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01-12-2009, 02:22 PM
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Super Moderator
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Congrats to Jim Rice
HOF Bound....  |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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01-12-2009, 02:27 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Well deserved and long, long over due! I will forever remember the way he drove his homeruns to straight away centerfield with such power!!! The best hitter of his time in my mind! Way to go Jim Ed!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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01-12-2009, 02:34 PM
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Uncle Remus
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excellent, good for him
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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01-12-2009, 02:40 PM
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Congrats to Jim Ed! Well deserved.
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01-12-2009, 03:22 PM
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 TOO long coming |
Catch'em up,
ThomCat
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01-12-2009, 04:16 PM
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01-12-2009, 04:31 PM
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About time... I was listening to EEI going from one job site to another and they kept yapping about the process for 30 minutes straight I thought they he failed his final chance to get in. Was not until later I heard that he had...
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01-12-2009, 04:59 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
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long overdue! jim ed was the dominate hitter for a good stretch...
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01-12-2009, 06:32 PM
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It's about time. Good for him |
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01-12-2009, 06:46 PM
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This was wayyyyyyy overdue. What a great player to watch.
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01-12-2009, 07:32 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Boy! Tough crowd over on SOL!!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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01-12-2009, 07:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Boy! Tough crowd over on SOL!!! |
and you're shocked to boot?  |
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01-12-2009, 07:45 PM
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bout time. long deserved. .. |
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01-12-2009, 09:17 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Boy! Tough crowd over on SOL!!! |
What do you expect when you start using Ted Williams as a yardstick for measuring anything that Rice did? 
Rice is legit HOF but come on--comparing his stats to Teddy Ballgame's?  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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01-12-2009, 10:37 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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I was speaking of the fact that Williams never had 200 hits in a season Mike.....not comparing their careers, just trying to make a point that there are so many variables to a player and why he makes the hall of fame. Rice made it by doing so many things well that many greater players did not. Don't start on me about why Williams never had 200 hits...I know why but the game was different then than it was when Rice played which, again, is my point! During Rice's tenure, nobody was doing all of the things that he was doing! Jackson was smashing lots of homers, Carew was batting .325-.380, many were driving in 100+ runs......but Jim Rice was doing it all! Batting .310-.315, hitting 35-40 homers and driving in 110+.....and getting 200 hits!!! Sorry but those numbers together are staggering and not many other power hitters I can think of accomplished that combination........Aaron, Mays did but not many others........and again.....not saying Rice was the kind of player Aaron and Mays were but that he did some special things in his own right and if people can't see that then they are not paying attention!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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01-15-2009, 10:03 PM
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Quote:
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Boy! Tough crowd over on SOL!!! |
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LETS GO BRANDON
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01-13-2009, 12:05 PM
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slow eddie
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way, way overdue. i do remember when he broke his bat on a checked swing. cannot imagine what strength it took.
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put them back alive. i do have grandkids.
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01-15-2009, 03:12 PM
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Super Moderator
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as far as the 200 hits in a season....weren't the seasons a few games shorter back in William's day....I think they were only 150 games back then
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01-15-2009, 03:13 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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I mentioned that in another post...here or SOL...they were 154 games. Like I said...different times. I also believe that the years between 1945 and 1970 had the absolute cream of the crop of baseball talent of all time! Look at the hitters the pitchers had to face and look at the pitchers the hitters had to face???!!!!!!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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01-16-2009, 06:15 PM
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Uncle Remus
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Who cares what people think L. he's in and that is all that matters.
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