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  1. imb
    when its finished that will be by far the nicest stadium in the championship
  2. imb
    lmao what a horsefeathers dork
  3. imb
    the entire discussion is about micro or macro we're trying to figure out the age old question of if a strikeout is worse than a different type of out. (It's a false premise.) youre looking at the micro - a single at bat that ends in a strikeout - and using that outcome to try and determine a much larger question. Sure there are situations where you'd rather that one at bat end in weak contact rather than a K for the reasons you've described - maybe you force an error, maybe you bloop into a hit. But that same hitter that just struck out is going to come to the plate 699 more times that season. if that one single strikeout was the result of an approach that leads to more hard contact and more xbh, or if that one strikeout was the result of an approach where the batter is trying to see more pitches, leading to more walks and more hard contact on mistake pitches, over the course of a year, that's far more important and valuable than one individual at bat over the course of 162.
  4. imb
    well, you're taking micro issue - a single at-bat - and using it to justify a take on a macro position, if a strikeout is worse than bad contact (or however we're framing it.) And you just can't do that. Is a strikeout worse than bad contact? Depends on the situation.
  5. imb
    I see a little number 1 poking out on that jersey. definitely thinking Dejesus (#11)
  6. imb
    That one bellhorn season was so fun. We were all so new to sabr concepts so walks were like the extent of our knowledge. And here comes this unheralded three true outcomes switch hitter out of nowhere. Fun season
  7. imb
    you called them horrible for some reason
  8. imb
    the answer is
  9. imb
    this is a real fun back and forth just kidding. its kind of a pointless exercise. even if you determine the exact perfect ratio of strikeouts to contact or strikeouts to homeruns or whatever.... ok now what? how does that inform your decision making as a FO? There's like 4 decent free agents every year and they all go to the dodgers. You can't really use that information to build your roster anyway.
  10. imb
    the answer lies within yourselves
  11. imb
    Winner will be shamed mercilessly for having this useless knowledge
  12. imb
    still love corey patterson. I was digging around in some boxes last christmas looking for horsefeathers in the garage and found a bunch of stuff i bought off ebay in the early 2000s, including some patterson rookie cards I thought were going to fund my kids college one day. Awesome player. Love that we're running it back in 2025 with PCA
  13. imb
    we're really 2006 posting in here arent we
  14. imb
    fun fact: mark grace did wear batting gloves at times in cold weather months. the more you know
  15. imb
    I think I agree with you
  16. imb
    see above
  17. imb
    every tom post
  18. imb
    yeah but the margins are slimmer today and the profit routes are much larger. owners arent rich fans anymore, they're businessmen trying to fund their other horsefeathers with guaranteed baseball profits
  19. imb
    i dont know if league is taking their lead as much as very few owners actually care about going all out to win when it mostly just hurts their bottom line. they'll cost cut and penny pinch their way to 85 wins and lots of profit
  20. imb
    accurate translation
  21. imb
    OMC should come do a point-counterpoint about how the cubs don’t have ENOUGH whites
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  23. imb
    my obsession with sports fashion is finally paying off
  24. imb
    crazy that pelosi outlasted him by a decade
  25. imb
    first one that came to mind (bonus baby andy content!)
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