How does your wife feel about USSM? What makes BP toolbox-kick-worthy? Or is a general money-for-baseball issue?

The accumulation of roto entry fees, MLB Extra Innings, golf, coaching the neighbor kids in the cage after work and the occasional pilgrimage to Safeco has driven my wife to the brink of sanity, or so she says. Do I complain about her pedicures, hair appointments, new clothes, nights out with the ladies and ever-growing surplus of peach oatmeal scrubs and sh^t? Hell no. I’m a firm believer in marital karma. Some day, the Mariners will make it to the World Series, and when they do, I will throw my stockpile of marital karma in her oatmeal-scrubbed face and see all 7 games in person . . . assuming I am still alive by then.

how else am I supposed to get away?

Hey Jeff Nye,

Flix Hernandez had a Birthdayday, as many of us do every year, He’s now 22.

For U guys not dicussing everything with your wives I would suggest you do if you want them in the game. Just the opinion of a guy with the same woman for 41 years. Love them or leave them!!!

This has to be one of my favorite posts ever.

Flix Hernandez had a Birthdayday, as many of us do every year, He’s now 22.

For U guys not dicussing everything with your wives I would suggest you do if you want them in the game. Just the opinion of a guy with the same woman for 41 years. Love them or leave them!!!

Yeah, my wife and I discuss anything over like $100 or so. It’s the honor system other than that.

How does your wife feel about USSM? What makes BP toolbox-kick-worthy?

And really – worst case, don’t tell her.

I don’t feel the need to enumerate my online purchases for my spouse.

I’m kind of surprised that Roger Clemens doesn’t come up as a comparable to Felix.

Clemens wasn’t established in the majors until he was 23. Very different.

No, it doesn’t illustrate that at all, for any number of reasons. Let’s start with a big one.

Felix’s similarity score is 19.

Yeah, but I wasn’t making any sort of argument about Felix’s projected ability. I was simply showing what happens to most pitchers who start pitching in the majors at a young age. Every single one has great raw ability – that’s how they made it to majors so early – but most of them have relatively short careers, peaking in their low 20’s, and ceasing to be great by the time they’re 27. In fact, if you look at the next 10 PECOTA comps – again, guys who started in the majors around the age of 19 – you see a bunch more guys who flamed out early. I made this point in response to a number of commenters seeming to assume that Felix would get better simply because he was getting older.

I’m not sure what part of my argument you’re disagreeing with, exactly, since my argument is simply that a pitcher with Felix’s history is a particularly risky investment in comparison to a guy like Braun who probably has not even peaked yet and does not have nearly the injury risk associated with him.

As I pointed out initially, a much more realistic comparison is Kazmir, whom the Rays just signed to a 3 year deal. That seems like a much more apt comparison, and a much better idea, than the Braun deal (or the Longoria deal or Pujols deal or whatever).

Nectar of the gods. I am afraid it is going to end up like that Seinfeld episode with the allegedly non-fat yogurt.

I tried drinking that and the Cherry tastes just like the regular. Also, any of the Zero sodas have to be ice friggin’ cold to drink.

Success at a young age? Check.

Good strike out rate? Check.

Good groundball rate? Check.