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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 04:09 PM) 1) Have you won this award before? Committee members love to take the easy route and just give the award to a player who already won it before. It is a safe pick for them because they think it justifies their pick if that person has already won it previously. 2) Do you have a nice fielding percentage? F% is the easiest fielding stat for a casual fan to understand. The committee feels if they award it to someone who has a great F%, then most fans can agree with it because it's the only stat they look at for fielding. The more knowledgeable fans who use things like UZR150, RngR, or even Range Factor and Zone Rating know the obvious faults in using F%. 3) Do you put up good offensive numbers? Most of you are probably saying, "What the hell do offensive stats have to do with a gold glove". My answer to this is "Exactly". If you are a good offensive player, then there is a much higher chance that you are a somewhat popular player, and less likely to be questioned if he wins the gold glove. If you are a pitcher winning the award, then you are probably a good pitcher as well. The committee does not want to give a gold glove to a guy who hits .220 with 3 home runs and a .280 OBP. But if you think about it, if this player is just an offensive liability, then he is more than likely plays pretty good defense or else he would not be in the league. 4) Do you make flashy plays? Home runs are sexy, and so are flashy plays. Without naming anyone specific, there is a certain player who makes Webgems a lot because of his flashy plays. Most people remember a player's defense for the special plays they make in the field. Because this certain player makes a lot of these cool looking plays, people get the false sense that he is a great defensive player. This, however, is not true at all. All the defensive metrics prove that he is historically below average on defense, with an occasional good season sprinkled in here and there, yet he continues to win gold gloves. This then gives people the reassurance that "Wow, he really MUST be a great defensive player if he makes all the those great plays and then wins a gold glove". This just fuels the problem, and loops back into the previous 3 points I talked about. There you have it. The secret formula for handing out gold gloves. These 4 ideas are also ranked of importance on this list. #1 is the most heavily weighted factor in their decision, while #4 is the last thing considered. All 4 are important to their decision, but some less so than others. Times when a Gold Glove Award IS deserved: Now, this is not 100% in all cases, but more often than not, when a player wins the gold glove for the first or second time, he is generally deserving of this award. Winning the award for the first time means that factor #1 is completely void, thus making the chances that the award is deserved much, much higher. However, after a player wins 2 or 3 times, the award generally becomes automatic again, given that that player does not have a really bad year, or a different player has an exceptional year and falls into categories #2, #3, and #4. Refer back to this note next fall when the gold gloves are handed out again, and you will not be surprised. Is the unnamed player Torii?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 12:30 PM) If the Sox make another playoff run, the theme song should be Your Love. I'd prefer a mashup called Harvester of Love.

I think my favorite prediction was Sabathia sucking...

As long as we're tossing out crazy scenarios. Game 7 World Series at the Cell, Sox vs. Cubs. Buehrle & Zambrano throwing perfect games into the 9th. Bottom of the ninth with 2 outs, Konerko steps to the plate (He didn't start because Gonzalez is now the 1B and Paulie's thumb was acting up after Game 6). He hits a HR that breaks Borchards record. Cubdom destroyed, Paulie & Buehrle (who has a perfect game in the WS now) continue being awesome, Gordon leads the giant sing-a-long of Your Love at The Cell during the postgame.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 09:07 PM) No one is going to trade an expiring contract for Deng. Just forget it. It is impossible. Nothing is impossible! Except that, but you know, a guy can hope. He'll be tradeable in what, 4 years when he becomes an expiring, which is no fun at all.

3 Sox starters and Gordon will be All-Stars.

Just finished my all time Sox roster. Put Thornton on instead of Tommy John. Playing against the Knights (Gavin vs. Pierce), who are my dumping zone for the rest of the Sox players. Frank knocked in Luis, while Harold Baines coaching himself looks weird. I'll put the roster on the vault later after I update the game.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:02 AM) If the Bulls could move Deng, I'd take ANYTHING back for him. Worst case scenario, straight up move Jefferson for Deng...the Bulls wind up saving money in 2013/2014. I wish they had traded him for an expiring contract this year before the deadline, but whatever. I think Johnson can match his production, so if we could trade Deng for bench pieces, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Happy Birthday Kalapse! Now, break out some birthday stats.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) You can also do what I do, and go into the sound/audio options in The Show, and turn down the other 4 sliders a few notches while leaving "MUSIC" up all the way. That way you adjust for the game sounds, but the music is louder than the rest. I find this the best for me. I did note see the home run call in that thread. QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 04:37 PM) At what point in the song Boom does Bobby come out in? BOOM! Here comes the BOOM! Ready or not. Edit: Just finished up my Ed Walsh. Gonna try and finish up the rotation and lineup tonight (Faber, Lyons, Frank, Baines, Minoso. Frank will be hardest since he's so recognizable. With the stats I gave him, Walsh is probably the best pitcher in game, or at least on par with Cy Young. But you know, lowest career ERA counts for something, even if it is deadball.

