From: mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones)
Subject: Re: season over for SDCNs?
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 23:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Corp. Kingston NY

In article <1992Oct6.215135.28474@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> 91287041@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger "Ramjet" Maynard) writes:
>I guess now that the regular season is over all the stathead types
>are going to be turning their attentions elsewhere.  It is the larger
>sample size of the regular season, after all, which determines the
>"best" teams in baseball.  As we have been told, time and time again,
>the short series tells us only which team is the "luckiest" and that
>is surely nothing to get worked up over is it? 

Yo! Rog! Been getting that message a bit garbled, I think! It's a bit of a
logical jump from "short series don't prove which team is better" to "short
seresi tells us only which team is the 'luckiest'", but you made it in a
breeze, you old syllogistical kangaroo! Nice opening insult, too. A bit more
subtle than your usual. I'll have you know that as an STCN (that's "Tipsy";
I haven't made it all the way to "Drunk" yet), I find your attitude pretty
obnoxious. In fact, I do believe that one of the A's, Jays, Braves, and
Pirates is the best team in baseball. I just don't believe that the LCS and
the WS is going to tell us which one of them is *the* best. It *will* tell
us that one of them is the champion, and that's plenty exciting for me.
 
>Are the 4 million fans that have paid to see the Jays all fools to 
>want to see the Jays go all the way this year?  Shouldn't they just

No, just you.

>be satisfied to know that over the long haul their team tied for the
>overall best record in the AL?  If the Jays should get "lucky" and

If their team doesn't win the LCS or the WS, they should take a goodly
amount of satisfaction from it. The Jays had a very good year, and they
should be proud of it even if they get swept by the A's (which would
surprise me greatly).

>actually win this year wouldn't the Canadian population just be
>displaying their lack of knowledge of the essence of baseball if they
>were to go nuts?  The big party should have happened after they won the
>mini-pennant right?  Short series doesn't prove nothing does it?  
>Frank Thomas won't be there.  Roger Clemens won't neither.

So? Neither will Babe Ruth. What's your bloody point, Roger? Don't you have
something better to do than stathead-baiting, so you can later whine about
how they (we) insulted you? Well, here's something to while about: you're a
small-minded, whiny, sniping, intentionally obnoxious, deliberatly obtuse,
mathematically illiterate git! 

>Well guys, if the Blue Jays do go all the way and beat Atlanta and win
>the whole thing and you still don't think that they are the "best" team
>in baseball then who gives a rat's ass who the "best" team in baseball 
>is?

Quite a few of us, actually. We just don't give a rat's ass what you think
about anything, any more.

You know, in a way I'd like to see the Jays win the LCS and the Series with
Jack Morris going a combined 0-5 with an ERA around 12, and Carter going
about 1-43 with a couple of GIDP's. Let Manny Lee hit 3 HRs in the LCS and
Kelly Gruber hit about .650 with 2 HRs in the Series. The stunned silence
would be *wonderful*.

   Mike Jones  |  AIX/ESA Development  |  mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com

Each club has a special hitting personality. One club will watch your
delivery and say, "Oh boy, here comes a fastball," and they'll jump on it.
Others say, "Oh boy, here's a change-up." The Pirates just say, "Oh boy, here
comes a baseball."
	- Don Sutton, on the '73 Pirates
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