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2013
MMO Exchange: The CBA, Comp Picks, Equilibrium vs. Gattaca
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I’ll work for peanuts.
Believe it or not, most of what we write on MMO you never actually see here on the site. Some of the best writing takes place in our daily email exchanges that are ongoing throughout the day and never stop. For example, ere are a few typical exchanges:
Qualifying Offers Are Evil
This one started when I was looking to pick a fight on the pros and cons of the qualifying offer, an integral part of the new MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Joe: Do any of you have opposing views on how the new CBA with regard to qualifying offers have impacted free agency either negatively or positively, depending on your point of view?
Jessep: I’d be shocked if we did. The main issue I have with it is the loopholes… the potential for sign/trade and then the fact the Mets are punished because the Pirates couldn’t sign Appel.
Xtreem: Agreed. I think we feel the same way. The other element is the way it impacts free agents. Draft pick compensation and the allotted slot money is coveted. It’s why such absurd contracts have been handed out to guys like Ross, Sanchez and E-Jax (no pick attached) and Swisher (Indians were protected, and teams like the Rangers and Mariners who were linked to him passed) and why Swish chose Cleveland instead of a team with a better chance of winning, because he had no other options. That team wasn’t going to make him an offer for fear of losing the pick. It’s why Lohse and Bourn and Soriano are still FAs.
Small market teams are screwed every which way because the firm, set-in-stone qualifying offer of $13.3 mil doesn’t help small market teams, because none of them are generally in a position to offer that kind of cash to attach a pick to their player and on the other hand, it dramatically increases the going rate of FAs not tied to draft picks. Sanchez and Jackson signed for more dollars than Josh Hamilton. When would that EVER have happened? Victorino, a platoon player at this point, and Napoli, useless unless he’s DHing against LHP, each took in $39 mil. No draft picks attached. And they went to a big market team who can afford to overpay to keep their pick. Incidentally Boston is protected. That’s how much they covet their SECOND round pick, let alone their first. I don’t think the loophole will work because of the collusion aspects.
Gattaca vs. Equilibrium
Satish: Off topic, either of you like the movie Gattaca?
Sean: Solid movie, good premise. Plus, Jude Law was the Gosling of the 90′s-early 2000′s
Joe: Last night I watched Equilibrium for like the fifth time. Was Gattaca better, same or worse than that?
Sean: Gattaca = predetermined Darwinism at birth, so if you aren’t the best of the best, you are bound to crap jobs. Equilibrium = art bad, Christian Bale good, Taye Diggs slightly worse. Clericz 4 life…etc.
Joe: As for Gattaca vs Equilibrium, obviously you have a disdain for totalitarianism in a futuristic society and it biased your opinion on this matter.
Satish: You missed out Joe. I rather liked that movie, it was on last night.
Sean: Batman wouldn’t let that shit fly. That’s all I’m saying. Taye Diggs would’ve been hanging by his ankle with a lisping man explaining why that’s wrong.
Joe: It appears to me that your main problem lies with Taye Diggs, that treacherous Cleric who was sliced up like a California Roll in a Sushi Bar by the heroic John Preston who single-handedly conquered that oppressive world order. Even a creature of the night like Batman can see the virtue in that.
Sean: BATMAN RESPECTS NO SCUM. TAYE DIGGS. ANKLE HANGING. FLY HOME AND TELL MORGAN FREEMAN TO MAKE HIM A HOVERBOARD.
Joe D. wins.
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Some of the best writing takes place in our daily email exchanges that are ongoing throughout the day and never stop. For example, ere are a few typical exchanges:”
This is some of the best writing?? I’d hate to see the worst then….
Don’t you read Jessep’s articles? Lol.
Just messing with you, Jessep.
Don’t you read Jessep’s articles? Lol.”
Lmao, no you’re not satish.. It’s ok, as a writer he’s garbage, he’s the worst they got here. he never has any idea of his own, and he usually post anarticle after someone makes an articles stating good points then he counteracts with an article to negate the one that was written.
Hey Alex,
He isn’t that bad at all, but we don’t agree on anything except Mike Piazza. Sometimes life just works that way. Lol.
He is satish, it’s ok, you’re a writer here, which means you’re an immortal and you can say anything you want without facing any Consequences so… Fire away at how terrible he is and how phony and unoriginal his articles are…
I’m not a writer here and sadly, mortal. I enjoy Jessep’s articles.
I guess that makes me evil. So be it, some men just like to watch the world burn.
