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  1. jeffy
    Was there? (I never even looked at a ballot) I guess they changed their minds about letting the fans pick the participants. Since it is a meaningless exhibition, it seems like letting the fans choose the participants would be a better option than letting a single player do so. Alternatively, why not just make it the top 4 HR leaders in each league? AHA, it said: If you could choose, who would you like to participate in the 2011 State Farm Home Run Derby? Select up to three players from both the American League and National League list below. Remember, we appreciate your feedback, but your selections will not determine the actual participants of the 2011 State Farm Home Run Derby. http://webcache.googleuse...us&source=www.google.com
  2. jeffy
    Well, if it is that at least the timing is good with three off days for the All Star break. Whatever his condition is, I sure hope he skips the All-Star game.
  3. jeffy
    Thanks to T-Plush with an assist from Gardenhire. Amazing he had Nathan and a left hander warming up and just left Capps in through all that.
  4. jeffy
    When they decided to let a single player pick the participants, they should have made a rule that there can be only one from any team. With only 4 from each league, they should each have to come from a different team. The decision on whether or not to invite his teammates should have been taken out of Prince's hands. In fact, since no one has been named, they should just add that requirement now.
  5. jeffy
    The Yankees outwalked them 14-4, though (although almost of that difference was due to the 8-0 differential on Monday)
  6. jeffy
    Yes, much better to be in our 6 team division rather than even a 3 team division with Boston and the Yankees.
  7. jeffy
    Well, he has the opportunity to really show Prince the way by opting out of the Yankees $92 million for the next 4 years and settling for much less money from Milwaukee.
  8. jeffy
    Can they un-DFA him, if Estrada goes on the DL?
  9. jeffy
    Why I'll never switch from cable to satellite TV.
  10. jeffy
    Nice to see some inconsistency tonight.
  11. jeffy
    Betancourt's been pretty consistent at the plate, consistently bad. Gomez too, hasn't he.
  12. jeffy
    Danny Knobler, CBSSports.com Senior Writer picks up the schedule I proposed in post #57 http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.cbssports.com/...a-great-realignment-idea I like the addition he has that teams stay in region early and late, so during those times you'd have 4 teams playing in division while the 5th plays interleague vs. teams in the same division of the other league.
  13. jeffy
    In what way? I could see that a left handed 2nd baseman would have an easier time throwing to second base (at the cost of making it more difficult to throw to first), I don't see how left-handedness would be helpful for a SS on a DP. There is a reason why no infielders (other than 1b) are left handed. Not one inning in 14 years, according to Baldkin.
  14. jeffy
    No, its not actually that, it's that there is no advantage for a hitter to throw lefty unless he is going to be a 1B. No non-1B infielder has been left handed in MLB for 14 years (Even for an inning). But there is a big advantage to for a pitcher to throw left handed. If right-handers could learn to throw well with their left hand as easily as they can learn to bat left-handed lots of them would be doing it. Batting uses both hands, that's why many natural right handers can do it well from the left side. Every right handed tennis player learns the back-hand, which is somewhat similar to batting left-handed, especially if it is a two handed backhand. For some, their back hand is their better shot, they'd probably become "left handed" batters in baseball.
  15. jeffy
    ...and the Cardinals still have to get through their own meetings with top teams from the AL east...oh, wait...
  16. jeffy
    Not Counsell, they need to get the only SS they have that can hit, Wilson, in the line-up to get back in this.
  17. jeffy
    Game over.
  18. jeffy
    Yo has always had his problems in day games.
  19. jeffy
    Yeah, even though he says: "Nowadays you’re more likely to find a parent trying to teach a kid to be a switch-hitter..." the guy seems to be unaware that the majority (at least I think it is more than half) of left handed batters are not actually left handed. Those who throw left are left handed. While a right handed person can learn to bat left handed, they can not convert themselves to throwing left-handed. While lefties are disproportionately represented in the major leagues". This over-representation is not defined by the number of lefty or switch-hitting batters.
  20. jeffy
    Haudricourt promoting the awful no divisions idea. http://www.jsonline.com/sports/124139813.html?page=1 In order to be "fair" all teams would have to play as close to the same schedule as possible. This presumably would mean one 3 game series against each team in the other league, that's 45 games. That would leave only 8 games against each team in your own league to bring the total to 157 games. Whatever they would do with the other 5 games, I think there would be a lot of scheduling problems. If you play a team 8 times and want to avoid 2 game series, that means a 4 game series at each park, but then too many 4 game series are also difficult to schedule. If you play some teams 9 times then that probably means 6 at one park and 3 at the other, which does not really meet the fairness test, or you have an awkward 5/4 split meaning more 2 and 4 game series. With Divisions, you only have to have each division have the same schedule and we have several posts here demonstrating that it is easy to do this in a number of ways with an unbalanced schedule and 5 teams in each division and also retain the baseball tradition of mostly 3 game series. I like the divisional set up and having an unbalanced schedule. It's also been a model that has been successful in Football as well as Baseball...why switch to the model used by the less successful sports (NBA and NHL)? Competing in a league of 15, where the goal is to finish at least in 3rd and if you can't do that then try to finish 5th also just seems dumb.
  21. jeffy
    He could have mentioned that in the 10-4 game the Brewers had lost their starter after 1 inning. Hmm, if they do meet in the WS, the Brewers should try to arrange their rotation so Wolf starts in Boston to neutralize the Red Sox DH a bit. I'd think Narveson would go to the pen and not be starting in post-season games.
  22. jeffy
    It's both... If they win or even if they lose in a close game, I think it adds to the team's (and fans') confidence that they can compete with the best. OTOH, if they are blown out, then maybe yesterday's win starts to mean less. Ultimately though, going 1-2 here and, say, winning 7 of 9 against the Pirates the rest of the year would be better than winning 2 of 3 here and going 4-5 against the Pirates.
  23. jeffy
    Dang, you were too quick...noticed that and deleted post before seeing someone had already caught my error.
  24. jeffy
    Maybe should have gone Counsell then PH Lucroy for him, when lefty came in.
  25. jeffy
    K/PA would be even better, I think. Greinke has 53.1 innings, so that's 160 outs add 9 walks and 57 hits and he has faced pretty close to 226 batters, striking out 70, so 31% of batters faced have struck out. Doing the same calculation, his career figure is about 20% and in his Cy Young season (2009) rate was 26%.
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