Most undervalued HOFers

[G1911]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Your understanding of math is amazing compared to your understanding of logic. (Hint: it's not good).

For the third time, I am the stupidest man to ever live. You are the smartest. You are the greatest logician in human history. I am vermin. Fine.

Can you put together a coherent, logical argument not relying only your magical art you can't define that the claim I made is wrong?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by G1911

For the third time, I am the stupidest man to ever live. You are the smartest. You are the greatest logician in human history. I am vermin. Fine.



Can you put together a coherent, logical argument not relying only your magical art you can't define that the claim I made is wrong?

For the 5th time, I was not debating your ridiculously limited point of career value stats. It's a stupid exercise that you have insisted on because you are incapable of actually discussing the comparisons of the players.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

For the 5th time, I was not debating your ridiculously limited point of career value stats. It's a stupid exercise that you have insisted on because you are incapable of actually discussing the comparisons of the players.

So after your day of fits and insults, you can't even disagree with the actual claim I made, and you are pissed off because I didn't make a different claim that you want to argue against, and so I am stupid.

This board lol

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by G1911

So after your day of fits and insults, you can't even disagree with the actual claim I made, and you are pissed off because I didn't make a different claim that you want to argue against, and so I am stupid.



This board lol

Ironically, after a day of fits and insults, you still refuse to answer my question: you can pick one of the two to go out and win a game for you, who are you picking?

Do you seriously not see your own hypocrisy in this?

(By the way, I do disagree with your assertion)

[G1911]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Ironically, after a day of fits and insults, you still refuse to answer my question: you can pick one of the two to go out and win a game for you, who are you picking?

Do you seriously not see your own hypocrisy in this?

(By the way, I do disagree with your assertion)

How is it hypocritical to not let you force me into a new position I did not claim? My claim is not whether Perry or Ryan are better. All I said was that they had pretty similar values over their careers, and several people had meltdowns all day over it, even as they can't argue against the claim made. You still refuse to put together an actual argument against my actual claim and are just throwing out insults about how stupid I am because I didn't change my position to be a different position you want me to have so you can argue against this different position instead of the actual opinion I said and hold. You don't see how that makes no sense whatsoever?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by G1911

How is it hypocritical to not let you force me into a new position I did not claim? My claim is not whether Perry or Ryan are better. All I said was that they had pretty similar values over their careers, and several people had meltdowns all day over it, even as they can't argue against the claim made. You still refuse to put together an actual argument against my actual claim and are just throwing out insults about how stupid I am because I didn't change my position to be a different position you want me to have so you can argue against this different position instead of the actual opinion I said and hold. You don't see how that makes no sense whatsoever?

This is one way to read what happened today, I guess. Asking you a different question than you raised is not forcing you into a new position. It's asking a question. Just like you are demanding an argument addressing your point, others have just as much right to ask the same of you. And just like you refuse to respond, we have the right not to play within your parameters. This whole thing is because you think you're in charge of a message board discussion.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

This is one way to read what happened today, I guess. Asking you a different question than you raised is not forcing you into a new position. It's asking a question. Just like you are demanding an argument addressing your point, others have just as much right to ask the same of you. And just like you refuse to respond, we have the right not to play within your parameters. This whole thing is because you think you're in charge of a message board discussion.

You absolutely have the right not to argue the claim I made. And I have the right to stick with my actual opinion and not change it to be what you want to argue instead. But you have been insulting me all day for my claim. Read the transcript. You don't have to play, but if you're going to insult me over and over again because of my claim while refusing to actually make an argument against it, that's really weird and not rational. You chose to play when you lost control and went emotionally angry. It is not unreasonable of me to expect people upset over my claim to have a logical argument against my claim.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

As to "Who would you rather have on your team?", let's look at it from the position of a GM.

Chronologiacally, Perry's time with a team that ever came close to being in contention to win a WS occurred mostly before Ryan's career began to find its footing, so Perry would be the only choice for those particular seasons if we're using a true timeline. Additionally, Ryan's record with his lone WS championship team was very minuscule and not an accurate representation of what people would come to expect from him after he had a few more season under his belt, so I wouldn't wish to use that in my consideration, either. That's fair, isn't it?

For the years where Ryan and Perry were productive at the same time, neither man was pitching for good teams for the most part. Now, if anyone else wishes to go back and review every single season of both Ryan's and Perry's teams from 1971 onward, be my guest, but in several of these situations, the GM had to have known that their teams wouldn't be in contention to win the WS. Now, I wish to reiterate that I am only speaking of seasons where these pitchers' careers ran alongside each other and when they both played for lousy-to-average teams. Yes, Ryan's teams found some moderate success a handful of years, while Perry did have that one season with the 1980 Yankees.

What always matters above all to a GM? Money. How does my team bring in more asses to fill the seats? With ridiculously fast and hard pitching and the possibility of the fans witnessing some magic. We're not getting anywhere this season, so that difference of a few percent between Perry and Ryan is far less consequential from the vantage point of an obvious non-contender.

The fans bring emotion to the table. They want to be entertained. They bring the money, and money matters most to the continued existence of a team. If there's no shot at the coveted WS purse and additional revenue, we're going to have to do our best to profit in other ways. If those factors can't be included in these types of discussions, then we are not looking at the full picture. Baseball is not solely number crunching. If math is all that can be included in such a discussion, there have to be SABR forums that would be a better fit. The discussion of baseball without considering emotion just does not make any sense to the vast majority of people.