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  1. a700hitter
    It's a scouting tool meant to improve the performance of the scouting. Without researching this, I will bet that it came from some elite MBA program. As I said, I have seen these ideas come and go. Some of these fads can last for a long time, but they have little lasting positive impact on business. My personal favorite was when my Company hired a Corporate Ethicist (from Harvard I think) to give affirmation to a group of executives who had made some very poor business decisions. The ethicist (paid around $500k in the mid 1990's for this project) concluded that despite the fact that management's decisions had very negatively impacted the bottom line of the business they had acted in an ethically impeccable manner. Nonsensical rationalization is what the report was.
  2. a700hitter
    When your weight provides comedy material for Lettermen, it isn't a good thing for an athlete.
  3. a700hitter
    Neuroscouting? -- I.e. The flavor of the day. It is a way for baseball executives to try to differentiate themselves from the pack while playing barely .500 ball and missing the playoffs. In my 30 years of business I have seen many new Wharton/Harvard MBA business analytics and management tools with catchy names and acronyms come and go. They almost never improve performance or efficiency, except on a very temporary basis. The only people who profit from these ideas are the consultants who sell it to the exceutives. The consultants, not coincidently, are the same people that publish books on this stuff, and the books are profitable solely because they have a captive market -- their MBA students. It's mumbo jumbo.
  4. a700hitter
    It's nice to see that Panda arrived in Camp in top shape.
  5. a700hitter
    MVP = Fenway Hater
  6. a700hitter
    From MLB Trade Rumors:
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    The Yankee fans started "Boston Sucks" thing in 1976. I think it started the night of the brawl involving Bill Lee and that prick Nettles. Some guys from my high school claimed responsibility for starting that trend. Sox fans didn't go straight into the gutter with retaliation. That first year there were some shirts and bumper stickers that was a parody of NY's "I Love NY" travel advertisement. The stickers and shirts said "I love NY. It's the Yankees I hate."
  8. a700hitter
    You know all the tricks. On Sundays, I park on the street by one of the Northeastern dorms on Forsyth street. You don't have to feed the meters on Sunday. I have been reading your posts with great interest. You mention going to Shea Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Are you from NY? We must be pretty close in age. I wish that I had seen Ebbets Field.
  9. a700hitter
    Another clue, please.
  10. a700hitter
    Don't worry about it yet. This post was just me bein g sarcastic.
  11. a700hitter
    Oh yes, Gale Sayers. He was the most exciting running back of all time.
  12. a700hitter
    RIP Send'em in Kim.
  13. a700hitter
    I could live with this. This would be fantastic.
  14. a700hitter
    I'll bitch and moan about whatever I damn well please, whenever I damn well please. LOL!! It is my right as an American on the internet. And it is the right of everyone else, even non-US citizens, to ignore me or disagree with me. My wife isn't going to listen to me about the Red Sox, so I need an outlet. Posting my thoughts doesn't take up anyone's time unless they consent to reading my posts. If they consent, then buyer beware. Don't get mad at me for subjecting yourself to my musings.
  15. a700hitter
    Pal, I think that is a great idea, but I don't know if the numbers would work and if the Sox would want competition from their own AAA team for ticket sales in Boston. Te other issue that I am curious about is whether the Sox could walk away from Fenway.
  16. a700hitter
    Yep. She's an Australian Shepherd.
  17. a700hitter
    Yes, the dog in my avatar is my girl. A sweet dog with a lot of personality.
  18. a700hitter
    Fred, my Dad felt much the same way about Fenway. It reminded him of that ballpark.
  19. a700hitter
    I was wondering who would be responsible for the upkeep of Fenway if the city of Boston finally got its act together so the Red Sox could get a state of the art facility. The Red Sox own Fenway. If the ballpark can't be torn down, they wouldn't be able to sell it. Boston is not going to add a second franchise. Would the city buy it from them? It just seems to me that ownership is tied to Fenway whether they like it or not.
  20. a700hitter
    I don't know how the landmark laws work. There was a beautiful old stone church in my neighborhood when I was a child. I was disappointed to see that it had been torn down and replaced with a school. My research revealed that the Church was eligible for landmark status. Based on what I read, the pastor decided against pursuing the status because the church no longer had the congregation yo support the upkeep of the old church, so he opted to tear it down. I wonder who is responsible for the perpetual upkeep of Fenway.
  21. a700hitter
    [quote=Spudboy;941008 No one likes to hear "I told you so" at all. Let alone over and over and over again.Spud, you sound like a man who had been married too many times
  22. a700hitter
    Fred, I always respect by our baseball opinions.
  23. a700hitter
    It was pretty much the same thing with Gretzky. I saw a lot of Orr. I was big into hockey in those years. Gretzky greatness wasn't just numbers. Gretzky like Orr did things that just left you shaking your head in disbelief.
  24. a700hitter
    Agreed. I don't think anyone goes above him on the list, but Gretzky is right there with him. He didn't skate like Orr and wasn't explosive like Orr, but he did control the game and he simply obliterated the record book.
  25. a700hitter
    Different eras. Or transformed the game but his career was much too short. Gretzky wasn't a product of a scoring explosion. His numbers even in that context are in a different universe. He like Orr would do things that you just couldn't believe what you had seen. He had the best instincts of any player that I have seen. It was like he had eyes in the back of his head.
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