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zakharov posted:Looked to me like he was posting a direct quote, hence the quotation marks. gently caress, missed one of his posts that kind of gave it proper context  Sorry dude!
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How did Pedro Martinez not win the Cy Young in 2001? His ERA+ was like 60 points ahead of the winner.
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Meat Recital posted:How did Pedro Martinez not win the Cy Young in 2001? His ERA+ was like 60 points ahead of the winner. He was hurt and missed half the season. Mussina deserved it but Clemens got it based on wins.
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| # ? Jan 14, 2012 03:52 |
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Meat Recital posted:How did Pedro Martinez not win the Cy Young in 2001? His ERA+ was like 60 points ahead of the winner in 100 fewer innings and 15 fewer starts. Generally people don't win the Cy Young or MVP if they miss half a season.
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Meat Recital posted:How did Pedro Martinez not win the Cy Young in 2001? His ERA+ was like 60 points ahead of the winner. More like how did he not win MVP in 1999?
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Corgan posted:More like how did he not win MVP in 1999? Because people hate voting pitchers for MVP (since pitchers have the Cy Young) and Pudge had a really great year. Even more so because he was a catcher. It's not like he didn't come close, but I'd imagine those are the two factors that probably tipped it over.
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| # ? Jan 14, 2012 06:56 |
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Jeter had a much better case for MVP than Rodriguez, who won because the vote got split a bunch of ways. Back in those days it was weird and when Texas made the playoffs someone from their team won MVP. That's how Gonzalez got two.  The 99 MVP is one of the worst I can remember, really. I think only the Gonzalez ones irk me more.
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Toffile posted:Because people hate voting pitchers for MVP (since pitchers have the Cy Young) and Pudge had a really great year. Even more so because he was a catcher. The dumbest part was that one of the guys who left him off the ballot completely had voted for loving David Wells the year before, so it wasn't even that he thought pitchers shouldn't get MVP votes.
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Meat Recital posted:How did Pedro Martinez not win the Cy Young in 2001? His ERA+ was like 60 points ahead of the winner. Also, ERA+ is basically a ratio, not cumulative. Having a better one (or OPS+ if you're a hitter) in less time doesn't affect its value or impact.
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De Nomolos posted:I've been following baseball since I was old enough to read baseball cards. I've been a tepid Yankee fan all my life, but now that I live not far from DC, I've become a Nats fan, more so than I was ever a Yanks fan (by birthright, really). I've also made a new friend that has me researching actually becoming a Fantasy nut (rather than an observer). This girl that I know is, actually, related to Bill James. Oh, and i have a cousin in the Mariners system now, too. My questions are for a longtime fan (5-6 games a year) transitioning into the Fantasy world: I didn't see anyone reply to this comment, but I would be interested in reading what people here have to say. I just became a baseball fan midway through last season and I am interested in playing fantasy baseball this year. I wanted to make a post about being a fantasy baseball newbie, and wasn't sure if this thread was the best place or if I should try over in The Armchair Quarterback.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2012 15:23 |
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Armchair QB has had an active fantasy baseball thread for the past few years. It will most likely start up soon if it hasn't already.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2012 15:25 |
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Boston is a cool place to visit as a tourist and Fenway is charming*. Boston is also close enough to the UK that flights are competitive (BA, Virgin, AA, Delta). I've done the reverse as a four-day weekend + 1 travel day. *a raging shithole
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Kimasu v2.0 posted:I didn't see anyone reply to this comment, but I would be interested in reading what people here have to say. I just became a baseball fan midway through last season and I am interested in playing fantasy baseball this year. I wanted to make a post about being a fantasy baseball newbie, and wasn't sure if this thread was the best place or if I should try over in The Armchair Quarterback. I love both baseball And spergin and fantasy baseball is too much baseball and too much spergin even for me. My most recent strategy was draft, set and forget unless someone goes on DL, and win leagues with friends/colleagues and that was when I realized it wasn't fun anymore. Anyway, if you're a true baller you'll play a linear weights league 
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Kimasu v2.0 posted:I didn't see anyone reply to this comment, but I would be interested in reading what people here have to say. I just became a baseball fan midway through last season and I am interested in playing fantasy baseball this year. I wanted to make a post about being a fantasy baseball newbie, and wasn't sure if this thread was the best place or if I should try over in The Armchair Quarterback. There should be a mega-thread in addition to the individual league threads in Armchair Quarterback. Fangraphs has a lot of fantasy content as does hardballtimes.com.
