Posted on August 4, 2010 Author Jim EllwangerCategories miscTags photos, pinballLeave a comment on My favorite types of balls: base and pin	
Guess I should say a few words about Matt Garza’s no-hitter last night, which I watched in its entirety on ESPN. Hopefully there won’t be any claims that the no-hitter wasn’t all that impressive because it came against the beset-by-injury Tigers. The play that really “saved” it was a running catch by right fielder Ben Zobrist in the third inning. On our trip, we saw him make a similar catch, when he was playing center
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field on July 2nd — Levi put “8!” on his scoresheet, so you can tell it was good. To our Mets-fan hangers-on, who have been waiting for a no-hitter since before they were born: sorry. But, hey, there are still two months left in this Year of the Pitcher.
Posted on July 27, 2010 July 27, 2014 Author Jim EllwangerCategories miscTags ben zobrist, devil rays, matt garza, Mets, no-hitter, tigers2 Comments on Oh, no — oh, yes!	
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2004: We go on a baseball road trip, check there is one perfect game during the season, for sale and the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918.
Mark Buehrle’s perfect game today is the first to occur since a few months before our road trip, which I note is coming up on its 5th anniversary. Of course I’m sorry it came against the Rays, but we like Buehrle here at baseballrelated.com.
Posted on July 23, 2009 April 26, 2010 Author Jim EllwangerCategories miscTags devil rays, mark buehrle, white sox1 Comment on Perfection	
1) Zack Greinke - once in a decade pitching performance. Best pitching season since 2000 Pedro Martinez.
Actually, Greinke would have an even better season just six years later, in 2015. Compared to 2009, he pitched 7 fewer innings, but shaved an entire half run off his ERA and added 17 points to his ERA+. His W/L was also better, but that's much more strongly related to his team's capability. I'll still have him below Albert Pujols, and maybe some others, because the IP involved are only 229.1. They'd only be 222.2 in 2015. Those are his two HIGHEST IP in his career so far, I believe. - Brock Hanke
That's part of the problem of handing out retroactive awards: we know the future. Mark Fidrych didn't win the 1976 CY (hell, he had a good argument for MVP) because voters figured, "Ahh, he's young, he'll have other chances." (No, he wouldn't.)
Well, here's Brock Hanke's unlikely combination of WAR and Win Shares into rankings. This time for 2009. Zack Greinke, #1 in WAR, is #22 in Win Shares, and ends up 8th. Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun are 3rd and 6th in Win Shares, but 24th and 25th in WAR, so they end up 9th and 10th. What else is new?
I would like to officially apologize to Joe MAUER and Hanley RAMIREZ for not editing my post sufficiently well to catch the fact that I had misspelled their names.
1. Joe Mauer, C, Minnesota Twins: one of the greatest hitting seasons we've ever seen from a catcher; league-leading OPS+ of 171 and RC of 138
5. Chase Utley, 2B, Philadelphia Phillies: does everything well, like +10 baserunning and +12 fielding
12. Derek Jeter, SS, New York Yankees: the old man can still put up a 125 OPS+ and 123 RC while playing 150 games at short
13. Chris Carpenter, P, St. Louis Cardinals: 182 ERA+ leads the NL but 192 IP is low even for this era
15. Troy Tulowitzki, SS, Colorado Rockies: 131 OPS+ and +13 fielding, positional adjustment keeps him ahead of Zim
2. Chase Utley - excels in every area (top 10 in offense, fielding, baserunning), plus those 5 World Series homeruns
17. Tubbs is Bobby Grich when he flys off the handle Posted: November 01, 2017 at 11:32 AM (#5568425)
5. Zobrist--I often find myself discounting Zobrist's & Utley's defense some but they still place high
6. Teixeira--#6 through 15 are pretty close, put up MVP like campaign in first year in NY but WAR doesn't agree
Survey finds that technology pros worry about losing jobs, infrastructure investments if the economy stallsif it hasn't already.
It's official: At least one economist has proclaimed that the United States is already in a recession.
While most economic analysts debate whether the massive subprime mortgage crisis, rising energy costs, the slumping dollar and increasing foreign competition has staunched gross domestic product for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001 and the burst of the first tech bubble, a full-fledged recession is damning in the eyes of IT professionals. A slowing of economic activity will mean lower revenue and profits for their businesses. In turn, businesses will cut what they perceive as "discretionary" spending. This makes IT professionals feel vulnerable, according to research conducted by Baseline.
"Working for a company heavily dependent upon the home building industry, I believe there is definitely impact to IT spending within that business sector," said Fran Caprai, manager of corporate applications and services at Building Materials Holding Corp. in San Francisco. "Since the source of the 'recession' in the home building sector appears to be the financial sectorpoor lending decisions and questionable practices while the housing market was on overdriveI would expect impact to IT in that sector as well."
In Baseline's Future of IT survey, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2007, 46 percent of respondents believed their companies would cut IT spending and staff if a recession hit. Another one-third believed their jobs would be in jeopardy if the annual GDP dropped to a growth rate of less than 2 percent.
"Companies will do what they have to do to maintain cash flow and profitability," says John von Stein, the chief information officer of The Options Clearing Corp. in Chicago. "IT typically is an area where a delay in projects and initiatives allows the company to spend money lateror not at allif the business value is no longer there to justify the project.
"This all translates to lower spending than planned, but it still may be a year-over-year up-tick in spending if the plan was substantially higher," von Stein continued. "Some companies may be half-pregnant with big initiatives and they will be completed regardless of the recession. Other companies will completely slash and burn budgets, including IT, in order to survive. It will be a very mixed bag depending on where each company is standing at the time the music stops."
Other economic indicators are making IT pros feel uneasy. One-quarter believe IT cuts would follow a 10-point drop in the consumer confidence index. And 30 percent thought their companies would make difficult choices about their IT expenditures if crude oil hit $100 a barrel (at the time of the survey, oil was $88 per barrel).
"If the recession is deep enough, there will be further scrutiny of the projects list and that may reduce my need for additional resources to meet those project and support needs," said Kevin Crawford, chief information officer at SoundTransit, the public transportation authority for Greater Seattle.
Where will IT jobs go? Nearly half of survey respondents foresee their companies outsourcing more IT functions to firms in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Nearly 70 percent believe the growth of offshore outsourcing will outstrip domestic IT capacity and tasking over the next five years.
Looking forward, IT pros believe their companies will seek more business opportunities in offshore and emerging markets. More than half (54 percent) see their companies moving operations to foreign markets if the dollar's value isn't stabilized. The dollar is currently trading below one-to-one exchange to the Canadian dollar for the first time since the 1970s and is at historic lows against the British pound, the European Union's Euro and the Japanese Yen.
IT professionals' economic perceptions aren't all bad. More than 70 percent believe that rising energy prices will shift more consumer activity to the Internet. Likewise, relatively few believe U.S. consumers will retreat from e-commerce out of security and privacy concerns. And more than half believe new government regulations and energy standards will compel enterprises to invest in IT improvements.
"Rising energy costs will have a major impact on IT and determining better and more fuel efficient ways to power data centers and corporate computer equipment will be a large initiative in the upcoming years," said Chris Rapp, assistant vice president and director of technology at Sovereign Bank in Dallas.