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  1. 1992casey
    I'm waiting for Mike Hegan's comeback. On hold with DirecTV as I type this...
  2. 1992casey
    Repost of how to contact DirecTV about this (from Classic games thread in Major League forum).....Call 1-800-DIRECTV.Fumble through the voice system until they let you press 0 to talk to someone.Explain that there is a series of classic Milwaukee Brewers games airing over the course of the winter, beginning tonight and extending through March. (hawing has a complete list of dates several posts below this one. Add in that missing FSN North WI programming?stuff that isn't live games?is a general issue.)Ask for a way to call back and follow up.
  3. 1992casey
    There's no-go so far with DirecTV. I'm about to call them again. I think the new thread is fine for this. It'll set the tone for the rest of the games.
  4. 1992casey
    Slugging percentage is total bases divided by AB. A batter gets one total base for a single, two for a double, three for a triple, and four for a homer. You can do this: SLG = Singles + (2*2B) + (3*3B) + (4*HR) / AB But this is easier: SLG = Hits + 2B + (2*3B) + (3*HR) / AB The reason the second one is easier is that most stat pages list total hits but not singles. You're saving yourself the bother of subtracting doubles, triples, and homers from the total number of hits to get singles. Note that the formula for total bases in Brewerfan.net stat glossary is wrong. It'll have to be corrected eventually. I'll quote the Hardball Times Stat Glossary on FIP: While I'm at it, here's xFIP: Russ can explain these stats a whole lot better than I, but the idea is that a pitcher's ERA is affected by defense, and these stats try to eliminated that effect. FIP would be more of an 'expected' ERA.
  5. 1992casey
    I'd submit that the door could also be open for dealing Suppan in a year.
  6. 1992casey
    I assume you gave the CD away and not the cat. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Speaking of strange cat behavior, this reminds me of a cat I lived with for a few months. There was a video game she absolutely loved. Whenever she heard the sounds it made, she'd come running in from wherever she was in the house, then she'd jump up on the trunk under the TV and slap at the action on the screen. We'd occasionally plug in that game and let it 'play itself' just because it was so entertaining to both the people and the cat.
  7. 1992casey
    I'm having a hard time coping with $40 million for 'average', but I guess that's the going rate. One thing I see is that his numbers from year to year don't vary by much, so I guess we can consider predictability an asset.
  8. 1992casey
    Be thankful these people aren't using the speakerphone.
  9. 1992casey
    The search is really hit and miss around here. My main suggestion would be to look at the check boxes and the popup to make sure it's set exactly the way you want. I find the defaults to be weird. I can't necessarily vouch for this, but it's probably better to hit search from within a particular forum rather than on the main page. Also, someone posted a while back that you have a better shot of getting a result if you're on the actual page in which the thread is located. That pretty much defeats the purpose of the thing, unless you're trying to search a really long thread. I think people find old threads simply because they already know they're there. They're probably navigating to them manually to provide a link.
  10. 1992casey
    Oops! I think I just posted "that said" in a message somewhere.
  11. 1992casey
    Putting his age 26 rookie year in perspective, Clint's slightly above average .761 OPS translates into a below average 89 OPS+. It looks like Barmes may have an option left. Maybe Doug's looking for AAA insurance? That might be enough motivation to deal Brady Clark.
  12. 1992casey
    I checked with Adam, and he agreed with me that moving this thread to the Issues forum wouldn't be a bad idea. It'll be easier to find for those who want to discuss the progress of the Wikipedia page down the road. By the way, thanks, Adam, for adding Baseball Prospectus 2005 to the references. I hope that and the video posted by brewers19 help with the 'notability' issue.
  13. 1992casey
    The article hit the wire services and was posted on the Mercury News site several hours before it was up on JS Online. AJAY posted it in his Graffy, Weeks, Hardy, and Mench update thread earlier this evening. Given that JS Online waits until after 11:00 PM to post a lot of their stuff, I think I'm going to start doing Google News searches for "Haudricourt" early in the evening.
  14. 1992casey
    There'll be a 30-day notice. I remember it was so obvious it couldn't be missed. It might have even popped up on the main forum page.
  15. 1992casey
    Here's what I'm now finding at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Splitter's link in the locked thread appears to be gone.
  16. 1992casey
    Stevo, I'm thinking Doug might want to avoid deciding whether or not to offer arby to Mench. That might cause him to take a little less in order to move quickly.
  17. 1992casey
    aracko, are you referring to Geremi Gonzalez? He's already gone. Adding to Russ' comment, Lieber's walk numbers are pretty cool. Last season, he issued only 24 in 168 innings. I think I'd be OK with Mench + Turnbow for Lieber. If it turned into Jenkins + Capellan, forget it. I like the idea of adding depth to the pitching staff and it makes sense to use an outfielder to acquire it. For hawing, here's an old picture of Jon with his hair 'exposed'. http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/jon-lieber.jpg
  18. 1992casey
    I completely understand that the general public has trouble differentiating when to say "less" and when to say "fewer". But it bugged the heck out of me when a well educated army general messed up those words in an interview a few days ago.
  19. 1992casey
    Because I've seen that stuff on message boards, I can't even bring myself to type those "words" into my cell phone. "u" and "2" would be handy, but I just can't do it. "Prolly" just sounds silly to me no matter how you slice it.
  20. 1992casey
    Yeah, really. That sure doesn't look like something that was done 'hurriedly'. Thanks Toby! Do options get in the way at all? I'm thinking specifically of Nix and Rivera.
  21. 1992casey
    bf.com sounds fine to me. If you have the ESPN dude's name, by all means, add it. The clip isn't convenient for me to look at because I have dial-up.
  22. 1992casey
    By the way, based in his forum signature, it looks like valpocrewsader made the initial ESPN contribution. I stuck in the month and day, and brewers19 stuck in the reference and YouTube clip.
  23. 1992casey
    Baseball Prospectus 2005 should be cited in the references on this page, but I haven't figured out how to do the code to include it. I'm betting brewers19 would know that. Wikipedia recommends the Harvard referencing format. However, it tells contributers to attempt to defer to whatever format might already be in use on a particular page. Since there's no book currently listed, that wouldn't be much of an issue. Here's what Harvard referencing produces for Baseball Prospectus 2005. The ISBN number should be linked to something; I'm hoping Wikipedia does that automatically. If it doesn't, plain text ought to be OK until someone figures out what to do. By the way, I do have an HTML copy of the page as it stood this morning. I just haven't uploaded it anywhere. It'd be better to copy the text in Wikipedia's format, but it looks if it's scattered about a bit. If I can make sure I'm getting everything, I'll back it up that way. Of course, anyone else should feel free to do that if they wish. My feelings won't be hurt. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  24. 1992casey
    I liked the outline on Adam's defunct version better than this one. I wish I could remember what he did. (I bet Adam would have replicated it had he remembered it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif) I think it'd be cool to try to arrange the items to somehow mirror how Brewerfan.net itself is arranged. And maybe instead of the bolded stuff that's there now, it seems appropriate to me to go to either lists or h3s under the h2s. Pardon me, by the way, if I get to HTMLish. That's much more familiar to me than the way Wikipedia presents things. I do see they offer a cheatsheet, though.
  25. 1992casey
    I see brewers19 has found the page and made some additions. He's exactly the person I was hoping would help.
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