The TV tail wags the baseball dog. The key to the thinking that has made the playoffs primarily a television programming event lies in the sentence about ...
nlm@...
Jul 1, 2007 1:40 pm
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I really doubt an increase to a nine game series would increase drama or attention to the WS. The outcome would be the same the vast majority of the time, I ...
SABR colleagues - we managed to generate some great discussion on this topic. My thoughts: RE the best team winning: If we really want the best team to win,...
Ugh! More from the theater of the absurd: How 'bout cutting the season in half, then having all teams play seven-game playoff series, with an 11-game...
charlesok@...
Jul 1, 2007 2:21 pm
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There's no practical way to assure that the best team will win. Even if all the playoffs are eliminated so that the two teams with the best records go into a...
... As a general guideline, it would be helpful for anyone that does not have their real name in their email address to please include your real name somewhere...
Greetings, all, Great discussion. Even though I¹m not a Cardinals fan, I don¹t agree that last year was akin to giving Tom Arnold the best actor award and I...
"As a general guideline, it would be helpful for anyone that does not have their real name in their email address to please include your real name somewhere in...
I'm not sure how Boras' idea of a 9-game WS turned into Cardinals bashing; but I'll only remind that the Cards have won two pennants in the last three seasons...
"I'm not sure how Boras' idea of a 9-game WS turned into Cardinals bashing." Here's how: the longer the series, the less the likelihood that a truly awful team...
Let's recap: 1. Some of us like the 9-game idea, some of us don't. 2. The more games played, the more statistical likelihood that the "best" team will...
Well done ... From: Jan Larson To: hornsby@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:06 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] [hornsby] Biggio Here are some interesting...
Jan - ditto -- good analysis. I guess I'm like you, a few years back I wouldn't have been supportive of Biggio for HOF, now I think he'll get in, probably on...
I would vote for him. Hard not to when you look at him side-by-side with Paul Molitor. He's essentially the same person! Molitor's extra 300 hits are more or...
We were there for the Thursday night extravaganza! What a great night it was for Biggio and Astros fans. When he grounded out his first AB, most thought...
The feel-good baseball hit of the season, to be released nationwide on October 12th.... << The Final Season http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Season The...
I don't have any idea of who Tom Arnold is. Any relation to Eddy Arnold? Norman...
nlm@...
Jul 2, 2007 4:18 pm
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Arnold was the host of Fox Sports Net's talk show Best Damn Sports Show Period, but I always remember when he was unjustly deprived of an Oscar for his...
Arnold can be a very likeable actor. His short-lived sitcom in the early '90s was actually very entertaining. He has a great cameo in the first Austin Powers...
I wonder if Biggio is more deserving of being elected to the Hall of Fame than Bobby Grich. It seems like an important element in being elected is being...
... Interesting analysis, Cy. I agree that a case *could* be made for Grich, but I do believe that by most measures, he comes up short compared to Biggio,...
My take on that is that Biggio 1988-2000 is NOT a HOF candidate. If Biggio had retired after the 2000 season, he would not be considered a candidate. But...
Grich accumulated a WARP3 of 120.7 in his career. For a second baseman, that's pretty impressive. Through 2000, Biggio was at 97.9 and is now at 125. From 1993...
Different point, Jim. You're writing about who SHOULD be in. I wrote about who is LIKELY to be. If Biggio had retired after 2000, he would have had little...
All - interesting anlayses & discussion. If we can't get excited about these types of discussions, we probably wouldn't be SABR members. Jan previously...
Longevity has its benefits. I don't have my Total Baseball in front of me, but I'm thinking about a lot of "bubble" players who might have hit those milestones...
charlesok@...
Jul 3, 2007 2:58 pm
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Why don't you guys throw Sandberg into the discussion? He falls between Grich and Biggio in plate appearances, is a very similar player, and is in the Hall of...
Bill Stein
library@...
Jul 3, 2007 3:10 pm
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Thanks for filling me in. I don't even want to know who Roseanne Barr is.Alas, my discussionable sphere in that department ended with Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn ...
nlm@...
Jul 3, 2007 4:32 pm
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Here's a programming note for all you Tom Arnold fans - he's appearing tonite on BET in that award - winning movie -- "Soul Plane". nlm@... wrote: ...
Neither Cy Young nor Napoleon Lajoie got in on the first ballot either. You can't compare Hall balloting in the old days, when players competed against...
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