Brock Beauchamp

I'm pretty comfortable with how you all are doing things, I mostly raise these questions to get a feel for why the community does these things. My goal is to get a read on this community's vibe and then work with it. So I'm going to ask a lot of stupid questions trying to get that vibe.

And that's why career numbers and epic moments aren't the same thing. Reggie had epic moments, so did Papi, do did Kirby. That doesn't mean any of them were clutch hitters. They just hit that one time in the clutch. Or maybe a few times in the clutch when we were all watching.

Hey, back off. You say it's great, I say it's good. Let's not create a fight over this. But yeah, it appears I have a little MOJO going. I'm happy to keep that rolling.

To be fair, "clutch" is a VERY rare thing. We have literally 100 years of data to show that only a few select players even have a hint of it over an entire career.

I run several baseball sites, it's just another Tuesday for me. But I'm interested to see how you New Englanders flare up about baseball, y'all have a passion for baseball unknown to most of the country. I will enjoy it, that much I guarantee.

I see there aren't word censor filters for swear words. On all our other sites, we have word censors in place. BUT... as I've said we take a bottom-up model. How do we feel about swear words? What about awful nicknames? Frankly, I care far less about cuss words than I do nicknames for players and personnel. Or even other teams. What are your thoughts on these things? While I'm okay with "f***", for some reason I'm less okay with "Spankees" or whatever. And IMO, bad nicknames for players are really off-limits. I think we're all better if we don't make personal attacks on people. But hey, it's your forum. If you have opinions, please share them.

Nice win!

I own the site now. Seriously, though, I own the site.

Ah, it's all good. Part of buying into a community is buying into the community. The personalities are what make it what it is. And there are outlandish characters in every community, it's part of what makes them fun. I did quite a bit of research into this community before buying it. There are lots of others I could have purchased but did not, I like you silly folks.

Oh sorry, mixed up your profile with someone else.

I just posted some stats to outline Devers' recent performances. I didn't editorialize in the slightest bit. But also, you living in Temecula? I graduated from Escondido High School.

A quick look at FanGraphs: Start of season to July 1: 150 wRC+ Since: 166 wRC+ He had a 1.015 OPS in June, a 1.132 OPS in July, and an .838 OPS in August thus far.

Okay, back up in front, seal the deal.

This is something I should clarify: when I speak of times, I speak in local team time. When I say 11am, I mean 11am Boston time.

To be clear, starting a game thread the moment the game ends with a win totally works for me. It doesn't have to be the next morning, it could be immediately. The thread existing at 10am the next morning is the goal, how we get there is whatever.

As opposed to the previous default state of the site, you may want to set a custom feed as your Talk Sox landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list goes on. First, to find your personal feed, near the top right of the screen you will see a newspaper icon in the red bar below your user information. That brings you to the default view, which is Unread Content. Here you'll see a variety of options to tailor your custom stream to do almost anything you like on the site. I'll spare you going through each item in detail individually, as it's all quite self-explanatory. You can choose tagged content, type of content (news, forums, blogs, status updates, etc.), read/unread only, content you've participated in or started, followed content, and finally, how it's sorted. Depending what kind of device you're using, you can also choose Condensed or Expanded. Condensed just gives you the title and link while Expanded offers a truncated version of the content as a preview. Once you've decided on your changes, you can save this stream using the save prompt below. You're allowed to have multiple custom streams so name this new stream and it joins the others. Once you're done customizing your stream, Click Stream Options at the top right of the selection drop-down, and your choices become your default custom stream. Every time you click that newspaper or visit your stream, the selections you've made will remain in place. That's it, enjoy the new site!

