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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, there isn't. There is one way to score a run: turn a batter into a batter-runner and advance him through the bases to home. There is only one way to win a game: score more runs than your opponent.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Personally, other than the predictably overblown coverage, I think it's a cute story. It's full of the amazing self-centeredness and absurd gestures that define the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry, which I enjoy quite a bit. The Red Sox fan does something petty and pointless, and the Yankees monumentally overreact with no regard for costs. Seems about right, doesn't it?
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay I would rather have Manny then PODS leading off, but PODS is a better lead off hitter, does that make sense? Not even a little. The fact that youhave to try to make such nonsensical distinctions shows how illogical your position is. It's cool, a lot of people have been brainwashed by learning their opinions about baseball from reading Ring Lardner books as a kid and reading bad baseball writers who worship the dead ball era. But it's still wrong.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Again, I never said Pods was a better player, but he is a better lead off hitter than Lee... nine carlos lees are going to score more runs than one scot podsednik and 8 carlos lees. Maybe, but that team would not win anything either... So either: Runs don't lead to wins. Or Podsednik's inspiring presence made the pitching staff so awesome?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    NSBB is not a single entity. But if I were owner, I'd fire Hendry as quickly as humanly possible. That would solve a lot more than a new manager would. A GM who is sabermetrically smart and willing to tell a manager what to do.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is about right. This is my biggest beef with Lou. And I don't know where KyleJRM came from, but he is quickly becoming one of my favorite posters. Well, I'm actually not that far from Rockford. But I've been here on and off for years.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Really? Absolutely. Bad strategic moves + burning out good pen pitchers in non-critical situations + overreacting to short samples constantly.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's some ugly equivocation. Bad-hitting MI or Cs are nowhere near the level of pitchers. Not really. There's plenty of back up MIFs and Cs that can barely hit 200-220. There's plenty of pitchers that can hit at least .230 out there. Mike Hampton .242 .292 .354 Rey Ordonez .246 .289 .310 Ouch.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not necessarily. It's only +EV if the gain from a successful H&R outweigh the loss from a failure. The loss of a baserunner and the addition of an out is a lot worse for the offense than the gain from an extra base advanced on a hit to the outfield.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Until this inning, both.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was strike three. Dusty probably would have come out and argued it but he would have gotten booed mercilessly. It wasn't even strike two, was it? Ball two was really strike two, making ball four strike three. 42.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Only if their star pitcher leaves with an arm injury.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    And now ball two to Fontenot. This Reds pitcher is really getting the rookie treatment.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I take it back. Ball 4 was even worse. I'd be furious if I were a Reds fan.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ball 2 to Lilly one of the worst ball/strike calls I've ever seen.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    This kid is good. You don't see Fukudome fooled that badly often.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    It isn't that, it is the fact we like the chess match of the NL, where overall talent is important and the manager plays a hand in the games outcome, compared to the the AL that demands barely anything out of the manager and reduces one player to knowing only one skill. Most "chess match" decisions in baseball are 51/49 type decisions. There are very few, if any, game-changing decisions based on matchups.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's the mistaken belief that players can become completely different types of players just by trying, and that fast players should always be slap hitters.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Thanks Tim. I am not so much overrating the importance of "Ozzie Ball" but trying to express how much Podsednik meant to that team in '05 and that the trade for Lee was the right move for the Sox to make. I guess when you speak into a canyon the words just end up echoing back. ;) Did Podsednik come into the clubhouse on day 1 and say "Hey, pitchers, why don't you all have career years at the same time?" Because that's the only way I can see him being a key piece.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's some ugly equivocation. Bad-hitting MI or Cs are nowhere near the level of pitchers.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    At every position on a baseball roster except for one, teams must make a decision on how much defense they are willing to sacrifice for offense. That is the reason for the defensive spectrum, for the relative value of offense by position, etc. It is a fundamental decision every team must make. Except for one position: Pitcher. At that position, there is no "Tradeoff." There will never be a case where team accepts an inferior pitcher becuase he's better offensively. So what's the point of making that person hit?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nevermind the 59 stolen bases. Or the 23 caught stealings, which virtually wiped out the good of the 59 steals.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Between AFL and NFL, the NFL is the one that has the best players performing at the skills they are paid for. Between NL and AL, it's the AL that has the best players performing at the skills they are paid for.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080417&content_id=2540641&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou Sucks for the Astros.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sliding into first base is faster because I timed a few of my friends doing it with a handheld stopwatch?
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