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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:28 PM) My point was that if there ever was a point that the government made the judgement that you were not going to get treatment anymore, they have just acted as a "death panel". That's where that stupid idea came out of. Here's the other side of the token though...one of Obama's 8 reform planks, or whatever you want to call them, is the elimination of lifetime cost ceilings by law. That basically would, by law, be banning "Death panels" by the current interpretation.

"Oh yes, goin' down, uh-huh" - DJ just now with some smooth music playing.

QUOTE (GO CHI SOX! @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) LOL watch him go 4-4 tonight. He was only hitting .259 for Pawtucket, but he has 4 home runs.

Linebrink deals with the 8th ok.

Another bloop.

Heckuva day again Gavin.

Joe Mauer struggles against Gavin Floyd. Adam Kennedy can't be stopped against Gavin Floyd. Funny game, this baseball.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:08 PM) So......up goes his BABIP, right? Yes.

QUOTE (DonkeyKongerko @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:03 PM) Wow, Carlos has a .220 BABIP. That can't all be luck though With him, it's a matter of him being unable to really hit the ball very hard at all this year because of his foot bothering him.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 01:58 PM) Kyle Orton is a "game manager." Orton has below average arm strength and he's not consistently accurate. He has all the makings of a journeyman quarterback. There's nothing wrong with that if you have the right team around him. Denver does not.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:56 PM) Way to go Gordon. I wonder what his BABIP is? Seriously, thanks guys for the BABIP info. Prior to today, .332. For some people, this would suggest he's due for a slump. But Beckham has done an awful lot to suggest that right now, he's a guy who can sustain a high BABIP. The thing that gives it away is the 20+ doubles already. He's hitting lasers all over the field. His BABIP in his career may actually decline somewhat from here, but that's going to happen because he starts hitting more of those balls out of the ballpark.

JD's waking up.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) For those of us that aren't hep to the jive, what's BABIP? Batting average on balls in play. The basic idea is...if you hit the ball in the field of play, you should produce a roughly average number of hits. Thus, an average BABIP is about .300. If a player has a BABIP far below .300, that's often a statistical abberation, and they're due for a hot streak. If a hitter is well over .300, then they're due for a cold streak. There are, however, some players who are constantly well above .300, they typically are guys with excellent bat control who know how to deal with a pitcher. Think Derek Jeter, Rod Carew, etc. An example from our org; Jordan Danks had a BABIP over .400 for the first 2 months of the season. He was striking out a ton, but he kept getting hits on balls he put in play. It was pretty obvious that he was eventually going to hit a slump though, because that BABIP is almost always unsustainable; eventually you start hitting the ball at people. Now, he's in a big slump. Alex Rios, for another, typically in his career has had a BABIP of just over .300. His BABIP this year is something like .270. This suggests that he's been particularly unlucky so far this year, and that has kept his numbers down from where they ought to be.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:42 PM) The phrase "death panel" is pure, naked, unmitigated hyperbole, and portraying it as anything other than that smells like a copout. I think, if I'm understanding it, the idea is that if you're meeting people and deciding whether or not you want to go through with a treatment, and you decide the answer is no, then by the most liberal interpretation possible of "Death" and "Panel", you just had a discussion regarding death with a panel. So I guess, by a very liberal definition, that fits. In that case, yes, I fully support death panels, because people should have the right to decide how they want to deal with those situations. Unfortunately, I believe that right was just stripped from the Senate Bill, because the Republicans took exactly that right and said that the government was going to force you to die if you got too expensive. Of course, it's also worth noting that I just got to call 2k5 a Liberal 2x in the same paragraph.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) Here's what I don't understand... Is this new plan going to always include all life saving procedures, always, if the patient didn't say they didn't want them? If there are situations where they aren't, someone is becoming a defacto "death panel". Would you think it's a good thing for the government to force people to undergo treatment they don't want?

Yes. GIDP again. Man we give up a ton of bloop hits but we seem to be so good at getting those needed DP's too.

Doesn't it seem like "Bloop them to death" is just about an invincible strategy against our team?

That's why we hate the leadoff walk. Because eventually, odds are someone will find a way to get a hit.

Rick Perlstein makes the case for why it really is different now...it's not that the crazy hasn't been there in the past, it's that right now there's a group of people in the media who are explicitly promoting the crazy.

Long sac fly by Nix.

And it's plays like that where you like AJ, where he makes the decision to put extra pressure on the defense.

Played with fire a bit there, but that's what G does.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) I just noticed Nix's OPS is almost .800. He really is an excellent platoon player

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) You're right. He looked amazing in that first AB. I'm sure by the 5th AB he may decide to swing. nope, 2nd.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 01:25 PM) Rios hits one deep and Davis jumps up and robs a HR from him.... Rios sounds like he's hammering the ball when he makes contact.