I tried my first bowl of Captain Crunch last week.  I hated it.  I was going to send the rest of the box to C.C. but now I have no idea what to do with it.

Sabathia 20 wins and a 2.87 ERA. Pineda 15 wins and a 3.87 ERA. Hiroki 14 wins and 3.95 ERA. Hand over the Eastern Division Championship right now. I’m drunk, but these dreams can come true.

[2] I Think Pineda will be better. Also, crazy prediction of the winter: Nova and Hughes will be better than Kuroda, AND this will be a good thing.

4. If Hughes and Nova are that productive and Hipster-Rod stays healthy, forget it, 105 wins easy.

[3]  Hughes will be better than Kuroda

Well duh.  “His stuff plays better in the ‘pen.”

Ian Kennedy was one of the starting pitchers in the 6th, 8th, 26th and 51st best pitchers’ duels of 2011, according to Bill James.

[File under: (semi-illogical) reasons I don’t want to sell low on Phil Hughes.]

[1] Put the box away until June, then you can give it to him.

I tried my first bowl of Captain Crunch last week. I hated it.

I don’t think I’ve eaten a cereal besides oatmeal over the last 20 years, but if I remember correctly the peanut butter Captain Crunch was awesome.

$2.8 million might cover the value of Gardner’s 2012 defense . . . through May.

And David Robertson’s $1.6M should cover the first half of April.

SG obviously knows this, but I hope everyone else realizes that Gardner’s salary is much more about indentured servitude than it is about under-appreciating his defense.  Albert Pujols got $7M in his first arb year, coming off 11 WAR.

Definitely doesn’t reflect underappreciation of his defence, of course.
But indentured servitude?
The most brilliant doctors always, and the most brilliant lawyers often, serve internships at rates of pay that will not reflect what they may receive later in their careers.
Gardner isn’t being compelled to work for 2.8 million (!) dollars.
If it’s indentured servitude, the phrase should be shedding its negative connotation.

I tried my first bowl of Captain Crunch last week.  I hated it.

You’re dead to me.

I’m drunk

Welcome Home, Brother.

the peanut butter Captain Crunch was awesome

All Captain Crunch varieties, and clones/knockoffs, are in fact awesome. Unsustainable, but awesome.

Put the box away until June, then you can give it to him.

Captain Crunch is the new Fried Chicken and Beer.

BTW I am no big fan of any Sam Adams brewed products. Can’t get past it.

If it’s indentured servitude, the phrase should be shedding its negative connotation.

Just a phrase that I’ve seen used fairly often to describe the first six years of MLB service time.  And as you suggest, medical/surgical residency years are described in this way as well.  It’s a bit of hyperbole to be sure, but I didn’t intend it to be taken literally.

Also, sorry for the assumption that SG posts everything on the site.  I’m sure that Jonathan understands the point too.

I used to be more exercised about the labor inequities in baseball, but I remember when Cone got 6 million per and that was a disgrace.  Now 6 million is a bench player.  Not that I’m on the side of the owners, or Selig, I just think the players are pretty well compensated.  It would be nice if they got management to spread the wealth more to the minor leagues though.

I agree about Sam Adams, but as some of you may remember, I can’t deal with the beers that OTF and Snuggles love.  I’m a lager lout and that’s all there is to it, though I will drink ales or stouts in an English pub.  Tecate for me.

It’s a bit of hyperbole to be sure, but I didn’t intend it to be taken literally.  Also, sorry for the assumption that SG posts everything on the site.  I’m sure that Jonathan understands the point too.

It’s probably safe to assume that most people frequenting this site understand how arbitration works.  My quip was simply a poor attempt to show just how much value they have gotten, and hopefully will continue to get, out of Gardner. 

And don’t players that have gone through arbitration also get a plot of land and some farming tools?

It’s probably safe to assume that most people frequenting this site understand how arbitration works.

And yet $/WAR figures that are based on FA salaries get bandied about to show what a great deal pre-FA player X is, or how under-valued this or that aspect of the game is (again often based on pre-FA salary figures).  Now that I think about this a bit more, it occurs to me that defense should be under-compensated as a rule, since defense tends to peak early and the under-compensation of young players is a systemic feature.

don’t players that have gone through arbitration also get a plot of land and some farming tools?

