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JohnSweden - Jul 12, 2005 7:34:22 pm PDT #399 of 10001

I can't even.

Why do the Mariners suck?

Short term? They don't have enough pitching. Some of that is injuries and some of that is decision-making.

Long-term? They make the classic mistake (many do) of paying players for performances they've already had. To me, it seems a big part of today's big money game is trying to avoid overpaying players for underperforming. There are tools out there to help analyze and predict player performance (that is, make it less of a total crapshoot) The Dodgers let Beltre go after his big season, since his predictors don't indicate that last year was a new level for him, but rather, a fluke. The Mariners signed him, gambling that last year's numbers were a new standard for him. So far, not so much. It only takes a few mistakes like that to affect your club long-term and only one or two to wreck a season.

beth b - Jul 12, 2005 7:36:56 pm PDT #400 of 10001

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

sore throat on one side - sinuses.

DavidS - Jul 12, 2005 7:53:42 pm PDT #401 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

They make the classic mistake (many do) of paying players for performances they've already had.

Heh. JohnSweden read Moneyball.

Ple, boobie ain't gonna solve all her ills. Maybe a bouncy walk. It's distracting plus it jostles their brains into submission.

Cass - Jul 12, 2005 7:58:42 pm PDT #402 of 10001

Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Boobie should always be the answer until you have language skills and have mastered the concept of zero.

And often? After.

JohnSweden - Jul 12, 2005 8:00:20 pm PDT #403 of 10001

I can't even.

Heh. JohnSweden read Moneyball.

Who didn't? It ain't all I read. This year's Baseball Prospectus on Beltre: "His 2005 season will land somewhere between that extremely conservative PECOTA [their statistical predictive model] and a 2004 season he'll never again replicate."

Glamcookie - Jul 12, 2005 8:07:21 pm PDT #404 of 10001

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Boobie always solves my ills.

Cass - Jul 12, 2005 8:08:58 pm PDT #405 of 10001

Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I've met her, I can understand this...

Atropa - Jul 12, 2005 8:11:46 pm PDT #406 of 10001

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Why do the Mariners suck?

Default state for majority of the team's history?

Heh. Plei beat me to the comment.

P.M. Marc - Jul 12, 2005 9:09:32 pm PDT #407 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ple, boobie ain't gonna solve all her ills. Maybe a bouncy walk. It's distracting plus it jostles their brains into submission.

Well, the boobies themselves were indicating that it was Boobie Time.

We sat on the bouncy ball and bounced until she was calm enough to remember, "Oh, yeah. Food."

Sigh. All the Bath and Body Works I went to had left on close out was the Chocolate Fondue perfume, at least of the stuff I was looking for. So I got two bottles.

Volans - Jul 12, 2005 9:14:46 pm PDT #408 of 10001

move out and draw fire

OTOH, the Mariners have the best colors/logo/jersey design in baseball. So they look good while losing! (Mariners are my second team after the A's, which is tough what with them both being AL West).

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