Baseball Tidbits
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:01 AM PDT
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The hottest team is housed in our nations capitol. The Nationals are 9 - 1over their last ten games and have evened their season record at 37 - 37. Their three best offensive players could not be guessed by 99% of baseball fans. Michael Morse (145), Laynce Nix (126 OPS+) and Danny Espinosa (116 OPS+). Ryan Zimmerman only has 73 plate appearances so I did not include him. Overall the Nationals have six players with over 100 plate appearances with an OPS+ over 100. Ryan Zimmerman will soon make it eight. Michael Morse might be the best kept secret in baseball. Some TBLA members campaigned for him to become a Dodger and solve our LF problem this past winter. If only that had come to pass.
The Brewers put a move on the Cardinals even before Pujols got hurt. With the big three of Zack Greinke, Yovani Gallardo, and Shaun Marcum doing good work, they are a team to be reckoned with. Some may look at Greinke's 4.77 ERA and think he is struggling but his xFIP of 1.84 along with a 11.93 K/Rate supplemented by a 1.34 BB/rate tell us the real story. Grienke is dealing and the Brewers are surging. Prince Fielder has the second best wRC in June at .266 trailing only Paul Konerko who has an unreal .305.
Best hitting SS in baseball in June is JJ Hardy who has slugged seven home runs to augment his .730 slug%.
Phillies continue to dominate pitching. Doc is the overall best pitcher in baseball so far this year, but his teammates Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee have been the 1st / 3rd best pitchers in June.
Michael Pineda and Alexi Ogando continue to fight for ROY pitching honors, with Zach Britton tagging along in case they struggle.
The Giants have FOUR starting pitchers in the top 11 of WAR. That is even after Bumgarner gave up eight earned runs in one inning this week.
Jered Weaver is number one in WAR in the AL. Kershaw is number three in the NL. They meet this Sunday. Might want to bet the under.
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That Kershaw – Weaver game is gonna be fun.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 10:08 AM PDT reply actions
I have tickets to Sunday’s game and I can’t use them. Parking, too. All free to a good home but you have to pick them up from me. I live near Rosecrans & Aviation and I work near Overland & Washington.
Email me at todd dot kaplan at gmail dot com.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Jun 23, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
how many?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Three tickets.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Jun 23, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
They are claimed, by Young Jocelyn.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Jun 23, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
cool
was about to say, they weren’t enough. I have many people who want to go to a game.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
So the only question left is, who is giving Jocelyn a ride
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Or to pick up the tickets, even.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Jun 23, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
mom’s car to pick up the tickets, my dad, brother and I are going to go to the game together. The only reason I needed a ride before is cause we need three tickets or we don’t go and I just have two vouchers (family thing)
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I got someone to switch with me for Sunday so I can go :)
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
James Loney now has an OPS+ of 93
whats average for first baseman this year?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I don’t believe this
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Here's the MLB list
Split PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS tOPS+
as C 8896 7919 854 1920 386 21 222 952 793 1671 .242 .315 .381 .696 96
as 1B 9577 8413 1109 2265 463 20 335 1225 987 1733 .269 .349 .448 .797 124
as 2B 9611 8662 1077 2175 417 57 170 921 702 1516 .251 .312 .371 .683 93
as 3B 9286 8334 961 2048 458 26 175 1003 752 1578 .246 .312 .370 .682 93
as SS 9573 8655 1100 2263 423 71 137 862 674 1380 .261 .317 .374 .692 95
as LF 9547 8576 1074 2175 428 44 233 997 783 1848 .254 .320 .395 .715 101
as CF 9824 8809 1288 2307 458 95 216 925 803 1864 .262 .327 .409 .736 107
as RF 9618 8514 1109 2271 444 47 295 1123 907 1736 .267 .341 .434 .775 118
as DH 4430 3920 459 1019 213 10 118 519 443 790 .260 .338 .410 .748 111
as P 2773 2382 118 315 56 1 12 123 90 926 .132 .165 .172 .336 -4
as PH 2309 2034 225 451 65 4 39 253 215 567 .222 .299 .315 .614 74
as PH for DH 33 29 3 5 2 0 0 5 4 9 .172 .273 .241 .514 47
Other 9 8 1 4 0 0 0 4 1 1 .500 .556 .500 1.056 202
as Infield 46943 41983 5101 10671 2147 195 1039 4963 3908 7878 .254 .321 .389 .710 100
as Outfield 28989 25899 3471 6753 1330 186 744 3045 2493 5448 .261 .329 .413 .742 109
at Def. Pos. 37904 34045 4319 8665 1684 244 745 3660 2972 6431 .255 .318 .384 .702 98
at Off. Pos. 38028 33837 4253 8759 1793 137 1038 4348 3429 6895 .259 .331 .412 .743 109
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/23/2011.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I need to bookmark this list
so I can bring it out every time someone complains that we aren’t getting enough power from 3b(not that that happens that much). 3bman are hitting worse then shortstops.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
and 2bman
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Worth noting, at 3B
The Dodgers have 6 home runs out of 3B. There are a number of teams worse:
Florida, Detroit have 2.
White Sox and Mariners have 1.
Seattle 3B are hitting .186/.236/.249
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
clearly the solution is to make Small Game James our third baseman
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
don't have time
to teach him to throw right handed :)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
clearly the solution is to dump No Game James
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Is "other" what happens when you bat around in an inning that a PH entered in?
by Taylor Maricle on Jun 23, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
suppose it could be a pinch runner that bats around and hits as well.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I think the PR turned hitter is one way. I’m not sure if you are still considered a PH if you get to the plate twice.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
you are a pinch hitter until you’re assigned a defensive position
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Nope
You are a pinch hitter once, when you are pinch hitting for someone. If you happen to bat again during the inning, that falls under “other”
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
It happened against the Dodgers earlier this year
when the Braves tacked on 8 runs in the 9th against Jancoso. Eric Hinske pinch hit for Jonny Venters and homered, then later in the inning batted again, as “other,” and singled.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Braves pinch hitters were 0-for-25 on the season (with no walks and eight strikeouts) before collecting two hits in two at-bats tonight. Brooks Conrad singled under James Loney’s glove in the top of the seventh inning off of Blake Hawksworth, and Eric Hinske put the game away with a two-run home run off Jansen and a single off Troncoso in the ninth inning. That’s right, Hinske had two plate appearances in the ninth inning, as the Braves batted around. Only the first PA counts as a pinch hit appearance though; the second PA for Hinske in the ninth was the rare “no position” PA
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
So are pitchers, and left-handers, but what are you gonna do?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I figure it this way: 7% of the population is left-handed. In science, that’s a mutation. Lefties are mutants.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Nope. They’re mutants. They make baseballs move in unnatural ways even though they throw it the same way, and they make eating together at a table difficult.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
But certain righty’s make baseballs do crazy shit. Now I’m not standing up for the uncommon man here…..
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Always put them at the left end of the table so their sinister elbow isn’t sticking toward anyone. There’s one of those spots on each side of the table, so that is sufficient. You’d never seat more than two LHs at one table anyway.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
You’d never seat more than two LHs at one table anyway.
Haha
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
What TBLA regulars are lefties?
I’d bet on silverwidow.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I actually knew this, but wasn’t going to say anything. Much like Lilly not ending all our winning streaks with day starts, this was too funny not to let go.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I picked up hockey and golf lefty but I switched early on. I can play hockey ambidextrously. I can write with both, but its shit either way.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
thought process: italics are my thoughts
“I’ll go with ElbertFan”
Leftyism: As contagious as AIDS. RIP Duece“I bet Duece is left-handed”
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
And you let him eat with you?
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
half my family is lefty
I don’t trust them…
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
My old man
is a lefty.
An old girlfriend was a a lefty. She french-kissed in the wrong direction.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
my older brother is right-handed
but bats lefty
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
The only California homes that have basements are ones with more than one left-hander. While one sits at the table, the other is forced to remain downstairs, as the rest of the family throws scraps down the staircase for nourishment.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Which reminds me, I eat with either as well.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
My brother hits, kicks and throws right handed, but eats and writes left handed. What does this mean?
Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.
It means
Your dad cost him a lucrative career as a LHP.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I thought it was 14%? Lefties are sinister anyway.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The final arbiter of all knowledge*, Wikipedia, says 10%, so you two can meet in the middle.
*Hat tip to Andrew Shimmin, wherever he and his pens are.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I recommend for self-reflection for you then and make sure you know who you really are.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Jun 24, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
heterochromia is my favorite mutation, followed by auburn hair
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You love you some Max Scherzer.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Average OPS for 1B with 200+ AB = .809
James Loney in 286ABs has a .675
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
In his last 197 PA
he has an OPS over 800. It dips under 800 when you go to 202
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
You didn’t ask for the average OPS for all first basemen since James Loney started doing better :)
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I was just excited to see him being average over his last 200 PAs
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
If Loney goes
5 for 5, with four singles, one double and two walks in his next 7 plate appearances he will be at replacement level (hitting) for first basemen (wOBA style). A far cry from where he was a month or so ago.
Was thinking the numbers above might be skewed by a couple otherworldly performances
although Pujols is not exactly Pujols this year, so maybe median is more interesting than the average, but the median OPS team performance at 1B is about .789, so that actually agrees with the idea that getting an .800 OPS is slightly better than average. The sOPS+ column bears that out too. Loney’s start was so horrendous that it still really drags down the Dodgers’ season-to-date performance at 1B.
