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You seem to be missing most of the points here. If racking up numbers for the Hall is important to Cole then going to either the Yanks or the Dodgers is a better option for Cole. Easier divisions, win now teams during his prime years.
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If they can't get a player to be successful, it gets dumped on the player "not being able to handle the bright lights". You never hear that excuse if a good pitcher goes to another team and doesn't perform well then moves on and regains his performance. Nobody says "so-and-so couldn't handle Milwaukee". |
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Slap a cheque for $324m and I'd play baseball in Syria, I saw an headline How the Yankees wooed Cole they slapped a big cheque in front of him that will last his family for generations that's how. If theres such a thing as reincarnation I'm coming back as his grandson.
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I don't know why people make these kinds of statements and think they are saying something insightful.
Sure, you'd take $324 million and go to Syria. That's because $324 is (most likely (NB4 "I make £5 million as a day trader")) like 100 times more than your second best offer. So, that's not the question to ask if you'd go to Syria for $324 million. The question you should answer is if you'd go to Syria for like an 8% raise over what you're making now. Eight percent is about the difference between what Cole took and what we know to be his second best offer. |
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It's called trying to add a bit of humour which imo is lacking in talk sports, talk sports used to be fun it's like going to a funeral nowadays, maybe that's why only an handful of posters post on a regular basis. Anyway have at it I'm way too old to be lectured on a forum. |
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That is the one thing that holds you back around here, CB. These kind of snarky comments. Most of everything else you say is quite insightful, but you ruin the effect with condescending stuff like this.
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Didn't realize invoking civil war and ethnic cleansing was putting the bloody fun back in funeral. That's actually quite hilarious Whereas "I'd play in [insert place the speaker is often trying to criticize] for [insert amount of money sports player just received]" is just a pretty tired sports talk trope generally used to try to belittle athletes for choosing, as the belittler is usually free to do, where they want to live and work. Quote:
Possibly the snarky comments are equally as (or un) insightful. They all come from the same place, afterall. That place being my viewpoint on OOTP, baseball, WAR, war, whatever. I take information in through my unique blend of perception and experience and put it back into the world. People take that information in through their unique blend of perception and experience and have their own reaction. My perception and experience have led me to believe that humanitarian crises and laborers being fed so much anti-labor rhetoric that they start to, unwittingly, repeat it are things that should be addressed rather than overlooked. Sure, some people may do so more tactfully than I do. Sometimes I do it more, and less, tactfully. |
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It's unfortunate. The intensity with which people relate to sports can be used for good or evil. For example, I took a number of statistics classes at university and passed them all and could apply the formulas correctly. But I didn't really understand a thing. Not until I saw how statistics was applied to baseball. Then the concepts were understandable to me because I could relate them to something I cared about. So, yeah, we can use sports to yell "you suck!" back and forth. Or we can use it for something better. So, I won't begrudge you $324 million. But I hope the atrocities happening in Syria will forever be abstract to you and you will never see that much death and destruction in person. Last edited by CBeisbol; 12-14-2019 at 12:08 PM. |
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Just for the record, I also would play any sport anywhere for $30M/yr, in case any GMs are perusing the forum
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This makes me think. I'm used to saying "After a while, what are the extra millions for?" All of us here cannot even imagine what it would be like to make even $1.5 million a year, let alone $15 million, let alone $30 million. Yet, we have player agents scrounging for an extra few mils a year and an extra few years, to boot. What do they spend their money on?
The thought that I just had, and that somebody mentioned here or someplace else: legacy. Of two forms: lots of money to leave to your heirs and be remembered by, and the ego gratification of being a multi, multi-millionaire while you're alive. It really is insanity, regardless.
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I, for one, would be interested to hear about your experiences
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Would $30 million a year be enough for you to put your literal life on the line in someplace like Syria? I don't know anything about your current situation, but I'd imagine, since you're taking the time to post on a website about a computer baseball game that you're at least semi-comfortable in your life. Probably not starving to death, or anything. There are millions of people in Syria (and numerous other places around the world) who'd change places with you in a heartbeat. And not to receive tens of millions of dollars but who'd pay everything they have to be in your situation. Parents who'd sacrifice their own lives so their children could sit where you sit while you talk about how you'd go to Syria for $30 million dollars. A joke is a joke But it might be good to sometimes think about the human lives at the other end of your jokes. |
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