If you were to put a SS or CF at a position like 1B or LF, would their defense ratings take a hit?  If you dont use it you lose it?

Mike, do you think someone asking questions in rapid succession about the NFL, Survivor and rhetorically about Jamie Moyer trivia is effectively saying -- wait, let me copy it from another thread -- "LOOK AT ME!!!" ?  

If you have your Crystal Ball handy, where is our self-indulgent Look at Me Society heading? 

How much do you hate emoticons? 

Would you consider 12:50pm, 7:26pm, and 11:08pm "rapid succession"?

No.
I believe the Pussification of America is a much bigger problem.
A lot.  A whole lot.

Only if it continues your spat with JST#.

MONGO MELEE BREWING?

MAYHAPS!!!

Without question.
Without question.
Possibly.
They're in the AFC West.  The difference between sucking and 1st place is tiny.   So, no.

How do you put a horse's head in a guy's bed, while he's sleeping in it and not wake him up?

Little League question: second inning, already down 5-0 to a team that you figure you have no chance of beating.  Runners on first and third, one out.  Your slowest runner on first.

Do you have the runner on first attempt to steal second, knowing that nine times out of ten there will be no throw; but if there is a throw the runner from first will almost definitely be thrown out on a good throw but the runner on third will almost definitely score on a delayed steal?

In other words: 90% chance you end up with runners on second and third, 10% chance you trade an out for a run.

Do you go for it, or play it safe and do nothing?

Has Mariano thrown his last MLB pitch?

I'm almost certain he was calling it quits after the season.   However, no one likes to go down like that.   A personal story:  I was 43 and ready to give up softball.  I'd been thinking about it for a year or two and finally told my teammates that this was my last season.  I'd played with most of them for 10-12 years so I felt I owed them that.  Then I tore a calf muscle chasing down a flyball.   You can't "play around" a torn calf.   I missed all the big state tourneys in the summer.   That was supposed to be it.   Limping off the field in your "last" game might not have been a big deal to most but it didn't sit well with me.   So I set my sights on the fall(which I hadn't played in a couple of years) tourneys.   After representing myself well in a dozen or so games, I decided what would be my last tourney.   After our first loss(double elimination) I told my teammates again.   In a blowout in what was to be my last game, the other teams pitcher threw a couple of balls to the batter in front of me with 2 down, runners on 1st/3rd, bottom 5th(we were getting 10 run ruled).  The 3B, a long-time teammate and friend, yelled "You're about to walk yourself in a grand slam.  T23 is gonna put your **** in the woods if you walk that batter!!!"   He did, I did and that should have been my last AB in our 19-7(or something like that)loss.   Except a couple of people said "You're not gonna quit now, are you?   The OTHER team is calling your shots."    Now I'm chasing that moment at 49.

So, the point after my long-winded story, is that Rivera might be chasing a moment.  If he is, and he can still be effective, he'll come back.   After all, it wasn't his arm that blew out.  There won't be any wear and tear on it.    Pettite is apparently doing well after a season off.

YOU WEREN'T KIDDING ABOUT LONG-WINDED, HUH?

Nope.  I was trying to relay a point.   If going out a certain way is so important to a weekend softball player that he'll bust his *** just to get back on the field to "go out" properly, it makes perfect sense for the greatest RP of all-time to crave a better ending than riding a John Deere tractor off the field during pre-game in KC.