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  1. IdahoPilgrim
    Good call.
  2. IdahoPilgrim
    "You were born to be baseball players. This is your time. Their time is done. Now go out there and take it."
  3. IdahoPilgrim
    That's why they pay you the big bucks!
  4. IdahoPilgrim
    Because he's starting to hit them. And pitchers are still hoping he'll chase a bad one like he did so often the first few weeks.
  5. IdahoPilgrim
    So, do this warrant a discussion on an amendment to the policy on appropriate posts? All posters who jinx the club in a game thread are subject to a 3-game suspension?
  6. IdahoPilgrim
    Boy, that was big, getting that second out while holding the runner.
  7. IdahoPilgrim
    .....***groan*** You know, in some states, puns like that are a felony.
  8. IdahoPilgrim
    Unapt? Aptless?
  9. IdahoPilgrim
    "Rolling...rolling...rolling on the river." -CCR
  10. IdahoPilgrim
    No, I am not Bert Blyleven, but I play him on the internet.
  11. IdahoPilgrim
    Good trip to the mound for Anderson - settle him down, get out of the inning.
  12. IdahoPilgrim
    Uh...you mean you were just on a plane, or do you mean you were flying the plane?
  13. IdahoPilgrim
    Way to go, Joe!
  14. IdahoPilgrim
    We should start every game thread being critical of Plouffe - it seems to do some good.
  15. IdahoPilgrim
    OK, so what are our hopes/expectations for Hernandez today. I'd be happy with 5 innings, and ecstatic if he gets through 6 and we're ahead or tied.
  16. IdahoPilgrim
    Your assessment of his ability may be correct, but that doesn't change that he's better than anybody else we have for there right now. I suppose I could give Gardy a call and see if he wants me to play 3B, but I doubt that would actually improve the club. Bottom line - he's the least bad option we have for the time being.
  17. IdahoPilgrim
    I know pitch framing is now "part of the game" and everybody is doing it, but I guess it still rubs me the wrong way a little. Basically, we're seeing who can best trick the umpire into making an incorrect call - who can cheat most effectively? In other parts of the game there are people advocating using technology to take the human element, i.e. mistakes, out of umpiring. Maybe we need to talk about that here, and develop a system that can call balls and strikes correctly without relying on human judgment.
  18. IdahoPilgrim
    Interesting article, but it also got me thinking about statistics in general. There seems to be the assumption that eventually every facet of the game will be able to described/understood/manipulated using statistics. I wonder how realistic that really is. There was a time when it was thought that the universe could be understood with mathematics, that all physical laws would ultimately be discovered and written down, allowing us to completely predict how the universe would work. Physicists now understand that, at its core, there is an element of mystery than will never fully be able to be described analytically (although that doesn't stop them from trying:)). I wonder if baseball will ultimately be the same - that at the end of the day we will realize that the game is more than just the numbers on the piece of paper, as fun as those may be to play with.
  19. IdahoPilgrim
    Coaching and managing are two different animals. Is there any evidence that they would necessarily do bett​er? And I don't count a partial season at high-A with stellar talent as a fair comparison.
  20. IdahoPilgrim
    I have to wonder about this - is social media really that influential? Maybe it's just the generational thing, but I really don't give much weight to blogs and web forums in general. They're fun to read and to post on, and once in a while I learn something, but I would never take them as an accurate reflection of the population in general. I just know too many people who don't take it that seriously and don't base their worldview on them. Does that mean I'm old? I guess I see the declining average tenure in sports management as a response more to an expectation of immediate gratification from ownership rather than a response to media pressure. I do agree that Gardenhire is at the end of his leash - he needs 75 wins MINIMUM or he's probably gone.
  21. IdahoPilgrim
    How did those get in there? Where's the moderator?
  22. IdahoPilgrim
    It's a place where kids sit with their grandparents and Santa Claus.
  23. IdahoPilgrim
    Did they change the rules? I thought you had to go three innings before you could qualify for a save with the size run differential.
  24. IdahoPilgrim
    Maybe they already do this, but if not the day can't be far away when they have a laptop or something in the dugout that shows which is statistically more likely to result in a win, having him bunt or swing away, etc. in each particular game situation.
  25. IdahoPilgrim
    Thanks. Where do you find that?
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