Well besides the fact they traded to get Bell and I think Frank preferred Albert Belle you are close.

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i only caught a few seconds but i head Dan go on about WAR, Frank goes I don't care about any of that WAR crap, i know what i see

Dan's head probably exploded at that moment

Pretty much. Frank said you can either drive the bus or not.

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You tell him Mike!

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pittmike proves that some bells can be unrung.

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Yeah, Albert Belle is a little different. He was only approaching or exceeding 100 extra-base hits in a typical season during the mid-to-late 90s. That's Babe Ruth territory. Don't know if George Bell ever quite got there....

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Awesome. Lil Danny rebut any of that? Or does arguably the greatest right hand hitter in 50 years not know anything?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Frank Thomas for life, but I think we all understand that the guy is a bit of a meathead.

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you could tell Dan didn't want to argue with Frank as he thinks Frank is an idiot.

It's too bad, Frank was disagreeing with a lot of what Dan was saying and it would have been a fun fight.

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You can hear the Spiegel sigh when Bernstein just didn't want to even engage in discussion. Then even worse he wasn't making sense.

Bernstein said it was a 2-win difference, and 'that's what the numbers say', but Spiegel said Frazier was 4.7 WAR last year (or something close) and Berns countered with 'I just care about net. You lose Trace Thompson who was 2 WAR so there you go. To which...

1) Thompson really projected to be a 2WAR player?
2) The 'net' is Frazier replacing whatever terrible production they would get out of 3B otherwise, not the loss of Thompson.

Per usual, it was Dan being too lazy to have a thought on it so he just barfed out it didn't matter.

Remember that tranny that was a fan of Laurence? I wonder if the search button works for that.....checking....

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I found that strange and I never really heard an explanation so thanks.

Adding a guy who was an all star at a position you were pretty horrible at was the difference of only 2 wins?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yes. I am using made up numbers. Trade Harper (WAR 10) for Harper (WAR 5) and immediately Harper is only a WAR 5! Magic. What a fucking idiot.

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He was awfully excited about the .06 WAR Zobrist. Do we have to subtract Fowler's 2.2 from Heyward? What a fucking misuse of statistics!

And Frank is right about some guys driving the bus. Only goofs like li'l danny argue that Evans was better than Rice, because I guarantee no pitcher who ever faced them would.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Bernstein Sox fan.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Is there a stat out there that apportions actual wins to the members of the team?

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I think that's what WAR is attempting, but it doesn't exactly add up.

The whole concept of the "replacement player" is completely misunderstood by bernstein. He acts as if that means you grab a guy off the street and you improve on Avi Garcia.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Was he?

I thought that was the one he didnt like

You're right. He wasn't that thrilled with it. But he didn't really dislike it either. Theo made the move so he couldn't do that.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

If the Sox got Zobrist he'd laugh

WAR is the stats of the median/mean MLB player right? If so, how the hell do they do the all time stats and comparisons?

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Truth plus he would be yelling at many callers.

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