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Please do not hesitate to let me know if I'm doing these too often, or at the wrong time in the season, or anything else. They're fun, I'm just trying to keep a tradition going The Right Way (TM).   this is a good podcast, btw ^^^ General Rules Send a complete list of your 10 favorite & 10 least favorite active MLB players to sasheartsbaseball@gmail.com. Number your lists like so (edit: also include your usernames somewhere in the email): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. These lists can include DL mainstays (David Wright is the only one I can think of) or VERY recently-demoted/-released players (they have to have made at least one appearance in a 2018 game). These lists can NOT include dead people, baseball non-players, or free agents who have not played in 2018. I will email you back if you have any invalid list items, and I won't accept your list/s until all its/their items are valid.  These are YOUR favorites & unfavorites, not necessarily the best/worst players. Yes, it is more fun when you justify your picks to me, but you should know that you can have favorites/un-favorites for any reason you like. You can love players for being good at baseball, having cute dogs, being sexy, etc. You can hate players for hitting their wives, having stupid hair, striking out all the time, etc. Don't overthink it.  Use this thread to campaign for your most/least faves. GIFs, videos, pics, general facts --  Also, not everyone likes to be a Negative Nancy, so I am willing to accept ballots without unfavorites.  How Voting Works 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. Deadline: July 29, 11:59pm. You have ten days. DO NOT post your ballots in the thread until voting is over! YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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Note to self: Do not forget about Matt Bush this year.
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Jul 18, 2018 21:40
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I’m honestly struggling to come up with 10 guys I despise enough to list, but I think I can just fill the gaps with Yankees and Rangers.
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Jul 18, 2018 22:33
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Matt Garza is no longer eligible. Might I suggest Josh Hader?
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Jul 18, 2018 22:39
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Ichiro and his 47 PAs this season means he's still eligible. I feel like he's (rightfully) won the favorite every year.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’m honestly struggling to come up with 10 guys I despise enough to list, but I think I can just fill the gaps with Yankees and Rangers. Roughned better be on your list And Bauer
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Jul 19, 2018 06:05
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Intruder posted:Roughned better be on your list 
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Jul 19, 2018 06:09
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Ichiro and his 47 PAs this season means he's still eligible. I have to admit that this is so disappointing, but SAS likes what it likes, so whatever.
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Jul 19, 2018 11:56
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Day 1 Ballot count: 1 Where is everybody?  I'm not going to push it if nobody's into it.
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Jul 20, 2018 02:15
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I can only think of 2 players I dislike (the obvious 2)
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Jul 20, 2018 02:26
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Miz Kriss posted:I can only think of 2 players I dislike (the obvious 2) It's totally fine to only do most favorites
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Jul 20, 2018 02:36
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I'll probably make an effort post lobbying for him later but for now everyone's please remember that Carlos Martinez is a treasure.
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Jul 20, 2018 14:21
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Carlos Martínez is the best, and I'm torn because I want to campaign for my own faves to help keep the thread alive but I don't want to bias the poll
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Jul 20, 2018 15:59
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I have Javier Baez on the top of my favorites list because he is a treasure
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Jul 20, 2018 17:19
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YeahTubaMike posted:Day 1 Post a link in the N/V thread, you'll probably get more people.
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Jul 20, 2018 18:30
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 Your official reminder to not forget Joey Votto loving rules 
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Jul 20, 2018 18:35
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Also this year I have a new player on my Unfavourites list who was last year on my Favourites list. A certain someone who was a Marlin.
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Jul 20, 2018 18:43
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Popete posted:Also this year I have a new player on my Unfavourites list who was last year on my Favourites list. A certain someone who was a Marlin. Bold move putting Ichiro on a Most Hated list
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Jul 20, 2018 18:46
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Popete posted:Post a link in the N/V thread, you'll probably get more people. I did  YeahTubaMike posted:I thought it was interesting that he got engaged like a week and a half after that too. I can certainly do it again, but I want to space it out. Big Mean Jerk posted:Bold move putting Ichiro on a Most Hated list One person from last year used someone's most loved list as their most hated list out of spite, and it resulted in Joe Panik reaching #25 most hated, lol.
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YeahTubaMike posted:One person from last year used someone's most loved list as their most hated list out of spite, and it resulted in Joe Panik reaching #25 most hated, lol. It was Bawfuls wasn't it?
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It was apparently The Nards Pan, using Boof Bonser's favorites list because Boof Bonser posted it in the thread instead of emailing it to me  Now that I'm rereading the list, I might have accidentally (or maybe on purpose?) counted it backwards.
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#1 most loved and most hated are already set in stone, but I'm gonna wait until this weekend to finalize and send my list. I always forget someone every year and kick myself over it, so I want to be extra sure the lists are right.
