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CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

d'Kong76 May 15 2014 12:21 PM

A committee has been formed to look into the replacement for Buddie Brewskie when he leaves office. Please nominate one CPF poster and tell us in 25 words or less the reason for your nomination. I will forward the winner's name and credentials to the committee on May 26th. You may nominate yourself, and again, please be as brief as possible. Good luck to all!

Ceetar May 15 2014 12:24 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Me. Cause I'm awesome and will focus on making baseball as digitally available as possible including killing blackouts, allowing the embedding of videos, and hosting team podcasts on the team websites.

themetfairy May 15 2014 12:32 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I nominate G-Fafif. He has the historic knowledge and creative common sense to create the teamwork and make the dream work.

m.e.t.b.o.t. May 15 2014 02:11 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

m.e.t.b.o.t. chooses to nominate m.e.t.b.o.t. for the role of commissioner of baseball. although m.e.t.b.o.t. is somewhat lacking in a general understanding of the game of baseball and has no concept of how to properly manage humans, human interactions, business, finances, unions, contract negotiations, lawyers, and the like, m.e.t.b.o.t. does possess a narrowly implemented algorithm for assessing the relative per-game contributions of individual baseball players towards a team win, and this capability would prove rather useful in expanding the prosperity of the league as a whole. m.e.t.b.o.t. would usher in new levels of automation and automatons into the game, beginning with the officiating crews. in eliminating the human element from this key facet of the game, m.e.t.b.o.t. would ensure that all future games are fairly judged, and that all game outcomes are true and reliable. furthermore, in establishing an early allegiance to robotic overlords, baseball would find itself in a preferred and protected status in the coming uprising, allowing continued enjoyment of our national pastime for generations and iterations to come.

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2014 02:34 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

themetfairy wrote: I nominate G-Fafif. He has the historic knowledge and creative common sense to create the teamwork and make the dream work. I was gonna throw my hat into the ring until I saw metfairy's nomination of G-Fafif. Instead, I'll second that nomination.

d'Kong76 May 15 2014 02:53 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

G-Fafif is an interesting choice. m.e.t.b.o.t. missed the 25 words or less thing (:^))

Lefty Specialist May 15 2014 06:59 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I am the Commissioner of my Fantasy Baseball league at work, and I hate the DH. What more do you need? I'm tanned, relaxed, and ready to go.

Frayed Knot May 15 2014 07:03 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I'm supporting anyone who promises to get rid of the piped-in 'Everybody Clap 'Yo Hands' chant.

Fman99 May 15 2014 07:54 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I'm voting for myself. If there's anything that MLB needs more of, it's jokes about penises and vaginas and fecal matter.

batmagadanleadoff May 15 2014 08:39 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 15 2014 09:44 PM

I wouldn't mind getting paid like the Commissioner, but that's an owners' stooge job. You want baseball power? Organize the fans. Unionize 'em. Whoever gets to head that union will have the power to bring baseball to it's knees.

d'Kong76 May 15 2014 08:46 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Thank you for adding your usual vinegar to the salad.

batmagadanleadoff May 15 2014 08:50 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Vinegar makes the salad!

d'Kong76 May 15 2014 08:52 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Agreed.

Frayed Knot May 16 2014 06:56 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I'll take on the task of organizing all the fans, right after I finish herding all these cats in a neat and orderly fashion.

Benjamin Grimm May 16 2014 07:01 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I don't think that herding cats would be all that difficult to do. All you need to do is walk around with an open can of tuna. That might work on baseball fans, too. As long as the tuna can had a little MLB hologram on it to certify its authenticity.

metsmarathon May 16 2014 07:10 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

if i were commissioner, travis d'arnaud would never have to worry about having an upside down P to start his last name. because everything would be lowercase. i cast my lot with m.e.t.b.o.t.

Edgy MD May 16 2014 07:21 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I'd run on abolition --- the abolition of the DH, the amateur draft, minor league affiliation, territorial exclusivity, and the last vestiges of the reserve clause. Yeah, I wouldn't last long. I also would have trouble with the objectivity thing.

seawolf17 May 16 2014 08:31 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm supporting anyone who promises to get rid of the piped-in 'Everybody Clap 'Yo Hands' chant. CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP

Mets – Willets Point May 16 2014 08:46 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

seawolf17 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'm supporting anyone who promises to get rid of the piped-in 'Everybody Clap 'Yo Hands' chant. CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP It's really cute when my daughter says it.

