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  1. TransMonk
    Certainly possible...for some reason baseball's content with the unbalanced leagues. 15 team leagues would make oodles more sense.
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    Edgy DC wrote: What's wrong with 15 teams in each league? An interleague game would have to be scheduled everyday. I imagine if that were easy, there would be 15 in each league now and Milwaukee would still be in the junior circuit.
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    I don't even care about the rival games.
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    SteveJRogers wrote: ???? No I said "Just because a guy is the best pitcher on a team doesn't mean those pitchers comprise the top 15 in their respective leagues or the top 30 in MLB for a given year." The list of aces in the NL in 1978 includes Gaylord Perry, J.R. Richard, Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton, and maybe a couple of others but it does not include the best pitcher on the Mets staff, Craig Swan I'm saying I disagree..that's all. I think of an ace as a team thing and not a league thing. And I care so little about the term that I'm going to stop defending it's power like I started out this thread doing.. Here's an online knucklehead who supports your theory and provides some numbers for Edgy, too.
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    SteveJRogers wrote: All staffs do have a best pitcher for a given year but does that mean that pitcher was among the best in the game that given year? Craig Swan won the 1978 NL ERA title. Do you think the Phillies would rather have had him instead of Carlton? Reds and Seaver? Astros and Richard? Padres and Perry (who won the NL Cy Young that year)? I would think the answer to those would be a simple No. Just because a guy is the best pitcher on a team doesn't mean those pitchers comprise the top 15 in their respective leagues or the top 30 in MLB for a given year. So an ace is one of the best 15 pitchers in the league? I thought it was the best pitcher on your team. Thus the term "ace." Meaning the best you got...who's your number one?
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    OlerudOwned wrote: I wouldn't say that all staffs have an ace. What if they're all similar? Hell, what if they all suck? Mark Redman was the best pitcher on the 2006 Royals. To give him a title that's meant to invoke the image of a guy like Johan Santana (aside from "Major League pitcher," though you can't even say that about Redman anymore) is kind of silly. I agree that its a meaningless label that pertains mostly to mediocre teams for marketing purposes. But it's hard to find a team that at any given time hasn't put that label on one of their guys. I wouldn't care at all if the Mets didn't have an ace all season...as long as they continue to pitch well. I'm much happier with a dependable staff than a dependable guy.
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    SteveJRogers wrote: Was Leiter (even at any point in his career) ever that type of pitcher who could be a #1 (apparantly my definition also includes being a #1, not a soild #2) on virtually every team in the league as a Met? So by your definition, an ace has to be an ace on "virtually" every other team in the league? By that reasoning, that would limit the number of aces in the league to only a few pitchers? Every staff has an ace. You can debate which pitchers in which years or eras were the staff ace, but all teams have them. I would call Al the Mets ace in 2002.
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    ="Gwreck"]Beltran and Delgado HAVE to finally get it done here. They don't. ="Frayed Knot"]...everyone (except Wright) on this team sucks right now. They do.
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    Carlos goes KABOOM with a 3 run jack. No, the other Carlos...nope, not that one either. 10-6 Tigers.
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    10-3 Tigers. 9 ER for Glavine...most given up by him in one game for his career.
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    Sheffield with a triple in the 5th...Tigers lead 5-3. Our team sucks right now. Fuck.
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    Pudge with a triple in the 3rd...Tigers lead 4-3.
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    Tigers claw back with 1 in the 2nd. 3-2 Good Guys after 2.
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    Mets: J. Reyes SS D. Easley 2B C. Beltran CF C. Delgado 1B D. Wright 3B P. Lo Duca C J. Franco DH B. Johnson LF C. Gomez RF =darkblue]Tigers: C. Granderson CF P. Polanco 2B G. Sheffield DH M. Thames RF C. Guillen SS I. Rodriguez C S. Casey 1B C. Monroe LF B. Inge 3B Where's Green? I thought he said he would be back today. Filthy liar.
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    Mets up already 3-0 in the top of the first on Wright's 3rd HR in 3 days. On edit: 4 HR in 4 days for Wright.
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    Wright with a solo shot...down by one.
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    Mets within 2...let's keep it going.
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    Ledee's second double was almost exactly where his first one was, not bad for Rickey today...Mets need to cash in here for some hope.
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    Tiger are blowing it open in the 6th. I hat late afternoon Saturday starts...I'm going to fire up the grill.
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    Mets give the 2 runs right back. 5-3 Tigres, no outs in the bottom 5th.
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    Reyes with a 2 run single with 2 outs! Tie ball game!
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    Second and third no outs in the top of the 5th. Castro pops up to second.
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    Nope...I don't care what you call him, I'm just saying he doesn't need to get hot in order to have his numbers considered with the others. I don't know what the textbook definition of ace is, but to me, it's the guy on your staff that you feel most confident will give you a quality start. At this point in time, I'm not sure I have more confidence in any of them than the others. And that's a good thing. If you gave me a scenario where the Mets HAD to win just one game, then I would go with Glavine. I love the way that Maine, Perez, Sosa and even El Duque are pitching right now...but I'm still not past the worry that it may only be temporary for any of them. Glavine has the longest, most consistent resume of pitching quality starts. But I wouldn't kill myself any of them were pitching in that theoretical game tomorrow.
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    iramets wrote: All we need is for El Duque to get hot, and (counting Pedro) this team will have more staff aces than it has starters. What's not hot about: 51IP 29H 12R 5HR 18BB 35K 3W 1L 0.92WHIP .173BAA 1.94ERA If I've got 5 guys that are capable of giving me a quality start every time, then you can call whomever you want the ace.
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    Coming into today's game the Mets had the exact same record and the exact same lead in the NL East as they had at this point last year. However, the 2006 Mets were just beginning their phenomenal stretch where they won 8 in a row during that west coast road trip. We need some offense.
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