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Wow, that is a lot of outrage about Andy Pettite signing a minor-league deal.
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When your job and reputation can depend on being the first to break news, I can understand being a tad peeved about the largest sports media outlet not giving you credit for being first.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 23:55 |
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It's a shame because Jack Curry is one of the few really awesome journalists and also like the nicest guy on the planet.
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# ? Mar 17, 2012 00:05 |
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Speaking of being an awesome journalist and one of the nicest guys on the planet...TJ Simers (still) is not any of those things
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AlleyViper posted:Speaking of being an awesome journalist and one of the nicest guys on the planet...TJ Simers (still) is not any of those things Wow, he even takes the time to attack his own coworkers. Classy guy!
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Drunk Canuck posted:Wow, that is a lot of outrage about Andy Pettite signing a minor-league deal. This is something ESPN does routinely to just about everyone so it's not like this is happening in a vacuum
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 16:05 |
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ESPN, for whatever reason, is ranking the best 500 players in baseball. Here's the bottom 100. This will end well.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:13 |
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Benne posted:ESPN, for whatever reason, is ranking the best 500 players in baseball. the magic of technology just allowed me to ask J.D. Martinez (who the gently caress is J.D. Martinez) how it feels to be the 500th-best player in major league baseball
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:17 |
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Raul Ibanez made the list, rankings invalidated.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:23 |
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I'm glad someone out there is making sure we know that Randy Wells is slightly better than AJ Burnett.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:23 |
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no for real who the gently caress is J.D. Martinez, I never even loving heard of this guy e: apparently he was called up from AA by the Astros after they traded Hunter Pence, and played half a season of league-average baseball. Pretty much the entire Astros roster is a mix between "LOL THAT DUDE?" and "who the gently caress is that dude?" so it is entirely unsurprising that I did not know who he is. e2: since the active rosters of every major league team total 750 players, this means that ESPN thinks that a generic 23-year-old outfielder is better than a full third of major league baseball right now Moe_Rahn fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Mar 20, 2012 |
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Moe_Rahn posted:no for real who the gently caress is J.D. Martinez, I never even loving heard of this guy Apparently some dude who likes to puke when working out.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:26 |
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Why am I just now finding out that Bruce Chen's twitter name is ChenMusic?
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:31 |
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JD Martinez is a right field prospect for the Astros who was brought up last season slightly before they promoted the entire AA/AAA team at once.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:32 |
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That post has "I have 20 minutes left in the day and my boss is sitting right near me so I can't just dick around on Facebook like usual" written all over it.
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dog poop n doritos posted:Why am I just now finding out that Bruce Chen's twitter name is ChenMusic? "Dude, all these jokes are great! Keep them coming! Tweeter is the best!" yes, bruce chen. yes, tweeter is indeed the best.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:34 |
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MLB Network did their 100 best players going into 2012 or their 2012 draft board or something like that and David Freese was in the 60s.
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# ? Mar 20, 2012 21:37 |
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Here's part 2 of the 500 list. I love that Hong-Chih Kuo, the guy that just got released after putting up an ERA of like 40, is the 367th best player in baseball.
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# ? Mar 21, 2012 19:36 |
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I really like that in a sport where there are 1200 players combined from each team's 40-man roster, they feel the need to point out the top 500 of those. Even with changes to 40-man rosters over the course of the season, they're highlighting about 40% of all baseball players. Why even bother?
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chutwig posted:I really like that in a sport where there are 1200 players combined from each team's 40-man roster, they feel the need to point out the top 500 of those. Even with changes to 40-man rosters over the course of the season, they're highlighting about 40% of all baseball players. Why even bother? It's even better if you think about it as a percentage of 25-man rosters. "Wow, you're in the top 2/3 of MLB players!"
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chutwig posted:I really like that in a sport where there are 1200 players combined from each team's 40-man roster, they feel the need to point out the top 500 of those. Even with changes to 40-man rosters over the course of the season, they're highlighting about 40% of all baseball players. Why even bother? They did 500 for the NBA, as well. Seems like it's just an arbitrary number they settled on that wouldn't be too unmanageable.
