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Who is the mid-season NL MVP?
Who is the mid-season NL Cy Young Award winner?
Who is the mid-season AL MVP?
Who is the mid-season AL Cy Young Award winner?
How long will Jamie Moyer continue pitching in MLB?
Which potential free agent will get the most guaranteed money?
Should Stephen Strasburg be on the NL All Star team?
How closely do you follow your favorite team’s minor league system?
How many minor league games do you see in person a year?
How many major league games do you see in person a year?
Which is baseball’s most unbreakable record?
Do you feel Major League postseason series should be played over consecutive days, with no travel days?
Have you watched any episodes of Frank TV?
Do you think it's more difficult to be a Major League manager or an NFL head coach?
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award (Championship Round):
Which would you vote for the AL Cy Young Award (Championship Round):
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award (Championship Round)?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award (round 2b)?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award (round 2a)?
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award (round 2b)?
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award (round 2a)?
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award (round 2a):
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award (round 2b):
Which would you vote for the AL Cy Young Award (round 2a)
Which would you vote for the AL Cy Young Award (round 2b)
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the AL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the NL MVP Award?
Which would you vote for for the American League Cy Young Award?
Which would you vote for for the American League Cy Young Award?
Which would you vote for for the American League Cy Young Award?
Which would you vote for for the American League Cy Young Award?
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award:
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award:
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award:
Which would you vote for the NL Cy Young Award:
Are you in favor of the NFL expanding to 18 games?
Which method of conversions in football would you prefer?
Who would you rather have broadcasting a college basketball game:
Which of the three major team sports has changed the most in the last 30 years:
Have you ever been to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts?
Who would win a game between the 1972 Dolphins and the 2007 Patriots?
Agree or disagree: I think the next Commissioner of baseball should be an ex-player?
The Braves of the 90's were:
Have you ever been to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio?
Agree or disagree: I think lineup selection plays a significant role in the success of an offense.
Which do you prefer to listen to with the broadcast: your local NFL radio broadcasters or the network TV guys?
Agree or disagree: There are too many field goals in today's NFL.
Agree or disagree: I would like to see Major League Baseball consider a rule where a batter can reject an intentional walk.
Agree or disagree: For the good of young athletes, the NCAA should adopt a rule limiting running backs to 350 carries in the regular season.
Which sport do more people really care about:
Do you try to handle baseball discussions with uninformed acquaintances by (a) patiently trying to explain advanced analytic methods, or (b) giving up and walking away?
How do you feel about Notre Dame football?
Do you feel off-the-field conduct should be considered when a player is eligible for the Hall of Fame?
Taking great players out of the Japanese League: a) is deeply damaging to Japan and will kill of interest in Japanese baseball b) is beneficial to Japan, and helps build interest in Japanese baseball
What percentage of NFL players do you believe use steroids?
Agree or disagree: Too much sportswriting focuses on money. Talk about the sports; let the agents and the owners worry about the money.
Do you like the NFL’s parity scheduling system?
Is chemistry important when building a team?
Agree or disagree: Major League Baseball should do something to prevent the season from potentially extending into November.
If given a chance, would you be a good major league general manager?
Should gambling on Pro Sports be legal, regulated and taxed?
Should public money be spent to build sports stadiums?
Are you in a fantasy football league?
Agree or disagree: The baseball wild-card format makes the pennant races more exciting for me.
Blocking the plate is:
If I were attending a major league game, I would rather see:
What NFL team had the best defense of all time?
Agree or disagree: Baseball doesn’t have nearly as much strategy as it did twenty years ago.
Which do you think is the strongest college football conference in the nation?
Agree or disagree: The NCAA should prohibit college football teams from playing on Friday nights, because that's the traditional night for high school games.
I think it's more fun to watch: a. A great quarterback like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning b. A great running back like LaDanian Tomlinson
If given the chance, do you think you would make a good major league manager?
Which do you prefer: The NFL's overtime system, or Div I-A College Football's?
Do you think it is appropriate for a college to offer a class in Sabermetrics?
Agree or disagree: There never has been and never will be a good domed baseball stadium.
Which conference do you think is stronger in football
Which conference do you think is stronger in football
Your team makes the World Series. Would you prefer:
Agree or disagree: Even though the new fielding stats say he's one of the worst in baseball, I still think Derek Jeter is a good defensive shortstop.
If I were attending a major league game, I would rather see:
Who was the better offensive catcher:
Which conference do you think is stronger in football:
Which conference do you think is stronger in football:
Which conference do you think is stronger in football:
Which conference do you think is stronger in football:
Agree or disagree: I watch preseason NFL games and think they are interesting.
Agree or disagree: I like doing The Wave at baseball games, and I wish the announcers who don’t like it would just shut up about it.
What do think of the athlete profiles (mini documentaries) delivered as part of the Olympic television coverage?
Which would you rather watch
What do you think is the stupidest Olympic sport?
What do you think of the Olympic baseball rule, which is essentially that, beginning in the 11th inning, you put two runners on base and bring up whatever hitters you want.
Can you accept the legitimacy of any sport in which the goal is to please the judges?
Do you regard the steroid users in baseball as cheaters?
Do you live in the city or metropolitan area of the baseball team for which you root?
Do you miss Howard Cosell?
Would soccer be more interesting if the average score of a game was more like 7-5?
