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    Gimme a visual to describe Prince Fielders girth......

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    BEAST MODE!

    A sign from rainy Busch Stadium last night :

    " Don't let it rain in your beer . It'll taste like that stuff from Milwaukee . "

    Good guys up 2 games to 1 .

    A rockin' Busch Stadium awaits.....

    I still remember 1982 very , very , very well .
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    Either AL team will dominate the World series..
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    2011 National League Champions !

    Hell Yes ! For the 18th. time in their illustrious history my St. Louis Cardinals

    win the N. L. Pennant and are headed to the World Series !

    What a maddening scramble , but Goddamn it worked !

    Home field advantage and Busch Stadium awaits......

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    The Rangers are gonna get their asses handed to them! The St. Louis batting lineup is unstoppable! Especially since you know who is the batting coach.
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    Pujols, Berkman, Holliday, Freese. Just nasty.

    Cards to it to my hometown 9 hard. Fair and square.

    Do it now. Pujols could be done and Berkman will age by April.
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    He'll probably die of roid rage...
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    C'mon Rangers, finish them off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Molina is as ghetto as you can get, tattoos on the neck..loser

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    Quote Originally Posted by redblkwht View Post
    C'mon Rangers, finish them off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nope , ain't happenin'.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by redblkwht View Post
    Either AL team will dominate the World series..
    ...uhm , yeah , o-kay , right.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by redblkwht View Post
    Molina is as ghetto as you can get, tattoos on the neck..loser
    Yup

    3 Gold Gloves

    1 , oops , 2 World Series rings,......respectable blingage

    tatoos on his neck..winner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Green Manalishi View Post
    Yup

    3 Gold Gloves

    1 , oops , 2 World Series rings,......respectable blingage

    tatoos on his neck..winner
    As of today - I stand corrected

    make that 4 Gold Gloves

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    He's still a punk. Fuck Molina.

    I hope the Chinese letters on his neck translate to 'cunt'.

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    Ryan Braun..MVP yet another Fraud.

    I'm convinced they all do it, just depends on when they are cycling.
    Rediculous

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    Quote Originally Posted by redblkwht View Post
    Ryan Braun..MVP yet another Fraud.

    I'm convinced they all do it, just depends on when they are cycling.
    Rediculous
    The more I read about this, the more it stinks. I hope, and believe, that he will be exonorated. He's a good community member and a smart businessman. I can't believe he would throw it all away KNOWING that he gets tested twice a year.

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    Tigers sign Prince Fielder, 9yr/$214M

    Prince Fielder, who hit baseballs out of Tiger Stadium as a 12-year-old, is on his way back to Detroit, where his father, Cecil Fielder, starred for seven years. The Tigers have agreed to sign the free agent first baseman to a nine-year, $214MM contract.


    The agreement -- the fourth largest in baseball history behind Alex Rodriguez's mega-contracts and Albert Pujols' recent deal with the Angels -- will keep Fielder in the Motor City through his age 36 season for an average annual value of $23.78MM. Though the market for Fielder seemed far from robust at times this offseason, agent Scott Boras has found an unexpected suitor once again. Over the years, Tigers owner Mike Ilitch and GM Dave Dombrowski have dealt extensively with Boras regarding clients such as Kenny Rogers, Ivan Rodriguez, Johnny Damon and Magglio Ordonez.

    Fielder will play first base and Miguel Cabrera will change roles, Jon Heyman of CBS Sports tweets. Victor Martinez will miss most or all of the 2012 season with a torn ACL, so it's possible that Cabrera will DH this year. He has only played 14 games at third base since being traded to Detroit after the 2007 season, but a return to the hot corner seems to be a possibility for Cabrera.

    Heyman tweets that the Nationals and a third mystery team were in on Fielder until the end. Heyman first reported the agreement on Twitter and Yahoo's Tim Brown first reported that the sides were close to a deal.

    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/0...e-fielder.html
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    And Lincecum was given a 2 yr extension by the Giants. 2yr/$40m. 18m in '12, 22m in '13.