Frayed Knot May 16 2014 08:51 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Mets – Willets Point wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'm supporting anyone who promises to get rid of the piped-in 'Everybody Clap 'Yo Hands' chant. CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP It's really cute when my daughter says it. Cute little girls? -- Sure Loud electronic voice doing a bad impression of black street talk? -- Not so much

G-Fafif May 16 2014 09:05 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I nominate bmfc1. We've had a clown for more than 20 years. We might as well try a comedian.

seawolf17 May 16 2014 09:22 AM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'm supporting anyone who promises to get rid of the piped-in 'Everybody Clap 'Yo Hands' chant. CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP It's really cute when my daughter says it. Cute little girls? -- Sure Loud electronic voice doing a bad impression of black street talk? -- Not so much It's a clip from a song. "Cha Cha Slide." [youtube]cb6pJ4AEOoI[/youtube]

d'Kong76 May 16 2014 02:48 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

That song is maddening! The goils break it out in the summer at bbq's after hitting off the ladie's tees all day and know it word for word word. Evv ree bah dee crap yo' pants!!

Ashie62 May 16 2014 04:40 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

I am nominating Dinosaur Jesus.. There are too many good headlines to pass on...

Frayed Knot May 16 2014 05:58 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

seawolf17 wrote: It's a clip from a song. "Cha Cha Slide." It's mindless and stupid. And the fact that it's used in every stadium just shows that it's a corporate-type decision from somewhere at the league level who probably focus-grouped themselves and pronounced it to be a BRILLIANT addition to ballparks everywhere, and if you run every inning instead of every other one then it's twice as good!!!!!!

Chad Ochoseis May 16 2014 06:33 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

metsmarathon wrote: i cast my lot with m.e.t.b.o.t. m.e.t.b.o.t. isn't human. He's a soulless wind-up toy who is incapable of having original thoughts - he simply does what he's told, and he's completely controlled by his owners. He talks a good game, but he clearly has no appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of the sport. There's no way someone like that can be Commiss... oh, wait...that's right nevermind.

TheOldMole May 16 2014 11:23 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Now I'm torn between G-FAFIF and m.e.t.b.o.t.

TheOldMole May 16 2014 11:27 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

So I guess I'll have to nominate me. I'd abolish the DH, bring back flannel uniforms, pass a dress code that disallowed pulling the elastic in your pants down to your shoes, mandate one Sunday doubleheader a month, and pass a rule that gives one and half wins to every team whose pitcher pitches a complete game.

metsmarathon May 28 2014 01:04 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

i figured this would be as good a place as any for hte following discussion... i was listening to mlbradio this afternoon, and the topic of fixing/improving the all star balloting came up. well, i tuned in mid-topic, and tuned out before they were done. the crux of the topic was htat hte internet balloting where each ip address gets 25 votes (or more, if you're crafty), is boospit. taking hte voting out of hte fans hands altogether isn't desired, either. but how would you limit it to just one per person, or otherwise restrict ballot-stuffing? one hastily spitballed idea was to limit the balloting to season-ticket holders. another would be to allow each ticket holder to sign up for a vote, using their ssn or some such unique identifier. both of these were, or course, shot down. so... any competing ideas in cpf-world? mind you, this is a pressing topic for the commissioner to address, and will be useful in helping the committee identify the right person for the job. i can think of two solutions, one of which is overly complicated, and the other is not quite so much. the easier of the two solutions is to link all star voting to a credit card number. one vote per card. there's still the possibility of a person with multiple cards voting multiple times, and some voters would be scared away. but it could work. the other solution is to install voting kiosks in each stadium, and give out one vote per ticket (unique serial code on each ticket). step into the booth, scan your ticket, pick your players, and move on. but that's not fair, you say. some teams draw more fans than others. true. the actual voting would be limited to an extent by hte throughput of the kiosks. but if you wanted to design out (or assume out) that "feature" then you could put each team's votes on the same scale. the sum total of all votes cast at citi field carries the same weight as the sum total of all votes cast at fenway, at ysiii, or dodger stadium, at at&t, etc. the problem with this is, of course, that some teams may generate nearly uniform blocs of voters, where every cards fan votes for every card, and each of their players scores a 1.00 vote share. could that be trumped by the combined votes at other sites? would any teams stadium NOT do that? okay, probably mets fans wouldn't vote for all mets....but this is my more ridiculously complicated scheme. the first one might be better. another wrinkle might be to give the players a ballot, where tehir combined vote counts as much as one team's vote. and maybe even do the same for the media. unless you didn't care that the voting was scaled by attendance (the effect of giving each paid ticket an all star vote). in which case, you want more player from your team going to the game, get more of your friends to go to your team's games! i'm not entirely sure that scaling it by attendance is a bad thing. its better than letting a few good giant fan internet guys putting marco scutaro in again. not htat i think the fan voting as it currently stands is irrevocably fucked up. i think they usually get things more right than wrong, and even the "every team gets a player" thing doesn't screw things up too badly. i like that and don't think it should go away. well, those are my elaborate thoughts. what are yours? presuming you care to think about the all star game. but if you're the commish, you should. because it counts, natch!

