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  1. Bellhorn04
    The comments following the article are also interesting. I especially liked the ones by Marc Schneider, probably because his viewpoint seems so close to mine.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, put a fork in us. 62-100
  3. Bellhorn04
    OTOH if a manager acts like Mr. Strategy and looks like a nerd, complete with the Coke bottle glasses, you have Joe Maddon, who irritates the hell out of a lot of people, including the folks who love stats.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Or Tavarez. (Does being nuts going along with having a rubber arm?)
  5. Bellhorn04
    I heard a few people predict we'd be winning a lot of 8-7 games this year. Maybe they were right.
  6. Bellhorn04
    And Kershaw has a 5.84 ERA and a 1.70 WHIP. It happens.
  7. Bellhorn04
    It's hard to take someone seriously when they're typing too fast to spell. This guy is acting more and more like a troll, probably one who's been here before.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Lester is off to a rough start. Cubs came back and won the game.
  9. Bellhorn04
    No offense, but you can't expect anyone to be able to respond to a post that has that many questions in it.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Rivera is more deserving of being in the HOF than Pettitte because Rivera was the best at his position.
  11. Bellhorn04
    He's got 2 hits and 2 walks in the last 2 games. He'll come around.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Same.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Good thing we didn't trade for this Zimmerman bum.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Sandy Leon - fired up today and coming back to haunt his old team!
  15. Bellhorn04
    Mookie Baby - there's that lightning quick bat.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I believe that the statement you bolded refers only to the number of additional runs produced by the hitters who were at bat when Ellsbury was on base. Here are some other numbers that may interest you. These are FanGraphs RAR -Runs Above Replacement- numbers for 2013. Ellsbury Batting +9.1 Baserunning +10.5 Fielding +10.0 Positional +2.0 League +2.8 Replacement +18.2 Total RAR 52.5 Total WAR 5.7 Ortiz Batting +35.3 Baserunning -8.3 Fielding -1.2 Positional -14.3 League +2.6 Replacement +17.1 Total RAR 31.2 Total WAR 3.4 As you can see, the total difference between Ellsbury and Ortiz as baserunners that year was about 19 runs.
  17. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    Same. What a cool customer for a 21-year old.
  18. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    There's a sports celebrity golf tournament every year. It can be interesting to see some of the guys from other sports who are elite golfers, like Tony Romo and John Smoltz. Michael Jordan and Jerry Rice both had notions of trying for the PGA tour. Both got a rude awakening when they played against other pro-level players on pro-level courses. They were way over their heads.
  19. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    I agree with that. To me this is what makes golf similar to baseball: the golf swing, the hitting stroke and the pitching motion are all skills that require a huge amount of repetition. It's like training the body to be a machine, to do the same thing correctly over and over. It might take only one small thing wrong with the mechanics to cause bad results. Most golfers, hitters and pitchers are constantly finding it and losing it and finding it again. They get red hot for a while, then they go into deep slumps for a while. None of that has anything to do with clutch. I just find some of the similarities between the two sports interesting.
  20. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    All you have to do is listen to Johnny Miller on NBC. He talks about players choking, or making bad shots because of nerves, all the time. And he's a pretty good authority considering he won a US Open and a British Open and was probably the #2 player after Nicklaus for a stretch of a few years.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Love your thread titles for this series as always.
  22. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    Golf is one sport where the terms clutch and choke are used freely and no one ever denies their existence. Golf depends so much on one's mind and nerves and how well they withstand pressure.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Good enough for me.
  24. Bellhorn04
    From a payroll cost point of view, though, the most logical move would be to trade Victorino, eating 5 million or so. They keep Craig because if he rebounds at all, he could replace Napoli in 2016 for a reasonable cost. And Nava is a 2 WAR player making a token 1.85 million.
  25. Bellhorn04

    Golf

    Bellhorn04 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Sports

    For a moment today, it looked like Spieth had put this thing in the history books, opening a 7-stroke lead after birdieing 15 and 16. But about fifteen minutes later, his lead was suddenly down to 4, after he double-bogeyed 17, and Justin Rose birdied 18. That's what can happen on this golf course, where there are plenty of birdie chances and also opportunities to blow up in a hurry. It's Spieth and Rose in the final group at -16 and -12. In the group ahead of them are Phil Mickelson at -11 and Charley Hoffman at -10.
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