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  1. Mike Sixel
    I love bringing back some of these old threads. Good read.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Isn't that the point of the article? They don't build well from trades compared to other teams?
  3. Mike Sixel
    Well, even in a balanced schedule, it's not a completely "fair" competition. If you play a team early in the year, it isn't the same team after July. You can play a team when guys are injured, or healthy. There is likely little evidence that the unbalanced schedule is the key to success or not. I'd guess luck and who is healthy when plays a much larger role.
  4. Mike Sixel
    They announced his replacement. More of a Parker kind of writer, without the connections.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Wow! Good luck to him, changes are hard, and this is a pretty big one. He seems excited, wish him well.
  6. Mike Sixel
    How often do we see an OF let a ball drop on purpose though? I agree, he should have, but does it happen often?
  7. Mike Sixel
    I'm not defending Mauer at all......I was discussing if you could be average and still be 20th or whatever. I find, from the tiny SS I have, that I think Mauer is not all that good, frankly. But none of my posts on that this topic have been about what I think, but about the numbers. Personally? I don't have much confidence he'll ever be an average 1B, either defensively or offensively, and view their inability to manage his career appropriately as a huge barrier to their long term success.
  8. Mike Sixel
    narrative, gentlemen, it is all about narrative. It's 100% analogous to the narrative vs facts discussions in sports.......
  9. Mike Sixel
    Sanchez was named to the top thirty prospect list by BA, for that league. I would think you could get him, but it would cost something like Polanco and a RP. I would do that. And by Polanco, I mean a top ten prospect.
  10. Mike Sixel
    http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/blue-jays-rangers-seventh-inning-jose-bautista-bat-flip-russell-martin-throw/ I enjoyed this read.
  11. Mike Sixel
    What is interesting about the spike is that NO ONE ever accuses him (with no evidence, like with many others) of taking PEDs leading up to his contract year. People accuse others of that all the time, but not him.* *note, this "rant" is about the accusers, not Mauer.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I'm curious, how do you know that was the intent? It isn't possible, at all, that it was the most awesome moment of his 15 year long quest to have the moment (or 10, or whatever)? It isn't possible that he was overcome with the moment? I find your stance a bit hard to understand, frankly.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Fair, and I quite literally experienced it last night. Was instructive, and sad.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Seth, thanks, this is one of my favorite things on the interwebs, thanks,
  15. Mike Sixel
    Note, I am not comparing their actions or beliefs.....but Hitler and Goebbels would disagree with you, as would the history of Germany. Saying things over and over and over makes people believe them. If people had not heard that government sucks over and over and over for the last 30-40 years, they wouldn't believe it like they do. Had they not been lied to about the dangers of immigrants, they wouldn't believe it like they do. If people didn't tell them that millions of scientists were involved in a conspiracy or three to deceive them, they wouldn't believe it.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Who is bragging? And, apologies, I thought earlier someone in the thread discussed the difference between average and median and you kept going with it, my bad. The issue I think you are having is that more like 40-50 players played 1B last year, and being 22nd or whatever, puts you about "average", which is what the math says. I am no Mauer "can do no wrong" guy, I'm certainly not bragging. And, I don't think anyone is arguing we should be happy with the 22nd best player at every position. But I could be reading it wrong.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Who is playing with numbers?....you literally don't know what average means vs median or mode, that is my point. And, there are not only 30 people that played 1B......you might want to just give up on using numbers at all in this argument, because it isn't working for you at all.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Actually, yes, a guy in the 25th percentile can be average. You may want to re-study your mathematical definitions.
  19. Mike Sixel
    What percent of pitching prospects, even elite ones, become top SP in the majors. You are correct, 60% does seem like it should be more like 90% likely they don't. My bad. Ignore the exact number.....what is MORE likely, a guy that has been really good for 2.5 years being really good, or someone that has never pitched in the majors being really good?
  20. Mike Sixel
    For many moderates, he beat McCain because we were afraid of what a GOP controlled government would do, not because of McCain (and ugh, Palin). Brock is correct, spending decades saying politicians and DC and government are evil.....that tends to make people think it is true, leading them to not want politicians.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Then we saw two very different things. He, imo, was totally caught up in the moment. 100% joyful. Given that we DON'T know what he was thinking, maybe we could make positive assumptions about him, not negative ones.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Wow, 6th largest ever? Wow. And we are constantly given the narrative people don't care about politics..... I was in a car with co workers on the way to NYC last night. The two Trump supporters could not articulate a political thought or fact if their life depended on it. They were happy to talk about what a great guy he was, but when I asked questions, they decided not talking politics was a good idea. Facts are so damn pesky for some people.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I really wish they'd make Rogers a RP already. But, I don't see it happening any time soon.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I loved the bleep out of that bat flip. Pure joy and emotion, in a huge, huge, huge moment for him. Anyone that doesn't like that, well, I don't get it. I can't imagine how happy I'd be if I did that, and how I'd celebrate. That was pure fun. And yes, it's funny how the teams that went for it at the deadline all made the final four, and the team that most went for it is in the final 2 for the AL. Sometimes you try to win.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Yes, much more interesting than a "debate" at this stage of the election
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