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From: CAVGEOE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Trivia -- 1991 NL Plate Appearances
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 18:11:14 EDT

     Just a couple trivia questions about NLers in 1991:
 
     1. How many players qualified for the batting title in the
NL last year by having 3.1 PAs (AB+W+HBP+SF+SH) per game played
by team (496 PAs for Cubs; 500 for Mets and Expos; 503 for everyone
else)?
     2. Which team had the fewest players get this many PAs?  Which
team had the second fewest?  (Many tied for the most.)
 
Jeff Caveney
From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Eckersley NOT better than Fingers
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:43:36 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

In <1992Apr16.223706.24663@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> glb50263@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Gary L. Blickhan) writes:
>dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>>In article <12244@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Hairless Primate Huckabay) writes:

>>>All you have to do is find a comparable five-year span for another
>>>reliever that's better, and you'll disprove my statement.  It's called
>>>discussion with evidence.

>>>I've looked at this pretty thoroughly.  Maybe someone can present me
>>>and the net with some ALTERNATIVES, rather than just "No way, Dude!"

>>The closest I've been able to find are:
>>	Dan Quisenberry, 1981-1985
>>	Sparky Lyle, 1972-1976
>>	Goose Gossage, 1977-1981
>>	Bruce Sutter, 1977-1981

>>I don't see any of those as being better than Eckersley's 1987-1991.

>>(It's interesting to speculate what Firpo Marberry's numbers would look like
>>if you could isolate out his relief work.  In his career, he had 187 starts
>>(W/L record of 94-52 in those starts, for the Senators!), and 364 relief
>>appearances (101 saves).  His career OOBP is .325, in a career that spanned
>>the most potent offensive years of all time.  Unfortunately, his start/relief
>>numbers are hopelessly muddled, and we can't see how good he really was...)

>I'd take Dan Quisenberry any day over Dennis Eckersley. Period.  
>I don't care what your numbers are (wherever you got them).

BILLY RIPKEN IS A BETTER POWER HITTER THAN CECIL FIELDER!!!!  SO
THERE!!!  NYAHH, NYAHH!  I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR STUPID NUMBERS SAY, YOU
STAT-HEAD!!!!!!

:) For the humor impaired.

Incidentally, Dave, could you post those numbers?  I'm curious.

-- 
David M. Nieporent              |ALEast 92: 1.Baltimore 2.Boston 3.Toronto
niepornt@phoenix.princeton.edu  |4. Detroit 5.Milwaukee 6.NY 8.Cleveland
"Baseball stathead, and card-carrying member of the ACLU.  And proud of it."
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From: m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu (Michael L. Le Houllier)
Subject: Jays/Tigers
Keywords: Blue Jays wire to wire!
Reply-To: m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu (Michael L. Le Houllier)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 13:19:30 GMT


Blue Jays win again.  They defeated the Tigers 10-9 and have taken
sole possesion of first place at 2-0.  Only the Yankees (1-0) remain
undefeated in the division (and I wouldn't bet on that lasting too long).

What happened to the pitching to allow 9 runs?  On the positive side,
they certainly proved they can score runs if they need to.  Any home
runs for the Jays?

Wire to wire looks like a definate possibility now.  They have just
about cleared the most difficult hurdle in not falling out of first
the first couple of games.

Go Jays.

-- 
 Michael Le Houllier           *  John 3:16  * Nov 12, 1991 - Dili      
 (m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu.us) *  Remember: June 4, 1989 - Beijing
 Go BLUE JAYS   2-0   at Tigers Monday (4-2), Wednesday (10-9) and Thursday
 The Rangers jinx continues.  The year they could win, they strike.
Organization: Doctoral student, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Tue,  7 Apr 1992 11:19:29 -0400 
From: Michael Scott Neiberg <mn1s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Trivia Questions
	<1992Apr6.205407.13508@cs.rose-hulman.edu>

John, correct on #1 (nice reasoning) but off on #'s 2 and 3.  On #2
think more recently  (since WWII)
From: colaluca@cs.utexas.edu (Mark Colaluca)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Most complete statistical record of 1991?
Date: 7 Apr 1992 18:33:54 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: saltillo.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: statistics

Can someone recommend the best statistical record for 1991?  I'm looking for
a single source which gives all stats for batters/pitchers, including 
complete fielding records, batting vs. left/right, and pitchers vs.
left/right batters.

