S5Dewey
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That's my thought exactly. Yes, we'd be relying on our BP to come though, but aren't we relying on everyone to come through?
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A guy gets a text message from his neighbor: I need to apologize to you. I've been tapping your wife for the past two months. I'm sorry, it wasn't right and I'm going to stop doing it. The guy walks to his bedroom, gets his pistol, and heads for his wife in the kitchen and just as he gets there he gets another text message: Oops. Not wife, Wi-fi. Sorry.
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Hey, I get those insignificant west coast teams confused. :-) I need to see more of them.
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But that wasn't aggressive. It was just plain lazy. How can Holt NOT look to see where the throw is going when it's right in front of him? He went in casually standing up where if he's seen the play he'd have known to slide and been safe.
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It's looking like we're going to score 100 fewer runs this year and still win the division on our pitching and defense, which was the plan all along..... wasn't it?
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What if The Sox don't win the WS with Pom and the M's don't win the WS with Espi (or whomever he gets traded for) - which is much more likely. What if the M's trade Espi for a Mike Trout type player and then go on to win the WS? Do we then assume that we could/would have made that same trade? and therefor it was a bad trade for us. IMO there are just too many variables to be able to determine who "won" nearly any trade.
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How does that happen?? The play was right in front of Holt. That's lazy baserunning.
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No, the problem is what I've been saying all along. That if someone wants to "prove" something they can find a study or the stats to "prove" it.
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I have no idea which is "right" but this one from Harvard University says exactly what I said: According to what is known as “The Yerkes-Dodson law,” performance increases with physiological or mental arousal (stress) but only up to a point. When the level of stress becomes too high, performance decreases. https://hbr.org/2016/04/are-you-too-stressed-to-be-productive-or-not-stressed-enough
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I cannot respond to the poll. I think we will win the ALDS & not advance to the WS, but I can't bring myself to vote that we're going to lose to the Yankees. Ughhhhhhhhh.
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Let's hope it's only half!! LOL "Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. (pause) Aren't we all?" - Vin Scully.
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The stress is causing the improved performance. What I learned in an HR seminar was the the more stress there is on an employee from any source the better their performance will be ,... until they crash. I was appalled at how cold blooded it was.
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That's my point. I don't think you can, especially given what we know now about Espi. Regardless of what Espi does by 2026, how do you judge the value of that vs. what Pom has brought to the team this year when we needed a pitcher like him to get us to where we are. When you figure that if we hadn't made that trade we most likely wouldn't be where we are...what's that shot at the WS worth? A team doesn't get that shot every year so IMO that trade is already a good one regardless of what else happens. You have to live in the present, not in hopes for the future.
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Ok..but I think we can get bogged down in the details too. Keeping Espinoza in the hope that he'd be ready in 2019 could very well affect the acquisitions we make in 2018 and what their performance is in 2019, 2020, and until Espinoza is actually ready to pitch again. How do we figure that into the equation? When we start tracking things like this it soon starts to look like a "family tree' with branches off branches which yield branches of their own. The difference is that in MLB each branch bears a different "fruit" and that fruit's vale has to be figured in also - as well as the value of the players whom the "third generation" of players (fruit) gets traded for. It quickly becomes so unmanageable as cast doubt on any conclusion made from looking at it.
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Relaxation is one way to maximize performance but inducing stress is another. I've seen a graph regarding stress vs. performance in the workplace. The two rise in almost parallel lines until the "breaking point" is reached and then performance drops off remarkedly. The ability to self-induce stress can be a very good thing as long as the person can recognize where his breaking point is.
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I agree. Emotion does play a part in performance, but to say that one has to believe that the emotion brings on a physiological change. I believe and always have believed that some players can "amp themselves up" to bring about those physiological changes. In a sports cliched way we refer to that as being "clutch", but whatever you choose to call it, I believe it happens.
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And that's what I did. What's your answer to your own question?
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Are you suggesting that a player can be "fired up" and play better than they normally would?
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I was recently schooled to believe that the randomness of baseball isn't in wins and losses, it's in players performance. It is certainly outside the realm of "randomness" that virtually every player on the Cleveland Guardians is playing as well as they are during this streak.
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300, which he would have gotten in his next start anyway. If that truly was Sale's call and he persuaded JF to leave him in it reminds me of a certain conversation between Pedro and Grady Little. It's the manager's job to make the decision and take the credit - or the blame - for it. The goal is not to win a particular game. The goal is to win the World Series - or in this case win the division. Were it up to me I'd have pulled Sale after 5 innings - just enough for the "W", but that's neither here nor there.
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I do.
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The "randomness" of baseball would tell us that the Y's should start losing soon. Of course, that same "randomness" would also tell us that the Guardians' streak is just a mirage.
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I like both of them now, but Walker was much better in his Games 1, 2, & 3 than Gomes was. That leads me to believe that I'd prefer Walker if he got more games.
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First of all, I'd hope you wouldn't get a BJ from a girl who isn't a Red Sox fan. That would be just WRONG. So assuming she's a fan she has to understand that your mojo and consequently the lead over the Yankees is at stake here. Take a rain check!
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I can't figure out if you're trying to be funny or if you're just a dick.
