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  1. Bellhorn04
    Salty can't catch a break here. FanGraphs now has him at a 2.3 WAR.
  2. Bellhorn04
    3 pages and counting.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Couldn't find a picture of him for your avatar?
  4. Bellhorn04
    To me this is not really an accurate way to describe it. With his numbers against righties he should get every start against them, which means he would be starting about 65% of the time.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Baseball-Reference has Nava's WAR at 1.7, which in this case is a big difference from FanGraphs' 1.0.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I don't know, but he looked great. Not just the pitching, but he also looks great physically...damn, he actually looked like a happy guy in the dugout.
  7. Bellhorn04
    The Eck's verdict: dumb...we're trying to beat the Yankees here...should have just moved on after the first pitch behind A-Rod...made no sense that he wasn't ejected...total embarrassment when A-Rod juiced him 450 feet to dead central. Best part of Eck's comments...it's not like he's Bob Gibson, who would plunk a guy to start the inning and then strike out the side.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Good, I think we finally bludgeoned this topic to death.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Excellent. He's gonna have 3-way splits this year...
  10. Bellhorn04
    I'm interested in this. Can he convert from switch-hitting to just batting right-handed?
  11. Bellhorn04
    Same here man. In real life I'm on the shy and introverted side. Those qualities did not work well with high school.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Sure they have a lot of evidence. But a 211 game suspension is unprecedented, and A-Rod has the right to present a case against it. Not to mention a little bit of cash to pay lawyers.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Right. What's pissing me off out of my mind about last night's game is that he f***ed us.
  14. Bellhorn04
    But I was asking about the regular season game in July, 2004. The famous picture of Tek giving A-Rod a facial. Bill Mueller's game winning home run off Rivera.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Well, if you want to break it down like this, A-Rod scored 2 runs and drove in 2. One of each was the home run, so he scored or drove in 3 runs. There's your margin of victory. But there's more than that. In a baseball game a lot of what happens is interconnected. If you hypothetically change one thing a bunch of other things can change too. For example, managers make certain decisions based on the game score and situation. Farrell might use a different pitcher in a tie game than he would when we're behind by 2 runs. That type of thing.
  16. Bellhorn04
    If it's misleading, I didn't mean it to be. I do believe that the Yankees got fired up by the beaning and Girardi's ejection. I'm conceding the fact that nobody can prove that kind of thing. But this is part of the lore of sports. You don't say things that can become clippings on the other team's bulletin board. You don't wake up the wrong guy. How many times have we heard stuff like this? Is it truth or mythology? What about the A-Rod-Varitek fight in 2004? Do you think that had anything to do with us waking up as a team that year, or do you think it's ********?
  17. Bellhorn04
    Unlikely, but not laughable IMO. They're only 6 back in the loss column with a month plus left and lots of AL East interdivision games.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I think they would have a good shot at doing that this offseason.
  19. Bellhorn04
    And the answer to: did it help us lose the game? is yes. We know it led to a run. We can't prove that 'firing up' the Yankees helped them win - you can never prove that stuff. But to completely dismiss it is wrong too. We know there are psychological factors in sports.
  20. Bellhorn04
    No, even without that. Putting A-Rod on base led to a run.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Empirically speaking, it was one of the reasons.
  22. Bellhorn04
    And some things take on a significance that is more than just the actual outcome of that inning or whatever. I can't help thinking that some of the Sox players were doing some second-guessing during the game as things turned around. We'll never know how much it 'inspired' the Yankees to score 7 runs off Dempster. But the possibility is there. In 2004 a lot of people point to the moment when Varitek shoved A-Rod as a turning point for the team. Maybe that's ******** or maybe it isn't. Let's just hope people aren't looking back at this play for the wrong reasons later in the season.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's such a nice ironic touch that Dempster can't even apologize or admit it was a bad move or say that if he to do it over, he wouldn't. Because he would be breaking the inviolable code of baseball just by admitting he was throwing at A-Rod. He has to take that with him to his grave like a Mafioso.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Totally agree jung. As you are saying, this was stupid for MULTIPLE REASONS. That's what really makes it special.
  25. Bellhorn04
    It's quite possible.
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