BTW: when people in this newsgroup "project" stats to 1992, what type of
system are they using?  Forgive me, I'm new here :)

Thanks a bunch,

-- 
|  Mark Colaluca	Internet:   colaluca@cs.utexas.edu |
|  			Compuserve: 72230,1221 AOL: MC99   |
|        "A Pittsburgh native, and proud of it. "          | 
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From: s5170748@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (THAN LEE)
Subject: Re: Baseball Quiz #1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:56:00 GMT

1)  Maybe Bob Watson? (Rangers, Astros, Red Sox, Yankees, ...)

Than Lee
From: jerinra@stat.appstate.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: MATT YOUNG TOSSES NO-HITTER, LOSES 2-1
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:25:47 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University

I'm surprised that no one picked up on the fact that if
Young gave up 7 hits in 8 innings he probably would have 
won the game.  It's tough to win when your power hitters are
hitting below 200.

Dr. J
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
From: actuary@NCoast.ORG (Steven M. Goldman)
Subject: 200-win pitchers who never won 20
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:12:26 GMT


Recently, someone posted a question regarding which 2 ML pitchers
had 200 career wins without ever winning 20 in a season.

Actually, there were 3... Milt Pappas, Jerry Reuss and Frank Tanana.
From: ccford@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: DUMB inexcusable play
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:50:19 AEST
Organization: University Of Queensland

> 	Well, it's only Opening Day, and Vince Coleman has distinguished
> himself already. First he doesn't hustle on his first AB, then in the third
> inning of a scoreless games he gets thrown out trying to STEAL THIRD ON BALL
> FOUR WITH TWO MEN OUT. 
           (The rundown of the play deleted from here)
> 	What could possibly have been so important about getting to third
> with two men out? Does Vince Coleman have a brain? Is Torborg going to fine his
> ass? Am I going to make it through this season without putting as bounty on
> Vince's head?
Living over here is OZ and not having seen the game (yet?), all I could ask
is was the play called by the 3rd bag coach or did the runner do it on his own
"initiative"?

If the former, then I'd suspect (being the first game of the season, and
nothing to lose), he MAY have been testing out his runners fitness, ability or
some such thing. If the case was the later alternative (again, first
game-nothing to lose), he MAY have been testing the opposition.

You'll have to add a few details like all those involved in the play(catcher,
3B coach, SS, 3B) and info like new position being played, etc. etc.
 
 Thanx,
 Steve....

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From: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: Request for Info: Mets/Phillies Injuries
Reply-To: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Organization: Don's Merry Horde of Topologists
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:58:55 GMT

frisbee@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Tyler Brown) writes:
> Could someone comment on the rumors I've heard about
> Howard Johnson and Dale Murphy getting injured yesterday?

	Dunno about Johnson but Murphy has been having knee trouble all
spring long and he was very stiff and sore out there yesterday. He was
pulled after the second inning and is going to have the knee drained and
examined this afternoon. If it doesn't improve, Ruben Amaro may be getting
more playing time after Dykstra comes off the DL.

-Jeff
-- 
Jeff Hildebrand                                  jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu
"Fly Heisenberg Airlines! We may not know where we are, but we're making
real good time." - _Synners_ by Pat Cadigan
From: thornley@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Will Clark as a Triple Crowner?
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:42:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr16.154244.16626
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In article <reynard.703458551@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu!> reynard@susie.cs.scarolina.edu (John Reynard) writes:
>
>Griffey the best CF ever??
>Not a chance in hell.
>He is only debateably going to be the best of his generation if he does as
>well as he has so far.  He will never be seen as better than even DiMaggio
>let alone Mantle, Mays, Speaker, Cobb(I think he played CF).
>
Considering that he's 21 and coming off a .327/.399/.527 season, he does have
a good shot at improvement.  Even if he continues his current performance,
there will be nothing debateable about his status as best CF of his generation.

