Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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LJMets1989
Cutch had two seasons of OPS over .700. Young had one. Both bad, you're right. Vermilyea disappointed for me too.
VermilNO
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Mach
It's not an issue of being bad, it's that I thought we were talking about a different player, and agreed to the deal, and I thought it'd be a dick move to back out at that point (I even asked Leo about protocol). I've made a lot of bad trades. The original Chipper trade. The Sievers trade. But I did it cognizantly.And just to be clear, I don't blame or fault CJ at all, he's fine here. My swearing post wasn't mad, just more boiled over frustration with myself for not paying better attention.
You can't hold yourself down on the Sievers deal. He boosted. None of us can predict that. He could have just as easily died. We have all made those kind of deals. I could care less that Norman Manrique became what he has, I got a SS at the time and that's what I needed. Do you think CJ loses sleep that Ricky Jones or Deshawn Russell became elite pitchers? Or Phillyfan wanted to quit when Dennis Eckersley became a God? They're still around, still competing, etc.
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Mach
It was honest confusion. I usually riff off of PMs because I'm lazy with titles as a few PMs with Kingdom and Leo can attest to. I think we had last left off with that player who shall not be named a couple days before so I was continuing the conversation chain, but like I said, I should have been a ton more specific. I take full fault and blame and I don't think you did anything wrong/uncool/douchey/whatever.
dont be modest... cj is always at least part douchey. hes a lawyer.
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Kingdom
You can't hold yourself down on the Sievers deal. He boosted. None of us can predict that. He could have just as easily died. We have all made those kind of deals. I could care less that Norman Manrique became what he has, I got a SS at the time and that's what I needed. Do you think CJ loses sleep that Ricky Jones or Deshawn Russell became elite pitchers? Or Phillyfan wanted to quit when Dennis Eckersley became a God? They're still around, still competing, etc.
I don't hold myself down on those ones because I was aware of what I was doing, just noting they were bad. I call it the Sievers deal, but it's all the parts, trying to contend too soon, paying more for you to take Lee because I didn't want to pay him despite my massive financial might. But that's fine because I learned. I guess I learned I need to be clearer and read better from this, but that's a silly thing to learn.
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Hammer
dont be modest... cj is always at least part douchey. hes a lawyer.
And a Red Sox fan, so, valid.
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Ok I'm quitting, I've made too many mistakes :cry:
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Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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schisno
Ok I'm quitting, I've made too many mistakes :cry:
Just don't quit the draft since you're up
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Mach
I don't hold myself down on those ones because I was aware of what I was doing, just noting they were bad. I call it the Sievers deal, but it's all the parts, trying to contend too soon, paying more for you to take Lee because I didn't want to pay him despite my massive financial might. But that's fine because I learned. I guess I learned I need to be clearer and read better from this, but that's a silly thing to learn.
hooked on phonics for OOTP
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
Solution: Make 1 trade every ten years. By then time the next deal happens, you've probably forgotten about the last.
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Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
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Originally Posted by
Shadow29
Solution: Make 1 trade every ten years. By then time the next deal happens, you've probably forgotten about the last.
In that case, just quit.
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them
I kinda hate the Tara Knowles-Teller trade I made last season now.
I mean, Spiwack is still awesome so it wasn't a bad trade but with her developing so insanely quick her and Spiwack are basically a wash and I gave up the two prospects for nothing.
Re: Bad Trades: We've all made them