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Here is my shameless plug: Salvador Perez  What can I say about the guy? He's fun. And he clearly has fun:  He's also pretty good. He might not be 4 time gold glove good. But he has four gold gloves:  He celebrates wins with a gatorade bath and the Salvy Splash is popular enough the white house (the old cool white house) referenced it when the Royals won the series: https://twitter.com/Royals/status/753614153680510976 Also Salvy is a career 3 for 3 on stolen bases. He stole one tonight! And while SAS is all about the Beltre-Andrus bromance, but Salvy-Cain is also quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n4NE9S_2yo Screw it, you should vote for LoCain too. They both deserve it: 
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Day 3 Ballot count: 15 (as of yesterday before I fell asleep) First of all, I need to admit that I had neither Salvador Pérez nor Lorenzo Cain on my ballot and I am deeply sorry because they are both wonderful and I might literally cry if/when they are ever on separate teams. Second of all,  fun facts! I forgot how to make bullet points, so...-There are now 76 players with at least one loved vote, and 70 players with at least one hated vote. Once again, you hate harder than you love, as the top three hateds have 189 combined points and the top three loveds have 145. -The AL East has the most players with at least one hate-point. The AL East also has the most players with at least one love-point. The AL Central has the fewest hated players, and the NL West has the fewest loved. -The love/hate overlap has expanded to six players. I wonder how many will make it into the top 25.
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Popete posted:I need to amend my votes, is urgent. I haven't even tabulated your votes yet, feel free to send me another email. Reminder, YeahTubaMike posted:Everyone gets one do-over. JUST ONE.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:31
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Bob James posted:Be sure to vote for everyone's favorite beefy lad. I in fact did not forget about Bartolo 
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The M's have been poo poo for so long I don't even care about division rivals anymore. I'm actually having trouble finding players to hate. It's just a handful of the usual no fun allowed assholes and a couple dummies that spouted off about their politics.
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Just stopping by with a reason why you should like Javy Baez
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Miz Kriss posted:Just stopping by with a reason why you should like Javy Baez I loved this even harder because Harper didn't seem impressed or complimentary, just pissed off
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Poque posted:I loved this even harder because Harper didn't seem impressed or complimentary, just pissed off Good.
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Can MLB players who are currently playing in other leagues be voted for? I'm guessing no but I want to make sure before I omit Manny from my ballot.
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Miz Kriss posted:Just stopping by with a reason why you should like Javy Baez from LITERALLY the same game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot0_IkTNZXM
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In honor of this morning's Twitter storm, a refresher that Jake Arrieta sucks: https://twitter.com/JArrieta34/status/796372720015523840 Also, Collin McHugh does not: https://twitter.com/Collin_McHugh/status/820332730328248320 (This post probably doesn't have much appeal to Republicans)
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Day 5 Ballot count: 18 More fun facts! The way I've been counting your votes is by putting them all into two spreadsheets. I copied every player's name out of each team's Wikipedia entry in order to make the spreadsheet, along with team, division, and each player's position. I say this to preface the fact that you are all some grudge-having motherfuckers. I barely even have to scroll around the "most hated" spreadsheet to add points when I sort the sheet Z -> A on the total points column. Hate some new people, drat it!
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My most hated list is essentially made up of 3 types of baseball player: 1. guys who beat their wives or are otherwise pieces of poo poo 2. guys who are hella right-wing and say dumb poo poo 3. guys who always beat up my poor poor Blue Jays my most loved list is full of blatant homerism and then dudes who seem fun
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My most hated list is basically the same, people who have intentionally hurt/tried to hurt people (on or off the field) and people with reprehensible opinions. I almost put one guy on there for having a lovely ill-thought-out tattoo, but then I remembered that homophobia exists. Speaking of blatant homer votes, Jacob deGrom is starting against the Padres tonight. Just saying. 
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MY LEAST FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER IS WHATEVER CUB IS HITTING WITH RUNNERS IN SCORING POSITION
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4 of my most-hated from last year are no longer in baseball, but they were mostly lower on the list. Ryan Braun is like a goddamn rash. Come the nuclear apocalypse he'll be shooting up with radioactive PED's and accusing cockroaches of antisemitism for questioning his stats.
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My list is basically pure spite cuz I don't follow mlb news closely enough to know who all beats their wife etc
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Are people still hating on McCann for being "The Fun Police" even though it hasn't been true for years?
