Hairyducked Idiot
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Pie isn't an automatic out. He's been pretty decent since his call up. He's got a .287 OBP in the majors. What does it take to not be an automatic out?
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I know I am sorry--not usually into the whole "message board fighting"--just a frustrating loss and I really think that anyone watching this entire game knows that we got hooked on that one I already admitted I overslept and didn't see the rest of the game, and that it is perfectly possible that the ump had a wide strike zone.
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You ever faced a big league hook? You ever seen one analyzed on a high-speed camera? I must have missed it.....did they show that pitch on a high speed camera replay? Huh. No, but lots of other curveballs have. And they don't bend as much as they appear to the naked eye, and they certainly don't do most of their bending in the last foot and a half. The appearance that it crosses the front of the plate at the knees and is ankle-high at the catcher's mitt is an optical illusion.
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You ever faced a big league hook? You ever seen one analyzed on a high-speed camera?
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No, I'm not a Cardinals fan. When have I ever not rooted for the Cubs? I just don't agree with the "it went against the Cubs, it must be wrong" theory of fandom.
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You obviously haven't been watching today. Those balls were in the umps zone all day long. Perhaps, but if a Cubs player had been called out on those, there would be even more outrage. The first was below the knees and the second was off the plate. Its where the pitch crosses the front of the plate. The first pitch was above the knees when it crossed. If there was consistency in his K zone, Branyan was out. That's physically impossible. No matter what the pitch looks like from the behind-the-mound angle, it does not cross the front of home plate at the knees and hit the catcher's mitt well below.
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You obviously haven't been watching today. Those balls were in the umps zone all day long. Perhaps, but if a Cubs player had been called out on those, there would be even more outrage. The first was below the knees and the second was off the plate.
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Commence the whining, but both of those pitches were balls.
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I had to work late last night and just now woke up. I have never hated my job more.
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People who said it is all luck are idiots. What most say is that BABIP for pitches is mostly luck. For hitters, it is usually luck is a hitter has a BABIP that is extremely different from his usual levels. So if Miguel Cabrera usually hits .340 BABIP, then suddenly hitting .400 is probably unsustainable, but if he's having a down year and hitting .280 BABIP, he's a good bet for a turnaround.
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As I understand it, the people arguing the for the existence of something are the one's with the burden of proof. Non-existence arguments can never be expected to prove anything.
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So you don't think that with hundreds of major league ballplayers, there would be one that has that sort of split through bad luck? I play in an online simulation baseball league, and there are people who are convinced that the programmer of the game is lying and that there really are things like "clutch" and "hot/cold streaks" programmed into the game because of splits and streaks like the ones you are talking about, no matter how many times he tells them the game isn't programmed that way. What you are saying is that outliers disprove the model, when the model predicts there will be some outliers.
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I'm reminded of an example from a psych textbook I had in college. It said to imagine 256 people in a coin-flipping contest. Everyone flipped, and only those who flipped heads moved on to the next round. After five rounds, you have eight people left. The people in the crowd marveled at their coin-flipping abilities. Then four more were eliminated. Clearly, the crowd thought, the pressure must have gotten to them. They choked. Then two more were eliminated. They just weren't winners, the crowd thought. The remaining two were the true experts, the ones who knew how to do what it takes to win, the ones with that certain special something. The crowd was shocked when of them was again eliminated in the next round, leaving only the true champion whose coin-flipping skills were clearly the best in the entire group. Anecdotal? Yes. But a great way to illustrate why people believe in things like clutch.
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Heh, the fan who just missed it flipped a bird at the guy on the street and got it on camera for a split-second.
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This guy is booted and I think the last one was too. Interesting - they boot him but it wasn't fan interference? Technically it was interference, the umps just didn'tal it. Both times a guy reached over into the field of play and redirected the ball. So if people want the batter called out because that fan redirected the ball, shouldn't they demand Lee be called out for redirecting a ball that wasn't going out? Isn't the rule if the player was, in the umpire's judgment, going to make the catch?
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Dumb fans. Every time I've sat in a front row (okay, the one time I did), I made sure my wife knew that you can't go for the ball over the rail, unless it is late in the game and it might benefit the Cubs, in which case let me do it and where to meet me after I get thrown out.
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Real baseball fans know that every Cubs pitcher who had a good season in thoes three years did so because of Maddux's influence. ahahaha, and i guess the ones who had bad years did so because of larry rothschild or dusty baker? Or they were choking dogs who didn't care or try hard enough.
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Real baseball fans know that every Cubs pitcher who had a good season in thoes three years did so because of Maddux's influence.
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Bunting is the correct move I stand corrected, fangraphs agrees with you even without taking into account Izturis was up. http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?gameid=270614116
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Congratulations all around the dugout for the sac bunt, which successfully lowered our odds of scoring in the inning.
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Lee isn't going to put up a .413 OBP this year. His numbers are plummetting, to the tune of a 750 OPS in June. I don't think you can project numbers for the rest of the season based on a month. Players have good months and bad months.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money. Not unless they're pre-FA. Fair enough. We have built our team around Mark Grace again though. I will admit though it isn't Hendry's fault that Lee got hurt right after he signed. Grace never put up a .413 OBP, and he put up a .500 SLG once. Grace's best seasons were comparable to Lee's down season right now.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money. Who?
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Before last night, we had the worst batting average (.233 or something close) with bases loaded. I reiterate --- the Cubs choke in pressure situations!! weren't you proven to be laughably wrong on this point in another thread? Mr. abuck1220 (superstar), The Cubs are DEAD LAST in batting average with the bases loaded. I call that lack of clutch hitting. And btw, stop being an ars Are they still first with runners in scoring position?
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.413 OBP. I'll take it.