Talk Sox Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Rafael Dever''s B-Ref page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/deverra01.shtml I'm going to grab his 2020-2021 season stats. Just above his stat table, you'll see Share & Export. Click and then select Modify, Share, & Export Table. Boom, you can then select what stats you want to display and which you want to remove. I've removed all seasons except the last two. I also removed team and league because "duh". Then click the big X in the top right of the yellow square and you have your filtered table. Grab that table by moving your cursor to the top left of the table (just to the left of Year in this case) and while holding down the button of your mouse/trackpad, drag toward the bottom right of the table. The table will begin to highlight in yellow as you select the cells. Grab them all and let go of the mouse/trackpad. Then copy what has been selected (control+c on Windows, command+c on macOS). Pop over to Brewer Fanatic, start typing a comment, and paste your content (control+v on Windows, command+v on macOS). Standard Batting Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards 2017 20 BOS AL 58 240 222 34 63 14 0 10 30 3 1 18 57 .284 .338 .482 .819 112 107 5 0 0 0 3 5/HD 2018 21 BOS AL 121 490 450 59 108 24 0 21 66 5 2 38 121 .240 .298 .433 .731 94 195 9 0 0 2 6 *5/HD 2019 22 BOS AL 156 702 647 129 201 54 4 32 115 8 8 48 119 .311 .361 .555 .916 132 359 8 4 1 2 7 *5/HD6 MVP-12 2020 23 BOS AL 57 248 232 32 61 16 1 11 43 0 0 13 67 .263 .310 .483 .793 107 112 8 3 0 0 0 *5/H 2021 24 BOS AL 156 664 591 101 165 37 1 38 113 5 5 62 143 .279 .352 .538 .890 134 318 13 7 0 4 7 *5/D4H AS,MVP-11,SS 2022 25 BOS AL 141 614 555 84 164 42 1 27 88 3 1 50 114 .295 .358 .521 .879 141 289 14 6 0 3 11 *5/DH AS,MVP-14 2023 26 BOS AL 153 656 580 90 157 34 0 33 100 5 1 62 126 .271 .351 .500 .851 126 290 15 11 0 3 10 *5/DH6 MVP-18,SS 2024 27 BOS AL 111 488 426 80 127 33 5 27 77 2 0 55 115 .298 .377 .589 .966 161 251 10 2 0 5 13 *5/D AS 8 Yrs 953 4102 3703 609 1046 254 12 199 632 31 18 346 862 .282 .347 .519 .866 129 1921 82 33 1 19 57 162 Game Avg. 162 697 629 104 178 43 2 34 107 5 3 59 147 .282 .347 .519 .866 129 327 14 6 0 3 10 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 8/20/2024. Note: you can use this method for most websites and spreadsheet data so whatever table data you have available you need to copy and paste, this method will likely suit your needs.

It might be worth a pickup. I run a Cubs site and what has happened to Neris is somewhat head-scratching, under different tutelage he could be a decent bounce back candidate.

Because we usually do migrations during an offseason, this transition is a bit awkward. We want to get it done as quickly as possible so yeszir can shut down his hosting obligations and the costs contained therein so this Sunday, we're going to shut down the site and hopefully have it back up on the new platform a few hours later. I don't know exactly when this will happen but I'm guessing around 5pm eastern. I don't do the migration work myself (unlike a lot of other work done here), we have a specialist in the software package so I need to work with his availability. So sometime between 3-5pm Sunday, expect to see the site go down and hopefully, we'll be back up and running on the new software by 8-9pm that evening. Make sure you have two things squared away because you'll have to log in differently using the new software: 1. Make sure you know your password! 2. Make sure your email is current and up-to-date in your account, you'll need that to log into the new system. And if you have any issues with anything, I will be on call. Just email me at my brand-spanking-new email address: brock.beauchamp@talksox.com

Sorry, starting the thread a touch early today, as I have to turn off my ability to access this site for a few hours to work on the new site that's hopefully coming this Sunday. MLB Gameday: Red Sox 6, Astros 5 Final Score (08/20/2024) | MLB.com WWW.MLB.COM Follow MLB results with FREE box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Red Sox vs. Astros at Minute Maid Park

The Sox are 3.5 games out of the third WC and the Royals have an absolutely brutal stretch coming. I'd be quite surprised if the Sox were completely out of contention with nine to go.

A big upgrade with the new software (hopefully coming this Sunday evening?) is that you can copy and paste screencaps right into posts. You can also embed tweets, videos, etc. just by pasting a URL. This is what game threads look like on other sites (when I'm not feeling up to typing an introduction, which I do sometimes). Twins (Matthews) vs Padres (King): 8/19/24, 8:40pm - Archived Game Threads - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM

That title format came around organically at Twins Daily as users just kinda settled into a rhythm and started copying one another. I like how informative it is so I stole it for the other sites.

I was looking into it this evening and saw an article quoting Alex Cora saying he thinks Story will make it back before the end of the season. What is the general consensus elsewhere? Is this a legit thing that might happen? Last I heard, the injury was season-ending and that was that. https://www.justbaseball.com/mlb/trevor-story-kris-bryant-comeback-comparison/

I was advised on your system (dig the name "MOJO") and it's something we used on the Cubs site for some time (and will probably restart it next season). I'm totally fine with continuing this system, with one small change: can we get the thread up by 11am? I'll pop in later in the morning and if there is no thread, I will create one. As I mentioned in the other thread, consistency of this kind creates habits in users and draws in new users as a result. That's it, if you have any questions or suggestions, please speak up here.