To compare:  DiMaggio's performance at the same age is comparable in raw
stats, but the average hitter in '36 was better than the average in '91.
Mantle was about as good at that age, Mays considerably worse.  I have trouble
eyeballing equivalencies between dead-ball and modern hitters, but it looks
like Speaker might be a touch behind Griffey at his age, Cobb definitely
better.  With Cobb better, Mantle about even, DiMaggio and Speaker a little
worse, and Mays definitely worse, Griffey is in excellent company.

Of course, he still has to develop like these folks.  He's nowhere near as
good as these guys were at their peaks.  But right now he has as good a
chance to be the best CF of all time as anybody ever had at his age.

>Ripken's shot is not real decent either if you count real old timers but 
>is alot better than Griffey's.

No way.  We had this discussion earlier.  If you do reasonable adjustments
for era, Ripken's best year would be a disappointment for Honus Wagner.
Unless Ripken can do much better than last year for the next ten years,
he will not be the best shortstop of all time.

David Thornley
"Stat-Drunk Comp-Nerd, and loving it"
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From: peppler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Randy Peppler)
Subject: Re: Harry & Ron
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:00:36 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.071304.19906@midway.uchicago.edu> clmn@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.220411.16238@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peppler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Randy Peppler) writes:
>
>>	A pretty good pitcher?  Patterson?  The jury is definitely still
>>	out on him.  He did nothing on the South Side which would get him
>>	past journeyman status.
>
>And Patterson got pasted last night in 1/3 inning.

	I really felt sorry for him - he served up 3 gopher balls in that
	third of an inning.  Apparently, Philly hadn't hit 3 in an inning
	since 1949!  He was just grooving BP speed fastballs...

-- 
-------------------------------
| Randy Peppler               |
| Illinois State Water Survey |
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From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Rickey Henderson v Nolan Ryan -- Stat-head call to arms!
Keywords: Lundy.  *Joe* Lundy.
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:49:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <12266@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Avenue Of Shuttered Skulks Huckabay) writes:
>
>Rickey in a walk.  Get it?  A WALK?  Hee Hee Hee...
>(You see, Rickey walks a lot, and Nolan gives up a lot of walks...)

>Hey, it was funny when Tate said I had to include it!  Thank David
>Tate for that joke.

Slander!  Libel!  I've been framed!

Call me a stats-drunk computer nerd if you must, but don't try to palm 
your fetid puns off on me...  :-)


-- 
          David M. Tate            |"The man who hath no music in himself
     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound
  A poem should be dumb, / As old  | Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils
 medallions to the thumb.-MacLeish | 	Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice", A.V
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From: gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson)
Subject: Re: Least Valuable Players (career)
Organization: ceNTRe for Number Theory Research
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 23:28:32 GMT

There was a catcher named Bill Bergen who had a batting average of .170 over 
3000-plus at-bats in the early days of the century (slugging: .201). Also, a 
shortstop named George McBride who got over 5500 AB despite batting .218 and 
slugging .264. But I don't know anything about their fielding. Does either 
player show up on the list? 

Gerry Myerson
From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Will Clark as a Triple Crowner?
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:26:11 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr14.222718.24632@u.washington.edu> tannerg@milton.u.washington.edu (Glenn Tanner) writes:

  [I wrote:]

>>Griffey is the only active player with a reasonable chance to be the best of
>>all time at his position.  

  [prompting the following:]

>Not until he gets his head out of his ass and decides to give the game more 
>respect than he does now.  

What the hell is this supposed to mean?

