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In 2016, White Sox are 3rd in major leagues with 10 sacrifice bunts. In 2015 we were slightly above average in AL with 30. He has been increasing in usage as a manager. I think he should stop that.

I've seen like none of roland garros after the first day. Kind of hoping for Tsonga to get to the final.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 10:12 AM) John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be Vice President. Underrated fact. Also, Romney didn't run as a moderate. Also underrated.

Let my Corey Ray dream live as long as it can.

I thought people liked Mitchell?

Really enjoyed this latest post from Conor Sen's blog. It's going to be interesting times ahead: http://csen.tumblr.com/

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.