No, they only get the use of the land and tools.  The Lords of the Realm retain ownership.

“what a great deal pre-FA player X is, or how under-valued this or that aspect of the game is (again often based on pre-FA salary figures)”

The fact that the great deal is the result of a somewhat stacked deck for the owners doesn’t change the fact that it’s a great deal.  I agree that to argue that Gardner’s defense (or whatever) is undervalued because of that stacked deck is silly.  I don’t recall that line of argument happening here but I don’t read every post the way Mel Hall does.

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One has a lot of free time in prison.
 
Also, yes, I agree - I don’t think that when people make the “$/WAR = a great deal” argument, they mean a great deal in an arbitration context, I think they generally mean a great deal compared to what you’d be able to get on the open market.

...and it’s not fair when doctors, lawyers, etc, are forced to work under their market value under the guise of “that’s how the system is”.  How many internships are more about free labor than actually giving experience?

TWN unload Marco Scrotum to free cash to pursue Kennedy assassin Roy Harvey Oswalt.

Who is TWN’s SS this season then?

[19]
Seriously, what’s another nickel going to do for them? On the other hand, what do they really need a shortstop for?

[18]  Trust me when I tell you, for the more complex subspecialties of medicine, you don’t really learn jack until ‘internship’, that is, residency.  Everything leading up to that amounts to what base to throw and run to in which situation.  Residents learn how to hit breaking balls…Think of it as an apprenticeship, not an internship.

[22]  Could a medical resident DH for the Yankees this year?

[22] I feel like there is a Dr. Alfonso Soriano joke in there somewhere.

[20]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler

Nazis are the new market inefficiency.

If they’d spent more time conquering Russia and less time exterminating undesirables, who knows how many titles they’d have by now?

[18, 22]  Graduate student teaching assistantships, too.  I designed my own syllabi and ran my own classroom for years, for a pittance,  without any mentoring, while serving my “apprenticeship.”  I provided the university value far beyond what I was paid.

I can hear it now:
“The Nazis win the pennant! The Nazis win the pennant!...”

All Captain Crunch varieties, and clones/knockoffs, are in fact awesome. Unsustainable, but awesome.

It tastes like pure grains sugar loosely held together and in the shape of little pillows.  I don’t even mind ultra sweet cereal but it’s usually as an after dinner snack and not for breakfast. I go for an occasional bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

[29] Shades of 2004 and 2007…

[30] If you say just one bad thing about crunchberries….

[31] Beat me to it!

[31]
Alley…

26 Jon Stewart had a funny piece recently on the free market and how regulation is hurting the mafia if there is even such a thing.

The best thing about the Giants having a deep run is that it’s a nice distraction until pitchers and catchers. God knows the Sabres aren’t doing their part.

Judging from the TV, there must be dozens of fans taking in the basketball game tonite in Detroit.

Either that, or they built a moat around the rich seats. How stupid would that be ?

Also, it looks like Kismet may have cought up with JoePa.

Watching 1992 film Sneakers.  Hacking has come a long way baby.

I watched A Woman Under the Influence. I’ve been meaning to watch it for…38 years or so. Worth the wait.  Too long, 25 minutes of BS could have been removed but it is a very good film and worth watching.  Gena Rowlands baby!
Go Ravens.

(35) a good friend of mine produced that piece. Glad people liked it

[39] Really enjoyable film with a super cast. Not flawless by any means, but fun.

[40] Planning to watch it soon. I’ve been going through 1001 Movies to See Before You Die. Nearing the 400 mark.

just watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams.  Love cave art so was fascinated by the subject matter, but kind of unsatisfying.  herzog gets his head way up his own ass sometimes.

[42] I guess Joe Pa got to #1001 sometime Friday afternoon. Movies were keeping him alive.

Sent this woman I know in Miami Los Olvidados (a great film) and Next Stop Wonderland one of Hollywood’s few romantic comedies that dont make me want to puke.  L.O. should be on anyone’s list.

[44] The last movie he watched was M

Too soon?

Too soon?

Not for me. But I’ve been holding on to this quip about the NEW Italian cruiseships and glass bottoms…