John_Havok

I believe in mail order bride terms it’s referred to as “return to sender.”

That is all. I hope your holiday is whatever you want or need it to be!

LGjr at 3b is the worst case scenario, only due to injury to like 5 other guys type of solution for the rest of 1 game until they can call someone else up for tomorrow.

Never go full troll. I don't think the people would be able to handle it.

1. Lawrie - more compact and would get more of his shoulder and forearms into it. 2. Lawrie - Canadian advantage to beer drinking. Would easily outlast some dumbass American 3. JPA - Lawrie is dumber than a brick and catchers have more upstairs. 4. Hard to quantify this, but I'd call it a tie. They both have that giant douchey athlete vibe that chicks hate to love to f***.

Mine that isn't finalized yet... Bonds A-Rod Manny Rolen Schilling Sheffield Sosa Jones Clemens Wagner Ortiz Still waffling on Kent and Petitte. I'm leaning towards yes on Kent, and no on Pettite, but I'm still working through the numbers.

No s***, if anything they saved baseball and gave it some attention again. Baseball started being relevant again, all those sanctimonious writers that were all worried about their baseball writing futures jobs were saved... if anything every writer with a HOF vote should be thanking those guys for keeping them employed. Except Murray Chass, he just needs to stop and gracefully exit the whole process before he makes a bigger joke of himself and his ballots.

I dont think trading for Marte would be a similar cost, Marte doesn't have that same Ramirez superstar history. He's a legit star, of course, but I think he could be pried away for decidedly less than Ramirez, even with the extra year of control.

There was 2 things I noticed right away when I watched my one game there. Why are the seats along the third base line pointed at the RF wall instead of more towards the plate? And where the f*** are the cupholders?

Even if they wanted to build a new stadium, where would make sense?

At least Conforto takes some walks. Not as good defensively though

Sorry, 10M annually. Not total. The upfront cost would be significant

Last estimates had real grass renovations to cost around 10 million... so please let that be part of it. PLEASE

Not an egregious overpay...but that's a lot of gaps to fill post trade as well. plus... trading like 20 years of control for 2. I'm not a big fan of this as it's built, but I would still be exhausting every possibility to try and get Ramirez in the fold. Of those 4 guys, I'd probably tell them they can pick 3 of them, then add some low minor's lottery ticket instead. It would probably end up being LG, Kirk, Groshans + the lottery pick. That should be sufficient depending on how they value those players. though If I was Cleveland, The conversation would probably start with Moreno.

holy hell, i knew Manny was garbo on defense... but -277 runs is f***ing unreal. He's Andruw Jones defensive opposite.

Its hard to say, he was still hitting 30 HRs a year prior to the breakout, but what he wasn't doing... was pretty much anything else with the bat. He was a 112 wrc+ from 1993-1997 while averaging 34 HR per year. He didn't take walks or even pile up hits, he was a pretty empty 35 HR hitter. Interestingly enough though he was a pretty plus defender in those years and worth more runs on Defense than offense. Then the roid years took over, his offense skyrocketed while his D plummeted to average or well-below average.

Feels like if there wasn't a stupid 10 name limit, Sosa would also be on there.

We'd probably be having the HOF conversation about him right now, right alongside Jones, Rolen and Edmonds. Chavez was in that same mold.

Pujols is an interesting case. Clearly a HOF hitter, but when you look at the halves of his career theyre so different it's incredible. Age 21-31, OPS+ of 170 , just murdered baseballs. 445 HR, avg OPS was 1.037 Then 32-41, OPS+ of 108, 234 HR, avg OPS of .758 The cliff is real. The Angels got 1 good year out of his 10 year deal. Damn

Same problem with others of that era. Overshadowed by the Bonds, Ramirez, Sosa, McGwires.... etc. The entire steroid era is so interesting in what it does to the Hall of Fame. Guys like Edmonds who objectively had better careers than many hall of famers just wont get in.

It's a figure of speech. When voting on who gets into the the Hall of Fame, I'm pretty confident they actually look at stats and stuff. They totally screw up the interpretation of those stats a lot, but they still look at them.

You're not wrong. if I was looking at HOF resumes I would probably think the voters would put in Edmonds ahead of Jones, yet Edmonds was gone in his first year with just 2.5% of the ballot.

Ozzie.... i don't even know if any catchers in there are there for defense, though I'm sure Molina will be eventually. Maybe Greg Maddux as a pitcher, He won like 18 gold gloves. Pure defensive induction there right?

Jones was a far superior defender to Edmonds... it's a fairly massive gap in defensive value.

I don't know the exact stuff either, but I do know they have different rates for times of day, days of the week and even the types of commercial breaks. Like, in a 9 inning they game, they know 100% there will be X amount of breaks during the pregame, and between each half inning. Those will all have varying rates depending on the time of the night they happen. Like a commerical in the 1st inning might cost more or less, because its's at 7:15 eastern, vs a commerical in the 7th that might be at 9:15 eastern. The rolling TV viewership numbers is what dictates the rates. Since those commerical blocks are guarantted to happen and they have a very solid idea of the time they will occur, those rates will be pretty much set in stone. The varying rates will the extra breaks for possible injuries, in game delays, pitching changes, extra innings... those will have variable rates because they won't know exactly when they happen, nor exactly how many of them there will be. They'll have a pretty good idea with averages from previous years... so they will generally have a bunch of companies that sign up for the variable spots, and then they pay X amount for X # of commercials. When they run over their alotted number, they either stop running that companies ads, or get them to re-up.