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  1. jad
    Ha ha! I.e., "it doesn't exist." So the RS win 10 in a row. You would say "they have momentum." Then they lose; you say, "they lost momentum." If it has no predictive value, then it's meaningless. There was no "momentum"; there was a series of wins, then losses. To prove 'momentum,' you really need to do a mathematical study to discover whether a team that has won 2/3/4/5 or however many in a row has a chance of winning the next one that is greater than that same team's winning% after winning fewer than that in a row or after a loss. I assume this has been done: it's not a difficult mathematical problem. But I need to see the results of that before I believe this. It's like announcers in a close football game exclaiming "Wow! The constant momentum shifts in this game are amazing!"
  2. jad
    If 'momentum' can 'change change in an instant', then 'momentum' obviously does not exist.
  3. jad
    Why? The very evidence you cite shows them going from 1st to 6th in two years. They didn't get that way through liberal spending.
  4. jad
    Although that 420-foot double-play wasn't badly struck.
  5. jad
    Major league hitters are unable to hit a normal women's softball pitch. There are some amusing youtube videos of them trying.
  6. jad
    so why couldn't Vasquez tag a guy when he was essentially standing at the plate w/ the ball waiting for him?
  7. jad
    Yes, I've heard that as well. As I recall, it's when the eyes/brain switch from 'distance' to 'close-up'. What I remember reading was that that was also what was responsible for the batter's belief that a fast-ball has a 'hop': what they were experiencing was the shift in the way their vision tracked the ball.
  8. jad
    This suggests that just moving the mound back might not be enough? Is it the amount of time that it takes for a 98mph to get to the plate? or the difficulty of picking up something moving that fast?
  9. jad
    Why, if J.H. were planning on resetting, then going over the cap next season, would he have hired a G.M. whose special skill is producing competitive teams at minimal cost? I'm not saying he did or didn't plan that. It just seems that if that was the plan, Bloom would not have been the first pick.
  10. jad
    No worries. I've been a native speaker for over 70 years and I have no clue who Norm Crosby is nor will I feel bad when anyone attempts to correct that ignorance.
  11. jad
    The worst offender was Youkilis. Until Manny offered to beat the crap out of him for it. (The only thing I regret about Manny's career was that he was denied the opportunity to do that.)
  12. jad
    We need to go back to that mindset of the late 50s and 60s, even the 70s, when our goal was a .500 season! (Or perhaps that's just what I remember. It never occurred to me that the RS would ever be in the Post season until 1967, and from that point on, ok, once every ten years losing a critical game 7? That's life!)
  13. jad
    ? If the 'whole point of a baseball season is to win a WS,' it's hard to imagine how anyone could have been a RS fan in the 20th century. Winning a WS is NOT the 'whole point' of any baseball season as far as fans are concerned, or they would have been stupidly wasting the thousands and thousands of hours they have been listening to the radio, watching a screen, or even sitting at a game.
  14. jad
    No command? I think you're wrong (he hasn't gotten the call on some really close pitches).
  15. jad
    So? How many WS will they have before that happens? And does the fact that the RS "reset" last year somehow discredit the rings they won before that?
  16. jad
    They have been making 60-90mil/year, until last year, when they claim to have lost $116mil. Given that the value of their franchise has grown 1.6billion in the last decade, I'm not going to agree with Kimmi that "teams should not go all in to such an extreme extent." Why not?
  17. jad
    No more fitting punishment can be imagined for a professor who demands revisions in a master's thesis (or who assigns one in the first place) than reading revisions in a master's thesis.
  18. jad
    What was THAT??
  19. jad
    They're just pandering to us; we can't handle the truth.
  20. jad
    YeahbutwhaddaboutRESET?
  21. jad
    Damn this guy can throw. Everything on the black. I hope he screws up tonight, though.
  22. jad
    Your wish ...
  23. jad
    Oh for the days of Josh Beckett taking 45 seconds to a minute and a half between pitches! Think how the pitch clock infringed upon the rights of those who just lived for watching him wander about the mound, rubbing up the ball on a 2-1 count.
  24. jad
    Now wait. THe evidence you cite that he wants to play is that one year, he played a total of 5 out of (let me think), around 180 games. Who wouldn't want a job like that??
  25. jad
    Jays announcers give Vasquez credit for a nice at-bat! Dude! it's the 9th inning!
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