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From 2016: Designated Hitter is the Highest Paid MLB Position https://blogs.fangraphs.com/designated-hitter-is-the-highest-paid-mlb-position/https://blogs.fangraphs.com/designated-hitter-is-the-highest-paid-mlb-position/ And... Relievers aren't being overpaid… but designated hitters are: An investigation https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2017/1/11/14214912/relievers-overpaid-designated-hitters-salaries-mlb-free-agentshttps://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2017/1/11/14214912/relievers-overpaid-designated-hitters-salaries-mlb-free-agents

From 2016: Designated Hitter is the Highest Paid MLB Position https://blogs.fangraphs.com/designated-hitter-is-the-highest-paid-mlb-position/https://blogs.fangraphs.com/designated-hitter-is-the-highest-paid-mlb-position/

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can see the logic in having a 16-team postseason for a 60-game season. But not for a 162-game season, assuming that we have one of those in 2021. Which is ....? I mean, besides the money? Because with 16 playoff teams, we might get sub .500 playoff teams. This is just about the most awful thing baseball has ever proposed.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can see the logic in having a 16-team postseason for a 60-game season. But not for a 162-game season, assuming that we have one of those in 2021. Which is ....?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Jeff Passan at ESPN reports that the current proposal also includes a 16-team postseason in 2021. This means that as many as four of the 16 playoff teams will be third place teams. If there are less than four third place playoff teams, there'll be fourth or even last place playoff teams, instead. Also, Manfred now wants ads on unis right now, for 2020.

Frayed Knot wrote: * it had to be saturation advertising because I can still remember the awful "lyrics" and I probably haven't heard them in decades!! [***] The Lords of Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatbush ... Rated Pee Gee Same exact thing here. To this day, I still remember that song, especially the end, where it goes "Rated P.G." -- like I heard it 10 minutes ago. That's never gonna leave my head. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkI-WbxbAchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkI-WbxbAc

Frayed Knot wrote: * it had to be saturation advertising because I can still remember the awful "lyrics" and I probably haven't heard them in decades!! [***] The Lords of Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatbush ... Rated Pee Gee Same exact thing here. To this day, I still remember that song, especially the end, where it goes "Rated P.G." -- like I heard it 10 minutes ago. That's never gonna leave my head.

Now that I think about it, Winkler and Stallone were hardly household names when this movie went into production. Lords was filmed before Happy Days debuted and before Rocky went into production and hardly anybody even knew who Winkler and Stallone were then. Same for Richard Gere, who turned down a role.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How about the Lords of Flatbush? What's up with the fake 50s music? It's cheaper music, probably original stuff recorded specifically for the flick. Like you said, way lower budget than American Graffiti.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: So what? It's not like you're in jail. MFS62 is the main perpatrator of blind link crimes and he's not bleeding all over the film review forum I thought I was being humorous more than anything else.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: it's not a personal thing though it's a community thing. Directed at me.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Do you really have to demonstrate so much persecution? No. But who else here regularly posts huge chunks of linked articles? Does this forum have to demonstrate so much persecution?

Inspired by The Lords of Flatbush. I'm posting this LINK because the movie The Lords of Flatbush (parts of which I actually saw being filmed) reminds me of the TV commercial LINKED to below. That's my explanation for the LINK below. I'm not sure how much this explanation qualifies as an original thought but youse can decide for yourselves and then write 12 paragraph posts explaining. Maybe youse can come out with like the ten commandments for posting LINKS. And since I think that I'm now required to explain every word I type where there's a LINK on the post, I'll tell youse that that last sentence was inspired by me watching Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments last week. Straight through. No pauses. No bathroom breaks. No snack breaks. Maybe I'll start a movie thread post on that movie. Also, the lead singer in the commercial LINKED to below reminds me of Ron (Arnold Horshak) Palillo even though it's definitely not him. But he sounds like him and even kinda looks like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQ_HjbzeGUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQ_HjbzeGU Come to think of it, with the Horshak look-a-like singer and also, the black dude in the yellow satin jacket, this commercial was probably as much inspired by Welcome Back Kotter as by The Lords of Flatbush. So hey ... there's an original thought or insight for youse LINK judgers. And if it's not original (and how could it be if it turns out that the ad really was Kotter-inspired?) well then at least I thought of it independently, without reading it elsewhere, or anyone telling it to me. P.S. -- I didn't vote in your poll because I haven't seen this movie in decades. And I guess that's an original thought, too. P.S.S. -- You didn't vote either.

