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  1. jad
    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."
  2. jad
    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!
  3. jad
    If that's representative of the logic supporting the always shifting permutations of WAR, I believe it perfectly states the skeptical case against it.
  4. jad
    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."
  5. jad
    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.
  6. jad
    Good news is that with the pitch count, Wright probably won't be in there very long.
  7. jad
    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).
  8. jad
    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.
  9. jad
    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.
  10. jad
    that was a horrible at bat by Sandoval. Waving wildly at balls out of the strike zone and missing the one right down the middle. Good thing RS pitching is keeping it close.
  11. jad
    Try drugs.
  12. jad
    Yup. Those meatballs right down the middle of the plate are clearly the fault of the umpire.
  13. jad
    I agree entirely. They'll just waive him.
  14. jad
    Oops.
  15. jad
    Wow! Not sure whether sports itself or discussion of sports is more exhilarating: the logic of that last sentence has my mind reeling!
  16. jad
    Now that clutch/non-clutch is exhausted, I think it's time to renew discussion of this myth. I don't have the reference, but a couple of years ago I did read a statistical analysis of "protection" and it completely debunked this notion, showing that a hitter's performance had no relation to the quality of the hitter behind him. (Next up: the bunt, advancing the runner, the pernicious influence of the "save" and the way Fenway Park is bad for left-handed hitters).
  17. jad
    Fortunately, it's easy to find a stream with the RS announcers.
  18. jad
    Thanks. One of the tragedies of living in this post-fact world is that it's no longer possible to say anything outrageous enough to be marked as parody.
  19. jad
    This is ironic, right? (sorry if I'm missing the reference).
  20. jad
    JBJ diagnosed with "sprained ligament." That is not good. (Then again, listening to Seattle blow a 6 run lead in the bottom of the 9th was an amusing reminder that baseball has a very very very long season, and no one game, injury, or series is critical).
  21. jad
    I must be out of touch with the rules and conventions of modern baseball. What does it take to get a balk called? Did he not step directly toward home and throw to first?
  22. jad
    Wow. That Selsky at bat was the worst of the season (and let's hope remains that).
  23. jad
    At a minor league game, where I was attempting to explain the basics of the game to a non-fan, the first two plays: (1) catcher interference (2) baserunner called out when hit by batted ball.
  24. jad
    Oh, well yeah. There was that. But ... I mean ... still ...
  25. jad
    I take full credit for expressing my concerns about JBJ last week, which clearly was the reason he found his swing the last few days.
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