Transmogrified Tiger

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He might think that nobody noticed or cared? And what does he learn from having fans boo him? Associating actions with consequences is a form of learning. He learns by hearing the boos that his actions were not enjoyed by the spectators. Without booing, he does not make that association. Hearing no boos leads to assumptions that actions will be tolerated and chances are those actions will be repeated. A similar association can be made that you feel I am selfish and dumb because I do not find a problem with expressing my displeasure. To each his own... Like I said before, I don't think any professional baseball player needs boos to realize that they did something wrong. I don't think any professional baseball player says to himself "I blew a save today, but I didn't get booed, so I guess it doesn't matter if I do it again tomorrow. I would appreciate it if you did not put words into my mouth. I simply answered your question as to how that was considered a form of learning. Put words in your mouth? You said(referring to LaTroy) that the boos help him learn, and then outlined the learning process. Player does bad, fan boos, player learns that he does bad, because otherwise "he does not make the association". What part of that connection is not true?

He might think that nobody noticed or cared? And what does he learn from having fans boo him? Associating actions with consequences is a form of learning. He learns by hearing the boos that his actions were not enjoyed by the spectators. Without booing, he does not make that association. Hearing no boos leads to assumptions that actions will be tolerated and chances are those actions will be repeated. A similar association can be made that you feel I am selfish and dumb because I do not find a problem with expressing my displeasure. To each his own... Like I said before, I don't think any professional baseball player needs boos to realize that they did something wrong. I don't think any professional baseball player says to himself "I blew a save today, but I didn't get booed, so I guess it doesn't matter if I do it again tomorrow.

Hmmm, didn't know about him not playing.

.281/.293/.348/.642 That's why people hate Macias.

Unless Bill Hall really tanked the last couple weeks, he's been better than all those guys this year.

He might think that nobody noticed or cared? And what does he learn from having fans boo him?

I'm sitting behind my desk and wasn't able to watch the game today. Describe the hit he had today that drove in the tying run, por favor. Routine fly ball to medium deep RF, Tucker lost it in the sun, stepped back, and it bounced in front of him. Lee would've scored easily had it been caught.

I wouldn't have any problem with that. The only thing I'd worry about is Affeldt is similar to Remmy in that he gets out righties better than lefties. We all know the problems that Dusty seems to have in understanding this phenomenon. :roll: I'm not a huge Affeldt fan. He's 26, which gives him some time, but he's getting rocked away from pitcher friendly Kaufmann this year. Last year he had a .300+ BAA too.

Wouldn't matter. Neifi replaced Ramirez in the 8th. Whoops. Watch Burnitz walk and have Neifi's awful approach work again. Bases loaded is the only time his hack away style is effective.

For the hundredth time, this is why Ramirez should hit fourth.

How could he? Murton and Barrett had already replaced their counterparts, the 9 spot hadn't come up yet. maybe hairston/gerut to cf, macias to 3rd, neifi to ss, dempster in ramirez or cedenos spot. would that work? just seems odd, cause now he'll have to pinch hit and lose his best reliever if we don't win in the ninth. I doubt Dempster's good for more than one inning anyway. He's thrown 3 days in a row before last night, and that's a lot of adjustments just for that.

How could he? Murton and Barrett had already replaced their counterparts, the 9 spot hadn't come up yet.

You know JGalt, maybe you were on to something with that luck thing...

STOP BUNTING

C'mon Felipe, I know you can work 6 pitchers in this inning!

I'm one of Neifi's harshest critics, but he hasn't played today.

Felipe is a glutton for punishment. 3 days in a row with Hawkins in the 8th?

Isolated power: SLG-AVG Here we go with another obscure stat. The guy is hitting over .400 and we're worried about is ISOP. Assuming Nomar comes back with some power, we have at least average or better power at 1B, 2B (for the position), SS (for the position), 3B, RF, & C. The last time I looked, the WSox were running away with their Division without a power-hitting LF. I guess I'm too old to get excited about all of these new statistics. Give me the good old days when a guy hitting .400 should be playing. Instead, everyone wets their pants over a guy hitting .240 with 8 million strikeouts and thinks we ought to trade half our farm system for him. I don't disagree with Murton playing, but you don't seriously think he's going to hit .400 over the long run, do you? There's a difference between using stats for projection purposes (as they were used here) and deciding who should play today or who has performed the best. Since it's unlikely that Murton hits .455 for the rest of his career, people are trying to figure out what they should expect from him. i don't see why this bothers you so much. Well, I believe that when a guy is hot you play him and when a guy is in a slump you sit him. Murton won't hit .450 for the rest of his career, but there's a very good possibility he would outhit Hollandsworth. The Cubs are looking for a guy to get on base and then they platoon him. Thank God that Dusty sat him today against Tomko so that the veteran Hollandsworth could show him how it's done (3 strikeouts in the first 6 innings). Sometimes you need a little common sense instead of statistics. Again, no one said to sit Murton. We were only talking in context of future performance, and if that was good enough to not go after a bat in LF.

Z going to take one for the 7 man bullpen.

"Fastball...DON'T SWING"

It seems like Walker avoids throwing overhand if at all possible. Shovelling, underhand, flipping to Cedeno...

sheesh, 29 pitch inning blew up his pitch count.

Hey maybe his OBP is within 30 points of the guys he's playing in front of now!!

He did. That's why he's out today and was replaced last night. Weird. Wasn't that in the 1st inning? Strange that he'd play through it for most of the game and then come out.