jjgman21

since we are determining this by edict, I have experienced momentum shifts in darts, foosball, billiards, horseshoes, poker, golf, tiddly-winks, quarters, and pong (of the video and ping varieties). I have witnessed it in tennis, hockey, soccer, Australian rules football, hurling and curling. so why does it exist in just about everything but baseball? I have experience momentum not happening in all those things except tiddly winks becuase I wasn't born in the 50s. Momentum as its been defined in this thread cannot be refuted. If a player carries over something from the past he had momentum and that's why he did it. If a player didn't carry it over, then there wasn't enough momentum to outweigh random chance and talent. We can't possibly refute you who say momentum is real and exists in baseball because it only exists when you have defined it to exist. you've become so philosophical all of a sudden. before it only existed in games with continuity. so which is it? does it only exist if we define it to exist, or does it only exist in basketball, foosball, hockey, soccer, hurling, Australian rules football, and hurling due to the mystical capacities of 'continuity.'

Good. Hopefully the Cubs get KC instead. I'm always irritated that the Cards get 2 series against KC each year. The Cards do not play KC twice each year. That is a well spread myth. They do play in KC every year, but not vice versa. And they aren't the easiest games in the world. KC really gets up for those games. yes, there are years where the Cardinals get similarly predictable cellar dwellars like Texas or Tampa instead of the second match up with the Royals. the Cubs-White Sox series come close to and often exceed the intensity of Cubs-Cards series. can the same be said for Cards-Royals? seriously, look up some of the things White Sox players say about playing the Cubs. I highly doubt you will find any such vitriol coming from KC on an annual basis. you guys get a break with your interleague 'rivalry' being one of the worst teams in baseball. chalk it up as a break, and move on. defending it in any way, shape, or form is just silly. So now it's not only KC, but the other interleague draw as well. Since you brought it up, this year the Cards played Anaheim and at Detroit, again. Neither appeared on the Cubs schedule. The Cubs did get the Rangers for three and the crappy WhiteSox for six. The Cards did not get either of those teams. You can find schedule imbalances every year - and not just interleague. Any attempt to make an argument that one team has an annual advantage by looking at only 3-6 out of 162 game schedule is BEYOND silly. And the verbal warfare in the papers is quite irrelevant. don't give me that crap. you tried to state that the Cards don't get a break with drawing the Royals on a consistent basis. they pretty much do. there's been two seasons where they haven't, and they just happened to get a different patsy in each of those years. congrats on a year where your interleague matchups were easier than the Cubs. I think this makes two in about a dozen years or so of interleague play. whether its a one game advantage, a three game advantage, or a six game advantage, I don't give a damn. it's still an advantage. maybe it hasn't made a difference, but maybe one of these years it will, and it would be a damn shame if, all other things being equal, the division came down to the Cubs going 3-3 against a damn good White Sox team while the Cards go 5-1 against the usually crappy Royals...or the Cubs going 4-2 against the Yankees/DRays while the Cards went 2-4 against the Yankees/RedSox. the verbal warfare in the papers is quite relevant as you also tried to diminish how fortunate the Cards are to draw the Royals by stating how heated the rivalry is for them. the verbal warfare in the papers is the evidence of how fired up the White Sox get to face the Cubs. we know what a fired up interleague rival looks and sound like. I really don't think you do. edit-one last thing...the Cubs only got 4 interleague series this year. they got extra games against the Braves and Padres to make up for it. so let's stop implying that we got a break this year. the break, if any, is the difference between the A's and the Rangers.

Not if you adjust for stadiums... Fielde would hit 200 HR's and drive in 10,000 in that park. I knew I recognized him. who would've thunk that Chuck Norris would have his skin died and put on all that weight. heh, in all seriousness Holliday has an .854 OPS on the road and would be on pace for 98 R, 108 RBI and 22 HR's using his road stats. The park is just way too big a factor for him or Tulo to win the awards. problem for your argument is, if you want to play that game, Wright, Chipper and Ramirez get more consideration than Fielder since Prince plays in a division with five hitter friendly parks and one slightly pitcher friendly park, while the others play in a division with four gigantic parks and one hitter frieldly park (and none of them play home games in said hitter friendly park). edit - add to it the fact that the Padres, Giants, Dodgers and DBacks are four of the top five pitching staffs in the NL to favor Holliday.

how about doing a little better than a complete and total shelling Jo-L.

