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1. Best Regards, L.M. Posted: March 07, 2009 at 02:31 AM (#3095051)Because it makes the contextual value of that performance go up. What you're saying is the equivalent of saying that era is a performance enhancer. It's not (at least in the case I'm talking about; if there is a particular quirk of the era that *does* lead to changed raw totals, I suppose you could consider that a performance enhancer.): 30 homers in 1920 is still 30 homers in 2001. The value of those homers is another thing entirely and does bring in context.
Let's say I have a gold wedding band in my hand, and I could sell this generic band for $100. Now say that this is the wedding band used in Gone With the Wind. That bumps what I'll get considerably, up to (made up, of course) $500. Now say that this is a band (that has accompanying documentation to prove the matter) given to Mary Magdalene by Jesus. That makes it worth $10,000.
The ring's "performance" has changed zero. Its value has changed, but it never left my hand or jumped up and down in it.
You've got documentation that proves the existence of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and you're charging $10,000 bucks for a wedding band? I don't think you're in a position to be explaining the concept of "value" to anyone else.
In fact, it's very clear that Vlad Guerrero took all of Wilton Guerrero's baseball talent, and replaced it with a year of his life. That is why Wilton was so mediocre. He had his bodily essence stolen from him.
And Larry, is #23 supposed to mean that I missed some obvious thing denoting that you didn't mean what you were saying above? Because I still don't see it.
Best Regards
John
I mean, they got everybody else.
She wasn't a prostitute according to most experts - that was a (deliberate?) misreading.
An authentic gold band from 2,000 years ago is probably worth more than $10,000, even without the inscription "Jesus hearts Mary"
Magdalene controversy
Depends on who you mean by they. Everything I read said that Tejada's legal documents (driver's license, etc) had his correct age on them. MLB and the teams and record books continued to list his incorrect age though and the press apparently never noticed either. Is it possible that the situation is the same with Guerrero?
Or "Jesus bonked Mary"
was thinkin the same...mebbe his visa & papers "are in order" but the Angels decided to carry him as one year younger
wouldn't know WHY they would do that though
I feel so much better now. Like a weight's been lifted.
Oh, about my listed weight ...
Why not? His top PECOTA comps are Methesulah and Otis Nixon. I'm pretty sure the latter was 125 when he retired from baseball. Man, was that guy looked old.
if i understand rightly it is only a crime if the person does not give the correct info to the govt - and the team is not required to legally verify anything the person gives them. and of course they don't HAVE to change any info in the media guides.
and we ALL know that the teams do NOT list correct info about many players' height/weight neither (jeff bagwell is not any more 6' tall than i am and neither is roy oswalt)
Yeah, but you clear it easily when you have on the dominatrix boots.
Anyway, if the punishment is for Vlad to be suspended for a year, I'm fairly sure the Angels will decline to press charges.
Well, to be fair, yes they are. Unless the Houston Astros Baseball Club wants to argue that "verifying identity" under the IRCA, including meeting the identification presented rules outlined in the process, doesn't consist of actually reading the documents handed to you. But it's moot overall, for the reason you point out.
Perhaps I'm being unfair, but doesn't it seem as if that phrase ("and the press apparently never noticed either") should be attached to every controversial baseball story? Especially if we define "the press" as the beat writers who cover the teams on a daily basis? Maybe this is just my perception and not reality, but it seems as if most reporters didn't know about age-gate, or steroids, or amphetamines, or what-have-you in baseball, until the general public also knew it; even though:
1) the evidence apparently wasn't all that difficult to uncover; and,
2) knowing such things and reporting them to the public is (technically speaking) the reporters' job.
2) knowing such things and reporting them to the public is (technically speaking) the reporters' job.
Are you saying that you think it's the beat writer's job to sneak into the players' lockers and rifle through their belongings? Or that it's their job to do investigative reporting, finding official documents for every player and cross-checking them with MLB published data? I don't think it's either one.
Now I'm not saying that it's that hard to do the second thing, but a sports editor would probably have to decide to do that and assign an investigative reporter to do it.
It's my understanding that a great deal of reporting is accomplished without having to resort to this method of investigation.
Yes. The teams can hire their own publicists.
Fair enough. It's a matter on which we will have to agree to disagree.
As for this, I think most newspaper editors would deem it a rather pointless waste of manhours to assign someone to track each player's listed date with any actual records in the hopes of finding a few stragglers who eluded the post 9/11 crackdown. And I think they'd be right. The payoff (OMG, Vlad is actually a year older) just isn't worth the effort. This actually seems like a job better suited to those of us who can (and want to) perform this kind of silly task on our own time.
A Nod Is as Good as a Wink . . . to a Blind Lounge--March 7-8, 2009
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