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Everything posted by notin
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Oh it's very easy to overestimate them...
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I know. I can't tell you how many fans from teams all over have looked at an 85 win team and screamed for the whole thing to be blown up and rebuilt...
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And what does that accomplish?
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The values would be so small and clustered together, they wouldn't mean much...
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And right away. If you're going to do this stuff. at the very least don't wait until the 8th inning of the next day. That's just starting a whole new issue...
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Not to mention, it’s not like this team won 60 games last year. They won 84 games, which is a lot of wins for a team with one pitcher in the starting rotation...
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Didn’t you see Moneyball? When Billy Beane is telling Scott Hatteburg he is going to play 1b. “It’s not that hard, Scott. Tell him”. “It’s incredibly hard.”
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Before we accept them as fungible, maybe we should see if it works, first...
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Maybe they want the entire coaching staff to be former members of the 2013 Red Sox. Maybe Shane Victorino will be the hitting coach, Ryan Dempster as the pitching coach, and Mike Carp will be the bench coach...
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He should be penalized the same amount as Machado was penalized for his .213/.268/.382/.650 in his 23 post-season games....
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Or not.
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Well. some hitters did, too. Steve Balboni leaps to mind. No idea why. No one should ever unwillingly think of Steve Balboni...
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I think this is how Woodward and Bernstein got started...
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Do teams do that or independant retailers? Or both? Even then, some of the unlicensed stuff has agreements, especially if it has a players name or number on it...
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... named "Sonny"?
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I'm actually impressed teams can steal signs even with technology. The catcher and pitcher often vary the important sign in the sequence, which can change with every pitch. Something like "strikes plus one", so on a one strike count, the second sign is the true sign. If another strike is thrown, the third sign becomes the important one and the others are decoys. And they can change the modifier at any time, to maybe "balls plus two" or whatever. Merely recording it and watching the signs play out is still very difficult to establish what is the actual sign...
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OK, but I think again that is only among the portion the league gets. "Between 11 percent and 15 percent of the merchandise sales will go to the league and is then shared equally among the teams. The rest goes to the manufacturer." Source: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/10/03/good-question-sports-merchandise/ Worth pointing out, that is 3 years old and might be outdated. But maybe the 48%/52% split is of the 11-15%, which means teams are getting about 5%-ish of the revenue from each jersey sale. So for a $75 jersey, that selling team team gets between $4.29 and $5.85 and the revenue sharing portion is between $3.96 and $5.40. That seem about right? The manufacturers do make a bundle on these things...
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The Sox did, but so did the Yankees, as the Sox defense was that both teams were stealing signs...
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Last year, the Sox entered spring training with Moreland, Pearce and Holt all guaranteed spots on the MLB roster. And even Christian Vazquez had a small amount of experience at 1b (granted a single game, but it was a very, very long World Series game). And that's before getting into the minor leaguers, like Chavis and Travis. I wouldn't go so far as to call it negligence. The Sox had to use Vazquez at 2B last year. Was it negligence that they had no one else take reps there as well?
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I think what he is referring to is the gate revenue...
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Doesn't that refer to ticket money? I think merchandising is different, since team logos are considered property of MLB and not of the individual teams...
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Drinking water spiked with Stanislozol?
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But even using technology has been done for years, even before the whole Apple Watch incident...
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Does MLB even punish sign stealing? So many teams have been caught, but what's the worst thing that happened to any of them?
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We took forever to impeach Bud Selig. Seriously, how was that man allowed to be MLB Commisioner?
