RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

phdave wrote:

I have overwhelming mathematical evidence that the Phillies aren’t going to make the playoffs. If you’re going to talk me off of that evidence, you’re going to have to come up with something better than “Stop being a stick-in-the-mud.” I have overwhelming empirical evidence that Darin Ruf will not be a good major leaguer. If you’re going to talk me off of that viewpoint, you’re going to have to come up with something more compelling than “I think you’re wrong.”

He thinks we want to persuade him to come over to another point of view, but really we're just telling him he sucks.

We can mock Brezhnev’s eyebrows and criticize his economic policy from now until the worldwide proletarian revolution, but the fact remains: he held the Soviet Bloc together for nearly two decades, he prevented internal economic panic, and most importantly he maintained enough military power to nuke you, your granddad, and Lyndon Johnson back into the paleolithic era. Brezhnev didn’t bang his shoe on the dais at the UN, and he didn’t make a Pizza Hut commercial. But he kept a superpower at the top of the Eurasian political and diplomatic food chain, which is analogous to what Ruben Amaro has accomplished here.

Perhaps in a generation we’ll look back on Ruben Amaro with the same sort of bemusement with which we look on Brezhnev. Maybe future Phillies GMs will institute the reforms to take this team into the 21st Century, but we can be thankful, for now, that the whole enterprise hasn’t collapsed. Sure, Amaro’s made mistakes, but so did Brezhnev. Be patient, everyone, because glasnost is coming.

Be patient, everyone, because glasnost is coming.

phdave wrote:

I have overwhelming mathematical evidence that the Phillies aren’t going to make the playoffs. If you’re going to talk me off of that evidence, you’re going to have to come up with something better than “Stop being a stick-in-the-mud.” I have overwhelming empirical evidence that Darin Ruf will not be a good major leaguer. If you’re going to talk me off of that viewpoint, you’re going to have to come up with something more compelling than “I think you’re wrong.”

phatj wrote:

phdave wrote:

I have overwhelming mathematical evidence that the Phillies aren’t going to make the playoffs. If you’re going to talk me off of that evidence, you’re going to have to come up with something better than “Stop being a stick-in-the-mud.” I have overwhelming empirical evidence that Darin Ruf will not be a good major leaguer. If you’re going to talk me off of that viewpoint, you’re going to have to come up with something more compelling than “I think you’re wrong.”

This is kind of nitpicking, but... I think you're wrong.

You "have overwhelming mathematical evidence that the Phillies [probably] aren’t going to make the playoffs." You "have overwhelming empirical evidence that Darin Ruf [probably] will not be a good major leaguer."

phatj wrote:That's what I would write if I were going to attempt to engage Baumann.

@MJ_Baumann: Why is Howard facing a hard-throwing lefty?

@MJ_Baumann: Blind squirrel, nuts, broken clocks, and so on. RT @writelikemike Hitless in his last 18 vs lefties. I guess he was due..

kruker wrote:I thought he was going to tell us that he had empirical evidence that Ryan Howard would not hit a HR last night.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

kruker wrote:I thought he was going to tell us that he had empirical evidence that Ryan Howard would not hit a HR last night.

We need an "overwhelming mathetmatical evidence" graemlin.

joe table wrote:I can predict what his opinion will be of every Sixer player already just from this thread. Guarantee Nick Young will be the target of dozens of awful negative analogies