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Look up range factor to inform yourself about what it measures, and tell me what's wrong with it. Quickly, your free thinking throne is in jeopardy.

We've already established the infallibilty, in your mind, of your opinion. This is a wasted sentence and impresses nobody.

I never thought you didn't know the DH rule. I do think you brainfarted and suggested Philly sign him to be a DH. Once you went the way you did with it, instead of owning up to the mistake, I had fun with it.

I wouldn't call it a big loss, not yet. If Brandon Wood can't perform once given consistent playing time, then yeah. There's a good chance he's an upgrade, though.

Gom, the idea that people who find value in a statistic are guilty of believing everything they read is ignorant and a blatant, self-serving strawman. If you'd ever get over your intellectual laziness and read the explanations given by the people who create these new stats and their acknowledgments of where they are weak, you might be able to find value in them too. For instance, most of these guys who have created defensive stats will tell the reader that even a full season's worth of data is usually not enough to give an accurate depiction of the player's talent, which is why you see so much variation from year to year. Does that make it invalid? No, it just means that when you are looking at one season's worth of information, you need to temper your expectations. It's very likely that defensive performance is prone to large variation and that a single season will never provide enough data for a clear view, which would make the stat acceptable provided the user kept the limitations in mind. Gom, you aren't guilty of an instance where you believed "everything" you've read. Nobody is. If people believed everything they've read, they'd truly believe in nothing because there's something out there on both sides of every issue. However, you are guilty of deriding some for believing "something" they've read (stats), yet you are also guilty of believing "something" else, such as a transaction rumor or an editorial piece. This is hypocrisy. If you are going to soapbox against using information from outside sources, then you need to stand on an island and use only the information inside your own head. I suggest you refrain from this, because the library seems empty.

Like your Vernon Wells idea? Look, we've seen this movie before, Gom. Push comes to shove and you "watchezzz teh gameezzzz" while everyone else is sheep who can't think for themselves. You are a broken record, and the two cornerstones of your argument are bunk. Watching the games is valuable, but for the purposes of discussing entire leagues worth of players, the observations need to come from a trained eye, ie a scout, and someone who watches more than 1/3 of a season's worth of games. The observations of a functional retard chugging beers in the RF bleachers is worth its weight in guano. And you've been caught marking time on your dick several times on the "believe everything you read" front. Quit hauling out this trite nonsense.

You can show the syntax without the space with NOPARSE in the brackets. Start and end the NOPARSE before the YOUTUBE brackets. It voids the coding tools used inside the NOPARSE brackets.

Burn, you got me there, I actually use reference material to verify my opinions before putting credence in them. I'd be much better off with post-lobotomy brain and an ego big enough to never doubt its ability. Seems to work so well with the nonsense you churn out. Where do I sign up for up a procedure to gain this mental capacity, and if I pay now, does the drool cup get thrown in for free?

This is a steal. They gave up a maybe and two nothings for young star in the making.

It's very easy to believe the idiocy you are capable of, like, for instance, you are probably stupid enough to think people will believe this "I did it on purpose" nonsense.

Let me get this straight, Mr. Game Watcher McWatchstein didn't know that the NL (1) didn't have the DH and (2) didn't play by AL rules in an AL park? Biggest credibility buster on record. Watchezzzzzzzzz teh gammeezzzzzzz.

Whatever. Your trolling attempt blew up in your face. You lose. Lahooo-Zaherr.

Given the amount of known use and the reasonable suspicion of many others, it's hard to find competitive advantage from one team to the next. It was all over, still is in my mind.

Well, BOY is back.

But totally unsurprising. Anyway, PEDitte was there for all of it, and he can't get away from that.

PEDitte? You have a smelly taint too.

Guy, this s*** has been part of the hot stove discussion for quite some time, with many pundits suggesting the Jays include Wells to be rid of him. "Just came up with this....", LOL, orignal thoughts for the win.

Dipre, this is the clear sign you've beat him. I've seen him do this three times when backed into a corner with his nonsense. It's always the anonymous PM army that comes to the rescue when his lunch is getting eaten in the discussion. Transparent, weak, lame, and perfectly predictable.

The draft pick. The Twins can't offer Cabrera arbitration, so they could have had him without giving up draft compensation.