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  1. ORS
    Nevermind. MDC with teh suk.
  2. ORS
    Perfect time for MDC. Up 8 with 3 outs to go. This is when he's usually dominant.
  3. ORS
    Well, it is the Ori-LOLS.
  4. ORS

    Yahoo Hockey '08

    ORS replied to ORS's topic in Contests/Prizes

    Go ahead, MSU, I won't have time for hockey or basketball leagues this winter.
  5. ORS
    You would want us to talk about hands.
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    They have to go 13-3 to do so. Possible, not likely, especially when you have to figure he will align the rotation and rest starters for the postseason.
  8. ORS
    Yeah, but the "better team" is determined over the course of 162 games. That "better" only has 5 games in the ALDS to show itself. I mean, look at what the numbers tell you. Yes, the Yankees win 64% of their games, but the Tigers win 53% of theirs. In a rudimetary adjustment for expectations, the Yankees have a 54% expectation of winning each game [ 64 / (64+53)]. I realize home/road, pitcher vs. lineup, etc will add more realism to this adjustment for each game, but the point is to show that when you pit two good teams against each other, expectations, at least those for individual games, should kind of get tossed out the window. And, you could consider it like rolling dice, only that the dice are weighted, and the weighting is very slight. Enough to favor one side, but close enough to consider it almost random.
  9. ORS
    LaRussa? Not really, his underperfomance as manager of the A's in the WS has to count for something. He had the clear best team in baseball for 3 consecutive WS an only managed 1 win. Given the "crapshoot" nature of baseball, I'll allow him one loss there. That said, he should have at least made a series of each, and he managed to take that juggernaut and get swept one year and only win one game in another. That deserves a macro-"Fail" response.
  10. ORS
    In my opinion, any game of baseball is a crapshoot. Think about it. The best teams win only 60% of the time during the regular season. The difference, on the bat, between a HR and a flyout is fractions of a inch in placement on the bat or fractions of a second in timing. Now, over very large samples, the better players win out on those fractions more than the lesser players do, but we are talking about the playoffs, which are very small samples. So, yes, it's a crapshoot.
  11. ORS
    Not true, on both counts. Run differential by itself only tells you if a team score more than it's opposition. Now, if a team scores 1200 runs and lead the league in run differential at 200, that's a good thing, but not as big a deal as if they only scored 800 and did the same. What I mean to say is, with any given run differential, the lower the scoring environment, the better for the team maintaining that differential. So, since the Angels lead the league in run diff, and were 3rd in ERA, that's pretty big. They outperformed their opposition better than anyone that year. Their pythag record was the best in baseball. Yes, they were the best team going into the playoffs. And guess what, so were the Red Sox in 2004. The Yankees overperformed their pythag by a whopping 12 games that year. RD, by itself isn't everything, so you were right there, but when you look at it in the context of pythagorean record, it's one of the better predictive measures of success.
  12. ORS
    Wait, you thought the Yankees were the best bet to win going into the postseason? No, I don't believe it.
  13. ORS
    No, it isn't, not just run differential at least, but I'd bet money you can't tell me the deficiencies of run differential as a stand alone stat.
  14. ORS
    Yaz is the only person Chuck Norris can't roundhouse kick.
  15. ORS
    You think ESPN is about sports nowadays? I don't know, the ESPN I watch seems to be about shameless self-promotion more than anything.
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    To expand upon this, here's the calls for last night's umpire for the entire game. http://brooksbaseball.net/pfx/zoneplotn.php?xml=http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2009/month_09/day_16/gid_2009_09_16_anamlb_bosmlb_1//pbp/pitchers/111838.xml&sp_type=1 I see lots of green, called balls, in the bottom of the strikezone for both teams. While his strikezone was not what the rules call for, it was consistent.
  18. ORS
    He takes up +1 spots on the roster. His batting average is > 0, which mathematically, is positive.
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  20. ORS
    Maybe he's not the same as the old Dice K. He'd still be in the 1st after 25 pitches if he was.
  21. ORS
    Did you "get on your knees and pray"?
  22. ORS
    Meet the new Dice K, same as the old Dice K. Seriously, 0-2 and he walks him?
  23. ORS
    Ignoring the foolishness of CC's playoff pedigree being a predictor of anything, and the equal foolishness of saying he's the best starter taking the hill out of the likely AL playoff teams, this smells like a non-story. It's some extra rest heading into the playoffs from a team that has their spot locked up. ZZZZZZ. Enjoy the sugar cube, Mr Ed.
  24. ORS
    His comment about strength of schedule was a direct response to Maestro's post about post-ASG performance. Quit telling me to read the thread when it is clear you either have not, or are incapable of understanding what people are talking about. You then make an assumption and create a strawman that extrapolates that point as jusfiication for the road record comparison over the whole season. This is exactly what you have done. You suggest I'm being thick, but the reality is that you are being a smarmy dick. Seriously, fabricating a position that you mock with "rolls eyes"? Get over yourself.
  25. ORS
    And, it's pretty clear he's talking about a segment of the season in response to someone else's post about that segment, whereas you are talking about the entire road record performance. What was that about comprehension? BTW, I don't need to "attempt" to insult your intelligence. You manage doing that just fine every time you open your mouth.
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