@tour2ma said:

So you had Aqualung come to mind, but then forgot it before you could post it?

Better check your blood pressure...

No,  Aqualung is just your run of the mill pervert.  You on the other hand are part of the stalkerazzi.   So I went that way instead.   Again, not sure why you have all the time you have to worry about me....and yet let everybody else here down by not doing some picks in the BB draft.   LIke you said, you are stuck at home for 2 weeks.   If people would help, we could knock out 3 rounds in that time. 

@the-gipper said:

Yea, actually, that was not the first image of you that came to mind.  

So you had Aqualung come to mind, but then forgot it before you could post it?

Better check your blood pressure...

@tour2ma said:

Well for starters... I am not blond...

Yea, actually, that was not the first image of you that came to mind.  This was in that you seem to be one who would be eyeing little girls with bad intent.

@tour2ma said:

If you wanted to talk football, then why post about your ignorance of the term "post whore"? As you did so... I felt compelled to be "useful".

You did the world a great service there....worrying about my every word .   You must think I am some kind of God.  

Otherwise... in order...

No.... fully grown... have a life or at least I did prior to sheltering... Usefulness? No outside job anymore (thank God), but I'm a pretty damn good cook, a service I provide this household about 5-days a week on average.

You have replaced your full time job with one worrying about every word I say.  Again, you have all this time to spend on this...yet do not want to help the rest of us out.    So, here are a few random words I will utter,  you can worry about these:

Commission

Warrior

Company

Benefit. 

Discount

Fungible

Elocution

Paper

History

Emerald

That should keep you busy.

@the-gipper said:

Again....I worry about you being like this: 

Well for starters... I am not blond...

@the-gipper said:

Projection much?  

I just want to talk football......you just want to talk "Gipper". 

I mean, its like  you have morphed into Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female.  You wanna be like me?  Grow Up. Get a Life. Make yourself useful.

If you wanted to talk football, then why post about your ignorance of the term "post whore"? As you did so... I felt compelled to be "useful".

Otherwise... in order...

No.... fully grown... have a life or at least I did prior to sheltering... Usefulness? No outside job anymore (thank God), but I'm a pretty damn good cook, a service I provide this household about 5-days a week on average.

@tour2ma said:

Nah.... just my favorite hobby at present....

Should grow tried of it...

... in a couple years.

Again....I worry about you being like this: 

@the-gipper said:

There it is.  "Getting to me is the sum and substance of your existence, apparently.  Grow/Life/Useful...you get it. 

Nah.... just my favorite hobby at present....

Should grow tried of it...

... in a couple years.

Actually, I had moved on, when you perpetuated it. ...just like you did here. 

Why don't you take a team or two in the Browns Board draft, if you have this time on your hands. 

@icecube said:

Is this his 12th season? 

Legit question and a perfect distraction from Gipper wasting everyone's time on what he wants Moneyball to mean.  It's going to be his 11th year so he'll be a 1 year contract. Think of him as a player coach until we get a young feller in there we can get up to speed.  Might not be a bad signing when it all plays out.  After trading for Tyrod Taylor, we did this with Drew Stanton for Baker Mayfield the year we drafted Baker #1 overall. 

Here's what Berry added in FA this year:  TE Austin Hooper, RT Jake Conklin, QB Case Keenum, ILB/MLB B.J. Goodson, DT Andrew Billings, CK Kevin Johnson, S Karl Joseph, and S Andrew Sendejo. I think only the first 3 guys received contracts longer than 1 year. Outside of Keenum and Senjejo - most of theese guys are only about 26 years old.

It's a different approach than Dorsey (who traded for a lot of players by giving up draft picks and/or veterans as well as the cap space).  It'll be interesting to see how this works out.  

@the-gipper said:

clearly there were two points being discussed....."finding undervalued" players...AND contract length

No, not clearly. The one point being discussed was contract length, full stop.

Tour answered your first "question" with his first post in the thread. Dislike him as you will.  But when he states :

@tour2ma said:

Moneyball used Bill James' analytics to ID under-valued players. Then they locked those players up for as long as was reasonable considering their age

that is.. the end of it. He's right. That's not a discussion - that's the one-line brief explanation to bring you up to speed.  

Except the word in bold is of course the part where the discussion is possible, which again brings us back to contract length, which is what I said last post. And when you spent the rest of the first page after the above post talking about one-year deals.. that is also a question about contract length, because if the players weren't undervalued, they wouldn't be getting an offer of any length.

@darren15 said:

Yessssss, so wanted this one.....ball hawk safety....look at Harris thread where I said want him....1 year $2.5m....Berry took my advice ?

Is this his 12th season? 

@tour2ma said:

I hate when I miss a typo. I make enough that I don't need help.

That said...

You're so cute when you cuss...

Now please post more about how I am not getting to you.

There it is.  "Getting to me is the sum and substance of your existence, apparently.  Grow/Life/Useful...you get it. 

@unsympathetic said:

Flugel explained how it worked.

Your comment re-iterated something that wasn't being discussed or disagreed with. Of course "finding undervalued" is the goal.. I don't think we need to explain why that should be a given.  The ONE point being discussed was contract length.. answering the question of "how do you lock in the player once you've determined them to be under-valued and available."

You do this a lot, dude, and it really doesn't help [or further understanding].  Please stop.

Well, clearly there were two points being discussed....."finding undervalued" players...AND contract length.  My question had to do with the 1 year contracts.  Maybe I did need that for my further understanding...Why were all these players given just one year contracts?  And, if I re-iterated something....so what?  What harm did it do. 

@flugel said:

It's about a guy that can't handle the truth when it should be about the subject heading. 

Why do you think I could not handle the truth?  Is asking a question about the nuances of these matters so objectionable.?  Or speculations thereon?  Questions like:  Why just the one year contracts?  Why/how does this fit into DePodesta's (and Berry's)  modus operandi? 

Again, what do you find objectionable about those questions  (and the subject heading is about this player...who possibly is one of those undervalued players with a one year deal. 

@tour2ma said:

Geez, Gip... and you were just on Urban Dictinary...

Projection much?  

I just want to talk football......you just want to talk "Gipper". 

I mean, its like  you have morphed into Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female.  You wanna be like me?  Grow Up. Get a Life. Make yourself useful.

@tour2ma said:

Not that you would have taken advantage of that...

... or did you have a period of premarital servicing?

FIFY-Only with her.?

@the-gipper said:

I am not clinging to any notion.  I was going along with your definition.  So, I guess, if anyone was misguiding me, it was you. I wager you will be too craven to take ownership of that. 

Do what son?

@the-gipper said:

So, what is this thread about?

It's about a guy that can't handle the truth when it should be about the subject heading. 

@the-gipper said:

Here is the defintion of Moneyball

Flugel explained how it worked.

Your comment re-iterated something that wasn't being discussed or disagreed with. Of course "finding undervalued" is the goal.. I don't think we need to explain why that should be a given.  The ONE point being discussed was contract length.. answering the question of "how do you lock in the player once you've determined them to be under-valued and available."

You do this a lot, dude, and it really doesn't help [or further understanding].  Please stop.

@texasag1969 said:

I miss the good old days before the internet when the post whore was just off Army posts.??

Not that you would have taken advantage of that...

... or did you have a period of premarital service?

@the-gipper said:

.. need milked?

Verb tense much?

Don't type angry... Don't type angry.

Oh, wait...

You use voice transcription.

Just when I thought it couldn't get worse.