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I promised myself I wouldn't nitpick a silly thing like that but they have Kevin Correia ranked above Joe Blanton and Freddy Garcia and they want people to take it serious?
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Benne posted:Here's part 2 of the 500 list. From 2008-2010, Kuo was loving phenomenal. Approaching Mariano Rivera level reliever quality. He was terrible last year in < 30 innings, but that is not the first thing that stands out to me on this dumb list.
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leokitty posted:I promised myself I wouldn't nitpick a silly thing like that but they have Kevin Correia ranked above Joe Blanton and Freddy Garcia and they want people to take it serious? Um have you seen Kevin Correia's spring ERA???
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morestuff posted:They did 500 for the NBA, as well. Seems like it's just an arbitrary number they settled on that wouldn't be too unmanageable. There's not even 500 NBA players on active rosters
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Jackie D posted:There's not even 500 NBA players on active rosters They included free agents and D-League guys.
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# ? Mar 21, 2012 21:31 |
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leokitty posted:and they want people to take it serious? I have found your issue.
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# ? Mar 22, 2012 06:15 |
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magazines always do dumb arbitrary lists because it's a guaranteed nerd argument honeytrap.
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# ? Mar 22, 2012 06:35 |
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Here's Jeff Sullivan's take on the Dinger Machine. Not much that we didn't already know, but I'm fascinated to see how this plays out in the regular season.
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# ? Mar 22, 2012 15:29 |
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I stopped reading in protest as soon as I saw the words "big ugly thing"
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# ? Mar 22, 2012 15:39 |
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There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn.
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# ? Mar 22, 2012 15:42 |
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I'm more interested in articles that discuss the massive scam job the Marlins pulled to get that stadium financed. Did the SEC investigation finish yet?
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haljordan posted:I'm more interested in articles that discuss the massive scam job the Marlins pulled to get that stadium financed. Did the SEC investigation finish yet? Not that I have found. The vast majority of information on the subject is still the original articles posted back in December when the investigation was announced. I'm sure, given the massive incompetence and corruption of the SEC, either nothing will be found or it'll be buried quietly and forgotten.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn. You must not read much Sullivan.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn. http://www.hittrackeronline.com/detail.php?id=2011_3365&type=ballpark That's just last year. Looks like the right field power alley doesn't get much love, but even a couple made it out that way.
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Pvt. Public posted:Not that I have found. The vast majority of information on the subject is still the original articles posted back in December when the investigation was announced. I'm sure, given the massive incompetence and corruption of the SEC, either nothing will be found or it'll be buried quietly and forgotten. Figures. I really hate how most modern sports stadiums are financed. The public usually ends up getting reamed hard, and no one with any authority seems to give much of a poo poo.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn. Adrian Gonzalez played there for 5 years. I think he managed to get at least one over the wall.
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haljordan posted:Figures. I really hate how most modern sports stadiums are financed. The public usually ends up getting reamed hard, and no one with any authority seems to give much of a poo poo. Truthfully speaking, this applies to everything in the modern world. When financial "instruments" became the driving force of capital gains and the new way to generate money out of thin air, it was just one more rotation on the spit for the public. Leveraged financing based on future values by assuming a constant increase in those values (of property or whatever) is one of the prime reasons the world is so poo poo right now. Though it is only a new coat of paint on that old chestnut that is rich getting richer via position and influence manipulation.
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Pvt. Public posted:Truthfully speaking, this applies to everything in the modern world. When financial "instruments" became the driving force of capital gains and the new way to generate money out of thin air, it was just one more rotation on the spit for the public. Leveraged financing based on future values by assuming a constant increase in those values (of property or whatever) is one of the prime reasons the world is so poo poo right now. Though it is only a new coat of paint on that old chestnut that is rich getting richer via position and influence manipulation. I'm just annoyed by the fact that anytime a state government tries to get the team owners to pony up more cash themselves, they piss and moan about the amounts of revenue/jobs/etc. created by the stadium (using figures that are usually grossly inflated or incredibly overoptimistic).
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haljordan posted:I'm just annoyed by the fact that anytime a As Pvt. Public said, it's really just a facet of how incredibly hosed the relationship is between big business and the public.
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