New Holliday Thread

I’m simply saying he over values OBP… as do most of you here. It sounds like you’re saying he’s perfect. You called those other teams dumb and I just pointed out they have made the playoffs. And I wouldn’t start calling up the Twins … we all have some painful memories there.

Ryan Howard (105 runs scored, 146 RBI)
Mark Reynolds (97 runs scored, 87 RBI)
Adam Dunn (79 Runs scored, 100 RBI)
Dan Uggla (97 Runs scored, 92 RBI)

But yeah, we’re embarrasing ourselves.

I mean really?

Very tough to be watching a pitch, coming in on a horizontal-axis, and “freezing” the relative position of the plate (vertical-axis observation). The ump’s eyes can go “up down up down” with far more ease than a batter’s eyes can perform that task. Guys like Vlad simply ignore where the strike zone is… their question is, “Can I get the good part of the bat on it, with high bat speed”.

I was at the walk off bunt game, so going from there to that low.

I had to work that night (game 5) and I was on the bay bridge listening on the radio. The am coverage died for a second right as Long K’d. It was like driving into this grey cloud of sadness. Terrible.

is Job 1 isn’t going to be competitive long run. Not emphasizing merit in favor of taking advantage of systemic imperfections leads to a sick culture and screws you in the long run. Ask investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac what they think of the government favoritism that those companies enjoyed. Were they saved by those? Or did those warp the thought process of top management?

The most irritating thing to me about MLB is its anti-competitive practices wherein owners are out to maintain monopolies, get tax breaks and subsidized venues, and limit player salaries all as higher priorities than expanding the customer base. This is not healthy for the business.

As an owner in an individual team, I’d much rather see my organization not worry about trying to game the system and just do the best it can every day — on the field, and in the marketing department. Taking advantage of system imperfections should come third.

That’s how George Steinbrenner increased the value of the Yankees from $10 million to whatever billions it’s worth now, while short-sighted guys like Schott and Pohlad and Loria are happy with their mere tens of millions generated from freebies. I’d rather be an investor with George than with Jeffrey or Carl or Bud or Steve.

Someone like Clorox (presuming they buy a luxury box) or whatever silly company sponsors dot racing is a client. You’re a customer. And, for the most part, customers don’t matter to MLB clubs.

Let’s minimize payroll because we make make more money in the short run with an empty stadium and whining.

rates are efficiently set by the firm, the partner should only do jobs that the client would want to pay the higher to have done. If the associate can do the job well enough for the client’s purposes, the associate should do the job. It’s better for the development of the associate as well.

Service clocks in baseball are analogous to partner clocks in law firms, whereby associates expect to make partner in seven years or so. Keeping a star associate off a high-profile case even though he/she is the best person for the job, for the sole purpose of not increasing his/her market value is similar to keeping a better player in the minors for the sole purpose of not starting his service clock. You lose more games but you save some money in year 7.

this line of thinking causes in other areas.