You're up, Orestes Destrade:
All right, you want bold? I'll give you bold.
He says this in a totally unconvincing tone of voice.
Ichiro Suzuki will be the first guy to hit .400 since Ted Williams. How about that?
He clearly doesn't believe this. Why are you making him say this thing? This is great.
If he can walk more and strike out less, this guy has the opportunity to do that.
Ichiro has walked more than 49 times once in his career. As a point of reference, the year Ted Williams hit .406, he walked 147 times. It was only the fourth-highest walk total of his career.
And by the way, he's a free agent. 20% spike. They have done a survey and it's quantifiable. 20% spike. Guys that are in their survey year.
What? What "survey" is he talking about? Can anyone produce this for us? Also, it's solid gold that he ends this insane rant by mumbling "Guys that are in their survey year," a nonsense phrase that got stuck in his brain because he just said the word "survey" (and used that incorrectly).
Steve Phillips goes with the following retarded nonsense:
Alex Rodriguez is going to be the MVP of the All-Star Game, the 2007 season, he's going to be the MVP of the World Series.
Who the fuck cares about the All-Star Game? This prediction made me laugh out loud.
He's going to finally become a Yankee,
This actually happened February 17, 2004. Unless you left out the word "True."
and he's going to opt out of his contract for next year.
So Steve Phillips understood the request "make a bold prediction" as "make five predictions and combine them together in an awkward list."
This segment has proved that in the context of the Baseball Tonight Bold Prediction, bold = crazy = pointless. Great TV, gentlemen.
Peter Gammons goes with "Grady Sizemore is going to be the MVP" and follows it up with some numbers or some shit. WRONG. Too defensible. Too uncrazy. Totally unpointless.
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