Rk BA OBP SLG OPS tOPS+ sOPS+
1 MIL .297 .418 .594 1.012 173 152
2 CIN .313 .434 .491 .926 154 134
3 COL .293 .370 .527 .896 143 124
4 FLA .298 .371 .491 .862 148 116
5 PHI .259 .353 .500 .853 142 113
6 STL .271 .347 .475 .822 117 106
7 NYM .280 .350 .444 .794 124 99
8 CHC .227 .344 .438 .783 120 96
9 HOU .287 .374 .409 .782 126 98
10 WSN .240 .330 .441 .771 126 93
11 ATL .267 .335 .413 .748 116 88
12 ARI .250 .321 .406 .727 97 83
13 SFG .243 .311 .380 .691 108 74
14 PIT .229 .310 .356 .666 101 68
15 LAD .265 .311 .340 .651 88 65
16 SDP .216 .283 .348 .631 97 59
TOT .265 .349 .440 .789 124 98
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I was going to do that for the same reason
thanks for the work.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Morse
Some TBLA members campaigned for him to become a Dodger and solve our LF problem this past winter. If only that had come to pass.
I was one of those guys, but I got the idea from MSTI. Man that would have been awesoke
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:13 AM PDT reply actions
Some may look at Greinke’s 4.77 ERA and think he is struggling but his xFIP of 1.84 along with a 11.93 K/Rate supplemented by a 1.34 BB/rate tell us the real story.
Chad Billingsley agrees
When Chad can sniff those peripherals, I’ll agree.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Come now, Chad has an xFIP almost two runs higher then Zack.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not saying Chad = Zack. I am wondering why you choose to use xFIP when it suits your needs and ignore it when it doesn’t.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s like, the point of xFIP.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Not really. It’s saying that home run rate is tied to fly ball rate.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Well that part is dumb and the original stuff on xFIP specifically said popups don’t count against you, so I don’t know why Fangraphs does it that way.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I generally don’t agree with the premise of xFIP.
Homers are the mistakes of pitchers and shouldn’t be normalized as if not giving up home runs aren’t a skill.
Actual data disagrees, this isn’t something someone just pulled out of their ass.
Second it’s saying the skill is keeping the ball on the ground, not keeping it from going over the fence.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
tERA has Chad at 4.08
and Greinke at 3.22.
by Taylor Maricle on Jun 23, 2011 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
tERA also assumes pitchers can control line drives, which is certainly up for debate.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Still better than xFIP
I’d sooner believe that a pitcher can control line drives than that a pop-up to SS can go over the LCF wall.
by Taylor Maricle on Jun 23, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
If xFIP only counted outfield fly balls how would you feel.
Last thing I saw there was actually a negative R value when you tried to find a correlation year to year in line drive percentage, which explains why BABIP is so unstable. I can’t use tERA because of that.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
You're just trolling me
haha
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Don’t think that is fair. I’m unhappy with Chad in June and his xFIP in June is 4.38.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
His K/9 rate is down to 7.11 and his walk rate is up to 4.74. That is not getting it done.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Sure the BABIP is out of this world, but that kills when you have a walk rate that high.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve also used xFIP in every single team preview I’ve ever done. Sorry if you have been offended that I’m not a big fan of Chad’s at the moment.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
but I think your comment was bullshit.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t like this comment of yours yesterday, regarding Billingsley:
peripherally he’s awesome and that is all we really care about as long as we are talking about our own pitchers.
That’s what I objected to. Yes, Billingsley has struggled in June. That is plain to see. Yes, his start Tuesday was an improvement over his previous three. That’s all.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, it was an improvement, he could have rolled the ball to the plate and it would have been an improvement. As I said I only watched two innings and was unimpressed.
Anyway in the comments I think I can be more subjective and more of a fan then in my columns. Bringing up something I say in comments when I make a few hundred a day to compare to a column, hell you could do that all day and make me look stupid.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Bringing up something I say in comments … to compare to a column
Wasn’t this part of Molly’s argument? ;-)
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Enjoyed Grant's article about Broxton
let’s not forget just how dominant this man was.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/6/23/2238813/jonathan-broxton-injury-los-angeles-dodgers-news
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
this cracked me up
Don’t get me wrong — I’m a Giants fan, and I’d prefer that Mattingly sent home the entire starting rotation and said, “Broxy, I’m going to have you start every day to build up your arm strength for the rest of the year. Also, you’re hitting cleanup.”
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
saw that
i was at that Yankee game, twas brutal. But yeah, he was lights out before that. Hopefully he can find that again.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Hopefully he and Furcal come back and the team makes a run. If not, hopefully he and Furcal come back, stay healthy, play up to their potential, and we get Austin Romine and Yonder Alonso out of them.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
agreed
except let’s go for Montero :)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m reaching on Furcal for Alonso. If Broxton is legit again, we should be able to pull Romine.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
or at least like, Ramos. Imagine if we trade Broxton for Ramos. It’s like saying 3 months of broxton = 1.5 years of matt Capps.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
doubt the Nats trade Ramos with the way he's been going
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
if Broxton is healthy and effective
i believe there will be a number of suitors for him.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
You guys sound like you are giving up. Won’t we need our closer in Sept?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
We’re not trading Javy Guerra :)
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Not sure we can afford to lose the two games Javy will blow for us before Donny realizes that confidence does not save games.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Hopefully he and Furcal come back and the team makes a run. If not, hopefully he and Furcal come back, stay healthy, play up to their potential, and we get Austin Romine and Yonder Alonso out of them
.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
right
this is just the scenario if we’re out of it.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
What if we are out of it because Broxton came back still broken, and Rafy sucks as bad as he did before he got hurt?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Do we
do we really
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I never felt comfortable in it
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
the more interesting question is, what if we’re in it but Broxton is still broken and Furcal sucks as bad as he did before he got hurt? Trade, don’t trade, promote, demote?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Luckily that won’t be the case.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Two big series right after the ASB
3 in AZ, 3 in SF
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I really hated that game. Joe Torre just put his fucking brain on autopilot and fucked up Broxton’s arm.
by Tripon on Jun 23, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dang
I was hoping there would be some more 5/6pm games to go to (other than July 4th). The 1:10 starts are at nap time for my son, and the 7:10 starts are leading up to bed time. Hmmmmm. I will just have to do a 7:10 on a Friday or Saturday and stay until melt down mode kicks in.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 10:31 AM PDT reply actions
No better place to take a nap than under the shade at Dodger Stadium.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Warm afternoon game, cool breeze under the awnings, white noise of crowds and baseball, it’s bliss.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I loved my Grandparent's seats
Reserve Level, Section 2, Row P
Under the top deck so plenty of shade, right behind home plate.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
My seats
Reserve Level. Aisle 1, Row R.
We were right by each other.
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
cool
they didn’t renew them this year, we were all sad. I still have yet to go to a game.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
If you want to go a game
let me know. I have plenty of seats, in fact I have seats for this weekend plus every game of the next homestand except Andre bobblehead game
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
If you wanna go Sunday, I’ve got your ticket, all I ask for is a ride : )
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m covering the Gold Cup final, I doubt r v b tops that : )
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
here... look what happened last night
river fans invading the pitch, to fight river players, because they are getting beat again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZkAb5WvzKU
wow, Argentinians are insane people.
But this doesn’t beat Kershaw v Weaver
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
How is that possible? I was led to believe that the US is filled with soccer fans. Are they all foreigners?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
pretty much exactly. Soccer sells out in the US, you just have six year olds wearing Spain jerseys because “the US doesn’t win”
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
at the Houston semi, Reliant was half full and quiet for America, and sold out and loud for Mexico.
The Rose Bowl I imagine will be 60/40 Mexico/US and that’s generous
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Throwing is better then the alternative
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
ha! yes, throwing urine on the other teams players serves a reasonable purpose. It helps fans self police the game, by keeping the players sharp and smelling good.
I’m ignorant – does this happen? they urine into vials and then throw it?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
in some countries
at games they dont sell soda in cups, but in plastic bags with a straw. then you are too into the game to go to the bathroom, so you relieve yourself in the bag and bombs away.
Wow
If they throw away the urine what will they drink later in the day?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Example of the soda bag (another example seen in Hangover 2)
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
The soda bag is not something I have enjoyed, but outside of a few hours in Tijuana I have never been outside the country. It seems like something Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmern would point out.
/first world problems
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
damn, I thought bagged soda was a staple of MREs :)
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Ar-Kansas may be the only 3rd world county that does not use soda bags
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
That should give you plenty of urine to throw at people
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
ha ha -isn’t this better then soccer talk:)
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh wait
it is soccer talk
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Are you going to the Dodger game on July 5?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
True story
CSUDH at Chico State, 2004. Chico State fan got drunk, was heckiling (sp?) our team, so the assistant coach went to the corner of the dugout, pissed in a cup, and trhew it on the fan.
The fan shut up, no punishment was rendered. Simpler times.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I fail to see how this did not result in fisticuffs.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Sober enough to realize a 1 versus 26 guys with bats match was gonna go badly?
