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7/20 - Mets (High Karate Colon) @ Cubs (Hendricks) 1:20 CDT ESPN (out-of-market), ABC 7

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Aaron_Kennelly South Bend Cubs

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

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I think Rizzo might be my favorite.

 

he's a pretty good baseball player. it's amazing, when we traded for him, they said he could end up being an above average but not elite 1B. amazing development work by the org.

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

to be fair, even while Rizzo was sub-Mendoza Line, he was still OPSing like .900

UMFan83 GOAT

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

 

No you don't understand, if i put the hashtag its supposed to absolve me of any blowback.

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

 

Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right?

Aaron_Kennelly South Bend Cubs

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

to be fair, even while Rizzo was sub-Mendoza Line, he was still OPSing like .900

 

Yeah, I know. And I'm not saying Ben Zobrist hasn't been bad. He has been. But all his periphs look fine -- his BB and K rates, his hard- and soft-hit rates, and his line drive, ground ball, and fly ball rates. It's just that he went from a .432 BABIP in May to a .050 BABIP in July. It just shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid. He had an incredible May and a putrid July. But, he's not really a different player. It's just baseball.

Aaron_Kennelly South Bend Cubs

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#arbitraryendpoints

 

Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

 

Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right?

 

Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky.

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.

 

Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right?

 

Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky.

 

Yeah that's fair, and your response above makes sense. If it can be explained away by mostly luck, it doesn't provide much.

Aaron_Kennelly South Bend Cubs

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Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right?

 

Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky.

 

Yeah that's fair, and your response above makes sense. If it can be explained away by mostly luck, it doesn't provide much.

 

It's not even so much that it is just bad luck. I think he's had problems. It's just that guys go through this horsefeathers. It wasn't my intent to say that his last month or two doesn't mean anything. It does. He hasn't hit. So that's bad. My intent was to show, "Hey, even Anthony Rizzo (possibly the best hitter in all of baseball) goes through this horsefeathers sometimes. So let's not dwell on it too much.

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i completely forgot this game was happening until i opened facebook of all things and saw the score in teh corner

 

that was cool

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