Things I'd Rather Do Than Read Another Rosterbatory Fantasy Post:
by cbwilk on Nov 18, 2008 2:24 AM EST
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10. Watch a compilation video of every check swing strikeout from Jeff Blauser’s career. (On the plus side, it would take until the beginning of Spring Training to watch the whole thing.)
9. Live in the North.
8. Watch a game on TV called by a tandem of Joe Morgan, John Miller, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling, and Tim McCarver.
7. Catch a glimpse of Dennis Dixon on the Steelers sideline and wonder how good he could have been at baseball.
6. Run into the one actual Marlins fan in existence and hear about how they won more World Series rings during The Streak than the Braves did.
5. Mention Jeff Francoeur around a bunch of 14 year old girls in Atlanta.
4. Mention Javy Lopez around a bunch of 28 year old women in Atlanta.
3. Root for the Phillies
2. Watch a Sex In The City marathon on TBS.
And the number one thing I’d rather do than read another rosturbatory fantasy post:
1. Root for the Mets. Seriously, root for the Mets. I’d rather do that. Seriously.
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Boy...
number 8’s a killer. That selection even makes John Miller look like a pro! Nothing’;s worse than McCarver or Morgan. Keith and Ron are transparent.
Yeah, I guess I kind of started that ball rolling a bit. I take full responsibility, though it has gotten completely out of hand.
Awfully tame list
I can’t wait to see what you’d rather be doing when people start sharing their statistical predictions of Escobar stealing 25 bags, Gonzalez saving 42 games, and Jeff Francoeur hitting 34 homers, come March.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
OH NO!
I hate the statistical predictions! It’s so pointless, and so often wrong (something like 99.83% of the time, but I’m not a scientist).
by buzzdeadwax on Nov 18, 2008 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
That happens? Holy crap, I joined in April of this year, so I never saw that? Seriously? I don’t think I could make a list about things I’d rather do than read staturbation posts!
I don't know how bad this site is
But I’ve gone to message boards for a while now, and I hate reading someone’s projection of what kind of numbers a player will produce. I don’t understand the point – you’re never going to be right. Now, the % stats can be close: “I think so and so will produce a line of .275/.350/.475”. But that’s based on someone’s track record, and isn’t overly dependent on a player’s surroundings.
I also think there a different types of rosterbation posts. If someone is clearly knowledgeable, and they are advocating prudence, I enjoy reading them. However, if someone is just typing out of their ass, talking about signing and trading for players as though the Braves’ finances and farm system have no limitations, or that Martin Prado is the next Ryne Sandberg, I don’t enjoy those posts at all. But that’s just me.
I do prefer the ones written by people with a clue much more (ejruiz, 17384, and even gondee if you take out the Ken Griffey Jr. nonsense, were all Ok), but the massive amount of guesswork and assumption kill me.
In the last couple of days, Affeldt and Dempster both sign and that kills a bunch of people’s rosterbation scenarios. So now, Will Ohman is the best lefty reliever on the market and while the Braves are working on it, they’re bound to have more competition now. Same thing with all the big starters; the Yankees have said they want two of the FA starters, and with Dempster gone, they’re going big time after Burnett. Most of these fantasy scenarios seem like they take place in a vacuum where the Braves aren’t competing with other teams, and it’s just silly to read.
But, whatever makes your offseason easier I guess.
"typing out of their ass"
I would LOVE to see that ESPN commercial.
Although I consider myself a “closet” rosterbator and I feel that sometimes it is necessary to convey certain suggestions/ideas, some of these we’ve seen lately are flat ridiculous. Escpecially when evidence is ignored!
Typing out your ass has to be painful
I mean, I can’t imagine trying to get both of my arms out of there, and still wanting to think about baseball. But some people like it rough. To each their own.
Well then, if I write one, I will include Rosterbate in the title, so you don’t have to read another one. God knows we don’t need another Mets fan.
Mets fans will be looking...
for some place to go — since the new stadium holds 10,000 less that Shea. Guess management figured they would be better off with 10,000 less Mets fans in a single location. I suppose the fortunate 45,000 will get to pay extra to not have to be in the company of the lesser 10,000.
whats so bad about the north? do you even know what snow feels like?
Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.
seriously the north is the shit. We have seasons, and deer that are fat and taste good. Not to mention when southerners come here in the winter when its like 30 degrees and there dressed for the North Pole its just funny.
i saw my first flurries of the year today, and i’m wearing a baseball cap and a thin jacket. southerners = overreacting turds.
Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.
We have seasons in Tennessee...
…it’s just that winter doesn’t reach out into spring and fall — although it was 23 degrees here yesterday. There are more deer here than you could ever shoot. And I hate coats. My son-in-law from Wisconsin turns the heat up to about 85 all winter long and freezes if someone opens a window. So there.
David Letterman Jr.!
You know what’s better than all this rosterbating? The defeaning and dull silence of the offseason beforehand. When we’re rumored to be in on Peavy, people start to bitch about the focus on him. Here’s an idea: if you don’t like reading them, don’t. They’re pretty easy to spot, Mr. Letterman Jr.
Here we go again: http://thefulldeck.blogspot.com/
Pedro
Anyone think we should take a chance on Pedro? He’s supposedly healthy again. Randy Johnson and Pedro would sweet if this was 2001.
The north is for platooning your resume
and a vacation or two. Besides that the south has all the upside.
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
South/North Carolina
over anything north of D.C. any day of the week.
My house would cost well over a million up north. I didn’t pay that at all down here. I drive six minutes to get to work. I don’t shovel snow from my drive way in the morning but rather catch a early game of golf on November 18th in 58 degree weather. I’m within six hours of Six Flags, Bush Gardens, Walt Disney, Universal Studiors, Key West, Miami, the ATL, Bourbon Street, Golf all around for cheap, fishing 10 months out of the year, Women who don’t have to cover it up half the year, growing economy rather than recession, NO UNION Henchmen, etc…..I can take a trip to Puerto Rico, Domincan Rebuplic, Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Ecuador, etc…. for less than it would cost for a one way flight to NYC, Philly, Baltimore, etc…….
I lived in Cambridge/ Boston for three years off Garden Street. I just think it’s easier in the south and you got more to do than Drink, fight traffic, memorize the subway lines, and wear thermal underwear six months out of the year.
Build your resume and move down south. If you can make it in the slow culture of Alabama then you can make it anywhere.
What's wrong with unions?
They get working-class people better wages and working conditions. Nothing wrong with that!
by buzzdeadwax on Nov 18, 2008 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
How much do you expect people to work for?
I mean, on this blog we throw around 4 yr/$60mil contracts like it’s nothing, but we begrudge working-class people a decent living? And who says it’s the union contracts (that the unions have renegotiated at management’s request multiple times, by the way) that are sinking the car companies? Maybe it’s the fact that people don’t make enough money to afford a new car. Or maybe it’s this awful credit-crisis that we’re stuck in, that’s made it much more difficult to get a car loan. No, you’re probably right, it’s the workers who actually make the cars that are the problem.
by buzzdeadwax on Nov 18, 2008 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
I disagree.
Unions are a huge part of baseball. Right now CC Sabathia is being pressured by one to take a deal that most people in America say is overvalued, even though he would prefer to pitch on the West coast. Maybe I should have used a different example, but I still argue they are a bad thing. But maybe its an argument not worth having.
We can discuss this, because it's baseball
So, I’ll definitely agree that the MLBPA is a different animal. I don’t have a problem with players getting a certain percentage of revenues – they are the ones that make the game enjoyable to watch. I do have a problem with the fact that the revenues are so high.
As for CC, if playing where he wants to play is worth, say $10mil over 6 years, what’s the matter with that? Or how about this: if AJ Burnett took slightly less money to pitch for a US team because the taxes are lower, thus increasing his take-home pay, would/should the MLBPA have a problem with that? I don’t think so.
If you’re going to continue making posts like that the least you can do is sprinkle “OPS” in there a couple of times to keep my attention.
