Aramis Snubbed?

[sneakypower]

Ryan Roberts is *only* 56 points behind him. He'd have to be one hell of a defender.

 

for 50 points of slugging and like 5 points of obp? not really.

 

What is the equivalent value of SLG points and OBP points? I know they're weighted in the wOBA figures, but is it like 2:1? 5:1? Surely it's not 10:1.

it's roughly 1.7:1

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/why_does_17obpslg_make_sense/

 

at any rate, context-neutral, Aramis has been the best hitter amongst NL 3B, but factoring home ballpark, Headley's had the more valuable offensive season thus far

 

we're talking about guys who've only made 100-130 plays defensively and not much variance in defensive statistics, so those should probably mostly serve as a tiebreaker or something

[Scotti]

...he saves his home runs for times when they will benefit him and not the team, and all his homeruns are meaningless...

 

There are a lot of strange theories out there on the Interwebs but, whoa Nelly, this one takes the cake!

 

Any HR benefits any hitter--always. Sluggers get paid to slug. No slugger can choose when he will hit a HR and certainly no one would choose NOT to hit a HR when it is beneficial to his team. If a hitter were to be known as a "clutch hitter" (and Ramirez actually IS known as an RBI guy) then he makes MORE money.

 

...he leads Latino uprisings within the clubhouse (very disturbing!)...

 

OK, a BLOGGER quotes a POSTER to his site who theoretically has "A CONTACT WITH ACCESS" and this is now fact? No! This is LESS than RUMOR--at least you can trace a rumor to its source. Here there is only a poster who has "a contact."

 

Regardless, even the blogger/poster/"contact" didn't call this anything like a "Latino Uprising." That was all you (so now this is poster/blogger/poster/"contact"). AKA, useless.

 

What did blogger/poster/"contact" actually say? That Ramirez "...wouldn’t let them(sic) team haze Castro..." Hell, I'm lily white and, were I on the team, I wouldn't let them haze Castro either.

 

...and he's lazy, and he injures himself on purpose because he's lazy.

 

Sure, the guy is selfishly all about himself and yet he injures himself on purpose because this is actually good for him. Or maybe poster/blogger/poster/"contact" don't really know what is going on and are playing the telephone game:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

 

Just ask Dave Kaplan or Barry Rozner or pretty much any mainstream media guy in Chicago

 

Well, I read a Blogger who has a Frequent Poster who knows a Supposed Contact who sat near them in a Bar and, Privately, they disagree with you.

[jersey cubs fan]

I think something is being lost in translation.

[Guest]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

[Yeti]

...he saves his home runs for times when they will benefit him and not the team, and all his homeruns are meaningless...

 

There are a lot of strange theories out there on the Interwebs but, whoa Nelly, this one takes the cake!

 

Any HR benefits any hitter--always. Sluggers get paid to slug. No slugger can choose when he will hit a HR and certainly no one would choose NOT to hit a HR when it is beneficial to his team. If a hitter were to be known as a "clutch hitter" (and Ramirez actually IS known as an RBI guy) then he makes MORE money.

 

...he leads Latino uprisings within the clubhouse (very disturbing!)...

 

OK, a BLOGGER quotes a POSTER to his site who theoretically has "A CONTACT WITH ACCESS" and this is now fact? No! This is LESS than RUMOR--at least you can trace a rumor to its source. Here there is only a poster who has "a contact."

 

Regardless, even the blogger/poster/"contact" didn't call this anything like a "Latino Uprising." That was all you (so now this is poster/blogger/poster/"contact"). AKA, useless.

 

What did blogger/poster/"contact" actually say? That Ramirez "...wouldn’t let them(sic) team haze Castro..." Hell, I'm lily white and, were I on the team, I wouldn't let them haze Castro either.

 

...and he's lazy, and he injures himself on purpose because he's lazy.

 

Sure, the guy is selfishly all about himself and yet he injures himself on purpose because this is actually good for him. Or maybe poster/blogger/poster/"contact" don't really know what is going on and are playing the telephone game:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

 

Just ask Dave Kaplan or Barry Rozner or pretty much any mainstream media guy in Chicago

 

Well, I read a Blogger who has a Frequent Poster who knows a Supposed Contact who sat near them in a Bar and, Privately, they disagree with you.

post of the year!!!

[Scotti]

I think something is being lost in translation.

 

Rimshot

[Scotti]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

 

Because Aramis chooses to hit HR that benefit him and not the Cubs?

[Scotti]

post of the year!!!

 

I couldn't have done it without my agent, my mother, my grandpappy...

[Scotti]

On the actual topic of Aramis being snubbed... The ASG has been about offense for decades. Ramirez has put up better numbers so, in that sense, he was snubbed. The ASG is also about the fact that the managers pick the subs AND the fact that there are a limited number of slots so, in that sense, there are always snubs. Each year there are usually guys who put up much better numbers than Aramis has thus far who get left off because PIT or KC needs a guy on the team. So, IMO, while it may be a snub, it is no big deal.

[Splendid Splinter]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

 

Because Aramis chooses to hit HR that benefit him and not the Cubs?

 

 

Because you don't know the definition of sarcasm/sarcastic... You really believe that she was being serious??? Although that was a nice little rant you went on there...

[Tryptamine]

Up to an .833 OPS which is the 4th highest amongst all 3B in baseball and the highest amongst all NL 3B(Headley .796). His WAR is also up to 2.1. Unfortunate timing on Aram's part. If he had gotten hot a week or two earlier he'd have been a lock for a spot.