Boomer – Actually it doesn’t make you evil. At some point though somebody is going to accuse you of being me since you enjoy my work. Take it as a compliment.
Good for you….. I can care less who likes his article or not, i am speaking on MY behalf and i am sure many people know exactly what i am talking about when i say he’s not original and is nothing but a phony BL snake
I wrote about urinals before Al Dukes on WFAN ever tweeted urinal photos. I’m super original.
I’m not immortal because I’m a writer. I have to follow the same guidelines and I strive to set an example for commenters, as rarely as I do comment lol.
Satish, you are an immortal, you haven’t used your powers as of yet because you’re better man than others and don’t use those privileges as others do, but trust me… You became an immortal the moment you became a writer here.. IT’s like, you have the force with you.
Satish, henceforth you shall be called Perseus, the immortal. You have the gift of the Gods Use them wisely for one day they will guard your life.
The only person I know that is immortal is Hulk Hogan.
I’d much rather be Perseus than Hulk Hogan.
Hogan might be immortal but only Flair took the ladies to Space Mountain!
Oh wrong board.
Woo!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Perseus only became immortal after he was killed.
Don’t ask, its a Greek thing. You wouldn’t understand.
So you like Jessep’s work and you kill my happiness?
I’ve got my eye on you, Boomer.
You have the gift of the Gods Use them wisely for one day they will guard your life”
There you go satish, now that you have the approval of ZEUS, you can go ahead and called jesseP’s article garbage without adding the LOL at the end..
No matter what Bale does now, he’ll always be Batman.
It’s Patrick Bateman or GTFO.
LOL, nice. I agree on the draft pick compensation.
“Batman wouldn’t let that sh*t fly.” LoL
Agree on some of those rules with the new CBA. Xtreem summed it up nicely.
Who’s the immortal Greek God of summing up nicely?
I think that would be the Cretan-Bull
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=CRETAN-BULL
So……..I’m a minotaur? Sweet.
Well… not exactly but your off-spring will be. You are just 100% bull.
Touche. Too. Shay.
Come on Murphy, don’t do that. No reason to stoop to that. Alex sinks himself so no reason stepping on his head. Besides, Joe shows no bias so comments like that regardless of who it’s too will get you on the fast track. In the words of Jessep… stay classy.
What did i tell you before??? Is that guy part of the desert that you’re defending him???? You need to learn how not to butt in my man… Told you that many times before, keep my name out of your mouth ok…
I thought that was “you can’t handle the truth!”?
Lol, you guys are just comical… But it’s a shame how some bloggers here get all the blame and just because you exchange emails and write articles (mostly garbage) you get away with anything in this blog. SMH
Alex, you’re comical too sometimes and I’ve never banned you for that. Wouldn’t it be great to just have one day where things can be light and no fighting back and forth? Come on.
Oh and BTW please notice that I did take care of someone who inappropriately insulted you. Like I said, I try to be as fair as I can.
Well, i don’t see you blasting them like you do.. it’s all done behind the scenes while me, bayonne, maniac and a few others who are not part of the immortal group get blasted publically, to the point that you’ve used terms like “Drunk Tank” to a reference of me getting banned by you..You got everyone else’s emails, why not do it behidn the scenes as you do with everyone else? Why the need to set examples with us who have been with you from the get go??
That’s because I would have only told him what TRS already did. I hate redundancy… Big pet peeve of mine…
Ever heard of Loki? He was a Norse god. Well not so much a god as a trickster who never stopped trying to get under everyone’s skin.
He finally torqued off Thor so much he subjected him to a very public punishment. He sentenced him to be lashed to a boulder using the entrails of one of his sons under a serpent who dripped venom on him. Loki’s wife had to sit next to him with a bowl to catch the venom and keep it from hitting him. Every so often though, the bowl would fill and she would have to empty it which meant Loki got the venom right on the noggin. He shook so hard from the venom sting that it caused what we now know as earthquakes.
Moral of the story, don’t piss off Thor.
Of course we’ve heard of Loki. What kind of barbarians do you think we are?
Didn’t Loki also try to steal the Tesseract? I think I saw that in a movie once.
You’re a Mets fan. I know exactly what kind of barbarian you are.
LOL this thread is hilarious!
Equilibrium, Gattaca, Greek Gods, Norse Gods and Batman. Yes, i’d say your right.
Don’t know why, but this was the most enjoyable post I’ve read here tonight.
He caught us all off guard, actually. Didn’t even warn us he was posting our emails. Lol.