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Jeter represents what's been wrong with the Yankees approach over the last decade. They've accumulated the most imaginary wins in baseball with little regard to building an actual team. Continuing to run a bad defender out there at the most premium position is not a very good way to win big games. Call me old fashioned, but I'm building my team around a SS that can actually get to balls hit 3 feet to the left.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 08:31 AM) That's pretty narrow minded though too, especially considering he has the 45th most fWAR of all time, even with shoddy defense. Frankly, he should have moved to 3B or 2B when the Yankees brought in Rodriguez, but it was "his" team and whatever, but this also shows the volatility of statistics like UZR. In '98, his UZR was 10.1. That's a full win earned due to defense. In '99, '00, and '01, he was hurting the team there (dropping as low as -16.4 in 2000), yet the Yankees made the World Series all 3 years and won it in '01, which goes to show that defensive deficiencies can be hidden. From '02-'04, he was back to being a positive player, '05-'07 was negative, '08-'10 was positive (and a 12.2 UZR as recently as 2009), and '11-'13 have been negative. Can players' defense fluctuate that greatly and that consistently over the course of a career? On top of that, Jeter is one of the greatest offensive shortstops of all time. He's 4th all time. The 3 "shortstops" with more? Honus Wagner, Alex Rodriguez (hence, the quotes), and Arky Vaughn. In case you're not keeping track at home, that's a player from the deadball era, a player who has been caught using PEDs twice and spent the second half of his career at 3B, and a player from the 30s and 40s who derived most of his offensive value from 6 seasons. On the defensive scale, he was probably a 40 at shortstop overall. Still, he never embarrassed himself out there, he was incredibly durable, and he played very good baseball 17 seasons. Frankly, because he was able to do all of that from shortstop leaves him much higher on this list than I think people are readily willing to admit. The guy was consistently good (and sometimes very good to great) for 17 years. TL;DR. I'll make this really short. Very good hitter. Awful defender. Yes, awful. Not among top 100 players of all time.

I don't need defensive stats to tell me Jeter was a statue. One game of the eye test will tell you that. I don't care how good of a hitter you are, if you play awful defense at a premium position, you aren't among the top 100 players of all time. He wasn't a lumbering 1st baseman. He was a SS. Not all positions are created equal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 03:05 PM) Chicago's two highest are 80.6 and 71.2 inches, or almost 100 inches less than South Bends top. Yeah, but it's Indiana. They deserve it for living in that barren wasteland of bad taste, meth, nascar and monster trucks.

A classier move would have been to take the money and donate it all to charity. It's not like the Red Sox need it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) I'm over TWD. Same s*** over and over. There's nothing exciting about slow ass zombies being bludgeoned in the head anymore. I think I'm with you. My GF and I both agreed last night that it's just stupid. I was blaming it on True Detective being so good, but I'm starting to lean towards TWD being boring and dumb.

Does a character need to have a breakdown and cry in every single episode of TWD? The formula is getting really boring. Yesterday's episode really frustrated me.

True Detective is making TWD almost unwatchable. I need to start watching TWD first. If I watch True Detective first, it makes TWD look stupidly bad.

Holy s***, True Detective. From the very beginning, I figured they were investigating Cole in the modern day. I wonder if he would start killing people out of boredom.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) What an odd quote. Not really. He's saying that he wanted to tear it down but the team was too competitive to do it. Think about it. This is the same franchise that has a fan base that still cries about the White Flag Trade.

The annoying brunette looks good naked, but she wears clothes in the show. Deal breaker.

I hate my life. I've grown my beard out to have a permanent face mask. Everytime I go inside I have to take a few seconds to get all the ice out. If I just let it melt, I look like a drooling 5 year old.

Hey Spring Training, where you at, bro? The board needs your help.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 02:04 PM) Here are a couple of decent ones. I wish I would have saved the couple for which I'm looking. I can't remember the journals. It was specific to athletes. When I made the comment about "you will have a heart attack" that was meant for people who do it regularly. Something like once a week won't do it but the chronic users have a 30% increased chance of heart attacks compared to non-users. It's not marijuana that's the problem. It's the method of consumption. Vaporizing or ingesting marijuana isn't going to give anybody a heart attack.

It wasn't a spelling mistake or a grammatical error. He was using the wrong word over and over. If I was using the wrong word, I would hope somebody would point it out.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 03:21 PM) Thanks for being my secretary. Sorry to be that guy, but you used the wrong word 5 times in 2 posts.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 01:34 PM) Im not sure, I cant speak from experience, I can only say what Ive seen and relay the experience of those that I know. The problem with "Dare" and "Just Say No" is that it created a false belief that all drugs were equally bad. Thus when some kids tried smoking weed, etc, and it didnt kill them, they just believed all drugs arent that bad. But some are, some are really f***ing ridiculously dangerous with almost 0 redeemable qualities. Its coincidental, but Friday I was talking about Heroine. And I flat out told my friends that we can try a lot of s***, but dont ever f*** around with needles and most specifically Heroine. Because its not even a happy drug, its a f***ing sad drug that you take when you want to dull the entire world. Which also is part of the problem, a lot of people who turn to Heroine are already partially down the path of being gone. Heroine - Joan of Arc Heroin - Diamorphine

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:56 PM) What's overrated about it? Seriously. That play was unbelievable. How did he get the leverage to make a good throw without his feet on the ground? You guys have much better memories than me. Most of these things I forgot.

Watched the first season of Vikings throughout the week. As much as I wanted to like it, it's just not very good.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:05 PM) A lot of people at my work have laptops with docking stations. It works well for them. This

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:57 PM) At absolute best, he is a 24th/25th man. That is his top. The kid is never going to hit enough to play everyday. Guys like that are a dime a dozen around baseball. I'm sorry, but this just crazy. Guys with his tools aren't that common. He might not put it together, but he has serious ability.

The ultimate champion hates Dunn as much as I hate Beckham. Solidarity.

Rondon really intrigues me.

Outkast will save them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 09:53 AM) The obvious counter-point no one has mentioned about letting Manziel sell his autographs is the guy who pays $50k above market value for Manziel to throw a pick-6 late in a game allowing the opposing team to cover the spread. You know 100% well that would happen in almost every game. They can do that with out with an autograph. I don't see the correlation.