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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine. what are you talking about? if you were actually following the discussion, you would see that the topic was theriot's ability to move runners over. when you show me data that includes his at bats with the bases empty, that's irrelevant to the discussion. If a guy hits a lot of grounders to the left side, chances are he's going to hit a lot of grounders to the left side even when there's a runner on 1st. that's not true at all. professional baseball players have the ability to hit the ball to the right side if they want to, theriot seems especially good at this. your dunn versus theriot comparisons are meaningless too so i'm not even going to address that. So good at it that he hit into 19 double plays? And my comparison isn't meaningless just because you say it is.
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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine. what are you talking about? if you were actually following the discussion, you would see that the topic was theriot's ability to move runners over. when you show me data that includes his at bats with the bases empty, that's irrelevant to the discussion. If a guy hits a lot of grounders to the left side, chances are he's going to hit a lot of grounders to the left side even when there's a runner on 1st.
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I don't want my #2 hitter to move runners over. I want him to get on base and drive runs in. If your offensive philosophy is to waste outs having your #2 guy just get your leadoff man into scoring position, you're doing yourself a disservice. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but the odds of scoring a run with a man on 1st and 0 outs is a lot higher than a man on 2nd with 1 out. well, your odds of scoring runs also greatly increase when you have your highest OBP guy hitting 2nd rather than 8th. Ryan Theriot 2008 OBP: .387 Adam Dunn 2008 OBP: .386 Who do you want getting more at-bats?
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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine.
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For all the hemming and hawing from the media (and a little from me too) about the Big East getting 9 or 10 teams in partway through the season, they're only going to get 7 unless Providence wins their next two, and/or Notre Dame wins at least their next two, and quite probably three.
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Yeah, I really like Fontenot/Theriot as sort of the Bizarro 1/2 Hitters that Soriano can drive in as the Bizarro Middle of the Order Hitter. It's nice to have a lineup good enough to do that as opposed to sifting through the crap to pick out the 7/8 hitters.
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WBC: Japan Defeats Korea 5-3 (10 innings)
Andy replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The U.S. can play the Netherlands by beating Italy tomorrow. That'd be good. -
Notre Dame wins 61-50. I don't think there's been that few combined points in an ND game in years. Ugly to say the least. West Virginia tomorrow.
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There should be some sort of criminal investigation as to Hasheem Thabeet getting co-Big East POY with DeJuan Blair when Pitt dominated UConn twice, and Blair all but castrated Thabeet in the first head-to-head meeting. Thabeet is the 3rd best player on UConn (Jeff Adrien, AJ Price), and that doesn't count injured Jerome Dyson. What a joke.
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Hard to see the score on the on-screen scoreboard on this BET web stream. Other than that, no complaints.
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Haha, 0-18 DePaul wins a BET game.
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Yeah maybe if it wasn't another fluff piece by ESPN about Duke. How bout they quit shoving them down everyone else's throats? Maybe then people would stop hating Duke. Chester Fraizer lost his dad last year. I'm sure he misses him as much as Nolan Smith does his dad. They are probabbly just late getting around to that article. Pretty much every team deals with issues like this, but when it's at Duke we get these type stories from ESPN. Oh you shouldn't hate them, something bad happened to them. Why I hate UNC is that they are everything Duke is, except because not as many people hate them, their fans are even more holier than thou. At least for the most part, of the Duke fans I know, they actually understand it, the UNC faithful are agasp at the very thought that someone could dislike them.
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Ball State loses at home in OT to one of the worst teams in the country, Eastern Michigan, 55-53. Thanks to some other teams, Ball State wins the MAC West anyway. At 13-16 (7-9). And gets the #2 seed in the MAC Tournament. This is laughable.
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WBC: Japan Defeats Korea 5-3 (10 innings)
Andy replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Someone explain to me why Canada can hit Peavy but the US can't hit a junkball high-80s guy. -
No one cares (including me), but I'm obligated to post that Notre Dame beat St. John's tonight in their final regular-season game. Harangody had 31 and 12, so it's nice to see him back to his old self for a night. ND will be the 10th seed in the Big East tournament and opens with Rutgers on Tuesday. If they do what they should and beat them, it's any of Syracuse, West Virginia or Providence on Wednesday depending on what happens this weekend.
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This is getting dangerously close to being a likable team again. Albeit one with a horrid coach.
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Yes. The other computers are subject to the blackout restrictions of the area, but all you need's your username and password to watch.
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What are the other contenders for worst contract handed out this millennium? Zito and who else? Zito and Pierre are the only two I can remember where basically everyone except for the teams signing them knew the deal would be a complete disaster from the word go.
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Tyrus has had a couple of really nice post moves to the bucket tonight. He looks much more polished.
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OK I have to do a TV daily update on the sports headlines for the day tonight and need to say who holds the tiebreaker between Western Michigan and Ball State as they have each beaten each other once. This is the what the MAC has ... http://www.mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9400&ATCLID=3651224 Anyone care to weigh in on what the F they mean because it is not explained well enough. Andy if you remember what it is from covering them last year then chime in. I'm assuming it means starting at the top ranked team you go down and look at the tied teams record versus that team until one has a better record versus them. However if that is what it means then where do you start? With the third place team in the West or the the overall best team in the MAC which would be the East this year? And No. 3 is just down right shameful. What the heck does that mean. "Sport specific component (if applicable)," is all that No. 3 says. I'm pretty sure record vs the best team across all divisions, so Ball State would have it via their win vs Buffalo. I can't imagine the MAC could make it any less clear though. If you use the women's tiebreakers WMU would be ahead. It is Ball State. The TV guys tonight said that either a BSU win or a WMU loss would clinch the title for us this weekend, and we are tied now, so that means we have the tiebreaker.
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Ball State blows their chance to win the MAC West, losing to WMU 84-82 in OT. They were up 6 with a minute left in regulation and gagged it. They can still win the MAC West by beating EMU at home on Sunday. That would give them the division title with an 8-8 MAC record.
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the big ten doesn't stand a chance in the tournament. purdue looks terrible on a fairly regular basis... illinois held to 33 at home... purdue dominates michigan state by 19... really... i don't think anyone in the big ten would be in the top 3-4 in the acc or big east... except the Big 10 actually plays defense. Get Duke or North Carolina away from the ACC refs and see how far their flopping gets them the tourney is called more like the big east or acc than the big ten The Big East is called closer to the Big Ten than most Big Ten fans want to admit.
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I would agree with this only because the media, especially Jay Bilas and a couple others, are trying to make it out like ND and Georgetown were both tremendous teams that just got the will beat out of them by how good the Big East was. In reality, the Irish and Hoyas were both very flawed teams whose flaws were exposed by good teams in the conference. I think the Big East is probably the best league in the country, even with the horrible four at the bottom (I'm biased, obviously), but it's not even close to the gap that ESPN makes it out to be. (It should be noted that since ESPN has a huge contract with the Big East that it would benefit them to have people THINK the Big East is some mega-league that's head and shoulders above everybody.)
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I hate this team. I'd honestly rather be Indiana right now. Notre Dame flat-out quit on this game.
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What a horrible first half of ND/Nova. ND looks bad, Nova looks worse, the refs are horrible (albeit largely in our favor)...that just wasn't fun to watch.
