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Brewers are up 4-0 :(
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Joe Torre has basically said as much. He says that one of the most unfair advantages that Bonds has is that one of the essential elements of batting (fear of being drilled) is taken out of the equation, because not only does he wear all the armor, but in today's game pitchers are discouraged from pitching inside, much less hitting players. that body armor has helped him get a whopping TWO hit-by-pitch this year, 10 in 2006, and ZERO in 2005
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Why? i'm not into a cute nickname for an already cute team name
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but shouldn't it be "NearWestSideHoops"?
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WCF FTW
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I hate that he refers to himself as a Cubbie
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He's famous for having some of the quickest wrists in the history of the game. I think he would have been fine. i still think he would have juiced. it's awfully easy for him to sit on his high horse about Bonds when he never had the temptation to begin with
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Yes. It was harder to hit a home run in his day than it is now. well, you're probably right, as Aaron would probably have been juicing along with everyone else had he played in the 90's Some people don't need the juice to be blessed with great hitting eyes or wonderful swings. like Barry Bonds?
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Yes. It was harder to hit a home run in his day than it is now. well, you're probably right, as Aaron would probably have been juicing along with everyone else had he played in the 90's
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correlation =/= causation
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So when does your respect for older players start? 1980 forward? Was Willie Mays also worthless in your eyes? Dimaggio? Ernie Banks? Those guys were great, just like Ruth, in their era. But you act like, as athletes, they wouldn't have been able to have improved their game to match the modern game. If Ruth had the ability to wear body armor, not fear inside pitches, have video previews of a pitcher's pitches, have mechanics instructors to work on his swing, supplements to improve his overall health...I'm sure he wouldn't have been too overmatched by a 95mph splitter like you say. Ruth was by all accounts a born and gifted athlete. They said he would often go into a gym and destroy everyone else at basketball, even though he had never practiced or played it much in his life. do you believe that if Hank Aaron had played from 1984-2007 (rather than 1956-1979) he still would have hit 755 HR's?
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Cobb got a hit 36% of the times he stepped to the plate during his career. Even the best home run hitters of all time only get a home run in 1 of every 11-12 AB's. If he didn't have a home run stroke to begin with, how can you fault a guy for not trying to hit home runs when he's able to get a hit so frequently. I wish the Cubs had a guy who could hit .370 and steal 60 bases. but if he COULD hit HR's and chose not to, that's bad baseball That's why Dave Kingman was the smartest player that ever lived, right? He knew he could hit HR's and the best result of any at bat is a HR so he just swung for the fences every time up. nice try. I'm arguing that the notion that Cobb had home run ability yet chose not to is bad baseball. i never said that swinging for the fences was good baseball. that said, a HR is always the best outcome of an at-bat, and purposely trying not to hit one is bad
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so would sosa. i'm not talking about sosa. i'm talking about your citing that Sosa had more plate appearances than Olerud with runners in scoring position. Sosa is the control here, and you're adding the variable of Olerud getting extra hypothetical plate appearances to even out their opportunities. my question was do statisticians maintain that Olerud would continue his current season numbers over those additional plate appearances (small sample size) or regress towards his career numbers over those plate appearances (large sample size).
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Cobb got a hit 36% of the times he stepped to the plate during his career. Even the best home run hitters of all time only get a home run in 1 of every 11-12 AB's. If he didn't have a home run stroke to begin with, how can you fault a guy for not trying to hit home runs when he's able to get a hit so frequently. I wish the Cubs had a guy who could hit .370 and steal 60 bases. but if he COULD hit HR's and chose not to, that's bad baseball
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it's here, but Premium won't log in right now
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for the sake of argument: Assuming Olerud's number in 1998 were above his career norms, wouldn't a statistician say that given the extra plate appearances with runners on, etc., Olerud would be less likely to maintain his above-career numbers and more likely to regress towards the mean of his career numbers?
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That wasn't how he wanted to play baseball. He thought he had a better chance to get on base and thus help his team if he played the way that he knew best, which was slapping the ball to all fields i.e. Ichiro. He was wrong, then. Why is he wrong? It's obviously better to get on base as much as possible so if Cobb thought he could get on base more often by hitting to all fields rather than swinging for the fences, shouldn't that be a good thing? the best result of any at-bat in any situation is a HR also (and I've made this point to OMC before), not only was the talent pool restricted to white players, but there also wasn't the financial reward for the elite athletes to become pro baseball players. If you were really good at baseball but could become a doctor, lawyer or business owner, your best option (financially) would be the latter. Today, there is no question which path you would try, as the financial gains as a pro baseball player are multiple times higher than most other occupations
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right in the middle of a game thread? NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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WindyCityFootball was available, but WindyCityHoops & WindyCityBasketball were taken. Second City kind of sounds degrading to the city of Chicago. Second City *is* a nickname for Chicago (though, as Tim says, LA is now technically the second city). no it isn't. doesn't matter if it's bigger population-wise, Chicago will always be Second City
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the announcers in this game are basically trying and convicting Bonds on the air. so very un-ESPN like
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Zambrano has lowered his ERA 12 starts in a row since June 1
Derwood replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Carlos Zambrano is good -
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Derwood replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That would definitely be worth the price of admission. You know I'm there. Adults-only game threads, I might shell out for that. if Tim made an adult-only section available for Premium subscribers I bet a ton more people would sign up -
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Derwood replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
this is exactly why we should have an adults only, swearing friendly subsection of this board. it would be legendary -
Mark Prior: http://www.jcph.org/images/hospital_sign.jpg
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8/5 Mets(Glavine) @ Cubs(Marquis) 7:05 P.M. CT ESPN
Derwood replied to Skyballer's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
i'm no hitting coach, but hey, Cubs, you might want to look to take some pitches the other way in this one