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tadashi posted:There should be a mega-thread in addition to the individual league threads in Armchair Quarterback. Fangraphs has a lot of fantasy content as does hardballtimes.com. Thanks for the links. I'll keep an eye on the other forum. I just hate when I go to sign up for fantasy leagues, realize I'm late so all the good leagues are filled, and then get stuck in a leftover league where half of the owners stop paying attention one month in.
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Well, I read the whole thread and I still had a question: What exactly is meant by a "N/V thread"? All my other questions and then some were answered by the rest of the thread, so thanks!
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Elitist Bitch posted:Well, I read the whole thread and I still had a question: What exactly is meant by a "N/V thread"? news/views, which contains general news and views vs. other threads, which tend to be for specific events or purposes: like this one, the barry bonds thread, the predictions thread etc
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:news/views, which contains general news and views vs. other threads, which tend to be for specific events or purposes: like this one, the barry bonds thread, the predictions thread etc Thanks! Also, I've seen a lot of posts about how great Target Field is...honestly compared to Safeco Field it seems awful. Has anyone else been to both parks? Is there something that makes for better baseball at Target Field? I've only seen games at those two parks so it's hard for me to compare.
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it's a contrast thing. the metrodome was atrocious and target field is a pretty normal new ballpark by all accounts (I have not had the misfortune of seeing the Twins play live base ball for many moons) When comparing to Safeco, it's important to note that you're using one of the nicer parks in the league as a reference point. I think I'd put Safeco somewhere in the top 10 in terms of actually nice baseball stadia
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Elitist Bitch posted:Thanks! Also, I've seen a lot of posts about how great Target Field is...honestly compared to Safeco Field it seems awful. Has anyone else been to both parks? Is there something that makes for better baseball at Target Field? I've only seen games at those two parks so it's hard for me to compare. What exactly about Target Field seems awful? What's great about Safeco that's not great or entirely lacking at Target? I reckon you found nothing great about Target which Safeco lacks. I'm really curious about this stuff, being a recent convert to baseball and having only been to Target so far, so I have even less of a reference point than you. Having said that, I've been to the Metrodome (for non-baseball things) and it truly is an awful place in general imo, and I've watched a lot of '87 and '91 clips of the WS in there and that looks even worse than the Metrodome does in person.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:What's great about Safeco that's not great or entirely lacking at Target? loving Sushi. There is no greater thing than eating sushi and watching live baseball. Although, eating clam chowder from a bread bowl in San Fran is close.
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Capt. Sticl posted:loving Sushi. There is no greater thing than eating sushi and watching live baseball. Although, eating clam chowder from a bread bowl in San Fran is close. Daaaamn, and here I thought our food options were pretty swank. (loving Murray's steak sandwich hell yeah, but that's no sushi.)
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So I'm thinking about possibly maybe following some MLB. I used to play as a kid and really enjoyed it but sort of fell out of touch with the game after awhile. The main thing is, I'm in Australia, and I don't have pay TV, and the free-to-air channel only plays games very randomly throughout the year, however I think it mostly covers the World Series, so I was wondering what my options were about watching games, I've heard mixed things about MLB.tv and I don't quite understand the whole blackout thing either. Also, is there some sort of team breakdown like the NBA thread? I don't know much about the american teams
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screaden posted:So I'm thinking about possibly maybe following some MLB. I used to play as a kid and really enjoyed it but sort of fell out of touch with the game after awhile. There isn't one right now, but this flowchart is pretty neat
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MLB.TV is great. Blackout restrictions only pertain to those of us living in the US, which means that in Australia you can watch any game you want and not have to worry about any of it. Don't follow the Angels because, well, gently caress the Angels.
