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  1. Mr. Brooks
    I think it's in their best interest to make sure their prospects are eating healthy. But, saying it's inhumane for an employer not to feed their employees is a bit of hyperbole. How many employers provide their employees three meals a day? Are there literally any?
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I think if you have to ask if a guy is an ace, then he's probably not one.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I think employment laws are governed by the jurisdiction where the work takes place, not where the company is headquartered.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    And I agree it is obnoxious to pay $6 for a hot dog. Those lining up to shill out their hard earned $6 for a hot dog are the problem. Only a fool would refuse to take their money. As PT Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    What is obnoxious about it? It's a business, not a charity. Charging less than the market is willing to pay would be awful business. The people who pay those prices are the obnoxious ones, not the business who is doing exactly what they should be doing.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    All fair points. And, it's a free country, my opinion certainly doesn't have to mean anything. I just don't believe that feedback does much. The team and vendors know the sale totals. If they go down enough, prices will fall, even without a peep of feedback. If they don't fall, prices will stay the same or go up, regardless of any amount of feedback.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    You are right, we don't agree. Most players don't have max tools across the board. Once you remove the handful of true superstars that have elite bats and gloves, most players have a scale of tools. Every game that someone who gets a legitimate chunk of their value from defensive tools starts at DH, is a game that you completely waste a portion of someone's value. Roster spots are tight in the NFL too, think of the extra flexibility a team could have on game day if, instead of rostering a punter, they just used that position to rotate in other position players? If guys need a day off, just give them a day off. How are you making your lineup better by removing Cruz from the roster so that a guy like Kepler or Polanco can DH? Are their bats better than Cruz's? Isn't your lineup better with Kepler on the bench, Cave in RF and Cruz at DH than it is with Cave in RF, Kepler at DH, and Cruz on another team? Obviously this only applies if you can find a bat only guy whose bat is superior to most of the position players. If Robbie Grossman is your DH, then sure, you are better off just gaining flexibility and rotating guys.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Mike was answering a poster who questioned why the union would push for this. I don't think he's saying it's not fair or shouldn't be allowed.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I'm sure winning is important to them, but it's not necessarily the MOST important thing for most of them, I'd guess. It's hard for us to realize, sometimes, because all of us have only ever played baseball for the joy of it. But this is a job to them, period. It's not a hobby or passion project. It's no different than how most of us here pursue our careers, I'd guess. Being a part of the best "team" probably has some importance to all of us, whatever that means in our respective careers, but for most of us, it's just one factor on a long list of important factors we consider.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    I agree, except that complaining on Twins Daily isn't providing feedback to the business. Yes, people should give feedback directly to the company when/if the prices are high enough to dissuade their patronage. But, the reality, and my point, is that complaining/feedback will not affect prices. Prices are set based on supply/demand and other market factors. If everyone complains that the prices are too high, but still continue to purchase the product, what do you think will happen to prices?
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I couldn't disagree more. DH is a position. It's a position that doesn't require any defensive abilities or versatility. You wouldn't pass up adding a great centerfielder because he can't pitch an inning in a blowout. That would be absurd, because that's not the job of a centerfielder. To steal another posters analogy, if you are hiring a CEO, you don't pass on the best one, just because he doesn't know how to work the assembly line.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Not to get too far into the weeds, but you always have a choice. People opposed to the subsidy can move, or do their shopping in a different county. Also, that's just not how subsidies work, it's not realistic to expect them to sell concessions for less than the market will bear, just because they took public money. Amazon didn't pay a dime in federal tax last year, effectively a massive public subsidy. That doesn't mean they are going to give Prime away free to everyone.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    The other option is to go somewhere else. I take my family to our local townball games instead. Admission is $2 each. Hot dogs, nachos, and beer are $1 each. Pop is 50 cents. We all have the power of choice.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Those aren't the best players though. He didn't say the players with the best ST numbers.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Fair enough. Argument withdrawn.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Well I don't agree. FIP has hardly any subjectivity behind it. The multipliers only exist to put it on a comparable scale to ERA, not as an attempt to place more value on certain components of it.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah, I don't understand the point of whining about the price of a non essential service. There is an easy solution if it's overpriced. Plus, it's pretty much impossible for a non essential service or product to actually be overpriced. It's value is exactly what people are willing to pay for it, no more, no less. If the concessions truly are overpriced, they won't be for long, because not enough people will buy them, which will force them to lower prices.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Ok, in that context, then what was the point of the post I responded to? Almost every stat has a level of subjectivity behind how it's calculated, so why did he single out FIP?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Whenever his service time gets started, it's going to be as a 4th outfielder. Whether that's now or later.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Wouldn't it make more sense to put Gibson at the back of the rotation to start, given he's recovering from severe weight loss? A few extra days of recovery could make a difference.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Moving Lewis to 3B would be awful asset management. His best tool is his speed. This would be like converting Mike Trout into a pitcher.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    It may have morphed into that, but that wasn't what I originally responded to. In fact, the original post I responded to wouldn't even make sense in the context you suggest, as pretty much every stat has some level of subjectivity behind the formula. How is the formula behind FIP any more subjective than the formula behind ERA?
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Again, I never argued that there is nothing subjective behind it. Just that FIP itself isn't subjective, and it's factually not. Balls and strikes, wild pitches, passed balls, errors, these things are subjective. FIP is not.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I never said it didn't matter. I said it's still objective. For FIP to be subjective, it would require the ability for two different people to give the exact same sequence a different score, like figure skating scores. FIP itself is not subjective, regardless of what one thinks of the formula behind it. If 1000 people calculate the FIP of a player, assuming their math is correct, all 1000 of them mathematically MUST come to the exact same number. Therefore, it's factually not subjective.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, but still not subjective. It's the exact same formula for every pitcher, and every part of the equation is a yes/no actual occurrence.
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