Once I get a job (hopefully) around May/June, I should be able to donate around $25. But quick question...how do you send money via PayPal? Does it require a credit card?

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 22, 2010 -> 08:27 PM) Translation is that Ozzie probably took the belt to him. Or a bus.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 02:13 AM) I considering doing it for all the players, but I am too lazy. I have these 4 songs in there for the Sox.... Beckham - Your love Home run - "YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOOAAARRRRDD....YES!!" Strikeout - "HE GONE!! There is a gooood pitch" Game winner - Sweet Home Chicago I also have some Fox Sports Baseball, ESPN baseball, and TBS Baseball jingles that play in between innings. Where could I find these Hawk quotes?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 07:28 PM) I don't think it has a single thing to do with coddling, they'll keep him in the minors until June when it'll be impossible to earn a year of service (earning them an extra year of control) and he won't be Super 2 eligible down the road. It's a business decision through and through. Plus, with a (somewhat) brightening future, if the Nats are contending later down the road, lets say in the final year of team control, it'll be nice to have him around.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) With his speed, I would have started Jackson in CF and either Lee or Quentin in LF. Fair enough, but I don't think I'm gonna have Lee on the team. But anyway, I got One Dog made, so until I get the rest of the starters (Frank, Harold, Minnie) my lineup looks like: 2B - Fox SS - Aparicio RF - Maggs C - Fisk 3B - Ventura DH - AJ (I know, but he fits more with an All-Time than TCQ) 1B - Konerko LF - Jackson CF - Johnson Also, took Foulke off for Tommy John, so I can have a lefty other than Wood.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 06:25 PM) Frankly, that's hard to believe. Not only would it have been opening another hole in the lineup that we'd have to have filled somewhere...but the only way it could truly have cost us a championship is if you could take that $60 million and manage to nail several bargains correctly with it. The odds are that we'd have wound up spending $20 million of it on Andruw Jones in 2007 or out-bidding the Cubs for Soriano or something like that. I think we'd have been Stuck with Soriano. 2006 was worth it. 2007 was about in between, because he still hit HR and had RBI's, but the average was down. 2008 wasn't close. 2009 was better than 2007. 2010 he shall hit .320, with 45 HR, and 130 RBI. (Also, since he can't slip n' slide, Buehrle will ride out to every game on a unicorn).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 06:22 PM) But not well. Well played Balta, well played.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 06:16 PM) Saying "You can argue" something doesn't mean you can argue it well. You can argue against that.

I wish he had gotten 10yr/$250M just because there is absolutely no way he would have been worth it by the end and it would have handicapped them a bit, but also because he probably deserved something insane like that.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 04:16 PM) Rios? Since I don't have the full roster done, and didn't want Quentin playing CF, Rios was still on.

Dreams don't come true >. But that is how it should be anyway.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 04:22 PM) I'm fine with the playoffs how they are. Interleague is fair as well. Just move Milwaukee back to the AL, and each league will get one expansion team. 16 in each league will help scheduling enormously. But that would take logic and Bud Selig agreeing.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 02:53 PM) The Rios money could have been used on a lot of things, but Rios was one of Kenny's longtime targets and I highly doubt Kenny is regretting that because he could have gotten so-and-so. If Rios were still out there Kenny would still be trying to get him. The biggest money eater here is Linebrink. Rios is very, very capable of performing up to or beyond his level of pay whereas Linebrink is waaaay below it with no hopes of reaching it. Konerko is of course way underperforming his salary also. But the Paulie deal had to be done, even if in the end it turns out that in 4 of the 5 years he signed for he didn't meet the value of his deal. So I guess the point I'm making is that if we're looking at things in hindsight and questioning what could have gone where, I wouldn't be pointing at Rios. For about 1 1/5 terrible months, this guy gets just as much s*** as the Erstad/BA/Owens/Mackowiack/Terrero/Wise/Pods CF monster did, but if you took all those players and added up their talents and then multiplied them by Aaron Rowand you still wouldn't get a player as talented as Rios. Let's just please give this s*** a rest and let him prove himself already. Don't forget Swisher.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 01:41 PM) Only if you keep the sticker on and wear it with a completely flat brim, then it would make sense. http://www.lids.com/pid/20141105 I have a hat like that, but with the normal Sox logo Looking back, I wish I had gotten the Cursive C. Oh well, more reason to get a classic Cursive C hat.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 03:37 PM) Dayan has amazing raw power. Once he has it harnessed, watch out. I just pictured Dayan as a Power Ranger for some reason that turned evil.