Comments on: Links http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kyle James http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/comment-page-1/#comment-102584 Kyle James Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:04:02 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/#comment-102584 JC, Thanks for the shoutout to The Tomahawk. Now that the season has started there is way to much Braves stuff getting posted it's hard to keep up with. I hate the fact they are 0-5 in one run games! JC, Thanks for the shoutout to The Tomahawk. Now that the season has started there is way to much Braves stuff getting posted it’s hard to keep up with. I hate the fact they are 0-5 in one run games!

]]> By: Alex http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/comment-page-1/#comment-102581 Alex Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:09:31 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/#comment-102581 I'd be interested on your take on the whole Schafer fiasco. I’d be interested on your take on the whole Schafer fiasco.

]]> By: Greyson http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/comment-page-1/#comment-102580 Greyson Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:23:11 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/04/links/#comment-102580 "The revenues generated by cheaters under the new fine-and-bonus system would be distributed to the players who passed their tests" -This assumes that everyone who passes their test isn't cheating. Even if you don't conclude that HGH is cheating, there are certainly other undetectable performance enhancers, and many more to come for that matter, not to mention the myriad of ways to cover-up use. Doesn't this just punish the players who cheat poorly, and end up further rewarding the players who are good at cheating? Ultimately creating an incentive to perfect cheating practices, which of course just increases the profitability for drug-pushing chemists and trainers. There is no quick fix. I'd say the only real way to change this is, as fans, making our real feelings felt by totally rejecting the sort of behavior that we see unfit. Unfortunately, I don't think an overwhelming majority of fans really care so deeply about the matter. “The revenues generated by cheaters under the new fine-and-bonus system would be distributed to the players who passed their tests”

-This assumes that everyone who passes their test isn’t cheating. Even if you don’t conclude that HGH is cheating, there are certainly other undetectable performance enhancers, and many more to come for that matter, not to mention the myriad of ways to cover-up use. Doesn’t this just punish the players who cheat poorly, and end up further rewarding the players who are good at cheating? Ultimately creating an incentive to perfect cheating practices, which of course just increases the profitability for drug-pushing chemists and trainers.

There is no quick fix. I’d say the only real way to change this is, as fans, making our real feelings felt by totally rejecting the sort of behavior that we see unfit. Unfortunately, I don’t think an overwhelming majority of fans really care so deeply about the matter.

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