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  1. USAFChief
    no.
  2. USAFChief
    Y'know, I get enough grief around here about my age, I really don't need it from anywhere else, but such is life. I called the incontinence hotline just now, and they asked me if I could please hold.
  3. USAFChief
    pro tip: don't take personal checks
  4. USAFChief
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3uLgDnajyfs/UhcCyjSNmFI/AAAAAAAABKY/eBH9oe9hhXc/s1600/princess-bride2.jpg But...was it a "dweem wif'in a dweem"??
  5. USAFChief
    Your negotiating skills are to be envied.
  6. USAFChief
    Van found the FA market verrrrry depressed this winter, and we got him signed cheaply a week or so before opening day. Of course, one gets what one pays for.
  7. USAFChief
    Good stuff!
  8. USAFChief
    Just about the best possible development to the young season.
  9. USAFChief
    I get your point, Brock, but the wording brought a chuckle.
  10. USAFChief
    The AB in question is the bottom of the 3d, vs Kluber. Down 5-1, against Miller, working a walk is absolutely the right approach. And for the record, IMO "run expectancy tables" are a pretty bad way to manage a baseball game. Very few individual situations are exactly the same as the aggregate of thousands of situations. Mike Trout against Taylor Rogers isn't the same as Adrianza vs Andrew Miller. But a run expectancy table treats them both the same.
  11. USAFChief
    Some of us don't consider him "amazing." Nor "legendary."
  12. USAFChief
    Wade Boggs doesn't take that 2-0 pitch. But you're right about one thing...I don't give a damn about "clutch OBP." And BTW since teams abandon right field against Mauer, even a double to right scores Grossman, with two out, easily.
  13. USAFChief
    Concur. Which is why it's important to attempt to take advantage of situations where you have a better than ordinary chance. Mauer--regarded as a "great hitter" by many here--bats left handed and has a fairly predictable pitch coming at 2-0, against a tough RH hitter. He takes the pitch. Ultimately, he leaves it to Sano, a strikeout prone RH hitter who was, I believe, something like 1 for 20 against Kluber coming into the game, to drive in the run(s). Very few "great" hitters take that pitch in that situation. For a good reason. It's a bad approach.
  14. USAFChief
    The score was 0-0 in the bottom of the 3rd. Grossman on base. Kluber on the mound. And for the record, I don't hate Mauer. I just don't think he's nearly as valuable as he gets credit for around here. And I personally don't think his approach to hitting is the most effective way to play baseball. The way you can tell that is, really good hitters don't take 2-0 pitches in situations that call for an extra base hit. And that situation SCREAMED for sitting on a pitch and trying to make the game 2-0. Again...if this was an isolated incident, I wouldn't have this opinion. But it's not.
  15. USAFChief
    We saw it last night. Mauer takes a get-me-over cutter on a 2-0 count without so much as a flinch. Pitch could not have been more center cut. With a runner on base, in a close game. He ends up walking, and leaves it up to Sano, against a RH pitcher like Kluber, to get the job done. How do you suppose that ended up? I don't think that's good baseball. I think a "good hitter" has to be attacking that 2-0 pitch. I don't give a darn if his "clutch" OBP went up. If that was an isolated incidence, ok. It wasnt.
  16. USAFChief
    No bueno.
  17. USAFChief
    No worries, we're glad to have you. Stick around, we're not a bad group.
  18. USAFChief
    My input: Ick.
  19. USAFChief
    WINNAH!
  20. USAFChief
    Turns out he has the skill of placing his glove directly on the azimuth and arc of a 1 million mph line drive...BEFORE it's hit.
  21. USAFChief
    Chief: I see two obvious flaws in that theory.
  22. USAFChief
    We hope you stick around. BTW, Castro framed Batista.
  23. USAFChief
    OK we give...where?
  24. USAFChief
    Morrison: "pfffft."
  25. USAFChief
    precisely.
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