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as a furriner, you won't be blacked out of MLB.tv games at all, I don't think. You can go in on a group buy of MLB.tv and it costs 20 bucks I think. Preseason always has a group buy thread. There was formerly a Talk about Your Team thread which might help you out. I will make you a special post about my least favorite favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, and their glorious* history. Act 1 in which a band of ragamuffins rises to improbable prominence; or: money really does buy titles The Red Sox were named/formed out of a variety of early baseball teams with Red Stockings in their name. I think the official start date of the Sox name is 1907/8. Anyway, this was probably the best time to be a Red Sox fan: the color pink was not yet acceptable to wear on hats, and they won four titles in fifteen years. Then some poo poo happened, a guy name babe ruth got traded for money to finance a broadway show and the rest of the team got old. Joe Cronin, famous player-manager, turned in to even more of a dick and didn't bench himself due to being old, which he should have. Act 2 in which we decide four championships is sufficient; or: The Curse of the Bambino Anyway after they traded Babe Ruth the team didn't win a WS for a real long time. This was good because New Englanders are at heart masochists who can't handle praise or success without turning in to monsters(see: current Patriots fans). Since sports fans are by nature superstitious retards, they began to believe that the team was Cursed, despite some tremendously good teams in the 1930s and 40s, and a couple of good runs in essentially every decade except the 50s. The issue was that they lost on improbable bullshit such as the Enos Slaughter thing in 46 and the Bucky loving Dent thing and Buckner and Grady Little and all sorts of stuff. You're not going to be a Red Sox fan anyway so you don't really need to know this. Act 3 in which the curse is reversed; or: Red Sox more like Pink Sox am i right In the early 2000s the Red Sox were sold away from a group of tremendously rich but fundamentally stupid people to a group of tremendously rich, less stupid people who were in MLBs good graces. This was very shady but Red Sox fans ignore this because WORLD SERIES. Sometime in the late 1990s the rivalry with the Yankees sort of reignited after being dormant for a couple decades because finally both teams were good at the same time. Ask your average Sox fan and the rivalry has been around since John Winthrop set foot in Massachusetts, but yeah that's not true at all. Anyway, shortly thereafter they lost a terrible million inning ALCS to the Yankees because of stupidity and Aaron loving Boone. Red Sox fans everywhere killed themselves (i wish). Then they won a WS the next year against the Cardinals who were probably a way better team. Just to prove it wasn't a fluke they crushed Rocktober in 2007 like it was Poland in September. The team has been fundamentally competitive due to an intelligent draft strategy and also spending shitloads of money in the arms race that is the AL East. However, the long time GM smart man in charge, Theo Epstein, is now trying to save the Cubs and become the most famous GM of all time and his replacement so far is a big ole retard it sure seems like. Why you should root for the Red Sox Fenway Park is a hovel, built in 1912 and showing its age, but it's right in the center of the city and is Historic or whatever. The team is good, and competitive. There's lots of Glorious History if you are in to that. you should root for the red sox if you love hating your fellow man/fan, you like success but don't cravenly want to be a yankees fan and feed off of other people's undying hatred also if you like getting shot in the eye with pepper spray rounds and dying edit: or you hate when the letter r occurs in the middle of a word KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 14:52 |
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The Red Sox are the worst do not root for the Red Sox.
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screaden posted:So I'm thinking about possibly maybe following some MLB. I used to play as a kid and really enjoyed it but sort of fell out of touch with the game after awhile. A few questions: 1. Do you prefer excellent pitching, or hella offense? 2. Do you care about defense? Howsabout the bullpen? 3. Would you rather watch a lot of young guys grow and develop, with less chance for success, or a watch of proven veterans fighting for the World Series? 4. How important is watching a winning team RIGHT NOW to you? 5. Do you think pitchers should hit, or that designated hitters are awesome? 6. Do you care how baseball fans in general perceive fans of the team you choose to follow?
