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  1. MeatampPotatoesMan
    how does the sox winning by having great pitching fly in the face of stats? btw, stats don't say that a team like the sox won't win the series, just that the odds are against it.
  2. MeatampPotatoesMan
    do you remember the tantrum he threw mid-season when he heard about the trade rumors involving him?
  3. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Why? b/c Walker can't turn the DP with a drunk. :lol:
  4. MeatampPotatoesMan
    hmm, good pitching and plate discipline = domination in the playoffs. :-k
  5. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No need to be snide. They replaced Carlos Lee with Scott Podsenik. That did not in any way, shape, or form, improve their offense. Lineup position is irrelevant. No matter where either one of them hits, if you replace Podsenik with Lee, it's a downgrade on offense. so i guess 60 sb's had little effect on the sox's offense. ...just about as much effect as getting caught 23 times. you are right. everyone should have 100 sb's and never get caught. 60 sb's is just pathetic (even though it's probably more than the whole cubs team had last year). i should know better than to argue with such sound reasoning. isn't it true that while stat analysis can indicate trends it does nothing for an indiviual game. so while you can predict that a coin flipped 100 times will come up 50/50 with a standard deviation, it does not indicate what the next flip will be? If so, stats are great for looking at the totals and making it say what you want it to say but it does nothing for that one game where you need Pods to steal second, be bunted over to third and score on a sac fly? there are probabilities for every state in a ballgame.
  6. MeatampPotatoesMan
    True, but at least it seems to go a lot farther than 100m+ :wink: #-o
  7. MeatampPotatoesMan
    i'd love to have ARod in Chicago. i'd have to burn my "Jeter sucks ARod" t-shirt, but we all have to make sacrifices in life. :lol:
  8. MeatampPotatoesMan
    That I did not check. People were contending that even though they weren't much(if at all) better than the Cubs, that the ability to score consistently was the reason their offense was helping them win more. Turns out that wasn't true. there's the good old expected wins matrix on BP.
  9. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Perez's Slam was sweet and so unexpected.
  10. MeatampPotatoesMan
    i'm going to be POed if Pujols gets the 1B GG over Lee.
  11. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I don't think he'd be content backing up D. Lee. that's why we put him at SS. according to some Cards fans, he has the range for it. :lol:
  12. MeatampPotatoesMan
    isn't his D very suspect? i haven't seen much of him, but Mets fans sure do whine about him a lot.
  13. MeatampPotatoesMan
    That an awesome idea. :D
  14. MeatampPotatoesMan
    When is the last time that Hendry vastly overpaid for a big time free agent? Sure he slightly over pays on 1 to 3 year deals, but I can't think of a deal of 4 or more years that he has overpaid. Chicago told Furcal's agent that we'd be "big players" in the "Furcal sweepstakes." That sounds like overpaying to me. I think you're reading a little too much into that. All I take it to mean is that they have a strong interest. It's just wording. That's not to say that I don't think Hendry will overpay for Furcal if we end up with him, though. I think whoever ends up with Furcal is going to be overpaying. For us to be involved the the Furcal sweepstakes, Atlanta will already have to be out of the bidding (4/36M probably) as Furcal has said he'd stay in Atlanta "if all things are equal." I don't think Hendry will vastly overpay, but 4/36 is still over fair market value for Furcal (looking at Rollin's contract). Furcal isn't a "must have," but he's going to get more than he's worth.
  15. MeatampPotatoesMan
    There you go. this is amazing. if you cant see the difference in between "the sox's success was due to scott" and "that having scott lead off in 2005 didnt make a huge difference in the white sox's success" then i guess you win. That's nice. I didn't say that. Whatever. Enjoy ignorance.
  16. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No need to be snide. They replaced Carlos Lee with Scott Podsenik. That did not in any way, shape, or form, improve their offense. Lineup position is irrelevant. No matter where either one of them hits, if you replace Podsenik with Lee, it's a downgrade on offense. so i guess 60 sb's had little effect on the sox's offense. ...just about as much effect as getting caught 23 times. you are right. everyone should have 100 sb's and never get caught. 60 sb's is just pathetic (even though it's probably more than the whole cubs team had last year). i should know better than to argue with such sound reasoning. it's called SB%. :wink:
  17. MeatampPotatoesMan
    There you go.
  18. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No need to be snide. They replaced Carlos Lee with Scott Podsenik. That did not in any way, shape, or form, improve their offense. Lineup position is irrelevant. No matter where either one of them hits, if you replace Podsenik with Lee, it's a downgrade on offense. so i guess 60 sb's had little effect on the sox's offense. ...just about as much effect as getting caught 23 times.
  19. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I wonder if that includes things expressly forbidden by law? :-k running a stop sign is against the law, but you don't see the yankees following ARod around making sure he obeys all the traffic laws.
  20. MeatampPotatoesMan
    When is the last time that Hendry vastly overpaid for a big time free agent? Sure he slightly over pays on 1 to 3 year deals, but I can't think of a deal of 4 or more years that he has overpaid. Chicago told Furcal's agent that we'd be "big players" in the "Furcal sweepstakes." That sounds like overpaying to me.
  21. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No.
  22. MeatampPotatoesMan
    The White Sox scored less runs in '05 than '04, and at last check didn't score any more consistently than the Cubs's offense. so you are saying that having scott lead off in 2005 didnt make a huge difference in the white sox's success in 05? i think the sox players would beg to differ with you. omg. you can't seriously believe that. you're reasoning from the final result and saying that everything they did (including having scotty pod) contributed to success. that isn't even logical. show me where i said "everything"? huge difference does not equal everything. you said the white sox success was due to scott, with no justification other than he was part of the 2005 WS team. logically, that means everything that composed the '05 team was also the reason they won, which is ridiculous.
  23. MeatampPotatoesMan
    The White Sox scored less runs in '05 than '04, and at last check didn't score any more consistently than the Cubs's offense. so you are saying that having scott lead off in 2005 didnt make a huge difference in the white sox's success in 05? i think the sox players would beg to differ with you. omg. you can't seriously believe that. you're reasoning from the final result and saying that everything they did (including having scotty pod) contributed to success. that isn't even logical.
  24. MeatampPotatoesMan
    lol. arod should be allowed to do whatever he wants in his time, as long as it isn't things expressly forbidden in his contract. it's his life, let him live it.
  25. MeatampPotatoesMan
    That kid just flat out gets on base! :lol: Whatever it takes.
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