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Replied. What do you think?

Your mother did it to your father after the condom broke.

I'm a jinx this year. My record is like 4-10 this season. Damn. I went to both Philly losses, and the women kept me home on the walkoff Saturday.

A win is a win. Keep in mind, the immortal Santos just bitch-slapped your closer. Such is baseball.

I'll trade with you Yeszir.

So Jacko...we've now resorted to standard deviation as Jacko [and his bitch sidekick ORS] as the main argument. Fine, whatever. My point still stands, and no one has given a shred of evidence to the contrary. Enjoy this pitching while you can Jacko. It disappears in about a week or so.

"standard deviation is a measure of the variability or dispersion of a population, a data set, or a probability distribution." The variability or dispersion inherent in a data set has more variability in smaller sample sizes. If the team ERA is say 4.00, one catcher may have been behind the plate for 2 runs, the other for 6 runs. The deviation from the norm is greater. The smaller the sample size [2 months in 2007/2009 as opposed to 2008] will yield to a greater deviation. Also, as the controls change [teams, leagues, ball parks] so will the deviation, which is why Woolner's analysis is a joke. Go back to school folks. Regardless of the semantics, my point is the same. If you flip a coin once, you will have a greater deviation than if you flip it 1000 times. Anyways, until Jacko comes up with any proof, the argument is over. I hope to God that at the end of 2009, I'm wrong. I really do. Because for that to happen, Posada would have to learn how to frame a pitch and get his CERA down to below 4. If that happens, I'll be inviting all of you to my wedding with Megan Fox, and I would ask Jacko to be my best man. On tonights game, only that Ruiz? homer was a cheapie, I thought everything else was crushed. Tex hit the longest homer yet at the new stadium.

The point I'm making is that there is variance involved. It's the nature of the game. Two catchers on different teams in different parks in different leagues render CERA mainly useless. However, two pitchers on the same team have a much smaller standard deviation. The fact that Jacko ignores this is his problem. You waited all this time to chime in? You never chime in unless you think I'm wrong. Even more proof that I was right...again. You know what the worst part of it is...all he has to do is FRAME a pitch. That's it. I'm not asking him to throw out runners [i also think game-calling is ********]. Just frame a f***ing pitch, and he's the 2nd best catcher in baseball after Mauer.

With the exception that the entire premise of Moneyball is incorrect, the book is a fun read.

I need a bona-fide big bat in the OF and I would like a solid closer. Here are the players I'm putting on the trade block: Posada Huff Chamberlain Burnett Hawkins Bradley Please make me an offer.

Nobody responded to my trade offers but SOC. Damn. Reject them even, just don't let them sit there.

Good game by Lester. The AL East is a very tight race indeed. I kind of wish the Yankees and Sox would be playing now. Both teams in high gear.

You're dropping it because you weren't able to prove your point, and I did. Are you confounded yet?

Forget about his arm Jacko. Forget about Molina's arm. Call it a wash. Explain the discrepencies in CERA between two catchers on the same team catching the same pitcher. Posada threw out 7 runners, and 34 stole against him. Lets be generous and say half of them scored. Subract 17 runs from Posada's runs given up. Anyway you slice it or dice it, Posada gives you less runs than Molina. I'm actually trying to help you find a way out of your abyss.

What long-term ramnifications? You think working up with the big team, being a part of the action, is not a benefit in itself? Instead of feeling like a failure in being sent back down, knowing that a full effort isn't needed to dominate? I disagree. Give him a shot in the pen. If he does well, and if they want to put him in the rotation if he's successful, he can draw on that success. The kid has experienced nothing but failure up here. Give him another chance to succeed. Funny...I'm pining for another chance, and you want to banish him. Strange how this works.

I just think you have to have the best arms at the major league level. Right now, Hughes is better than Veras and Albaladejo. That's why I want him up here. Not because he's good. He just sucks less than those guys.

LOL! He has a 6.95 ERA and a 1.67 WHIP. Exactly when did he have it? You're lost. He's lost. Even on the Roberts strikeout, Cervelli wanted the pitch down and in, and he threw the ball up and away out of the zone. Of course, you wouldn't see that, would you Jacko. I'm sure you'd rather have Albaladejo up here instead of Hughes...yes, we know. What a joke. Why this guy is in the majors I have no idea.