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Inspector_666 posted:Are people still hating on McCann for being "The Fun Police" even though it hasn't been true for years? baseball is too fun now to find 10 people worth hating so his legacy lives on.
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Pancakes posted:In honor of this morning's Twitter storm, a refresher that Jake Arrieta sucks: That tweet is good though.
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Patrick Spens posted:That tweet is good though. Arrieta has only one good tweet, which he made right before he clowned the Pirates in the WCG in 2015: 
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Pancakes posted:In honor of this morning's Twitter storm, a refresher that Jake Arrieta sucks: gently caress. I should amend my votes to vote for my neighbor (well, he's somewhere in my city).
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May I offer a rebuttal?
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Jul 26, 2017 13:41
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There are still hundreds of players in baseball who are both a) in great shape and b) not gigantic shitheads.
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I'm definitely not making the argument for him to be on anybody's favorites list, he's certainly not on mine and my Arrieta shirtsey has gone unworn for awhile now. Just suggesting that maybe he doesn't belong on a list of least favorites. also I would like to submit Willson Contreras for everybody's consideration, for being amazing at the plate, fantastic behind the plate (his pitch calling/framing can still improve but he's young), and a super cool dude IRL: https://www.mlb.com/cubs/video/contreras-greets-young-fan/c-1648882683?tid=8878538 https://www.instagram.com/p/BW-t_k6lori/?taken-by=cubs
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I'd have no problem with you arguing that he isn't a shithead (though others may disagree), but you seem to be arguing instead that his shitheadedness is balanced out by the fact he's in good shape, which a) doesn't excuse it in any way and b) is hardly unique amongst professional athletes.
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it is a joke that he is hot and these hot pictures of him exist
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Oh I see. Ha ha.
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Poque posted:May I offer a rebuttal? Javy Baez is sexier and awesomer, so rebuttal denied. Also, I've only gotten one ballot since July 23 so I don't really have any new fun facts or anything, sorry. Only two days left!
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Next time we do this there needs to be a 3rd list. "What major leaguer's hand would you most like to hold?"
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I just sent in my lists. Looking forward to the results.
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Paul Zuvella posted:Next time we do this there needs to be a 3rd list. I mean, I definitely made it clear in the OP that voting based around player dreaminess was allowed/encouraged, so I don't even know what to say. Also, someone had a handsomest player thread and that was fun for a while. Unless you mean some sort of platonic handholding thing in which case I have no idea. There was a game in which Seth Lugo talked about his curveball, and demonstrated different grips with a ball as he explained, and I thought to myself that he had much prettier hands than I would expect a major league pitcher to have.
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My last lobbying post, I promise. Were you wanting to vote for a Cub as a favorite player but concerned that Bryant, Rizzo or Baez were too obvious of choices? Well you should still vote for Javy because he's adorable, but let me introduce you to Jon "The Federalist" Jay. His name allows for a very large docket of puns in the GDT's. He holds the record for most consecutive errorless innings in center field, a record he took from my all-time favorite player: Curt Flood. Circus catches? He can do circus catches. https://youtube.com/watch?v=SGfCarIhf7w Does he get along with the fans? Oh yeah. http://www.foxsports.com/midwest/story/st-louis-cardinals-jon-jay-sends-every-fan-home-happy-after-minor-league-rehab-start-052715 He currently has the best batting average on the Cubs' lineup. And of course, position player who pitches https://youtube.com/watch?v=dofpY70-KdY
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Pancakes posted:My last lobbying post, I promise. Sure, but I airways end up acquiring him in the Show/OOTP and he always tanks for me.
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I apologize for my lack of update frequency, I am having the week from hell (lost wallet, missed replacement card packages, long-lost relatives trying to make appearances, etc.). The dust is settled now.  Pancakes posted:My last lobbying post, I promise. This is a shame -- lobbying posts are good and highly encouraged, especially since there's only about 1 1/2 days left to vote! Lobby your little heart out! Day 9 Ballot count: 21 There is finally one player who has earned over 100 points.
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Not to show my voting hand, but it's moments like these that make me feel good about my favorites (and least favorites) vote: http://deadspin.com/giancarlo-stanton-got-sweet-revenge-on-jason-grilli-1797293945
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That was a great moment. The Marlins in general are an underrated team, personality-wise, especially given that José Fernández didn't even crack the top 25 last year. Also, FRIENDLY REMINDER: that you have until 11:59pm tonight to submit your ballots!
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YeahTubaMike posted:Day 3 this ones on me
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