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Here's a photo of what Texas does/did. They'll change them out for team flags or all Texas or American Flags for certain occasions. I don't live in DFW anymore and haven't been to the park since '08 so a local could probably explain better. They also had signs below the press box for each division title
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:21 |
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The White Sox have their championship teams hangin' on big tower things in left field, like so: The Mets have normal flags that I can't find any good pictures of. The Giants also have them: 
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Both. I know Texas does flags for the Reg Season Division and League, Anaheim has the sign in the outfield (at least the last time I was at Angel Stadium.) I just never have seen a study of them along the same lines of other errata. Angels stadium used to have that but I don't think they still have that sign on the outfield wall (which sucked). They have a bunch of flag poles out to the left of the rock pile, with 2002 in the center and the highest, I think it looks pretty good. 
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:28 |
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The Tigers have flags out in center field. I don't remember what the flag in the middle is, though, and it's surprisingly hard to find good pictures.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:35 |
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Terrorism
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The only thing the Rockies have (as far as I am aware) is this lovely sign above the scoreboard in left center. Guess they figured they'd just always suck so why bother making room for more than one pennant!
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:36 |
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Literally everything about the entire history of the Cubs summarized in a single flag:
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:36 |
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Miami has two pitiful signs made like pennants over the Stanton Scoreboard. They were flags for the first few weeks but they blend into the windows.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 18:59 |
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This is where the Padres all FIVE of their pennants in their (in)glorious 43 years of existence in MLB. e: Clarification: 2 NLCS and 3 Division 
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 I'd swear they originally put up a banner for the 2000 wildcard but later took it down. Bad enough all they have to celebrate is "Hey! We made it out of the first round a few times!"
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 22:51 |
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gently caress. The 2000 Mariners made me so sad.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 22:54 |
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That ALCS banner is the saddest thing
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 22:58 |
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Do the Nationals even acknowledge that the Expos existed? Even if they did I think they win the "most depressing set of flags" award.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 23:00 |
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CraigK posted:Do the Nationals even acknowledge that the Expos existed? Even if they did I think they win the "most depressing set of flags" award. If I remember right, they don't but the Montreal Canadiens have a banner hanging with all of the Expos retired numbers.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 23:04 |
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:
God, that 116 wins banner.  E: I just remembered, Jamie Moyer was considered old back then, and it cheered me up
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 00:42 |
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Busch: NL pennants are painted on the dugouts but I can't find a good picture Carlton Banks fucked around with this message at Jul 19, 2012 around 02:42 |
| # ? Jul 19, 2012 02:10 |
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The Twins have theirs flying on top of the left field bleachers. They also have these outside the stadium. Thanks Gendo
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 04:19 |
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Dusseldorf posted:Park factors take a long time to normalize. It's probably noise at this point. Looking back the last few years the Rogers Center seems to be normal for walks. Wrigley Field: Suppressing home runs since 2011.
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CraigK posted:Do the Nationals even acknowledge that the Expos existed? Even if they did I think they win the "most depressing set of flags" award.
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 19:46 |
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The Prisoner posted:There are no flags for the Expos but they DO have the retired numbers for Dawson and Carter ... which they allow players to use anyway.  VVVVV No - he switched to #8 this season. Was #18 previously. Didn't take #8 when he came up because a bench coach already had it. Beatnik-Filmstar fucked around with this message at Jul 19, 2012 around 20:41 |
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Is that a grandfather clause thing? e: oh, 8 was Gary Carter, hahaha
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 20:37 |
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Do sophomore slumps have any real basis in baseball or are they just easy labels to assign bad performances? Like is it actually a regular thing for players to be in a slump in their sophomore year or is it just as likely in any year?
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"Sophmore slump" is basically a buzzword version of regression to the mean.
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Groucho Marxist posted:"Sophmore slump" is basically a buzzword version of regression to the mean. That's not entirely true. It's reasonable to suspect that getting pro tape on a guy could lead to the opposition making adjustments to them, and consequently a period where they perform worse. Given the timing of most call-ups, this would often happen in a player's sophomore season. That said, I have no data to indicate whether this is or is not the case.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 00:24 |
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In the case of Shingo Takatsu it was that it took MLB hitters about 50IP before they realized they could hit a 70mph fastball really, really far.
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Dusseldorf posted:In the case of Shingo Takatsu it was that it took MLB hitters about 50IP before they realized they could hit a 70mph fastball really, really far. Shingo Takatsu was loving incredible.
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One day I will be telling my grandkids that I saw Mr. Zero, Mike Fetters, and Rod Beck pitch in person.
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R.D. Mangles posted:One day I will be telling my grandkids that I saw Mr. Zero, Mike Fetters, and Rod Beck pitch in person. Mr. Zero really was the best. I went to a game with at the cell with both Mr. Zero and Kazuhito Tadano for the novelty Japanese pitchers matchup.