Not if you adjust for stadiums... Fielde would hit 200 HR's and drive in 10,000 in that park. I knew I recognized him. who would've thunk that Chuck Norris would have his skin died and put on all that weight.

they were a .596 winning percentage team with those two before Braun was called up. I kid, but you could same the same thing about Graffanino taking over first base from Fielder. yes, he's very popular amongst the Baseball Tonight crew, but puh-leaz. he's the fifth best hitter on his team, maybe a slightly above average fielder for his position. how stealing bases vaults him above so many others for mvp consideration with these two facts floating about, I have no idea. According to VORP, Rollins has been the second best hitter on the team. Yeah, both his OBP and his SLG are 40 points behind Howard... but Howard plays first. Rollins' production for SS is great. does this not in and of itself point out the flaws that arise when attempting to evaluate too many things with relation to how a AAAA player would do if filling the same role? Utley's OPS is over a hundred points higher than the next secondbaseman. Beltran is slightly behind Rowand (much like Rollins is slightly above Renterria) in OPS, other than that, noone's really even close in center. VORP is overused. how about some consideration for value above league average, instead of the mythical replacement player, which is sure to always benefit shortstops due to the concentration on defense and total lack of offense for replacement level shortstops. in other words, take 100 pts of OPS away from Rollins, Utley, and Rowand. Utley is still the best hitting secondbaseman in the league, Rowand is still the second best hitting centerfielder in the league, Rollins is a league average offensive shortstop, Khalil Greene territory. this tells me with certainty that both Utley and Rowand are more valuable to the Phillies than Rollins. but to relate it all back, we are talking about MVP. who cares what the value is over a replacement player. we are talking about who pounded the ball the most throughout the year and who's contributions were most critical in keeping a team competitive.

since we are determining this by edict, I have experienced momentum shifts in darts, foosball, billiards, horseshoes, poker, golf, tiddly-winks, quarters, and pong (of the video and ping varieties). I have witnessed it in tennis, hockey, soccer, Australian rules football, hurling and curling. so why does it exist in just about everything but baseball?

they were a .596 winning percentage team with those two before Braun was called up. I kid, but you could same the same thing about Graffanino taking over first base from Fielder. yes, he's very popular amongst the Baseball Tonight crew, but puh-leaz. he's the fifth best hitter on his team, maybe a slightly above average fielder for his position. how stealing bases vaults him above so many others for mvp consideration with these two facts floating about, I have no idea.

Tell me why it exists in Football and Basketball and not Baseball? Because, as I said earlier, baseball is a series of individual events. Basketball is continuous. Football's kinda in the middle as there are a ton of individual events going on within one big event, but there is no continuous play. So momentum can only happen when it's "Continous play"? Do you realize how silly this sounds? the Terps will be happy to hear that momentum doesn't exist in football.

I think the mirrored site for nsbb is http://www.baselineabilityistheonlyfact ... fgames.com

I don't get this. after screwing up the double switch and getting ejected in April 2004, Dusty never again was ejected for his own actions (I believer there were a couple that happened automatically due to beanball wars). he decided that sticking up for his players was not important because he looked foolish in his sons eyes.

Or leaving your ace (at the moment) pitcher to hang when he's getting shelled for 9 runs? It just doesn't make any sense. You don't think the Brewers would rather get into the bullpen early? Remind me not to have you manage a ballclub anytime soon... I'm not sure what you're talking about... We're saying it doesn't make sense for the Cardinals to leave their star players in a meaningless game when they're getting shelled. Not because it gives the Cardinals a better chance to win - because it keeps your star players from getting hurt for nothing. Pujols is playing to accumulate one more RBI. a blowout game is the perfect opportunity to get said RBI. but alas, he drew a walk in his RBI opportunity and was immediately replaced with a pinch runner.

doesn't matter how many times I see it. Fonzie, DeRo and Z are just awesome in that pic.

Michigan and Wisconsin have already displayed an inability to stop the spread offense. Wisconsin made the adjustment half way through in each game, and I'm hopeful their young safeties have learned from those experiences. it may come down to whether Juice can get it into the endzone once the field becomes short, or if they have to settle for three.

three for five on 9/19 with no reported injury since then. but suddenly surgery has to happen now.

you're hilarious when you are wrong. why is it so flawed? why is it stupid (and why do you continue to get away with calling everyone stupid?)? your declaring it to be so is what is flawed, and only serves to protect you from conceding a point. let's look at some Tim Tebow highlights this year. vs. WKU, 28-3, 6 minutes left in the third 1st-10, FLA15 T. Tebow passed to A. Caldwell to the left for 43 yard gain 1st-10, WKU42 T. Tebow passed to R. Cooper down the middle for 42 yard touchdown. next possession, now 35-3 1st-10, FLA40 K. Moore rushed to the left for 4 yard gain 2nd-6, FLA44 T. Tebow passed to C. Ingram down the middle for 10 yard gain 1st-10, WKU46 K. Moore rushed to the right for 8 yard gain 2nd-2, WKU38 FLA committed 7 yard penalty 2nd-9, WKU45 WKU committed 15 yard penalty 1st-10, WKU30 T. Tebow passed to R. Cooper to the right for 12 yard gain 1st-10, WKU27 K. Moore rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain 1st-10, WKU2 T. Tebow rushed up the middle for no gain 2nd-2, WKU2 T. Tebow incomplete pass to the right 3rd-2, WKU2 T. Tebow rushed up the middle for 1 yard gain Hey, congrats that he actually gave the ball to a running back on fourth down to cash in this TD. At least Meyer actually pulled him in this game. v. Troy, up 49-7 at the half first possession of the second half, first play, they are throwing the ball 1st-10, Fla33 T. Tebow passed to A. Caldwell down the middle for 8 yard gain. A. Caldwell fumbled. E. Mack recovered fumble and returned for 38 yard serves them right for throwing the ball on first down in blowout. score now 52-31, 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter 1st-10, Fla20 T. Tebow rushed to the left for 5 yard gain 2nd-5, Fla25 T. Tebow rushed to the right for 1 yard loss 3rd-6, Fla24 T. Tebow rushed to the left for 25 yard gain 1st-10, Fla49 P. Harvin rushed to the left for 20 yard gain 1st-10, Troy31 K. Moore rushed up the middle for 5 yard gain 2nd-5, Troy26 T. Tebow rushed to the left for 3 yard gain 3rd-2, Troy23 T. Tebow rushed up the middle for 7 yard gain 1st-10, Troy16 T. Tebow rushed to the left for 16 yard touchdown. J. Ijjas made PAT Hey! way to give Harvin and Moore a touch each in this blowout. v. Tenn, the score is 42-20 with 12:05 left 1st-10, Fla47 T. Tebow passed to P. Harvin down the middle for 48 yard gain 1st-5, Tenn5 T. Tebow rushed up the middle for 5 yard touchdown. J. Ijjas made PAT bravo! half way through their next possession 4th-1, Fla34 T. Tebow rushed up the middle for 1 yard gain 1st-10, Fla36 T. Tebow passed to L. Murphy to the left for 44 yard gain huzzah! how kind of Meyer to give someone other than Tebow a couple touches to score their final touchdown. King of garbage time. has Sam Bradford even played in the fourth quarter this year?

