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  1. Mike Sixel
    It's their job to be right about moves, not ours. I don't think for 1 minute we should expect us to be as smart as, or held "accountable" for our views as much, as they should be. They traded a starting CF for a super tall (those kind are almost non-existent in MLB) starting pitching prospect. If they are wrong about it more than they are right, you end up with the pitching staff they have had for the past 5-10 years, and a pitching staff this year that was planned to be 80% guys signed as FAs. So, commenting on their ability to add pitching seems like a reasonable exercise to me, YMMV, of course.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Seth, pretty much everyone I've read or heard from this am said that it was a gut wrenching press conference. I'm almost glad I was in a meeting.....but I might still listen later. As you said, it's good to recall we are all people.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Thanks for doing the interview, both of you!
  4. Mike Sixel
    Man, that sucks for him. I hope he can get his health under control. Good luck to him.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Still looking for anyone in this thread saying he should not be allowed to voice his opinion, or to play baseball......I don't see it. I see some people rooting for him, and saying we shouldn't think at all about what an entertainer does "off screen" at all. I see others questioning that. I see some willing to admit to conflicting feelings, and others feeling there is only some kind of bizarre world of black and white (on both sides). But I don't see anyone saying he shouldn't be allowed to voice his opinion, or to have a job.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Given what you read "off the record", I'm not sure most Latins that don't know him agree that it was a benign statement.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Great post, John. My grandmother was a horrible racist, and that did effect my relationship with her. I have plenty of ex friends that are racists. I don't see why I should just ignore Torii using his profile to campaign against a group of people, and to disparage certain members of his race. I'm 51, I wonder how Torii feels about older people that hate black people, does he just excuse them as being old and it doesn't really matter because supposedly less young people feel that way? I doubt it. No one (I don't think) is saying that his views on this fully define him as a person. What I can say I am saying is, that his position as an entertainer doesn't fully define him as a person. What many sports fans seem to think, imo, is that it does. That we should blindly root for players on "our" team, no matter what they think or do. I don't share that belief, and I don't understand those that do hold that belief.
  8. Mike Sixel
    thanks, I rarely look at the minor league numbers there for some reason. Good reminder. And, 7% worse, from a potentially elite defensive SS? Sign me up.* *not saying he'll do that in the majors, btw....
  9. Mike Sixel
    search FG, but I don't think so.....BA might have something, but I don't pay for that. I have also wondered that.
  10. Mike Sixel
    By the way, if those are the numbers, I like Vielma much more than I thought. Context is important.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Not actually my line, it is more complex than that. If it was 1 time, or 1 issue, I am much more tolerant of intolerance......
  12. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure what this has to do with my argument / question. LOTS of people LOVED the Hughes FA deal, lots of them.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I'm not comparing them at all......I'm stating that there is a line that some athletes cross that makes me not want to root for them. NO PLACE did I compare Torii to Hernandez, NO PLACE. At least on NFL player killed someone in a car accident where he may or may not have been drinking, would you root for him? Several (many?) have beat women on multiple occasions, you ok rooting for them?
  14. Mike Sixel
    I think we are agreeing, I think they do think he has a shot to be awesome. People here arguing that he shouldn't be ranked because he hasn't played? those are the people I was arguing against. If he's not good enough to be ranked (as at least one person here argued) they made a mistake. Personally, he should probably be in the top 10 on this list......but that's just me.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Except that if it doesn't work out, they scouted something wrong, or developed something wrong, or just bad luck or whatever. But if we "should" give them credit for good choices, we probably are ok giving them demerits for bad choices, even when following good processes.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Would you root for Hernandez now? If not, welcome to the club of people that will draw a line.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Begging will get you nowhere....
  18. Mike Sixel
    Ah, this I agree with, sir. Easily, as posted above.
  19. Mike Sixel
    The median WAR for the watered down veterans' committee choices is higher than Torii's WAR, let alone for the "normal" voters, which is in the upper 50s (Torii has lower 40s).
  20. Mike Sixel
    The MLB HOF? No shot.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I don't recall the last Mel Gibson movie I saw. Maybe I'm not thinking about it right, but hasn't his career pretty much tanked now? I think his behavior absolutely is a partial cause of that. I think it is partially an age thing, as I've gotten older, I don't overlook as much. Overlooking, imo, is part of why people keep doing bad things, we enable them (Peterson, Hardy, et. al.).
  22. Mike Sixel
    Slippery slope....classic logical fallacy. That aside, I do watch less and less sports the more I realize I probably don't like some of the players as people (among many other reasons, but that is one). Again, there is a line, imo, in who I am willing to cheer for. I would never root for Hernandez, for example. I actively want Peterson off the Vikings, but I still am happy when he runs well, but I NEVER cheer for him, ever.
  23. Mike Sixel
    the interesting discussion is about how you can/cannot root for people you disagree with.....the other stuff, not so much on this thread, imo. Where does one draw the line? For some, Torii crossed the line, for others he did not. For some, Adrian Peterson or Greg Hardy crossed the line, for others, they did not. For some, there is no line an athlete can apparently cross and they'd still root form them. I don't get those last people at all. As for the bible, it used to be against the law to divorce, because the bible....should we go back to that?
  24. Mike Sixel
    I don't get your Wandy statement at all. Guys that come into the system the first year, first round picks and HUGE international signings, should be in your top 10. That's why they get the money they do.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Again, who said you couldn't? But taking a political stand has consequences, some positive, some negative.
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