tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post8411822434555816489..comments2023-10-29T08:25:54.951-05:00Comments on The Daily Something: Adventures in MiscellanyBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840958382433052735noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-43931534002909431792009-06-11T14:02:55.079-05:002009-06-11T14:02:55.079-05:00Best triple play I ever saw was a Legion game.
Ru...Best triple play I ever saw was a Legion game.<br /><br />Runners on 1st/3rd with no outs.<br /><br />Battters flies out to CF.<br /><br />Runner from 3rd scores on the SF by beating the throw. <br /><br />Runner from 1st is gunned down by the C trying to advance on the throw. <br /><br />P appeals at 3B that the runner left early, it's upheald and the runner is out, no run scored.<br /><br />1 pitch, 3 outs. I was the only one who realized it and had to tell the umpires and both teams the inning was over.Ron Rollinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16852012772573977515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-69989757681510801552009-06-10T23:58:26.433-05:002009-06-10T23:58:26.433-05:00I love that you are enjoying flight of the conchoa...I love that you are enjoying flight of the conchoards. Hahaha. I just got a copy of the first season so I'm starting from the beginning. They're great.Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07448218589112500270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-42388926220643852562009-06-10T22:43:19.528-05:002009-06-10T22:43:19.528-05:00I don't disagree with either of you. Yeah, Oln...I don't disagree with either of you. Yeah, Olney's article was written as though he were "advising" the Nationals, not Strasburg directly. And I'm no Boras fan or apologist. <br /><br />But underlying this article and the dozens like it are the sense that no damn <i>kid</i> deserves that kind of money, and where does he get off etc. And that is, among myriad other things, a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of value. I think $20 million (with various bells & whistles as TCM suggests) is a reasonable guess. A one-time, walk-away $11 million offer, however, isn't reasonable at all.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.three8six.com/tunes/Hall_and_Oates.jpg" rel="nofollow">HALL & Oates</a> are adorable, TCM? That's a side of you I've never seen...and speaking of never seeing, send me an email one of these days (preferably before three weekends from now). :)Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07840958382433052735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-88854453287345170992009-06-10T12:36:11.358-05:002009-06-10T12:36:11.358-05:00Count me among the group that thinks that Strasbur...Count me among the group that thinks that Strasburg will sign and will not be anywhere near the $50 million Boras has floated. For most of the reasons Mark outlined, I agree $20 million is a likely end point where Strasburg decides it's good enough and goes to pitch. What I do think might happen is that Boras gets wise to the super-two shenanigans that have gone on with Jay Bruce, Evan Longoria, Matt Wieters, and Ryan Braun and negotiates some way around that, so that Strasburg is a) motivated to sign quickly and b) gets to enter the free-agent market early if he wants to.<br /><br />Also, count me in the group that finds Hall and Oates adorable and awesome.The Common Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09994070642805307798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-12302259441802880282009-06-10T10:35:08.385-05:002009-06-10T10:35:08.385-05:00Well, I think Olney's looking from the team...Well, I think Olney's looking from the team's point of view. It seems that no one wants Strasburg to make a lot of money. But what Olney was getting at was how can Strasburg turn that down? My guess is that the Nationals start at $15 million and end around $20 million. How can Strasburg turn that down? That's a lot of money, and there's no guarantee that anyone else will pay that much money next season (the Yankees won't be that high in the draft). Strasburg's leverage will be worse (though, being able to go straight to the majors means that being drafted as a 22 or 23 year old wouldn't hurt him too badly), and he'll only lose years of free-agency. And as much as Nationals fans may not be happy about him not being happy, they may not commiserate with a guy who just turned down more money than they'll ever see.<br /><br />I agree that they'd want their full value, but that's generally not how fans see things.tHeMARksMiThhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16445834941960575715noreply@blogger.com