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No worries at all - honestly one of us should have been more vocal about it at the time so I’m just as guilty. This has been a lot of fun - thanks for setting it up and then getting out of the way and letting Getz and Hags do it.
Getting out of the way was the best thing I did.No worries at all - honestly one of us should have been more vocal about it at the time so I’m just as guilty. This has been a lot of fun - thanks for setting it up and then getting out of the way and letting Getz and Hags do it.
(yesterday was National Puerto Rican Day.)
PETER SCHMEICHEL (9 points) INTL CAPS 3.78 + INTL COMPS 3.3 + DOMESTIC 11.64 + CONT CUPS 1.8 + AWARDS 19 = 39.52
Nope, just making sure I picked as many 1's as possible.BobbyLayne said:
Yeah I was admittedly surprised to be Pete behind Kaline and Carew (as much as I love Carew). I think I'd have taken Pete over Grove as well.Nope, just making sure I picked as many 1's as possible.
I did not expect Pete to get a 1 in this cat - was probably thinking more the middle. I kind of went by "ok, we're picking teams - who do you want?" And once the obvious names went - Babe and Willie and Teddy Ballgame (and not all of them are in this cat, I believe) - I'd be pretty happy plugging Pete in there. Now you could say this for almost every guy on this list, but really, you'd pick Kaline (etc) over Pete Rose?
Not complaining though - judging these is hard, and you put in the work. Onward to my next 1!
This is somewhat understandable and I am not quite sure how bad/good that is. For example, your pick in the first round is likely the first chosen in their category. There is no positive available value for that pick. It is either right on or negative so your early picks are much more likely to go negative even if they score well.
I wish I could like this comment more than once. MVP of the judging realm so far (still time to change that though...hahah).
There's enough bolded here that says he was pretty darn good. He led the league in hits seven times, doubles 5x. BA 3x. 15 seasons with a .300+ BA.
Interesting call. A very memorable moment and it was on prime time but also was a pretty unimportant game mid season. I thought these moments were tough to guess how they would be judged. Uniqueness? Coolness? Shock? Legacy? Long term impact? I’m curious to to see how the rest shake out.
As has been mentioned many times in the thread, the moments/games categories got twisted from some of the very first picks off the board. IMO I remember the OBJ catch as vividly as basically any other moment in the NFL over the past decade, and that hastacountfersumthin.
Never gave much thought to moving Musial. We’re missing half of the Top Ten because they’re in other categories. The 5 in the top two tiers are a good ways in front of Griffey & Pujols. Among the top 5 I moved them around a lot, but the highest I had Stan was 5th with Henry 4th (first pass looking mostly at lifetime advanced.)
I have had 18 of my top 30 ranked for a surplus value of +1. My raw score is 203 pts for those 18 players.
just do it, sweetmeat - if JB being the best ever in two sports dont do it for you, if you dont think bo knows nothin', take your guy or whatever. aint gonna hold it against half as much as rating the the only non-yankee 3peaters in baseball history 16th the day i turned the cat over to you to judge, so put on your bigboy pants and make a choice
Mostly came down to the advanced stats for Rose.Yeah I was admittedly surprised to be Pete behind Kaline and Carew (as much as I love Carew). I think I'd have taken Pete over Grove as well.Nope, just making sure I picked as many 1's as possible.
I did not expect Pete to get a 1 in this cat - was probably thinking more the middle. I kind of went by "ok, we're picking teams - who do you want?" And once the obvious names went - Babe and Willie and Teddy Ballgame (and not all of them are in this cat, I believe) - I'd be pretty happy plugging Pete in there. Now you could say this for almost every guy on this list, but really, you'd pick Kaline (etc) over Pete Rose?
Not complaining though - judging these is hard, and you put in the work. Onward to my next 1!
Me too. But I picked him third overall (technically after wikkid switch Brown’s category). Just worried about optics. I’ll do it, and explain it in the tier, and let Tim readjust if he feels necessary.
What makes this difficult is how much do you way someone that was extremely good in two sports vs someone that was really good in 4 sports. Bo was a great athlete and excelled in football and was good in baseball but could he play basketball (the commercial campaign definitely helped his legend but was it true)? I don't know. I have known/played against some very athletic people that couldn't throw a baseball or shoot a basketball. It's a different kind of athletic skill set that should have meaning in a greatest athlete of all time discussion. Is someone that won a decathalon a better athlete because that was a lot of events in one even though their competition may not have been top notch all around? Who knows, that is why you get paid the big bucks to be a judge.
“The Babe is here! Who is coming in second?”
I feel there is a personal story to go along with the bolded. Babe and Bobby fight club
Maybe. Hard comparing prewar pitchers with post expansion 5-tool players. I love the story for all three. Really enjoyed researching the MLB. Can’t wait until 2021 to go see a game.
