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  1. jad
    But there's no replacing the ground-rule-double play! Anymore than Manny's "high-5-the-fan-then-wheel-and-double-the-guy-off-first" play.
  2. jad
    I feel I just got off the plane in a foreign country whose customs I have no clue about and whose language I don't speak.
  3. jad
    Someone please explain this. Trading a productive hitter for a guy who hit .163 last year?
  4. jad
    Owners once again being a-holes, forcing a lock-out. Note that one of the key issues is the reduction in time required for arbitration or free-agency. The owners rejecting this is total b.s. Since they already know how much they are willing to spend, seeing that money drift to younger players won't cost them a freaking dime. Apparently, they find it an insult to their dignity not having total control over younger players, even when it has no effect on their bottom line.
  5. jad
    Players' salaries are well-known. All the owners have to do to prove they are bargaining in good faith is to open their books. They don't. All they have to do to prove their losses in 2020 (which a number of sources deny) is to open their books. They don't. No rational person should believe a thing they say or claim. (Manfred says the clubs "should do everything humanly possible" to reach an agreement. Apparently, revealing your finances is not "humanly possible."
  6. jad
    Don't put Agon in the same category as Crawford or Price. He hit EXACTLY as he was expected to with the RS (can't recall--.290-.300?) and pretty much the way he did throughout his career.
  7. jad
    Thank God he's gone. For those of us who go to games to see great hitting, this is great news. Who needs pitching, after all?
  8. jad
    Yeah, there may in the real world be 'degrees of moderation,' but I don't think that can be expressed in language. (e.g., it doesn't really make sense to call someone more average than someone else).
  9. jad
    Oh. I get it. Only the arguments supporting one's own view of things "have to do with the argument at hand." Thus: revelling in the drama of whether the umpire gets a call right is relevant; worrying about fan abuse of umpires who make (easily avoidable) erroneous calls is not. I don't know which side is 'right'. I do know that the strained arguments in favor of allowing humans to make bad calls for which they will be reviled are among the most idiotic I've ever seen (in what is a very VERY competitive field). Let's go back to arguing about whether we should have released Hanley Ramirez or the importance of D(or is it Q?)War so we don't embarrass ourselves any more or, worse, encourage our opponents to embarrass themselves even further.
  10. jad
    Not under my rule change: note "in a slide." You are not going to have runners "make a movement toward the next base" if a fielder is standing there next to him with the ball in his glove. The application of the rule now is silly: again, paraphrasing Costas: "That runner has been considered safe in that situation for 150 years. Replay was designed to correct egregiously bad calls, not to micromanage the way the game is played."
  11. jad
    Why would any player sign a so-called "team-friendly" contract to a team unwilling to offer a "player-friendly" contract in the same situation? Owners have proven over and over again that 'loyalty' is a concept teams only invoke, with all the hand-wringing laments, when it involves PLAYER loyalty to them. The only reason to sign any contract is if there are specific career and financial advantages for the player himself.
  12. jad
    A simple rule-change would fix this: "a runner in a slide, after making contact, is considered to still be in contact with the bag as long as he is over it." The micromanaging of replay on this now is ridiculous (as Bob Costas pointed out immediately after replay was implemented).
  13. jad
    Right. They also do not allow arguing over them. (I was referring to other calls--foul/fair, which can be resolved much more efficiently by a challenge than having a stupid manager stomp about kicking dirt around.)
  14. jad
    So have I (in fact, I've been that kid). Even the NFL (in its anti-bounty rules and anti-taunting rules) understands that everything they encourage or permit will quickly work its way down to college/h.s./summer league/peewee etc. Because MLB allows managers and players to yap and act like a-holes, kids and even coaches on every level will do the same thing. Putting in a rule eliminating arguing balls and strikes was a good Step 1; allowing challenges (which I do not much like) was a reasonable Step 2; Step 3 will be introducing a machine making such argument impossible. And the less you have of the b.s. in the majors, the less you will see of it in your local little league.
  15. jad
    It is absolutely the worst part of any sports event. (Like NBA players reacting to every touch foul, whether it is called or not called).
  16. jad
    Yeah ask anyone who has umpired a local game how much they like the way 'fans' and parents of entitled kids express their 'enjoyment' of what they feel are missed calls (i.e., any call that goes against their team or their kid).
  17. jad
    Why do you keep claiming you don't get enjoyment out of missed calls?
  18. jad
    Ha ha. Not me. If I have a favorite player, I don't want them traded, even if the return is 'better' (well, I might have been ok with trading Daniel Nava for Trout a few years back, but only just!) I watch sports for entertainment, not for a living, and not because I feel better about myself and life generally if 'my' team wins.
  19. jad
    Yup. Nothin' more exciting than that moment of your life which you will never get back when you see a pitch is CLEARLY a strike and you get all excited--DAMN! OH WOW, will he CALL it a strike???!!! Will he???? Then the announcer says "GREAT CALL!!! GREAT CALL!!" (to praise a call that has a 50% chance of being right in the first place). And then you get to ruminate, WOW! So much like life! Was that REALLY a great call? or just a lucky one??? Damn!! That's why we watch! My favorite part of sports.
  20. jad
    What is really odd about this whole discussion is that fans (whether they are pro- or anti- 'robotic' umps) are judging human umpires primarily on the basis of hypothetical calls by robo-umps. If umpires are good/bad based on how closely their decisions match those of a machine, why not just use the damn machine?
  21. jad
    I know. I have criminal relations myself, as do most of the posters here. That has nothing to do with what RS fans are grieving about.
  22. jad
    Wow. Someone died. And you are pissed because his eulogists say good things about him? Jesus Christ, Dude, he was a PUBLIC FIGURE, an ENTERTAINER. You are aware that the roles entertainers play are not their 'true selves', correct? Let people mourn. The public figure is what I and everyone here will miss. Unlike some, we're not particularly interested in his private life, his politics, his sex life, his favorite color, or how many hours he works in a soup kitchen.
  23. jad
    Most nostalgia involves utopias that didn't exist anyway. (Like that of the South for ante-bellum 'culture'; or ourselves for the 'glories' of our often-pathetic youth!)
  24. jad
    Wouldn't trading Bogey essentially announce to all current RS players not to consider signing a 'team-friendly' contract, or concede the so-called 'home-town discount"?
  25. jad
    Sad. He had a job, took it very seriously, and did it very well. He also gave up and put up with a lot in life in order to do that, and to make our lives a bit better as a result. RIP
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