I'm not sure. But yesterday, with the White Sox down 5-0, Juan Pierre, who actually reached base somehow, tried to steal. He was unceremoniously thrown out.
The White Sox were down by 5 runs. So Pierre, or whomever was in charge of the move, decided to risk an out when stealing 2nd did almost nothing to improve your odds of winning. The White Sox would go on to lose 6-5. Huh. Makes you think.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Five Star Radio Show
On the Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Daily website, they have an extensive audio archive of a show called Five Star Radio. It's not my favorite, but it's something to listen to while playing hour upon hour of competitive chutes and ladders. Now Five Star radio does not solely deal with MMA/Wrestling. It branches out into...well other sports which I guess isn't really branching out so much as spreading roots, but in any case. I was listening to one episode when, right after the guy I was playing rolled three 6's in a row, the host claimed that Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune was the worst columnist out there. His reasoning was that every year, Phil proposed trades involving players that were completely unrealistic and would never happen in a million years. Like:
Milwaukee Brewers: Look for Prince Fielder to be on market
As opposed to "at the market". HA! Cause he's fat.
Gulp.That was the sound emanating from Milwaukee on Tuesday, when the Phillies announced they are stinking rich. The twice-defending National League champs made the proclamation by signing first baseman Ryan Howard to a five-year, $125 million contract extension, moving quickly so Albert Pujols wouldn't set the bar.
I'm not going to weigh in on the Howard debate. Probably too long to to sign him for, but he is the face of the franchise, that's worth something extra.
Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and general manager Doug Melvin must want to vomit.
That would be a bit of an over reaction.
That's because the shrewd deal they put together for Prince Fielder two years ago ends after this season. He can't go to free agency until after 2011, but the Brewers can't wait that long to decide what they're going to do with him.
He doesn't give a reason why they can't wait, he just leaves it there. The worst that can happen is you get another year of great production from a premier young player. Well the WORST that can happen is they get AIDS. But that has nothing to do with Prince.
Don't be surprised if the homer-hitting first baseman is playing for the Red Sox or someone else by the end of July, maybe even the White Sox. Attanasio would love to keep Fielder long term, but assuming he keeps hitting the way he did from 2007 to 2009 (an average of .286-33-123 with 95 walks),
Still using RBI's and batting average huh Phil? Did you use your 56K modem to look those stats up while you were back in 1995?
...he will be in line for a bigger deal than Howard. At 26 in May, he's 4 1/2 years younger and as a five-plus arbitration guy he can compare numbers with anyone in the game next winter, including Pujols, Mark Teixeira and Howard. Then he can demand his own supersized long-term deal as a free agent. Does it make sense for the Brewers to pay $25 million-plus a year to keep him? Probably not, considering three factors — they are 25th in the majors in revenue, according to Forbes; they have the equally productive Ryan Braun signed through 2014;
That's kinda true. Braun and Fielder. Where Braun is a god-awful fielder, Prince is just awful.
...and they have been only a .500 team the last couple of years thanks to a pitching shortage.
Well, in '09 they were a .500 club. In '08 they won 90 games with a .550 winning percentage. You can definitely blame their pitching for last year though with an 84 ERA+.
The Padres' Adrian Gonzalez, yet another run-producing first baseman, has generated a ton of trade talk over the last year, most of it coming out of Boston.
My friend in Chicago has talked about Gonzalez. He said Peavy has encouraged the idea of trading for his former teammate. Considering the Sox have more pitching than hitting, I wonder if Peavy would support BEING TRADED for Gonzalez.
But unlike Fielder, he's signed to a team-friendly contract through 2011. It seems more likely Fielder, not Gonzalez, will be the biggest name available before the July 31 deadline.
Like the Red Sox, the White Sox have the parts to do a deal if they decide they're not going to re-sign Paul Konerko. What about Fielder to the White Sox for a package built around pitching and Triple-A first baseman Dayan Viciedo?
They might be willing to do that, unless they read this.
John Danks certainly would get Melvin's attention.
Yes, for being a mediocre prospect that he would never trade Prince Fielder for. This is like one of those fantasy baseball trades where someone offers you Orlando Hudson, Aubrey Huff, Juan Uribe, Kaz Matsui, and Peralta for...well...Prince Fielder. "Look, I'm giving you Huff to replace him, plus 4 other guys! Why won't you do this?"
Gavin Floyd might to a lesser degree, and both Daniel Hudson and Sergio Santos have a ton of value.
Hudson looks like a good prospect, K's a lot of people and doesn't give up HR's. Sergio is having a great start to the season.
Hudson gives the Sox the flexibility to deal a big-league starter, assuming he doesn't have to be in the package himself.It's hard to see the Sox having the will to keep Fielder long term, however, which makes it a huge risk to give up young talent for 1 1/2 seasons of his mashing. But what if the Brewers are interested in Alex Rios, who is signed through 2014 at a level just beyond what they have paid Fielder?
