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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:55 pm 
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I haven't read the entirety of this thread yet - but did you guys see that one BBWAA guy voted for Jacque Jones?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:12 pm 
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This is a great article about the scout who signed Greg Maddux.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/th ... eg-maddux/


The line by the scout's wife at the end is priceless.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 6:22 pm 
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That is a good line. Lots of good stuff in that article. Here is a scouting report filed by Mike Rizzo on Big Frank. He was a little light on the future hitting tool.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:14 am 
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Greg Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his career. Just 644 of them saw a 3-0 count.
Mercy.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:22 pm 
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The game which is so Stat oriented WAR/OBP/OPS/ERA....and on and on. Not to have the All-Time Hit Leader or Homerun Leader in it is fucking stupid.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:48 pm 
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Keyser Soze wrote:
That is a good line. Lots of good stuff in that article. Here is a scouting report filed by Mike Rizzo on Big Frank. He was a little light on the future hitting tool.


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I'm assuming this is the same Mike Rizzo who is currently Generally, Managing the Natinals?

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:40 pm 
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That's him. Rizzo started out as an area scout for the Sox. He's got a pretty good draft record going for him.


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Why not just make HOW inductees take a polygraph on whether or not they took steroids prior to induction? If they pass, they are inducted.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:19 pm 
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Greg Maddux will go into the HOF with no logo. Very odd.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ba ... 8170.story

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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Greg Maddux will go into the HOF with no logo. Very odd.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ba ... 8170.story

LaRussa is having the same thing.

I guess Greg Maddux disagrees with JORR :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:16 pm 
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That's strange...I can understand not leaving it up to the player (who could try to sell the honor to the highest bidder like Wade Boggs allegedly did), but if I'm the player I would want some team logo on the hat. It would look funny without one.

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I thought because of some recent controversy the Hall decides for you?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:10 pm 
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Maddux's first win:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986 ... hicago-cub

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