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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 09:32 AM) Running to stay out of the DP often results in a DP, but as far as bunts, I think Robin calls for less bunts than most manager. Wasn't that stat from 2 years ago though? Even if he calls for less than others, I'm 100% confident we'd generate more runs if he cut back even more. There have been a few tims this year where he called bunt and then the hitter got to 2 strikes, then the hitter got a base hit. I'm fine with the Eaton bunting for base hits, but the sac bunts have been questionable.

I just would prefer Robin field a less aggressive team in terms of stolen bases and bunts. If it's an extra inning game and we get a single, sure, bunt him over. But in the 1st-7th innings, let it play. And unless you are rollins or saladino, stop trying to steal.

What a choke job by that 2005 team.

I have to imagine with his availability his interviews haven't been wowing people.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 08:43 AM) Teams, according to a graph I saw, score 1 run more often with 2nd and 3rd with 1 out than with 1st and 2nd with no out. They do score more than 1 run less. Bunting is not my thing, but the criticism of the bunt should have ended after it was successful. It was pointed out that Frazier was 1 for 22 at the time. What was missed was Melky was 2 for 22. I don't see how you should have expected Frazier not to do the job, but Melky would have been fine. The Sox were in a position to score a run without getting a hit. It's just that those are two guys in your lineup who can more often get xbh. Anytime you can get two men on for Frazier is a chance for 3RBI.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 07:49 AM) Less well known, same reason guys like Kasich will poll really well before widespread exposure. Also Clinton supporters say they'd vote for Bernie but that is not happening vice versa.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 05:01 PM) Albers' hit is better than Bartolo's homer. Cause Albers actually had to run the bases. I don't know, the mets announcers on Bartolo's home run were so funny. Loved Albers hit though.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 03:15 PM) Reshoots happen in any movie with a budget to back it. Mad Max Fury Road had some of the most extensive reshoots in history. That turned out okay. There isn't much correlation between reshoots and quality of the film. Reshoots aren't a big deal. Reshoots to change the direction of a movie are a big deal.

All of those mets fans quotes were great. I would feel same way they did (except the worse team part).

I feel so relieved.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 03:00 PM) BvS? Fantastic Four. I mean it's pretty universal. reshoots are never good. Great Gatsby.

I actually thought Solo was always in the movie, but anyway, this sucks. Anytime you hear there are reshoots to make a movie less dark you know it's going to be a bomb.

Thanks Greg, nice post. I'm worn out by the last few weeks. But somehow I made it in to see Saladino's homer. I just want baseball to be fun this year.

I liked the nice guys a lot too. Surprised that took 50 mill to make though.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) I agree that Trump is terrible for doing that and his supporters are, at best, terrible for just going along with it, but I really doubt he's going to have any long-term impact on his career. Trump's dumb clown show will be over in about 5 months, and then he'll just go back to being the loud-mouthed twitter conspiracy idiot he was the past several years. Oh, and maybe minus millions of dollars after he inevitably loses his civil suit over his fraud 'university.' I disagree. Any promotion beyond this, and he will be a biased, obama appointee who tried to take down the republican candidate during an election year (even though he agreed to ppd until after).

Or that he is currently blasting a sitting judge for being biased because he's "Mexican" or "Hispanic" even though he's American to prime his supporters into ignoring his fraud and theft on poor Americans through Trump university. That judge risked his life to prosecute a drug cartel. Trump is basically ruining this man's judicial career by making him appear toxic just because he can be pointed at as an "other".

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) It feels like in football (most football teams waste 4th down by punting when they really shouldn't) there are a couple of situations similar to baseball, but overall you are right. The one thing with that is football coaches don't have benefit of "in the long run". They could get totally screwed with bad luck on a run of fourth downs, tank their season, and nobody would hire them again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 09:18 AM) I would be OK if we got the same detail of look at the Clinton Foundation. This is fine, though there has been a LOT of work on this: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/cl...-2016-election/ But this also isn't the same thing. It would be on equal footing if the clinton foundation just kept all of its donations and never performed charitable work. But the Clinton foundation actually performs lots of charitable work, but has the conflict of interest in that donors may feel a quid pro quo in donating and later influence.

Baseball is so different than the other sports. There's so much going on during the game fast in football, hockey and basketball. In those sports I think the coaches just have much more going on than the fans realize and don't have time to crunch probabilities, and may have planned for a specific action in the week and it biases them. In baseball, they have plenty of time to decide their actions, but I also think there is so much in game planning and prep in baseball that we don't see, and that's their bias. They planned for certain scenarios because of player health or play, and even if it's blowing up in their face in that game, this was what they prepped for as best case and will see through it.

Brothers - My book is arriving by 8pm tonight. I'll post the schedule as soon as I get it, which, don't know why I got hardcover.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 02:21 AM) Thanks for the link. I read most of it, skimmed some of it. Quite frankly, I think it was a poor article. The reporter again didn't really tell me much about Hillary. The part that was most interesting was how she hates the press, which confuses me since if you polled the press, 95 percent of them, maybe more will vote for her. That percentage actively wants her to win. I liked reading she likes a beer with Bill. But quite frankly I don't feel like I learned much about her cept she's a granny (the part about what she likes to read) who wants to be president. I think the author should have attacked the issue about how Hillary allegedly is a mean b****. There wasn't much about that, just the assertion that everybody in her camp loves her. Why do they love her? Thanks for the link. I may go back and read it again but I think the article is way too long and somewhat boring. This language is disgusting even for the buster. Grow up.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 27, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) For various reasons, Japan is one of those countries where they work themselves to death. Ridiculous hours, the pay sucks. Their economy has been stuck in 2nd gear for about 20 years now. They finally are back in population growth and have the monetary policy to make a come back.

I'm still recovering from the "hero worship" drinking game

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 27, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) No Federer, Nadal just withdrew, if there is any time for Djokovic to finally win a French, this would be the year. Yep.

Most hitters hits are singles. He had 22 doubles and 7 triples last year. I fully expect him to have a healthy amount of doubles.