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Otters suck.
1. Use the “Direct Link” link instead of the “Email and
IM” link.
2. Another stats question (I’ll stop eventually):
Does team BABIP-against correlate at all with team UZR (or any other mainstream defensive metric)? Should it?
Also: this
thread bored me almost immediately, and I lack the discipline to press on under those conditions, but perhaps
one of the Free Kraut syntax mavens can provide the definitive answer (thus simultaneously improving my grammar and
abetting my apathy).
Can I order a 90-degree-tilt square yellow sign that
reads GRAMMAR-FREE ZONE 150 YARDS?
The just-completed sweep
of the slegnA by the Twins was nailed down by Nathan. I love you, Sabes.
When things start to seem bleak, I remind myself that as
A’s fans we don’t have to listen to Amy Gutierrez.
Everyone who has criticized or made a joke about otters
is banned.
this into the dvd and do PIP.]] >
Watching Pablo Sandoval run out his triple, I laughed so
hard I woke up JP.
monkeyball: clear a spot on your couch, I’m
moving in
Say what you will about hockey, but:
Cardenas so far:
.405/.457/.690
Showing a bit of power.
I’m disappointed that this didn’t get a better reaction.
Good start for Mazzaro: 6 ip, 5K, 0uBB, 1R(HR). He’s
probably first in line to replace Outman (or Cahill). Blevins took the loss….
So has no one noticed the new banner, or is it just that
it only amuses me?
Okay, so for about the third time in two days, a
headline on Yahoo makes no sense.
“Columbine students strive 10 years after massacre”
I’m not certain if this is Yahoo or AP or…what, but they can’t just “strive,” can they? Don’t they have to be
striving toward something? M-W defines it:
1 : to devote serious effort or energy : endeavor
2 : to struggle in opposition : contend
I’m an English major and this stuff bothers me probably more than the business majors of the world, but isn’t the
word “strive” pretty common verbiage?
No matter what municipality they slap on the letterhead,
the Slegna and their fans will always be 100% in and of Orange County.
[response to monkeyball]
1. Notwithstanding the imminent Tuesday beatdown (I’m already wincing in anticipation), I think it’s clear Anderson
is further along than Cahill.
2. Good stuff, certainly. See mikeA’s theory about how he’ll walk a million guys but it won’t be the end of
the world because the free passes aren’t likely to be paired with many extra base hits, due to the downward action
on his pitches. .215 BABIP so far: that’ll go (way) up, so he’d better start throwing a few more strikes.
3. I don’t think he’s been squeezed. Not shamefully so, anyway. Someone should do a study to determine if young
pitchers are indeed the victim of umpire bias (or, conversely, if established pitchers benefit from wider zones, a
la Glavine). I doubt it would turn up anything significant.
Addendum to #3: Since sabermetricians pervade the interwebs, no doubt someone has studied that.
Postscript to addendum: I wish stat-inclined analysts were better writers. Every time I set off in search of the
answer to a saberconundrum, I end up in some impenetrable insidethebook thread where no one can go half a sentence
without invoking an equation. The folks at Beyond the Boxscore, Fangraphs, and elsewhere try their
best, but … well, I wouldn’t exactly call their prose felicitous. It’s difficult to plow through that stuff
unless your interest is avid. I’d say 5% write well, 25% write clearly, 69.9% write like engineers, and Dave
Cameron is [needless and inaccurate qualifier edited out-mikeA] a dick.
Footnote to addendum postscript: I wish sal would write more, because I put him in that 5%.