Cubs hire Joe Bohringer as Pro-Scouting Coordinator (P. 3)

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

MIT works for me! I have a feeling I am going to have nothing but praise for all headlines Cubs related this off season.

 

Sports are where MIT minds should be focused.

 

No but really sounds cool...I'm guessing no relation to former reliever Brian.

[Brian]

Just curious, was there a huge jump in page views this month due to Theo-Mania?

[Guest]

Just curious, was there a huge jump in page views this month due to Theo-Mania?

 

This has to be the easiest question to answer in ever.

Edited October 31, 2011 by David

[C.C.]

Just curious, was there a huge jump in page views this month due to Theo-Mania?

 

Are you being serious?

[Brian]

ah, I meant to ask what the percentage of the jump was

[Guest]

September was 735K page views. I'd say theo has been beneficial for the site. However, quite a bit of that would have happened anyway with speculation on the offseason.

[Vinestal]

September was 735K page views. I'd say theo has been beneficial for the site. However, quite a bit of that would have happened anyway with speculation on the offseason.

What about October?

[Guest]

September was 735K page views. I'd say theo has been beneficial for the site. However, quite a bit of that would have happened anyway with speculation on the offseason.

What about October?

That would be the month to date number of 1.33M quoted earlier. :)

[Backtobanks]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

 

They get to make a lot of money running baseball teams. They get to decide what's cool now.

[Mark Priors Calves]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

[MSG T]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

 

This whole discussion reminds me of this.

 

[imb]

But scout school, he said, changed everything. "It was an entirely different way to watch the game. We were taught to observe the mechanics, as opposed to the final results."

 

Despite that lesson, Bohringer has also immersed himself in statistical research. He's read Bill James, Moneyball, Baseball Prospectus, and other analytical tomes. He's just as comfortable at a Pizza Feed as is he working closely with Mariners' Amateur Scouting Director Bob Fontaine.

 

I can't believe our organization is actively hiring people like this

[SouthSideRyan]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

[Tyrant]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

 

+1.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

 

Seriously...The 2000's have been dedicated to the nerds...all the "cool kids" nowadays try to come off as nerds...

 

I'm honestly [expletive] stunned that nobody even mentions that the Ivy League schools invading sports is not only a waste (in brains, I know sports were highly inefficient as far as operations go and could be better run as businesses), but even a little fishy/off (ELITIST!?!?!?). I mean really...it takes an Ivy League mind (actually multiple IL minds) to figure out how to put together a baseball team? Many of these minds (including some of my favorite like Mark Schapiro and Paul DePodesta) that they weren't all that in on baseball before working in the game. Now we talk about perfectly smart human beings as [expletive] "meatheads" because they dare to not bow before the power of statistics...or state that they blend both stats and scouting....or whatever they're supposed to say to please the masses who suddenly NEED to hear that a guy respects, likes, understands, or studies the numbers side. I could get a 9 year old to expound on the virtues of the numbers side of the game in pretty much any field, and I even think it's great because kids in this country do need to understand the powers of mathematics and mathematical analysis...it wouldn't make the 9 year old some special talent or expert.

 

That's not meant to knock any individual or play up to the role of numbers hater that I thought I was getting here a few weeks ago. It is something that kinda sorta bothers me despite the many counterpoints that can be made and that I know are perfectly rational...w/e the rant is what it is...I just think the whole thing is kind of corny and plays up to this stupid "Us vs. Them" [expletive] that Theo Epstein and the Red Sox actually made steps in eliminating after it went on for half of the last decade. The Braves and Phillies don't wax poetic on numbers, but find success anyway and I bet they really respect that side of the game and have for years. In the end, all I want is this organization to succeed, and to succeed for a long, long time. To do that they will need, and have, their fair share of "meatheads" in the organization.

[mul21]

I'll unblock ads if you can get rid of the one with the smiley faces that says something and the "You win". Make that go away and I''l happily unblock ads. That one makes me crazy, and it's everywhere!