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
he was too drunk to know it was urine. I’m sure if he knew it was urine, he wouldn’t have stayed for the rest of the game.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
That is the only plausible explanation
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
How long did the girl who got sprayed stay in the Nuthing But A G Thang video?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
As far as you know
I’m waiting for the prequel video to come out to explain it all.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
when is this game?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Oh, that's what the sign in Pasadena was referring to
Said, “Sold out soccer game, Saturday. Heavy traffic expected, or something like that.”
by TopDeckTrueBlue on Jun 23, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
is this going to affect my commute home from dodgers stadiuM?
if so, balls.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I shall be at Lego Land with a thrilled 3 year old (pretending he is 2)
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I could not believe how empty the parking lot and stadium was on Monday.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Wonder when Frank McCourt finally realizes that lowering the parking price might entice more people to come.
Or did he do that already? Paying $15 for parking blows.
He bans parking at Elysian Park before he does that.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
He can’t do that but he can charge a walking toll. Since everyone who parks outside of the stadium has to walk through the gates to get inside he could legally charge something like $5 per person to walk inside.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Since less people come
the areas outside the stadium don’t get filled up as fast (though I have yet to park there), maybe if I go this weekend, I will.
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I parked outside the Scott Ave area (where we had the BBQ) last Monday. I pulled up at 6:15 and no one was there. It is normally packed by then
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Yup, that is how you know the lower econ fans are staying away. I’ve had no problem parking outside this year. Only done it twice but as you said normally it is filled long before game time.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Yea, I have parked outside for the past 3 years, normally arrive around 5:45. I could have continued up the hill and parked at Academy if I had known it was so dang empty.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Are those recent? Because I’ve had no problem parking there before.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Never seen it, parked there last week.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, right off of Academy? I just park on the street, flip a u-turn after I pass that park and park on the other side. That one actually has a gate that can close, so I never risk it.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
On MLB Network right now...
They are showing the 50 greatest ejections. They showed the one where Milton Bradley throws the baseball bag on the field, and throws a ball into the stands.
Vin Scully’s description of it “Milton Bradley throwing baseballs like rice at a wedding”
Vin is the best
No
at least not according to this guy.
by StolenMonkey86 on Jun 23, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Whoops fucked that up. Here is the link
"Fast just got Faster"
Man i wish there was video
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
OT - Since this is an off day - Jon posted this link last night and I found the article interesting
dodgerthoughts
MLS must choose between more markets and quality of play http://bit.ly/kuvMLr Persuasive piece by @BCBenGrossman
I think you could argue this for any professional sport and I am certainly not even a novice watcher of soccer so I can’t tell how good the level of play is in the MLS.
I feel like someone put a knife in my back
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, if you are now bringing up soccer, all is lost.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Just accept it
you should start small, just get into the national team and see if you like it. give it 3 years. thats like 8 games a year, small investment.
Hey do you know if that game (last night's) will be repeated on TV?
I can’t find evidence that it will but maybe I missed it. Like I missed the game.
(Or online somewhere, though I doubt it.)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Fox Soccer always repeats the crap out of things. I would check your local cable listings
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah finally found it
repeated tomorrow night (Fri) at 8 PST/11 EST.
http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/tvschedule
Was scrolling through local channel guide on screen and couldn’t find it. Thanks.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Nope
Chicharito is going to own
by Julio Nievas on Jun 23, 2011 11:46 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
you see folks, this is why we can’t get supporters for the National Team
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Foreigners
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
coincidentally
this was also the problem the original major soccer league in the US had, back in 1920. There was a large base of foreigners who supported soccer back home, but wanted to assimilate so they supported baseball in America.
The league games wouldn’t draw, but bring over a German all-star team and they’re hanging off the rafters in Yankee stadium
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to assume this is fact, though I’ve never actually seen a fan hanging off a rafter. However since these are the same folk who were walking five inches of steel 100 yards up in the air, I think it might have been so.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
8 games a year? no wonder I can’t follow it, there’s nothing to follow. It was on at BWW last night, so I watched soccer between Phillies/Cardinals innings.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
8 games a year
is not enough to show I care
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s why I like baseball. Oh I can’t watch today? I’ll watch tomorrow and follow along with the season. You miss a game and there isn’t another one for a couple months? Dang.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
And if the games are that infrequent, the average sports fan is gonna be too drunk to remember any of them.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
this is why
you have your national team and your club team.
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
same here
love Baseball for that, not only that though :)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh
sorry, we could talk Lamar Odom for the second pick in the draft talk.
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
that's old news
now it’s Odom and Walton for Andre Iguedola
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
bh was very kind to point out yesterday that we have a soccer blog now, where these things can be discussed : )
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes he was, now if he only followed his own advice.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
That's true
I was going to post it there but then I forgot.
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I will do so
only to get that cool logo on my member page
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m gonna throw up the link as a fanshot, people can come check out the cool logo if they want : )
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
How many home runs has he hit
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I will be impressed only
if he Rick Wises it.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
We can talk about baseball.
Like why Cal should have gotten rid of their baseball team once and for all. :)
And how well all of your schools are doing at the College World Series.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Yes, clearly that is better.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
neato! We were wondering if you were fist pumping over Vandy’s good show
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
At least now
I won’t have to worry about some UC Irvine crusade against UCLA for last year.
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
speaking of UC baseball
UCSB made a nice baseball coach hire this week, from what I can gather. Oregon’s top recruiter + pitching coach, formerly of UC Riverside.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
if by robbed you mean they lost the game. I mean it’s okay being the losing team, it just means you lost.
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
There probably isn’t a Dominguez blog.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Nor should there be. It’s college sports, you’re 35 rooting for children.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I’m not 35, and rooting for alma mater makes at least as much sense as rooting for a geographic team.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
if not more since it’s the way it’s been since Oxford and Cambridge were founded
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Virginia rushed the field before the 2nd run crossed the plate. If the umpires did their job, he should have been called for obstruction and the inning over with the game tied.
I’m annoyed the umps didn’t do their supposed jobs.
winning on technicalities is the best kind of winning
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Really
that is quite the whine Tripon
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
This is baseball, not lawyer ball.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I remember that when Don Mattingly walks to the mound two times in one inning so George Sherrill has to pitch.
If you wish that your team could win because of a technicality, yes, you should.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, in this case, tied.
And calling that a technicality is like saying you don’t need to touch home plate to score.
Don't get bitter, get better.
Robin Ventura should have been credited with hitting a grand slam because the ball cleared the fence with bases loaded, not a single because his teammates kept him from touching second, third and home.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Or trying to lawyer a man out because he missed the plate on a home run trot.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I was trying to draw a much more fair comparison.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Okay. Don’t play lawyer ball.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
So your argument is that the catcher had an actual chance to tag out the winning run but was never given the chance because the opposing team rushed the field and obstructed his ability to make the tag?
Does anyone who did not have a rooting interest in this game agree with Tripon, that the catcher had a chance?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
The tough thing here is that you can’t really make the ruling on that “did he have a chance or not”. I would argue (from the umpire perspective) that the fan interference did not give us the ability to see how the play would have turned out, so it needs to be called.
Of course, I have not seen video of this yet.
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS5kTf_1XcU
On first glance: absolutely no chance to get the runner.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
So was it called back?
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Okay, thank God. No interference there
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
I heard it
never saw it
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Is the ball in play on a home run?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
It’s a situation where the only way to actually get the guy out is by playing lawyer ball.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
That said, but any team who storms a field before the runner crosses the plate should have urine thrown at them.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why do you think no one watches Yachting?
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Because Dennis Conner and his white lips retired.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I hear rowing is exciting at the end, when all the Harvard alums give you expensive booze!
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Some would call that McCourt ball
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
“You don’t buy verdicts, you buy jurors. And we can get several of these jurors on the cheap”
-Peter Brand
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I think you flip that, but I still laughed. verdicts = wins, jurors = players.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I was playing off runs and wins, but you’re right, I missed the earlier part of the quote. Yours works better.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Jonah Hill in "Get Me To the Coliseum"
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Can't we just blame Mike Gellespie
for thinking it was a good idea to pitch his starter on one days rest and then after he walked a guy on 4 straight pitches and failed to bring in the reliever who was ready to go?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Is Wingo still playing?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if that pick will turn out to be a steal for the Dodgers
or if there are reasons for concern about how he’ll translate into pros that turned some scouts off?
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
he’s been a stud in the WS, I see no downside
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Why does it bother me
(other than fact that I respect him) that Jay Jaffe rips the Dodgers more than a Giants blogger does, even though he is purportedly a Dodger fan…? Maybe because he covers the Yankees a lot more than he covers the Dodgers and then when he chimes in it’s usually super negative about everything. I can’t blame anyone for being negative in general about the state of things right in the here and now, but I find it a little tiresome and disappointing since I like Jay.
Anyway… as you were. #nobodycares
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
First, I didn’t know Jay jaffe was a Dodger fan.
Second, and most importantly, he rips the team because he’s a Dodger fan. If he wasn’t, the only emotion that should be shown to the team with the 7th worst record in baseball at the moment, is ambivalence.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I don’t know how people are fans of multiple teams in the same sport. You’re a fan of one with an interest in others? Fine. But you root for one.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Nah
some of us are baseball fans first.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I tried scouting and failed because I couldn’t just watch a game between two teams I had no rooting interest in.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Speaking of, have the guys locked in the Fancave tried desperately to escape?
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
if he hasn’t chewed off his own foot from crazy then psychology is wrong
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
they have their turkey
and fishing pole, they’re fine
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I enjoy sports betting with friends, but I don’t trust gambling sites or agencies. It would take a lot for me to feel comfortable betting on sports with someone I don’t actually know.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Better to win money from a faceless conglomerate.
