S5Dewey
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It is, but this team has taken that to an art form.
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And OMG I'm sick of watching Gardner make those falling away, stumbling, falling down catches. :-(
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One of my concerns all year is that this team has been so streaky offensively. They'll go through a spell when they score 5-6 runs a game and then suddenly they can't get more than a couple for several games in a row. I'd like to attribute it to their facing good pitching but those weak hitting streaks last too long for it to be completely that. IMO the only way this team can go deep into the post season is if they happen to get hot at the right time and stay that way. The flip side of that is that they could also go 0'fur in the playoffs like they did last year in spite of having this good W/L record. Like last year. :-(
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Well, this game has taken an ugly turn. :-(
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Does she really want to award the CY to Kluber on the basis of what he did last year in the playoffs??
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Hey Gary, that's what it feels like to be sucker-punched! Like it?? *******!
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C'mon.. that wasn't a strike when Sale threw it!
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Athletic move by JBJ to keep his leg in contact with the bag
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That one is going to get turned around
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f*** espn!!
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Sweet God! Now they've got Mendoza doing an interview with a Yankee while the Sox are at bat!
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Eccch. I hate these ESPN announcers. Maybe it's because I'm old and resist change but I want OB back tonight.
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Sale dodges a bullet....again! Phew!
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My thought too. Nice throw with his body going away from the bag,
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Hey Thunder! Good to have you on board! Slow night on campus? :-)
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Ahhh... it's good to see JBJ out there again. When that ball was hit I was worried for a minute!
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Aha! I see now. Yes, it was YOUR mojo that was responsible for last night's loss. I'm good with this.
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OK. Thanks, but all that proves is that you're not too discriminating!
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Let's go with Max's. He got here first.
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Late start with the GT tonight. Sale vs. Severino. 0-0 going into the 2nd. Sale just embarrassed Judge again.
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I like stats too. I always have. In fact, someplace in my ex-wife's house are copies of the first 10 or so years of Bill James' Baseball Abstracts. Much of what I know and believe about baseball I learned from Bill James. I even used some of his beliefs when I was coaching, with quite a lot of success, to the point where I was questioned about what I was doing even when it was successful. However, IMHO somewhere along the line "we" became so obsessed with statistics that some of us can no longer see the forest for the trees. That's why I continue to say that there's room for both the statistics and the intangibles in our beliefs.
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...or maybe I'd reevaluate my blind faith in the metrics. There are some things that metrics can't measure which can lead to an erroneous conclusion.
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Hahaha. Excellent point! That's all we need - an ex-Yankee with a voice in who the Sox can trade for and Joe Torre deciding on punishments (and the timing of them) for fighting.
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...which is a very good thing. The rub comes when the metrics don't back our observations because it brings up the question of which of them we should believe. Do the metrics have more value than the observations? Do the observations have more value then the metrics? IMO there's room for both and both should be respected. When they don't agree we should be realizing that there's probably no absolute right or wrong, but rather that there's doubt.
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That's all very true, but so is the old adage that "You can't fire all 25 players". Like it or not, sometimes that's why the manager goes.
