woodchip2153

It's annoying I can't listen on gameday anymore, and I have to have 2 tabs open.

Why would you think they would do that? Because somebody wrote an article about the Cubs doing that. But then Sahadev responded thusly: [tweet] [/tweet] Yes, should have used the rolleyes, my post was sarcastic making fun of that hardball talk article.

well at least until the Cubs lecture the fun out of him.

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You say that like it's a bad thing. Why do even watch sports if they make you this miserable? I mean, this team is in a championship window. So a peak of getting their asses kicked in the NLCS isn't a year people should strive to want. First, there is no such thing as peak of NLCS. Any team that is good enough to make the NLCS is good enough to win. Second, if you can't enjoy a team that lost in the NLCS, won the world series, and lost the NLCS, again I ask, why do you watch? Find something that you actually enjoy, because you obviously don't enjoy sports.

This is the same team as last year You say that like it's a bad thing. Why do even watch sports if they make you this miserable?

No Rizzo again today, and Zobrist at 2nd

Who is the guy doing the play by play for the radio in the 5th? Sounds like he's announcing golf

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So Regular Show is Meph?

Derwood, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the stuff on the walls?

I am so proud that this is catching on What does it mean?

I curl with them! not really with them, just at the same club and have seen them around a couple of times, but we're pretty much bff's.

a lot more than that too. https://deadspin.com/michigan-states-issues-with-reporting-sexual-assault-go-1822463064

hopefully he actually accepts some blame unlike the president who thought she was the victim.

Wait, why not? And why does that have to be prefaced with bring a fan of his? Wait, why does he have Jay's fan to begin with?

Did they not have a type writing class in Scales Mound? edit: Did you edit that? I swear it used to say chamces.

That, and, "holy horsefeathers, this person is seriously messed up." Between that and the weird separation of "Ryan" like that's an actual other person in the apology, this is some serious sociopath horsefeathers going on. That said, we're reading it in a super condensed form, so it seems like it jumped from "chatting with rando sports dude online" to "sending him nudes because he's making weird threats" in no time at all. "Ryan" was grooming all of these women to be able to do stuff like this; putting in the work and the time to seem like their friend and a good guy, before seemingly consciously starting to twist the screws and slowly escalating treating them horsefeathers before jumping to, "I'm going to hurt myself or worse unless you give me what I want." This woman is messed up, especially to be doing this so drawn out and thoughtfully as a TEENAGER. Maybe I read it wrong, but the deadspin article was weird, because it seemed like it was making excuses for her. The article read to me, like she just got trapped in this lie, because she became friends with Alex, but that doesn't explain the behavior you mentioned.

The gif was kind of choppy for me, but that is extremely impressive to hit a pitch that looked to be pretty far inside like that.

yep, but because I don't think he has the pitch recognition skills, I don't mind it from him.

I almost didn't respond to tim, because I knew I would get this response. I wasn't talking about teams I thought had better offenses than the Cubs, just teams I liked there approach, with the HUGE qualifier from the few times I watch them. Go back to talking about how Kyle Hendricks is terrible and won't succeed as a starting pitcher. See, it's easy to make someone look stupid, when you misrepresent their view. The Brewers set them MLB record for getting struck out this year without walking or getting on base nearly as much as the Cubs. This the reactions or this forum if we had the Brewers offensive approach at the plate would be quite hilarious though. This was only based on a handful of games I watched the Brewers (not against the Cubs), and probably heavily influenced by the fact I expect the Brewers hitters to be over matched, so the good at bats stuck out, instead of the opposite for the Cubs.

-- edited to add this note: I should have read the entire post before responding. -- I've got to be honest - since this isn't something I'm concerned about, I'm not willing to do the research here. But if I were going to see if I could pick something up in the data, I'd do something along the following lines... Any persistent pattern for the entire team that was due to a philosophy for the team or instruction for the coach should be measurable, if it is significant enough to matter. I believe this would show up when they either swing at pitches outside the zone or if they are laying off pitches in the zone (they are guessing on a particular pitch and get fooled) I'd first look to see where the team ranks in those measurements overall Then I would look to see where they rank in those metrics when ahead in the count and also when behind in the count to see if they are guessing in particular situations To try to find some trend, I'd look for extreme differences in behavior in the overall, early in the count and late in the count results There are a ton of problems with the analysis. First, it is really heavily influenced by the types of hitters we have in the first place. Second, when you start dividing the results by count, it becomes really hard to tell if what you're seeing is just noise or if there is evidence of a real change in approach. Third, it is really difficult to tell if there is a "problem" with the approach or if the problem lies in the execution. But if I were really interested, I'd take a look at those stats just to see if anything jumped out at me. Thanks, now if only I still had my old job, where I did about 2 hours of real work, and could spend the rest of the time doing crap like this.

I'm going to make one more post to try clarify where I'm coming from. I realize there is bias in my stance, because I'm more likely to realize/remember when a hitter guessing doesn't work, which is part of the reason why I brought it up to see if anyone felt the same. I'm not against guessing. It's probably needed to succeed at such a high level. I just thought maybe they guess too much, and this might be exploitable by certain pitchers. I don't think this is quantifiable, but if someone smarter than me can come up with a possible way, that would be amazing. The only thing I can think of is to see how the Cubs did in PA that go through a certain counts they might be more likely to guess compared to the rest of the league, but that is a terrible idea.

Changeups are just hard to mimic in a training setting especially MLB caliber ones. I was an average hitter for the levels I played at (above high school, but not much) and man did I horsefeathering hate changeups. Never recognized them and always swung over top of them. Luckily, the levels I played at were low enough, almost no one had a good change up they could throw consistently.

agree with all of this.