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  1. badger1679666666
    I think he will too, he's got too much talent not to, but I don't think he CAN do it with us. :(
  2. badger1679666666
    I'd put up with his attention whoring/laziness for 45/150.
  3. badger1679666666
    he's got speed, but I don't know if he can catch the ball. :wink:
  4. badger1679666666
    I'm sure Fred could help you two out...
  5. badger1679666666
    I probably say something like "I hope he does". But more often than not whether or not that feeling is right just falls in line with the rate that you would expect the player to succeed. With few exceptions, I don't really get into objective analysis type discussions while at the game. Just look at the game threads here. Guys are always talking about getting that feeling that somebody will come through. Usually it doesn't happen, and it's ignored. But on the rare times when the guess is right, people keep bringing up how great it was that somebody predicted it. I'd bet on just about every pitch, somebody somewhere is predicting what will happen, based on their feelings of a person's clutchness, and is dead wrong. I brought a girl to Wrigley one time in the mid 90's, sat in the RF bleachers. Brian McRae was up. I forget the situation, but I said something like, this is when he'll hit one out. He put one about 2 rows in front of us. It was just chance. I actually believed in stuff like clutch and intangibles at the time. I was raised on the mythology of baseball. That was before I started reading about the new wave of thought coming into the game. How old are you, just curious?
  6. badger1679666666
    Can't you set up your profile so it gives you an option of not showing up on the "who's online list". I post on other messgae boards of the same layout that allow this. Edit: Yes he can - Bruce you can click the yes bubble to hide your online status, if you're getting sick of being called out everytime you come on.
  7. badger1679666666
    Can all of these be on it? Especially the first one, which I'm most pissed off about.
  8. badger1679666666
    The concept certainly does exist, because people are always looking for complicated explanations for why stuff happens. But the reality of clutch is that it is really only a crutch word used to describe regular occurences in irregular situations. I wouldn't think that the "clutch" explanation is a simple explanation for why something happens - you can simply say so and so is clutch. I think we might just agree to disagree, but I know my dart partner is more clutch than me - even though we are equal skill levels. And I know MJ is more clutch than Scottie even though they are both great players.
  9. badger1679666666
    Sure, but they were dominant in the regular season. Gibson dominated the Tigers in '68 and the Sox in '67, but he was an amazing pitcher in almost any situation. It is very rare to find a player who was avg. during his career during the season and then be significantly better in the post-season/WS, especially as the sample grows larger. The same traits that made Gibson, Ford, and Koufax great post-season pitchers are the same traits that made them great reg. season pitchers. But... Gibson, Ford, and Koufax had great mental makeups. I'll have to go back to basketball for my point, but Scottie and MJ were both really good ball players - top 50 of all time, however, without a doubt, MJ was more clutch in the final minutes of a game than scottie was. I think the response or thriving under pressure is what counts. Hell I'm a great darts player, have won several leagues (nowhere near professional) and my buddy/partner is as well - however in really pressure situations I wan't him throwing for our team because he comes through more often in those situations. If you look at our overall stats they are similar - but when we really need a number/win he's more of a "go-to guy".
  10. badger1679666666
    Why on God's green earth did you let Wood pitch for 37 days including the day before his surgery, saying it wouldn't affect his return this season, and now say he might not be ready to start? Why didn't we hear more about you going for Giles, instead of getting stuck with Jones (edit)? Why didn't Milton Bradley pan out for the Cubs Why are you so hell bent on trading our 3rd best offensive player? Why would you resign Rusch and Neifi for 5 million a piece (then cite all the other better deals out there)? Why would you give so much up for a one-year rental (Pierre)? Any others?
  11. badger1679666666
    Neifi?
  12. badger1679666666
    wood's problem is that he had to go out and strike out 20 during his rookie season, which everyone then started expecting from him every time out. one of the reasons that wood had TJS is because of that 20 k game. now, since he hasn't struck out 20 in a game in like 7 years, people are giving up on him, despiet the fact that he's a very effective pitcher. the primary wood detractors, imo, are the ones who expected him to duplicate his 20 k performancence--and were extremely let down when he hasn't. a 20 k game is lightning in a bottle, only 1 other pitcher has ever done it--it's simply unrealistic to expect woody to do it more than once. I think alot of Wood detractors cite his lack of "wins" as well. But I'm sure y'all know how I feel about that metric for judging starting pitchers. (Hint: It makes badger a very angry badger).