Also, better to siphon fractions of cents into a separate bank account, causing a big problem down in accounting.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Because he cares and like most sabre fans has had a dislike for McCourt/Ned ever since Depo was fired only two years into his contract and replaced with a Giant Assistant GM. JMO
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Jay is a Dodger fan but if the McCourts can get Roberto Baly upset, who could blame Jay
Of course, I do have this belief that Baseball Prospectus had this thing against the Dodgers when that happened (I think Cristina Karhl will be at the SABR convention next month so if I get the chance, I will ask about that).
by bhsportsguy on Jun 23, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Right
felt that BP had a bit of a vendetta even if they didn’t realize it.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Would be interesting to hear, if you do talk to Kahrl
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Always thought she was the fairest of the BP writers, and the most clever with the turn of the words. Her transaction analyst used to be a must read.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
He’s just flamed out on the McCourt stuff, which I can’t blame anyone for.
If there was an actual good team to support it might distract from this whole mess, but right now there’s nothing really worth paying attention to but the McCourts.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
So true
the MVP season Kemp is throwing up is boring.
The break out season by Kershaw is so yesterday’s news
Nothing to see here, move along
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
If a player has an MVP season and no one notices, did it really happen?
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
My AL friends became Kershaw fans at the game on Monday. The power of the stupid swing
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah honestly I can't blame him for much of it
and I realize that professionally he covers the Yankees while in his heart he is a Dodger fan (he said in interview his family was Brooklyn Dodger fans and he stayed that way too). I don’t want him to be Pollyanna anyway, just he never even chimes in about Dodger prospects, AA pitchers, Dee Gordon, Rubby (that I can recall), etc. That’s all I was saying. Not being totally rational here. :-)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I don't know! But as a writer myself I am glad
that some do, for whatever reason. ;-)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
rule of thumb
never wager money that relies on the Seattle Mariners offense to do something.
Xei’s Third Principle of Baseball
Marquis has quietly put together a decent year. His triple slashes are all around 3.70. He makes me nervous though as he allows a lot of balls in play. Just gotta hope they are of the ground ball variety like today.
Yeah….
I just blew that one. I am 9-2 this week so far.
I played the over in the Seattle/Washington game today. The under Minn/SF. The under in STL/Phi. and KC and the over in the KC/Az game.
Yahoo had an interesting article
saying Ichiro should try hitting for more power, as he’s been struggling to maintain his average.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
I will admit to being curious
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I’ve adopted that as my Shoe In Of the Week for best summer comedy
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I look forward to checking it out though
I can’t imagine how it’s going to not get old rather fast… we’ll see.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
i don't think i've seen a commercial for that
with the sound on, so i have no earthly clue what the premise is other than a man in a dog suit talking to Elijah Wood
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
The world sees Wilfred as a dog. Elijah Wood sees him as a man in a dog suit.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
thank you
i was wondering if that was it.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Would loved to have been in that meeting
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Fucking Aussies, they have replaced all our actors, now they are doing it to the writers. No wonder the Underdogs of the world can’t get a meeting.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Tell me about it!
Thinking of faking an accent and adding an Oeltjen-style grin.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
If I was an actor I would totally pretend I came from down under to make it big in Hollywood.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
isn't that a movie plot?
if it isn’t, sure sounds like one
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
there was that one movie where a guy put on black face to get a minority scholarship.
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Or if you change it into a man pretending to be a woman to get acting gig
you have Tootsie.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Shakespeare did it best, but it’s not really a well I’d keep going to
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Shakespeare did it best, but it’s not really a well I’d keep going to
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
right, i know of that one, haven't seen it
they should have Hugh Laurie as a down and out American actor, who pretends to be British to become a star!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
We should make an American Western with only Aussies.
They already started with James Bond
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
better yet
the next James Bond should be American!
ANARCHY!!!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I can see Robert Downey Jr as James Bond
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s already doing that as Tony Stark
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Robert Downey Jr played Sherlock Holmes, it goes both ways
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
and he was awesome
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Not often, it takes a good American actor to pull it off. We don’t have many. We have the Jonah Hills of the world.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
awkward
is in right now
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Michael Cera needs to milk this phase for all its worth
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
sure does
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Totally
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and the Wales-born Christian Bale (of a South African father and English [I think] mother, sorta trends that way.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Can you imagine being a major league player and having an Aussie accent.
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I hear Vin do it every at bat. Also, I assume you get your pick of the ASU girls in February.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
And he’s a good looking dude anyway, on top of all that. I am certain he is not hurting for dates.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I know
I took that photo. The ladies were liking him a lot.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Kinda looking forward to it
On the other hand, Falling Skies sucked, I thought
Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?
at least you didn’t have to review it : p
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that the one with Noah Wylie?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
dah. And he’s trying to win back Boston from aliens
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
To bad
poor SciFi is the worst. Bothers me to know end that we have tons and tons of brilliant sci fi already out there yet they let hacks try to create something that ends up being just crap giving sci fi a poor name.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
(sheds a tear for Firefly)
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Spielberg backed the project, so it at least looks pretty, but yeah for every good sci-fi series there are three bad ones
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t say that
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
then you need to watch Battlestar Galactica
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you know I taught history, at the unnamed Boston University? And with my knowledge of military history, I shall lead a militia. Because I taught history, did you know that? WHERE IS MY SON?
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, did you know that I’m a Captain and I hate civilians? We call them eaters!
And I dislike you, professor at the unnamed Boston University, but I will give up our best weapon to white supremacist (maybe) criminals to get you back.
You both have saved me an hour of torture
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
i was
vastly entertained by that summary
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Phil watches all things on double speed.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I do, do alot of fast forwarding when I’m the only one watching.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
you can only hear, “I don’t have money for this pizza, is there any other way I can pay?” so many times before it gets old. Let’s see some action!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Broxton pitching for the Isotopes again tonight
From Isotopes’ announcer Rob Portnoy’s Twitter:
Broxton throws one inning (max 25 pitches) in second rehab start for ABQ tonight!
I hope we don't hear too many Portnoy Complaints
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by underdog on Jun 23, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
ha ha
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I wanted to write about the Chan Ho Park v Tim Belcher kick from 1999, but stupid Getty Images doesn’t have a photo available.
Back to the drawing board!
That was the moment I stopped being a Chan Ho Park fan.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
The Dodgers were even wearing the blue jersey tops that day. And the Angels were in their pinstripes and periwinkle combo
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Given that Chan Ho purportedly had a black belt I would have thought this was a felony.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
He’d have trouble getting into banks too.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Not Getty, but
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The Angels are still trying to forget.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
He is clearly in the middle of saying, “Aw, Dayumn.”
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
truely, that scene is straight out of a Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan buddy movie
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Black dude and Asian dude what else do you need.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
seriously those have to be the worst jerseys of all baseball time
(i’m not including jerseys that are worn like 3 times a year)
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that’s a meeting I would love to be in.
“Hello, hello, we’re Disney, and we’d like to make a few changes. PInstripes are cool, lets get you guys some pinstripes. The Rockies have pinstripes so they must be cool. Ugh, I’m tired, I’m going on break. My five year old son will fill you in on the rest”
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Seems reasonable, he’s been rocking.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Why do we keep on sending players who have no shot of making a team. We kept on sending Pedro Baez for years too.
Because Rubby is on the major league team.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Jon Garcia or Garret Gould would have been more reasonable choices. If both have only a say, 25% of making the majors, than Silverio would have only, say a 5% of doing that.
They are in Single A, don’t think they are allowed. Garcia is from Puerto Rico so he would rep the USA side would he not? As is Gould, they are looking for international players. The concept is one player from each team for the International and USA side.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
All players from full season leagues are eligible
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
On quick glance
9 players from Class A on US roster, 7 players from Class A on World roster.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
and as you are well aware we do not spend much money in the DR.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Dee was there
last year
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Nats manager
doing something crazy. Letting Marquis hit with first and second two outs in the B7th at 94 pitches in scoreless game. Let’s see how this turns out.
Marquis can hit.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
You mean Lance, and from I heard, Lance is hurt.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Formatting is probably crap, but...World roster
Pitchers (10)
Alvarez, Henderson (Blue Jays)
Hendriks, Liam (Twins)
Herrera, Kelvin (Royals)
Infante, Gregory (White Sox)
Marinez, Jhan (Marlins)
Martinez, Carlos (Cardinals)
Paxton, James (Mariners)
Perez, Martin (Rangers)
Teheran, Julio (Braves)
Vizcaino, Arodys (Braves)
Catchers (2)
Player (Organization)
Rosario, Wilin (Rockies)
Valle, Sebastian (Phillies)
Infielders (8)
Player (Organization)
Alonso, Yonder (Reds)
Altuve, Jose (Astros)
Marte, Jefry (Mets)
Martinez, Francisco (Tigers)
Lee, Hak-Ju (Rays)
Liddi, Alex (Mariners)
Profrar, Jurickson (Rangers)
Schoop, Jonathan (Orioles)
Outfielders (5)
Player (Organization)
Chiang, Chih-Hsien (Red Sox)
Fuentes, Reymond (Padres)
Marte, Starling (Pirates)
Silverio, Alfredo (Dodgers)
Viciedo, Dayan (White Sox)
U.S. roster
Pitchers (10)
Player (Organization)
Cosart, Jarred (Phillies)
Gibson, Kyle (Twins)
Harvey, Matt (Mets)
Miller, Shelby (Cardinals)
Moore, Matt (Rays)
Peacock, Brad (Nationals)
Pomeranz, Drew (Indians)
Skaggs, Tyler (D’Backs)
Thornburg, Tyler (Brewers)
Turner, Jacob (Tigers)
Catchers (2)
Player (Organization)
Mesoraco, Devin (Reds)
Romine, Austin (Yankees)
Infielders (8)
Player (Organization)
Arenado, Nolan (Rockies)
d’Arnaud, Chase (Pirates)
Darnell, James (Padres)
Goldschmidt, Paul (D’Backs)
Green, Grant (Athletics)
Kipnis, Jason (Indians)
Machado, Manny (Orioles)
Middlebrooks, Will (Red Sox)
Outfielders (5)
Player (Organization)
Brown, Gary (Giants)
Harper, Bryce (Nationals)
Myers, Wil (Royals)
Szczur, Matthew (Cubs)
Trout, Mike (Angels)
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
That is a hell of an outfield. USA! USA! USA!