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Mornacale posted:That's not entirely true. It's reasonable to suspect that getting pro tape on a guy could lead to the opposition making adjustments to them, and consequently a period where they perform worse. Given the timing of most call-ups, this would often happen in a player's sophomore season. Those adjustments are constantly happening during the season, though. A player who gets enough PAs or IP to lose rookie eligibility has certainly seen a few matchups multiple times in their rookie season already.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 06:29 |
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Anecdotally I hear a lot of baseball guys on TV over the last couple of years saying that the jump from AAA to MLB is the hardest it's ever been (meaning the talent gap between the two leagues has never been wider). Is that true? Is there even a way to quantify that? Or is it just retired baseball players being passive aggressive towards rookies?
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DannoMack posted:Anecdotally I hear a lot of baseball guys on TV over the last couple of years saying that the jump from AAA to MLB is the hardest it's ever been (meaning the talent gap between the two leagues has never been wider). Is that true? Is there even a way to quantify that? Or is it just retired baseball players being passive aggressive towards rookies? More players are jumping from AA to MLB to avoid the Pacific Coast League (pitchers, meaning) and its insane park factors, leaving AAA with worse talent? This is a guess though.
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AAA is filled with a lot of low ceiling guys who can be called up at a moment's notice and perform at near replacement level. AA is where you see a lot more guys with high ceilings, but also guys who are toolsy and don't really have it all put together yet. Somewhat related, Tim Hudson said that pitching in single-A during a rehab stint was frustrating because he couldn't set guys up for a pitch. By and large, those guys haven't developed a plate approach that a pitcher can exploit.
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There's not really a way to quantify it, I am guessing it's the same that it's ever been really.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 19:23 |
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Leokitty had a good minors league information post up earlier this season that illustrated the difference between levels. AAA has evolved into less of a developmental and more of a holding ground level in my opinion. You get a bunch of emergency starters, career minor leaguers, Quad-A guys, and others. Plus PCL has a lot of hitters parks, probably second to the Cal League. So is there much of a jump? Yeah, but it's more different than just classifying skills and stats.
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leokitty posted:I actually have no idea where the Yankees put theirs since they won't get rid of the dumb GEORGE MEMORIAL where the years used to be behind the bleachers. I'll take a look when I'm there next time. I've never been to NY, I thought the George Memorial was out along some memorial walk in the location of the old park? I look for pictures of it and it appears to be sitting among a group of memorials, whereas the outfield wall with the years looks very different. To throw my two bits in, San Francisco has the championship flags on the arch they installed above the new jumbotron when they renovated some year.  The flags pictured are actually for different accomplishments since this photo was taken prior to the 2010 postseason, but this space was repurposed for the title pennants afterward and these flags were moved to the grandstand roof.
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Craptacular! posted:I've never been to NY, I thought the George Memorial was out along some memorial walk in the location of the old park? I look for pictures of it and it appears to be sitting among a group of memorials, whereas the outfield wall with the years looks very different. There are two of them. They put an ugly giant gaudy plaque in Memorial Park (that poo poo is seriously hideous and awful--it's bigger than the Gehrig/Ruth/Mantle/DiMaggio memorials and the largest of the plaques by far) and then they put up an RIP GEORGE thing in the area behind the right field bleachers where the championship years used to be.
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I remember reading a sports trivia book as a kid in the 80s and they had a piece on a guy who I want to say was a Mets reliever. He came in and gave up a grand slam and had the single worst ERA for a single appearance. Does any of this sound familiar? I know there are IP qualifications made and what not but this may have been the only appearance in the bigs for this guy.
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Frot Lesnar posted:I remember reading a sports trivia book as a kid in the 80s and they had a piece on a guy who I want to say was a Mets reliever. He came in and gave up a grand slam and had the single worst ERA for a single appearance. Does any of this sound familiar? I know there are IP qualifications made and what not but this may have been the only appearance in the bigs for this guy. Doesn't appear to be the guy you're talking about, but I did just stumble across this guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cleary Highest career ERA for any pitcher that recorded an out. Career stats of 1/3 inning pitched, 5 hits given up, 3 walks, 7 earned runs, and an ERA of 189.00. It was 1945, so I doubt anyone laughed at his ERA+ of 4 or his WHIP of 24.00.
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:Doesn't appear to be the guy you're talking about, but I did just stumble across this guy. That is probably it. Thank you. 
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Frot Lesnar posted:I remember reading a sports trivia book as a kid in the 80s and they had a piece on a guy who I want to say was a Mets reliever. He came in and gave up a grand slam and had the single worst ERA for a single appearance. Does any of this sound familiar? I know there are IP qualifications made and what not but this may have been the only appearance in the bigs for this guy. e: Mostly beaten to it.
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