obvious 2+2 = formula, you neglected to divide the square root of the Rangers connection. But who's counting.

By: terje

terje — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:59:17 +0000

dennis, maybe you have been living in a cave or just recently came out of a coma. so i'll help you fill in the gaps. the media had nothing to do with many of the recent findings. it was the mitchell report. and senator mitchell said himself that his report was not a conclusive report on all the steroid users in baseball. he also stated that the mlbpa was extremely uncooperative with his report and discouraged players from helping him. clemens would still be considered a baseball god if we were waiting for the media to tell us he was on the roids.

sorry pal for your myopia. but for me and most people with reasonable deduction skills……

massive head plus mysterious breakdown of muscle and an incredible shrinking body equals probable steroid user.

By: Dennis Blue

Dennis Blue — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:38:44 +0000

Thanks for the update, Terje, your incisive comments must come from your broad knowledge of the sport, hitting in particular, or from your inside contacts in Major League Baseball. Or maybe, you have inside knowledge of what it's like being a druggie? Anyway, the nosey media has needlessly overturned every rock trying to get steroid dirt on any player, yet, with all the names mentioned over the last two years in this witch hunt……no mention of Hafner. Curious, isn't it?