Gene Honda Civic

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I'm picking up my David Sanders jersey at Grandstand tomorrow.

Ross Gload, you dumb f***. You should not have fumbled in the endzone.

It's not about what you hit, it's about when you hit it.... Carl does not believe in clocks. He does not know what time it is.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) Rubber match only happens when both teams have one a game. and by one I mean won...

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) So who's going in the rubber match tommorow? Rubber match only happens when both teams have one a game.

f*** YOU ROSS GLOAD!

Countrear??? Is that a contraction meaning Jose Contreras' ass?

I blame Ross Gload for that HR.

Timo Perez: 9 extra base hits this season. Juan Uribe: 8 extra base hits this September. Oh, yeah. I agree with this lineup construction.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 08:45 AM) Kind of like the 'clutch' debate -- does he pick up his game for good teams, or let it down for bad ones? I'd expect that, if a pitcher is trying hard every game, there would be a positive correlation between the quality of the opponent and era/whip (on average), based on the idea that better teams often have better hitters. Just b/c it's not true for one pitcher (FG) doesn't change that. Actually, my suspicion is that, as FG's correlations are so large in absolute terms, this stat varies widely between pitchers, meaning MB's correlations are not very meaningful. I agree that the stat is not very meaningful. I only popped 'em into a spreadsheet to see if I could disprove the "Mark Buehrle pitches poorly against playoff teams" theory. I do think that both the result for Garcia and Buehrle reaffirm what many have said here though. They're not blowing total smoke.

QUOTE(JimH @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 08:31 AM) Too bad he can't make an accurate key throw in the 12th inning when it's needed though. Jim. I know you're looking for a reason to discredit the Gload Army, but Gload never made a throw last night. Iguchi was covering first becuase Gload had charged the bunt attempt.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 07:45 AM) This underwhelms me. You'd expect a positive correlation -- better teams hit any pitcher better -- and I don't know why I should think .3 and .44 are unusually high. It seems more important to ask how much one believes streakiness to be meaningful. I didn't save the spreadsheet, but Garcia was something like r=-.3 for ERA and r=-.65 for WHIP and r=-.7 for BAA ... He quite clearly picks up his performance against better teams.

He's allowed 5 runs or more in 8 of his last thirteen starts.... Name me another ACE you can say that about. /hat tip to knightni

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 12:18 AM) I don't like ozuna either, so I'm screwed. I dislike em both. Ozuna is the type of player Ozzie thinks Timo is. Ozuna has a purpose. He makes s*** happen. I don't know how he does it. It's with smoke and mirrors mostly, but he just gets by on pure hustle alone. Having that as a 25th man is no problem with me. Blum at 1B and Timo pretty much anywhere really piss me off though.

He hit .215 in 350 ABs last season. He's been having "bad luck" for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for over a year now. I have no problem with blum being on the end of the bench as a utility guy (3B/ss/2B), but he provides ZERO offensive value at 1B, and can't be considered a defensive upgrade there. NEVER EVER let him play 1B.

^ Agreed, the only thing "wrong" was blaming the wrong player for a bad throw. -- I often lose track of things like that on odd plays when I'm at the game if I'm not keeping score, so I suppose it's not a bannable offense

#6... Gload never threw the ball at all today.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:45 PM) In our 16 extra innings at home, we have scored ZERO RUNS. OzzieBALL! This stat was wrong, but the point remains.... In our 17 extra innings at home, we have scored ONE RUN.... That was a Frank Thomas HR to tie it in the tenth against the indians. OZZIEBALL! More of a myth than those pesky Dinosaurs.

In our 16 extra innings at home, we have scored ZERO RUNS. OzzieBALL!

Why is blum on the Roster?

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:21 PM) To waste this outing by Jenks will be criminal last time he went three innings of shutout ball, We lost in 16 to another team who can't score for s***.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 09:46 PM) I'm trying to find an Iowa-ISU ticket for my friend. Nothing less than $75! 11th row tix on the 40 yard line are $1100 a piece for OSU/Tex tomorrow.

GO YOUR EBAY!