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Subject: National cross-checker?


  Posted by: Guru - [330592710] Thu, Sep 27, 08:42

This item appeared in Tuesday's MLB transactions:

"San Diego Padres - Named Jay Darnell national cross-checker."


I give. What's a national cross-checker?
 
1ChicagoTRS
      Sustainer
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      Thu, Sep 27, 08:45
maybe it is a typo and they meant cross-dresser...

really I don't have a clue...the only sport that I have ever heard use the term cross-check is hockey. That would have nothing to do with the Padres...
 
2Richard
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      Thu, Sep 27, 08:46
Maybe their spell checker screwed up and it was susposed to be be cross-dresser;-)

Richard
 
3 Mark L
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      Thu, Sep 27, 09:02
A cross-checker is part of the scouting department who tries to effect consistency in player evaluations. Most clubs have area parttime scouts and regional fulltimers. Although the clubs use standard rating formats, there's no way to know whether a 5 from the guy in New England means the same thing as a 5 from the one in San Antonio.

When the reviews from area and regional scouts on a prospect are sufficiently positive, the club brings in its cross-checkers, who generally work on a national level, to confirm that a prospect people have been raving about is worth seeing. The cross-checkers can also take note of scouts who have pronounced tendencies to rate players too high or too low, and urge them to get with the organizational program.
 
4Perm Dude
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      Thu, Sep 27, 09:26
I like Richard's explanation better, Mark.

:)
 
5Kings Fan
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      Thu, Sep 27, 09:43
Isn't cross-checking part of hockey?
 
6Cleveland Fan
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      Thu, Sep 27, 15:09
Just when I thought I was the only one that would think cross-dresser. Maybe I'm not as unusual as I thought!
 
7Joey Buttafuco
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      Thu, Sep 27, 15:12
Yes you are

;)
 
8Cleveland Fan
      Donor
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      Thu, Sep 27, 17:55
But I'm not the one that has delusions about being Joey Buttafuco!
 
9The Left Wings
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      Thu, Sep 27, 18:22
But I don't think the Padres have the authority to name a NATIONAL cross-dresser. The people from New England and San Antonio will probably disagree with them. =)