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 like the poll itself, this picture shamelessly stolen Forums poster Illinois Smith ran a fun little poll over the winter in an attempt to determine SAS' favorite basketball players, a thread you can see here. In my fine tradition of stealing other peoples' ideas (and format, and wording, and basically everything) and applying them to baseball, we're going to do the same! We're going to do whaaaa? If you want in, send me a list of your 10 favorite active MLB players. By "favorite," I mean a guy you like. You can like him for whatever reason - on field performance, off field shenanigans, mad twitter game, dreamy eyes, took you out for drinks one night, I don't care why. We're not identifying the "best" players, we're looking for your favorites. By "active MLB player" I mean a player who has been on an MLB 25-man roster sometime in the course of the 2015 season. Send your list (and your username) to sassheepgame@gmail.com. I know this isn't a sheep game but I'll be damned if I make a new gmail address for every stupid internet sports thing I do. Please number the list to help with the tabulation - you can just copy/paste this and fill it out. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Your #1 player will receive 10 points, your #2 player will receive 9, your #3 will receive 8, and so on. If you send me an incomplete list, it hurts your top picks - so if you send me a list of 5 players, the top one receives 5, the next receives 4, etc. Wait a minute, why not 50? Eh, I think 25 is enough for us. Can I vote for garbage players like Jeff Francouer #1 Yes! Any reason! Your username will not be attached to your votes, either! Can I vote repeatedly for all Royals? ALL STAR JOKE LANDED only vote once please What about guys who would be playing this year but are on the DL? Yeah, OK, sure Deadline??? Please mail your ballots by the end of Tuesday, June 30 (10 days from now). I'll start the countdown shortly thereafter, posting a few players a day, leading up to the all-star game. ---------- Please do not post your ballots in this thread, at least until the polling is over. But do post in this thread to argue for certain players, point out players that other people might overlook, post videos and .jpgs and .gifs of players, use stats to prove your case, invent stats that prove your case, complain about how stats are meaningless in a popularity contest, whatever. Go!
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Hope you like lists of A-Rod 10 times. Because that is going to happen at least once. Edit: also reminding everyone that Munenori Kawasaki was recalled yesterday, so... Spoeank fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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Jun 20, 2015 17:42
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reminder that Brandon McCarthy's twitter exists
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Spoeank posted:Hope you like lists of A-Rod 10 times. Because that is going to happen at least once. Can I just put A-Rod down 10 times? yes but I will count duplicates as though they didn't exist, so he would count as a 1-entry list and only get 1 point I'm actually really interested to see how people vote - superstars with big numbers? guys from their own team? forums heroes? joke answers?
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Jun 20, 2015 17:54
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I was expecting a larger proportion of my list to be current or former White Sox players, but so many of my favorites have retired or are otherwise out of the league. That was a little depressing to discover. On a different note, you all should vote for Chris Sale. Watching this scarecrow man clown opposing batters is one of baseball's most satisfying experiences. Also this: Poque posted:reminder that Brandon McCarthy's twitter exists
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Jun 20, 2015 20:00
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Xenophon posted:
A vote for Frenchy is a vote for freedom 
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Jun 20, 2015 20:22
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One Tall Fellow posted:On a different note, you all should vote for Chris Sale. Watching this scarecrow man clown opposing batters is one of baseball's most satisfying experiences. Also: 
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Jun 21, 2015 02:37
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Yeah, basically.
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Jun 21, 2015 03:08
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Sweet! I did this here two years back (stealing Illinois Smith's idea before it was cool). I believe the top two were RA Dickey and Mike Trout. This will be fun!
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Jun 21, 2015 05:15
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I'm upset that Andy LaRoche isn't eligible 
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Jun 21, 2015 06:42
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 This motherfucker.
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Jun 21, 2015 06:59
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To add to this:  
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Jun 21, 2015 07:54
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I'm not sure if I should answer this seriously, then again like 90% of my favorite players are gimmicks anyways.
