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Everything posted by notin
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I know. Horses are so much better. Horses run on grass and hay and never require gasoline. They can heal themselves as opposed to going into the garage. You never have to worry about spare parts. And when your horse gets too old, it can make it's own replacement! Let's see your stinkin' Hyundai do that!!! But how many of the dissenters are willing to give up their cars and get a horse? After all, for a very, very long time, the horse was exactly how transportation had always been done...
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I live among Cubs fans who, for decades, embraced the team’s failure. Fans who proudly wore shirts that said “1908 World Series Champions” into the 2000’s. And who used phrases like “lovable losers” and sold out Wrigley even with the team in last place in August. Is this what to expect from Mariners’ fans? Rather than embrace their teams failure, they start a new and completely useless concept of combining wins across multiple seasons to prove the team is competent but just unlucky, rather than coming to another obvious conclusion that the team is consistently mediocre and still never good enough?
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FWIW the Red Sox and their fans don’t take delight in doing better than teams that punt…
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“The way it’s always been” is not a good reason to maintain the status quo. Ever. Anywhere. In any field or any job or any situation…
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We have the ability to improve the officiating of baseball, especially in the most difficult task for any referee/umpire in any sport. Why is that a bad thing?
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NOBODY likes Rick Sutcliffe. Not even Mrs. Sutcliffe. She just says she does because it gets him out of the house every Sunday…
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As long as it’s Workingman’s Dead. New Speedway Boogie is just perfect for baseball. Or any activity…
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Seriously? THAT is the example you're going to use? It's not even pertinent, since you used an example where the automation did the same job as the people who were replaced. Calling balls and strikes is not the province of the players. Or are you thinking bout how when pin boys were replaced by a system that reset the pins automatically in every bowling alley, and then within hours, there was nothing but robot bowlers? Oh wait. That didn't happen. And really, proving it is foolish is done quite easily. The last few pages of this thread offer evidence to that effect. Just because you deny this proven truth does not make it less proven...
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The Reds did get absolutely screwed that season...
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I have no problem with ARod on ESPN. He's infinitely better than Rick Sutcliffe...
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Good thing Branch Rickey wasn't a fan of tradition...
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I thought it all went downhill when they started letting pitchers throw overhand...
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It is somewhat amazing fans will embrace actual game-altering changes to the game, like specialized bullpens, DH's (but in one league only!!!), 3 batter minimums, fouls balls as strikes, foul poles and no more "last seen fair", 162 game schedules, free agency, mound visits, banned pitches, instant replay, etc. And fans are accept it. But someone proposes improving the ball and strikes calling, and suddenly it's the end of the game as we know it..
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If Kike plays 2B, then Arroyo effectively becomes the 4th OF...
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Nope. Next question...
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Are you sure that is not already happening?
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No. Mascots need to be robots so we can have Battlebots-style fights in between innings. f*** sausage races!
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And our seats will become pods that drain us of our natural electrical impulses, which are then used to power the players on the field. Teams like the Marlins who have no attendance might see a player shut down and stop completely mid-inning...
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Here is the sad part. Beyond how foolish this slippery slope argument is, the reality is e-sports leagues already exist. What advantage would MLB have to break into those leagues? And as many of the virtual players used in e-leagues are based on real players, if MLB implemented robots, the e-leagues would have no source material and therefore would collapse. So if MLB tried this step, they would be taking themselves down. Of course, the real problem is there is absolutely no link between the automated calling of balls and strikes leading to turning MLB into an e-league....
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Oh sure we will. Thanks to advancements in AI, robots have learned to create arguments and develop their own languages. The ability to negotiate is inevitable, and the ability to out-negotiate humans and financially ruin MLB for the sake of greedy robots then becomes the obvious next step...
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I do that once in a while. Usually by accident...
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I figure Rosario's ceiling is 4th outfielder anyway. He's here. He's cheap. He can field. Duran (surplus value 23.5) for Quantrill (surplus value 25.1) also works out per the model at BTV. But if I was Cleveland, Quantrill would be my least available of the three. I would suspect McKenzie is the most available, assuming in reality any of them are available at all...
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That's because he coated the splint with vaseline. Oldest trick in the book..
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Did a700 just quote me?
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Duran for Civale. DHernandez for Trivino Bring back ERod and Schwarber and maybe even Robles. And finally, purchase new paint for the duck boats!!!
