Magnetic Curses
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A couple of months? I know a baseball season is kind of long, but come on. I'm still trying to figure out how a baseball team learns to win with each other. So Derrek, you like hitting the ball that way and think I should run around the bases when you hit it. That's cool, we did that differently in Washington, but I'll figure it out. Hey Carlos, I think we need to figure out which days you plan on giving up lots of runs and which days you'll give up just 1 or 2, so we can adjust our offensive strategy accordingly. Maybe he just meant that the team will "gel" after awhile. But I don't think it will take 2 months. :D It has already started. It started the day they came back with 4 runs in one inning to take the lead. "gel"-ling is the same thing, it;s a meaningless baseball term more appropriate in the world of basketball or football, where timing is absolutely of the utmost importance. baseball is not really a team sport. the cubs weren't winning at the beginning of the year because they weren't hitting at the right times, which is no one's fault.
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Xenophobia is grand, ain't it! he's not really conveying a fear of japanese players. he's just saying he doesn't think they're very good. there is a world of difference here. i think we can read between the lines a bit there.
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The bunt? Now is actually one of the few times it makes sense to do it. It increases the odds of scoring a single run, and the difference between a two run lead and a three run lead with one inning left to go is pretty huge. it doesn't really matter what situation it comes in. a runner at first with no outs is worth more than one at second with one out. it hampers the ability to score many runs while not aiding the scoring of a single run. It does hamper the ability to score many runs, you are correct in that. But it does increase the odds of scoring that single run. Near the end of last season BP had up an expanded run expectancy matrix that illustrated that concept unequivocally. i'm pretty sure that tangotiger produced a study saying the opposite.
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The bunt? Now is actually one of the few times it makes sense to do it. It increases the odds of scoring a single run, and the difference between a two run lead and a three run lead with one inning left to go is pretty huge. it doesn't really matter what situation it comes in. a runner at first with no outs is worth more than one at second with one out. it hampers the ability to score many runs while not aiding the scoring of a single run.
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No, sir. I don't like it. the sac bunt? yep.
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i don't approve of that at all.
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he'll be running at some point.
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focus now guys!
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cotts k'd langerhans. what about in the inning, all the scoreboards ive checked are slow. whats the score? 5-3, the nats got 2.
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cotts k'd langerhans.
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get over here!
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we just kind of stopped payig attention in this game.
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yuk, this doesn't look good.
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1-2 count, he'll walk.
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this game gives me the creeps.
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it doesn't matter who's pitching, just one of those things.
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I believe he did or said something, although I can't remember what, that really ticked off the White Sox organization and ran himself out of a Sox uniform. he left the bullpen early or something.
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haha "Oh Mayunn!"
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he did it really well yesterday. i thought he was going to pass out, though. he even did what harry used to do, give the "1-2-3 strikes you're out" to the fans, which no one does.
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egh, george will gives me the creeps.
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what is going on? it looks like the picthing staff has lost interest in this game.
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george will in the radio booth.
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he needs to come out. let's start treating our good young pitchers with care.
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but they've had very good news in the last year as well.
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good news.