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  1. Rob
    Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. I love Maddux and all, but I'd love Abreu that much more.
  2. Rob
    Actually from a quantifiable point of view, the squeeze play is wonderful. The breakeven rate on it is extremely low, so it's not a bad idea to lay one down in a lot of situations, providing the batter at the plate can handle bunting well at all. It's funny that us stats people can fall in love with some of the little things in baseball, like the squeeze play and stealing home (typically through a double steal), isn't it?
  3. Rob
    He's gonna last til AB #51, just you watch.
  4. Rob
    Brandon Webb gave me a scary outing when he came back out for the 9th and let the first two runners on, but Valverde came in an closed it out so webb would still give me the save. =)
  5. Rob
    I noticed we were taking pitches when I was scratching my back, so I scratched back there until I got raw. And we won. All hail me!
  6. Rob
    Sweet, I was wondering how long it'd be before even our "finesse" pitchers have no control.
  7. Rob
    Fantastic news!
  8. Rob
    Woohoo! A few of my friends stood outside the stadium at 4 or 5 o'clock this morning and got those cheap tickets for the game. I'm on my way to St. Louis!
  9. Rob
    Rob, 60 day DL, alcoholism rehabilitation
  10. Rob
    Does anybody know if the automatic no-trade clause til June 15 for players who sign deals in the offseason applies to minor league deals? I could see Carlos Pena coming over from the Yanks as a pretty good deal.
  11. Rob
    I think Pie and Prior could get either of those right now. Can't deal people on the DL.
  12. Rob
    We do know how the team will do, that's the problem. This was a subpar offense even with Lee. We're looking at least at a .200 point drop from his OPS last year with anybody we replace him with, even if they hit the hot streak of their lives.
  13. Rob
    Wow, the overreaction is rampant. I've noticed everything I say will happen never does, so I'm trying my best to change the situation, what have you done? :wink:
  14. Rob
    Well if it's this serious of an injury, there could be career-long side effects. So much for the prodigious power for the next five years, hello overpriced paperweight.
  15. Rob
    The Pirates are probably ok with moving Craig Wilson, as all they have to do is call up Eldred. I wouldn't mind Wilson on the team at all.
  16. Rob
    I'm not really as upset as the jokes I'm making seem to indicate. However, it's times like this where it would be greatly appreciated if the team would be honest about an injury situation for once.
  17. Rob
    Or Jack Daniels. Or their bastard child, Jack Cuervo.
  18. Rob
    Nothing quite like a 65 million dollar paperweight... :cry:
  19. Rob
    The fact the x-rays were called inconclusive is not a good sign, and could be a very very bad one.
  20. Rob
    Elsewhere, the score in Baltimore is Indians 9, Orioles 18 going into the top of the 9th.
  21. Rob
    Were you looking at the numbers just a few posts back? ARod is much more dangerous in the postseason and in general in "clutch" situations than Jeter is. Yeah Jeter has had a few memorable hits. He's also had more than his fair share of not-memorable groundouts to second base in the postseason.
  22. Rob
    Forget about your friend. The knowledge you gain by doing it yourself is worth more than anything you will ever get out of the database. Also, if you know of a ready source of more detailed raw data than what the bpxscore gives, and is available on a daily basis...... let me know !! Yeah, but the friend is offering to do it for free as a project for one of his classes, and then just hand it over to me. And lazy as I am, that sounds like a win-win proposition to me. I plan on starting off with probably around 1985, and grabbing everything from retrosheet. Problem is that they don't have anything from 2005 yet, and I don't know when it's coming. This is definately going to be a work in progress for quite a while...
  23. Rob
    Yep... sure do. You smug old bugger! :lol: Let me put it this way, any advice for those of us wanting to build one? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come off as smug. As far as advice on building databases goes, use the program that you're most familiar with, and let the information you want to retrieve from your database determine what and how you put into it. All I'm doing is entering the information from the daily box score that's published in various sources. There are limitations to this.... i.e. I'll never be able to generate lefty/right splits or specific pitcher to batter splits. I just made that decision based on the fact that I'm too damned lazy to do any more input that just the boxscore. In any case, go for it !! ... and have fun ! Ok, so yours isn't completely over-the-top. Looks like there's a hole in the market for me to fill then. :lol: I have a friend offering to build a database program that'll allow me all sorts of cross-referencing abilities. My only problem is going to be inputting massive amounts of data, and figuring out which items to flag. Thanks for the advice. :)
  24. Rob
    Yep... sure do. You smug old bugger! :lol: Let me put it this way, any advice for those of us wanting to build one?
  25. Rob
    Don't drop the soap.
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