-- 
          David M. Tate            |"The man who hath no music in himself
     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound
  A poem should be dumb, / As old  | Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils
 medallions to the thumb.-MacLeish | 	Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice", A.V
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 17:59:04 EDT
From: <IO20456@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Hobson and Sox

When the Red Sox fired former manager Joe Morgan last fall and replaced
him with Butch Hobson, there was a lot of talk about how Hobson would
get under Sox players' skin to make them work harder and be more aggress-
ive, especially on the basepaths. So far, after a pretty good spring
training and two regular season games, Hobson hasn't exactly unveiled
any new aggressive baserunning style. Anyone have any comments about this?
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
From: dannert@pangea.Stanford.EDU (David Dannert)
Subject: Interesting Trivia Questions
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:25:58 GMT

Ideally, the number of pitches a pitcher must throw for a complete 
game win would be 27. (or 24)
Does anyone know what the actual record is?  For both 8 and 9 inning wins?

The percentage of lefties in the Majors is obviously higher than in real
life.  What is the percentage of south-paws (pitching and hitting) in
college ball, the minors, the majors and in real life?  Switch-hitters
are going to make this confusing I'm sure.  Have there been any switch-
pitchers?

Thanks in advance!

David Dannert
dannert@pangea.Stanford.EDU
Stanford U.
3 NCAA Championships in 1992 and counting...
Go Twins!
Tom Kelly for President!




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From: ksmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ken Smith)
Subject: Re: Galaraga - Gone (5-6wks)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:32:27 GMT

cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter) writes:
>Andres Galaraga out for five to six weeks with a broken bone in the
>Right hand.
>
>Yesterday Oquendo goes down for 5 to 6 weeks for a partially separated
>right shoulder.  4 weeks of it is time before throwing.
>
>Louisville, Can you rise to  the occasion and keep the Cards afloat?
>
>Time will tell.  I may be better to lose players now than in the heat of
>a race at the end of the season.
>
>Dan


Louisville's answers to the "Latin Massacre" in St. Louis:

+ 2B Luis Alicea is being brought in response to Oquendo's injury.
  Jones played second tonight and made three amazing plays.
  Wonder whether Alicea or Jones plays 2nd (I vote Jones)?

+ OF Brian Jordan is being brought in response to Galaraga's injury.
  Pedro goes back to 1st, I assume.
  Milt Thompson had 5 RBI tonight, will he get left?
From: jerry@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Gerald J. Lanza)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Subjective trivia question
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:51:40 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company (Shelton, CT)

In article <204624@unix.cis.pitt.edu> dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>>Here's a cute alternative to arguing about Frank vs. Cecil or the value of
>>errors in evaluating defensive value.
>>
>>Who would be your pick as the best offensive player to never lead the league
>>in any major offensive category?  (Major off. cats. are BA, OBP, SLG, H, R,
>>RBI, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, SB).  I have somebody in mind, but I'll wait to see who
>>else gets nominated.
>>
>>-- 
>>          David M. Tate            |"The man who hath no music in himself
>>     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound

		How about Yogi Berra ?




						jerry
From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: I Told You Bonilla Was Worth the Money
Keywords: Seriously:  A Truly Different Mets' Team
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:09:24 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh


In article <1992Apr7.165256.16575@adobe.com> snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols) writes:
>
>This silly Bonilla-bashing is ridiculous.  I'll never understand why people
>get so offended when a ballplayer chooses to leave their city.  That
>Bonilla is now a Met does not lessen my appreciation of him as a ballplayer
>one whit; I can hope the Mets lose without having to hate the players on

I have not engaged in "Bonilla-bashing", although I do think he was
overrated. I do understand the feeling behind it from the local
perspective, however. People were not offended by the fact that he
left, but by his attitude regarding the negotiations. He constantly
pulled that "Bobby Bo's got to look out for his family" crap and
accused the Pirates of never making a serious offer, which is not
true. He also let it be known that he never gave staying in Pittsburgh
any serious consideration. As he paraded through each other major
leage city saying he would like to play there (until he hit the next
city), he looked silly.

Barry Bonds, despite his image elsewhere, and his tendency to make
brash statements about ownership, has carefully avoided saying
anything negative about the city. He also has refused to comment about
things during the season.  He has indicated that he would like to
return to the West Coast, but he has not rubbed Pittsburgh's nose in
it. One has the feeling that if the Pirates came up with enough money,
he might stay. When Barry leaves, everyone will miss him, despite
the problems he has had, and there will be no Barry-bashing.