I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.
by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 18, 2008 4:34 PM EST up reply actions
Get to know Smoltz's Beard
His priorities:
1. OPS
2. Erin Andrews
3. Atlanta Braves
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
I love me some Erin Andrews, but ahead of the Braves? Surely you jest…
I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.
by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 18, 2008 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
i’d have sex with erin andrews. i wouldn’t have sex with bobby cox. or for that manner, any of the players or front office staff.
…except maybe jim fregosi.
Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.
haha, jim fregosi…wtf
I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.
by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 19, 2008 9:22 AM EST up reply actions
Nice new avatar
4. Simpsons references, no matter how obscure they may be.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
Thanks. Got the idea after you posted that thread about me a while back.
I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.
by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 19, 2008 9:22 AM EST up reply actions
Haha, yeah I noticed that after I posted. Well played, good sir.
I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.
by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 18, 2008 9:17 PM EST up reply actions
The Union in Principle is Great
However, the fact that they actually have henchmen is the problem. My father was building our house from scratch when I was a teenager He got a couple of contractors to do electrical and stuff. HE COULDN’T AFFORD UNION PRICES. He put almost everything he had $$$$ in this house. He worked his real job and came home and built this everyday. He was teaching me the handyman traits. The electrical contractor was beaten over the head with a 2X4 cause the union found out. The union men showed up at my house to TAR it. My dad shot one of them. The man that was injured was so proud of what he did. Union this and Union that. For christ sakes we just couldn’t afford them and they beat a man and then try to destroy anothers home. If you need a henchman or muscle then your organization is similar to organized crime with a Front. The union is outdated and just as corrupt as the men up top.
On another note: I still think the Braves should sign Sheets for 13mil/2 year with 15 mil 3rd year club option.
They shouldn't
But they will, they are trying to drive up contracts across the board and inflate the overall salaries of players throughout baseball. They will pressure all the big name free agents to take the bigger contracts so the little guys like Balldeli get offered more, more than they are actually worth. A union in anything should stand to make sure people get a salary equal to their worth, not over inflate salaries. Getting more than you are worth is lucky, a system that encourages the process across the board is avarice.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree
Because I believe that the superstars wouldn’t be able to play at all without the role players. What would A-Rod and CC do in NY if the lesser players just didn’t show up. Again, no one in MLB should complain about their individual salaries, as their minimum wage is about $192.00 per hour and the minimum wage for the rest of us is only $6.55. But you need all levels of players to play the game.
Then its settled
This argument means nothing, since nothing is going to change, so why make it? I know you are a good guy, what Braves fan isn’t? No point in typing something that may make you mad. Also I am not going to be able to check this for a while, so we kinda have to stop. Anyway, agree to diagree.
lol, 6.55…another reason why the south is better, no state minimum wage, right?
Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.
The $6.55 goes a lot further in the South
It’s $8 in CA, and you can only live on that in the crappiest parts of the state..if you work about 60 hours a week. FIP, VORP, OPS. See? Now it’s a baseball post.
Ron Gant
Have any of you ever heard Ron Gant do color on a broadcast. Now that is most cringe-inducing experience in the history of baseball.
I have a seriously negative physical reaction to McCarver’s voice. Ever see the Seinfeld episode where Kramer has seizures to Mary Hart’s voice? That was nothing.
Can’t stand McCarver. At all.
And yeah, Bmacbandwagon, Joe Buck is bad, too, but Tim makes me sick.
I think McCarver is by far the worst announcer in baseball.
I would rather listen to every Sunday Night Baseball then listen to the ASG or the World Series and thats sayin something because Joe Morgan is bad too.
As much as I don't care for Deion...
I sure enjoyed him drenching McCarver’s a$$! I think McCarver must have one of those little effeminate problems, or something — his voice is even disgusting. Maybe hormones would help.
Every time I’ve heard Gant he says the same things over and over and over. It’s like he has 3 or 4 points he wants to make about a team before the game starts and he beats those ideas into the ground. He doesn’t have an original or spontaneous thought in his head. Don’t get me wrong. Gant was one of my hero’s growing up in Little League and Babe Ruth baseball and I’m sure he is a hell of great guy but listening to his color is painful IMHO.
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