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Yeah, I seem to recall that. That word doesn't seem as racially-charged as those that were talking about here: 'grit' 'dirt dog' etc. and to a lesser extent 'athletic'. (Btw, I don't doubt that Luis was never called that, even though he, like nearly all professional athletes, was obviously 'athletic' according to any reasonable understanding of that word!)
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Fault? There's no fault in you. We're just two dooffuses discussing sports (I see my last post sounded snide--unintended).
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Yeah, because after Manny left, Ortiz really sucked for the rest of his career.
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OK. Fair enough. as in "these particular 4 or 5 errors" don't mean much. I'm not sure what else we have to go on, though. I've seen him make some decent plays, no spectacular ones (although I can't say they haven't existed).
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Not to put too fine a point on things, but what in the world does SOB mean? (in addition to its classic meaning)
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I can actually remember exactly where I was for that game, but no, I don't remember the exact language the announcers used. Do you have a tape?
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I don't know ... That pop-up Bradley hit yesterday had a bit of carry.
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How are errors "not indicative of anything"? Or is this the Frank Malzone theory of old: he made the most errors because he got to the most balls.
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4/22 The tales of a knuckleballer
jad replied to Station 13's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Yeah, likely. Because JF seems to me a traditionalist. And this theory of the k-ball's ineffectiveness (and it is only a theory) involves science, that is to say, basic meteorology. I'm pretty sure JF, like all baseball commentators I have ever heard, would talk vaguely about the "heavier" air during wet days, which in turn prevents the ball from traveling and would slow down the kball. (This of course is completely untrue--air in high pressure areas is heavier. But --has anyone ever checked it?--it may be true that hitters, for other reasons, don't hit the ball as far in damp weather.) -
4/22 The tales of a knuckleballer
jad replied to Station 13's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Rain = low-pressure = less air resistance = k-ball floats in straight as string. -
Nor did they call him a dirt dog. He was ... 'colorful'.
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Ha ha. Nope. I've just never heard a black or Hispanic player called that. Or described as showing "grit." They are, instead, "athletic."
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So how come "dirt dogs" are always white folks?
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I don't think anyone is saying "bench him," but I would certainly rather rely on the facts of his production (which unfortunately are now ambiguous) than on "eye test" (which cannot really be argued one way or the other).
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Oh I see what you're referring to. My bad. But I suppose the answer would be, whatever statistic we're looking at, I would expect his performance this year to be more like the worst year he had (in Boston) than the average year that included those very good years with SF. (It's obviously pointless to argue this at this point in teh season!)
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Are you not counting his one full year with RS? (.240).
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Your son obviously has had a bad upbringing, with unenlightened parents and is no doubt taught by tenured radicals in an underfunded school. You should have corrected him: "No, my son. What you meant was it was a 'clutch hit', an empirical fact, not the result of some unproven abstraction like 'clutch hitting'. Now go to your room."
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Weak hitting? Where? 4 guys in the starting line-up hitting over .300 does not strike me as weak. As for the comparison with Stengel's Mets, I really don't think anyone who was around to see that would ever seriously make that comparison!
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If that's representative of the logic supporting the always shifting permutations of WAR, I believe it perfectly states the skeptical case against it.
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Ha ha! Exactly. WAR is accurate and reliable. We know that. And we know that because the test of whether WAR is accurate is whether it conforms to "what we [think we] already know."
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As in many other areas of scholarship, if you cannot explain a theory and its supporting evidence clearly and concisely, in plain language, to intelligent people with an interest in this area, then most likely your theory is b.s.
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Good news is that with the pitch count, Wright probably won't be in there very long.
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Professional athletes, of course, aren't wusses (unless you compare them to truly bad ass tough guys like us). As for the word "bum"-- I like it! So old-school. I can't believe anyone younger than me ever uses that word (for ref., I started watching the RS in the bad old days of Ted, Jackie Jensen, and Pearsall).
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The difference is that Vlad could actually hit those pitches 2 feet out of the strike zone. Pablo can't hit anything, and the last couple of weeks of tape he's provided to opposing pitchers doesn't give any of them reason ever to throw him a strike.
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1. Baseball gods are defined as those than whom no greater force in the sport of baseball could be imagined. 2. If the baseball gods did not exist, then we would be able to imagine something of greater force in the sport of baseball: gods who do exist. 3. Therefore, baseball gods exist.
