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  7. Where is Noj?

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    6 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

    Not particularly but when Mark died I'd begun to wonder if your cancer had gotten worse and you also shuffled off this mortal coil.

    So there's that. Glad you are among the living!

    Gladly and gratefully,  I am still here though the battle with this cancer wages on. My numbers have leveled off, but as Mark knew and I know, there is no cure for this cancer. And so it goes. Hope all is well with you as well, Dan.

  12. Roger Moore 1927 - 2017 R.I.P

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    My second favorite James Bond after Sean Connery.

    I must confess that it took some time to get "used" to the change from Sean Connery's James Bond to Roger Moore's version, but I absolutely loved the intelligent wit and grace Moore brought to the character. His upper-crust like expressions and droll delivery were a perfect fit for the numerous stunts and gags as 007 defeated villain after endless seemingly inescapable challenge. Pure James Bond fun and a joy to watch. He will be missed.

  13. Is WAR (baseball) utter nonsense?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by Tim McG

    On 2/15/2017 at 7:33 AM, paul secor said:

    Baseball has always been more statistically oriented than other major U.S. sports. Football has moved somewhat to that orientation, but nowhere to the degree that baseball has been and is today. So it's no surprise that there seem to be new formulations constantly appearing. For myself, I'd rather watch the games and not get caught up in numbers - especially numbers which are supposed to predict performances. I'll leave that to the geniuses who run the teams. For me, the quirks of humanity are always more interesting than numbers.  

    Exactly, Paul.

    I see the numbers as a passing interest. I live for that journeyman bench player hitting .152 or some low BA who comes to bat in a winner take all game situation only to jack one out of the park on a two-strike count. That's the fun in the game after all: The underdog makes good.

    Travis Ishikawa anyone? WAR would have placed him at the bottom of the heap.To wit:
     



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  16. Is WAR (baseball) utter nonsense?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    19 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

    If the play on the field is all that matters to you, I assume it also matters to you whether the team you favor plays well, wins a lot more than it loses. Well, all this WAR stuff, right or wrong, is merely an attempt on the part of those who fill the rosters to assemble a team that has a better chance of winning, one that makes more good plays on the field than would have been made otherwise.

    A  fair point, Larry.

    However, I should like to think scouts and GMs place the performance they see over WAR.

    7 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

    I prefer averages, not estimates. Give me numbers that actually have happened, not numbers you think will happen. 

    Good point.

    But here again, when folks place so much value on numbers often is the time they stop considering what happens on the field.

    The Giants are a perfect example. On paper, they never should have won the World Series in 2010, 2012 or 2014. On the field, it was quite a different story.

    7 hours ago, Guy Berger said:

    Seems like we're arguing at cross-purposes here.  Some aspects of science/technology keeps the devices we're all typing functioning and makes some devices better than others.  Most people don't really want to know what makes some devices better than others, they just wanna type.  The end. :)

    Yup.

     

  17. Halls of Fame - Who do you disagree about?

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    IMHO, the Baseball HOF is fast becoming a nice guys only good ol' boy club. "Integrity" and being a squeaky clean, really nice guy seems to have pushed out exemplary play on the field.

    Do/say/take something untoward or piss off the writers who vote and your chances of getting in go right down the tubes. Bunch of snowflakes voting now.

    Then there's Tim Raines who used coke. Wow. Must have smiled a lot.

     

  18. Is WAR (baseball) utter nonsense?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    I know I'll probably catch hell for this, but except for W/L, BA and ERA, statistics just ruin the game for me. 

    Whether it's WAR or OPB or career SO/BB, it is only numbers crunching to me.

    IMHO,  and for my continued enjoyment of a game I have loved since I was 7, the play on the field is all that matters to me. And, to be perfectly frank, that is all that matters at the end of the game. Just my two cents....

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