Best pitcher right now in the majors = Jair Jurrjens

I agree...did NOT see this one.

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Quote Originally Posted by philthy15:

first of all the experts didn't tell me anything. i already know the phillies are the best team in baseball. funny thing is phils NEVER have division leads this time of year and ALWAYS hit their stride in late august. happens every year where the braves fans talk shit throughout the summer but don't fret your team will soon drift away into obscurity. 

Seriously? Is that all you have? In a thread about individual pitchers all you have is pathetic attempts at insults like “your team is a joke.”

What are you? 10 years old? Keep it down, kid. The adults are talking.

Also most knowledgeable Braves and Phillies fans know that the teams are the two best in the NL and both teams will most likely make the playoffs.

Keep on being a homer that is incapable of looking at anything related to your team objectively and keep on making as ass of yourself.

That means a lot coming from a guy that uses alias accounts to try and bail himself out when he backs himself into a corner.

How is that whole using covers to “make friends” thing working out for you? Have you made any yet?  And no, your alias accounts don’t count.

Yeah he owns that department. No one is really even close to him right now.

As I said, guys like Halladay will be steady all year and Jurjenns will regress.

He is now not in the top 5 in ERA in the NL.  Two Phillies are.  We won't even compare numbers in all of baseball.

As I said before: "right now."

Tigers could use em instead of someone like fister tonight....

Yup, he is putting together a very good year.

Quote Originally Posted by BigGame90:

 Straight Shooter, try to tell us something we don't know. You might be the only person in this forum to think Roy is overrated.

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Originally Posted by mylife23:

I have always liked Halladay but I don't think he's the end all be all for pitchers in this age. There are lots of good arms that are actually younger and just as effective. The Giants beat him last postseason with a subpar offense. Look at Cain and LIncecum and they completely shut down Philadelphia's more potent offense. Lots of options these days in the MLB for studs on the mound.

IMO, he is overrated. He is great pitcher no doubt, but the way some people talk about him you’d think every time he stepped on the mound it was a guarantee he was throwing a complete game shutout.

Halladay is probably the best pitcher in baseball, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be overrated when the media acts like he is a god that can’t be touched.

Let me try and explain this in a way someone of your intelligence can understand.  

Take Kate Upton. She is a very attractive young lady, but if the media crowned her hottest woman who ever lived she would be overrated.

Wise up.

Quote Originally Posted by BigGame90:

From the mouth of Straight Shooter.
IMO, he is overrated. He is great pitcher no doubt, but the way some people talk about him you’d think every time he stepped on the mound it was a guarantee he was throwing a complete game shutout.

  Straight Shooter

Same post two minutes later.

Keep at it, kid.

I can’t really say I’m surprised you don’t know who Kate Upton is. Perhaps Justin Bieber would be more up your ally.

Do yourself a favor and look up the word “overrated.” It doesn’t mean something isn’t good. It means something has been rated too high.  Like I said: Doc is probably the best pitcher in baseball, but doesn’t mean he can’t be overrated if people think he is better than he is.

Do you really not understand this or are you just trolling?

Despite your use of the English language I think most people got what you were attempting to say.

I’d also like to point out that you are arguing with someone over a post they made that started with “IMO.”

You do know what “IMO” stands for, right?

Quote Originally Posted by BigGame90:



So now the media is the only place that has the ability to "rate" a player? You are contradicting yourself here. You say he may be the best in the game, but yet you also say hes overrated?  Do you expect him to be a god? Where is the middle with you? IMO your opinion is a bit off scale and whack. IMO overrated means it is not good, hence they are rated higher then what they are performing ( do we not compare players based on their contracts and what performance is expected with their pay?). Why would you assume the media is the only matter when it comes to rating a player? 
I would think overrated has more to do with performance compared to pay.
You think overrated has more to do with what the media and public think compared to...... what??

How are you still not understanding that a player can be great, but still be overrated?

I think Roy Halladay is probably the best pitcher in the NL right now, but because a lot of people act like every time he takes the mound it’s a guarantee he is going at least 8 innings and giving up no more than a single earned run it is MY OPINION that he is overrated.

I’ve explained it as simply as I possibly can.

<<<<<<<<<<<Kate Upton Bitches!!!

And she stars in one of the hottest commercials to ever air nationally on US television:

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