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  1. chasfh
    Javy Baez statted last year ranked ninth among top shortstops Lon MLB network, and finished eighth in WAR. This year he’s missed the list entirely. Someone needs to take a screenshot of this and post it over his locker for motivation.
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    Sure, but he sounds like that, right?
  3. chasfh
    Joe Buck was never much a baseball guy, anyway, so definitely no loss.
  4. chasfh
    I remember watching it as a kid, too, and liking it, basically because it was written at a single-digit-grade level.
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    I still think it’s the Queens accent. He has a lower-middle-class working-with-his-hands accent that people of modest education and means really respond to. If he had the same ideas and talked like Bill Buckley instead, then he’d be Bill Buckley redux.
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    Well, what do you expect from a guy who pinned this to his Twitter account …
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    You'll get no argument from me that teams are not tanking just for the draft pick. I think there are other reasons that can't be addressed with tweaks to the draft. I think there's a systemic problem of too many organizations skimping on operating costs over the long haul that experience both great profits and capital appreciation, and Baseball, i.e., the owners, who benefit directly from that part of the equation, have no interest to addressing that.
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    The owners must think draft lottery is an OK way to address that problem, because the alternative would be to enforce the spending of revenue share dollars on improving the product on the field, and that would just be a fridge too far for them.
  9. chasfh
    COVID is not apes. Duh.
  10. chasfh
    “Civilians are going about their business in Kyiv. There is no war. Only an operation to restore peace for the people against the aggression of UkroNazi nationalists perpetrating genocide of the Russian-speaking population.”
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    I took it out this morning, so it's safe to go back in.
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    I think one big reason is that even when they put the cheapest team on the field possible, backed by the cheapest resources they can manage to keep the enterprise afloat, they can still make money hand over fist from all the revenue sources all big league organizations enjoy. Perhaps not all tanking organizations do so for that reason—some might still be doing it for the future draft picks, such as they are—but I do think some organizations are skimping on the product and still clearing big profits.
  13. chasfh
    Tanking is not necessarily only about draft picks.
  14. chasfh
    I know someone here who will enjoy this story.
  15. chasfh
    I've been told repeatedly that there's no such thing as tanking. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see five teams win 100 games and five others lose 100.
  16. chasfh
    I don't think at least one of those guys feel bereft.
  17. chasfh
    I'm getting a little concerned that Ilitch is going to stand pat, or pick up no more than a Nova-level warm body at minimum wage. All the good guys are flying off the board.
  18. chasfh
    Contrast thus with Claude Rossman of the 1908 Tigers, who was 26 going on 27 when this picture was taken:
  19. chasfh
    Why go for it if you can make just as much money not going for it? I guess.
  20. chasfh
    If C Trent is to be believed here, they might give Castillo away for peanuts.
  21. chasfh
    Ok, let’s do ties after 12 and a point system, two for a win, one for a tie. Make it so. 😉
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    FWIW, it did shorten the average number of extra innings played.
  24. chasfh
    If they start it in the 11th inning and never in the playoffs, I can be talked into it.
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