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  1. NlGHTWlNG
    I am so glad Russell learned plate patience this year...according to Schroeder. I mean he never walked in the past.
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    How abooot that Gord? lol
  3. NlGHTWlNG
    Who do you blame for Sheets not throwing a breaking ball until after Helton's bomb? The terrorists??
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    I read it. I just wonder why it is black on black text. I'm also incapable of long posts, but for different reasons. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  5. NlGHTWlNG
    "The Phantom Text" Thanks for the link.
  6. NlGHTWlNG
    There is interesting stuff in both of those. The only problem with the original is that the BP study, that was published on ESPN.com, is missing.
  7. NlGHTWlNG
    Branyan, would you just go yard? Enough with this single, double crap. I mean all you do is strikeout.
  8. NlGHTWlNG
    He probably meant the Rockies #1 prospect. He wasn't that either. He was the Rockies best prospect in 2003. I don't think he meant in the Rockies organization, because he said the second best was Mark Prior.
  9. NlGHTWlNG
    www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=347 Here it is.
  10. NlGHTWlNG
    Cashun just said Aaron Cook was the best prospect in baseball in 2002. He wasn't even in BA's top 100 prospects that year, and Josh Beckett was the best. He was 41st in 2003. Where did he get his info from?
  11. NlGHTWlNG
    Really? How can you determine what the impact one of these events has on a game? I'm not going to keep debating this, because you have a point of view which isn't going to change. Manny Ramirez is widely considered lazy, but he is one of the best players in the last 20 years. He produces. All that should matter in baseball is if you can produce. Ty Cobb beat up a man with no arms, and yet he was still a great ballplayer. It's fine if you want to think that the game is more emotional, but that's your opinion, and I'll have mine.
  12. NlGHTWlNG
    Sweet, Branyan and Miller tonight. And Mr. .313 OPB batting second?
  13. NlGHTWlNG
    If a player doesn't get the extra base on a bobbled ball in the outfield, how is that shown? He gets a single instead of a double. SLG is lower. If an OF doesn't hustle to the ball in the OF and get it in as fast as possible and the guy gets a double, how is that shown in the OF's stats? His range factor would be lower. If an OF doesn't go all out for a ball in the OF and it drops right in front of him without giving any effort to make a tough play, how is that shown in his stats? Again, his range factor would be lower. If a player doesn't get the guy over to 2nd with less than two outs, how is that shown in his stats? I, personally, do not know of a stat that quantifies this situation, however I'm sure MLB does keep track of something like that. edit: actually wouldn't that just be the productive out stat? The fact is, laziness does NOT show up in stats. You're partially right, but that doesn't dispute the fact that it doesn't effect the game that much, if at all.
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    Actually, and they can crazily feed off one another - and they have had a couple of freaky comebacks. From the way I look at it, those are the laws of averages at work, and not "heart". The "feast and famine" is just everything evening out for the team. We can't sustain the highs, or the lows. Just as the Nationals finally started losing games, because they couldn't sustain that type of winning, not because the lack "heart". They just weren't talented enough. The answer to the Brewer's question is simply acquiring more talent.
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    The problem I have with "Heart" is that it is thrown around too frivolously. It's usually qualifing why a player, who isn't that talented, is allowed to play. Players like Vlad, Pujols, Cabrera, and Dunn aren't usually considered "hard workers", but are great players. Usually, the Brady Clarks, David Ecksteins, Doug Mientkiewiczs, Darin Erstads, Henry Blancos of the world, get labeled "hard workers" with a lot of "heart". I do believe heart exists, I just don't think, as others have pointed out, that it plays that much of a role in Baseball. Most things in baseball can be quantified, and if a player takes plays off, stats will show us those things. Until someone can show how "heart" effects the game, I just can't see it being that important. You're going to honestly tell me that Grieve didn't have the talent to dive after any of those balls that dropped 3 feet in front of him while he was slowly jogging towards it? Yes, and he wasn't slowly jogging...he is slow.
  16. NlGHTWlNG
    Like how everyone would complain that Ben Grieve would let balls drop right in front of him without even trying. Defensive skills are a talent. As Grieve(who is the man) showed us, players who don't have defensive skills sometimes cost a team some hits, however those defensive skills can be quantified. It wasn't heart that was preventing Grieve from playing good defense, it was his lack of speed and judgement.
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    Here's my stance on this: ESPN, FOX Sports, etc. all have the ability to make their own news, and report what they think is important. The American public only knows as much as they want to know. Let's say you are an average fan who goes to games and follows the majors through TV, because you only have limited access to the internets. You see ESPN and Fox show the prototypical BA/HR/RBI spread before every AB, and judge players based on those stats. For years you wouldn't know the least bit about OPS and would only have limited access to OBP and SLG through the paper and the occasional TV graphic. It takes a long time to change the way people think, and an even longer time to change, when common media outlets don't push the envelope, and change their own thinking. I do give Daron some "props" for atleast trying to get OPS out their. He and Gammons are the only people that I ever hear saying anything about it.
  18. NlGHTWlNG
    Well since it's not broadcast on ESPN, I'm on my way to the game....oh wait...no I'm not. I don't think blackouts encourage anyone to go to games.
  19. NlGHTWlNG
    ESPN is so stupid. We can't watch the brewers because we live in Wisconsin. Sweet. I guess it's not that bad, because Brantley was going to be doing our game. Blah.
  20. NlGHTWlNG
    That sure was a nice hit by Cameron. High Heat and he goes yard on it. Pretty quick bat. Wow.
  21. NlGHTWlNG
    "You'll never know that you're my Hero"
  22. NlGHTWlNG
    That's how Jorge does it.
  23. NlGHTWlNG
    Jamie Moyer??
  24. NlGHTWlNG
    Did anybody notify Jenkins that they are not taking groundballs right now?
  25. NlGHTWlNG
    Oh my lordy! What a shot by Branyan.
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