[Guest]

I'll unblock ads if you can get rid of the one with the smiley faces that says something and the "You win". Make that go away and I''l happily unblock ads. That one makes me crazy, and it's everywhere!

hmmm

 

Not sure which one that is. Not sure I'd know how to get rid of it anyway!

[Mark Priors Calves]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0PDoX.q8a9OcRYAW6WjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBpcGszamw0BHNlYwNmcC1pbWcEc2xrA2ltZw--/SIG=13mr0abuj/EXP=1320182314/**http%3A//www.fanforum.com/f129/william-zabka-appreciation-thread-quintessential-80-s-bully-62854012/

[Conky]

Unblocked ABP for NSBB as a result of Shakedown Street here. Err, I mean this thread. :wink:

 

Oh, and nerds have always been cool.

 

 

To other nerds.

 

[Guest]

Unblocked ABP for NSBB as a result of Shakedown Street here. Err, I mean this thread. :wink:

 

Oh, and nerds have always been cool.

 

 

To other nerds.

:good:

[Tracer Bullet]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

 

Seriously...The 2000's have been dedicated to the nerds...all the "cool kids" nowadays try to come off as nerds...

 

I'm honestly [expletive] stunned that nobody even mentions that the Ivy League schools invading sports is not only a waste (in brains, I know sports were highly inefficient as far as operations go and could be better run as businesses), but even a little fishy/off (ELITIST!?!?!?). I mean really...it takes an Ivy League mind (actually multiple IL minds) to figure out how to put together a baseball team? Many of these minds (including some of my favorite like Mark Schapiro and Paul DePodesta) that they weren't all that in on baseball before working in the game. Now we talk about perfectly smart human beings as [expletive] "meatheads" because they dare to not bow before the power of statistics...or state that they blend both stats and scouting....or whatever they're supposed to say to please the masses who suddenly NEED to hear that a guy respects, likes, understands, or studies the numbers side. I could get a 9 year old to expound on the virtues of the numbers side of the game in pretty much any field, and I even think it's great because kids in this country do need to understand the powers of mathematics and mathematical analysis...it wouldn't make the 9 year old some special talent or expert.

 

That's not meant to knock any individual or play up to the role of numbers hater that I thought I was getting here a few weeks ago. It is something that kinda sorta bothers me despite the many counterpoints that can be made and that I know are perfectly rational...w/e the rant is what it is...I just think the whole thing is kind of corny and plays up to this stupid "Us vs. Them" [expletive] that Theo Epstein and the Red Sox actually made steps in eliminating after it went on for half of the last decade. The Braves and Phillies don't wax poetic on numbers, but find success anyway and I bet they really respect that side of the game and have for years. In the end, all I want is this organization to succeed, and to succeed for a long, long time. To do that they will need, and have, their fair share of "meatheads" in the organization.

 

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[Guest]

All the cool kids are coming to the Cubs. This is so awesome.

 

 

I think it's pretty awesome too, but I'll bet none of these "kids" were considered cool when they were in school.

I'm glad we have the not "cool" kids running our team rather than the meathead athletes who would've have been "cool".

 

Did you guys all go to high school in an 80s movie?

Yes.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

 

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I was hoping that post would just float on into the oblivion. There's a point there, but the way it's stated isn't going to win any fans (to put it lightly), and clearly nobody wants to hear that ish anyway. I just really don't find "nerd" to be the right way to perceive this FO...they're all considered young, studly, highly educated guys with all the right ideas...that's the exact opposite of a nerd to me...to me a baseball nerd is just as much the guy who can tell you why he likes a pitcher and why he thinks that pitcher will succeed just from seeing him as it is the guy who can tell you the same things but using a pitchers' numbers....both are just as likely to get their asses kicked in the 80's movie this thread was set in earlier on....nowadays the guy who's telling you he likes a pitcher without bringing up the numbers (even though size, weight, velocity, etc are numbers) might even be viewed as the lesser/taken less seriously.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

There's a point there,

 

It really didn't seem that way.