In any two given games, there's about a 25% chance (a little higher for the "better" team, a little lower for the "worse" team) that one team will sweep both, right? Nothing wrong with opening a whole separate can of worms in a rainout thread.
I think I paid around $50 face for NLDS tickets last year... they were upper deck reserved. NLCS is higher and World Series is still higher.. I think the prices are set by MLB for the playoffs...Could be wrong. If so, SRO face value for the World Series is around $60-70 (based on what I remember hearing they cost for Colorado last year).
In other words, broadly speaking, I typically want nothing to do with the super-low strikeout hitters because they most likely aren't doing much working of the count.
IMO, most good hitters are going to K a good amount of the time because they are in so many deep counts. It's probably really rare, and more of an anomaly than a virtue of any sort, for a very good (productive) hitter to have a very low strikeout rate.
FWIW, for as bad as a lot of people here think DLee has been this year, Howard has been worse. Granted, Howard is younger and has been significantly better over his career, but I just thought it was an odd time to pick that name out.
If you are referring to my post, I didn't say they would sweep I said they "should absolutely sweep". They shouldn't. It doesn't work that way. That's like saying the worst team in baseball should lose every game. Or that the best team should win every game.
This is true especially against, and I must stress this again because this is important, a pitcher we haven't seen Don't get excited Cubbie fans, we aren't scoring many runs lol this isn't what I was saying, either
I really wish a lot of fans would stop acting like great team vs. terrible team = absolute overwhelming odds of victory. It doesn't. It's baseball. You could have the 98 Yankees face the 03 Tigers and the Tigers would have a decent chance of winning.
On Harden's awesomeness... http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=227010 I love that something written in a mainstream publication calls those numbers what they are, instead of pointlessly referencing his W-L record
:?: The announcer just said the US could start celebrating and that what the Germans came up with there was good but not the great that they needed... i was talking about the chinese. ah, my bad... I had tipped my cap to them like 20 minutes ago...