S5Dewey
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...and now you've seen the Instant Replay. LOL
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It's a funny game. A guy can go from being a goat to a hero in one AB! But.. when I played and coached it was automatic that the runners held up fingers to indicate that they knew how many outs there are. What happened to that?
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It's a funny game. A guy can go from being a goat to a hero in one AB! But.. when I played and coached it was automatic that the runners held up fingers to indicate that they knew how many outs there are. What happened to that?
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Yeah. I've got a new laptop that I'm unsuccessfully trying to work the bugs out of. Who ever thought Windows 10 was a good idea??
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Has the board been up and down all day? I made some posts between 8 am & noon that are gone now, and I notice that there weren't any posts for quite a while this afternoon.
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Anecdote: When I was in HS we went up against a pitcher on a Friday night who was drafted out of HS and threw in the high 80's. To get us ready for it our coach set the pitching machine @ 85 MPH for batting practice for two days before the game. We beat that pitcher 2-1. Then the next day we went up against a "normal" HS pitcher and went scoreless! LOL
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Then he must hit
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I'm thinking that he may try to opt out and get a contract with a team that's willing to take a chance and pay him ~$15M/year. If he wants to get out of Boston as much as he appears to want to it may be worth it to him to eat $6M/year if he still has $15M coming in. $6M will buy a lot of bananas, but $15M will still provide a pretty good lifestyle. It'll be interesting to read the book he writes about his stay in Boston.
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I was in the 3rd deck at Coors Field and Holy Smoke! I felt like if I fell forward I'd tumble onto the field! The upside of that was that there was a bitchin' thunder & lightning storm that night off in the distance that I could see very well.
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You're ahead of me. I've seen games in TB, Baltimore (3), NYY (new stadium) and Cleveland. On my bucket list is a trip to Fenway, then on to Toronto, and both Ohio teams. Then make a loop back toward the east and pick up both Pennsylvania teams + the Orioles and the Nats. Then maybe NYY (I've seen Citi & the Mets) and hit Boston on the way home. I figure with any luck in scheduling it could be done in two-plus weeks.
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Ugh. No game today. Sucks.
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I see a better than 50/50 chance that he doesn't pitch next year either. Then we'll find out how badly he dislikes pitching in Boston. Enough to walk away from all that money???
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And this is where the argument of the batting order being almost insignificant falls apart. Those who believe that the order is almost insignificant don't believe that it's necessary to get the best hitters up as often as possible. To them you can put hitters anywhere and the difference will be very small.
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There's a line between statistics and being foolhardy.
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I'm sorry, but this just doesn't fly with me. For example, if a team has three guys batting over .330 you might want to bunch them up rather than have them bat 1st, 4th, & 7th with .250 hitters between them. Neither way is going to score a lot of runs but IMO bunching the best hitters will create more runs than spreading them out. That's why we whine and cry about "black holes" in the order. However, smart managers would never do that, which invalidates the the idea that the lineup makes no difference because the SS of managers doing that would be too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.
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Which reinforces what I said. If a person wants to prove something there's data out there to "prove"it. Most (all?) of us don't have the time, resources, or knowledge to do the extensive research to determine if we're getting the entire story so we may be inadvertently reporting only one side of a story. Then we post here the data that supports what we believe (or want others to believe ). I'm not saying this data isn't valuable. I'm just not saying it's the be-all-end-all it's presented to be and there's still room for differing opinions based on our personal experiences.
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I'm certain it could, but there are two drawbacks to using it. 1) You're right - us old timers wouldn't want to use it. 2) The computer geeks/statisticians would see no point in using it because (allegedly) that same computer would have proven that the lineup makes little difference in run production.
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I wish I'd heard him actually say that. In fact, I think I'd be happy hearing him read a phone book.
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Debunking the 3 year window myth -- the Red Sox in 2020
S5Dewey replied to Fan_since_Boggs's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
One source of revenue the Sox have been very successful at tapping is the in-park advertising dollar. I've sat in several areas of Fenway park over the past few years and I've counted the ads I can see from my seat. (Yes, I have. ADD runs rampant! LOL) It's been my experience that wherever I sit I can always see at about 100 ads, whether they're on the walls, above the walls, on the tarp, etc. And of course there's the radio/tv subliminal ads. "Here's the starting lineup brought to you by_______". "According to the Amica Pitch Zone.....". And that doesn't begin to include all the "free" advertising promo's NESN gets for their own shows. -
Debunking the 3 year window myth -- the Red Sox in 2020
S5Dewey replied to Fan_since_Boggs's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I thought that same thing back in the '70's when I heard that Catfish Hunter was going to be paid $3.2MM to play baseball for five years, too. But you're right. This has to end someplace. In my case, I subscribe to DirecTV and I get the least expensive package I can get that includes NESN for ~$100/month. I can get a package that's essentially the same for ~$60/mo without NESN, so I'm paying almost $500/year for NESN, or ~$4/game. That's do-able for me but OTOH I'm a tad more rabid about the Sox than the average fan AND I don't have those other financial nuisances like raising kids any more. :-) So where's my cutoff point where I'd say NESN is too expensive for me? I don't know, but I do know that it's higher than it would be for an average family of 4 who wasn't as rabid as I am about the Sox. But that limit is there someplace and I think we have to be approaching it. -
...Which is why I remain skeptical about all those newer statistics disparaging clutch, hitter protection, the batting order, and all those things that have been accepted as facts for decades. Maybe there's something to all those old beliefs after all. One thing I have observed is that past statistics are essentially useless in trying to predict what a hitter will do in any situation or who will win any game. They're great as historical data or in observing trends over seasons. In fact, if what I read is true about the lineup having little to no affect on run production - which I'm also skeptical about - statistics are of little value in determining the lineup & run production. (See? Even there I'm trying to have it both ways! LOL)
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This goes back to something I said some time ago. If someone wants to prove something statistically there's something there to prove it.
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To rearranging the order of that post just a bit, in 611 PA's: .223 with nobody on base .348 with men on base (this must mean only a runner on 1st, since RISP is a separate category and if more than one runner is on base at least one of them is in scoring position) .404 with RISP. It looks like Mookie is "clutch".
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That's fair, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's not true either.
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Unless you believe in "clutch" that's a poor choice. Has it been statistically proven that a player's confidence affects his hitting?
