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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

stop throwing bombs at the czar's carriage

Omar that first part of your post was positively nihilistic. look, if we agree to a ranking system, and then it turns out, in the future, that the people who made the ranking system go crazy and it starts to suck, we can pick a new ranking system the same way we picked the first one. worry less about small hypothetical problems two years in the future. anyway, i think the yahoo ranks just compile the guys in order of how many pts they score in your system, so how could it be wrong?

anyway, i hear what you're saying about losing the first three rounds of the draft completely, and it is a drawback to think that up to 30 of the "big names" will have no potential of moving. that's one thing i don't like about keepers, but at the same time, we could make trades all winter before the draft, using our old rosters (i'm going to say ex cathedra, to head off another crazy tangent debate, that all waiver-wire pickups stop cold with the end of the season, or whenever yahoo stops letting you do them) to get the guys we do want to keep.

the counterexample to your theory of weighted keepers limiting say, my crazy pickup and drops, is that i am still dumb and make crazy moves. and really, i think 90% of my league-leading # of moves involved roster spots #24 and #25 last year. i solemnly swear to continue being a crazed GM if we have keepers.

in re the Adrian Beltre scenario:
I think that's an perfect example of the strategy involved in keepers -- sometimes you just get lucky (for example, that year Javy Lopez hit 45 home runs). you have to decide using your brain whether or not post-tubercular, post-contract year Beltre is worth keeping around. the answer, as our dear commissioner discovered, was no bleeping way.


so, what we do know is that
A) we're having a draft. table all discussions of auctions until next year, when we can vote again
B) we're having some keepers, starting at the 2007 draft.
C) no need to talk about money. i know there is some difference of opinion on the money issue, i think we should just say, for now, that you don't have to pay to play. [...]

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