Comments on: Friday Links (11 Apr 08)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:29:57 +0000

Joe Morgan is not good at his job.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:57:37 +0000

46: Well sure, Stephen, but isn’t it possible they hit those 171 HR’s in only 36 games?

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:43:37 +0000

47: Joe Morgan is, of course, the best example of that as there is an entire blog devoted to pointing out his many, many, many screw ups.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:42:32 +0000

45: Thanks, Ben. I knew I wasn’t just imagining it.

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:27:53 +0000

Mark Grant’s comments were in the context of the Peavy “controversy”, the fact that some anonymous yayhoo with a blog can post a few pictures and now something minor is blown out of proportion. He has a point I think, but it’s not like the media hasn’t been doing that forever.

If anything, I think the overwhelming access to information has caused the internet savvy fan (and media consumer in general) to be much more skeptical of what we see on tv or in the paper. If Joe Morgan says something that sounds stupid we can actually look it up on the internet and read a rebuttal from any number of blogs. I think that irks the media people more than anything, the fact that they can’t get away with spouting idiotic statements anymore.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:12:22 +0000

42: Philly Billy and Kentera.

I can never listen to the Coach ever again because his “power only shows up every fifth day, but speed shows up to the ballpark each and every day” line torments me. Hey, Coach, the Pads had 171 homers last year.

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:37:43 +0000

25: The Book covered something like that. They found that a stolen base attempt reduced the batter’s wOBA by 22 points, compared to the runner staying put at first. Other interesting discoveries: they found batters’ wOBA increases by 14 points with a runner on first and less than two outs, compared to their overall wOBA. However, for fast and “disruptive” runners, the advantage to the hitter was only 2 wOBA points.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:25:28 +0000

37: PF4L, that was not trying, Buddy, that was doing. Outstanding!

By: Didi

Didi — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:38:43 +0000

37: that was chuckle worthy.

By: Schlom

Schlom — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:16:20 +0000

the fact that most of the posts are basically anonymous and that they donâ€™t think its cool that people on the discussion boards slam them without stating who they are.

Do people really slam them, other then Philly Billy? And isn’t that part of his shtick to take other people’s criticism and slam them back? I don’t ever remember people being very critical of Mud or Matt nor Darren Smith. Except for Philly Billy who on 1090 is particularly divisive? I’m only counting the local guys, not Jim Rome or Dan Patrick who I know a lot of people dislike.