Well I get up in the seventh, yeah,
And I’m done with work in the ninth
I got no time for warming, yeah
I’m pitching all the time
They say I can’t pitch the ninth
But pitch the eighth they say I can
I guess that’s why they call me
They call me the setup man!
No, my job’s not to be a gascan
Cause I’m the setup man.
I’m in the ‘pen for five innings
While I sip myself an ice cold beer
I could have been the closer
But my beard’s not growing this year
It seems to be, I could be making bank
Instead just signing where I can
I guess that is the fate of
The setup man
Yes they call me the setup man
I guess that’s what I am
Nice. Now do Red Barchetta!
You mean the Greatest Rock Out With Your Kids In The Back Seat Of Your Hyundai Song In The World?
Nice dedication.
i just got home and my fishy has died. :( wth. :(
:( I’m so sorry.
My 3.5-year-old great-niece discovered her fish was floating upwards when I was visiting, the day before her older sister started first grade. This was too much trauma for a small girl, but she expressed it really well. She informed us all that we needed to draw cards for her, then she put them in a basket and carried them around with her for the next several days. And she informed me, “I am so sad about my fish, Aunty, that I am going to curl up in the big chair and take some beauty rest. Will you come and sit down in the other chair and gaze upon me?”
Do you live in a movie about British noble children set in the late 1800’s?
I know, right? Her older sister is the same way, but school may have a corrupting influence.
Why don’t they have a governess to attend to their educational needs?
That is too adorable for words.
i love your great-niece, n.
3-4 year olds are fascinating. My little nephew is showing the mechanical aptitude of his father and both grandfathers, and the stubbornness that is the trademark of both the low forks in his family tree. I’ve seen two year olds with better verbal skills, but the boy has an uncanny visual and mechanical memory.
Funny how that works. Spawn1 has incredible verbal skills and an insane memory for facts and understanding how things work, but without a whole lot of dexterity or body awareness. Spawn2 at the ripe old age of not quite 2 years has been slow on the verbal front (although she understands just fine), but will watch us do something and will pick it up instantly. She already uses kitchen utensils better than her brother who is 3+ years older.
HAWT
Wow
BRef has it 22nd at 0.651 (and second by and Oakland A to Mark Guthrie’s 0.673)
Odd. I didn’t realize WPA differed between sites
But your link is to BRef too!
I don’t have a link!
I meant lenscrafters’, but I’m jet-lagged up the wazoo.
Win expectancy can be either empirical (i.e. X% of teams in this situation have won) or based on a model, with further decisions about whether you adjust for the park (comebacks are more likely in Coors than in the Coliseum) or other aspects of the run environment, whether you adjust for the fact that teams play better at home, etc.
I think the fangraphs version is based on tango’s run expectancy model, so no home field advantage, no park effect, etc., which is probably less accurate in some instances but avoids small sample weirdness. Not sure how b-ref does it.
It seems like they both use tango’s ’99-02 model but bbref adjusts for park effects.
But then you can’t take the fangraphs WPA number and rank it using bbref!
I guess the OP (I’m not James G) did that because it was convenient. Live WPA scoreboard data is readily available on fangraphs but not on bbref, and referencing WPA leaderboards is easily done on bbref but not fangraphs. He (and up til now, I) didn’t realize they were different versions.
I admit that I cry easily, and did even before hormones,
but seeing the A’s 4 up on Tampa with 21 to play brought me to tears.
The Lew Wolff cardboard cutout in the clubhouse gets closer to naked every day.
That’s not a cardboard cutout.
…and loller.
lol…
Kay’s brilliant/insane idea of the day: Sending openmindedness/social liberalism missionaries deep in the heart of the small towns of the red states to knock on doors and leave pamphlets.
Why do you want these poor folks to get shot?
Because a few martyrs go a LONG way.
Actually, if Civil War II happens, I want to dose the entire middle of the country with psychedelics… repeatedly. We’ll write the suicides off as collateral damage, and let the rest find their way to enlightenment or madness as they will.
How about we just let them secede from the Union, make some popcorn, and watch them self-destruct?
I vote this!
But seriously. I don’t think we have Civil War II to worry about. The way Romney handles PR and Foreign Relations, I think we need to worry much more about WWIII: Earth Vs. US
If Romney wins, we kinda deserve it.
Pretty much. If he wins, I’m going to push harder for secession.
I want to be annexed by Canada.
I’d be okay with that.
I’m no singing this to myself to the tune of “I Wanna Be Sedated.”
An old vegetarian friend of mine used to sing “I want a piece of bacon.”
I modified an AC/DC tune to suit me:
The walls start shakin’,
The Earth was quakin’,
My mind was achin’,
And we ate bacon and you,
Shook me all night long!
Much Ado About Bacon
Favorite play? A Bacon in the Sun.
<3!
can i borrow a gatling? (it’s started.)
I’m going to be spending the weekend after next in Branson, mo (makes me laugh thinking about); I’ll see what I can do….
I hope the dude at the dugout pregame during the last homestand who couldn’t tell Blevins from Rosales now feels kinda douchey.
Late, but props!