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Now that was a tight chat.
And by tight I mean not tight at all. I think I asked over 20 questions. I tried everything. Using the same name a bunch of times to make sure he knew the same person was asking questions. I tried using different names just in case he had a vendetta against my original name. I trued making my name similar to his and I tried bringing upbtopics that I know Mark likes to talk about. I did all of those things several times. I also made a point to ask in depth questions about well known players with uncertain futures as well as lesser known players involved in very recent moves. No results. No answers. A good idea might be if 1 screen name is taking you the time to ask you 10 questions about recent moves that haven’t been brought up at all you could at least try to answer one of them. Anyone who does that is a pretty die hard MLBTR fan.
Please answer this mans questions he needs a plaque for this statement
Why thank you sir. I appreciate it. At least someone is paying attention.
All the MLBTR guys have Twitter and will happily answer your questions if you ask them directly. But it sounds like you don’t really care about any actual questions and only want to see yourself in the chats. Get a life.
StandUpGuy is actually not a stand up guy. He’s a guy who needs to be banned.
Banned? Why, because you didn’t like his statement? That’s kind of severe. Maybe he doesn’t understand the volume of questions that come at the host.
Literally thousands of questions being asked because people arent just asking one question, they are spamming it. You might not know it but you are being unrealistic.
Use a name like “yankeesin2020” and ask “Cashman should sign KingFelix as a reclamation project. It’s worth the gamble.”
These guys love it when fans think the yankees are better than everyone else at everything.
Don’t feel bad! There are hundreds of questions.
Your odds are low.
Good luck next time!
You are seriously insulted that he didn’t answer your questions? Have you ever moderated a chat, or even observed a chat where you could see all the questions coming in? I highly doubt he had a vendetta against you.
I doubt that he has a vendetta against you but with that way of thinking I’m sure you know people who do
Wah wah wah… would you like some cheese for your whine?
That’s all you guys got for the White Sox? More “fire Rick Hahn if” talk? Makes no sense, bit I’m sure you would love that.
If they’re not .500 by the end of 2021? I would hope you’d want him fired too by that point.
That depends on a lot of factors that we don’t know yet, like injuries, roster moves, regression. Declaring that anyone should be fired twi years from now without facts or justifiable reason is conjecture. This is all they write or talk about with the White Sox, and quite frankly, it comes across as biased and ignorant.
Not true at all. Holding your GM accountable to make progress after x number of years.., it is their job.
Thanks for the “insight” Captain Obvious. You care about context and perspective, or nah. I doubt you know anything about the White Sox.
A’s should go for the throat and trade Barreto, Mateo and Montas for Betts, trade Piscotty to SF for prospects, see what TB wants for Kiermaier and throw a ton of money at Will Smith and Will Harris and keep Treinen as the high risk but case of bounceback guy.
You definitely don’t understand anything about the A’s if you just suggested that they “throw a ton of money” at any player. They don’t do that. You know why? When they are a last place team they sell a measly 1.6 million tickets a year. When they are a 97 win team they sell a measly 1.6 million tickets as year. Why would ownership do that if he knows the fans won’t support him and it is all money down the drain?
Please stop correlating money to ticket sales
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other
Local TV contracts are the problem with small market teams.
Their TV contracts don’t produce the money big market teams Contracts do
Every team has the funds to float a $200MM payroll. The A’s were bout for $180MM and are now worth $1.1 billion. John J Fisher is worth like $2.5 billion himself. If Wolff is still involved that’s another 2.5 billion of personal wealth and 6 billion in family wealth.
Actually ticket sales are important and are a big reason I wish small market teams would do more to bring people to the games (lower prices, more events, etc). The best way to build team loyalty or just fandom of the game in general is by a good experience at the ballpark. If that happens, viewership on tv increases, thus better tv deals. Hey, I agree that’s where the money is at, but it’s all part of the equation.
What does the owner’s personal (or family) wealth have to do with payroll? Their own wealth only factors into the ability to purchase—either through cash or debt—the club. Once they own the club the payroll and club operations are dictated by revenues—how much money the club generates determines how much they can (or will) spend. It’s a business before anything else. If you go into your own pocket to fund your business you’re either foolish, a bad business person, or both.
They just threw $45M at a DH.
Ticket sales have ZERO to do with salary. Also 1.6M is actually fine, there is no championship to sell the most tickets.
And you had 3 fellow dummies liking your trash reply guy post?
I know more about the A’s than you ever could. Period. Stand down. Don’t take your anger at none of your dumb questions being answered on me.
I gave up on asking questions. I tried a lot. must have some sort of membership
I’ve only ever had 1 answered.
Same
Ask as early as possible, the earlier in the chat you ask the more likely you’ll get an answer.
See my reply to StandUpGuy’s comment…..
