Mauer was that good. Anyone that didn’t vote for him deserves to be stripped of their ballot.

I’m thinking, just from a bystander standpoint, the links come in threads because of the nature of conversation and, perhaps, just not considering fanposts/fanshots as it involves a step outside of posting in the flow of a conversation/main post.

fanposts are so seldom used i never even glance there. but I always read the fanshots

I think it has alot to do with the relaxed nature of this place that things tend to go off topic on these threads. Not really a bad thing.

But…

These should end up as fanshots. Fanshots are more appropriate for linking readers right to an article. It also makes it easier for you to create a front page story while giving appropriate credit to the original poster. So unless we’re in an open thread, links to stories (especially big ones) should end up in a fanshot.

I observed that most everyone who found a breaking news story or an article just stuck the link in the comments, so I assumed that was standard operating procedure. Honestly, I put the above link in this post by mistake. I meant to put it in the previous post (Since Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Weekend Prowl threads are a collection of links to news stories and blogs to start with). Admittedly, I sometimes forget to look at the fanshots and I know someone last week was complaining that people hardly ever comment on them.

I have an idea, though, and it involves using the fanposts, since people seem to have a tendency to check those out more often. Let me know if there are any objections.

And as a critique, it was China, not Japan. ;)

But yeah, probably. There’s no need to trade young, cost controlled talent in Jackson/Granderson unless we get something very shiny in return. If the Mariners don’t like it, tough.