The This Team IS Done, We are Dumb and Nothing can Fix it MEGA THREAD

[Dark Helmet]

That's awesome. Maybe you should found a new professional league where everyone agrees to only use the knowledge available to those in 1960. Or if that's too complicated and boring, 1920. I know Branch Rickey and others were using some types of metrics and data in the 40s and 50s. Stupid math people trying to win more baseball games instead of just enjoying the green grass and the time off work.

Yet you talk down to anyone that disagrees with you. How dare I enjoy the game the way my grandpa introduced it to me. I mean, taking my glove to the game instead of my texas instrument. You do whatever the hell you want to.

[Dark Helmet]

Right, it's not that analytics made sense for valuation and financial reasons, it was those damn math guys wanting to spice things up. Next thing they be providing me a formula about how to bang the old lady.

What goods a formula for banging the old lady? Not like they'd even know what to do with it.

[eddie83]

We have Chen, Tillman, Wright Gausman, and Wilson, to offer. We ought to get somebody decent for one of them.

Seattle just got Trumbo, not sure who they gave up yet.

[orioles4lyfe]

Seattle just got Trumbo, not sure who they gave up yet.

"The Mariners have acquired first baseman/outfielder Mark Trumbo and left-hander Vidal Nuno from the Diamondbacks, reports Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (Twitter links). The Diamondbacks will receive catcher Welington Castillo, right-handed reliever Dominic Leone and a pair of prospects from Seattle in exchange for Trumbo, who is earning $6.9MM in 2015 and is under team control through 2016 via the arbitration process." -per MLBtraderumors

[eddie83]

"The Mariners have acquired first baseman/outfielder Mark Trumbo and left-hander Vidal Nuno from the Diamondbacks, reports Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (Twitter links). The Diamondbacks will receive catcher Welington Castillo, right-handed reliever Dominic Leone and a pair of prospects from Seattle in exchange for Trumbo, who is earning $6.9MM in 2015 and is under team control through 2016 via the arbitration process." -per MLBtraderumors

Who and how good are these prospects? That's the key to this deal. Seattle desperate for offense.

[Can_of_corn]

Who and how good are these prospects? That's the key to this deal. Seattle desperate for offense.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That said, they gave up a giant pile of nothing to get Trumbo, so at least the price was right.</p>— David Cameron (@DCameronFG) <a href="

">June 3, 2015</a></blockquote>

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[Can_of_corn]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I look forward to the Mariners playing Trumbo and Cruz in the corner outfields why they wonder why their pitching suddenly got worse.</p>— David Cameron (@DCameronFG) <a href="

">June 3, 2015</a></blockquote>

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[DrungoHazewood]

Yet you talk down to anyone that disagrees with you. How dare I enjoy the game the way my grandpa introduced it to me. I mean, taking my glove to the game instead of my texas instrument. You do whatever the hell you want to.

So you can deingrate and dismiss anyone who wants to move beyond 1928, but if I'm a little dismissive of your attempts to turn back progress, you get your panties in a knot. Got it.

[weams]

Seattle is all in. They are desperate. Not that it's a bad move just that they are desperate to make something happen this year, you know before Cruz misplaces his magic fairy dust like Robinson Cano did.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="enwitter"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Four reasons for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mariners?src=hash">#Mariners</a> Trumbo acquisition: Cano .627 OPS; Zunino .613 OPS; Austin Jackson .665 OPS; Ackley .546 OPS.</p>— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href="

">June 4, 2015</a></blockquote>

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[O's84]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="enwitter"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Four reasons for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mariners?src=hash">#Mariners</a> Trumbo acquisition: Cano .627 OPS; Zunino .613 OPS; Austin Jackson .665 OPS; Ackley .546 OPS.</p>? Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href="

">June 4, 2015</a></blockquote>

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Remember when Jtrea81 was all crazy about getting Ackley?

[DrungoHazewood]

Yet you talk down to anyone that disagrees with you. How dare I enjoy the game the way my grandpa introduced it to me. I mean, taking my glove to the game instead of my texas instrument. You do whatever the hell you want to.

And another thing... why the heck does the way I look at baseball have anything at all to do with how you enjoy baseball? If you want to hang out at the park with your glove and pretend modern metrics and analysis don't exist who is stopping you? If you want to discuss the Orioles fortunes without the intrusions of how people view the game today I'm afraid you're in very much the wrong place.

[Dark Helmet]

So you can deingrate and dismiss anyone who wants to move beyond 1928, but if I'm a little dismissive of your attempts to turn back progress, you get your panties in a knot. Got it.

I dismiss your pov as much as you question anyones intelligence if they disgard stats. And I'll leave the panty wearing to you. It's not my style.

[Dark Helmet]

And another thing... why the heck does the way I look at baseball have anything at all to do with how you enjoy baseball? If you want to hang out at the park with your glove and pretend modern metrics and analysis don't exist who is stopping you? If you want to discuss the Orioles fortunes without the intrusions of how people view the game today I'm afraid you're in very much the wrong place.

Don't flatter yourself. Nothing you have to say affects me that much. And your last sentence is spot on however. No argument there.

[CA-ORIOLE]

If you want to discuss the Orioles fortunes without the intrusions of how people view the game today I'm afraid you're in very much the wrong place.

This is the part that kills me about some of the people on here. Maybe there needs to be stat free zones where retro posters can tell anecdotes and reminisce about the good old days without worry of interruption from pesky stat posters.

[weams]

Remember when Jtrea81 was all crazy about getting Ackley?

Who?