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  1. Bellhorn04
    I disagree. The sacrifice fly is a positive event and deserves credit. Blame the rules of baseball if you don't like runs scoring on outs.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I have to make two separate picks. Ortiz will go down as one of my favorite players in history. On the current team the guy I'm always cheering for to do well is Nava. The guy is having a tremendous year against all odds. There were people who figured he'd be out of baseball by now, and I mean people who actually understand baseball.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I'd like to buy it but I can't. In September/11 they averaged 5.4 runs per game. The problem was that they gave up a mind-blowing 6.4 runs per game.
  4. Bellhorn04
    And you gotta admit, 165 was a pretty cool number.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Daniel Nava is back in business.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Can't blame the 2011 collapse on injuries. It was a pitching meltdown of inexplicable proportions.
  7. Bellhorn04
    RBIs I might argue about a bit. Because the actual event of batting in a run is important. What was so frustrating about the last loss against Toronto? Well, it was the LOBsters, the lack of hitting with RISP, the fact that lots of guys were getting on, but no one was knocking them in. Of course over the season total RBIs are often a product of opportunities. To me it's one of those stats that shouldn't be tossed out, but which has to be looked at in context. Which is true for a lot of stats.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I think Bill James is on the right track with the Game Score for pitchers. I think we'll eventually see this used instead of Quality Starts.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yes, any definition would be subjective, as with stats like Win, Save and Hold. But it seems to me the main problem fans have with Quality Start is the 6 IP 3 ER minimum. They don't like a 4.50 ERA performance being credited as a QS. If you tighten it up a bit I think it would be more widely accepted.
  10. Bellhorn04
    It'd be a simple matter to refine it. Something like: 6 IP, 2 ER 7 IP, 3 ER 9 IP, 4 ER
  11. Bellhorn04
    Maybe so. But the basic idea of tracking how many good starts a starter has had vs. bad starts is not without merit.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I understand where you're coming from. I'm certainly not saying he should be thrown in jail. If the world sees him as a douchebag for the ages from here on out, that should be sufficient.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I'm not ignoring the Spankees at all. As I've said a number of times, the f***ers are harder to get rid of than cockroaches. Soriano and Reynolds - Jesus Christ, how do they pull off this s***. The ironic thing about Soriano is that Cashman promptly came out and denounced the move, saying he was against it. f***ing Spanks.
  14. Bellhorn04
    100% true, OJ. Both of these stats really need refinement. Not elimination, but refinement. Bill James's 'Game Score' for pitchers is, I think, a worthy innovation that should get more attention as time goes on.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Assigning percentages to your chances is actually kind of silly when you think about it. It's just another way of shielding yourself from cold reality. Which is that it's only a binary proposition. It's like the old joke that a woman can't be a little pregnant. We either make it or we don't. As of today I vote yes, we'll make the playoffs. But I'll revisit after the West Coast trip.
  16. Bellhorn04
    That's true, no violence. But I think liars, cheats and sleazeballs can achieve terrible person status if they really work at it.
  17. Bellhorn04
    OK, but the save stat is no wonkier than the win stat for pitchers - maybe even less wonky.
  18. Bellhorn04
    That's good. And hopefully his little friend Buchholz is not far behind him.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Mostly on gut feelings, and adjusted for long-term-Sox-fan mental and emotional damage, I'd put our chances of winning the division now at about 30%, and our chances of making the playoffs at about 70%.
  20. Bellhorn04
    How much doucheness do you have to commit before you get to terrible person? Because A-Rod has to be close.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Unreal, him homering on his first at-bat. But we've seen this type of s*** so many times, you come to expect it.
  22. Bellhorn04
    No point. Just let him f*** things up on his own.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Heh, heh...Keyser was one of the scariest movie characters ever.
  24. Bellhorn04
    The simple truth is, nobody knows s*** about what's gonna happen. We're watching a movie with many gut-wrenching twists and turns and nobody has a f***ing clue how it ends. The hero might end up rich and in the sack with his gorgeous co-star, or he might get stabbed in the chest in the final reel. That's what makes it so entertaining and so scary.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Time to change your sig I guess.
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