Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

hutch wrote:
to have a really good analysis i'd like to know how many of the past say 35 World Series winners happened to be the highest spending team and say within the four highest spending .. i don't have those numbers..

I've done that analysis before.  It might even be on this board some where….

· 2012 - San Francisco Giants - 6th highest payroll
· 2011 - St. Louis Cardinals - 11th highest payroll
· 2010 - San Francisco Giants - 9th highest payroll
· 2009 - New York Yankees - 1st in payroll
· 2008 - Philadelphia Phillies - 12th highest payroll
· 2007 - Boston Red Sox - 2nd highest payroll
· 2006 - St. Louis Cardinals - 11th highest payroll
· 2005 - Chicago White Sox - 13th highest payroll
· 2004 - Boston Red Sox - 2nd highest payroll
· 2003 - Miami (formerly Florida) Marlins - 25th highest payroll
· 2002 - LA Angels - 15th highest payroll

That's the farthest I can go back right now.

But also consider this:

In the last 16 years: World Series Finalists in terms of payroll:
-        Top 10 in payroll: 20/32 =  62.5%
-        Middle 10: 8/32 = 25%
-        Bottom 10: 4/32 = 12.5%
In the last 16 years:  World Series Winners in terms of payroll:
-        Top 10: 11/16 = 68.75%
-        Middle 10: 4/16 = 25%
-        Bottom 10: 1/16 = 6.25%

From a colleague on Facebook:

FOR SALE: a pair of floor tickets for this Friday's Nine Inch Nails show (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor) at Verizon Center. Selling for less than what I paid for them! Email or message me if interested. we now return you to the endless stream of cute baby pix…

Smackie is trying to be better about his public responses, so I'll post it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ

This is not a 140 character history of Twitter.  But every time I tried to stop reading it, I got sucked back in…

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter

vansmack wrote:
From a colleague on Facebook:

FOR SALE: a pair of floor tickets for this Friday's Nine Inch Nails show (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor) at Verizon Center. Selling for less than what I paid for them! Email or message me if interested. we now return you to the endless stream of cute baby pix…

Smackie is trying to be better about his public responses, so I'll post it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ

LOL.

going to visit the great-grandma this weekend.  i bought the tickets in hopes that the trip wouldn't happen due to health concerns… lost that bet.

tickets are sold, but thanks for thinking of me.  i think. 

And each rejection letter starts the same…

"Dear Darrell, we're sorry to inform you…"

vansmack wrote:

hutch wrote:
he's almost like a guy whose dream job would be to be GM of a team..

Yes.  I submit an application for the Angels GM job every time it's open and I'm not kidding.  I once talked to Arte Moreno about it over a few great innings at a spring training game in AZ and now I at least get a rejection notice.

James wrote:
And each rejection letter starts the same…

"Dear Darrell, we're sorry to inform you…"

I wish.  It's an email that starts "Dear Applicant…."

This ALCS is starting to get frustrating. I feel like Detroit has out-played Boston in 3 of the 4 games (1, 2, and 4) and had a virtual draw in the other one and yet its going to be tied up after tonite, with Boston having home field and me having an overwhelming feeling Detroit is going to lose it. Mehhhh.

Detroit has won 2 of the 4 games in this series and neither of them were pitched by Scherzer or Verlander. Arguably, that could be argued wither way from the Detroit perspective. My natural pessimism tells me we're boned, though.

Julian, wrote:
Arguably, that could be argued wither way from the Detroit perspective.

tell me, what finishing school did you attend?

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Arguably, that could be argued wither way from the Detroit perspective.

tell me, what finishing school did you attend?

Everyone knows I'm three g+t's deep at 12:45am after a Tigers playoff game.

hutch wrote:
he's almost like a guy whose dream job would be to be GM of a team..

I always thought Smackie's dream job would be editor-in-chief of BroBible.com.

Julian, wrote:I always thought Smackie's dream job would be editor-in-chief of BroBible.com.

No way,  in that vein, Lexington Correspondent.

Smackie's Dream jobs given current abilities:

(1) GM of an MLB Baseball Team
(2) Lexington Correspondent for The Economist.
(3) Some role in whatever Google replaced Google Labs with
(4) A Jedi Knight in the next Star Wars movie.

If my current abilities were not taken into account:

(1) Professional left handed middle reliever
(2) Professional golfer with Tour Exemption
(3) The #7 for Manchester United

With all due respect, fair Smackie, nothing screams BroBible target audience more than a guy who thinks he's qualified to run a major-league sports team.

Julian, wrote:
With all due respect, fair Smackie, nothing screams BroBible target audience more than a guy who thinks he's qualified to run a major-league sports team.

Duly noted.  I'll keep that as a fall back position.

stevewizzle wrote:
thoughts on puig?

vansmack wrote:He lacks an understanding of the game and makes simple mistakes, both on the base paths and in the field.

That's all.

well unfortunately i had a feeing it would come to this..cards-bosox

the dodgers and tigers just didn't play good baseball..didn't deserve a better fate…. prince fielder is embarassing really…i tend to really like leyland, or at least i thought i did, but he was too quick to pull sherzer (sic)…


arguably a matchup between the two best teams during the regular season… the two teams that have accounted for 4 world series winners out of the past 9…

Things have been falling into place for the Sox all year.  It's uncanny.  I hope it ends soon.

I agree the Tigers didn't deserve better. Two bullpen grand slams while leading in one series. Unreal. Offense was pretty terrible too. Feel bad for Scherzer, Verlander, Fister and Sanchez. They deserved much better than this.

Julian, wrote:
I agree the Tigers didn't deserve better. Two bullpen grand slams while leading in one series. Unreal. Offense was pretty terrible too. Feel bad for Scherzer, Verlander, Fister and Sanchez. They deserved much better than this.

Why would you feel bad for them? They are getting millions of dollars and don't have to work for the next  6 months.