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You know Albert gets no credit unless he hits at least 3 homers a night.  Otherwise he's a bum.

It feels good to be a gangster.

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Sit him tomorrow, of course.

Already turning the page.

Well, what Bill does doesn't put America's national security in the hands of foreign hackers.  Just slightly chubby interns.

Rock on, Bill.  Rock on.

Annual cable company price decreases.

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We have to face the fact that this is a barely-over .500 team playing barely over .500.   The bullpen is about average.  The rotation is about average with potential upside.  The lineup is about average due to a lot of holes.  The bench is weaksauce.  Overall, average.

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I prefer the past participle, myself.  Smote.  It just sounds tougher.

Also this letter has been around long enough for the West Wing to have pinched from it.  Still good, but old for sure.

California was Mexico.

New York was New Amsterdam

It's nobody's business but the Turks.

Sept 14.  For Reasons.  I shant be discussing that further when it comes to pass.

For years I've been saying we need to throw our politicians in jail.  I think Hillary being President from her cell in Hazelton WV could be a good step forward, really.

Vladimir Guerrero is the only Russian I can stand, personally.

Guerrero.  That's a good, noble Russian name for sure.

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I'll just point out that Pujols actually HAS played both 2B and SS in the majors.   It's not quite as preposterous as it sounds.

But it is pretty crazy.

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I looked at the box score and almost spit out my beer. Can Giavotella even make a throw that far?

Dunno.  Two fly outs and a grounder to first.  Street pitched smart given his defense.

That was Gia's first time at shortstop as a professional.  Majors.  Minors.  Nada.

It was also Gillaspie's first time at second base as a pro.  

If only we could have somehow worked out an emergency catcher in somehow too.... who is the emergency catcher, anyway?

Gotta love that -41 OPS+ from DeJesus.

 

How do you even get a negative OPS+ ? And 41 to boot!

Apparently it's possible.  -100 is the result of an OPS for a person who goes 0-for the season with no walks (usually pitchers).  

The formula is actually 100 * (OBP/lgOBP + SLG/lgSLG -1).

So if OBP and SLG are both zero, it reduces to 100 * (-1) = -100.

negative 41 is amazing, though.

With us, DeJesus has a .129 OBP and .069 SLG.  Terr'ble.

The league average are .314 and .404

100 * (.129/.314 + .069/.404 - 1)

100 * (0.411 + 0.171 - 1)

100 ( -0.418)

So yeah, -41 (or -42) before park adjustment.

And I thought it was "as low as you can go" when Iannetta's dropped to 1 earlier this year.  Hell, Featherston's got a positive 12.

The Anges are actually favored to win this game according to Vegas.

Gambler's fallacy.  "They've lost so many in a row that they have to win now."

Meh.  Here's an idea.

Maybe you can get Arte to rent the site from you for some ridiculously overinflated amount - say 2.3 million over 8 years?  Then he can hire a fat italian to run the board.  Win win!

Meh... on second thought that would only work if this place was on the downswing of its lifespan.

Rebecca Black

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/thread

This is like that hostage situation from "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down" where that dumb guy wanted to shoot the hostage.