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Szczur signed up to bring extra consonants in case anybody needs one. Too bad Eovaldi didn’t make the squad.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
you have to pay
for vowels
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
That blows chunks
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
50 spots, 30 teams. Not everyone gets two. Maybe they didn’t want some pitchers going.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Rest easy folks
Travis Denker has been promoted to Double A.
Pedro Guerrero (no relation) has been activated from the DL for Rancho
Travis one step closer to failure once again.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He didn’t really fail before. I’m glad he got the promotion. Sticking him in A was pretty uncool.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I wonder if he is going to play 3rd and if Baez is going to the mound? Pedroza is still at second and they have no room to move him to AAA.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
is this about the time
promotions start happening? Just wondering if we’ll see more soon
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Usually after the all-star games you start seeing some.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
not everyone is a dirty pirate hooker
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
some are clean
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Some hookers don’t even like pirates no matter the hygiene
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
i imagine it's the hooks
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
how exactly
are those two statements related?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
well since people can download them illegally
she shouldn’t even bother trying to make money on her own works right?
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Isn’t she now one of the richest people in the world?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
richer than the queen
last I heard
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Well yeah, but she’s trying to bank people will buy a digital copy of her HP books.
If it was something new, I would understand, but everyone who wanted to read HP already has physical copies of her work.
lots of people are moving to e readers now
theres a market for it
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New kids are learning how to read every day. That is like saying no one will ever ever need to download a Beatles song.
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tell Disney
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Getting things on sale
makes you a dirty pirate hooker?
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oh is he saying my student discount is piracy?
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
tripon is just being tripon right now
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yup, purchased Word for Mac for $80 when I enrolled at LMU and knew I’d need to have a reliable way to write papers
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
oh Disney is fantastic with their discounts. My mom could have gotten a new iphone for $50
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
So you pirated it from your brother?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
If you read the disclamiers, there would be install on 2 or 3 PC restrictions.
I won’t go on another rant about that.
Used to be in the same household. Like one for your laptop, one for you workstation. Not one for your cheap ass brother.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
only recently
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I consider people who read this blog who have never donated pirate scum.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
piracy is wrong
but I still pirate movie because f the IRA. If I want to support a musician I’ll buy a shirt or see them in concert.
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that’s where my head went too. And fuck them, pipe bombing terrorists
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
So what is he talking about
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I pirate the shit out of music
because artists get almost nothing from cd sales. Sorry for mangling that so badly.
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at country music concerts, they always thank country radio, not their label. The labels are sort of a neccessary evil to get true publicity going, but nolander’s right, buying a cd doesn’t support the artist
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
that is an odd typo
RIAA
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I also said movies instead of music
WTF
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What I like about this blog
someone will Nolander a statement and it will hang out there for a few minutes but at least one brave soul will finally say WTF are you trying to say.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
We will now call that a Nolander
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd be angry if it wasn't true
so I’m going to laugh instead
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She was probably too busy cleaning money out of her wazoo to notice.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
100 each?
cool.
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better then the 60 each though?
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she is a girl
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
unable to grasp a bad joke
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
When did this become about you?
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
never realized how much you look like Emma Stone ;-)
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Wha...? Emma Stone is adorable, whatchutalkin about Willis?
(Plus referencing JL’s twitpic is of Emma Stone, so, that.)
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For a name I hear alot I guess the only movie I’ve seen her in was Superbad and Zombieland.
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She is going to be in a lot more stuff going forward I believe
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See "Easy A" too. She is awesome in that.
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i'll have to see that
i remember the premise sounded pretty good
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
rob (Richmond, VA)
Does Dodger prospect Nathan Eovaldi project as a starter or reliever? Thoughts on his potential?
Klaw
(3:13 PM)
Starter. He’s come on suddenly this year – not out of nowhere, but a major leap in performance in one year.
That is the kind of insight you pay for.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, because we know Tripon did not ante up for any ESPN insider, unless they are taking payments in donuts.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I absolutely love his XBH line
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Jason Grey
of ESPN Insider listed Trayvon Robinson as the 3rd best prospect for the rest of 2011 (for fantasy purposes). He does not include players that have already appeared in the Majors.
for the Dodgers?
or everyone?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
For that to happen he’d have to be the next player to get a crack at LF and then succeed at it.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I watched the Town last night. I had been led to believe this was a good movie. I was misled.
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The movie where Ben Affleck is a bank robber?
My girl wanted to see that movie…couldn’t get into the premise enough to drag myself to the theater.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Yes, it had good acting, but the ending was just BS.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s funny, I watched it last night as well. I thought it was decent enough but felt it ended somewhat abruptly.
Gone Baby Gone
was fantastic. Have not heard good things about The Town.
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
It was disturbing and good, expected The Town to be the same, but it was like Disney took over the end of the movie.
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It is the kind of movie that is good if you watch it on Netflix streaming. If you have to wait for the DVD, you are disappointed. I call this “watching with streaming glasses”
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
A Prophet
Best film of the Decade…A crime film as well…but much more than that.
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
That is an excellent movie
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Absolutely
Spiritual and compassionate film. Also and incredible insight into post Sarkozy Neo-Lib/EU France. Just great. Prison as the post modern Biblical Landscape…damn..so good.
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Great movie, very powerful
Yeah I thought the Town overrated, too, so many people told me how great it was and it fel t like a bunch of ludicrous plot threads I’d seen done better before. Ending was bogus. That said, I still found it watchably engaging at least
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erroneauos
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
That word
always makes me think of Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Josie and other Sci Fi fans who read
I’d like you to read Glory Road by Robert Heinlin and let me know what you think.
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The plucky upstarts from Texas Western morph into giant bugs and eat lily-white Kentucky players and spit them out on Adolph Rupp?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Chone Figgins has officially lost his 3rd base job just 1 1/2 years into his contract. Even worse, he’s being replaced by one Adam Kennedy. Can’t blame that one on Bavasi.
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they see me trollin...
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
when they were #6org
seems like their GM could do no wrong, I wonder how they feel about him now.
(i won’t even attempt to spell his name)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe we should trade Uribe for Figgins. :-)
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.755
thats AKs OPS in 199 abs this year
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You should bet on that staying at that level the rest of the year.
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.724 OPS over his last 1050 PA.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
hit me with a rock
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Give me a second to find a big one
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I've been told things that 200 PAs is a legit sample size
in a full year in 2009 he put up similiar numbers. What I’m saying is… he will probably be good for a third baseman this year. At least at the plate. 3rd base is a wasteland this year.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Yes, it is still a disturbing truth
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I have good memories of AK
him doing well pleases me
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
big time home runs once upon a time in the ALCS. Not his fault but I never liked him because he was in the Edmonds deal.
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They traded Edmonds for aWS :-p
I’ll take it. /lalalallala I can’t hear you
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
what?!
why?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
10 of 11 was not good enough?
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very surprising
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I've always liked Riggleman.
He did a great job with the Cubs. Lots of good common sense lineups.
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
apparently over his contract?
Rizzo: Jim Riggleman unsatisfied with contract situation, has resigned effective the end of this game.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I'll never know
If that is true or not. Do the 88 Dodgers win without LaSorda?
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
not saying all managers are replaceable, just that it’s Jim Riggleman, not Connie Mack.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
The worst manager in major league history
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I just had a funny image in my head of Frank McCourt, MLB manager
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 1:31 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Well
no because someone had to fill out the lineup card. And I don’t know if anyone else would have cussed out Jesse Orosco on the same pitching mound where he pitched in a World Series two years prior to the 1988 NLCS.
But in all seriousness, 1988 was probably Tommy’s best year as manager.
Im not fan of LaSorda, but he seemed to have something with that 88 team. I can’t think of any other explanation.
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe he’s trying to get out while the Nats are over performing so he’ll get all the credit for their success when they regress to the mean.
Then the Dodgers will hire him.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
So letting Marquis hit was pretty much a “fuck it Im done anyway”. Nice.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Thats crazy. The guy just quits on his team because his option wasnt picked up? I understand wanting the security but he signed the dam contract, he should honor it. The team doesnt have to pick up the option or work out new deal until the offseason.
Thats different because they havent signed a contract. They hold out to get the best contract they can, or because they dont want to do mini camps or preseason haha. But anyways, I just dont see how Riggleman walking out helps him. I think it makes things worse, but I could be wrong. But why not just finish out season and see what happens in offseason? He wont get a new job before then anyways I dont think.
Can't remember another time one of the hotter teams in baseball has their manager resign that abruptly.
bizarro
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JEBUS!
