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howe_sam posted:It's hard to argue against Aaron's 755 home runs (even if you include his war years Ted wouldn't have gotten to that number), and i'm looking forward to reading about a player I know next to nothing about in Oscar Charleston. You're right, Aaron is amazing and almost certainly the most underrated of the inner circle Hall of Famers. I can't begrudge him being ahead of the Kid, especially since it's not my list. But man, Williams was SO good with the bat that it doesn't matter he was an indifferent fielder and merely average baserunner. I'm also extremely excited to read about Charleston, my knowledge of him is pretty limited as just "one of the best players of all time who played mainly in the 1920s and was Willie Mays before Willie Mays." Salvor_Hardin posted:Trot Nixon Brian Daubach!
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habeasdorkus posted:Brian Daubach! We’re pretty lax with the “good” aspect of the original tweet aren’t we
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See you can think of the Hall of Fame in anatomical terms. You’ve got your areola guys, and you’ve got your inner circle nipple guys,
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Red posted:Random thing: remember when Kenny Rogers went after a camerman for no reason, and no one ever really made a big deal about it? immediately picturing that camera getting stuck to his hand
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Red posted:Random thing: remember when Kenny Rogers went after a camerman for no reason, and no one ever really made a big deal about it? turns out he didn't know when to walk away after all
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bewbies posted:If you're drafting either as an 18 year old and you know how their careers will go I think you'd have to be crazy to take Ted over Willie, and I say this as one who really, really loves Ted Williams. Well, wait, does Ted come along with missing time to fight in wars?
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Trot Nixon gently caress Trot Nixon
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Red posted:Well, wait, does Ted come along with missing time to fight in wars? nope, same for willie
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Shane victirino was really good And then he died. Rip.
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Poque posted:Jason Schmidt but honestly he might have only had a few good seasons very similarly, Russ Ortiz
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Jenrry Mejia was meant to be the Mets' closer for like the next decade, and then he got banned for doing steroids.
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No Safe Word posted:very similarly, Russ Ortiz I am now remembering the number of times I was burned by starting Russ Ortiz in fantasy baseball. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ortizru01.shtml - huh, I guess he was supremely average.
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euphronius posted:He was born in San Diego ? yeah, but given the name and all I wouldn't have assumed
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Poque posted:I can't stop thinking about the Ataris playing their terrible Boys of Summer cover before the 2003 home run derby and changing the lyric to say they saw a White Sox sticker on a cadillac Just  if you never had roommates in an Ataris or Alkaline Trio cover band.
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Anyone else bored and want to share random baseball stuff in our ret-conned home offices? Fenway pennant from childhood and my 3 little league home run balls.  Best Manny photo ever and a wood etching of the original patent for a baseball.  Close-up of the wood etching.  Mo Vaughn plaque I bought at a yard sale behind the cat tree.  "Intimidation"
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/FletchDaddy22/status/1244871992496361472 Tim fuckin Lincecum. Outside the Bay Area he's a ghost, a specter, a boogieman made up to scare Padres fans.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Anyone else bored and want to share random baseball stuff in our ret-conned home offices? My weight room has autographed Stan, Gibby, Ozzie and Albert jerseys on the wall but lawyers are apparently “essential” in Illinois so I’m still Blue Lining it downtown every day.
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Good Dog posted:Remember Brian Wilson and his stupid beard? no, only Brian Wilson and his amazing beard
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Pancakes posted:My weight room has autographed Stan, Gibby, Ozzie and Albert jerseys on the wall but lawyers are apparently “essential” in Illinois so I’m still Blue Lining it downtown every day.
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All my home baseball memorabilia is cheater-related except for a José Lima signed foul ball and a pair of signed Brooks Robinson and Craig Biggio bats.
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I don't really have memorabilia more just a bunch of poo poo I've accumulated from playing over the years. My pile-o-bats  Some art my Dad got for me out in Seattle.  This bat is very special to me, from the 2017 season where I hit .395 for the year primarily with this bat until it broke a the end of the season.  The ball on the left was given to me by my manager the first year I played in a wood bat league and is from my first base hit. The ball on the right is from a different league, a game last season where I played every position in a single game. 
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FlamingLiberal posted:My brother is an attorney in Chicago and he's been working from home for two weeks, are you not able to do your work at home? My girlfriend doesn’t have an exemption and is on the phone all the time for her job. I also have to be on the phone for court now that the physical courtrooms are shut down (I’m in court right now). It would be a big logistics hassle to have both of us working from home.
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Most of my memorabilia pieces are in boxes in a closet. If I get really bored, I'll drag them out and photograph. Len Barker autographed photo and a broken bat from a 1960s spring training game my dad attended. It was originally Ken Boyer's bat, but apparently belonged to Bill White at the time of breakage as his name is written in marker over Boyer's. Also, a fan given out at Braves games to celebrate Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren, I think just after TBS booted them for not understanding that longstanding Braves announcers were going to naturally root for the Braves.  Bob Feller's signature is most prominent on the ball, but it was also signed by Herb Score, both at Cleveland's spring training in 1995.  drat, Joe Charboneau was a phenomenon.  Some relatives went to Russia in the mid-1990s and brought back nesting dolls.
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Most of my memorabilia is at work, primarily the various gnomes I've gotten over the last few years
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bewbies posted:If you're drafting either as an 18 year old and you know how their careers will go I think you'd have to be crazy to take Ted over Willie, and I say this as one who really, really loves Ted Williams. Same. Ted made an effort later on to try a little defensively, but for the majority of his career he was sort of a loafer out there. Mays was one of the greatest CF of all time, and could run the bases as well. IMO Mays is the best "complete" ballplayer of all time. Had Mantle not had the injuries and alcoholism, he might have exceeded Mays in this.
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Edward Mass posted:https://twitter.com/SportsNetLA/status/1245390639929233409 Flip it upside down and play your garbage can like the bongos and you have the same effect.
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Pancakes posted:Matt Adams and Kyle Schwarber weigh the same, have the same career bWAR and approximately the same number of career dingers. Kyle Schwarber did it in 639 fewer PAs 
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