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Old 10-02-2012, 02:38 PM
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There is so much good stuff in this thread that I'd either forgotten or missed entirely the first time around:

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS View Post
There's always going to be stars because someone has to win the races.

In some years the stars won't be very good in relation to the stars of other years.
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Basically, the older male division was Adriana Lima, Gisele Bundchen, Karolina Kurkova, Heidy Klum etc. The 2yo male division was some pretty girl hanging out at Camp Fat...
That was an analogy for the ages.


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Originally Posted by Kasept View Post
No matter how good they look in their era, Derek Jeter ain't Al Kaline...
A shoutout to Al Kaline, my all time favorite ballplayer?! How did I miss that?!


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Originally Posted by Coach Pants View Post
You can't have stars that the public cares about when they perform maybe at most 8 times a year on 6 week breaks.
I don't think the problem can be stated more concisely or more accurately than that.


And then the reason the thread deserved the bump:
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Obviously the eras are different but mitigated by Cabrera playing in poor hitting parks his entire career. And this is also without cabrera reaching his prime late 20's hitting peak. If you took the first 6 years of each player it is embarrasing. Surely Clemente was a better fielder but cabrera is a better hitter.
Can we agree now that Cabrera is the better hitter?!


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