524 comments in just over three hours?
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All discussing my tidbits
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I hope we have another no-hitter on Sunday, but this time Kershaw throws it
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Knowing us we’d get no hit by Weaver simultaneously.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Yea, but we would still win again!
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
what comes first...
Kershaw no no, or Miles with a Multi walk game?
by Lex in Brooklyn on Jun 23, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
if Mark Cuban were somehow able to own the Dodgers
would he put the games on HDnet?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:37 PM PDT reply actions
But then C league kick boxing would get preempted.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
just use it as a segue
into Art Mann Presents
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe
MLB owns the rights to all digital forms of broadcasting games (really they own all rights since they have to approve all media deals).
But only in rare instances can a team stream games on a non-MLB site.
is that a no then?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Bh
works with lawyers, you will rarely get a yes or no, simply facts to back up his line of thinking.
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and HDnet is a cable channel
not a web site
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
HD Net is a TV network is it not?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 1:43 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Ah
will then unless HD Net is willing pay multiple millions plus the fact that Time Warner, Direct TV and other carriers won’t be willing to charge customers 2 bucks a month for HD Net make it an unlikely business deal.
Should function similar to YES or NESN. Cuban owns the network and would own the team too, no? I suppose it could work the same as the Fox ownership, but I doubt that.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Of course, but if Cuban sits there and says “I’m going to pay my left pocket $3billion dollars from my right hand”, what does it matter?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Because that’s what Frank McCourt has been doing with the Dodgers the last 8 years, and it turned the franchise into a clusterfuck?
You need some sort of ethical reason why you’re doing something.
i would think it would be like if McCourt started a Dodger network
the money would then go back into the team.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
at least
that would be the idea.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Cable (and Satellite)
work this way.
The channels/networks work out a distribution deal where they pay the station a certain amount each month (ESPN famously gets $4 per subscriber each month whether or not that person ever watches that channel).
The rights fees are sold by the team/MLB to that channel.
The reason why Fox Sports may pay more for the Dodgers is that without the Lakers, they may not have enough content to realistically charge the carriers whatever they are getting.
I doubt HDNet gets much in subscriber fees now plus since (I assume) they only broadcast nationally, they would not want to have most of the country blacked out while they showed Dodger games in LA area.
good point
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Blake Smith out 4-6 weeks
Having surgery for a sports hernia. Anthony “return for Dotel” Jackson demoted from Double A to replace Smith on the Rancho roster.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 1:38 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Maybe I should go there
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it is sort of like TBLA overflow at the moment…..but there are bubbles!
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
any mention of the site should be accompanied by a link
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
nobody looks at sig tags
its programmed into us nowdays to ignore them
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I noticed it right away
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Eww
Someone at work showed me this disgusting video of a chick sitting on the men’s whatchamacallit that they piss in at Dodger Stadium.
Ohh right right.. I was just there.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Trough pissing is a lost art
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Steps
1) if no one else is using it, go wherever.
2) if one other person is using it, select furthest non-awkard point away from them
3) if more than one other person is using it, select anywhere at least one person-width away from someone else.
4) if only the person-width gaps are available, you may choose any spot where you won’t bump shoulders with either of the people on your sides.
5) if bumping shoulders is the only way for you to get to that spot, hold it.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Crossing Streams
not about the river flows
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I saw a guy pick up a nickel out of the trough in the top deck once. While I was pissing 12 inches away!!! Approximately 2002.
ha ha, I’d have thrown a quarter in to seen what would happen:)
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I remember in
My psych 10 class at UCLA, we were discussing a study where they tracked what happens when a guy goes to the men’s room and one of the 3 urinals are taken, does he take the one next to person using it or does he choose the one at the other end.
I believe the results were inconclusive.
2 troughs, 3 stalls
millions of pounds of non-liquid being served.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
This definitely isn’t true in the top deck.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I have not been in the top deck since someone threw up on my friend. That was 36 years ago.
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The only times I've been on the top deck recently
is on my way to the press box.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Only way to sit behind the plate without spending 30+ dollars. I’m willing to deal with the occasional blackout drunk.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Worse
it was a young kid who simply ate to much
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Ouch. Only kid I’ve seen throw up was in the field level after his Dad didn’t give him any sunscreen and he turned deep red.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw a dad whose kid had thrown up on him walk out carrying the sick kid at a Nats game once. My section applauded him.
by StolenMonkey86 on Jun 23, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Had a mini plan on top deck
No better value in all of LA
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Jun 23, 2011 3:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Row A is actually some pretty sweet seats. Walking down the stairs is a bitch but the seats are great.
Not a fan of Row A on the top deck since there’s like half the leg room.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
My old mini-plan on the TD was 12 games for $48
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Zooey Deschanel got a new TV series called the New Girl
About a girl who moves in with three guys who try to hook her up with other men after she is dumped by a long term boyfriend.
I do not know if the three men she is shacking up with on the show are gay.
That show looks terrible from a social and comedy standpoint.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
three gay men is more than the standard one token gay : )
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Pretty sure there’s no gay involved here.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
From Wikipedia
The show will star Zooey Deschanel as Jessica Day, a well-liked, bubbly, and adorable woman in her late 20’s who is trying to get over her surprise breakup with her model boyfriend. She eventually finds a new place to stay when she moves in with three single guys; Nick, a bartender, Schmidt, a professional and modern-day casanova, and Coach, a former athlete turned trainer. Rounding out this unlikely bunch is Jessica’s street-smart model friend Cece. Together, this group of friends try to help Jessica learn a lot about love, life and mostly about herself, while at the same time learn a lot about themselves.
This show will be fabulous.
I think Zooey is Johnny Drama to Emily’s Vinny at this point.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Means she has been dumped by 25 men but shockingly is still able to give romantic advice because even though she has picked losers every time, she can pick a winner for her friend.
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by meercatjohn on Jun 23, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
500 Minutes of Summer...
before it’s canceled?
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I laughed at the commercial, when the bow dropped to the floor.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
roommates with benefits
would that work out?
it sounds like it would be fun for a few days, then just go bad from there
by eitherethier on Jun 23, 2011 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Crazy, any big hockey fans here?
On the heels of Jeff Carter’s exodus from the Philadelphia Flyers, Mike Richards has been traded to Los Angeles for Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds and a second round draft choice.
Good deal for Kings?
In the now, yes.. In the long run.. Maybe..
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
This guy better be a dam good player… Kings gave up alot for this guy. Isnt Schenn their top prospect, and top prospect overall in the NHL? Simmonds is pretty good too.
Richards is a damn good player. And still fairly young.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly why I’m torn over this.. I think we have a real shot at the cup now. Richards is capable of 30 goals and we needed someone like this last season and now we have it.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the trade. We have centers on the roster that would keep Schenn down another year, and Richards had 60+ points last year. Sucks about the pick, but Richards also has a long term locked in contract, so that’s nice for the chances of signing the rest of our young stars. Who all still needs extended?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I knew Simmonds did but he’s not our problem… Doughty I think.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
as did Jack Johnson. I think you’re right, I think it’s Doughty’s turn.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
And I’m fairly sure thats it. I know Handzus is a FA and he could get resigned. I would really like us up the middle if Zus returned. Although that would block a younger guy.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah it would cause Its Kopi-Richards-Stoll-??? up the middle now. Zus could fill it or we could have a young guy do it. Depends how much money Zus wants.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
My bust. Lewis looked pretty good, but he can play RW… Simmonds spot. His natural spot was RW at first I thought.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Point is he can be Line 3 RW. Line 3 could be Clifford/Stoll/Lewis and that looks pretty good. Or some o f them could be on line 4. We are a deep team so we have options.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha well they just released the NHL schedule, so at the very least you can pick some games.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
No. RIchards is good, but Brayden Schenn is a top top prospect. This is like Mike Trout and Howie Kendrick for Jayson Werth.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Richards is more top line player than a Jayson Werth.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Hopefully also younger
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26
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Andre Ethier then? He’s a good player, but he’s not a superstar. A non-superstar should not cost Schenn and a solid player and a high pick.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
more like, Matt Kemp. Maybe not in the Pujols territory, but very very close to that tier.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
He doesn’t have as high a ceiling as Matt Kemp. Maybe Adam Jones?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
It’s more like, getting a ball in your ribs for nitpicking :)
Dude is 26, already a very good player and a rising star. He’s Matt Kemp with a 9 year extension.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
30th in NHL in scoring in 10-11, 49th in 09-10. So let’s call him about the 50th best player in the league, factoring in defensemen and goalies. He is young, he is good and he is locked up long-term. I don’t have a problem with the acquisition, just the cost.
Making a comparison to Bonds or Pujols is ridiculous. Kemp isn’t a ridiculous comp, but I don’t think Richards is as good as him.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
There is more than scoring. Defensive play, he’s a top scoring center, which are rarer than top scoring wingers.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
he’s more like, Hanley Ramirez then? positional value and all that.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Maybe Jose Reyes? I guess it depends on how high you are on Hanley or Jose. But not how high you are, in general.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Was going to say Utley, but he’s older now. Reyes works, if he had a 9 year extension for $5mil per year.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
$5M/year is a very high hockey salary.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Which is why Smyth is almost guaranteed a way out.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
And he apparently wants back to Edmonton.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
If in 2007 I thought I could trade Kershaw for Barry Bonds, and that would make me a bonafide title contender, I’d do it. I think this move makes them very, very strong.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
And for years too. Richards is 26 and putting 60+ points up. Him and Kopitar are one heck of a 1-2 punch.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I completely see this line of thinking. The trade makes sense, but they are out three chips. I still wonder if they couldn’t have gotten more (i.e. another usable player like a 4th line winger) or given up a lesser player or draft pick to go with. I’d have expected more like Schenn+Simmonds+5th. I’m probably just quibbling over the small details. This trade definitely makes them better now and for the foreseeable future.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
From Jon Heyman on potential trade pieces
Kuroda and Lilly come in at $5 and #6 on his list. Of course, it is Heyman so…lol at his comments.
