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Brian Anderson actually was a golf announcer in addition to having a baseball background.

I really wonder what Guillen was asked for him to say what he did. It's hard to decide of the sanctions were appropriate without knowing the full context. Rocker was suspended for whatever was left of spring training and for the first 28 games of the season. The spring training suspension was dropped, and the regular season suspension was reduced to 14 games. When Rocker was asked if he'd play for the Yankees or Mets, this is what he said:

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Blogs and Twitter have made things worse, but decline in journalistic integrity started well before that. As an example, the Connie Chung-Kathleen Gingrich incident occurred in 1995, and I'd guess that things were declining before that.

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This is what a World War II soldier's letter to his wife looked like after the censor got ahold of it. It was printed in the [cite]Wisconsin State Journal[/cite] on March 19, 1944.

The alternate channel works for my dad sans the package that Marc Newfield of Dreams mentions.

This depends on whether you want to look at an entire career or look at a player during the stretch that got him his Hall of Fame induction. I'd tend toward the latter, but it's easier to get started with career stats. For questions like this, I usually begin with OPS+. Notice that I said "begin," not "end." The big thing that OPS+ offers is that it's adjusted for the era in which a player's career occurred. A downside is that it carries the same flaws as OPS, mainly that OBP isn't given enough weight. In this case, however, McCovey and Jackson each had OBPs that were 42% of their OPSes. That conveniently evens things out somewhat. McCovey had a career OPS+ of 147 (47% above average). Jackson's was 139 (39% above). At first glance, as RockCoCougars says, McCovey seems to have had more substandard seasons late in his career when compared to Jackson. So my initial conclusion would be that McCovey was the better offensive player during his "good" seasons. I'd ignore strikeouts. When computing a player's value, they mean little. Strikeouts come into play when developing strategy for specific game situations. Stolen bases can probably be looked into, but with these guys, I'd say they're basically meaningless. Jackson stole more bases, but his SB/CS ratio was right at the 2:1 break-even point. The total impact would have likely been the same had he not run at all. McCovey didn't steal or get caught enough to bother thinking about it. I'd also ignore batting average. OBP and SLG tell us more in regard to a player's value. Besides that, OBP and SLG each include BA anyway.

I've given the topic a broader title.

"Its not a race issue, but it happens that more often than not its white players that fit this model, which is probably why the Cards haven't had many black players in the last 10 years."

In terms of quantity, there was quite a bit to miss. Dude posted to the Major League forum 72 times in a span of 2 days, 9 hours, and 31 minutes. After the ban, a total of 195 posts were removed from the Major League forum. 8 of GoQ's posts are left. theavrock summed things up well. No you haven't done it without being high and mighty. What follows below is a sample of your holier than thou attitude. You have shown in two days that you are unable to be objective and only come here to tell everyone how great your team is. Your posts are dripping with condescension and show a lack of tolerance for others viewpoints. That isn't what this forum is about and certainly not the reason that I have been a member for the last 6 years. Mods, can we get rid of this guy? This is completely unrepresentative of why I love BF. "Some will get it, most wont." "One thing people don't understand outside of the Cardinals is the emphasis on character. They have the luxury of taking guys that match a character profile, for the most part." "Brewers are not so fortunate and have to sign guys like Ramirez who is a proven 'me' first, low energy loser. Or Morgan who wouldn't be welcomed in most mlb clubhouses. " "And maybe some day franchises like yours will understand the value in attitude and character instead of knocking it as a useless attribute..." "And yes, Carpenter did some nasty things last year. He is a fierce competitor, but are you not seeing how that differs from a 'me' first or lackadaisical attitudes of a Ramirez, Milton Bradley, Nyjer Morgan, Soriano type of player? " "I like to break things down, right down to what they really are..." "You can call it a stereotype... but one organization knows how to win and another doesn't." "They can pick and choose guys more than teams like Milwaukee, filtering through the guys with less character... thats the point." "Most of you have the 2 party political syndrome. You're very blinded by created perceptions. This post ^ is the precise regurgitated dribble that keeps you blind" "I guess you don't follow along to well" "Where are we as men if we give up these unwritten man rules?" "we've established it didn't matter if it was intentional." "Again, what a joke." "Not sure where on earth this can get lost in translation. " "Why is this so difficult to swallow?" "Life isn't a popularity contest. Character defines what you bring to a clubhouse." "This shouldn't be to hard to understand" "is a serious homer. " "Haha, moneyball sure turned a lot of people in geniuses." "And glad you confirmed that you think a one position platoon player is more valuable than a 5 position guy with unmatched character." In addition to what theavrock points out, here are two of my personal favorites: "Surprisingly the world does not revolve around Wisconsin…" "Paul123.. my god, not sure where I would even begin with responding to that debacle…"

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Thanks for offering this again this year.

I just heard it announced during the Bucks game. Best wishes to the Uecker family.

As an experiment, today's in-game thread has been placed in the "What's Hot" box at the top of every forum. The upside is that it's accessible all over the place. The downside is that the main page doesn't show if there are new posts in the thread. Is this placement a good thing… or not?

As an experiment, today's in-game thread has been placed in the "What's Hot" box at the top of every forum. The upside is that it's accessible all over the place. The downside is that the main page doesn't show if there are new posts in the thread. Is this placement a good thing… or not?

As a reminder, the [chat]chat room[/chat] is available. It's in the navigation bar at the top of all board pages.

As a reminder, the [chat]chat room[/chat] is available. It's in the navigation bar at the top of all board pages.

Here's an excellent article comparing MLB.TV and related features on various devices. Batter Up: The best ways to watch baseball on your digital devices

I don't think there's ever been a single day where every team opened.

The alternate channels on DISH will be 444 (SD) and 9514 (HD). http://www.foxsportswisconsin.com/pages/fswisconsin_alt/ U-verse isn't mentioned.

It doesn't look like Charter is offering the alternate channel in HD. However, since the Brewers would be on the "main" channel, Bucks viewers would be the ones losing out.

We've rarely had trouble with fans of other teams. Most have been nice additions to the board. But for whatever reason, we've had a lot of trouble with Cardinals fans.

Where does Verizon stand?

The bar has been raised. You need to pick one line of a song and play it over and over. Earlier in the topic, Fatter than Joey suggested Barnes and Barnes' [cite]Party in My Pants[/cite], but I now think their [cite]Fish Heads[/cite] song is more appropriate. Just use the beginning where they sing, "Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum." Stick to the a capella intro. Stop before the music starts.