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  1. jad
    OK. I think I follow that. (As to comparisons, I was thinking of a simple statistical one, not a 'real life' one: just take the results of individual hitting [hitters] from any number of games and put them in different orders and see whether there's a difference in the runs produced. I assume this has been done, and I think what you imply is that these results would not be valid. I imagine it would be difficult to find any guiding principle other than the obvious 'Get your best hitters up to the plate the most number of times.')
  2. jad
    Hating? I don't consider it hate. (Maybe I hold them in contempt for valuing money more than anything else.) Most of us could have made far more money than we have in life. Pro athletes (like many others) seem to confuse how much money they make with their value as human beings--and if they do that, they deserve to suffer the consequences.
  3. jad
    I don't have a dog in this fight, but it seems to me that this would be extraordinarily simple to test (at least statistically): take the performance from any number of games (same players), and see how many runs are produced when the order is changed. Wouldn't that provide a reasonable test? Of course, you could argue that each AB is situational, so that changing the order of 'what happens' isn't valid. But if you argue that, you are really assuming your conclusion: the argument (you would be saying) is untestable. I'm sure you've gone over this before--sorry, I haven't been following it-- but which of those is your position? (1) That the test (rearranging results) do indeed show a significant difference in batting order? or (2) that it is finally untestable?
  4. jad
    Looked to me that the calls were coming from the bench? (At least Vasquez seemed to be taking a look between pitches). No matter: no one expected that final change-up!
  5. jad
    That final pitch was awesome!
  6. jad
    I guess I never quite understand why, when you have more money than you can ever spend, you would conduct your life solely on the basis of getting more of it. If you're miserable as a result, then you deserve to be.
  7. jad
    Multi-screen function. So I got a Blues game on the right and on the left, I watch Sandoval make a really slick play on the RS nickel! (And a base hit!)
  8. jad
    Yeah, well Sox fans are just not satisfied with .500 ball, especially when the record is entirely against teams with a NON-WINNING percentage! Today's game obvioully crucial for Cora's future.
  9. jad
    He has the worst winning percentage of any manager EVER in the RS! How he still has a job is beyond me.
  10. jad
    Fire Cora! DFA everyone! Sell the team!
  11. jad
    At last!! Our long spring nightmare is finally over and we have awoken to an actual season!
  12. jad
    Thank God it's finally over!!! On to Tampa.
  13. jad
    Did they just announce that Marrero was traded??
  14. jad
    How does moving JBJ to RF solve his hitting problems?
  15. jad
    Whenever I hear the statement "X understands the situation" in a business context, X is invariably about to get screwed, and consequently does not accept the 'situation' in the least.
  16. jad
    Not cynical at all! This answers my question. Perhaps because of my stupidity, it didn't occur to me that of course players are already paid and are essentially working for free. But I wonder if players ever grumble about this when the CBA comes up?
  17. jad
    I'm pretty sure Cora has been told just to play the best guys he has. Managing a team has to be difficult enough without having to go through the lucubrations we have here (since it's spring training--I assume we're all just filling up the air until the season starts [and with modern athletes--what's the point of a long ST? is it just to placate fans in Arizona and Fla?]). On a lighter note, anyone have any thoughts on JBJ's swing? (Ihaven't seen any games yet.) At .180, he seems on the way to having a predictably disappointing year. My recollection is that he generally burns it up in the spring. (Or is this just an example of his streaky hitting).
  18. jad
    I agree entirely about the Youk situation. What BV said wasn't extreme to begin with, but PD made the situation unfixable. As for the "It's not me, it's them" situation. I'm not sure. Both at the time (and every time I watched that since), I've always read what he said as meaning: "Don't single me out! It's the whole damn team" (not throwing teammates under the bus, but an expression of solidarity). PD has never said exactly what he meant, right? And perhaps there was a little of both meanings there. (Those who get real vocal during a sports contest likely do not have a clear and distinct idea of what they mean, and they're not the greatest of intellects to begin with.)
  19. jad
    Thanks. The old ST boxes were indeed minimalist. But these gave a number for pitches. (Looking again, does "#P" simply mean 'the minimum number that could account for the hitter's line'? i.e., so if a guy goes 0-1 with three walks, the number is 13?) Would it be asking the computer too much to omit that??? (Sorry if I missed an earlier exchange explaining this).
  20. jad
    Just looking at the box today, and noticed the #P and walks. No walks, and if my math is correct (e.g., a guy goes 0-3, with 1 K,and sees 5 pitches), does this mean that the RS were essentially all swinging at the first pitch? Or was something wrong with the box score?
  21. jad
    Or if you do get the job done: among those booed the loudest (and vilified in the press) that I remember: Williams, Boggs, Clemons, Rice, Papi, (Yaz? some, but not so much) ... (I apologize to the dozens I'm leaving out, but this is not a bad start for a line-up).
  22. jad
    Isn't this something that was completely predictable and foreseen during the CBA negotiations? Obviously, they left that open. If it was seen by both sides as a problem (you call it a sham), they would have agreed to language preventing it. I really can't see who the aggrieved party would be with these kinds of deals.
  23. jad
    I believe that is a myth, popularized in part by such romantic depictions as Gone with the Wind, that has been largely discredited by historians. (But maybe you were being ironic.)
  24. jad
    Glad to see Nunez back (pending a physical? which might not be a mere formality, correct?)
  25. jad
    Ha! Blessedly, I don't think any professional athlete gives a crap what I think! So I can consider him a p.o.s. as a person, and still hope he gets his location back.
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