The Athletic surveys fans to determine baseball's best broadcast booths. https://theathletic.com/1864438/2020/06/16/the-athletics-2020-mlb-broadcast-survey-unveiling-your-pick-for-best-booth/https://theathletic.com/1864438/2020/06/16/the-athletics-2020-mlb-broadcast-survey-unveiling-your-pick-for-best-booth/ The Tigers finish 30th out of 30 teams. The Yanks finish 12th, with high marks for ex-Met David Cone. Guess which team topped the list? 1. New York Mets The broadcast: SportsNet New York (SNY): Gary Cohen (play-by-play), Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling (analysts), Steve Gelbs (field) The results: The trio of Cohen, Hernandez and Darling has anchored SNY's coverage of the Mets since the networks' inception in '06. The Mets edged the Giants for top spot in our rankings (4.91 to 4.88) in large part because of Cohen (4.96), who anchors baseball's best booth and earned top marks in the play-by-play category. “GKR” is on top for a reason: “Being a Mets fan is a tough lot in life, but one thing we've got going for us is Gary, Keith and Ron,” wrote one respondent. “It's a golden age for us.” The consensus is Hernandez (hitters) and Darling (pitchers) are best when it comes to explaining “the mindsets of their respective positions, and Gary ties it all together seamlessly.” The three seems to strike a perfect chord of what fans want: Knowledge of the game, history of the team, camaraderie in the booth and enough wit sprinkled in to make it all work. I still think Cohen's call of Bartolo Colon's first career homer is easily one of the most fun calls in recent memory. "Bartolo has done it! The impossible has happened!" – @Mets TV broadcaster Gary Cohenhttps://t.co/IMQ1qVDBTs — MLB (@MLB) May 8, 2016 In closing, I will share the comments from a reader named Ed, whose name I know because he included it, along with his address and phone number, as part of the survey: “I'd take the three of them out to lunch.” So Gary, Keith and Ron: If you're reading, lunch is on Ed.

=Ceetar post_id=38801 time=1592331961 user_id=102] they only have to pay 4% if the season is cancelled. My guess would be that the balance sheets say that's the $$ option.

=ashie62 post_id=38798 time=1592328000 user_id=90] At least 8 owners do not want to play a 2020 season says the interweb

Mike McCormick, the first National League Cy Young winner (in 1967, when the award was split in two).... Good lord, what a dreadfully nenaderthalish vote. McCormick led the NL in Wins in '67, yet finished outside of the top 10 in virtually every other pitching category. RIP https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1967-pitching-leaders.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1967-pitching-leaders.shtml

Wasn't Met Warren Spahn's walk-up music Don Henley's Praying for Rain?

Edgy MD wrote: First player I remember having walkup music. ... which was ....?

How Mets' Tom Seaver trade turned Pat Zachry's life upside down https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/how-mets-tom-seaver-trade-turned-pat-zachrys-life-upside-down/https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/how-mets-tom-seaver-trade-turned-pat-zachrys-life-upside-down/ .... including some horrible, tragic revelation that I either never knew about, or once did but have since forgotten. But no excerpts for youse. Click on the link above to get your own excerpts and to give writer Ken Davidoff his click counts.

I'm likelier to forget Heston before Halicki. The stuff from my earliest years of rooting is sort of ingrained in my head. I can probably still recall the uniform numbers of every single player that was a Met during my first few years of rooting, for example. Not even close with last year's team.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Same deal. I just don't retain this kind of stuff anymore. Say it ain't so.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=38694 time=1592230165 user_id=68] Mets fans will recall Ed Halicki's no-hitter. Met fans with a better memory than mine, anyway.

Mets fans will recall Ed Halicki's no-hitter.

Is there a clause in MLB's CBA for an arbitrator to issue a binding ruling on what, if any, kind of season there's gonna be in 2020? I could be wrong, but I think that the parties are on their own here, and for a binding arbitrator to step in and sort things out, with actual authority, both sides would have to agree for that to happen.