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Rand alPaul posted:I'm not sure if I should answer this seriously, then again like 90% of my favorite players are gimmicks anyways. Really though, how can you not answer it seriously? It's whatever players you most like, pure and simple. Do you like a player? Put him down. No gimmicks necessary.
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Jun 21, 2015 08:14
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Yeah, last time I did the NBA list at least half of the 185 players entered were role players / bench guys who got 1-2 votes each. We usually do 20-player ballots though so there's more room for those guys.
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Jun 21, 2015 16:15
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I think we did 25 player votes last time we did this for MLB? Either way, Peter Bourjos 
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Jun 21, 2015 16:36
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There is only one answer to who is Number 1 
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Jun 21, 2015 17:16
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Poque posted:reminder that Brandon McCarthy's twitter exists There are names like Mike Trout, Paul Goldschmidt, Clayon Kershaw etc, and Brandon McCarthy is the first one that came to mind. https://twitter.com/bmccarthy32/status/172891696177229824
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Jun 21, 2015 18:37
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Had to stop myself from putting in Joe Maddon everytime I was stumped.
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Jun 22, 2015 03:26
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To save you some effort, I checked and Seth McClung is no longer active in the major leagues
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Jun 22, 2015 06:45
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Submitted my dumb ballot. Also I urge people to vote for Giancarlo, because who doesn't love dingers.
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Jun 22, 2015 15:52
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Submitted my ballot with my one true love at #1.
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mentholmoose posted:Submitted my dumb ballot. Giancarlo also offers a wide array of dingers for your dinger viewing pleasure. Screamers that bbarely clear the fence and never go more than 40 feet off the ground? He's got 'em. Massive moonshots? He's got 'em.
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Jun 22, 2015 17:22
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Good Dog posted:Either way, Peter Bourjos  I fully expect Gorgeous Peter Bourjos to win. 
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Jun 22, 2015 18:01
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Good Dog posted:I think we did 25 player votes last time we did this for MLB? Peter Bourjos has nothing on Brian Dozier 
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IcePhoenix posted:Peter Bourjos has nothing on Brian Dozier Google search has an autocomplete entry for 'Peter Bourjos gorgeous'. The internet has spoken.
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Jun 22, 2015 19:08
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I already want to change my list. This is the hardest thing I've done in months.
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Jun 22, 2015 19:15
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If you need to make changes, you can make changes, but try to be sure...I mean, I like manually futzing about in excel as much as the next guy
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Jun 22, 2015 19:51
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I like a lot of really popular players. Who knew.
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Jun 22, 2015 20:45
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Just so I'm not the only one who votes for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rStdh9SyQ
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JoeRules posted:Just so I'm not the only one who votes for him: did you mean "just in case one or two of you forgot to put him on your ballot" instead? Because I'm pretty sure he's going to be top three just by sheer votecount.
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Just a reminder that you need to vote for the gooniest of players in baseball, Glen Perkins. Neckbeard? Check.  Twitter? Check.   Batflips? Check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hT4iAv208 Not to mention he's a giant sabermetrics nerd! http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/qa-glen-perkins-a-twin-his-fip-and-math/ Face it, if one of us could throw a 95 MPH fastball, we'd be Glen Perkins.
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Jun 23, 2015 04:58
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That took longer than I expected. It hurt me deeply to include a Brewer but Carlos Gomez plays with so much heart that I can't help but love the dude.
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Jun 23, 2015 16:35
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Harlock posted:I like a lot of really popular players. Who knew. I ended up going with "Who do switch to on MLB tv when I know they're coming up/pitching?" It seemed like the only way to actually make a list.
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Jun 23, 2015 17:00
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Is this going to be followed up with a poll of SAS's least favorite players?
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Red posted:Is this going to be followed up with a poll of SAS's least favorite players? A couple people have brought this up and I'd be happy to do it!
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The Jays have so many guys that I love: Donaldson, Martin, Bautista, Reyes, Buehrle, Dickey, Mune, and Stroman. But I gotta say Mccutchen is the coolest dude in baseball.
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Propaganda: http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/tv-cameras-catch-josh-donaldson-telling-angels-gently caress-yo-1705313991
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