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  1. BigSlick
    Yeah but they dont have to takeout anyone as good as Konerko to put Ortiz in. Somewhere, hiding under a rock Kevin Youkilis is crying.
  2. BigSlick
    I kind of liked it tonight! :-) Let's see what happens tomorrow. Why panic. You're still in first place? :-) :-) :ducks: Yay, Duke got a win despite a 9.00 ERA. I'm happy.
  3. BigSlick
    but everyone knows those 3 are awesome. plus dunn's personality is a+ He shaved his soul patch. I don't know if thats good or bad. BTW, Bay sucks. I hate him and I hate his stupid face.
  4. BigSlick
    It makes me sad to see much pain in this man's heart.
  5. BigSlick
    That's basically what the Cubs have right now. A bunch of guys that don't strike out that much. Neifi Perez rarely strikes out. The Reds have K'd 140 more times than the Cubs, and I'll take their offense over the Cubs all day long. Preach it brutha!
  6. BigSlick
    In order to be a good hitter, one has to be unafraid of striking out. The hitter must be able to take marginal pitches and work the count. Thats why strike outs are overrated. Too often are they looked at as a huge negative in the evaluation a player, while certain players (Giambi, Dunn, etc.) strike out often but are incredibly useful players.
  7. BigSlick
    Adam Dunn follows itup with a 3 run homer today, w00t! I love this guy.
  8. BigSlick
    Well, any .400 OBP guy walks often, that's part of what's behind the whole idea. So I'm not sure where you're going with this... :-k I think he means Ted Williams. I mean, thats the only way to get to .400 OBP without ever walking. Ever. Ah, the Ted Williams with a lifetime .344 AVG and lifetime .482 OBP that never walked. Think about that. Lifetime .482 OBP. That's just insane. He was a great hitter and didn't seem to mind taking the base if the pitcher didn't want to throw strikes. He averaged over a 100 walks a season also. Even though he only averaged 120 games played per season. I'm just saying, the only way a player to ever reach a .400 OBP would be a ridiculously talented hitter like Williams... Except for Williams to be such a great hitter he had to patient and take a lot of walks... Its sort of like circular logic. It would be impossible for a hitter to reach .400 OBP without walking because pitchers would eventually be forced to walk him. That, and in most cases, good hitting is being patient and selective and finding good pitches to hit...which means more walks.
  9. BigSlick
    But this isn't going to happen... right?
  10. BigSlick
    Well, any .400 OBP guy walks often, that's part of what's behind the whole idea. So I'm not sure where you're going with this... :-k I think he means Ted Williams. I mean, thats the only way to get to .400 OBP without ever walking. Ever.
  11. BigSlick
    Heh, i'm already ahead of you there buddy.
  12. BigSlick
    To further emphasize the point of how insignificant the K total is compared to the OBP, I'd take a guy with a .400 OBP and 200K's over a guy with a .380 (just throwing a number out there) OBP and 100K's. A hitter would never be able to sustain a .400 OBP and strikeout 200 times, his BABIP would be so insanely high I'd be very surprised if it ever happened. An average player will get between 500-600AB's per year so if he's striking out 1/2-1/3 of the time he'd have to have around 200 hits a year to maintain that OBP assuming that he doesn't walk or get walked very often. You realize that Adam Dunn routinely does what you think is impossible? 2002 Cincinnati Reds MLB 22 Cin MLB 158 535 84 133 28 2 26 71 19 9 128 170 9 13 1 3 8 .249 .400 .454 854 2003 Cincinnati Reds MLB 23 Cin MLB 116 381 70 82 12 1 27 57 8 2 74 126 10 8 0 4 4 .215 .354 .465 819 2004 Cincinnati Reds MLB 24 Cin MLB 161 568 105 151 34 0 46 102 6 1 108 195 5 11 0 0 8 .266 .388 .569 957 2005 Cincinnati Reds MLB 25 Cin MLB 160 543 107 134 35 2 40 101 4 2 114 168 12 14 0 2 6 .247 .387 .540 927 .388 OBP and 195 strikes out in 2004. Certainly not far enough from .400 and 200.
  13. BigSlick
    We start every game with 2 outs in the bottom of the first. Its quite ridiculous.
  14. BigSlick
    Yea, thats not full of bias at all. :lol:
  15. BigSlick
    Lame, you guys had a great chance to put the series away, now we might have a series with a re-awakened Shaq. I wish the Heat would just go away. :cry:
  16. BigSlick
    This would be a safe bet.
  17. BigSlick
    He can't hit lefties worth crap. Yea, so what? What is Neifi Perez doing in the 2 hole? Why is Murton doing so high up there if his splits show favorably against lefties? You think these guys even look at splits?
  18. BigSlick
    Gah, what is this lineup? Everytime Neifi Perez makes a start in the 2hole over Walker I die a little inside. What is Jacque Jones, one of our hottest hitters doing at the bottom of the lineup? I think i'm gonna go throwup.
  19. BigSlick
    I bought myself a nifty Brazil soccer shirt, too bad I don't fit into it anymore. BRAAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL!
  20. BigSlick
    You make a great point. I had an older gentleman ask me what slugging percentage was. So no, not everybody grasps the OBP concept yet (some of them are working in baseball), but it's catching on, thanks in large part to great fans like you guys. Thanks, and thank you for trying to impart true baseball knowledge on the rest of us.
  21. BigSlick
    Its like...we are living in some fantasy world. We (cubs fans) would kill to have these type of players on our team, and are probably overly appreciative of them. They (reds fans) are complete morons and don't know what they want at all. God I want to kill somebody. And for that matter, how is Dunn still the best kept secret in the Major Leagues? It still seems like no one values how....VALUABLE this guy is. He gets on base 40% of the time, and hits balls really really far. Why is this hard to understand?
  22. BigSlick
    All you hafta do to stop the Heat is let Wade go, he's gonna score, stop Shaq, and hope Antoine Walker makes his first three attempt of the night. If he makes the first one, he'll shoot all night, if he misses his first 3 or 4, he'll start passing them up. Mavs got this one. If they sweep I win ~$130, if they win in 5 i win ~$70. I got my "I am a Nowitzness" shirt in the mail the other day. Awesome. The Heat have been rather unspectacular all playoffs. I was surprised they got past even a deflated and unemotional Pistons team. The East is rather....meh. (Which means to me the Bulls could compete for the East title as soon as next year)
  23. BigSlick
    This makes me really happy, I really liked what I saw outta Bradley starting with the Preseason. Bradley, Moose, Berrian, Gage, etc. might be enough to hold us over this year.
  24. BigSlick
    I have some doubt, because part of me believes that Zambrano is a god/superhero/robot and the only thing that can break him is his nemesis, the instant messenger. Which is, coincidentally, my nemesis as well.
  25. BigSlick
    Wow, I...don't have much to say about this. You sound like you came back from Joe Morgan's School of Stubborn Ignorance.
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