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jay behrensI really don't get why people think so little of Rice. He was the Barry Bonds of his day. Nobody, I mean nobody, wanted to see him step up to the plate in his prime. You can't say this about Brett, Schmidt, Yount and other contemporaries. He was the first player in over 30 years to get 400 total bases in a season, and took another 15 years before anyone did it again. He too seems to suffer from the fact that his skills deteriorated rapidly.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, if Mattingly plays anywhere but with the Yankees, no one is breathing a word about him being in the HOF. He's Steve Garvey without a glove. And yes, I know he won a ton of GGs, but we all know you win that award for your bat, not your defense. Hrbek was a far better fielder than Mattingly could ever have dreamed of being.
Jay
I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.