Jake

am I an idiot for not seeing the problem? is the flag too "Iwo Jima"?

The worst position to sign somebody at is 1B

We should sign Thornton every year before flipping him for an okay prospect

Do bars have interns?

Frank Thomas was probably the only player that had enough sway yet cared little enough about the respect of his peers to bring it up. He knew that his legacy was being damaged and that was all that mattered to him. Griffey was another player that could have spoken up, but unlike Frank I think he was very concerned with the way he was viewed by peers, having grown up in an MLB clubhouse

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 08:31 AM) I see an issue if I understand the proposed process. Three teams all post $20 mil. The player begins negotiations with the team with the worst record. What happens if they cannot agree to a deal? Does the next team have a chance? If that is the case, then the player can basically say no and wait for the Yankees / Red Sox / Dodgers / etc. If the team with the worst record is the only team the player can negotiate with, that's a losing deal for the player. The player is already restricted to negotiating with one team. I'd break ties with the worst record, restricting negotiations for that season with the winning team. However, you put every team on hook for 25% of their bid. This keeps teams from bidding just for s***s and giggles, knowing they won't get it but another team will have to pay more. You don't make it the whole bid because you'll be killing every losing team in a system that isn't unassailable in terms of its fairness. This should help the Japanese teams sign on as well, since they'll be getting more money than the actual bidding cap.

Where are these two lefties coming from? Wouldn't shock me if we only have one.

I think Gordon's talent may be what was overestimated.

Andro hardly did anything and was legal at the time. I would guess that McGwire was using actual steroids and had the Andro around as a distraction as if to say "I got huge like this legally"

What kind of team would look at Beckham and Semien as relatively equal options?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 11:01 AM) WTF? What civilization on Earth are we talking about that "has no understanding of war"? They certainly needed some time to understand what kind of war it was they were fighting. Tribal conflict was just that -- tribal. They didn't realize that this other enemy (or, for a while in some circumstances an ally) from across the ocean would look at every human being on this continent as an enemy. They're thinking that Tribe X, Y, Z are all sovereign entities and not unlike the Europeans. Europeans just saw "Indians." I think if Native Americans had some way of perceiving that the goal of Europeans was total conquest of lands more numerous than they could have fathomed, things might have been different. So while Native American groups knew all about fighting "wars," there was nothing so imperial before. I don't believe they could have guessed what kind of goal was being pursued by Europeans nor could they have collectively realized that they needed each other, all of each other, to oppose this group.

I'd really like Castro and would easily part with either Santiago or Quintana to get him. He doesn't have to hit as well as he did last year to be really worth it. Have Flowers back him up and you have a really nice catching tandem. Castro would catch a bunch and you let Flowers go against the toughest lefties, where he should have some success. If Houston doesn't think they can compete before Castro hits FA or not until he's about to become a FA, send him over here. The marginal gain at the C position would be astronomical. Having a young lefty bat in the middle of the order for the next several years would make the lineup really quite scary. Imagine having a middle of the lineup is some order including: -Abreu -Avisail -Castro -Viciedo and then, you're looking at guys like Alexei, ADA, and Semien for the top/bottom in the near term. A lot of talent and not very much age among that crew.

To quote Adam Dunn when asked if AJP is an asshole, "no more of an asshole than anyone else"

I'm all for covering the desert in the southwest with solar panels and redoing the power grid to accommodate the new power source

The kind of production that 15 million bucks will get you in three years may make Danks look like an amazing contract

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Dec 6, 2013 -> 08:24 PM) Also found this at MLBTR... "Right-hander Matt Albers has already received at least one two-year contract offer from an interested team, Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Albers has received interest from several clubs, and Hoynes reports that one of those teams is from the AL Central, possibly the Tigers or White Sox. The Indians have discussed a one-year deal with Albers and Hoynes speculates that the righty could take the shorter contract in order to help his value for next winter, provided he gets the right price." Anyone think the Sox are interested? I don't think we would be anymore, after bringing in Belisario

My friends like to call it "Whole Paycheck"

I also found this sort of data incredibly difficult to find, so I won't claim it as unassailable. There was a great deal of land redistribution in the early years of post-apartheid era, so who knows what effect that had on the economy

We are in the perfect position to hold onto him instead of trading him at his lowest value of his career

this reflects annual growth in the positive throughout the transition

I kinda thought Jenks was being sarcastic

Then we elect guys like Dick Cheney who still thinks he did the right thing in voting against sanctioning the apartheid regime

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 02:44 PM) The iPhone4 wasn't built poorly at all, it simply wasn't built to be a baseball, which is something it's not. If I threw my watch around like people throw their phones around, it'd shatter/break, too. They're not baseballs, footballs, wrenches, or freebees, people...they're phones, mostly made of metal and glass these days, ie, not meant to be dropped or thrown against walls. I've seen phones of all types with shattered screens, and that has nothing to do with build quality, it has to everything to do with the people using them, and a bit of luck. If you're prone to breaking them, put it in a case. I've seen iPhone 4's survive 2 story drops off a balcony, only to shatter from a 7 inch drop. I've had every iPhone since the original, I don't use cases and have yet to break a single one of them. Apple graciously replaced both free of charge (not something they normally do with AppleCare, though I suspect they were especially generous because I was willing to purchase their warranty) because they admitted to me that it was an error of theirs and a great deal of people were having that problem. Between that and the antenna issue, that's probably the closest to a "dud" that they've put out. The "free replacement" became unofficial policy for that device, which at least shows you that they were willing to go to great lengths to make good on their mistake. No big deal. Also, as I said, they were in cases each time that they broke. Once was in the case they gave me for dicking up the antenna business and the other was an Otterbox. It's no big thing, the current phones aren't doing it because they presumably learned their lesson.

PK is backup C, Dunn is fourth OF. Problem solved. Carry 14 pitchers

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 6, 2013 -> 09:51 AM) according to his profile he was last visiting the site in late august That establishes a correlation with the play of the Sox