Things that go on while I'm&nbsp;away

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 7:45 AM PST reply actions

ha.ha

thought you'd get a laugh over that..

by mato on Mar 8, 2006 8:19 AM PST up reply actions

No WAY1

am I gonna give away the pre ranked #1 guy that I got not even going to the draft!! :)

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 9:15 AM PST up reply actions

Okay......

About this whole fantasy thing...... How does it all shake out? I haven't done this before, but it sounds fun. Hopefully it's not too time consuming.... FILL ME IN ON DETAILS (e.x. when it says i'm gonna play peavyrules, how do i play that team>/? YES IM TOTALLY HOPELESS)

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 7:51 AM PST reply actions

Here's what happens

Whoever's playing for your fantasy team (i.e. not on the bench) will accumulate statistics for you. For every statistic you beat PeavyRules at you'll score a point and vice versa. If you tie, it's a push and nobody scores that point. At the end of the week, whoever has more points wins that week's game and you go onto the next week.

Simple. If you're not looking to invest a lot of time, you don't have to, but I'd say once a week would be good to look at your team just to make sure you have a matchup you like for each fantasy game.

by Dex on Mar 8, 2006 8:13 AM PST up reply actions

That's good....

Thanks. I will check it at least once a week. I can't tell whose team is whose. You guys gotta tell me....

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 9:15 AM PST up reply actions

Peavyrules.... (which person is that?)

Shall dIE! YAY! Actually, my team is pretty okay. I didn't draft, but I did get A-rod and A Jones...... (I think it was Andrew, might have been chipper)

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 12:52 PM PST reply actions

Hey!

I gotta get on this site more often. People are talking about me behind my back. I've been pretty absent during off-season. My team is going to rock!!

by Cy Young 44 on Mar 8, 2006 1:07 PM PST up reply actions

Nope!

You're goin down

by slodown4me on Mar 8, 2006 1:12 PM PST up reply actions

Bevacqua on the All Time Padres 100 List??!

Nonsense. Utter nonsense. Maybe the top 200 but even then, I think I could probably find 200 Padre players I'd rank above him.

by Jacojre on Mar 8, 2006 2:09 PM PST reply actions

Bob Cluck

Ah, long live The San Diego School of Baseball. Reggie Waller and a certain TONY GYWNN were also involved in that.

by wiggins4ever on Mar 8, 2006 2:14 PM PST reply actions

More on Padres 100 List

I hope this list is being created by people who remember the 70's and someone familiar with that inaugural team. There were some talented ball-players who had to contend with a lot of untalented teammates and some awful managers (think Preston Gomez).

By the way here's some guys just off the top of my head who should rank ahead of Bevacqua who people may not obviously consider (in part since they played between 69-83) I'm leaving out the obviously -- Winfield, Jones, etc.

Cito Gaston
"Downtown" Ollie Brown
Clay Kirby
Johnny Grubb
Dave Roberts (pitcher)
Paul Dade
Sixto Lezcano
Bob Owchinkwo
Bobby Tolan
Jerry Mumphrey
Butch Metzger
Gene Richards
Willie McCovey
Dave Kingman (ok, he wasn't a Padre long)

[Now I'm gonna cheat, since the names aren't coming to me as readily: here's some others]

Al Ferrara
Steve Arlin
Dave Roberts (3B)
Fred Kendall
Mike Caldwell
Mike Ivie
Tito Fuentes
Brent Strom
Jerry Turner
George Hendrick
Gene Tenace
Merv Rettenmund (fantastic pinch hitter)
Bob Shirley
John D'Acquisto
Eric Rasmussen
Luis Salazar
Steve Mura
Gary Lucas
Rupert Jones
Tim Flannery

Okay that's 34 not counting the Padre stars of the 60's-70's and early 80's. Then we have rapidly improving Padre teams in the 80's and the late 90's to now. I can't believe Bevacqua makes the list of 100.

by Jacojre on Mar 8, 2006 2:34 PM PST reply actions

The list...

was created initially with just the stats. From there, we made subjective moves based on their "historical" importance (including playoff success).

by Richard Wade on Mar 8, 2006 2:48 PM PST up reply actions

List

Has the list been revealed? I hope you've got Nate Colbert in the top 25. Man do I think that guy was underappreciated...

by Jacojre on Mar 8, 2006 6:49 PM PST up reply actions

Re: List

The list has been revealed to contributors, but not the order.

by Richard Wade on Mar 8, 2006 9:14 PM PST up reply actions

Bevacqua would totally be in there

How many Padres hit home runs in the World Series?

I rest my case.

by Dex on Mar 8, 2006 7:23 PM PST up reply actions

Baserunning

I take it that the Home Run is off-set by Bevacqua's stupid baserunning mistake in that same World Series. And how much good did that HR do for the Pads?

It's entirely unfair to rank Bevacqua so high when he was at best a bit player who had one memorable good moment and one memorable bad moment in a WS. The guys who suffered through those terrible Pad teams between '69-83 deserve a lot more credit and by ranking Bevacqua in the mid 80's your dismissing many better players.

Had Bevacqua had one exceptional season, say like Sterling Hitchcock in '98 then I could see this.

by Jacojre on Mar 9, 2006 5:17 AM PST up reply actions

The guys who suffered

Those guys from '69 through '83 really sucked. Honestly. Read Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups. We got hosed by the Dodgers when we first expanded. Then ownership purposely picked declining guys.

And there weren't 83 of them. Honestly, you had like Colbert. I'll give you Cito. Maybe Tenace.

But you'd put Steve Arlin up there? I can name 83 guys from the last 10 years who were better Padres than Steve Arlin. And that would probably include Matt Clement. Bob Shirley???

I mean, it's nice to remember those guys... I guess. But you're talking about career losing pitchers over a guy who gave Padres fans a truly memorable moment in a history that's filled with memories that are better left forgotten.

by Dex on Mar 9, 2006 7:07 AM PST up reply actions

Better than Arlin... (as a Padre)

Shirley, sure. Clement, hell no. Also, Tenace was way better than you're giving him credit for.

by Richard Wade on Mar 9, 2006 10:43 AM PST up reply actions

Steve Arlin and Bob Shirley

I would agree that Steve Arlin and Bob Shirley would probably not make my top 100 list either. I was citing them as players who were definitively better than Bevacqua.

Arlin had two very competitive seasons, though in playing for the Padres lost over 15 games. In 1971 he went 9-19 had an ERA of 3.47 (just below the league average) and pitched 4 Shut Outs and throwing 10 CG's (a figure well above the league average, though certainly not the league leading number for CG's). In 1972 he went 10-21 with an ERA of 3.60, threw 4 Shut Outs and had 12 CG's. Two seasons of above average production from a starting pitcher outweighs Bevacqua's production in my book. Bevacqua was just lucky to be in the WS, though he did capitalize on that opportunity.

by Jacojre on Mar 9, 2006 1:35 PM PST up reply actions

Kurt's not in the 80's.

He's #174.