One day Squash, I hope you find your Carl and go far away from us. You’ll be happier too. No more trying to hide your feelings behind a veritable stream of anti-gay slurs, you can finally relax and be a much happier person. We on HBT will also be happy. Happy you are far away with your hot Carl.

Bicepts brings out the worst in people. The general tone of a lot of his comments is hateful. Hate breeds hate.

On to Gayrod and Jeter. Gay rod can take his stats and stuff them. He was juicing longer then he said. Like Bonds he was a very good player who didn’t need to juice, but decided to get selfish and did his part in destroying the integrity and history of the game. I have no repect for Gay rod or any of those Juice guys. Jeter I have made respect. Hes a hard worker, who lays it on the line and always has. Also I hate the Yankees, but if I was a NYer I would root for them over the gayest team in sports the Mets. How can anyone that is not gay and from NY root for the Mets.

But yeah…LeBron and A-Rod are both piss-poor when it comes to image management…and it makes me laugh and laugh…

That honestly changes my opinion a bit…well done!

You may be dismayed at what they are paid, but even Dan Gilbert knows that he pocketed a lot of money when LeBron was on the Cavs. I suspect the owner of the Heat is also dismayed this morning. Not because the Heat lost, but because he missed out on one more home date on Tuesday night to pad his pockets even more than he already has with Lebron on his team. No need for Heat management and their pockets to worry about next season though. They’ve already sold out the entire season ticket package for the year.

I do agree on the pitching though, and it’s an excellent argument for those that point out Jeter never won without those great staffs and bullpens of the late 90′s/early 00′s. He didn’t. (but he also played damn well in some of the series they did lose) To me the number one culprit for the ’04 collapse was Big Stein himself. Why he ever ran Pettitte out of town, especially after the way he pitched in the playoffs in ’03, I will never understand. Let alone, to bring in total stiffs like Kevin Brown to try and replace him. If Andy had been able to take the ball in one of those final ’04 games against the Sox I like to think he would’ve at least done better than Brown… ugh.*

*I don’t begrudge saying that the Sox might’ve beaten him anyway, once they turned the corner in that one I’m not sure they could’ve been stopped.

And seriously, are dudes jealous that A-Rod cheated on his wife? If you are, just get a divorce.

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I don’t believe that there’s a “right way” to talk about baseball. There’s a way that I talk about baseball, and that’s a way that resonates with a lot of people on the internet. But there can be lots of different conversations about baseball going on at once, and nobody has to feel left out. I don’t think you have to believe in the stats that I believe in, but I do think you should be able to argue respectfully for whatever evidence you want to use to make a point. And I don’t see you willing to do that.

Actually, I don’t think you know much, Bicepts, beyond your preconceived notions of how the world works and that everyone agrees with you or at least should. And that everybody who doesn’t sucks or is a liberal. It’s your attitude I object to, not your stats. We are all entitled to respond to anything on this blog, provided we do so responsibly. Thus, while you can say whatever you want (within reason) I am entitled to continue telling you that your responses are classless and ignorant whenever they are. Which is almost always.

The Common Man is an idiot, plain and simple. He tries to discredit me because he’s probably some 16 year old sabermetrician who was offended by what I said (2) weeks ago about sabermetrics and wants to continue to attack when he deems fit, in his opinion.

In reality, his baseball knowledge is small in comparison to my own. He knows it, and he’s jealous.

You are an a-hole, truely [sic]. Everyone that reads this blog know [sic] this to be the case….Don’t you get it by now? We don’t agree on [all] subjects…move on. Seriously, you are weak. Stick with your bs and leave [everyone] alone.

Get it, a-hole….you don’t own this blog. I will continue to give my opinion how I see fit.

[edits courtesy of El Bravo]