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  1. jad
    Why? Say you're an individual voter voting whether a guy gets into the HOF. You have someone you think absolutely should be there on the first ballot. So you vote against him just to ensure he doesn't get 100%? Fortunately, there were no voters who did that, but apparently (for better or worse) cast their ballots in good faith.
  2. jad
    Well, in all fairness, no one is claiming that professional athletes are as bad-ass tough as those who spend most of their time on sports boards.
  3. jad
    I assume this is ironic. Had Meuller's ground ball been a foot to the right, it would have been out 3, and the RS would have been swept. Under this logic, Williams should never even have had a sniff at the HOF due to his .200 average in the postseason.
  4. jad
    Or, much worse!, as long as it's not too low.
  5. jad
    Exactly! It's one reason I love going to minor league games (present choice--SeaDogs, AA). Once a ball is hit, you have no idea what will happen. That said, I should also add that the defense you see in AA or AAA these days is much better than it used to be years ago when I first started going.
  6. jad
    What is the magic incantation the RS have mastered to turn Orioles pitchers into Jim Palmer?
  7. jad
    Exactly.
  8. jad
    Again, it's not a feud. Eck is doing what he is paid to do: make amusing, interesting comments. (He doesn't have to clear what he says with players). Price is paid to pitch, not to abuse journalists or pick fights with them. I don't know about the dead dog story--was that a joke? If true, then he needs to do what Eck has done many many times in his career--own up to mistakes. E.g., "I've been going through a rough time, and I wish to apologize to Mr. Eckersley and to Boston fans for my idiotic outburst of last week."
  9. jad
    Nice idea. Except for the details. Exactly who are you going to package, and for what? All those hitters who (while not hitting to 2018 levels) are still producing more runs than any other team in the league? Or are you going to gut the already depleted pitching staff and get a 'true ace'--say, a Chris Sale or a David Price or a Rick Porcello or maybe a closer like Thronberg or maybe an E. Gagne or Andrew Bailey?
  10. jad
    Laureano is a fish?
  11. jad
    Another mistake by Eck.
  12. jad
    Clearly Eck is at fault.
  13. jad
    I think you may have posted this about 5 minutes too early!
  14. jad
    It's not a feud. It's Price being an a-hole.
  15. jad
    I guess we can all be thankful that true professionals just move on from their childish grievances, giving us fans no reason ever to revive comment topics over two years old.
  16. jad
    I think you're older than I am, but not by much. I grew up a few miles n. of you, and channel 38 almost never came in. So yes, it was Curt Gowdy on the radio. I too would score games, but my OCD brother, an early sabermetrician, developed a method of scoring (or heard of it?) and scored each game for a whole year using it. (And ditto on Pumpsie. It's a shameful reminder of the racism in New England that the RS were the last team of the big three sports to integrate [except for the still loathsome team from D.C. in the NFL]. I believe the Bruins had a black player before the RS did.)
  17. jad
    That was amazing! How many singles are hit off the CF wall in Fenway?
  18. jad
    One commentator pointed out that this observation is deceptive. "Running to the spot and waiting" makes tracking the ball difficult; loping to the spot and tracking it at an angle is easier. Anyone who has played the outfield knows that the nightmarish hit is the one hit right at you, esp. in center field where there is generally no hook or slice. (i.e., using one's blazing speed to get to the ball and waiting for it may be counterproductive? )
  19. jad
    Yup. 19 homers, and a BA (.291) one point lower than his career numbers. Obviously in steep decline.
  20. jad
    Maybe. But the ball looked like it might be caught, no?
  21. jad
    Is it possible to run the bases worse than JBJ has in the last two games?
  22. jad
    ??? There are no words.
  23. jad
    Another celebrity shooting? (A-hole w/ gun seeks publicity, and doubtless will get it.)
  24. jad
    ?? I was only watching casually, but he got concussed not by a hit but by a shot that deflected off his own stick, no? Why should the shooter be penalized at all.
  25. jad

    Devers

    jad replied to Dalas21000's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk

    I'm wondering why this is a difficult problem to solve w/ a computer, and I've asked it several times. Simply take a lineup--and a large sample of games (50? 100?) where those 9 guys play. Enter the results of what they did. Which order produces the most runs? (There's a fairly large number, but it shouldn't be overwhelming ... 9! = 9 factorial?). (I think the condition 'exclude the first inning' might well make it more difficult to figure--it certainly wouldn't simplify things. And you would want that anyway, since you're trying to find out if there's any particular order that maximizes runs. Not sure you could come up with a general rule based on one team, but you could determine what to do with the guys you normally play).
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