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oh yeah, he aqlso added that harry is a drunken idiot who shoulda
stayed in st louis where his heart is, but also added that fair weathered
fans all like to be together. i guess this is the reason harry is now
a cub fan, bud man. note he never really left st, louis.
jim walker | rec.sport.baseball |
Does anybody else think that WS stats should become part of
a player's career stats? Why not?
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You can avoid these problems entirely by installing an oil drain valve in
place of the bolt. I have one on both of my cars. There have been no
leaks in 210,000 miles (combined miles on both cars). | rec.autos |
When I'm riding my 900RR, my goodies are already up
against the tank, because the design of the Corbin seat
tends to move you forward.
Wouldn't the major danger to one's cajones be due to
accelerating into and then being stopped by the tank? If
you're already there, there wouldn't be an impact
problem, would there?
- Michael -
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I don't know about trains, but I've saw a sign on the back of a
Greyhound bus that warns you that your radar detector may be set off.
It doesn't explain why, but it does set off my radar detector. | rec.autos |
That brings up an interesting point. Anyone else catch ESPN's piece about
prospects and the relationship between age, career length, MVPs and Hall of
Fame members? It was part of their preseason special. Basically, they looked
at players that had amassed 1000 plate appearances (or ABs) by the time they
were 24, and noticed some interesting things.
For starters, they found out such players comprised the majority of MVPs in
the history of the game. They also found out such players represented the
majority of the players in the hall of fame. The kicker, though, was that
they actually did some number-crunching and found that such players' careers
lasted much longer than the careers of players not in that group. They also
found that these players produced at both a greater level of performance and
produced over twice the raw totals (HRs, etc) of the other players. The first
group outhit the second something like .282 to .260 in raw BA, and blew away
the second group in such categories as HRs, 2Bs, RBIs, etc.
It was the most impressive thing I've seen on ESPN in recent memory.
I guess Ray Knight makes his rebuttal tonight.
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Well, simply put, drinking is irrelavent. Driving drunk is indefensable and
unforgivable. There is a large differnece.
But, then, with an attitude like yours, I expect you'll be dead soon. I just
hope you don't take a human being out with you. | rec.motorcycles |
How does one read the betting spreads for baseball? They tend to be something
like 8-9 which means it must not be runs!
Thanks.
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David Rex Wood -- davewood@cs.colorado.edu -- University of Colorado at Boulder | rec.sport.baseball |
I'm still catching up from Spring Break, but bear with me...
Javy Lopez has proven, over 1400+ AB in the minor leagues, that he is
ready to play in the majors. He is *not* being rushed. Players who are
clearly too good for AA and play behind stiffs at the major league level
are wasting their time, and may actually have a court case against
major league management for keeping them, at AAA.
Unless Lopez is *me* defensively (I'm 5'7'', 165 and born to play
second base :-)), he belongs in the major leagues.
Valentine isn't saying he should back up. He's saying he should be put
in a position to *win* the job in the major leagues, which, IMHO, he
would if given the opportunity. (Val, if I'm misinterpreting, please
let me know.)
But the players who *are* ready are 1)the best and 2) the ones most
likely to benefit from being in the majors. Javy Lopez is not a middle-
of-the-road prospect. He's the real thing. NOW.
Again, the most important thing a player can do is hit. Lopez does that
miles better than Olson or Berryhill. If his defense is good enough for
Greenville, or Richmond, it's good enough for Atlanta. If he really was
awful defensively, he would no longer be a catcher. See Sprague, Ed.
Oh, where to start... OK. First of all, solid != good. I want good players.
Solid is one of those words used to describe nice white guys who really
aren't very good at baseball. Think of it as "TWG" without the caps.
It's a losing strategy to say, "We have solid guys, we don't need to improve."
You used it four times in that paragraph, BTW.
Same for experienced. I might add, though, that Greg Olson and Damon
Berryhill aren't exactly Carter and Fisk. Olson has played three years,
Berryhill five, although 90 and 91 were a wash. The only difference,
IMHO, between Olson and Valle is the supporting cast.
"Two big bats." Hrm. I like Justice, but I find Mr. Gant's trend disturbing.
Call it one and a maybe. The Braves' platoon is OK, but neither player
has *any* value outside of the platoon. Bream vs. LH and Hunter vs. RH
are awful. I'll leave the thirdbase comment alone. Pendleton has wasted
too much bandwidth already. If the CF platoon hits .300, I'll retrace
Mr. Likhani's midnight run down Forbes, and I live in NY and LA.
(Got that, Mike?)
And doesn't Cox call pitches, anyway?
Nope. They're baseball management, possible the most short-sighted
collection of people in the nation. Do you not believe this goes on,
Mark? Do you think Frank Thomas needed those three months in AAA in
1990? Or Cal Eldred wasn't *really* better than Ricky Bones last year?
You're mostly polite; make defensible, if flawed cases; have wit and
have, in the past, admitted being wrong. That does qualify you on r.s.b.
We'll make an SDCN out of you, yet :-)
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Group A Group B
~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
Cardiff Devils 7-3 Bracknell Bees Nottingham Panthers 8-3 Billingham
Humberside 7-7 Whitley Warriors Murrayfield Racers 11-2 Fife Flyers
Whitley Bay 6-9 Cardiff Devils Billingham Bombers 6-8 Murrayfield
Humberside 8-5 Bracknell Bees Nottingham Panthers 11-5 Fife Flyers
Cardiff Devils 10-4 Humberside Murrayfield Racers 6-4 Nottingham
Bracknell Bees 4-9 Whitley Bay Fife Flyers 2-5 Billingham
Bracknell Bees 3-8 Cardiff Devils Billingham Bombers 2-8 Nottingham
Whitley Bay 5-7 Humberside Fife Flyers 3-12 Murrayfield
P W D L F A P P W D L F A P
Cardiff Devils 4 4 0 0 34 16 8* Murrayfield Racers 4 4 0 0 37 15 8*
Humberside 4 2 1 1 26 27 5 Nottingham Panthers 4 3 0 1 31 16 6*
Whitley Bay 4 1 1 2 27 27 3 Billingham Bombers 4 1 0 3 16 26 2
Bracknell Bees 4 0 0 4 15 32 0 Fife Flyers 4 0 0 4 12 39 0
* indicates qualified for Championship Finals
Relegation/Promotion A Relegation/Promotion B
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Basingstoke 10-4 Swindon Wildcats Sheffield Steelers 12-8 Peterborough
Durham Wasps 13-5 Romford Raiders Slough Jets 1-9 MK Kings
Basingstoke 6-0 Durham Wasps Sheffield Steelers 9-4 Milton Keynes
Swindon 8-5 Romford Raiders Milton Keynes Kings 4-6 Peterborough
Durham Wasps 17-2 Swindon Wildcats Slough Jets 2-12 Sheffield
Romford 4-10 Basingstoke Peterborough 10-2 Slough Jets
Romford *8-3* Durham Wasps Peterborough 8-5 Sheffield
Swindon 7-11 Basingstoke Milton Keynes Kings 10-4 Slough Jets
P W D L F A P P W D L F A P
Basingstoke 4 4 0 0 37 15 8 Sheffield Steelers 4 3 0 0 38 22 6
Durham Wasps 4 2 0 2 33 21 4 Peterborough 4 3 0 1 32 23 6
Swindon 4 1 0 3 21 43 2 Milton Keynes Kings 4 2 0 2 27 20 4
Romford Raiders 4 1 0 3 22 34 2 Slough Jets 4 0 0 4 9 41 0
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