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=Fman99 post_id=2252 time=1549077560 user_id=86] Go get him. More depth. Puh-leeeease.

Edgy MD wrote: I certainly don't want to discourage your ideas, but the draft is terrible. Whether I always do such a thing, I don't know. I apologize if I've been a bad rabbit. I agree the draft is terrible and I proposed doing away with it.

Edgy MD wrote: Let the Yankees try to stockpile all the talent. It's their money. Artificial constraints undermine the competitive nature of the game. The draft, the slot values, the international bonus pool limits, the luxury tax, the subsidiarization of the minor leagues, the years and years of control teams still get over minor- and major-league players, the territorial exclusivity. It's all exploitative and anti-competitive bullshit. Set competitiveness free. If the Yankees can prosper in that environment, more power to them. I think they'd fall like fools. #Amurricah I don't see why you always allow the ideal scenario to be the enemy of improvements on this issue. my suggestions would be substantial improvements to the current conditions suffered by amateurs subject to the rule 4 draft. "set competitiveness free" - sure, let a team move to Manhattan or North Jersey or Brooklyn. But until you do away with territorial exclusivity, you need to keep the Yankees "in-check" artificially. If the yankees "can prosper" in an environment where they DON'T have exclusive rights to a large populated area, then fine.

Willets Point wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Here's a way: Eradicate the draft. Yes, but with a provision that the Yankees can't stockpile all the talent. you can have the signing bonus count towards the luxury tax penalties or even institute a hard cap on amateur money - they basically have one now with the "slot" system - but it would still beat a draft - the amateurs could freely negotiate over who gets the X dollars and from which team rather than have the teams decide where they play and what they make.

As Harper and Machado do their best to screw their colleagues it has to be obvious what d-bags they would make as "teammates" I'll bite. ? They are somehow preventing other guys from getting offers while everyone waits on them? Makes no sense. The next best hitters already signed. And how many teams are really "in" on them? 3 maybe 4 each?

I think they (the "touts") lean towards lottery ticket guys the way that weathermen lean towards predicting rain. nobody complains when you predict rain and its dry. likewise, nobody remembers all those guys who spend a few years in reserve roles that you never listed as 'prospects', but when you miss the guy who turned into a start you get shit for it forever even as the other 'tout' who listed him had 10 guys around him who never cracked an MLB lineup.

=Fman99 post_id=1918 time=1548673659 user_id=86] It looks like you signed up twice, in error. I'm gonna boot one of them. Meanwhile we still need NYMR or BMFC to sign up (I get usernames and people names mixed up).

If they hadn't brought Cespedes back he would have written an article about how cheap they are.

not a bad guy, wonder what it would cost

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The better case I make the more votes the inferior cover gets. Friggin Russians Not Russians, just a silent majority that doesn't show up in the comments section as our intolerant loser-cover-loving friends are so hostile for anyone who voted for other covers that it is not worth discussing with them.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: On the positive side, this past season was the Mets' 57th straight with no outbreaks of Ebola in the clubhouse. DAMMIT you jinxed it. Maybe. But you're ignoring the little talked-about addition to the Mets medical staff this year which will nip any potential Ebola outbreaks* in the bud: Dr. Gregory House * Also: the Plague, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Sleeping Sickness, West Nile, and Kuru I thought we decided to go with Doctor Nick Riviera this year?

Frayed Knot wrote: =Gwreck post_id=1659 time=1548268213 user_id=56] Each year these ballots come out, I am surprised to see Roger Clemens getting slightly more votes than Barry Bonds. It's happened every year (this year Clemens was only +2; it's ranged from +1 to +8). I understand (even if I disagree) why voters omit both from their ballots. But I can find no legitimate basis to find one but not the other worthy. One explanation I've heard is that while Bonds (eventually/reluctantly/kinda/sorta) admitted to being a steroids user, there's no such 'proof' that's been hung onto Clemens.

i hope Schilling, Bonds, (not Clemens), Walker, Vizquel, Ramirez, Kent, Rolen, Wagner, 10 veterans committee guys, a few umpires, and Mr Met all get in too. anything to take the spotlight away from jeter. wait for the articles that all these guys should "wait for next year" so as to give Saint Derek his solo enshrinement

=seawolf17 post_id=1628 time=1548255306 user_id=91] Like it or not, the DH is a rule. I have no qualms putting Edgar in, because he's absolutely worthy. Same with Ortiz when his time comes. Halladay is a no-brainer to me. Mussina? I guess. I'm not going to die on that hill. Rivera, for all his faults (electrified pool joke!), is a no-brainer too. The *only* drawback to his election is insufferable MFY fans with the 100% thing. (Get over yourselves.)

=MFS62 post_id=1623 time=1548254026 user_id=60] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=1621 time=1548253380 user_id=68] [Tbe DH has been around for almost half a century and EM is probably the greatest DH in baseball history.

I never saw it, it was buried on my list of things I planned to see...

=41Forever post_id=1590 time=1548209921 user_id=69] Saw an interesting breakdown of the votes. Bonds, Clemens and Schilling all had just over 70 percent of the ballots collected by the Ballot Tracker guys, and they collected about 55 percent of the ballots. But Bonds, Clemens and Schilling actually received just about 60 percent of the votes. So the people who kept their votes private in large numbers didn't vote for these guys. I wonder of that's because they feared a backlash of some kind, or if they are super old-school types who don't think they should have to share with readers/listeners/viewers how they voted.

I would take the over. I was in AC recently and saw the Mets had opened at 40-1 to win the WS - odds I would have taken. They were listed at 22-1 and i was going to make a small wager for fun. When I went to the counter I was informed it had moved to 11-1. I passed on that (still 22-1 elsewhere, including Fanduel, if you are looking)

Frayed Knot wrote: Rivera, Edgar, Halladay, and Mussina And, yes, Rivera hit on all ballots. A little surprised that Halladay went in first time, but I have no problem with any of the results. Schilling was the highest non-electee and around 60% Halladay definitely got in on the first ballot because he died in a plane crash. You are really splitting hairs to distinguish between him, Mussina, and Schilling. McGriff's eligibility ran out, but he'l be one of those guys like Baines that the veterans committee puts in and we all shake our heads at the lowering of HOF standards (well, at least he'll better than Baines!) and I wish they'd cut the crap with Bonds* already, if electric pool man is unanimous why are we even discussing steroids? *but not Clemens, fuck the MFY!

Sorry, no one is "literally a saint" to me. She is literally a saint, just as someone knighted by Queen Elizabeth is literally a knight - it is a title bestowed by the church. I'm sure if we went down a list of saints we would find quite a few assholes.

thats awesome, what is he doing in the game??

Yeah "weekly" is a must.

I believe you have broken the Evil Empire Quarantine Procedure by starting a new yankees thread. please keep those scum relegated to their own thread.

=ashie62 post_id=1317 time=1547752124 user_id=90] I don't know about Pollock, but the acquistion of Keon Broxton brings very little to the team. Rather have Tebow for crying out loud

NL EAST only League?