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  1. treebird
    hendry probably sensed trouble and figured he'd better send zambrano to the bullpen/suspend him at random rather than allow him to start.
  2. treebird
    i would not be altogether surprised to learn that jim hendry was getting his ideas for winning championships from some crazyball guy he didn't know who sent him random emails
  3. treebird
    tt is hiding behind the well-established "it's not a threat, it's a PROMISE" defense
  4. treebird
    i'll bet tt was sitting behind the 1b dugout and lahair was just trying to run into left field to get away from him
  5. treebird
    he was trying to steal second and left way before the pitcher delivered.
  6. treebird
    more wrong that weird. we can significantly improve umpiring with relative ease. why wouldn't we do it? we can improve pitching by just using mechanical pitching machines that have pinpoint accuracy. might as well do that too. people pay money to watch men play baseball. no one pays money to watch umpires. the stupid umpires are just a necessary evil we have to have because the players on the field would lie about the outcome of plays if there were no umpires. their job is to get the game as close as possible to where the game would be if we had perfect knowledge of every play. this is just the next step in that. we had no umpires, then one, then two, now four and six for the games that count the most. we're just trying to get at close as possible to empirical truth as is reasonable.
  7. treebird
    The lack of crippling of the game is hardly a defense of something that is still done poorly. It's not done poorly. This sequence is clearly an outlier. The sort of accuracy and consistency people are craving is already being achieved by the human umps. They're not infallible, but they're right 99.9% of the time. Things like video replays and timing equipment (in other sports) aren't infallable either. There's a failure rate with technology too. you think that umpires are correct 999 times out of 1000?
  8. treebird
    more wrong that weird. we can significantly improve umpiring with relative ease. why wouldn't we do it?
  9. treebird
    NO : (
  10. treebird
    i'd like to commission a study and see how much crossover there is between the "OH MY GOD SORIANO IS SUCH A BUM HE IS THE WORST DEFENSIVE LEFT FIELDER I HAVE EVER SEEN" and "we should give lahair a chance in left, i bet he could do it" crowds.
  11. treebird
    i am very interested in taking the over then, given that i'll either push or win
  12. treebird
    Joe Morgan approves of this analysis. i like how their achilles heel is something that also applies to all other teams another achilles heel is that that they cannot stop bullets with their minds and their skin is sensitive to temperatures over 500 degrees
  13. treebird
    i am really excited for 25 years from now when old men tell their grandchildren that there is no record of the cardinals ever winning the world series, though busch stadium did mysteriously blow away in 2012.
  14. treebird
    I think the ring presentation is tomorrow. http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120412&content_id=28502022&vkey=pr_stl&c_id=stl you're right, i was wrong. today is the banner unveiling, tomorrow is the ring presentation. i am fairly confident my friends are going to tomorrow's game, which now means i am rooting for one hell of a long thunderstorm.
  15. treebird
    do you guys think it would be overly bitter of me to be happy at the thought of this game getting rained out and the cardinals pushing back their stupid world series ring presentation another day? feel free to keep in mind that i have several cardinal fan friends going to the game today.
  16. treebird
    i want to know how to make my own candy beans
  17. treebird
    let's see if you can find mine, guys. here's what i remember from that day: i was really little but i can remember it, so it was probably between 89 and 92 i sat somewhere under the upper deck i think it was cloudy --- good luck!
  18. treebird
    hahahahhahahahhahahah
  19. treebird
    somebody better watch this and report back
  20. treebird
    god i hate that when we finally don't have to watch stupid marlon byrd it means we do have to watch stupid reed johnson GO BACK IN TIME AND SIGN CESPEDES
  21. treebird
    what sort of error did castro make/how bad was it?
  22. treebird
    Starting as the 7th hitter in this lineup and then being bumped to 8th after three games indicates to me that Sveum doesn't have much use for him. Watching him a couple times also gives me the impression that Byrd is somehow "disinterested" for lack of a better word. His first couple years he seemed more intense and gung ho about his role. he's too busy reading the 500 word essay on his forearm to care about getting hits
  23. treebird
    i went to the big ten basketball tournament a couple times and always paid really close attention to the various fanbases. minnesota was always comfortably the group i'd most like to hang out with. nothing but slightly dorky looking guys with pretty girls with dark hair.
  24. treebird
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/indians-get-no-discount-with-santana-extension/
  25. treebird
    the highway robbery took place when the owners and players agreed on a system allowing teams to pay players the league minimum for their first three seasons and then severely limit their salaries compared to they would receive on the open market the next three. this is just a logical result of that, not an additional theft.
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