Yeah. Dick Young was a really old sportswriter when I was a kid.
MVP votes are a funny thing. ARod couldn't win one with Seattle with a 1.045 as a SS so no way Edgar is gonna get one back then. And the writers didn't like Belle 'cuz he was kinda jerky.
Mo must have been a good guy.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by smitty » Mon Feb 13, 2012 15:45:21
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by Soren » Mon Feb 13, 2012 22:52:06
in all the Burnett trade/salary dump talks I didn't notice he lost 2 MPH off his fastball
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by BigEd76 » Tue Feb 14, 2012 01:24:35
Schilling is on Jimmy Fallon's show tonight
He's played for the Phillies, the Diamondbacks and the Red Sox and now he's all about video games -- he's one of the brilliant minds behind 38 Studios, and tonight he'll be showing us the game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's brand new and looks super awesome! Tune in!
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by swishnicholson » Tue Feb 14, 2012 01:42:55
BigEd76 wrote:Schilling is on Jimmy Fallon's show tonightHe's played for the Phillies, the Diamondbacks and the Red Sox and now he's all about video games -- he's one of the brilliant minds behind 38 Studios, and tonight he'll be showing us the game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's brand new and looks super awesome! Tune in!
Which reminds me; I forgot to post this link to the recent New York Times article on the same subject. It could have shown up int he video games thread. I don't know, I don't go there.
Mr. Schilling, 45, freely acknowledges that 38 Studios has not reinvented the genre. As a child in Arizona he played Dungeons & Dragons and computer games like Wizardry. “I stuck the Monster Manual into my notebook and read it in class in school,” he said, pausing to spit into a cup. (He still chews tobacco.) “I read Tolkien, I think when I was 7 or 8.” As a major leaguer, when not on the mound, he played the massively multiplayer online games EverQuest and Ultima Online in hotel rooms. Still a hard-core gamer, he haunts online forums as “Ngruk.”
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by TenuredVulture » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:07:33
Maybe I'm late on this, but the idea of bringing the Dominican Republic and Venezuela under the the draft might have all kinds implications for baseball going forward.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by CalvinBall » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:21:50
Hopefully they set up an International Draft. Maybe include PR and Canada in that too. Being separated from the American draft as the article states would not be so disruptive.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by phatj » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:58:49
What is the rationale for allowing drafting/signing international players at 16 when they have to be 18 (or 17 with a HS diploma) domestically? Seems like it discriminates against American amateurs.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by Woody » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:49:25
they play with milk cartons for gloves
you sure do seem to have a lot of time on your hands to be on this forum? Do you have a job? Are you a shut-in?
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by Barry Jive » Thu Feb 16, 2012 18:00:35
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by FTN » Thu Feb 16, 2012 18:11:02
an international draft just doesn't make sense. what about japan? is MLB going to unilaterally end their posting system? How would they ever agree to that?
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by phatj » Thu Feb 16, 2012 22:06:29
FTN wrote:an international draft just doesn't make sense. what about japan? is MLB going to unilaterally end their posting system? How would they ever agree to that?
Those players aren't amateurs
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by Soren » Thu Feb 16, 2012 22:25:23
phatj wrote:FTN wrote:an international draft just doesn't make sense. what about japan? is MLB going to unilaterally end their posting system? How would they ever agree to that?
Those players aren't amateurs
the reason the posting system exists is so that we don't poach their amateurs
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by FTN » Thu Feb 16, 2012 22:30:10
Soren wrote:phatj wrote:FTN wrote:an international draft just doesn't make sense. what about japan? is MLB going to unilaterally end their posting system? How would they ever agree to that?
Those players aren't amateurs
the reason the posting system exists is so that we don't poach their amateurs
right. im pretty sure MLB will try to deem anyone who doesnt play in MLB as an amateur.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by phatj » Thu Feb 16, 2012 22:40:22
I don't see how they can deem NPB players amateurs. Those guys are under contract and subject to the posting system. True Japanese amateurs, i.e. players in high school or whatever the equivalent is, who have not yet signed with an NPB team, would be able to enter an amateur draft.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by FTN » Thu Feb 16, 2012 22:59:14
phatj wrote:I don't see how they can deem NPB players amateurs. Those guys are under contract and subject to the posting system. True Japanese amateurs, i.e. players in high school or whatever the equivalent is, who have not yet signed with an NPB team, would be able to enter an amateur draft.
and NPB will never allow that.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by phatj » Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:01:39
Can they prevent it? Are young amateurs beholden to NPB somehow?
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by Soren » Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:03:29
Didn't the NPB mandate that, that MLB teams have to let Japanese play for NPB teams first?
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by FTN » Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:05:02
phatj wrote:Can they prevent it? Are young amateurs beholden to NPB somehow?
there is an agreement between MLB and NPB that MLB teams will not sign japanese amateurs unless all NPB teams pass on them in the draft, I believe. same goes for the league in south korea, which just came up because the orioles tried to poach a 17 year old from that league. mlb voided the deal because korea flipped out
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by lethal » Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:48:04
FTN wrote:phatj wrote:Can they prevent it? Are young amateurs beholden to NPB somehow?
there is an agreement between MLB and NPB that MLB teams will not sign japanese amateurs unless all NPB teams pass on them in the draft, I believe. same goes for the league in south korea, which just came up because the orioles tried to poach a 17 year old from that league. mlb voided the deal because korea flipped out
So MLB will ban the teams from drafting Japanese and Korean amateurs based on those agreements. I don't see this being an impediment to a worldwide draft.
What I do envision being an issue is what happened to Puerto Rico. Talent there just dried up once it was included in the draft.
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Re: Is there a Random Baseball Thoughts Thread?
by kruker » Fri Feb 17, 2012 00:29:44
In general, I'm not a fan of an international draft. As a Phillies fan, bring it on. We couldn't be any worse in a world with an international draft than what we've been without one.
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