You have the wrong idea about the Marlins. Nothing their ownership or management has ever done has been inept. They’ve actually been one of the canniest front offices in the game for most of their existence.

That’s pretty funny.

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It’s not the principle. I commented this above, but there’s a multiplicative effect that hasn’t been discussed; for various contextual reasons this player is likely to find himself in these arbitration hearings for the next three seasons, and because starting salaries in arb are pegged to previous salary, the $100k…

THIS is the comment you choose to reply to?

1. ERA is right behind W-L in terms of lack of value.

This is wrong. Nobody’s pegging $11MM as the WAR win value. The debate rages in the upper 7's to maybe 8. That’s setting aside this year’s depressed FA market.

Sort of, only much more so. Salaries awarded in arb are, obviously, tied to your previous salary, and 4th starter/swingman is the type of role that tends to repeatedly go to arb. So Folty can reasonably expect to find himself in this situation twice more in the next two offseasons, where the value of $100k in seed…

He’s a minor league baseball player dude https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=wilson001rus

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I just wish somebody could help me understand what can even be done about this scourge. Tim Lee got swiftly voted out of office for this scam, which was no doubt part of his plan - within months he had a cushy gig as ED of a public/private growth partnership organization in north Georgia making $160k/year (salary…

Congrats on getting the joke

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Six minutes of nothingburger to set up a non sequitur jump scare. Why?

It follows a half-fish, half-human being (Costner) only called “The Mariner” who is forced to team up with a woman and child (Jeannie Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino) that he hates.

Kurt Wagner in the original Claremont/Davis run on Excalibur. Unable to live up to my potential, unsure of my own value, wondering if I had already peaked, bit of an outcast. Described early teen me pretty perfectly. By the time I was close to finishing high school and issue #100 came out, I had collected the entire…

I don’t have any idea how fact-based your account is, as you didn’t provide any evidence either way. But if you had been to the house, you wouldn’t write about it the way you did. It’s not the product of a normal ‘interest in architecture and construction’ that was ‘experimenting with different styles and methods,’ as…

I mean, I’ve always assumed the deal on stuff like this included a free layup to get the score back to even afterwards, doesn’t it?

My Livejournal had this functionality in 2001, without creating multiple accounts.

You are clearly an insane person. Whiskey and gummi bears would be disgusting. Well, maybe if you used something super harsh that is disgusting to begin with, like Potcheen or something in that realm, the sugar might calm it down a bit. Okay, you’ve convinced me. Let’s do it.