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Also intersting, most of SEFCO’s attendance is made up from outside, neighboring counties, not the city itself.

The group doesn’t seem to be askng for additional public funding. That’s a huge positive in my book.

Not to mention the snow-birds that go back north for the spring, summer, and fall.

Portland & Las Vegas are two more good ones. I think every regular poster on here can name at least 5 cities that MLB would be better served than Florida.

My position isn’t about cities “needing” a team. It’s about cities that would still do better than either Florida team, need or no need.

Montreal, Albany, Columbus (Ohio), Newark, off the top of my head. Hawaii, New Mexico, ahem ... Mexico lol Jeter’s funny. I read an article about how he thinks HIS plan is so different and how it’s going to work just give it time.

Yes. Agreed. I’m not sure what the exact payroll Floor figure should be but there needs to be something.

Those two Florida teams need to f***ing go and that’s been evident since the start. Theres plenty of cities, even in much colder climates that are more deserving of a MLB franchise.

Leon! Mazel!?!

2018-2019 Free Agent Relief Pitchers: There definitely are options this upcoming Off-Season. My position is (and always has been) that signing Betts long term is the only true priority. If signing a Closer to big money hampers that in any way then I’m not a big fan of it.

Looked like a K to me.

The biggest knock against Kimbrel & his stats is that he’s on the Red Sox. We simply don’t get him as many save chances as he had earlier in his career. He hasn’t seen 40 SVO sinse he’s been here (in a single season). I think this may be my only argument for not spending big money on a Closer.

This may have gotten overlooked, but yeah. He’s the face of the franchise for me. Has been for a while. Not when Ortiz retired, but around when he announced his upcoming retirement.

It does seem silly, those times where you can use your best RP vs other team’s best part of their lineup, but don’t. I’m very open to the idea. Not so much for anytime before the 8th Inning though. It’s entirely possible if you use your Closer in the 7th, those very same batters could show up in the 9th depending on how things transpire.

CERA needs it’s own thread... you can’t just pop up a heated CERA argument out of the blue to unknowing recipients in the middle of an ongoing thread. It’s just frowned upon, that’s all. lol

Won the series. That’s really all I ever care about anyway. Should we have swept them? Yes. We stop giving up 3 spots the first 2 innings we may get another winning streak going.

One would think

Mookie!.. Again! Hahaha

I find it odd that one would use SV% as a knock against Kimbrel. O’brien was just saying last night before Kimbrel’s blown Save that his career SV% is the all time best in the game. It’s thee one attribute that seperates him from any other Closer.

Jinx!!!

I think the rise in defensive shifts the last few years should be up on the list of strategy in baseball. Its at least one that you can see and point to. Most of baseballs’s strategies i feel is behind the scenes pouring over the scouting reports from left/righty splits, to bad catcher defense along with a pitcher with a poor pickoff move to run on, to how to use your BP later in the game. Is stealing signs a strategy or a tactic? Haha

Yeah, well, Kays a f***head. Keyword: suffered lol

Ecks the color commentator. O’Brien is the Play by Play. Two different jobs in the same booth. On purpose. It’s typical tradition. Since the beginning of time.

I take breaks

Wait a minute. Hold on my man. You work with people who work with BIS. Baseball Info Solutions—a baseball data provider that relies on human input from video scouts (humans) and ballpark-based stringers (Interns that have taken an 8 week training course, more to the point, other humans). And you seem to have a problem with longtime baseball fans, more to the point, other humans’ input, because they haven’t marked it down on an iPad? Take Statcast. Look, I’m all for Statcast. I’ve been pretty excited about it for years, before 2015 even (when it was fully implemented in EVERY MLB ballpark, not just a handful). But it’s still relatively new and not without flaws. Human flaws coupled with technology flaws and It’s only been 3 full years in every ballpark. It’s a baby. This technology WILL get increasingly better over time, but I do not believe it’s perfect in it’s present form. If it was perfect, why bother with BIS, or Inside Edge, or Trackman, or STATS, or PITCHf/X, or FIELDf/x on top of Statcast at all then? Why do some teams buy redundant data to find differences between them? Why question it all? Is the human brain the most flawed out of all of them? Yes. However, we wouldn’t have any of them without it, so maybe we shouldn’t totally dismiss an opinion outright. My biggest issue with your post is the first line about ending the argument. Why the hell would I want to do that?