because if anyone cared enough they could just click everyone’s name and see what they voted

this isn’t like other (crappy) Sox prospects we’ve had to deal with for the last decade. This is a guy who was the 8th overall pick in the draft, a guy who loves the spot light, who wants to be in big situations and hit the ball. Anyone whose ever listened to him give an interview since the Sox drafted him can tell, he thinks he’s good at baseball. And despite all of this silliness over whether or not he knows Harold Baines (come on now, there are people in Harold’s family who don’t know who Harold is…the guy could be on FIRE and never say a word), Gordon Beckham can hit a damn baseball. If he’s not brought up, it will probably be to delay the arbitration clock, like Tampa did with Longoria. I do not understand where this idea comes from of a guy needing to ‘serve his time’ in the minors. If a guy’s good, bring him on up, please.

and he is smart. Oh, and he greased many of us with free Jim books.

is a far cry from ~ ‘most everyone’ or whatever phrase we both used to imply that there was most likely lack of debate on this topic. there is a sizeable faction within SSS that preferred Beckham in the opening line-up. take that for what it’s worth.

and if most people voted while logged on, you could determine their overall SSS user activity and label them as either regular or not and find out when they voted to see if calendar time modified the association between reg/non-reg user and polling results. too much work though, and unnecessary…