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  1. jad
    I can! 2 or 3 times in the last five or six years.
  2. jad
    OMG! You are a glutton for punishment. Does the beagle howl (as do all I've ever known)? I assume the hounds bay away when they feel like chasing something, which is all the time. And the cattle dog is up for playing fetch about 20 hours a day? (I'm dogsitting a shih-tzu mix--that's 22 hours of sleep a day, 1/4 hour eating, another hour walking, and whatever time remains, demanding to be brushed. HIGHLY recommended dog!)
  3. jad
    Yes, but as I'm sure you know (since this discussion comes up over and over again in sports), ticket prices have essentially nothing to do with the salaries of players, nor do the price of beer and hot-dogs. They are set by a relatively simple computation--what price do you set for admission (or for a hot-dog) that maximizes the take. No team will sell a ticket for $10 that can sell for $50. Whether players make 10 million a year or $1/hour does not affect this calculation.
  4. jad
    RS already have the highest payroll in MLB. So exactly who could they have gotten, and what would it have cost (in terms of players they would have to give up to make room).
  5. jad
    Wasn't April Fools Day yesterday?
  6. jad
    Ah yes! Shreveport Louisiana! Liberal Kansas! East Bumf*ck West Virginia! The culture! The chicks! The nightlife. All those fine restaurants and theaters. The spectacular views of the ocean. ... It just goes on and on.
  7. jad
    Well, so much for the first 'quality start' of the season.
  8. jad
    That's what makes blue states so great and why everyone wants to live there, whichever coast they're on--those taxes pay for services. But as far as baseball is concerned, I agree: all those East Coast whiners should move here to SoCal!
  9. jad
    Well, except for the fact that nearly everyone on the team (Betts excepted) is hitting at or far better than they did last year ... there is that. It is true, I'll grant you, that they had no 'momentum' from last year, since whatever momentum is, it has no application to sports.
  10. jad
    Exactly. Not everyone on the board has the sensibilities of an 11-year-old.
  11. jad
    This has nothing to do with WS hangover that I can see. It has everything to do with leaving pitches in the middle of the plate, up.
  12. jad
    As anyone who has played sports at any level knows, it's easy to be a bad-ass tough guy when (1) you're in full pads, and/or (2) you have more team-mates around you than the other guy.
  13. jad
    You mean by going after him with full catcher's gear, sticking a glove in his face while not even taking his mask off?
  14. jad
    I believe any player to be released must first be passed through waivers.
  15. jad
    How is Porcello still in the game after that? They need to get that checked.
  16. jad
    You mean back when owners "owned" players? Back before all that free-agency stuff? And before those pesky unions that prevented the owners from keeping all the money to themselves, while players worked second jobs in the winter?
  17. jad
    I guess if a .250 hitter can score $330 million, it's time to get out your wallets. Trout reportedly signing for $430. Good news for Mookie, in that this proves you don't need to be a self-promoting a-hole to get the big bucks!
  18. jad
    Exactly. If a player likes it or feels it helps, good. Baseball players are deeply suspicious; if Boggs thinks eating chicken every day is essential, then give him all the chicken he wants.
  19. jad
    Ha ha! Right. Because then the math would likely be that the #2 has fewer walk-offs than #1 (because he's not as good); and #3 fewer than #2 and so on ... IF, that is, the hitters are ordered according to 'quality' (which of course is likely unmeasurable, or there at least is no consensus on how to measure it exactly!) But I'll bet that statistic is readily available--does the number of walk-offs correlate w/ order in the lineup? If order in the lineup is as crucial as some claim, then there should be a strong correlation. If it doesn't, then perhaps there's something wrong with the lineup? (or perhaps not!) Of course I agree w/ you: the cliche's about what you 'need' in a #1, or the absurd qualities sometimes cited for a #2 are silly.
  20. jad
    Yup, so have your best hitter lead off. But let's see the bizarre result: 162/9 is what, 18 more ABs? But in those particular games where the no. 1 gets more ab's than the no. 2., to do that, he must either make the last out, or hit a game winning walk-off. Given the rarity of walk-offs, this means that the majority (the vast majority?) of those extra ABs the lead-off guy gets (over the #2 guy) are going to be outs. That's a head-scratcher. I'm going with the notion that it doesn't make a whole lot of difference who bats where, or, if it does, it's beyond human comprehension!
  21. jad
    Too bad a leadoff hitter doesn't lead off every inning. It's rather like worrying over who your #1 starter is as opposed to your #2 or #3. Until the post-season, it hardly matters (since there is only about a 1 in 5 chance that he will start more games than whoever is behind him.)
  22. jad
    So a player who tests positive does not have to inform his team until after the appeal is denied? (I guess that makes sense, but it seems odd to me, in that the 80-game suspension comes completely out of the blue--wouldn't the team want to be involved in the appeal?)
  23. jad
    I just hope when I have his money (I don't see any reason why I won't, this being America and all), I will spring for more than a $79/hour hooker.
  24. jad
    A lot better than whoever signs a .250 hitter for even more than that, a guy whose greatest accomplishment last year was winning the Home Run Derby.
  25. jad
    Devers made an adjustment in his stance, right? Going away from that Crawford-esque set-up?
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