Comments on: Everything in Its Right Place

By: The San Diego Special Edition - April 17, 2008

The San Diego Special Edition - April 17, 2008 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:39:49 +0000

[...] Young’s article at Ducksnorts is entitled Everything in Its Right Place, which he describes as, “Coverage of Padres Opening Night game against the Astros at Petco [...]

By: Daily Links « Intentional Blog on Balls

Daily Links « Intentional Blog on Balls — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:14:53 +0000

[...] It’s not Padres news, but Dodgers news is close enough. Turns out Marcus Giles decided not to join the Dodgers at the last minute, basically screwing them because they gave up on signing two other players who are now unavailable. (H/T Field39) [...]

By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:04:37 +0000

#77: Not in a while.

By: Alex Eisenberg

Alex Eisenberg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0000

LynchMob,

What’s your browser?

By: gpc31

gpc31 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:59:18 +0000

Re Tejada’s baserunning:

Good God, Geoff —

Have you never watched a Cubs game?

By: TLB

TLB — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:31:31 +0000

#57 – Thanks Pat, makes me feel a bit more “normal”…

And to everyone else that heard how shitty ESPN’s “coverage” was – AGAIN / As usual – yyyeeaaaaa…. I’m gonna need that OPS report on my desk this afternoon….

[/terrible Office Space bite that can't even hold a candle to GY's awesome use!]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:36:17 +0000

Like Rob Neyer has said, unless the talk is about Coors Field, most people seem completely clueless about park effects. Or are really lazy. We’re not most people Arizona seems to get a complete pass on the offense question, too, even though its road numbers were awful last year.

I think the “offense is terrible” thing has replaced “fixation on fielding .pct” as my No. 1 announcer pet peeve. Speaking of which, Geoff, why does Mr. DS Annual ‘08 forward writer continue to harp on fielding pct during telecasts?

By: MB

MB — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:20:17 +0000

71: Exactly.

I think it’s still an interesting issue … that is, what kind of team to build and things like that. But it is pretty much fact that the park suppresses offense of pretty much all forms. And you can’t talk about the Pads’ offensive numbers without at least mentioning the park that they play in half of the time.

Like you said, it seems like a lot of times people mention this, yet fail to realize that it is part of the reason those reported numbers don’t look that good …

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:18:31 +0000

72: Marcus Giles is just a dumbass.

By: Coronado Mike

Coronado Mike — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:13:15 +0000

Re: 67…maybe his padres ties made him feel it was a great opportunity to stick it to the Dodgers….ha.