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who cares? he's a terrible coach

What kind of changes should we do? The sooner we start talking about it, the better.

Murton is so much better than Pagan, it's almost hilarious, because Murton may not even be average overall.

If Cleveland can win the east with Lebron at 22+crap, is there anyway they don't own the conference for the next decade? Think about that, in ten years, Lebron will have been in the league for 14 seasons...and he'll be 32. Amazing.

if we trade Cruz for Lowell, I am done with this team.

But Barrett hypnotized Kerry to do it for him.

Someone mentioned this in the game thread. I think ERA is and should be a pitching statistic, not pitching + fielding. While I agree with that, is there a stat for pitchers that combines ERA, pitcher errors and pitcher offensive output? I don't know how it would be done, but it could be interesting. If that doesn't make sense, I'm trying to ask if Pitcher A puts up a 4.00 era but hits 6 homeruns, is he more effective than Pitcher B that has a 3.75 era but no hits all season or Pitcher C with a 3.75 era but tons of errors? I don't know, I think it would be interesting and could be a nice way of measuring overall effectiveness as a baseball player, not necessarily as a pitcher. I think the problem with that is that by far the most important thing a pitcher does is pitch. Pitching is 80% or more of what a pitcher does while defense and offense make up the other 20%. A pitcher may have 3 or 4 ABs in a game at most and an average of 2 or 3 defensive chances per game, while he throws to probably 80+ pitches to 20+ batters. The difference in pitchers offensively and defensively is not going to make up much of any difference in them in pitching. Yes, I agree. Pitching may be even more than 80% importance. But if we're truly looking for who helps a team win -- and that should be the goal, not just who pitches better -- little things could make up a small difference in ERA. I just wonder how much pitcher offense/defense can make up for pitching. BP did a study about that recently. I can't remember the final tally, but someone with a bat like Marquis subtracted a significant number off his ERA.

grandslam by 2B Tyler Mach, OSU up 8-1, with 2 out, still in bottom of the fourth. Arkansas' staff lost all command of the strike zone, without looking at my notes, they've walked four batters this inning, one on five pitchers and three on four straight.

Todd out after walking the first batter he faced in the fourth on four straight. 3.0 IP 4ER 6H 1BB 2HBP he leaves with a runner on first, and with the way OSU swings the bats, be prepared to make it 5ER.

Todd is struggling to get ahead of hitters right now. He has a little hitch in his delivery that has to help him, because he doesn't look to have overwhelming stuff. Of course now that I type that he just strikes a guy out.

Go Hogs! Also, everybody knows Nick Schmidt is a beast, but I didn't realize how ridiculous Jess Todd's numbers were this year, especially after he struck out 17 in 8 innings last weekend. Anybody know what he throws, and what his pro prospects are? He's pitching today, so I look forward to seeing what IMB! thinks. Get ready to wait. I've been at the park since 2:30, and we're still an hour away from OSU at Arkansas. Creighton beat Albany 21-11 in one of the longest baseball games I have ever seen. The first six innings took two hours, the next three took over two more. Just brutal.

Arkansas vs. OSU tomorrow. Look for me down the third base line if you happen to see the game.

someone record the post game press conference

that was hilarious what a weird day

Bullington?

COMPETITIVE WITHIN THE DIVISION http://bonstemps.com/Zombiebirdhouse/mission-accomplished.jpg

ROWELL ISOD of .103 Sure he's not hitting for power, but he's like 13 years old, it will come. f you colvin

I'm actually going to be covering Arkansas (and OSU) this weekend.

Did anyone else notice Mitre's HUGE ASS? Good lord.

Just because you cant account for it with math or see it, does not mean that it does not exist. The recently discovered dark energy/matter comes to mind. Hahaha, we're talking baseball here, not quantum physics. If there was a relationship, it would show up in the numbers.

Yeah, Barry Bonds is going to sit out an entire series because the Giants are afraid people will boo him. He gets booed everywhere he goes, give me a break.

Give him 2 more years

PAUL DEPODESTA MORE LIKE LOL DEPODESTA /oldcubsfan

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

hahah and lou throws a fit at eyre. if you put a crappy pitcher in, you'll get crappy results, what did you expect?