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that's pretty pathetic. the IOC doesn't rely on international federations to do their own drug testing, because it would be too easy for them to sweep positive results under the rug. plus, there is now significant evidence that the chinese are knowingly breaking the rules and using athletes in competition based on falsified documents. this should be investigated and the chinese should be stripped of the gold medal, but this is happening in china so nothing is going to happen.
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by the way, the fact that alain bernard beat jason lezak by half a second in the 100 free last night should underscore how amazing and improbable that 400 free relay was.
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mathematically, the expected value (in terms of runs) of a ball put in play is higher than the expected value of a strikeout.
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fontenot has a .909 OPS... only 6 teams in baseball have better than a .909 OPS out of the 3 hole.
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i'm not sure how you can agree to disagree on something when you're wrong about it. the expected value of putting the ball in play is greater than the expected value of striking out. i'm not taking into account whether dunn would be a better or worse hitter if he played more to contact, but if you have two guys that are exactly equal except one makes 100 "expected outs" (including errors) by putting the ball in play, and the other makes 100 outs by striking out, i'd obviously take the guy who makes the outs by putting the ball in play. Your assumption is wrong. An out is an out. In real world there is "no expected" there is only what happens and what doesn't happen. The way the out happens matters not. yeah, and in the real world the guy who makes 100 outs by putting the ball in play hits sac flies, grounds home a runner from third, gets on base via errors and moves runners up. that outweighs the negative of the 2 times he rolls into a double play, and is more valuable than the 100 strikeouts from the other guy.
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With the Brewers getting hot and the Yankees falling out of the race in the AL East/AL wild card, the playoff picture is starting to shape up: AL first round: Wild Card (Red Sox/Devil Rays) @ Angels AL Central winner (White Sox/Twins) @ AL East winner (Devil Rays/Red Sox) NL first round: NL West winner (D-bags/Dodgers) @ NL Central winner (Cubs/Brewers) Wild Card (Brewers/Cubs) @ NL East winner (Phillies/Mets/Marlins) The worst team in the NL will likely be the NL West winner, and the best team will be the NL Central winner, so that works out pretty fair. Since the #2/#3 teams in the AL are likely to be from the same division, they can't face each other, meaning that the AL East winner will actually get the weakest AL team (White Sox/Twins) in the first round. The Angels could easily end up with the best record in baseball and be facing the defending world series champs in the first round, which would pretty much suck for them.
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it's probably more that ned yost is willing to ruin his career.
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i'm not sure how you can agree to disagree on something when you're wrong about it. the expected value of putting the ball in play is greater than the expected value of striking out. i'm not taking into account whether dunn would be a better or worse hitter if he played more to contact, but if you have two guys that are exactly equal except one makes 100 "expected outs" (including errors) by putting the ball in play, and the other makes 100 outs by striking out, i'd obviously take the guy who makes the outs by putting the ball in play.
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How do you most like to eat Oreo cookies?
TruffleShuffle replied to Slugger_16's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i have found that i most enjoy eating oreos with my mouth. -
Can we really complain about the Cardinals "luck"?
TruffleShuffle replied to 17 Seconds's topic in General Baseball Talk
yeah people always talk about duncan, but who's their hitting coach? he turned ryan ludwick into the five best hitters in the game and turned aaron miles and skippy schumaker into good hitters. Aaron Miles has not been a good hitter for the Cardinals. .266 EqA is pretty good for a shortstop, especially one whose EqA coming into this year was .240. but really, my favorite part about this year's cardinal team is that despite performing over projections pretty much across the board, they're still very unlikely to make the playoffs. that just goes to show what a talent disparity there is between the cubs/brewers and the cardinals. -
Re: 8/14 Other Games
TruffleShuffle replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
i'm just looking forward to the brewers playing a team that's actually still trying -
there was still some of that when i swam, but most college teams and top swimmers lift weights. i believe i heard during these games that phelps started lifting within the last year or so. i had my best year of swimming in college when i lifted 2-3 times a week. Then my best friend on the team quit, and he was the one who got me to start lifting, so I pretty much stopped as well. I didn't really put it together until after I was done swimming in college, that the lifting was the biggest reason I improved so much. you need to do the right KIND of lifting, and you don't want to get too big, but gaining some strength is vital. in other news, rowdy gaines just made reference to his "beloved chicago cubs." also, katie hoff nor kate ziegler - who were considered the top two distance freestyle swimmers in the world last year - both missed the finals for the 800 free #-o
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injury delay? what the hell for?
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Cox was ejected several innings ago before all this Soriano mess started. maybe he's back in the dugout wearing glasses and a fake mustache.
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and threw high. if you wanna peg a guy in the butt that's your call, but don't throw at a guy's head. i hope one of our guys beans a brave, this team has taken enough liberties with us.
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time to throw at a brave.
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that's my dawg.
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Penn State tried to beat that, as their original OOC was Coastal Carolina, Syracuse, Temple and someone like LA Tech. They swapped that last game for Oregon St., but it's still a total joke. A year or two ago their OOC had 3 of the bottom 5 teams in 1-A from the previous year i blame syracuse for being a joke.
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Bob's a dick. He's all about that old school nonsense. yes nonsense like actually running when you hit the ball.
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derrek failed in his attempt to GIDP
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fukudome is at .292 in august... unfortunately that's OPS not batting average.
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I'm not sure how they calculate Georgia's SoS, but it looks as if the non-D1 opponent isn't even factored in, which should lower theirs. The Pac-10 teams are playing some ridiculous schedules this year, though. It's funny how a team can play Blindnun U and not be punished for it. No way is there schedule harder than USC's. The SEC has this down to a science. they play at arizona state and then their regular rivalry of georgia tech. that is not a cupcake out of conference schedule. and the SEC is deeper in terms of top 20 teams than the pac 10. I didn't say it was a cakewalk but I did say that the SEC knows their way around the SOS loopholes. The Top 20 is a vote of reputation and means little on what team is better than another. There are also 12 teams in the SEC and 10 in the PAC 10 so yeah, their percentage of chance of one being in the Top 20/25 is better than the PAC 10. It's funny how people never seem to notice this in football but point it out quite quickly when it comes to basketball. that's because the big east has 74 teams in basketball.
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That would put him on only 3 days rest for said start. yeah but he'd have thrown something like 40 or 50 pitches three days ago. not a big deal.
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the cubs carry 12 pitchers and have been off the last 2 days. this isn't great bullpen usage but it's hardly "killing the bullpen."
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well that's also because milwaukee's pen isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is.