I don’t use twitter. I hear that’s for weird people. You know, like people who go by the name Chaz or Ashton something.
shut up boomer
You don’t think it’s possible that most people in those chats have never had a question answered. Your situation is not irregular..it’s normal.
That would make these chats a waste of time, wouldn’t it? They pretty much answer the same few preselected questions (that they’re wrong about 90% of the time) and spend half the chat goofing off.
Marvin Miller for the hall of fame? Hell no. He hurt the game of baseball. You would probably want to put Scott boros in too.
Simmons, whitaker, Garvey deserve to be in.
IMO, only super stars belong in the HOF. Former. Guys with multiple All-Star and WS appearances, MVPs, Cy Youngs, team or league records, ROYs, batting titles, Silver Sluggers. Good players with longevity don’t belong. Consistent greatness during a sizable portion of one’s career gets you on the ballot.
I agree. The HOF has become the hall of very good, and the emphasis on WAR as the be-all, end-all of statistics has worsened it. The Hall of Fame should be reserved for those players who were absolute superstars, not statistic compilers.
But literally ALL superstars compiled stats?
Stop being such a boomer, WAR is a counting stat of all the old tymey stats and some newish (30 years old) ones, you just hate new things. Because youre a boomer. Shut up boomer lol
Says the 5th place trophy recipient millennial.
“But literally ALL superstars compiled stats?”
There is a difference between playing long enough to put together a resume of statistics, and playing great which results in a lot of statistics. For example, Harold Baines played 22 years and was a fairly decent player, but never a superstar, and because of his longevity and being “good” he put together a ton of stats. The man has more hits than Ted Williams because he played forever. Does he belong in the HOF? Not really.
“Stop being such a boomer, WAR is a counting stat of all the old tymey stats and some newish (30 years old) ones, you just hate new things. Because youre a boomer. Shut up boomer lol”
I’d take offense if that was even funny. I’m not even close to being a “boomer”; heck, my parents weren’t even considered “boomers” as they were born in the 1960s.
I’m all for new ways of measuring a player’s performance, but I don’t believe that WAR is the be-all, end-all. It has too many variations on calculations, places too much emphasis on OBP (getting on base is important, but you can get on base every time you come to the plate in your career and have your team lose 1-0 every game you ever play), and doesn’t tell the entire story like many people would have you to believe.
All that being said, I find a difference between a player like Craig Biggio—who was very good, and even great at times—and one like Ken Griffey Jr. whose greatness was far superior than much of his competition. The HOF is for those who are far superior to their competition, not those who outlast their competitors.
How did Marvin Miller hurt the game? Or Scott Boras? Do you honestly believe that if players weren’t making so much money that it would be cheaper to go to a baseball game? Ha! Players salaries do not drive the cost of entertainment…market conditions, and what people will pay drive the cost. If every player in baseball suddenly decided to play for $50K a year, neither ticket prices nor cable TV subscription costs would decline; the owners would simply pocket much more money.
Is there a difference between the 30 cent cup of coffee you can brew at home, and the $3 cup at Starbucks? Not really, but Starbucks can charge that much because people will pay it. Same with baseball. People will pay it.
Tom, there’s no use trying to talk sense to a boomer, they live in the illogic, they worship the 1970’s (a decade no one should care about in 2020). They all need to just stfu and let logic and facts reign. WAR is the best stat, the DH needs to be in both leagues, Marvin Miller and Boras helped players more than anyone, in the face of billionaires running smear campaigns against them so the billionaires could pocket more money the players created. All these facts fly in the face of the egomaniacal boomer who refuses to change anything about themselves, and will happily take down the entire world with them if given the chance.
I agree.
Wth is so special about the 2000s, or 2010s? Nothing. Vacuous, weak, superficial, useless. Quit mouthing off about things (and decades) you don’t know or understand and stay in your lane. Go play some Fortnite and stfu.
Sorry to hear you had two decades of a lousy unremarkable life. That’s no one else’s fault but yours tho.
Not sure what you’re talking about, but you’re dripping with self-importance. Stop disrespecting older generations. Boomers may have been lousy parents, hypocritical and materialistic, but they (along with Gen-Xers) created all the junk that define your generation (tech, pop culture, fake food, feminist revolution, etc.).
Marvin Miller helped players make money. How did that make the game better?
Might as well let those stat guys into the Hall too. And the guy that invented Ben Gay. And the guy that invented chalk that lines the base paths.
I believe Pujols will go in the HOF as an Angel. He has two more years to run on this contract so barring injury, he will have played only one fewer season in LA than STL. No question his stats were better as a Redbird but Albert has a 10 year, $10million dollar personal services contract with the Halo’s AFTER his playing contract ends. I think Albert owes it to the Angels to go into the HOF with the Big A on his cap. And I’m a STL fan, BTW.
Uh, no.
He’s a legend iin a Cardinals uniform. With the Angels, not so much.
Have you ever had sarsaparilla