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Sounds like "no." As did his immediate reaction after touching home. -
How did JBJ get his hand in there? ("Oh, I see! It's a perfect throw. Catcher is in perfect position. Gosh, maybe if I just reach over the glove then slap down on the plate while my body is flying by ...")
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Ha. I was just about to add "or about Nunez being 0-13"? Then I thought I'd wait one more pitch before posting.
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Saw him play in Portland and I thought his defense was outstanding! I was surprised at the "line" on him when he came up. Btw-- he's now 0 for his last 11 with 6 Ks. Is that a matter of concern to anyone?
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August 21st @ The Cleveland Indians
jad replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
The throw itself wasn't the problem; after the double-clutch, he had no chance. (Maybe you coaches can explain: it looked to me that Devers was set up for a force play-- is the idea to keep your foot on the bag so that you know where to make the tag? I don't think he had a chance of making any kind of tag in that position.) -
0-3 last night. Clearly a mistake bringing him up and ruining his career. Should have traded him when his stock was high for a veteran middle reliever.
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Exactly. Because the decision is not yours. Players (somewhat astonishingly!), as well as their agents, have a say in this. And unless you negotiate a salary cap with them (which is unlikely) you're going to have to pay what the market will bear. Such a bad deal for the poor owners! who can't just pocket the millions those star-players bring them. I imagine in the end, the very extravagance of the salaries is in and of itself 'good for business' as lots of fans want to see how the 100 million dollar guy actually plays.
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OK. Then let's go back to facts: you think in a workplace, you are entitled to throw f-bombs publicly at other members of your organization (or those related to the organization) as long as you are being paid enough? I don't. We disagree, that's all.
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Do you really think so? That the amount of money an employee gets paid entitles them to privileges less well paid employees do not enjoy? So you would tolerate, say, sexist or racist crap in a MLB clubhouse because it is "unlike the regular workforce"?
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What was the count on Dave Roberts a few years back?
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Price isn't 'whiny'; he's a belligerent a-hole, who gathered a bunch of other a-hole team-mates to publicly berate a 65 year old hall of famer. THAT'S what most fans don't like about him. It's the kind of unprofessional behavior that wouldn't be tolerated in any work-place that most of us have had to deal with.
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I'm sure I couldn't even see one of those pitches. Nor could I hit a golf ball out of Fenway. But, given Chapman's mental breakdown, I'm pretty sure, even at more than 3x Devers' age, I could have made third on that play.
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Yeah, since he went down, (or went back to sulk in his tent, giving his armor to his good buddy Erod), the RS have been in a nose-dive. No way they can win without him.
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Wow. I expected to see some enthusiasm here after checking the box. Instead, all I see are people complaining about to what particular degree everyone sucks! In any case, seeing the "we-have-the-best-fans-we-play-baseball-the-right-way" Cardinals implode and lose on an error after their manager is ejected for acting like a child is very fulfilling. Now their fans can go back to their rich, culturally advanced lives in that s***-hole state of theirs.
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I love it when a fan (or anyone) argues about the 'rational way' for their opponents to proceed. The thing about your enemies? they don't think the way you do. That's why they are opponents or enemies.
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Ha ha! We have a GREAT player whom we think is overpaid. I've got an idea. Let's trade him for another overpriced, injury prone player and a bunch of mediocre or even minor league players who are also being overpaid.
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Has JBJ gotten back into the grove again? The same one Holt finds himself in (who seems not to have fully recovered from the concussion).
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Except that statistics capture this perfectly! If a guy has the ability to hit bloop singles every game over a 162-game period, then that's the guy you want on your team--not the guy who hit line drives for nothing but outs over the 162 games, ending up with a .000 BA. (That's the whole point of statistics: you don't extrapolate from one case, e.g., 'oh, the coin flip came up heads, THEREFORE statistically coin flips always come up heads'.)
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That was astonishing.
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Finally took his last one for the team. RIP
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Fenway, KC, Dodger Stadium and the old Yankee Stadium. I'd go more, but the tedium and hassle of getting to and from the stadium more than matches any enjoyment I could get from watching (this is esp. true of Dodger Stadium--they may now have a bus from Union Station, and if so, Ill try again). I thus prefer minor league baseball: you pay nothing, you sit close, you drive in with no problem, you rarely have to deal with belligerent a-hole fans, and everyone hits like crazy.
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Oh, I agree with that. It's the same silliness that argues: "You have to have a #2 hitter" or "He's a good #2 starting pitcher, but not a legitimate #1,"--where the only conceivable difference in the regular season MIGHT be one more start (but likely won't be even that). I'm just wondering what the statistics on order actually are: in part, because I want to hear the loopy arguments of the traditionalists who will deny that facts make any difference!
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I think I disagree. You could go to the roulette table and decide "The optimal strategy is to bet always on red" But you would not be able to support this with any reasonable set of statistics. You COULD of course support it with anecdotal evidence.
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OK. Do you know the results? I assume it would simply be "put the hitters in the order of OBP or OPS." (since the only thing of importance would be to get your best hitters up as many times as possible.) Has anyone actually run the numbers on this?
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Right. 9! I assumed the actual number was on that order. What I want to know is whether this is feasible to be handled by a modern computer.
