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  1. USAFChief
    Too late.
  2. USAFChief
    CRF and Schmoeman5 win tonight's trivia!! Well done!!! Baltimore put up 3 in the 1st on the way to a 5-2 win, then threw 3 straight shutouts at the Dodgers. Unfortunately the fabulous prize was only available over the lost weekend in LA.
  3. USAFChief
    You're there to answer current music and pop culture, amiright?
  4. USAFChief
    Nope. A quick check of bbref shows LA did not score in the 1st inning of game 1. Have to like the Yankees getting swept though.
  5. USAFChief
    It's my learned opinion it is the single greatest piece of baseball trivia in the history of, uh, baseball.
  6. USAFChief
    Son nr 2. Daughter sometimes joins us too. I suspect my picking up the tab figures into it all somehow.
  7. USAFChief
    Cindy wasn't in the 1989 World Series, if I recall correctly. So no. Perhaps you're thinking of 1990, which was a sweep by the Reds, but that's also incorrect. So the upshot: trivia isn't Ober. Hahahahaha
  8. USAFChief
    BTW, same trivia question that didn't get answered over the lost weekend in LA: In which World Series did the winning team score more runs in the top of the first of game 1 than the losing team scored in the entire series? Hint: there's a hint in this post. I'll check in occasionally but tonight's trivia night with Chief Jr Jr at a local brew house. I'm there to cover the ... uh... less recent stuff. Wish us luck. We've finished 3rd twice in a row in a contest with prizes for the top 2 teams.
  9. USAFChief
    What's the deal with Gallo?
  10. USAFChief
    Concur. Strikeouts are NOT like any other out.
  11. USAFChief
    And Arraez .914. You're right, we don't need either of them.
  12. USAFChief
    Again, tough to take you seriously. Trout's MLB average OPS since 2011 is .998. That's a middle of the order hitter
  13. USAFChief
    I've been sending Falvey 2 emails a day telling him to ignore you. "Dude's using snail mail, ferpetesakes. I mean, come on."
  14. USAFChief
    Get back to work, before your boss reads this.
  15. USAFChief
    I think a reasonable hope for Correa is something like last year. OPS in the low to mid .800s. Certainly valuable, especially at SS, but not something that should be your best hitter. Hopefully we get something similar from Lewis. That'd help. We don't have any really good hitters. Consistent .950 OPS guys.
  16. USAFChief
    Concur. I'd say they are missing 2 middle of the order bats, not 1, but that's a nitpic. We better hope the starting pitching holds up.
  17. USAFChief
    Actually, across MLB in 2023 here's the numbers with bases loaded: .259/.307/.430 https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=MLB&year=2023
  18. USAFChief
    I'd say Pagan is a bad example of them liking a guy despite our pitchforks.
  19. USAFChief
    Games with 3 runs or less: Here's some comparisons, 2023 to date: TX 13 LAD 15 ClE 28 MN 21 CWS 26 I'm too lazy to go team by team at BBRef and I can't find the data already assembled. But at least on first glance, good offenses don't get shut down as often. Which makes intuitive sense to me.
  20. USAFChief
    Not exactly an answer, but here's part of it...I found some of what I was looking for the other day: what's the magic number in MLB? It's 5. Score 5, and you win more than lose. Score 4, and you lose more than win. Obviously, scoring less than 4 gives you an even worse record. This data is 2023, but it holds up https://stathead.com/baseball/inning_summary.cgi?request=1
  21. USAFChief
    Short version: need luck, because there's nothing very intriguing in the system.
  22. USAFChief
    I don't accept either of those statements as facts. I believe a MLB manager can find room for all three on most days.
  23. USAFChief
    The actual antidote to GIDPs is to hit the ball in the air. Two strikeouts still leave you scoreless.
  24. USAFChief
    It's hard to take you seriously when you make claims like this. One can be in favor of the Lopez trade while still understanding how much the Twins offense could use Arraez.
  25. USAFChief
    I guess I don't understand sending Lopez out for the 7th if you're going to pull him after 1 hitter. Either he was spent, in which case you start the inning with a reliever, or Lopez gets the opportunity to pitch to at least 3 hitters, which would be what you ostensibly sent him out to do. In any case, pretty dismal road trip, with seemingly every Twins weakness costing them.
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