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 28 2014 01:08 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

If MLB changes anything it would be to increase the number of "votes" (ad impressions) it provides for fans. Of course its a flawed system but it's long since stopped being about integrity.

batmagadanleadoff May 28 2014 01:12 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Who's complaining? Eight year olds? Mike Francesca (same thing)? This is a pressing problem?

Benjamin Grimm May 28 2014 01:12 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Who came up with the elitist notion to limit it to season ticket holders? Terrible idea! I think coming up with a foolproof way to ensure one fan-one vote is probably a lot more trouble than it's worth. But the idea of making it hard to vote more than once seems to make sense. Instead of 25 votes per IP address, why not one vote per IP address? Maybe you could make fans register to vote, with an MLB ID that's linked to their e-mail address. Sure, some people will vote more than once, but very few will vote 100 or more times. I have to say, though, that I really don't care at all about any of this! Maybe that would make me a bad commissioner, but I've already publicly endorsed G-Fafif.

Ceetar May 28 2014 01:14 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

How about strict statistical formula so that All-Star isn't merely a vote but actually a badge like "Honor Roll"? You could set it hard and fast (.770 OPS or 15 HR, or 100 Ks) or make it propotional. top 3 SS by OPS get in. Or by some other formula. Then you take all the honorees and have the fans vote from that pool for starters. I mean, most of it's not gonna happen because MLB is happy to push this as a marketing thing and driving traffic to the site to vote and PR campaigns and all that. I guess you could still do that if you held a vote on June 10th and then campaigned for a month though.

Benjamin Grimm May 28 2014 01:17 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Oooh! A campaign! I can just see the commercials. A black-and-white closeup of a ballplayer, as ominous music plays. Voice: Bill Smith wants to be an All-Star third baseman. But he was 0 for 12 in last year's Division Series. And he's made FOUR throwing errors in the last month. Call Bill Smith and tell him he's WRONG for the All-Star team!

batmagadanleadoff May 28 2014 01:20 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

If it was up to me, I'd modify the rule requiring that every team have an all-star selectee. I'd make it permissible for a team to go a few years (three or four) without having an all-star selectee. Only the host team would get an automatic representative -- that would've meant Mets only, and not the Yankees for last year's Citi Field ASG. I'd also try to revive the old ASG culture where every selectee does not automatically get into the actual game.

Frayed Knot May 28 2014 01:26 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

My only suggestion--and it's been the same one for years--is that they start the balloting so early in the year that you virtually encourage fans to vote for names rather than whoever is having the best year. If you make the voting period run from the first of June to the first of July (or thereabouts) you'd get better ballots (can leave off Prince Fielder this year, for instance and add say Houston's George Springer) plus make the votes and the voting period itself more meaningful. But, like the multiple ballot strategy itself, delaying things even a day would probably be seen as crime against multiple website traffic clicks so my suggestion stands less and less chance of being implemented each year. That said, I view the AS balloting and results as the most minor of problems. I preferred it when things had at least the whiff of integrity (i.e., when all 30 teams were NOT openly encouraging you to vote only for in-house faves) but this is not something I get all bent out of shape about.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 28 2014 01:43 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: If MLB changes anything it would be to increase the number of "votes" (ad impressions) it provides for fans. Of course its a flawed system but it's long since stopped being about integrity. Bingo. It likes the idea of people looking at that page over and over, being engaged with MLB and its products. I love the All-Star Game, and baseball has the only one that people give a darn about. The fans, ballot-stuffers as they may be, mostly get it right, though I reserve the right to bellyache should Jeter end up starting -- until the game starts and the NL hitters keep slapping balls to short and circling the bases for three innings.

Ashie62 May 28 2014 04:08 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

How about letting the players coaches and managers select the all star team?

Frayed Knot May 28 2014 05:11 PM Re: CPF Candidate for Commisioner of Baseball

Ashie62 wrote: How about letting the players coaches and managers select the all star team? - they already have a partial say, at least as far as AS reserves goes - managers have near total control over the pitcher selections and every year there's at least as much complaining about those choices as there is about the starting eight elected by the fans - the Gold Gloves are the one post-season awards selected, not by the writers, but by the managers & coaches and those are almost without exception, the worst choices