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This is thought process failure. He said the other sports athletes are paid, in total, a higher percentage of overall revenues. Your justification suggests causation that would support baseball leading the field in that measurement, which it doesn't. The reason it doesn't is the lack of a salary cap. The other sports' salarly caps are negotiated as a fixed percentage of overall revenues. Since baseball doesn't have one, the overall revenues aren't on the table for negotiation. The MLBPA is the strongest professional athlete's union in sports, and in flexing its muscle to resist a cap over micro issues (less leverage in individual player salary negotiations), it has missed the bus on the macro issue (a higher negotiated percentage of revenues for all).
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He is a waste of time. I saw him spinning the minute hand of a clock the other day with his finger. He must have forwarded that clock about 2 hours in 2 minutes. What a waste of time. Oh, and, option?
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Or no shirt. That would work too.
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They both came to NY for a higher payday. Apparently, this is something that doesn't get creditted toward the financial advantage. Interesting take on things. EDIT: Oh, and I'd refrain from stating something is a "fact" and then following it up with "appeared". Appeared means you think those things happened. Facts are facts.
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Let me help you out here a little bit. Jacko did the same thing in '05, '06, '07....get the point. Sure, he was right in '09, but it's the same message every year. Color me unimpressed. There is no mystery. It's the chart.
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The largest of which is a desire to win a championship. The fact that they are able to operate at a budget level that dwarves even the 2nd place spenders enables them to be perrenial favorites, so the primary "other" factor is directly related to their advantage.
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Why? What did they do to be ashamed of?
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The Giants are off to a good start. If they are able to continue their seance to resurrect the DLF (Derek Lowe Face) and have Lincecum be Lincecum tomorrow, they'll start the year 6-0. Impressive.
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This sub-forum was created as a catch basin for all the Yankee related talk that was spilling into the general MLB forum a few years back. It was not created as a platform for the modern day baseball version of Joseph Goebbels.
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And the sad part is, you can't really say he's been demonstrably worse than any of his peers. It's an epidemic, IMO.
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So, he decides to make up for it by calling a clear ball a strike. Get rid of these jokers. EDIT: Nevermind, I was looking at pitch #6. The sentiment still stands, though.
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Well, at least Darling is consistently inconsistent. Ball 3 to Varitoast was a clear strike also.
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Those last two pitches were inside the hazy, borderline strikezone on Gameday. MLB umps, FML.
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Season's over.
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It's the right move with Scutaro up. You eliminate the chance to GIDP and put a guy in scoring position.
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Which means f***all now that he's dropped his recent suckbomb.
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Wednesday night?
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He's just keeping pace with Papelbon on the season.
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Why is he pitching to Ankiel?
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I've already stated it. It's not perfect, but it's the best we've got, and it uses the best possible approach short of an electronic tracking system. To the detractors who get all wadded in the panties because one of their heros doesn't score well in a given year, I say heed the advice of the guy who created it. One year samples aren't enough to filter out all the noise inherent in attempting to measure fielding. This is like saying, don't measure how good someone is with an offensive stat over one month, which is accepted as common knowledge to most, including the "gamerzzz". Apply the same principle to something more complex like fielding, expand the window to a few seasons, etc.. Anyway, back to the game.
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I squander, squander, squander, who Who will drive in the ruuuunnnnsssss?