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i hope the nerdiest of the sabr guys invents a new triple crown (war/wobp/ops+...whatever) that catches on and kills off the meatball sportswriters
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I don't think I'll ever get over the hilarity of sportswriters, by far the nerdiest group of people in the sports world, taking a never ending series of jabs at sports nerds. I mean, it's probably the same thing that causes otherwise normal human beings to haze younger people just because that was what they had to deal with. But it's still funny to me.
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I love that his first example is a great example of a stat a sabermetrician would not want anything to do with.

 

Yeah, no kidding; that's this close to someone screaming a defense of RBI as an important stat.

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Tickets have been selling well but remain available for a potential wild-card game and A.L. Divisional Series games at the Coliseum, A's vice president of sales and marketing Jim Leahey said. The A's plan to remove the upper-deck tarps only if the team were to make it to the World Series.

http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_21576849/oakland-athletics-pummeled-12-2-by-detroit-tigers

 

This was ridiculous throughout the season, and is more ridiculous now. They will sell you a Mt. Davis club seat a million miles away, but refuse to open the vastly superior upper deck sections behind the plate and along the baselines.

 

Take the tarps off, cut prices, pack the house. What's so hard about this?

 

Because they wouldn't pack the house if they took the tarp off.

 

In 2000, the A's hadn't made the playoffs since 1992 and in a deciding Game 5 against the Yankees on a Sunday, they drew 41170 out of roughly 56K. They drew 47K that year in Games 1 and 2. In 2001, they sold out one of the two playoff games against the Yankees (the other one they drew 43K). In 2002, the best attendance in three games against the Twins was 34853. In 2003, they drew 49K twice but only 36K in Game 2 after winning Game 1.

 

And I'm pretty sure the upper deck in Mt. Davis is closed off also.

The top level of the football stands is closed, but the field and club levels are open.

 

~42,000 is very close to capacity for what remains of the original stands. That's 6,000 more than they can serve with the current setup. The upper deck seats are not optimal, but they are better than every seat in Mt. Davis for baseball. It is asinine to force fans into the outfield when you have better seats available.

 

From watching on TV, the A's ballpark looks a million times better with the upper deck tarped off. If it was open, the crowd disperses more and the empty seats in the upper deck are very noticeable.

It reeks of a marketing department that has given up and has no understanding of what a good baseball seat is. At least open up the sections behind home plate - those present the best value proposition and are leagues ahead of the outfield seats.

 

Take the tarps off, cut prices, pack the house. What's so hard about this?

 

Other than the fact that this is a completely made up equation you've created with no chance of adding up? Nothing hard at all.

MLB has placed ridiculous premiums on the A's playoff tickets in the past, and many went unsold. I believe they would get better results by pricing the A's tickets for the realities of Oakland and its park instead of blindly throwing Yankee prices at everything.

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Some of Chipper's gifts he received

 

Cowboy hat from the Stros

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/06/14/2_2012061420363275_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/05/09/144066708_20120509150256359_600_400.JPG

 

Autographed Stan the Man jersey...[expletive] I want that!

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/05/15/furcal_2012051515144196_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/06/14/730_2012061420342871_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/06/23/062312-MLB-chipper-EN-G_20120623234537310_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/06/23/062312-MLB-chipper-jones-EN-G_20120623235512322_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/08/23/082312-MLB-AM-G2_20120823172439923_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/09/01/090112-MLB-Chipper-Jones-LA-PI_20120901154635115_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/09/21/092012-MLB-G1-AA_20120921005349327_600_400.JPG

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/09/28/092812-MLB-gallery-2_20120928172245522_600_400.JPG

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If Mike Trout had played in the MWL this year, his MLE was a .489/.598/.952 slash line, with 41 doubles, 15 triples, 53 homers, 232 runs scored, 149 RBI, and 74/78 SB.
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the whole thing just seems odd to me

 

I don't think so. It's not terribly too often that a first ballot guy has a bona fide final season. First, there aren't that many first ballot guys out there to begin with. Second, many times those guys just up and retire in the offseason or are forced to retire because of injury. Also, it's not like Chipper is a Bonds or Albert Belle or is otherwise disagreeable to many people in the baseball world. So to me this just seems like a natural outpouring of appreciation to one of the best to ever play his position and a generally likeable guy to boot.

bcl412 South Bend Cubs

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Chipper seems to be the most underrated, one of the best all time at his position. I've seen a lot of "Was he really that good?" or "I didn't realize how good he was." comments related to him.
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@jimcallisBA

 

If #Royals hadn't been able to sign Moustakas in 2007, would have taken Vitters and #Cubs would have taken Jarrod Parker. #mlbdraft

Yeah, the Cubs really liked Parker. He was probably in ther top-3 amongst non-Wieters prospects.

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The Red Sox and National's ones are awesome because everyone looks uncomfortable as hell.

 

at the nationals one he's probably thinking "great another [expletive] base, where am i going to put all this [expletive]?"

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http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/15569557-452/miguel-cabrera-accomplishes-something-truly-historic.html

 

So why the lack of hoopla about his accomplishment? After all, Cabrera’s pursuit of the Triple Crown climaxed in a dramatic finish to the regular season in which the Tigers overcame the Sox’ late three-game lead at least in part because of his heroic output.

 

One reason for the lack of hoopla is that, with the full ascendance of sabermetricians as the philosopher kings of baseball team-building, old stats somehow have lost their luster.

 

Homers? Pshaw! The new brainiacs want homers per times at bat with two outs and men on base. Why bother with RBI when we can have — dum-de-dum! — WAR?

 

It’s all a load of manure to me because numbers and situations can be massaged into anything anybody wants. When PECOTA, PERA, LIPS and EqA trump good old batting average, it’s time to wonder when machines will play the games and Theo Epstein will be anointed Genius For Life.

He gets paid to write this drivel. What am I doing with my life?

 

it's like he's trying to lure FJM out of retirement.

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