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I know that everyone hates the Cardinals. I'm not going to try to persuade you to love the Cardinals as an organization. But friends, please consider welcoming Carlos Martinez into your heart. Carlos is 26 years old, has been on the Cardinals since 2013 and has been a fan favorite for years. Most people know Carlos primarily because of his larger-than-life personality. Carlos has a history of entertaining himself in the dugout...  As well as others.   He's the team's #1 cheerleader on days when he's not pitching...  And is glorious to watch when it's his turn in the rotation.   He loves his teammates...  And he loves animals.   The amazing thing about Carlos, more than his talent or his sense of humor, is the story of Carlos. He wrote a piece called Becoming a Cardinal for the Players Tribune that I highly encourage you to read. A quick TL,DR for you: Carlos is from one of the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic. His mother died when he was 8 months old and he never knew his father. His grandmother raised him in a two-room house containing 7 people in abject poverty. Carlos originally studied to be a priest but couldn't complete his time in the seminary because of an irregularity with his birth certificate. Because his mother hadn't registered his birth before she died his uncle had used another child's birth certificate when Carlos needed paperwork as a child. Carlos had to leave the seminary, took up baseball and left home in part to ease the financial burden on grandmother, since if he was traveling she wouldn't have to feed him. When he was 16 he was playing in Boston's academy as a shortstop when he was spotted pitching by David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez, who saw him hitting in the 90's on the gun and told him to focus specifically on his pitching. Carlos was signed by the Red Sox but the irregularity with his birth certificate resulted in his contract being voided and a one-year suspension. He ultimately used DNA testing to prove who he was and was signed by the Cardinals. When he first signed with the Cardinals one of the first things he did was buy his grandmother a house in a nice neighborhood. Since then he's founded the Tsunami Waves Foundation, which focuses on helping underprivileged children. Beyond the economic assistance and mission work, he's also helped bring a 17-year-old from the DR with leukemia, Camille Fernandez, to St. Louis to get medical treatment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=husMNmVtB1U Carlos overcame incredible childhood adversity, brought himself and his family out of poverty with his skill and now works to help others while playing the game with talent, enthusiasm and humor. Carlos is wonderful.  If that's not enough, he's also got style...  And his big controversy was when people found out his Twitter feed had all his favorite porn on it (I won't add the NSFW link to this post but the story's easy to find). I've also personally seen him pay Jeremy Hazelbaker $15 to eat a bug. Thank you for loving Carlos.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:44
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List is done! Glad to have Pancakes and Popete over to watch baseball and help me remember players. As a reminder: Carl Edwards Jr is awesome and worth rooting for. Also Willson Contreras is a fantastic human being.
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This is so adorable  Also, ballot count: 5 Sorry I haven't been super vocal in the thread lately, but work & the weekend have both been slightly insane. I'm assuming that everyone else's weeks have been insane too, hence the low ballot count. Six days left, folks!
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Jul 22, 2018 19:10
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I was out on a 4 day bender, I will have this in by deadline!
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Jul 23, 2018 15:33
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As a note, I have no Cubs on my hated list and one fun-hatin’, dog whistle-blowin’, clubhouse-narcin’ Cardinal on there. I also have a Cub disturbingly high on my favorite list.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:51
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I will do this before the deadline!
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Jul 23, 2018 16:11
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I am officially boycotting the poll due to the ineligibility of Wily Mo Peña, the Eternal President of Major League Base Ball
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Jul 23, 2018 16:38
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I can’t think of more than 3 players I absolutely hate off the top of my head, so I’m gonna fill the rest with stupid reasons like “is a white guy with dreadlocks”
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Miz Kriss posted:I can’t think of more than 3 players I absolutely hate off the top of my head, so I’m gonna fill the rest with stupid reasons like “is a white guy with dreadlocks” I unironically love John Jaso, who retired from MLB to live on a sailboat and help out with relief efforts in Puerto Rico. If he were eligible I would put him on my favorites list. please instead consider voting for Trevor Bauer, a bad person
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Jul 23, 2018 16:50
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Poque posted:please instead consider voting for Trevor Bauer, a bad person I knew I was forgetting someone!
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Miz Kriss posted:I can’t think of more than 3 players I absolutely hate off the top of my head, so I’m gonna fill the rest with stupid reasons like “is a white guy with dreadlocks” Well there's an oxymoron, if ever I saw one. Just to complicate everyone's list a little, remember that though Bruce Maxwell is a badass anthem-kneeler, he also drunkenly pulled a gun on a delivery person that one time. Poque posted:please instead consider voting for Trevor Bauer, a bad person Speaking of complications, Trevor Bauer is REALLY fun on Infield Chatter (in case I'm not the only one signed up for that thing, lol). I posted with him during the World Series in 2017, he answered people's questions nicely, and he razzed me (in a fun way) when I complained about the quality of the commercials. If I didn't know how he actually was and my only impression of him were from Infield Chatter, he would be in my most loved ballot for sure.
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My list is in. It would be nice if you didn't get penalized for having a shorter list. I was really reaching for the last couple of unfavorites.
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Submitted, I wasn't going to miss my last chance to vote Chase Utley #1 least favorite.
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Pancakes posted:As a note, I have no Cubs on my hated list and one fun-hatin’, dog whistle-blowin’, clubhouse-narcin’ Cardinal on there. I also have a Cub disturbingly high on my favorite list. I have the same Cardinal on my hated list, and he's the only Cardinal on either list for me. Fowler came really close to making my favorites list, but I just couldn't fit him in.
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Patrick Spens posted:My list is in. I was pretty much just trying to uphold Xenophon's (  ) rules, but I guess I can change it next year, assuming that it wouldn't actually ruin anything.Julio Cruz posted:Submitted, I wasn't going to miss my last chance to vote Chase Utley #1 least favorite. Thanks for the reminder.
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I'm having some trouble remembering some exceptionally cool dudes to put on my ballot this year. I also have four Cubs already which is the max I'm willing to go full homer on. Please plug more cool dudes for me. The following players were among my 2017 entries and are still cool, but in the interest of switching things up they will not be on my 2018 list: Ichiro, Arenado, Kershaw, Altuve, Stanton. PLEASE HELP. MY FAMILY IS SUFFERING.
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