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    Hmm maybe we can make this the "2012 MLB Thread"?

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    jesus, he'll be 450 lbs by the time that contract is up!
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    Hey this is great news!! Now the Lions need to keep an eye on Barry Sanders Jr.
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    I am gonna catch H-E-L-L when I wear my TIGERS hat around MILWAUKEE this Summer!!! LMFAO
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    There goes the Tribe's shot at the central.

    not to be bitter at the tigers, and their fans, good for you, for spending cash to make your team better.

    It sucks balls though as a Tribe fan, when your team is stuck with a pretty good FO and a GREAT farm system, and not an owner willing to spend cash to either get some players to improve their team, or keep those that came from the system.
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    9 year deal? Damn, I thought my team had the worst contract in sports with A-Rod.......at least Fielder can dh on the back end but that dude needs a personal trainer.
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    Signing Fielder makes sense for Detroit. With Cabrera and Verlander in the prime of their careers, this is the time when a marquee player like Fielder can really help them. But that contract - whoa! It's really going to be an albatross in the later years. Players with Fielder's body type don't age well, either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Unchainme View Post
    There goes the Tribe's shot at the central.

    not to be bitter at the tigers, and their fans, good for you, for spending cash to make your team better.

    It sucks balls though as a Tribe fan, when your team is stuck with a pretty good FO and a GREAT farm system, and not an owner willing to spend cash to either get some players to improve their team, or keep those that came from the system.
    Ilitch wouldn't spend a DIME on the TIGERS until tha salary cap went into the NHL.....................

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    Scott Boras once again proves why he's the best agent in pro-sports - 9 years at A-Rod/Pujols money?

    Yeah, Fielder is a beast and he can rake, but he's sub-par with the glove, and his body-type will not age well due to his girth. The Tigers will be lucky if Fielder can sustain his current level of production by year 5 of this contract.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pennypacker View Post
    Hmm maybe we can make this the "2012 MLB Thread"?
    We usually just rename the previous year's thread....

    Voila....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pennypacker View Post
    69 cents in 1992. Wonder how much it is now?
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    After 17 Seasons, Posada Announces Retirement


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    What a stud Posada turned out to be. Switch hitter, power, average, defense... I remember watching him in 1991 when he was playing for (A) Greensboro with Andy Pettitte before Jeter got called up there. The ball would explode off his bat. Just a natural hitter, I think.

    I appreciate that he walked away now instead of DHing and risking having a subpar end to an otherwise outstanding career. Best of all, in this day of free agents and blockbuster trades he managed to stay in one place longer than almost any other player in his era. In the full presser, you can see how much pride he takes in being a Yankee and he even mentioned never wearing any other uniform. That's a testament to loyalty, something the Yankees and many of their players almost never seemed to give a shit about over the years.

    Good for him. 4 Rings, a ton of Silver Slugger's and a season best .338 ba in 2007.

    Hip, Hip- Jorge!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pennypacker View Post
    And Lincecum was given a 2 yr extension by the Giants. 2yr/$40m. 18m in '12, 22m in '13.
    I still can't forgive Ricciardi for nixing the rumoured Rios for Lincecum trade in 2007

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    Random testing? Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista given 16 drug tests over two seasons

    Jose Bautista should buy some lottery tickets.

    Based on the way the Major League conducts its random drug testing, either the Toronto Blue Jays slugger is really lucky — or somebody has some serious suspicions about him — if he’s really been drug tested 16 times over the past two years as he revealed at a banquet in the Dominican Republic recently.

    The Major Leagues’ leading home run hitter the past two seasons made the remark at the banquet, according to a report in Spanish published in the Dominican newspaper “Hoy.”

    Former pitcher Pedro Martinez was talking to a group of Dominican baseball players at a dinner given by President Leonel Fernandez when the hurler praised Bautista for his hitting success and then asked him how many times he had been tested.

    Bautista answered by saying his increased testing for banned performance enhancing drugs coincided with his sensational two seasons of hitting home runs. He said that he had been tested nine times in 2010, the year he led the majors with 54 homers, and was tested seven times last season when he hit another 43 home runs.

