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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Are there any other NATO countries with a neighbor that has vowed to erase them from the planet?
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I think the problem is Zimmer. When every kicker is worse here than they are elsewhere, it's not just bad luck. I think he treats them different than other players. Have you ever heard Zimmer savage another player the way he did Carlson (great in Oakland, btw) after the GB game? I think they are playing scared with Zimmer, and that seldom leads to good results.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Yes. But that is a personal decision. The President trying to persuade such a decision would likely backfire, big time.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah I'm sure those SCOTUS justices won't bristle at all over a President trying to trample over separation of branches, which is what even a gentle nudge towards retirement, for party benefit, would be.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Those aren't the best players though. He didn't say the players with the best ST numbers.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I also can't feel too comfortable giving this many years and this much money to a guy whose word apparently means nothing.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Fair enough. Argument withdrawn.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I'm not taking either side, but why is the fan required to act rationally and not Westbrook? "He started it" seems a little too elementary school to me.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. Mr. Brooks
    We had to know this was going to happen. At the end of the year I wanted Spielman gone. Many posters defended him saying that after last year he'd finally realize the OL needed to be made a priority. As if he was suddenly going to realize something he refused to the last 7 years. Tigers can't change their stripes, folks. Spielman never has truly committed to making OL a priority, and he never will.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Whenever his service time gets started, it's going to be as a 4th outfielder. Whether that's now or later.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    A 3.60 FIP in the NL, which probably becomes 4.10'ish in the AL. No thanks. There is a reason a playoff team didn't want him. Maybe on a non 40 man milb deal for depth at AAA in case of a few injuries, but that'd be the extent of my interest.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    There is nothing subjective that goes into FIP. It's a measurement of something that happened, just like ERA or OBP.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Until they are actually in the playoffs, that is.
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