One thing you’re not taking into consideraton is when averaging ot their overall numbers.Rickey’s last decade or so he wasn’t an everyday player so that will bring down his avg’s per season.Rickey had seasons of 146,130,119 runs scored and Reyes has never approached anything like that.

Why can’t you do the same? Why can’t you just debate their points without snark? Why is that so hard to do?

Do you expect them to sit back and just take it? What do you expect them to say? If your going to be nasty to people and mock their opinions, well, then they aren’t going to be nice back – That’s just how it works.

If you just debated their points without snark they wouldn’t insult you – Why don’t you give it a try for once?

The silence is deafening.

Doesn’t change the fact that until today I have not responded to any of Alex childish name calling by doing the same to him. I have ignored it for months and you (not that your under any obligation to do so) never said a single word about about it until I responded in kind.

Why is that?

Why did you take the opportunity to call me out on this issue while remaining silent for all these months while alex hijaks every baseball thread into a name calling contest multiple times a day?

I couldn’t give a rats *** about someone calling someone names but it precludes any kind of reasonable discussion about baseball which is the entire reason this website exists.

If you remain silent for months while one poster, or a group of them attempt to silence any dissenting opinion with juvenile name calling, while never commenting on the substance of the posters opinions or facts then you really should be silent when other posters respond in kind and turn the whole website into romper room.

There are no double standards here for one poster vs. another. There is also no reason people cannot disagree and simply state the reasons why without some seeking to make it personal. In my opinion it’s always made personal because some posters cannot state WHY they disagree, just that they do and it’s done in such a way to attempt to make offering your opinion (and backing it up) a waste of time. For instance every time Des offers an opinion someone brings up Jerry Manuel coaching a college baseball team. These comments are never in context with anything Des has written that day. Their just a waste of time that we’ve been subjected to thousands of times that has the effect of AVOIDING the topic rather than exploring it which seems to be the goal here for some and is completely at odds with what the website is all about.

Good one about the minors though.

Your entire piece is predicated on the idea that a straight comparison can be made between 2 players who played in different eras who happen to share one attribute. That is simply false, especially when you realize that the player you are using as a measuring sick is the greatest of all time with his skill set.

Then, you cherry pick numbers to prove your point. When what you did is put into proper context, your argument completely falls apart.

You don’t argue in good faith. You simply try to squeeze the facts into your preconceived notions.

One is a statement on the realities of the human condition and the other is a personal attack!

I have no problems with someone saying something I did was dumb provided they don’t just say YOUR DUMB!

And as long as they show where I made a mistake I accept it!
Most don’t do that, Jessup did!
Which is why I defended him here!

Yeah I remember the good old days where to post something you had to dial through an hour of busy signals to post something!

Things were more civilized back then because when you have to wait an hour to get online you make what you say count! LOL

BTW it was funny to read that you was also go back to the days of BBS. I quickly had flashbacks of my ACER 144000 modem making the noise it did when establishing a connection. Thanks for the memory flashback.

Legs are their asset!

Legs being the strongest limb in the human body!

Having an injury history of Hamstring does not a short career make!

Thats the main comparison!

As for RS I think I did show that!

Both are leadoff hitters.

What is key is that Ricky stayed a leadoff hitter for most of his career.
Reyes can too!
What made Ricky great was the base stealing yes!
But he wasn’t stealing 100+ bases after age 24!
In that instance Jessup would be correct in his PRIME assertions!
Reyes is doing roughly the same RS without those stolen bases!
Reyes is the better HITTER!
So while what Henderson was great at DID decline what Reyes is good at most likely will not!

That means he will be productive much longer because BA is not something that always declines with age in fact it can be maintained far longer than stealing bases can!

And that give Reyes just as much chance to get into the Hall as the first 6 years of Hendersons’s stealing bases did!

And if we get the BETTER people to stop it will expose and reduce the clutter to see the REAL IDIOTS that need to get sent to the Minors of Blog Posting!

Just a one liner no discussion!

I know thats your modus operandi but Tag is better than you!

MUCH MUCH BETTER!

And I have already gone on Record saying I have no issues with the posts Jessup made about my piece!

Can’t say the same for you!

You disagree or agree?
Which one cause no one can tell from the one liner drivel you been posting!

Not with each other’s intelligence!

The problem we have here are there are a few folks who have NO intelligence!
They don’t even have an opinion just like SOME poster’s opinions over another.

And since they can’t make a post to ADD baseball discussion to help support that opinion they resort to the name calling and insults because thats all their limited mind can come up with!

I don’t blame the stupid for being stupid it’s not really their fault!
We need stupid people to be honest! Without them how would know who is smart! LOL

I have run message boards since the early 80′s thats how far I go back!
when the BBS was the closest thing to a web anyone had and modems worked at 300 Baud!

I know how difficult it is for JoeD here.
And I am as guilty at times of doing the bad post as anyone because at some point you get caught up in it and regress to the audience.

I will never have an issue with a post like Jessup made in reply to my piece because he attacked the numbers not me!

You can attack my points as infinitum and I will never get riled.

But when all you can add is your an idiot or your a liar it is those posters we can do without!

Arrogance of position is much difference than NO OPINION just insults which is what Donal does!

But I understand why you include him in the crap…

He may be the OPINION the idiots flock to but that doesn’t make Jessup the cause of the crap!