The Workermonkey

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

wait, you thought i wasn't going to talk baseball? 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 4/06/2005 01:42:00 AM

the yanks are for real this year. matsui is going to win the MVP, his first year was him getting acustom to the MLB and his second showed improvement. any improvement over last years numbers would consitute an MVP award. he's going to get a million RBI's just because of the line up he's in. my biggest dissapointment this year will be bernie williams, he's old, he's lost more then one step and for some reason he's a double play/momentum killing machine. it's going to be ugly for him. let crosby play more is my only answer, he's young so at least lost playing time will be to some sort of advantage over the long haul.

i like the tigers, but they still aren't going to be great. they will be better then last year but that's not hard to accomplish. ordoniez for 5 years? does anyone see higgenson all over again besides me? bonderman will be good. he never should have been in the majors before now and wouldn't be in any other organization. detroit knew they weren't going anywhere so they brought him up early to get him a little playing time. his 20 lose season wasn't by design but it was acceptable. it was part of his development. why waste his good innings in the minors when they could be in hte majors?

boston is going to win the wild card again, they are a good team but this year they don't have the pitching to beat the yankees. the yanks are going to need a starter at the all star break but they also have a few prospects that teams are willing to bite on in order for them to win it.

i'd love to go team by team but i could do a devision breakdown too. let me know if anyone cares. i could talk baseball all night but i don't think you guys want to read it.

part of what this site is lacking is feedback. i'd love to see more people comment on each topic or each post focus on one thread. i need suggestions on how to do this. i'm not a genious (as much as i'd like to think i am) so i need help.

each post shouldn't need its own forum. we should each be able to respond to one anothers posts. please take the time to go back and read dated posts and post comment's to them. and then read comments to your own posts. it would be a good thing, trust me.

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ill talk baseball all day long, although we will disagree on a few points being the sox are going to kill. Yankees will be good but I dont see them winning the series this year
1-kind of like cards at the Glockenspiel-everyone playing is almost forty-gonna be a lot of injuries.
2-like you said bernie is a black hole, no pun intended, giambi will be marginal and the sheff is getting old.
3-Johnson is a workhorse but he too is old as shit-shoulder surgery by july, mullet power be damned. One of your young guys is gonna have to be awesome.

that leaves a hell of a lot of gaps to win the AL east much less the series.

go sox

By  murphy, at Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:56:00 PM  

yeah i'm with murphy. the sox got a little pitching. johnson will be huge for ny, but it wont matter if rivera cant close the deal against the sox.

i could also deal w/ you talking more baseball. couldnt be more excited about the season.

i'd also enjoy more interaction/comments on the forums. good thinkin chump.

By  josh, at Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:20:00 PM  

my vote is for forum style. each rant would be a topic, and resopnses and posts could be kept hig n the list for weeks as long as we kept interest. this could also lead to outisiders opinions and post which we could chose to care or not care about. either way this is a posting site, a forum stlye would be a discussion.

By  ron, at Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:42:00 PM  

I would not like to see this forum overloaded with baseball talk. But thats my vote. Unless of course, its Murphy bashing the yankees, that i can deal with. As far as a new look to the site- consider something like this:
http://wildthoughts.org/

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:56:00 AM  

if this was message board style then the baseball talk wouldn't take up half the page.

By  ron, at Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:51:00 AM  

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