Dixon's basically matching Tebow's numbers against better competition, with less talent surrounding him, and with less garbage time to accumulate stats. Dixon failed to pass for 150 yards in two games this season. Dixon isn't on pace for 3,000 passing yards. Dixon has thrown for 180 less yards despite attempting more passes than Tebow. Dixon has run for sixty less yards. Dixon hasn't had as many TDs. Dixon's schedule has actually been the same. funny how you refer to rate stats to make one point, then quickly turn around and use counting stats to make another. your points don't matter. Dixon's existence and performance is certainly enough to refute your pathetic cry for more Tim Tebow love, particularly the point about Tebow piling up stats during garbage time, when any respectful coach would have pulled his starters. what would Sam Bradford's stats look like if OU kept running their regular offense with all their starters long after the game was decided like Meyer does? what would LSU's top running backs production look like if the load wasn't spread amongst a dozen guys? the Heisman, and football in general, is about more than stat accumulation. the winners of the award should make that blatantly obvious.

has there been any update on the condition of Cameron's hand?

Dixon's basically matching Tebow's numbers against better competition, with less talent surrounding him, and with less garbage time to accumulate stats.

Good. Hopefully the Cubs get KC instead. I'm always irritated that the Cards get 2 series against KC each year. The Cards do not play KC twice each year. That is a well spread myth. They do play in KC every year, but not vice versa. And they aren't the easiest games in the world. KC really gets up for those games. yes, there are years where the Cardinals get similarly predictable cellar dwellars like Texas or Tampa instead of the second match up with the Royals. the Cubs-White Sox series come close to and often exceed the intensity of Cubs-Cards series. can the same be said for Cards-Royals? seriously, look up some of the things White Sox players say about playing the Cubs. I highly doubt you will find any such vitriol coming from KC on an annual basis. you guys get a break with your interleague 'rivalry' being one of the worst teams in baseball. chalk it up as a break, and move on. defending it in any way, shape, or form is just silly.

won't matter. Bud will make sure the home plate ump is Froemming, and Froemming will 'Milt Pappas' the Cubs in one final kiss off.

Leslie Nielson was mocking the umpires as they already existed. seems to me the problem is not the demonstrativism of Leslie Nielson, it is the want for the attention that Leslie Nielson got in the movie. anyone else wish another scene from that Naked Gun were true. I'm thinking a media with fewer things to whore themselves on here.

Thank you. Some fans on here really think that the Cards players are rooting for Milwaukee to overtake the Cubs. So much that they would sit out. The Astros too. The Cubs have an easy enough schedule they should be able to win without the Cards help. And it's not like the Cards have rolled over. Nobody stepped up and beat the Astros last year until the final three in Atlanta. I don't think the Cards players think that way, but with the comments some of the current and ex-Cards made in 2003, could you really blame me if I did? what I have said is I had a feeling that LaRussa would make decisions to screw with the pennant race. the man is so smarmy, I really wouldn't put anything past him, so we'll see about rolling over in the next three days. as for last year, there are really only two teams you can blame for not stepping up down the stretch against the Astros, the Bucs and some other team that they swept in a four game set.

I think the general consensus is we know he's terrible, and understand how non-Cubs fans could have a hard time listening to him, but love him anyway.

other than occasionally seeming too excited for the competition, I never had a big problem with Chip until 2004 when his jabs at Ronnie seemed to get vindictive and he and Stone wouldn't let their feud with the players go. regardless of who was right or wrong, they had the microphones and wouldn't let it die. I met Chip once. home openner in 2004. I had just gotten tickets and was getting back on the el, he was getting off the el. he gave my brother and I a big smile and a jovial "Happy New Year!"