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  1. Sammy Sofa
    BAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIN'.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Lot of them have coaching obligations. True, though I was surprised that BJ wasn't there. He's still an agent, right? He's Rose's agent. Heh. Oh [expletive], that's right.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Lot of them have coaching obligations. True, though I was surprised that BJ wasn't there. He's still an agent, right?
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I wish these guys were my dad. (Love you, dad.)
  5. Sammy Sofa
    HAVE MERCY.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Holllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy [expletive].
  7. Sammy Sofa
    The Jazz should be thanking the basketball gods that they willed 4 deadeye Bull's 3's to rattle in and out. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    This is god-like.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    This is a nifty start.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I thought Noah didn't score at all in the last game.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody is acting like that. No, you're "anti" that because the book sounds like something you agree with. Stop with the act that you wait to cast judgment on anything until you've been exposed to the entire thing. You can know a movie sucks from a horrible trailer, you can know you won't like an album after hearing a single or two and you can know a book is going to be awful based on the hilariously dumb press releases hyping up what it's about and explaining what it's about. Based on the exceedingly stupid descriptions and hype coming from the authors and the publisher, yes. Their own claims of what the book is trying to are far more absurd and grandiose than what you keep trying to whittle it down to. Yeah, they're just trying to point out the flaws of sabermetrics (which anyone who follows it are familiar with to begin with BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND SABERMETRICS) while talking about how it's "doomed." Yes, it's called common sense. The best sabermetric experts and books and sites repeatedly point out the limitations. This book will reveal nothing that people versed in sabermetrics don't already know, and will more often just make up things or flat out get them wrong. Yes, I know this. Because the authors' own hype is just riddled with stupidity.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Like does something like this... IMHO, the only way he's getting to .390+ OBP is if he hit .330+... I don't think he going to get like 70+ BBs consistently (might do it once or twice)... John Sickels projects him to be in the 50s consistently and a couple of 60s, which sounds about right for Castro. From looking at that crystal ball projection, Castro looks like a good bet for 55 BBs:85 Ks in his prime. I like to see the Ks to come down a little, but I'm not gonna argue with a 55:85 rate for a SS who hits .300 or so. Power deficiency??? If you mean by HRs, then ok, but he's not gonna be that bad in HRs (compared to other SS). He'll be in the double digits and hopefully a couple of 20+ HRs season. I don't know if it's just me, but IMO, Castro is going to consistently hit a LOT of doubles. If he can consistently hit 35+ doubles with like 3-5+ triples, then I could care less if he hits only 12 HRs as his doubles/triples makes up for it. It's like with Fukudome in 2009, he had only 11 HRs, but he had 38 doubles and 5 triples. That was good for a IsoP of .162, which is pretty good if you ask me. Castro last year had a IsoP of .108... If he can get his IsoP up to at least .120+ (Jeter career IsoP is .139 and top 2 seasons were .179/.203) and have a few .140+ seasons, then that's very good to great for a SS. ...just drive you insane?
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, "again with the stupid bird" because the authors themselves made the stupid bird stupidity a key selling point. I don't know why you're acting like the bird isn't a big deal for the authors given how they've presented it. Do we need to quote it for you again? It's [expletive] hysterical how the anti-sabermetrics crowd are trying to paint the people who see this book for being fundamentally flawed (and yes, we can tell that without reading the book. It's already been quoted ad nauseum how the authors' own summaries expose this) as being "sheep." How the hell does THAT work? And I'm baffled as to why the three anti-sabermetrics posters we've seen in this thread so far (and yeah, that's what you are if you're defending this garbage so adamantly) are even here. That kind of analysis is basically why this site exists in this first place.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    And I love how this guy is acting he never judges anything before he has a chance to watch/read/listen/etc. fully. At least he came pretty close to copping to that he's only doing this because he's the book's target audience.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, it's not our fault you can't read your own posts.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    They're defending themselves somehow.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    You're truly the bunt-loving fella you seem to desperately want to to be seen as if you honestly cannot see how they're emphasizing the bird story (and similar "crazy events") because they think it exposes a major flaw with sabermetrics. According to them things like the bird incident "defeat the best-laid plans of sabermetricians."
  18. Sammy Sofa
    How do you know all of these things and you haven't even read the book? MASTER OF LIES.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    This part cracks me up: Yes, the nerds are so busy getting off on numbers that somehow nobody noticed that a [expletive] baseball hit a bird. And they do realize that so many more "odd and great" occurrences than ever before have been realized and we now look out for BECAUSE of sabermetrics, right? We're not missing [expletive] like balls hitting birds or people stealing home or hitting a ton of home runs because of Moneyball. What the [expletive] is being "obscured" because of sabermetrics?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    If they have made that claim, I haven't seen it. What I've seen is, "the authors acknowledge some merit to the Moneyball approach but, drawing on tales from baseball’s rich history, also identify major flaws". I surely hope nobody here would dispute that sabermetrics has flaws. "Major" is obviously a subjective term. You're trying to paint the authors of being far too reasonable. You're also assuming that they understand Moneyball. They don't. I really don't give a [expletive] what they concede has "merit" because they clearly don't understand it in the first place.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, "major flaws" derived from watching a single season of one team. And one of their key points is how a ball hit a bird. THEY ARE EMPHASIZING THESE THINGS THEMSELVES.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I'd also like to see examples of people claiming that sabermetric analysis is perfect and doesn't have any limitations.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not defending this fictional nerd who is only a fan of stats, but I'm curious as to what critical information regarding a player/team/league someone with a computer and an internet connection couldn't find.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Please note that every "problem" he just listed is made up (and he came THIS close to ye olde "mom's basement") and just highlights how if the book is a "response" to Moneyball (as its own authors publisher and author are explicitly claiming) then it completely misunderstands almost every single critical theory and point presented.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Heh, just what I was hoping for. Thanks, Buzz.
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