A good pitching staff on today's Birthday Team, but not much in the infield.

If you were so inclined, you could get more WAR into the starting lineup by moving Derek Bell to third base and playing Thomas Howard in center. But if you remember what Derek Bell was like as a third baseman, you'd know what an awful idea that would be. Also, truth be told, I like Andy Tracy and I'm the guy making the lineups.

C: Art Wilson (14.5 WAR)
1B: Jay Bell (37.2 WAR)
2B: Johnny O'Brien (0.0 WAR)
3B/Punter: Andy Tracy (-0.5 WAR)
SS: Rob Andrews (0.9 WAR)
LF: Lee Maye (15.7 WAR)
CF: Derek Bell (13.1 WAR)
RF: Bill Nicholson (41.7 WAR)

SP: Old Hoss Radbourn (75.4 WAR)
SP: Fred Toney (25.9 WAR)
SP: Hal Brown (17.5 WAR)
SP: Slim Harriss (13.6 WAR)
SP: Joe Blanton (11.9 WAR)
RP: Mike Henneman (12.9 WAR)

Johnny's Twin Brother: Eddie O'Brien (-1.9 WAR)

I've been mostly on social media sabbatical that's coincided with the election. I have a question, though: does the website seem to be on autopilot now? It seems like all the threads for several weeks have been submitted by a tiny number of people. I submitted a Hall of Fame tracker thread a few days ago which didn't show up anywhere, so I'm wondering if the threads getting through are from people who can somehow post their own submissions.

[stoopid hamsters]

If you wanted to avoid watching Rob Andrews try to hit, you could move Jay Bell back to short, Lee Maye to first, and then Play 90's journeyman Thomas Howard in left.

The O'Brien twins are probably best known for being star basketball players at Seattle University. Johnny was the first player in NCAA history to score 1,000 points in a season.

They were primarily infielders (although Eddie spent one year as a very bad centerfielder), but their pitching numbers had a significant effect on their overall WAR figures. Eddie as a position player had a WAR of -2.2, but his pitching WAR of 0.4 (in 16 innings) pulled his overall war up a bit to -1.9. Conversely, Johnny had a WAR as a position player of 0.4, but his -0.4 WAR as a pitcher (in 61 innings) dragged his overall WAR back down to 0.0.

Does anyone know why, when I try to post to the mock HoF ballot thread, it says that I don't have permission?

Earlier, I could edit other people’s posts in the HOF ballot thread. Maybe somethings going wrong in the background.

Bob Sebra's birthday is today. His last major league pitch was a doozy.

I've been mostly on social media sabbatical that's coincided with the election. I have a question, though: does the website seem to be on autopilot now? It seems like all the threads for several weeks have been submitted by a tiny number of people. I submitted a Hall of Fame tracker thread a few days ago which didn't show up anywhere, so I'm wondering if the threads getting through are from people who can somehow post their own submissions.

The same thing happened to me. I submitted a story a few days ago and it never got posted.

I submitted a Hall of Fame tracker thread a few days ago which didn't show up anywhere, so I'm wondering if the threads getting through are from people who can somehow post their own submissions.

The same thing happened to me. I submitted a story a few days ago and it never got posted.

Not to be critical of those regularly providing content, but it does appear that those currently doing so either aren’t authorized, or perhaps aren’t inclined, to also green light articles submitted by others, since people have been lamenting the difficulty of getting their submissions posted for quite some time, which probably has resulted in fewer submissions. I’ve made posts in several threads lamenting the lack of a current Hall of Fame Tracker thread, without response by any of the powers-that-be. Unfortunate, but that seems to be the state of the site.

I have to log in every time I come to the site now.