Gyroscopic Investing

bedraggled wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 10:47 pm Talking baseball trades on an avatar thread! Bad decorum?

Branch Rickey, I believe, once said a trade needed 2 years to see who benefited. Rickey also said "luck is the residue of design." Something here for the software engineers?

As a Yankee fan, Jay Buhner gives me another reason to think Steinbrenner should have been forced to sell the team.

Tell me who was a better baseball owner?

When has any other team dominated baseball like the Yankees did for nearly 20 years, starting in 1994? When is the last time the Red Sox won two World Series in a row?

Vinny

I initially think of Dan Topping & Del Webb. These 2 owners were referenced in a book whose title eludes me but this approximates:

Yankee Dynasty, 1949-1964: When rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for US Steel.

There were the 2 colonels, Ruppert and Houston. They bought the club in 1913. Because they did so well with the team, their Polo Grounds landlord kicked them out. The owners were smart enough to import Babe Ruth and Yankees' increasing attendance embarrassed the National League's New York Giants so the said 'out.' These 2 owners then built Yankee Stadium with cash. New York State taxpayers built the current Yankee Stadium and these taxpayers will be picking up the tab for several generations. Or maybe their grandchildren will.

Noteworthy? The 1923 Yankee Stadium was built with cash, as was the Woolworth Building, downtown. Now? Gotta get some financing! This could use some exploration.

The New York City subway was extended to the Bronx in 1918, making Jacob Astor's lumber yard site available. Cols. Ruppert and Houston bought there. Some suggest, as the new stadium was just across the river from the Polo Grounds, the colonels did it with spite. If so, it worked.

I don't know if this has been mentioned but PBS is streaming Ken Burn's "History of Baseball". Nine 2 hour episodes. Excellent watching.

https://www.pbs.org/show/baseball/episodes/season/1/

Vinny,

I overlooked your starting in 1994 stipulation. My apologies.

I give full credit to Buck Showalter and Gene Michael for what is called the Joe Torre Yankees.

Vinny,

You suggested Yankees performance since 1994.

I went and looked at Yankees play-off appearances since 1995- excellent compared to most other teams. You are right on target. The Atlanta Braves come to mind, though.

The New York Post is running some Yankees/Mets history stories of 40 years or so. The last several days the Winfield, Howie Spira situation was visited. In 1990, the fans at Yankee Stadium cheered with a standing ovation when the suspension of the owner and the possible forced sale of the club was announced.

Had Gene Michael and Buck Showalter been left to run the organization unfettered, I think the results would have dazzled. Walter O'Malley had Branch Rickey to show a juxtaposition.

Yankee fans are different. A Cleveland fan recently asked if I thought 41 Yankee pennants were enough. I said "no." Gene and Buck would have delivered the "dazzle. " Also, do I detect Yankee fans are accepting of a pennant rather than the Series win?

The attainment of the first round of the play-offs and then go home needs improvement and that seems to have changed recently. Why management brings in high-priced talent to clog the line-up for a decade and more confuses me. The word sclerotic comes to mind.

Your assessments are solid. Please point to my short-sightedness when you get the chance.

I think Buck Showalter is available and he appeared on Seinfeld!

Agreed that MLB and other sports organizations may have future problems with attendance, etc. I can't seem to find the excitement over the baseball season starting soon. If Aaron Judge can't stay on the field, my interest further decreases.

Anyone here play Strat-o-matic Baseball in decades gone by? It was fun. And no commercials!

bedraggled wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:42 pm Agreed that MLB and other sports organizations may have future problems with attendance, etc. I can't seem to find the excitement over the baseball season starting soon. If Aaron Judge can't stay on the field, my interest further decreases.

Anyone here play Strat-o-matic Baseball in decades gone by? It was fun. And no commercials!

Aaron Judge is read to play!

I played Strat-O-Matic from the mid-60s to the mid-70s.

When I first started playing it was with two other friends. I was proposing and making so many trades with the two of them (and, evidently, getting the better of them) that the two of them instituted a trading deadline because they could not control themselves!

Vinny

vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:40 pm

bedraggled wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:42 pm Agreed that MLB and other sports organizations may have future problems with attendance, etc. I can't seem to find the excitement over the baseball season starting soon. If Aaron Judge can't stay on the field, my interest further decreases.

Anyone here play Strat-o-matic Baseball in decades gone by? It was fun. And no commercials!

Aaron Judge is read to play!

I played Strat-O-Matic from the mid-60s to the mid-70s.

When I first started playing it was with two other friends. I was proposing and making so many trades with the two of them (and, evidently, getting the better of them) that the two of them instituted a trading deadline because they could not control themselves!

Vinny

I played Strat-O-Matic baseball when I was in high school and also APBA football. It's a good thing they didn't have video games back then or I would have become an addict just like kids today. Tried out Madden Football on Xbox however and couldn't wrap my head around actually having to physically control player movements. Much easier to just roll the dice.

Did any of you guys play Baseball Mogul back in the day? I thought it was so great when I was a kid. You set the lineups and the game tells you how your team did. Only baseball could have a successful text-based computer game.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:04 pm Did any of you guys play Baseball Mogul back in the day? I thought it was so great when I was a kid. You set the lineups and the game tells you how your team did. Only baseball could have a successful text-based computer game.

Never did. If it was the same game I think a friend of mine played it extensively. I always favored games wherein you were interactively involved in each at bat.

Vinny