Fifty years from now, will there be a women’s professional sport that people really care about?
Agree or disagree: Baseball would be a better game if 80% of the money was taken out of it.
If the 1976 Cincinnati Reds could play the 1961 Yankees, who would win?
What percentage of baseball TV announcers annoy you?
Which would you rather win:
The key player on the Big Red Machine was:
Agree or disagree: I know that statistical analysis shows that hitters don’t really get “hot” and “cold”, but in my heart I still believe that they do.
If you could choose one player to draft for a real baseball team in 2008, who would you choose:
How would you compare major league umpiring today with the umpires of fifteen years ago?
Would you go to more major league baseball games if the beer cost $2 a bottle?
My experiences with youth baseball in the last 20 years have been
Have you ever been to Cooperstown?
The sport that has the best athletes is
Agree or disagree: I have had it up to here with Red Sox Nation.
Would you be in favor of a rule limiting the number of mid-inning pitching changes?
Are today's managers handling their starting pitchers correctly, or are the starters babied too much?
How often does the right player win the MVP Award?
Agree or disagree: The Baseball Hall of Fame is the highest honor in American sports?
If the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox could play the 1959 American League Champion Chicago White Sox, who would win?
Do you have any interest whatsoever in A-Rods divorce?
Would you go to more major league baseball games if the time between innings was cut in half?
Would you enjoy baseball more if baseball teams had Dallas Cowboy-type cheerleaders?
How often does the music they play at baseball games irritate you?
Among the last five Baseball Commissioners, the best one was
Willie Mays in his prime hit .345, .333 and .347. If Mays was in his prime today, what would he hit?
Do you still root for the same baseball team you rooted for when you were ten years old?
The best ballpark food is
Agree or disagree with this statement: I don’t know why, but somehow the WNBA (Women’s NBA) just doesn’t work.
The best way to follow a baseball game now is:
Considering all of their on-field and off-field characteristics, who would you prefer that the team you root for would come up with:
Would baseball be a better game if they limited each team to five times a year they could option a player to the minor leagues and call up somebody else?
If the 2007 Boston Red Sox could play the 1967 American League champion Boston Red Sox, who would win?
Do you think home team baseball announcers should root for the home team, or should they remain neutral?
Would you go to more major league baseball games if ticket prices were 20% cheaper?
Agree or disagree: ESPN shows too many replays of home runs on their highlights shows:
Would you like to see a rule that all-star starters have to play at least 5 innings?
Agree or disagree: Fantasy and Rotisserie baseball have tremendously enhanced the modern experience of being a baseball fan.
The best football is
The best basketball is
Which method do you prefer for picking the All-Stars?
Do you think the All-Star Game deciding the league receiving the "home field" advantage in the World Series is the best way to determine the World Series “home field” advantage?
Agree or disagree: The decision to make home field advantage in the World Series depend on the All Star game has helped immensely to make the All Star game watchable again.
The greatest living baseball player is
Are you for or against expansion to 32 teams (and 16 teams per league) within the next ten years?
Is Pat Gillick a Hall of Famer?
If you could fire the manager of your hometown team, would you?
Which of the following statements do you more agree with:
In the work that you do, can your co-workers make you more productive or less productive?
Does it matter to you if a baseball player is a nice person and has decent values?
Agree or disagree: The American League and National League Player of the Week awards are a silly waste of time.
Is Carlos Quentin for real?
Do you believe that Bill James actually saw a lemur living wild in Boston?
Should MLB use instant replay?
If the Cubs were to play the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series, who would you root for?
If you were Kenny Williams, would you fire Ozzie Guillen?
Agree or Disagree: The NBA playoffs are about two rounds too long?
How do you react to Bill's proposal to count RBI opportunities?
In modern baseball, do the won-lost records of relievers still mean anything? Or has the game changed so that a reliever with a 5-1 won-lost record is no more likely to have pitched well than a pitch
Which would you rather have on your team?
When will Roger Clemens play his next MLB game (and please tell us why in the comment box)?
Which 2007 playoff team is the most likely to fail to make the playoffs in 2008?
When will Barry Bonds play his next MLB game (and please tell us why in the comment box)?
Five teams have new managers this year. Dodgers - Joe Torre, Pirates - John Russell, Reds - Dusty Baker, Royals - Trey Hillman, Yankees - Joe Girardi. Which team will benefit most (and please tell u
Who will be AL Rookie of the Year? Clay Buchholz (Bos), Joba Chamberlain (NYY), Jacoby Ellsbury (Bos), Evan Longoria (TB), Brandon Wood (LAA), or someone else?
Who will be NL Rookie of the Year? Homer Bailey (Cin), Jay Bruce (Cin), Cameron Maybin (Fla), Franklin Morales (Col), Colby Rasmus (StL), or someone else?
If he hadn't gotten hurt and had had a full, normal career, would Tony Oliva be a Hall of Famer?
If he hadn't gotten hurt and had had a full, normal career, would Gary Nolan be a Hall of Famer?
What is the greatest record in baseball?
If he hadn't gotten hurt and had had a full, normal career, would Rico Carty be a Hall of Famer?
If he hadn't gotten hurt and had had a full, normal career, would Lenny Dykstra be a Hall of Famer?
If he hadn't gotten hurt and had had a full, normal career, would Hal McRae be a Hall of Famer?
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