Mark Teixeira .886 OPS
A-rod .818 OPS
Burnett 5.15 ERA ( 4.64 xFIP)

combined salary: $68.5 Million

Carlos Gonzalez would be even better at softball

RISP Average

Soren wrote:Mark Teixeira .886 OPS
A-rod .818 OPS
Burnett 5.15 ERA ( 4.64 xFIP)

combined salary: $68.5 Million

Why not throw Jeter in there? .705 OPS, $22.6 Million

It turns out one of my students is the son of former major leaguer Kevin Jarvis. Great kid, btw.

Monkeyboy wrote:It turns out one of my students is the son of former major leaguer Kevin Jarvis. Great kid, btw.

I literally had no idea until just now that it was even possible to pitch nearly 800 innings at the major league level and have a career ERA over 6.00.

Slowhand wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:It turns out one of my students is the son of former major leaguer Kevin Jarvis. Great kid, btw.

I literally had no idea until just now that it was even possible to pitch nearly 800 innings at the major league level and have a career ERA over 6.00.

Feel like that guy owned the phils, too

It annoys me when broadcasters talk about the "outside corner" or "inside corner" as if the strike zone were a diamond rather than a rectangle.

i think pretty much everybody involved in the game talks that way

phatj wrote:It annoys me when broadcasters talk about the "outside corner" or "inside corner" as if the strike zone were a diamond rather than a rectangle.

What would you prefer? Far and near?

outside/inside edge?

It can cross only one corner of the plate and still be a strike. Get over it

Woody wrote:

phatj wrote:It annoys me when broadcasters talk about the "outside corner" or "inside corner" as if the strike zone were a diamond rather than a rectangle.

What would you prefer? Far and near?

Edge

Some crazy nerd is trying to bring back the Athletics to Philadelphia: to wit, this and this. Evidently, someone involved with this "movement" actually went so far as to go to Oakland (though I don't think it went much further than that) and they are having an event in Philly on Saturday, September 18th.

Poor, misguided bastards who evidently don't understand the first thing about franchise territory rights, but "ballcks!" to that I say: I've always wanted a real rooting interest in American League baseball, and this here would give it to me. Why let a little thing like its utter impossibility deter them? Go for it, I say!

mozartpc27 wrote:Some crazy nerd is trying to bring back the Athletics to Philadelphia: to wit, this and this. Evidently, someone involved with this "movement" actually went so far as to go to Oakland (though I don't think it went much further than that) and they are having an event in Philly on Saturday, September 18th.

Poor, misguided bastards who evidently don't understand the first thing about franchise territory rights, but "ballcks!" to that I say: I've always wanted a real rooting interest in American League baseball, and this here would give it to me. Why let a little thing like it's utter impossibility deter them? Go for it, I say!

hey!

i posted this a month ago and nobody cared

djbigf wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:Some crazy nerd is trying to bring back the Athletics to Philadelphia: to wit, this and this. Evidently, someone involved with this "movement" actually went so far as to go to Oakland (though I don't think it went much further than that) and they are having an event in Philly on Saturday, September 18th.

Poor, misguided bastards who evidently don't understand the first thing about franchise territory rights, but "ballcks!" to that I say: I've always wanted a real rooting interest in American League baseball, and this here would give it to me. Why let a little thing like it's utter impossibility deter them? Go for it, I say!

hey!

i posted this a month ago and nobody cared

I think the title of your original thread is apt. You posted that in the euphoria of the Oswalt trade. I doubt many people gave the post a second thought.

I don’t have suicidal thoughts, because I’m enjoying life so much.

Jeremy Affeldt Jesus

http://jeremyaffeldt.wordpress.com/2010 ... e-feeling/

(although someone should tell him you don't need His love in order to help other people, get involved with charities, etc...)

djbigf wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:Some crazy nerd is trying to bring back the Athletics to Philadelphia: to wit, this and this. Evidently, someone involved with this "movement" actually went so far as to go to Oakland (though I don't think it went much further than that) and they are having an event in Philly on Saturday, September 18th.

Poor, misguided bastards who evidently don't understand the first thing about franchise territory rights, but "ballcks!" to that I say: I've always wanted a real rooting interest in American League baseball, and this here would give it to me. Why let a little thing like it's utter impossibility deter them? Go for it, I say!

hey!

i posted this a month ago and nobody cared

I care.

djbigf wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:Some crazy nerd is trying to bring back the Athletics to Philadelphia: to wit, this and this. Evidently, someone involved with this "movement" actually went so far as to go to Oakland (though I don't think it went much further than that) and they are having an event in Philly on Saturday, September 18th.

Poor, misguided bastards who evidently don't understand the first thing about franchise territory rights, but "ballcks!" to that I say: I've always wanted a real rooting interest in American League baseball, and this here would give it to me. Why let a little thing like it's utter impossibility deter them? Go for it, I say!

hey!

i posted this a month ago and nobody cared

Whoops! If I had seen it a month ago, I would have said something. But I didn't, and wouldn't have re-posted. Sorry!

Anyway, the idea is... um, how to put this politely?... lacking any ties to the reality of this or quite possibly any dimension. There may be dimensions where in alternate realities the Athletics stayed in Philadelphia with the Phillies and somehow both teams survived here, but I'm quite confident that in no reality in any dimension ever do the Athletics move back to Philadelphia from Oakland, at least while the Phillies are still here.