Why on EARTH would they take a player whose OBP last year was under .300. Yeah, you read that right.
Trading for a veteran is easier than signing a proven player through free agency.
It's cheaper. I don't know if it's easier. You have more people involved in a trade.
If Rios went to the Brewers in the deal, the Sox might be able to sign Fielder to a Teixeira/Howard contract long term.
Yes, I'm sure the Brewers are dying to take on his overpriced contract as he descends into Cory Patterson-level production. Just what they need.
Case Closed.
Milwaukee Brewers: Look for Prince Fielder to be on market
As opposed to "at the market". HA! Cause he's fat.
Gulp.That was the sound emanating from Milwaukee on Tuesday, when the Phillies announced they are stinking rich. The twice-defending National League champs made the proclamation by signing first baseman Ryan Howard to a five-year, $125 million contract extension, moving quickly so Albert Pujols wouldn't set the bar.
I'm not going to weigh in on the Howard debate. Probably too long to to sign him for, but he is the face of the franchise, that's worth something extra.
Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and general manager Doug Melvin must want to vomit.
That would be a bit of an over reaction.
That's because the shrewd deal they put together for Prince Fielder two years ago ends after this season. He can't go to free agency until after 2011, but the Brewers can't wait that long to decide what they're going to do with him.
He doesn't give a reason why they can't wait, he just leaves it there. The worst that can happen is you get another year of great production from a premier young player. Well the WORST that can happen is they get AIDS. But that has nothing to do with Prince.
Don't be surprised if the homer-hitting first baseman is playing for the Red Sox or someone else by the end of July, maybe even the White Sox. Attanasio would love to keep Fielder long term, but assuming he keeps hitting the way he did from 2007 to 2009 (an average of .286-33-123 with 95 walks),
Still using RBI's and batting average huh Phil? Did you use your 56K modem to look those stats up while you were back in 1995?
...he will be in line for a bigger deal than Howard. At 26 in May, he's 4 1/2 years younger and as a five-plus arbitration guy he can compare numbers with anyone in the game next winter, including Pujols, Mark Teixeira and Howard. Then he can demand his own supersized long-term deal as a free agent. Does it make sense for the Brewers to pay $25 million-plus a year to keep him? Probably not, considering three factors — they are 25th in the majors in revenue, according to Forbes; they have the equally productive Ryan Braun signed through 2014;
That's kinda true. Braun and Fielder. Where Braun is a god-awful fielder, Prince is just awful.
...and they have been only a .500 team the last couple of years thanks to a pitching shortage.
Well, in '09 they were a .500 club. In '08 they won 90 games with a .550 winning percentage. You can definitely blame their pitching for last year though with an 84 ERA+.
The Padres' Adrian Gonzalez, yet another run-producing first baseman, has generated a ton of trade talk over the last year, most of it coming out of Boston.
My friend in Chicago has talked about Gonzalez. He said Peavy has encouraged the idea of trading for his former teammate. Considering the Sox have more pitching than hitting, I wonder if Peavy would support BEING TRADED for Gonzalez.
But unlike Fielder, he's signed to a team-friendly contract through 2011. It seems more likely Fielder, not Gonzalez, will be the biggest name available before the July 31 deadline.
Like the Red Sox, the White Sox have the parts to do a deal if they decide they're not going to re-sign Paul Konerko. What about Fielder to the White Sox for a package built around pitching and Triple-A first baseman Dayan Viciedo?
They might be willing to do that, unless they read this.
John Danks certainly would get Melvin's attention.
Yes, for being a mediocre prospect that he would never trade Prince Fielder for. This is like one of those fantasy baseball trades where someone offers you Orlando Hudson, Aubrey Huff, Juan Uribe, Kaz Matsui, and Peralta for...well...Prince Fielder. "Look, I'm giving you Huff to replace him, plus 4 other guys! Why won't you do this?"
Gavin Floyd might to a lesser degree, and both Daniel Hudson and Sergio Santos have a ton of value.
Hudson looks like a good prospect, K's a lot of people and doesn't give up HR's. Sergio is having a great start to the season.
Hudson gives the Sox the flexibility to deal a big-league starter, assuming he doesn't have to be in the package himself.It's hard to see the Sox having the will to keep Fielder long term, however, which makes it a huge risk to give up young talent for 1 1/2 seasons of his mashing. But what if the Brewers are interested in Alex Rios, who is signed through 2014 at a level just beyond what they have paid Fielder?
Why on EARTH would they take a player whose OBP last year was under .300. Yeah, you read that right.
Trading for a veteran is easier than signing a proven player through free agency.
It's cheaper. I don't know if it's easier. You have more people involved in a trade.
