1992casey

I didn't find anything in a search of the Baseball Prospectus site, but that doesn't necessarily mean references aren't there. I do see one problem with both Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America. Much of their content is subscriber-only. With rotten luck, that's where Brewerfan references would end up being.

I have a Baseball Prospectus web subscription. If I can dig up a mention over there, would that help? I'm completely unfamiliar with Wikipedia, but I did manage to do the edit to include the BP and BA references to go along with the one for ESPN. I suppose I should make another copy of the page. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

Link: Brewerfan.net page at Wikipedia I think this one stands a chance of surviving at Wikipedia as Adam didn't mention it being immediately marked for deletion like last time. Just in case, here's a copy of his work. Of course, any editing anyone volunteers to do should be done at the first link above on Wikipedia's site.

Yeah, Toby, that might be the way to go if Wikipedia is that heavily into deletage. It shouldn't have been an issue, though. Adam provided a perfect framework for someone else to go in and add details. His outline was excellent, the information was accurate, and he followed the inverted pyramid perfectly. It could have easily sat there 'as is' indefinitely. (Adam, tell your English teacher I said this! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif)

Tough call, 999555999, but I'd say yes. I think exceeded is the likely operative word. Note that people doing prospect lists can use whatever parameters they want, though.

That's a bite. Is there a way to protest? Did you happen to save your work? Would it be possible to do it again?

I'm wondering if the Giants have been waiting to see if Roberts was offered arby. Has anyone heard what the Padres decided about that?

I see snyttri's link is to the D'backs projections. What's too bad is that 'the trade' occurred between the dates of the two BTF links in this thread. I want to see Doug Davis, who isn't on either one of them. Is there a master ZiPs link?

That's the way I've seen it, Russ. We're looking at approximately three years' performance and age. Bill Hall, for instance, gets adjusted downward because of a crummy 2004. Fielder gets adjusted upward because of his age and his minor league numbers. Rookies are often projected for a bunch of playing time because they were full-timers in the minors. The real key is to understand how the system works, then make your subjective adjustments to account for the things you can't ask a computer to do. I'd give Bill Hall more credit for the last two seasons while blowing off 2004. With rookies, you have to adjust playing time downward and give the projection a bunch of breathing room to account for the inevitable small sample you'll be dealing with. These things are tools. If you know how to use them (as in not pounding in a nail with the handle end of a screwdriver), you should be fine.

I've gotten used to these things. Because a computer does it and it applies the same criteria to everyone, I'll simply say they make sense and I don't see any surprises.

$9 million per year for as long as five seasons? We need an emoticon that vomits.

I wouldn't get my undies in a bunch just yet. What we know is that the Brewers inquired. No one said they made a huge offer to acquire him.

How about being fair and non-partisan and say happy winners and sad losers? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

The guy in my avatar (Bill the Cat) ran for president twice in the 80s. I think he'd be a good answer.

Red text on a black background is worse. I don't get why people do that. You can fix this on your end with CSS, but the quick solution is kind of like dropping a nuclear bomb on some sites. The more complete solution is too much work for sites where you're just 'driving by'. I think I'll see if I can come up with something that falls somewhere in the middle.

Actually, I hate picking web page colors; Brewer Navy seemed to be very safe. When I chose Navy, I thought of the sarcastic blue right away, but in a weird sort of way, that's a semantic fit. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif If you'd like to change the color, simply paste another color over 'navy', save, then do the necessary reload or restart. Here's a list of 147 HTML color names supported by popular browsers. If you want to get into color hexes (stuff like #000080), you have the choice of millions of colors. A search for 'HTML colors' will pop up lots of information. I'd advise against changing the color in the last line (#800000), though. That resets Brian's original link color. Without that, links within signatures would appear the same as the rest of the text.

Thanks for the heads up. In this case, Braminano's 'signature' is part of the actual body of the message. I'm not sure what he intends; his other recent posts don't include that. At any rate, I don't see anything that can be done with 'paste-in' signatures.

----------------------- Note: a lot of this stuff applies to ezBoard; I'll get that updated sometime in the future. In the meantime, directions for CSS modifications for Opera and for Mozilla-based browsers remain the same. Of course, instead of modifying p092.ezboard.com, you'd be modifying brewersfandemonium.yuku.com. --1992casey, 2007-08-12 ----------------------- One thing that's always gone on here at Brewerfan is that a lot of people create signatures that look very much like the body of their messages. Certainly, I acknowledge that tossing in a little style is difficult for some. And Brian's limited in how much he can modify what's provided to him by ezBoard. But the cool thing is that there is an end user solution that'll work in most web browsers. I finally decided to take a few minutes to whip up some CSS that would make signatures stand out from the bodies of messages. When I say a few minutes, I mean that literally; I should have done this eons ago. All anyone has to do is follow a few simple instructions and copy and paste. Signatures will look like these examples. This works like a charm in Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, and Opera. Nothing should prevent it from working in Flock, K-Meleon, and Netscape 8. This won't work in my ancient Jaguar version of Safari; I can't be sure if it'll work in newer versions or not. I know for a fact that it won't work in IE 6, but it might work in IE 7. (Opera has one little caveat: the code applies to the entire p092.ezboard.com subdomain, not just Brewerfan.net.) Links to the code to paste are at the end of the post. Brief directions... Firefox or Flock: Paste the code for Mozilla browsers into the Stylish extension. Changes take effect the next time a page is reloaded. All Mozilla browsers, including Firefox and Flock: Paste the code for Mozilla browsers into userContent.css. Changes take effect when the browser is restarted. Opera: Paste the code for other browsers into a plain text file with the .css extension. Right-click anywhere on a Brewerfan.net forum page and choose Edit Site Preferences... Hit the display tab, browse for your CSS file, and hit OK. Changes take effect the next time a page is reloaded. Links to the code: CSS for Mozilla browsers CSS for other browsers I can come up with more detailed directions if someone needs them.

The irony, of course, is that when all this is happening, you're probably already going 10 over the limit.

Exactly. Antibiotics are for infections. They're almost certainly appropriate for a horrible toothache, for example. And when you do get an antibiotic, finish the bottle (unless it causes some unexpected side-effect or unless it's one of the few cases where you're directed otherwise.) The issue with the cleaning products is probably worse. At least pills require a prescription. The cleaning stuff is thrust on the public as if it's something good, and since the concept sounds logical, people buy it.

There are a bunch of variations of that one, such as hurrying to get into traffic in front of me, then going slower than I desire, even when there was plenty of room to simply let me go by in the first place.

Anti-bacterial products are what's bugging me today. It's almost impossible to find many cleaning products in a "non-antibacterial" form anymore. I'm not a fan of capriciously banning things, but this stuff has got to go. People are much better off with regular, old fashioned soap.

Well, I'd like to formally protest Standard Time. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Leaving the time as is would accomplish that, too.

I think we should have a pool guessing when ezBoard will adapt to Standard Time. My guess is Wednesday at 1:15 PM. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

In addition to the t-shirt, didn't you also have a 'worst site ever' banner on the on the main forum page (with a link to the thread) for a few days?