Monday Rockpile: Rockies have "big-money players" who haven't lived up to expectations--not surprisingly

Of course everybody would like a Pujols. But please don’t act like that’s what I’m saying, because it clearly isn’t. I’m not bashing CarGo or Tulo here AT ALL. I’m simply saying I would like a true power guy in between them. To me CarGo and Tulo are at their best when they are hitting line drives into the gap and letting their HR power generate from there. I think both of them suffer when they set out to try to be long ball hitters. To me the 4 hole is the natural spot for that guy who is the more conventional type long ball power type guy. As AMart points out, a lack of OBP can be excused more there, while you want guys in front of him to get on base and a great hitter behind him with the consistency to keep him from getting pitched around. When I look at that, I see Tulo as a better fit at 3 or 5 than 4, and CarGo’s speed probably making me look at him in the 3 hole first and foremost, although that makes his OBP a bit more of an issue.

at least not good ones. The ones in the middle of the M&Ms are just nasty.

I was excited about the idea, but appalled at the failure in execution.

but they also have a market that lets them produce more revenue than 80% of MLB teams could ever hope to produce, even if run by the Walton Family and Bill Gates, with proceeds invested by Warren Buffet….

Let’s look at it this way. Say you and I are playing a game of monopoly but instead of us each starting off with the same amount of money I start off with $3,000 and you start off with let’s say $1,000. Our luck throughout the game is virtually the same as we each have opportunities to buy lots of unpurchased property with similar values and we both routinely land on each other’s spaces. The only difference is that because I have so much money, I can afford buy everything I land on while you have to carefully pick and choose which properties will be most valuable to you.

Since my resources far outreach yours, I can afford to purchase all the expensive properties and therefore end up with a couple of really expensive monopolies well you couldn’t afford to buy some of those spaces when you landed on them and had to settle for a rinky-dink monopoly over on Reading Railroad row. In other words I can afford to keep both my "home grown" properties (the ones that I landed on) and I can also afford to buy what should have been your "home grown" property because again, I just have that many resources.

Worse yet, I still have more money than you even after all the property is bought and can afford put up houses and hotels right away while you have to slowly build up each time you collect money for passing go. You think you might get some help when I get the "pay for each house and hotel" card (monopoly’s version of baseball’s luxury tax) but even that is not enough to make you competitive as my embarrassment of riches proves endless.

After my victory I gloat and tell everyone how much better a monopoly player I am than you and you say "Well RIRF, you really don’t deserve a lot of credit for this because you had a lot more resources than I did"

I laugh at you and say "Oh yeah, I still had to make the decision about whether or not I wanted to buy the property and whether or not I wanted put up the houses and hotels. Since I still did that I deserve mad amounts of credit and it also makes me a better player than you."