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  1. Mike Sixel
    It was me that said the culture is sadly deficient in empathy right now, and I mean the whole of it, not one of the many sides of it. Thanks for the kind words. Until we are willing to put ourselves in others' places, and really think about and feel what they are going through, we can't really help them, or ourselves. I'm not perfect in this regard, but that's why it's called a practice, or journey....
  2. Mike Sixel
    This site needs a "love" button.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    thousands of applicants who know stats? They literally hired the guy that "invented" KATOH, among others. I really don't think we need more data than that, to know that FOs disagree strongly that Fangraphs is bunk.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    Well, to properly use them, you need three years. Not sure your point at all.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I hope they stop wasting precious 25 man spots......
  6. Mike Sixel
    You know....surgery is a last resort. The team was ok with how it was handled, and things went worse than people expected. I don't get how this is on the patient at all......Sometimes, stuff happens, and it isn't anyone's fault. The rush to judge is super sad.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Mauer, Morneau Kubel Oliva In some order. Probably Mauer first for me. I guess to me, brain injuries come first.
  8. Mike Sixel
    If they don't get two new starting OL, it won't matter what else they do. With Griffens decline, we can already see how hard it will be to maintain this core forever. FA, draft, trade, whatever, they need two.
  9. Mike Sixel
    The seven years isn't relevant. It's the total, which they've spread out, allowing them to stay under the tax threshold.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Because they are still better than tv stations doing their own shows, which require large investments in writers, directors, actors, etc, plus the risk the show is bad..... And sports ratings are dropping slower than general ratings. I'd argue it is a lack of ability to adjust in the networks behalf, to a changed world
  11. Mike Sixel
    Seems like you copied an awful lot of paid content there....
  12. Mike Sixel
    Given that nearly every original member is now in a front office, I'd guess teams disagree, strongly.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I was surprised by the money, myself. But they have money to burn, and didn't do much else....
  14. Mike Sixel
    Relying on the next AA or AAA guy after you've gone through 5-10 hardly ever works out either.....no one ever looks at the alternatives, that produce negative WAR over and over.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Other than they spent nearly all their free agent money there, and almost none on pitching....
  16. Mike Sixel
    It tells me most don't understand where the money is going, not to the team, but other parts of the business. Fans, as we all know, aren't the most rational beings.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Hard to believe there are many fifteen year olds left, and even harder to believe if there are, they don't already have verbal deals. But, still, great to get something for a guy Seth compares to Buxton.
  18. Mike Sixel
    It's hard to believe this team prioritized improving DH and 1B over pitching....
  19. Mike Sixel
    Are there any 15 year olds not signed? Because that expires June 30. Of course, getting anything for Granite amazes me. But then, I didn't recently compare him to Buxton....
  20. Mike Sixel
    They've sold 180000 tickets since the signing. Over 2000 per home game. At forty dollars per fan, counting tickets and stuff, that's 7.2 million..... So, knock that off the salary total already.
  21. Mike Sixel
    The players aren't paid by the minor league teams, so the attendance and ticket prices aren't relevant at all to what they are paid. "take your shot" sounds an awful lot like taking a risk, and how is it different? They invest in coaches, camps, equipment, etc....often on salaries that don't actually cover the costs......it's significantly more risky to them than if a billionaire makes 10MM or 50MM or 100MM or more profit every year on their team.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Not one person claimed it could.....it's a baseball site with a few thousand members.
  23. Mike Sixel
    a player risks not having enough money while he toils underpaid (by the owners) in the minors.....The players do a ton of work, starting as teens, to get there. They and their parents spend a ton of money (and risk it) on investing in camps, and equipment, and other things. As an investment in his future earnings.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    And yet, that is not the same as bias at all.....it's a small sample, as you say. edit: Unless of course you mean leans, which might just be a better word to use.
  25. Mike Sixel
    There simply are not enough jobs right now for everyone, and that's only going to get worse (or better), unless we completely rethink work and hours and stuff......there just isn't.
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