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Raul Ibanez-
This isn't exactly earth shattering news but one more reason to love Raul. When he's coming up to bat he always plays a pearl jam song. At the game yesterday he came out to save you, then solat. Also, the fixer played down at Citizens Bank. Yeah we rock.
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made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."
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Haters keep on hating.
Yeah, it's not like Raul was ever on the DL or has had some groin problems this year. Nope, not at all. Has been hitting .300 consistently since 2001. Yeah, toooootal roid head.
Dobbs used to come out to Hail Hail two years ago too
Unfortunately in today's baseball climate anyone producing better then their average will be looked at in a questionable way. I think a lot of it has to do with the "hitter-friendly" ballpark at Citizens Bank that he is taking advantage of. Someone should take Raul's offer to test him for PED's, I forget what the deal was, but it will either make a journalist/blogger think twice about insinuating drug use, or shed a bad light on Raul. And it should be a blood test, not a piss test.
Hoping for a Phils/Yanks World Series! It's not easy being a Yankees fan in PA lately. I like the Phils team, solid group of players, but I won't admit that to my friends that are rabid Phils fans!
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hitting behind Howard helps also. I mean the Cubs pitched around Howard a bunch which I didn't quite understand.
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Probably because Pinella managed Ibanez for 5 years and figured he knew how to approach him at the plate.
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paul bako has been coming up to PJ also
agreed that he's a product of the bandbox citizen bank park. always a pretty consistant player in seattle though.
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hitting in the Phils lineup is the reason and nothing else...he's always been a really good hitter on shitty teams...half the country doesn't even know seattle has baseball team
Philly is PJ's REAL hometown!!
He's slugging a whopping 200 points better than his career average.
His OPS is also 200 points higher than his career average.
He has 25 HR in 71 games. He's only hit more than 25 one other time in his career.
He's never been an all star before this year.
The only other players to start dominating and having career years at the age of 37: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens
These are the facts.
when you give someone like him a hitter friendly park and a WAAAY better coaching staff (than what was in Seattle when he left)...you're bound to see results
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
Add hitting in the Phil's stacked lineup to that. He's sandwiched between Howard (on pace for 40+ HR's, 125 RBI) and Werth (on pace for 35+ HR, 100 RBI) when a righty is pitching, so needless to say he gets some pretty good pitches to hit.
The guy is a good person and a great player. I can't stand the baseless roid accusations. If he gained 20 lbs of muscle and his head grew from last year, I'd say you might have a point...but that didn't happen.
Raul was a late bloomer, did not have a steady starting role in the majors til he was 30. His "career average" is probably deceiving. It probably make more sense to compare what he has done this year to his average Stats from the previous 4 years. It may not be as out of line as you think.
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
slide in sideways, BBQ sandwich in one hand, cold beer in the other,
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "Woo Hoo what a
ride"!
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