Greatest baseball player of all time?

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Zimmer charged him, he should have kept his old fat ass in the dugout.
     
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    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Speaking of 04 I think that may have been the year Varitek bitched A-Rod too.
     
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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    i agree but pedro weighed less.

    and the crazy old bastard apologized for embarrassing the team and broke down and cried. he was 72 at the time and sincere as all get out. i respect him. hes a true baseball guy. he did a lot for the sport and never wanted the spotlight.
     
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    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    What's a dude supposed to do when he's charged? Let Zimmer spear him? He did more of a Matador fling, and Zim went flying. I liked him until he went to the Yankees, he managed the Cubs in the Ron Cey, Ryne Sandberg, Lee Smith, Andre Dawson, Larry Bowa, Joe Girardi days when the Cubs used to cut GI Joe.
     
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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    sure was. arroyo on the mound.

    and the pedro/zimmer was started by posada. he said some shit about his fellow latino, pedros, mother. that no fly, main.


    edited due to fights mixed up.
     
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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    yeah i had to turn on him then, too. i think he recently died.
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    A young boy used to break dance outside the Oakland Colleseum before games for whatever coins people would toss him. Charlie Finley saw the kid one day and hired him to dance on the field between innings. That kid grew up to become M.C. Hammer.
     
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    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Well shit, I didn't dislike him that much. Maybe he'll be remembered as a Cubby.
     
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    Andre Dawson was the only player to win MVP while playing for a last place team.
     
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    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    The Hawk, I still can picture his stance and swing. Remember Lee Smith the closer with the dripping jeri curl, and Rick Sutcliffe with the strange way he hid the baseball by cupping his wrist almost right up until he released it?
     

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