5. Hiroki Kuroda, Dodgers SP. It’s probably premature to consider any of the L.A. pitchers yet. But if the Dodgers slip further, there’s a treasure trove of veteran pitchers, starting with Kuroda, whose expiring contract may actually be seen as a plus. Very solid pitcher (5-8, 3.07 ERA this year).
6. Ted Lilly, Dodgers SP. Gutsy lefthander who gets a lot out of his ability and would draw interest if available. Having his typical year (5-6, 4.26), and his $33 million, three-year deal is fair.
"Fast just got Faster"
Please take Lilly away from us.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Last pitcher with two and a half years on his deal to move at the trade deadline was…
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
He got extended as soon as we got him. Not sure what his service time was before that.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Kevin Brown?
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Jun 23, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeff Weaver in the same deal?
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Wasn’t that in the off season?
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
What games have been day games?
Does anybody have a list of day games so far this season for the Dodgers? I know the total amount but need to know which games were day games.
Eric did this in the game thread yesterday. Take a look and you will find it.
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i see it
i kinda need to know which games were day games. I was hoping i could find a schedule with the times the game started but not having any luck.
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
dodgers.com/schedule or when you click on the box scores, it should show you the start time at the bottom
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
so what is considered a night game?
at what time? 5 pm?
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
i'm not seeing the start time either
in the box score.
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
If you look under the tab
“Schedule” you can get a download version that gives you the schedule in a excel file where you can get all the games, start times, etc.
Baseball-Reference has the game time at the top of each box score, but if you have a media guide or a pocket schedule handy that is the best quick way.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Eric..
you said in your thread yesterday that there have been 23 day games..was this before or including yesterdays game?
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
24 of 76? I want to own the Dodgers and make all non-Sunday games universally night games and Sunday games start at 5pm.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Spoken like a true Bud Selig.
Short term gain without thought for long-term ramifications.
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
damn
so that means 24 as of right now..i have 23 on my spreadsheet and I can’t find out where I’m off a game..
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
and i'm looking at the downloadable schedule
from mlb/schedule and only counting 23
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
wait..
I think I found it,…i was missing may 14th..a 4 pm game at Dodger stadium
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
NICE
and my statistics match up now..thank you for telling me about the schedule exported into excel
by Dodgerblue8188 on Jun 23, 2011 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
you don't need to ask :)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Did he just no-hit the Twins? Haha
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
that twins lineup is ... definitely a day getaway game lineup...
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I was going to start tweeting and realized everything I had to say was mean spirited but funny as hell. So I’ve never hit the trigger.
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all my tweets would be WTF stuff.
not like horribly, just in a “why would you have that thought?” way
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
delias man and michael white used to be quality follows
MW never says anything anymore
delias man used to bring it, now he just tweets about lame ass soccer shit that no one cares about
lame ass soccer shit huh?
what would you rather read? something like “oh no here comes macdougal! get me a barf bag noooooo!!!!”
I want to hear your thoughts on Jeremiah Weed
by Josie Becker on Jun 23, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Oblique injury’s are a bitch?
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
sucks to be a 3rd baseman, just ask David Wright
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Hurt himself in a freak jumping from a helicopter incident
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
We should trade for Hanley Ramirez
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do we put him at 3rd?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t like taking speedy SS’s and turning them into 3rd baseman. When has that ever worked? I’m moving him to 1st base:)
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Won’t have to worry about a place to put Dee Gordon if we get HanRam
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of ___Ram nicknames
Those probably end when baseball gets its first Asdrubal Ramirez, right?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
If we get him, he could be Dodge Ram.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
by Nolij on Jun 23, 2011 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You’re just on a roll with names aren’t you?
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
or if Dave’s daughter marries a dude named Ramirez and they name their first son after grandpops, Dave’s grandson could be El Lay Ram
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
not worried about it like that
reading the scouts saying they believe a position change is in order for him
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
The SS
OBP more valuable that slugging with equal OPS.
The SS needs less days off than tne C.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
That's what I figured
It’s just that the media gets a boner at the sight of a power hitting catcher.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say any catcher/baseball player period who has a slug% of .700 is going to have an OB% > .400 just because you simply don’t pitch to him.
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and that is true 100% of the time - only 33 seasons of a .700 Slug%
Player OBP SLG Year AB HR RBI BB IBB OPS Pos
Barry Bonds .609 .812 2004 373 45 101 232 120 1.422 *7/D
Barry Bonds .582 .799 2002 403 46 110 198 68 1.381 *7/D
Ted Williams .553 .735 1941 456 37 120 147 0 1.287 *7/9
Babe Ruth .545 .764 1923 522 41 131 170 0 1.309 97/83
Babe Ruth .532 .847 1920 458 54 137 150 0 1.379 *978/31
Barry Bonds .529 .749 2003 390 45 90 148 61 1.278 *7/D
Ted Williams .526 .731 1957 420 38 87 119 33 1.257 *7
Babe Ruth .516 .737 1926 495 47 146 144 0 1.253 *79/3
Barry Bonds .515 .863 2001 476 73 137 177 35 1.379 *7/D
Babe Ruth .513 .739 1924 529 46 121 142 0 1.252 *97/8
Babe Ruth .512 .846 1921 540 59 171 145 0 1.359 *78/13
Babe Ruth .495 .700 1931 534 46 163 128 0 1.195 *97/3
Babe Ruth .493 .732 1930 518 49 153 136 0 1.225 *97/1
Rogers Hornsby .489 .756 1925 504 39 143 83 0 1.245 *4
Frank Thomas .487 .729 1994 399 38 101 109 12 1.217 *3D
Babe Ruth .486 .772 1927 540 60 164 137 0 1.258 *97
Lou Gehrig .474 .765 1927 584 47 175 109 0 1.240 *3
Lou Gehrig .473 .721 1930 581 41 174 101 0 1.194 *3/7
Mark McGwire .470 .752 1998 509 70 147 162 28 1.222 *3
Jimmie Foxx .469 .749 1932 585 58 169 116 0 1.218 *35
Mark McGwire .467 .730 1996 423 52 113 116 16 1.198 *3D
Lou Gehrig .465 .706 1934 579 49 165 109 0 1.172 *3/6
Mickey Mantle .464 .705 1956 533 52 130 112 6 1.169 *8
Babe Ruth .463 .709 1928 536 54 142 137 0 1.172 *97
Jimmie Foxx .462 .704 1938 565 50 175 119 0 1.166 *3
Player OBP SLG Year AB HR RBI BB IBB OPS Pos
Rogers Hornsby .459 .722 1922 623 42 152 65 0 1.181 *4
Larry Walker .458 .710 1999 438 37 115 57 8 1.168 *9/D
Hack Wilson .454 .723 1930 585 56 191 105 0 1.177 *8
Larry Walker .452 .720 1997 568 49 130 78 14 1.172 *9/38D
Stan Musial .450 .702 1948 611 39 131 79 0 1.152 *987/3
Jimmie Foxx .449 .703 1933 573 48 163 96 0 1.153 *3/6
Sammy Sosa .437 .737 2001 577 64 160 116 37 1.174 *9
Al Simmons .423 .708 1930 554 36 165 39 0 1.130 *7/8
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Generated 6/23/2011.
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No catchers so if you find one with a .700 Slug you can bet I’d boner up.
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Arky Vaughn
Had the greatest single offensive year as a SS – .385/.491/.607, he walked 97 times and struck out 18
A-Rod’s switch to 3B (plus his admission to using PEDs) will certainly cloud his claim as the greatest offensive SS in MLB history but he had 5 of the top 8 qualified best OPS seasons.
Nomar’s injuries curtailed a potential HOF career as a SS as he had two of the top 5 OPS seasons as a SS.
Jack Parkman?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Amazingly I forget just how great Babe was
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Wait until Billz finishes the season…
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Played against drunken longshoreman with gardening gloves. Almost all the high BABIPs are from that era.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I take it they didn't track IBBs
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Other note
other then Barry Bonds, Frank Thomas, PED Sosa, that is one white list.
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Mostly pre-integration. I’m not sure what the issue is.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
No issue, just sometimes I forget how high the slug% were of the great hitters before integration and introduction of night baseball, sliders and so forth.
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Is not PED Bonds on there?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
His highest career slug pre roids is a miserable .677.
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by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
If I took out post integration and tainted years, would be a tiny tiny list.
