LastPommerFan

I absolutely can disagree with his numbers. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/heres-what-obamas-part-time-america-really-looks-like/374356/ TL;DR: Zuckerman has to go back to 2007 to show the increase in part-time job creation because the increase entirely happened between 2007 and 2009, BEFORE the Obamacare was even a thing. Part time, benefit-free work is a problem, but it is a structural problem with our economic setup, it's not a result of Obamacare. In fact, Involuntary part time jobs have decreased relative to the market since 2010. Also to note, many of these part time jobs are semi-retired boomers, working part time because they still want to work or because they couldn't fully retire because their pensions are cut or their savings were destroyed in the financial collapse.

It's good for the CHL, which is good for the general development of all prospects. A strong CHL drives up the development of all the prospects in general. But it hurts individual prospects, like Grigorenko.

Armia continues his playoff hot streak leads AHL in scoring through November, forcing his way to the big club. Risto flat-lines on his development, ends up playing fewer than 34 games with Buffalo.

Thank god for Stalin! amirite!?!?

I dunno, does Fuhr count as a Sabre or an Oiler?

Please describe the extra value of being a New York Yankee. Other than celebrity.

So, only leafs and Habs in the HHoF because no one else has the media scrutiny?

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A big part of the problem is a lot of the greatest players in the last couple decades stained themselves with PEDs. Also, the transition from white and African American players to Asian and Latino players is still in progress. Some of the best athletes who play baseball are just arriving. Watching Tanaka pitch this season, he has the potential to be as good or better than Ryan, who is probably the best pitcher of my baseball watching lifetime. He throws so many pitches so well, he has the options for a nice long career. He was the best shortstop since guys neither of us ever saw like Honus Wagner. He actually deserved the attention. Also, when he finally retired, the country was mostly paying attention to Osama bin Laden, so I doubt the attention was the same at the end of the season.

I was only 11, so maybe I missed something, but Yount didn't get national TV commercials announcing to the world how great he had been, how much re2pect we should have for him. He didn't get almost weekly segments on the baseball shows counting down what appears to be all of his 3300 hits. Ripkin and Smith didn't either, and they are a solid step above Jeter and Yount. Yount was just barely a first ballot HoF-er (77%). I get the feeling the consensus is Jeter is a Shoo-in for First Ballot status, I think that's a mistake. (Side note: As long as the all time leading hits leader is not in the Hall of Fame, I refuse to recognize hits as a legitimate statistic regarding hall of fame bonafides.) Also, baseball is such a fun sport to argue about. :D

All I'm saying is lets not pretend he's Ozzie or Cal when he's Robin Yount. Especially when taking fielding into consideration.

It is very hard to balance his obviously exceptional career with an argument against the sports media and Yankees marketing attempt to replicate last year's send off of the single greatest closer to every play the game. How to you argue that one of the 200 greatest players ever to play the game is being over-rated and over -sold? Yet some how, that is exactly what is happening. I also think, and I give him great credit for this, that Jeter represented a good guy hero during a time when baseball desperately needed a good guy hero.

first: that play is memorable and amazing because he was out of position and arrived late. second: tell me Jeter gets this same treatment if he's the captain of the Pirates.

jeff samardzija was the best pitcher in the NL April-June. He had 2 wins. Jeters' runs number is mostly based on his ability to have great productive hitters drive him home. Especially since he so rarely got himself past first base. Again, all of this is in relation to the truly great players. He is an awesome player, and has been incredibly consistent. But if he has the exact same numbers in Milwaukee, we're not having this parade of nonsense.

Do you think he was a great hitter or fielder? Because his career numbers disagree with both statements. He might be the last player to be considered great based on the old stats. sure! I can get behind that analogy. except Jeter is not in the top 15 of any productive category like Jagr is. Perreault was better at his job than Jeter was at his. Probably Andreychuk too.

That's just it, Rivera was the greatest every to play his position. Jeter is a really good shortstop who played for a long time. Mariano is to Jeter as Hasek is to LaFontaine.

...except everything I wrote was that the farewell tour is stupid.

I never said he was average. He's awesome. hits and runs are not the measures of a players value. his WAR is paltry compared to other shortstops in the last 25 years. His OPS is .822, it's really good. It's certainly not first ballot hall of fame good. definitely hall of fame.

No, I get it. He's hall of fame. He is not National Going Away Tour, comparisons to Jordan, level great.

go on... He's just "good" at batting. He's not great. His OPS puts him solidly in the 180-185 range all time. he captained the team to exactly 1 championship in 11 years.

Maybe this belongs in the ZFG thread. Derek Jeter is not one of the 10 best Shortstops of all time. He might not crack the top 25. Sure, he's a Hall of Famer because enough voters think hits and batting average are useful measures. He is an outstandingly above average player, but his greatness is more celebrity than substance. Especially if you take fielding into consideration. He's not Mariano Rivera. He's not a generational talent. He is not and never was even the best active player at his position. Can we stop with the over the top farewell tour? Are we going to do this every time a Yankee retires?

turns 20 before 12/31, so he's good to go for Rochester. ^^what he said.

Ehrhoff gave up on Germany as soon as things started to get rough in 1944. He decided to go with Switzerland because they weren't going to need a rebuild.

European and American standards on what constitutes diving are clearly not aligned.

Might learn Spanish tonight. Only so I can read the papers from Argentina tomorrow as the eat Messi alive.