  13. badger1679666666
    so then the concept of clutch does exist...
  14. badger1679666666
    I don't think it makes sense to compare across sports. Why not. People were debating whether clutch was real, and I gave an example of an athlete that was by far the most clutch player in sports history. I'm generally for objective analysis but I don't think statistics tell you all there is to know about every ball player. You could have two equal players based on basic metrics, but one might just respond better to pressure situations. I don't think that concept is so foreign that it should be mocked (not saying you are mocking it goony - but treebeard sort of did). I wouldn't make 90% of my decisions based on it, but as former assistant coach/private coach I had an idea of who I would want under pressure, and I certainly didn't study numbers.
  15. badger1679666666
    Jim should. I realize this but I don't need pain inflicted in me everytime another team makes a better signing than us. If you don't want the pain, I'd stay away from any Cubs info all winter (and maybe even all next season). I'm a multiple personality. One of my personalities is a masochist, the other keeps coming back to this transaction board to see something good happen. :(
  16. badger1679666666
    Jim should. I realize this but I don't need pain inflicted in me everytime another team makes a better signing than us.
  17. badger1679666666
    If you don't believe there's such a thing as a clutch player, you must not watch much sports, and you clearly didn't play many either. I watch a lot of sports and have played plenty in my time and I don't believe there is a "clutch player." The numbers don't bear that out. If being "clutch" is an ability, then "clutch players" would have good numbers in "clutch" situations from year to year or at least numbers that are consistent with their career numbers. They do not. I think there are certain players that rise up to the occassion who obviously are always good players but seem to be even better in pressure situations - intangibles if you will. MJ is a shining example of one of them.
  18. badger1679666666
    do we have to hear about Neifi's contract after EVERY deal made that is better than his?
  19. badger1679666666
    Man is there anything Hendry DOESNT overpay for (other than T-Walk and Ramirez)?
  20. badger1679666666
    I don't like you anymore. :cry:
  21. badger1679666666
    not at all.
  22. badger1679666666
    You would trade Z, Hill, Patterson, and Tejada for Ramirez, Clement and Bedard? or Prior, Hill, Patterson AND tejada for Ramirez Clement and Bedard? No thanks.
  23. badger1679666666
    I know Manny wants out of Boston, but why would he agree to Baltimore? It is still in the Northeast, and is a bad team. He would have no hope of winning there. Tejada's complaints don't make it seem like a very desirable place to play. I agree that it doesn't make sense, but if your main desire is to play for a winning team, why leave Boston? I think there a beef Manny has with Boston we know nothing about and I don't think Manny really cares about winning. And already having a WS ring might make someone as lazy as MAnny content to go to any team and be the man there.
  24. badger1679666666
    That doesn't sway my opinion at all. Call me stubborn. That reads to me your generic form letter "I'm at the place I always wanted to be". You know you aren't going to read "I wanted to play elsewhere for a bunch more money, but nobody offered as much as I was hoping for". But people (LA, Toronto) DID offer more, and he stayed. I thought he's always said he likes the Left Coast too. So with everything combined (not just that one cliche line which I agree with you - could sound like "yes I always wanted to stay here) it appears he strongly wanted to remain where he was. San Diego is an AWESOME town BTW, it's not hard for me to understand why someone wouldn't want to move from there. At the very least - he didn't appear to be testing the FA market in the same way Furcal did. That's my only point I guess. I think I'm done with any Giles discussions. I believe he was never leaving SD unless the 7 million was their only offer, and others believe the Cubs should have thrown 3/45 at him. This however does NOT excuse hendry, because as I said earlier, there were SO MANY better options than Jockstrap.
  25. badger1679666666
    please be true, please be true, please be true!
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