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Boston has clinched a playoff spot. ESPN has them at 99.9% to make the playoffs.

 

taking into account the possibility of a tragic plane crash

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Nice framing, Sanchez. Don't ever [expletive] do it again

 

Ahh it was Romine. I thought he was a defensively minded catcher?

 

lets not forget that pitcher missed his spot by about 4 feet

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Nice framing, Sanchez. Don't ever [expletive] do it again

 

Ahh it was Romine. I thought he was a defensively minded catcher?

 

lets not forget that pitcher missed his spot by about 4 feet

 

true, but still seems like a pretty ugly recovery. spots get missed badly all the time and you don't see catchers do THAT on a pitch over the plate.

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he looks to be set up 2-3 inches inside, and the ball is right down the middle, possibly a max of 2 inches toward the outside. in summary, he missed his spot by a foot at the most.

 

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-8766-YEAH-SCIENCE-Breaking-Bad-gif-og7N.gif

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he looks to be set up 2-3 inches inside, and the ball is right down the middle, possibly a max of 2 inches toward the outside. in summary, he missed his spot by a foot at the most.

 

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-8766-YEAH-SCIENCE-Breaking-Bad-gif-og7N.gif

The catcher expected an hbp

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It appears Ramos had a pretty bad knee injury tonight for the Nats. On top of Harpers finger injury yesterday, Murphy dealing with some sort of leg/hamstring type injury and Strasburg they aren't going to be going into the playoffs too healthy.
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More Mets Refugee fun:

 

The five guys who started the season as the Cubs best five SP, the five guys who were I believe the oldest starting rotation in MLB to start the year, have started 95% of Cubs games this year. The Mets' best 5 starters are de Grom, Harvey, Syndergaard, Matz, and Wheeler. Combined, those 5 young guys have started 59% of Mets games. Forget about all the many injuries on the Mets have had on the position player side, let's see how solid the Cubs are when their pitching depth gets tested just a little bit. The best 5 SP in your organization start 95% of your games? That's so horsefeathering lucky it's a joke. Four out of the five starters in the current Met rotation (80%) are less talented than guys on the Met DL.

 

Ridiculous good luck + an ownership willing to spend = Wow, Theo you're so, so talented!

 

So many rebuttals. Learn about injury nexus. It's not iron clad but it will tell you why our old starting staff remained mostly healthy and your young staff of flamethrowers got hurt. Strange how deGrom, Syndergaard, Wheeler, Matz, etc have all had fairly significant injuries but Colon has made just about every start. I will say that even with the Mets building around young pitchers they've been slightly unlucky, and even with the Cubs having an older staff they've been a bit fortunate. But then he goes on to say Theo is ridiculous luck + money. Hahaha I wont even offer a rebuttal to that.

 

Actually a whole thread talking about If the Cubs win the WS:

 

http://www.metsrefugees.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122509&highlight=cubs

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They should feel lucky they still have 1 left (Syndergaard) out of the bunch. Because 1 out of 5 young SP panning out to be TOR arms is pretty damn lucky.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/the_next_20/2016/09/fire_joe_morgan_and_the_moneyball_revolution.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

 

Interesting look back at the legacy of FJM and how much has changed since their blog shut down

 

I'm really glad they linked to this:

 

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/01/honestly-one-of-weirdest-things-i-have.html

 

Easily one of my favorite FJM pieces.

 

To make my case, I'd like to compare the difference between the ways fans of stick-and-ball sports -- a category that includes baseball -- approach their favorite games, to the manner in which fans of my personal favorite sport, superbike racing, do.

 

...

 

Sorry, I'm going to ask you to repeat that. Because for a second, I thought you were about to compare baseball to a made-up thing called "superbike racing."

 

To make my case, I'd like to compare the difference between the ways fans of stick-and-ball sports -- a category that includes baseball -- approach their favorite games, to the manner in which fans of my personal favorite sport, superbike racing, do.

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Huh. Okay. You did say you were going to compare baseball to "superbike racing."

 

Or, at least, compare fans of baseball to "fans" of "superbike racing."

 

Let's just pause here and try to figure out what the horsefeathers superbike racing is.

 

Superbike racing is a category of motorcycle racing that employs modified production motorcycles. Superbike World Championship is the worldwide superbike championship. Many countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and Canada, operate national superbike championships. Superbike racing is very popular with manufacturers, since it helps promote and sell their product. “Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday” is very relevant in Superbike racing.

 

You guys have all heard that famous phrase, right? "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday?" It's the "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" of superbike racing. Also, look at this again:

 

Superbike World Championship is the worldwide superbike championship.

 

That's Escherian. That's a brain teaser of a sentence, man. Who wrote this Wikipedia entry? Some like Japanese motorcycle designer who doesn't speak English very well? (Probable answer: yes.)

 

Now, many of you are probably saying, "But Ken, isn't superbike racing just the same as MotoGP racing? No, you ignorant assholes, it isn't.

 

Superbikes are based on standard production models, MotoGP bikes on the other hand are propotype machines that bear little resemblance to production machines. One might consider that a MotoGP bike is related to a Superbike in the same way that a Formula One car is related to a Touring car.

 

The analogy is imperfect, however; while a touring car could never compete with a Formula One machine, the performance gap between a Superbike and a MotoGP bike is much smaller. MotoGP bikes develop approximately 230 bhp, and reach top speeds of 340 km/h while superbikes develop 220 bhp and reach speeds of 320 km/h. Based on lap times from circuits where both MotoGP bikes and Superbikes race, superbikes are 2-3 seconds per lap slower than MotoGP bikes. This means that a number of superbikes would be able to easily qualify for a MotoGP race.

See?

 

The point, though, is: fans of superbike racing are superior to fans of Pittsburgh Pirates baseball. (That's the point. Can you believe that's the point?)

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It appears Ramos had a pretty bad knee injury tonight for the Nats. On top of Harpers finger injury yesterday, Murphy dealing with some sort of leg/hamstring type injury and Strasburg they aren't going to be going into the playoffs too healthy.

 

Torn ACL. Reported this morning. Sucks for him and the Nats. Hate to see injuries like this.

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This is a pretty cool read:

 

http://deadspin.com/pakistan-s-national-baseball-team-just-wants-you-to-kno-1787104371

 

Baseball came to Pakistan in 1992, when Syed Khawar Shah—then secretary of the sports board in Punjab, the nation’s most populous province—learned that baseball would be an Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, and decided the sport should be introduced to Pakistan.

 

Pakistan’s sports culture is largely centered around cricket, another bat-and-ball sport that was implemented during British colonial rule. Shah used his connections to receive used equipment from the United States, and received VHS tapes of major-league games to study.

 

Then he had to figure out how the game was played.

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Mets fans are repeatedly, insistently dumb about the injury nexus and why their bets on young pitching keep blowing up on them, but they aren't wrong about how freakish it is for the Cubs pitching staff, few of which are prime age, to be this healthy over several years.

 

I have no way of knowing how much of it is design and how much is luck

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Mets fans are repeatedly, insistently dumb about the injury nexus and why their bets on young pitching keep blowing up on them, but they aren't wrong about how freakish it is for the Cubs pitching staff, few of which are prime age, to be this healthy over several years.

 

I have no way of knowing how much of it is design and how much is luck

 

I'm sure a lot of it is by design. At least with Jon Lester, I'm confident that is a big reason why he was signed. But, judging by how freaked out Theo was about starting pitching health in that article from last week, it's definitely not totally by design. It never can be.

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