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List this
Rk Player OBP SLG Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OPS Pos
4 Ted Williams .526 .731 1957 38 BOS AL 132 546 420 96 163 28 1 38 87 119 33 43 5 0 2 11 0 1 .388 1.257 *7
6 Frank Thomas .487 .729 1994 26 CHW AL 113 517 399 106 141 34 1 38 101 109 12 61 2 0 7 15 2 3 .353 1.217 *3D
9 Mickey Mantle .464 .705 1956 24 NYY AL 150 652 533 132 188 22 5 52 130 112 6 99 2 1 4 4 10 1 .353 1.169 *8
10 Larry Walker .458 .710 1999 32 COL NL 127 513 438 108 166 26 4 37 115 57 8 52 12 0 6 12 11 4 .379 1.168 *9/D
11 Larry Walker .452 .720 1997 30 COL NL 153 664 568 143 208 46 4 49 130 78 14 90 14 0 4 15 33 8 .366 1.172 *9/38D
12 Jeff Bagwell .451 .750 1994 26 HOU NL 110 479 400 104 147 32 2 39 116 65 14 65 4 0 10 12 15 4 .368 1.201 *3/9
13 Stan Musial .450 .702 1948 27 STL NL 155 694 611 135 230 46 18 39 131 79 0 34 3 1 0 18 7 0 .376 1.152 *987/3
14 Albert Belle .438 .714 1994 27 CLE AL 106 480 412 90 147 35 2 36 101 58 9 71 5 1 4 5 9 6 .357 1.152 *7/D
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Bagwell, Belle and Thomas had whispers too even before the McEra. Walker is at least tainted by Coorstosterone. So your list would be Williams, Mantle. 1948 is still before baseball was even close to full integration.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The only suspicion around those guys are that they were good.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Which is why Bagwell is in the Hall of Fame? There were definitely insinuations.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
No, there really weren’t.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope you realize both the audacity and dickishness of your comment.
In the early ’90s, everyone knew about steroids. The voices relative to Jose Canseco by 1988 had put the buzz out there. The biggest difference between 1991 whispers and 2001 whispers is that the former was kept out of the mass media and by the latter, the accusations were flung freely.
Anybody who had a dramatic improvement (i.e. win RoY straight out of AA) was immediately accused of steroids. It was not just Canseco. Tracy Jones was a fine skinny ballplayer in Hawthorne in the early-80’s. In between high school and replacing Pete Rose, he put on 30 pounds of muscle, went from mild-mannered to aggressive and bragged to his friends (including my uncle) that he had hit the weights and found nutritional supplements, which he would talk about with a wink.
There were guys juicing at that time and there were plenty of accusers.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Okay, so cite a better source than your uncles friends that Bagwell or the Hurt was roiding.
I mean, they probably were, but there’s just as much evidence against them as anyone else.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Whereas you saying “Nobody ever accused anybody” is a better source?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
It’s hard to cite something that didn’t exist.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The internet doesn’t catalog 1991 the same way it does 2001. The mass media was not the same in 1991 as it was in 2001. Being cavalier doesn’t make you right. I do not have a source and I don’t care to check through microfiche to find one, that does not make me wrong.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
When all you’ve got is hearsay from a third hand source it doesn’t make you right either.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
It sure seems to make him smug though!
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
I don’t see how this means this proves your point. Sure plenty like the Boone’s of the world changed, but Frank Thomas came into the world looking like a monster and left the same way. Of anyone during his era they usually said “other then Frank Thomas”.
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Ted Williams at age 38 still hadn’t had a black teammate.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Pumpsie Green was still waiting his turn.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Imagine the collective boner (even the gynocracy) would have if we had a 24-year old putting up Mantle’s season.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
So silly of him to take roids
oh well
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If he wouldn’t have he would have been only barely better than Ted Williams.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Jun 23, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I just laugh and shake my head at this
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
From 1958
to 1993, not a single player had a .700 or higher slugging pct (qualified).
From 1994-2004 the lowest leading slugging pct. in baseball was Albert Belle’s .690, the only other year where the leader did not top .700 was in 2000 when Todd Helton topped all batters with a .698 slugging pct.
Was there a story about Clairol products killing people?
by Eric Stephen on Jun 23, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Nats GM Mike Rizzo, understandably unhappy:
“I learned of Jim’s decision just prior to today’s game. He told me that unless his current contract was extended for another season by the end of today’s game he intended to immediately resign as manager and would not be accompanying the team on the scheduled road trip to play the Chicago White Sox.
“I believe, and I told Jim, decisions as important as this must be made thoughtfully and methodically. I was not willing to make judgments of that magnitude in the course of a nine inning game.
“I talked to Jim before the season and have emphasized since that no decision would be made on his extension until after the end of the season. I am surprised and disappointed, personally, and am even more disappointed for our players and fans. I was always taught that one of the cardinal rules of baseball was that no individual can put his interests before those of the team.
There has to be more to this
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Jun 23, 2011 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw this note in a story re Rockies and I found it funny it omitted the most important part of this small tidbit
George Frazier, color analyst for Root Sports broadcasts of Rockies games and a former Major League pitcher, will play in the Old Timers Game on Sunday at Yankee Stadium, before that afternoon’s Rockies-Yankees contest. Frazier was a relief pitcher for the Yankees in the 1981 World Series.
They forgot to add he was the second pitcher to ever lose 3 games in a single World Series (unintentionally since Lefty Williams lost 3 games in the 1919 World Series)
Wonder if the Lakers
will keep, or trade Metta World Peace?
http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/23/ron-artest-world-peace-name-change-los-angeles-lakers-l-a/
really? my bad I dont know then, just got to TMZ if interested. Basically Ron Artest wants to legally change his name to Metta World Peace and wants Peace on the back of his jersey next season.
Square Root Artest?
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by Nolij on Jun 23, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
A poor man’s World B. Free
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Chris Carpenter is 1 – 7 on a team in 2nd place.
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NFL Labor: This will make some on this board happy
http://twitter.com/#!/AdamSchefter/status/83235781786869760
More at ESPN: If and when agreement is reached, all players with 4, 5 and 6 years of service are expected to be unrestricted free agents.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
For 8 years
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Assuming this deal gets done
The free agent signings/rumor mill is going to be a shitstorm.
"Fast just got Faster"
CURSE YOU HASHBANGS
I will best you one day….
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
In tracking active leaders
Baseball Reference uses 3000 PA as the minimum.
In 1990, who was the active leader in slugging with a career average at that time .520?
Also fun note, between 1961-2000, the active leader in slugging was not over .600 (Ted Williams retired in 1960 and it wasn’t until Todd Helton went over .600 after the 2000 season, did the active leader go back over .600)
Nope
he retired after a nice run as the active leader. I will add this player was only the active leader in that year.
Since when are the Mets in the same division as the Cubs?
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No
in 1990 Andre was a a Cub and had been since 1987
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Oh never mind, now I get it. I’m thick.
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Eric Davis
Worried about the 3000 PA’s
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Good guess, here was his total stats as of the end of that season - 1990
2983 PA .272/.364/.522
After 1991, he dropped to .509, Jose was at .519, and then Eric was never above .500 for a career slugging for the rest of his career.
I am sure this is emptiest .423 average in history
Dodgers
June Bloom: Aaron Miles leads the NL with a .423 batting avg. this month #Dodgers
ha
.423/.429/.462
22 H, 2 2B, 2 BB
"Fast just got Faster"
Pitching scoffs at Pythag
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They are World Champions
They are probably going to win the division again
Calling them bad at baseball based on pythag seems to focus a little to much on the algorithm and not on the playing of the game.
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they've scored the fewest runs in the major leagues
If their offense doesnt improve, they will not win the division.
Arizona or Colorado will
I would be pissed if they win the division 5 more times in the next 5 years
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1057 comments
on an off day….bad day for Comcast internet to go on the fritz.
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Shows exactly what we have to do on an off day.
Go Dodgers, Kings, and Lakers.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Jun 23, 2011 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I aspire to a job
where I can just goof of for hours on the internet all day…oh wait, I “work” from home.
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Sometimes we look at 2003 and say how frustrating a year that was to watch
Really, in the second half, the pitching could not keep up with a pace of allowing 3 runs a game (actually at this time in 2003, the Dodgers had 42+ run differential and were 13 games above .500. They ended up with a 18+ run differential and a 8 games above .500.
who's watching
the NBA draft?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:36 PM PDT reply actions
same here
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
would you do
Odom for Iguadola? I would, I don’t know the contract numbers though.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
Iggy is owed some cash, like $44m
I like Odom a lot, but Lakers do need to get younger. I’m on the fence. Wouldn’t mind getting rid of Walton though. I don’t hate him, he just contributes very little
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Mitch's worst contract
I don’t know what he was thinking there with Luke…a stalwart at SF for the pre-Gasol years? LOL
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
word is
they want to move him to clear his contract
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Not watching it anyway
because i can’t :l
by Julio Nievas on Jun 23, 2011 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Cavs take
Kyrie Irving #1 overall
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
don't know
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
T-Wolves take
Derrick Williams #2
I’m doing this for you Julio, BTW
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
We have overloaded today, NPUT
http://www.truebluela.com/2011/6/23/2240472/going-to-the-whip-before-the-break
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Can you name the last 5
Number one overall NBA picks to be on a NBA Championship team and only one did not do it on the team that drafted him.
Tyson Chandler is the #1 who didn’t go with the team who picked him.
Other guesses: tim duncan, shaq, david robinson, hakeem, worthy.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Tyson Chandler was 2nd overall behind Kwame Brown.
Shaq is the one the went with a team that didn’t draft him. I believe all your other guesses fit the criteria, just don’t know if they are the among the last five. The five may be your five “other guesses”.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Derrick Williams goes from the warmth of California and Arizona
to Minnesota, who might not win as many games as his alma mater in 2012.
they might be trading him
for a Vet
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Jun 23, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
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