    In the two previous seasons, he had only been tested three times, Bautista said.

    Baseball’s testing policy is considered the strictest among professional sports and will include blood testing in 2012 (the first of the four major sports to do so).

    Under Major League rules, each player on the 40-man roster must undergo at least two random mandatory tests, once in spring training and again during the regular season. There can be at least two more random tests during the season so a player could be tested up to four times. Also, there are additional random tests in the playoffs.

    Players’ names are also pulled randomly from a computer for testing throughout the year. There is no limit on how many times their names can be spit out of the computer, like a home lottery.

    So in a sense, if they’re lucky enough to be unlucky, they could be tested numerous times.

    According to Major League Baseball, about 1,200 random drug tests are administered during a regular season on the roughly 750 players, with 375 more tests given in the offseason.

    If a player is found to have been in violation of the drug policy over a stimulant, he is subjected to six more random tests over the next year. Positive tests for stimulants are not make public.

    Unless Bautista was exaggerating, you’d have to think he’d have to be really lucky to hit the drug testing lottery 16 times in the past two seasons. Unless somebody thinks there is a “reasonable or probable cause” or “suspicion” that he might be taking something.

    But those additional drug tests are usually conducted based on a player’s sudden change in appearance, or demeanor, or if somebody saw something either in or outside the dressing room, or the player gets into trouble with the law.

    Suddenly hitting home runs at a remarkable rate wouldn’t cause a drug test or a player to be specifically targeted, according to a Major League source. However, any player, who has previously failed a test, is subject to increased testing.

    The Blue Jays third baseman/outfielder declined to comment on the matter via the team on Thursday but a team source said Bautista was neither upset about his testing nor wished to make an issue out of what was said at the banquet.

    Bautista’s agent, Bean Stringfellow, told The Star on Thursday that he has no idea how many times his client has been tested.

    “He doesn’t tell me, but he doesn’t have anything to hide,” he said in a telephone interview. “That (16 times) may seem like a higher number than norm . . . but it is what it is. I don’t think there’s a set number as to how many times you can be tested.

    ‘Jose has never complained one time about how many times he’s been tested or anyone in our (Performance Agency). Like I said, he’s got nothing to hide.”

    Despite suggestions that Bautista must be taking something for his newfound power surge, he has never tested positive. Also, his appearance and body hasn’t change since he became one of the most feared hitters in baseball over the past two seasons with the Jays.

    Major League Baseball also declined to comment on Bautista’s claim to have been tested 16 times, indicating that drug testing is a privacy issue and officials never comment on specific individual. The only time results are ever revealed is if a player tests positive. MLB also never reveals how many times an individual has been tested.

    Last June, Bautista spoke about the testing process and doping allegations in a radio interview.

    “Not everybody on then team gets picked every single time that they test but our team has gotten tested once a week for the last four weeks and I’ve gotten tested twice in that span,” Bautista told Jim Bowden’s Sirius XM radio show last June.

    “I know what kind of person I am and how I achieve things so I have no problem answering these questions. If playing good baseball and playing good and hitting a lot more home runs and being successful leads to people asking these questions, I have no problem answering them because I know I haven’t done anything wrong.’

    Bautista had hit 59 home runs over six seasons as a part-time player before exploding to strike for 54 in 2010 with the Jays. Last season, he hit 43 and led the majors in combined on-base and slugging percentage, with a 1.056 mark.

    Bautista has also won the American League’s Hank Aaron Award, given to the league’s best hitter, the last two years. He finished fourth in MVP voting in 2010 and placed third last season.

    Bautista isn’t the only heavy hitter to get tested frequently.

    Albert Pujols, now of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, said he was tested six times in 2008 as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals and that he would give back his salary if he ever failed a drug test.

    “My house is always open,” Pujols told ESPN.com last year. “They can come any time they want during the off-season. I challenge them to try training with me during three months and a half. They can come and check every

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