 -Ken Mitchum 
 km@cs.pitt.edu

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From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Rickey Henderson v Nolan Ryan
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:00:25 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

In <reynard.703357513@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu!> reynard@susie.cs.scarolina.edu (John Reynard) writes:

>As to any comparison between R.Henderson and N.Ryan, its real hard to compare
>but I'd rather have had Ryan for his carrer than Rickey for his carrer.

>If you love Rickey so much explain why he stinks when he is upset at the team  
>for not giving him more money.

I'll do that, if you answer me one question -- what are you talking about?
He was upset at the A's last year about money, so I suppose that's the year 
you are referring to.  So now that we've narrowed it down, huh?  Stinks?
So, he didn't have an MVP year last year; I hardly think that is equivalent
to 'stinking.'  He was still among the top 20 players in the league.  *Without* 
park adjustments.  

I DON'T love Rickey, although I do think he was given a raw deal by
the mediots.  (Remember, what YOU see is 90% what the media feels like
showing you.  They didn't jump all over Cecil Fielder for his stupid and
utterly classless comments about not winning the MVP, so people don't
remember them.)

However, I *do* think he's the best leadoff hitter of all time, and arguably
the best player of his generation.  I can like a player ON the field, while 
thinking he doesn't have much class.

>That's not the player I'd want on my team.

Fine, but I'd rather win than worry about whether my players get along
with the mediots.  

Ah, but what about 'team unity', you say?  Well, go listen to what Ruben
Sierra says about Nolan Ryan -- mostly that he resents all the attention
paid to Ryan at the expense of the rest of the team.

The lesson to learn from this is that whether the mediots call someone
disruptive or not, they might be.  They aren't in the clubhouse, except
for the postgame interviews, and they don't know how the teammates get along.

>Rickey is good maybe even great but I wait for the day when he is 50 and 
>DeSheilds or Grissom or someone goes out there and says well Rickey you 
>aren't the greatest anymore and makes him look bad.  It'd be even better
>if they took Brock along to spit on him.

Deshields or Grissom?  Ha.  As Bill James said about Grissom, a leadoff
hitter with a .310 OBP is about as useful as a cleanup hitter with 7 HRs.

Both Deshields and Grissom are behind Rickey's SB pace, and they wouldn't 
be as good as Rickey if they somehow managed to outsteal him, anyway.  
Rickey's value lies not in his basestealing, which is just an added
bonus, but in his phenomenal OBP and consistently good SLG.  

And Brock wasn't upset at the speech -- why are you?

>Just my $.02 so flame away.
>John

-- 
David M. Nieporent              |ALEast 92: 1.Baltimore 2.Boston 3.Toronto
niepornt@phoenix.princeton.edu  |4. Detroit 5.Milwaukee 6.NY 8.Cleveland
"Baseball stathead, and card-carrying member of the ACLU.  And proud of it."
From: kprashan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (hyderabadi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Benito Santiago
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:44:20 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <651@oscar.UUCP>, sbarker@oscar.UUCP (Stephen Barker) writes:
> After watching the Pads take 3 of 4 from the Dodgers this weekend, I 
> realized that while the club has improved overall, Benito is still
> pathetic.  
> ...


Amen!! This guy has never been a team player. His constant whining
whenever he has a one good day at the plate, his selfish attitude 
at the plate, his grumblings at the fans... He wins his arbitration
case one year (1990) and he says that the system has been fair. The
next year, he 'loses' his arb. case (while getting $1.6M), and the
system sucks... 

I have lost count of the number of times I yell into the radio as 
Santiago comes to bat, the opposing pitcher in trouble & wild, 
"DONT SWING AT THE FIRST PITCH". And sure enough, he swings at a
ball a foot outside and in the dirt. This guy just doesnt understand
the meaning of 'take one for the team'. IF there is a
guy a 2B with 0 out, get him to 3rd any way you can. But no, this
guy gets up and tries to pull an outside pitch over the left field wall.



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