[TruffleShuffle]

Up to an .833 OPS which is the 4th highest amongst all 3B in baseball and the highest amongst all NL 3B(Headley .796). His WAR is also up to 2.1. Unfortunate timing on Aram's part. If he had gotten hot a week or two earlier he'd have been a lock for a spot.

 

well he would've gotten in and i suspect starlin would've been left off in favor of someone like stephen drew. of course, with the SS injuries starlin might have made it anyway.

[Yeti]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

 

Because Aramis chooses to hit HR that benefit him and not the Cubs?

 

 

Because you don't know the definition of sarcasm/sarcastic... You really believe that she was being serious??? Although that was a nice little rant you went on there...

FYI the "post of the year" comment...also sarcasm

[Scotti]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

 

Because Aramis chooses to hit HR that benefit him and not the Cubs?

 

 

Because you don't know the definition of sarcasm/sarcastic... You really believe that she was being serious??? Although that was a nice little rant you went on there...

FYI the "post of the year" comment...also sarcasm

 

FYI, so was me thanking my grandpappy--he never lifter a finger to help me.

[Scotti]

This is why Laura never comes around anymore.

 

Because Aramis chooses to hit HR that benefit him and not the Cubs?

 

 

Because you don't know the definition of sarcasm/sarcastic... You really believe that she was being serious???

 

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

Although that was a nice little rant you went on there...

 

My specialty.

[TruffleShuffle]

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

even if your sarcasm detector is completely broken, it's safe to assume that an NSBB moderator is not going to be a meatball who thinks that aramis is lazy and zambrano is one of those fiery latins.

[Shilzzz]

sometimes threads unravel quickly.

[Scotti]

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

even if your sarcasm detector is completely broken, it's safe to assume that an NSBB moderator is not going to be a meatball who thinks that aramis is lazy and zambrano is one of those fiery latins.

 

That's sarcasm, right? I know Tim is about as Pro-Cub as I am but I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't hold that kind of standard to be a moderator. "I'm sorry, you think Ramirez is lazy? You're fired." Regardless, I would have had to have opened Laura's profile to even know that she is a moderator. I don't even open my own profile. Hey, maybe I'm a mod!

 

If you have a problem with my "lack of a sarcasm detector" PM me. Or create a new thread "Why Does Scotti Suck So Much?"

[Tryptamine]

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

even if your sarcasm detector is completely broken, it's safe to assume that an NSBB moderator is not going to be a meatball who thinks that aramis is lazy and zambrano is one of those fiery latins.

 

That's sarcasm, right? I know Tim is about as Pro-Cub as I am but I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't hold that kind of standard to be a moderator. "I'm sorry, you think Ramirez is lazy? You're fired." Regardless, I would have had to have opened Laura's profile to even know that she is a moderator. I don't even open my own profile. Hey, maybe I'm a mod!

 

If you have a problem with my "lack of a sarcasm detector" PM me. Or create a new thread "Why Does Scotti Suck So Much?"

 

Hint, mods have green names.

[Scotti]

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

even if your sarcasm detector is completely broken, it's safe to assume that an NSBB moderator is not going to be a meatball who thinks that aramis is lazy and zambrano is one of those fiery latins.

 

That's sarcasm, right? I know Tim is about as Pro-Cub as I am but I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't hold that kind of standard to be a moderator. "I'm sorry, you think Ramirez is lazy? You're fired." Regardless, I would have had to have opened Laura's profile to even know that she is a moderator. I don't even open my own profile. Hey, maybe I'm a mod!

 

If you have a problem with my "lack of a sarcasm detector" PM me. Or create a new thread "Why Does Scotti Suck So Much?"

 

Hint, mods have green names.

 

Thanks for that. Apparently I'm not a mod...

[NCCubFan]

Generally people who are being sarcastic don't go to the trouble of linking a web page to their post that agrees with their post (albeit in a non-sarcastic way). I mean, was the blogger/poster/"contact" being sarcastic? Must we assume so because the point of view is so bizarre? If we were to assume that every bizarre post on even just NSBB were "sarcasm" then NSBB would be even too sarcastic for me.

 

even if your sarcasm detector is completely broken, it's safe to assume that an NSBB moderator is not going to be a meatball who thinks that aramis is lazy and zambrano is one of those fiery latins.

 

That's sarcasm, right? I know Tim is about as Pro-Cub as I am but I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't hold that kind of standard to be a moderator. "I'm sorry, you think Ramirez is lazy? You're fired." Regardless, I would have had to have opened Laura's profile to even know that she is a moderator. I don't even open my own profile. Hey, maybe I'm a mod!

 

If you have a problem with my "lack of a sarcasm detector" PM me. Or create a new thread "Why Does Scotti Suck So Much?"

 

Hint, mods have green names.

 

Thanks for that. Apparently I'm not a mod...

Maybe you could start a campaign to become a mod. It worked for O_O. :D

[Scotti]

Thanks for that. Apparently I'm not a mod...

Maybe you could start a campaign to become a mod. It worked for O_O. :D

 

I think I'll stick to being critical of mods posts and see if that gets me anywhere...

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I paid Tim in hookers and blow for my modship.

[Guest]

I paid Tim in hookers and blow for my modship.

I'm willing to make this the standard custom, too.

[Scotti]

I paid Tim in hookers and blow for my modship.

I'm willing to make this the standard custom, too.

 

It just so happens that I am a pimp but more so in the specialty categories (trannies, amputees and the like)... Business really picks up around Halloween.

 

(Apologies in advance to any mods who may be trannies or the like).