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Did anyone else just hear Cowherd say that Hendry was fired or being fired? I can't find anything other than that. Anyone else hear anything along those lines? I'm not trying to start anything, could have sworn I heard Cowherd say that.

Didn't The Book say that clutch hitters may exist, but the sample sizes are so small that it's impossible to determine who is clutch and what's just random variance. I think that's how they put it. Also, the difference generally wasn't big enough to really plan on as an advantage.

Considering that Perea is 6'8 I'm guessing a 7 footer should be able to score on him. :P Just a minor quibble, but Woodbury is almost 7'2 now. Which only reinforces your point.

??? He blooped a single to the catcher? Popped it straight up on the infield and it dropped between the mound and home plate. Ah, so he knocked the crap outta that one.

??? He blooped a single to the catcher?

The three Ks or the 24 pitches?

I don't think anybody here will disagree that Baker deserves to be facing all the lefties, so I wont adress that half of the platoon. As far as who is facing righties, I really don't see it as making any difference. DeWitt is probably the best hitter, but is pretty awful on defense. Baker has had awful numbers hitting righties in his career, but nobody has a platoon split that bad. He's probably the 2nd best hitter, as well as about an average defender... maybe a tick above. Barney is the worst hitter of the three, but his skillset probably isn't the type we have to worry about the sort of implosion we might see from Ronny Cedeno. Barney should be pretty much a carbon copy of Ryan Theriot last year (at least on offense) and if the reports are to be believed, he's a plus defender in the field. None of the three options are good. But they aren't far apart, either. Any way you want to cut it, we'll probably need to make a move for a 2B if we want to stay in the race all season. Blake Dewitt screams Bobby Hill to me. I see why people like him but there's just nothing about his game that is impressive at the major league level. I'm all for giving Barney a shot and sending Hill where ever :?: When did we get Hill back? Isn't he a security guard at some bank in Thousand Oaks or something? That said, he'd probably still equal what the Cubs currently have at 2B.

as is Lickliter, National Coach of the Year 5 years more recently than Sampson The guy who won less than 40 games at Iowa? I know it won't happen, but, I think he'd be a great fit at Illinois. Do it now.

Do you just go looking for stupidity? Because that's two articles in the last few days you posted that are full of good, old fashioned, horse manure. I mean, they're fantastic, but in a bad B-movie, cult classic kind of way. Good job... I think.

It's funny you say that Rob. The sentence you're referring to from my post originally said something like "typical messageboard poster", but I changed it to "casual fan" to tone it down a notch. Regardless, it's semantics, and if there is any meaningful distinction, the point I'm making applies to both groups. I really think you have a very warped view of what the anti-saber crowd is. The anti-saber crowd has been and always will be those who want nothing but "traditional" baseball. Sac bunts, the hit and run, team chemistry, batting average, grittiness, playing the game the right way, RBIs, etc... these are the tenets of the anti-saber crowd. The vast majority of them are still opposing the merit of OBP as more important than batting average or RBI. To find this sort of person, one needs only to look as far as the local sports bar, listen to talk radio, or as depressing as this is to say... watch or listen to any broadcast games (God bless Len Kasper for being one of a kind, but Bob is still old school.) You seem to have it in your head that the argument has evolved to the point that rallying against the use of stats people don't really understand is considered anti-saber. It isn't. If you feel you've been accused of that, you either interpreted it incorrectly or the accuser is/was a moron. That book you were so intent on defending? It isn't telling people that since WARP was using an obviously incorrect baseline for replacement level fielding that it was artificially boosting the value of guys like Adam Dunn while deflating it for guys like Adam Everett, hence leading the common fan to adopt something more of a mentality that disregarded speed and defense as ways to add significant value. It's telling people that it doesn't matter who our fancy computers think are good players because we can't predict with any degree of certainly what's going to happen in any given at bat. It's just a whole book that serves as a testament to the fact that they don't understand small sample sizes aren't bound to fall in line with big-picture projections. Yes, people need to understand stats better. No, that's not anti-saber of me to say so. Anti-saber is saying people don't need to understand the stats better because they don't matter. =D>

I wonder what percentage of brackets have Butler/VCU in the Final Four.

You are Kansas playing an 11 seed VCU come on. You have almost double the free throws shot as VCU doesn't mean we didn't get hacked constantly. Doesn't really matter. We couldn't hit free throws anyway. They played better than us. They hit shots. And we couldn't adjust to the officiating. They've been hacking and Kansas has been constantly pushing, what's the difference?

Both of those articles are like a bad movie you just can't turn off.

Awesome. Majestic flyouts to the CF track. Not in Wrigley it's not. Oh yeah. So caught at the wall or dropping into the basket. If he hit it 400ft anywhere other than CF, it's going into the stands. 400ft to CF, it's dropping into the basket.

I'm not going to claim any Rogers love, but it appears he's thinking (or that Hendry is thinking) Jackson is going to be a LF, not CF. The last comment kind of gives that away. Not saying he's right, or that Hendry's thinking is right, just comment on why Rogers might think of Jackson as a LF, not CF. And to be honest, if Szczur can progress, I wouldn't have problem with him moving Jackson to left. I have no idea how likely that is, though.

After reading the last three pages of the Saber thread, this is the first thing I thought of. http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c1292a.jpg =D> There are a couple of people in that thread that could use those.

After reading the last three pages of the Saber thread, this is the first thing I thought of.

I wonder how Starlin and Geo can be in the same dugout without the world exploding from their combined greatness. I keep waiting for Barney to walk into the clubhouse and say "it's full of stars".

^^^ It's his fault. =D>

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2010/9/4/1668866/crystal-ball-starlin-castro

the rumor is impermissible benefits Evidently it was his AAU coach making two or three 15 day loans to Jones' mom (I didn't hear an amount) while he was still in HS. He also, evidently, didn't know about it. If that is true, I have no idea either way, how does this square with Newton being let off because he didn't know about the MS State offer? There's a big difference: Newton was the star of a team making a championship run. Jones is the star of the best bad team in the country, thus no one gives a crap. Hopefully Drew wasn't involved. I'd hate to see a good coach wind up there. Found this. Again, I have no idea if this is accurate or not, but it does parallel what I heard talked about this morning. http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2011-03-09/perry-jones-suspension-highlights-ncaas-pathetic-course Edit: Also found this Rivals story, it has a little more info. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-baylor-jonessuspended

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but didn't he hit like 4 or 5 of those in about a two week span? Then nothing (almost literally) for the next couple of months.

the rumor is impermissible benefits Evidently it was his AAU coach making two or three 15 day loans to Jones' mom (I didn't hear an amount) while he was still in HS. He also, evidently, didn't know about it. If that is true, I have no idea either way, how does this square with Newton being let off because he didn't know about the MS State offer? My source was hearing it talked about it on the radio this morning, so take it for what it's worth. I'll try to find a link.

He was Honorable Mention on the Media list, he was left off the coaches list.

Can you imagine the Carlos cage match they could have?