If Rios went to the Brewers in the deal, the Sox might be able to sign Fielder to a Teixeira/Howard contract long term.
Yes, I'm sure the Brewers are dying to take on his overpriced contract as he descends into Cory Patterson-level production. Just what they need.
Case Closed.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
A Non-Sports Post
Check out this link to Braces.com. In the left hand column they have a topic called:
BENEFITS OF LOOKING ATTRACTIVE
So I click on the link to see just what benefits people who look attractive have over hermits like me:
Beauty/Style/Grace/Looking Good
So one of the benefits of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Got it. What else?
For many people, attractiveness is very important, and almost everyone will agree that being attractive can have a positive impact.
So again, the benefit of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Alright.
This next part is great:
From Marilyn Monroe to today's latest Divas and Hollywood Idols, Americans are obsessed with beauty. Adults are seeking Invisalign, and school children often are anxious to get their Braces started.
Yes, your children could grow up to be like Marilyn Monroe, who's dead, or Francis Farmer, who's dead, or even Lindsey Lohan (who I have in a death pool this year, fingers crossed!).
And you have to read the 4-steps in the stereotyping process that ensures beauty equals goodness.
1) Most people felt that discriminating against the ugly is not fair, but yet…
How is that sentence a step? It's more of an observation with a caveat.
2) Privately, most of us simply take it for granted that attractive and unattractive people are different. Most often we perceive that attractive people have the more desirable traits.
So they're saying that attractive and unattractive people ARE different? Do they mean from each other? Also I don't see how that is a step.
3) As a consequence, we treat good-looking versus ugly people quite differently; the good looking get the better treatment.
Well apparently YOU treat them differently. I'm sure pretty people get better treatment from society, no doubt. But on an individual basis I don't think I treat them differently. So is that the first step? Treating everyone the same way?
4) How does such prejudice affect the victims of our discrimination? Over time a sort of “self fulfilling prophecy” occurs. The way we treat attractive versus unattractive people shapes the way they think about themselves and, as a consequence, the kind of people they become.
That's right all you sarcastic, Arrested Development-worshipping, rock snobs. And you RPG playing, self-mutilating, goth losers. You're living out a self-fulfilling prophecy. One that could be changed if you only had braces. Though I did have them. And I still watch Arrested Development while wearing my Archers Of Loaf shirt, while listening to David Cross perform, while putting on my eyeliner, while playing Everdark, while sticking needles in my arm. It was a busy night.
Case Closed!
BENEFITS OF LOOKING ATTRACTIVE
So I click on the link to see just what benefits people who look attractive have over hermits like me:
Beauty/Style/Grace/Looking Good
So one of the benefits of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Got it. What else?
For many people, attractiveness is very important, and almost everyone will agree that being attractive can have a positive impact.
So again, the benefit of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Alright.
This next part is great:
From Marilyn Monroe to today's latest Divas and Hollywood Idols, Americans are obsessed with beauty. Adults are seeking Invisalign, and school children often are anxious to get their Braces started.
Yes, your children could grow up to be like Marilyn Monroe, who's dead, or Francis Farmer, who's dead, or even Lindsey Lohan (who I have in a death pool this year, fingers crossed!).
And you have to read the 4-steps in the stereotyping process that ensures beauty equals goodness.
1) Most people felt that discriminating against the ugly is not fair, but yet…
How is that sentence a step? It's more of an observation with a caveat.
2) Privately, most of us simply take it for granted that attractive and unattractive people are different. Most often we perceive that attractive people have the more desirable traits.
So they're saying that attractive and unattractive people ARE different? Do they mean from each other? Also I don't see how that is a step.
3) As a consequence, we treat good-looking versus ugly people quite differently; the good looking get the better treatment.
Well apparently YOU treat them differently. I'm sure pretty people get better treatment from society, no doubt. But on an individual basis I don't think I treat them differently. So is that the first step? Treating everyone the same way?
4) How does such prejudice affect the victims of our discrimination? Over time a sort of “self fulfilling prophecy” occurs. The way we treat attractive versus unattractive people shapes the way they think about themselves and, as a consequence, the kind of people they become.
That's right all you sarcastic, Arrested Development-worshipping, rock snobs. And you RPG playing, self-mutilating, goth losers. You're living out a self-fulfilling prophecy. One that could be changed if you only had braces. Though I did have them. And I still watch Arrested Development while wearing my Archers Of Loaf shirt, while listening to David Cross perform, while putting on my eyeliner, while playing Everdark, while sticking needles in my arm. It was a busy night.
Case Closed!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Vanilla Sky
Since I usually pick on Sky Andrecheck, I'm going to switch it up and promote a good article he wrote for SI.com :
Target Field won't likely provide that good ol' home-field advantage
Target Field won't likely provide that good ol' home-field advantage
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