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screaden posted:So I'm thinking about possibly maybe following some MLB. I used to play as a kid and really enjoyed it but sort of fell out of touch with the game after awhile. The blackout rules are bullshit that is meant to drum up television ratings. Basically every team is entitled to broadcast rights in a certain geographic region in the country. For example, Boston has the entirety of New England, both New York teams share basically the entirety of the state plus Connecticut and northern New Jersey. Generally those areas encapsulate the majority of a team's fanbase. So those teams then sell off the local broadcast rights to a network or two and if a person lives in the coverage area, they must be forced to watch the game on that network. If for some reason the game was on both ESPN and the local network, the ESPN feed would be blacked out. There are some exceptions, ESPN, Fox, (and I guess TBS now) all carry national games. National games are exempt from being broadcast on local channels. For whatever reason, they decided that MLB.tv had to have the same rules for blackouts that the traditional media had. Also since you live in Australia, you should know that there is absolutely no blackout market for Australia and you'd be free to watch what you want. (Also gently caress the Angels and don't let KYOON GRIFFEY fool you about the Red Sox)
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As much as I like the SAS MLB posters, we rarely put together unified and nice-looking mega-threads like the NBA Meet the Team thread or the 2012 AFL preview thread. The 2012 community projections thread used about 5 different templates for team projections with some people making projections about just the starting players and rotations while others did the entire 25-man roster. Maybe this is just the result of baseball of baseball being a complicated sport with complicated fans. Also, from the MLB N/V thread OP: Carlton Banks posted:30 second primer to prepare yourself to become an SAS baseball fan: tadashi fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 16:33 |
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tadashi posted:As much as I like the SAS MLB posters, we rarely put together unified and nice-looking mega-threads like the NBA Meet the Team thread or the 2012 AFL preview thread. The 2012 community projections thread used about 5 different templates for team projections with some people making projections about just the starting players and rotations while others did the entire 25-man roster. Maybe this is just the result of baseball of baseball being a complicated sport with complicated fans. That's because baseball teams are twice the size of basketball teams, use ~20 of the players regularly as opposed to 8 or 9, and have a billion different stats and a wildly fractured stat community. Even if you don't buy into PER and Points per possession for basketball, there's only one set of fallbacks and they're rate stats per game. Rating the players by WAR, people were using different WAR calculations. It's dumb (by which I mean it's great). RE: MLB.TV - keep an eye out here over the next month and there will be a thread all about MLB.TV and how it can benefit you.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Fenway Park is a hovel, built in 1912 and showing its age, but it's right in the center of the city and is Historic or whatever. To kinda go along with this, I go to school in Boston and am (painfully) an Orioles fan. I'd like to go see the O's play the Red Sox when we come up here in May. Any recommendation on what kinda seats/tickets to get? The cheapest seem to be something like 28 bucks, but I have no idea if those seats are terrible. I don't need like AMAZING SEATS or whatever but I'd like to be close enough to see Mark Reynolds make errors and stuff.
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I think the $28 seats are the "Upper Bleachers", but I've never been to Fenway. Just sat in the Virtual Waiting Room for three straight days to get tickets as a present for someone.
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leokitty posted:I think the $28 seats are the "Upper Bleachers", but I've never been to Fenway. Just sat in the Virtual Waiting Room for three straight days to get tickets as a present for someone. yeah I'm kinda used to Camden Yards where you can walk up and get good seats, so I really have no idea how to approach this. I'm assuming I should just buy them way in advance but I'll wait for a Red Sox fan to weigh in I guess.
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Badfinger posted:That's because baseball teams are twice the size of basketball teams, use ~20 of the players regularly as opposed to 8 or 9, and have a billion different stats and a wildly fractured stat community. Even if you don't buy into PER and Points per possession for basketball, there's only one set of fallbacks and they're rate stats per game. Rating the players by WAR, people were using different WAR calculations. I liked the projection thread, it just seems that history teaches us that we shouldn't wait around expecting SAS baseball threads that resemble other sports threads. It's difficult to concisely explain all the reasons why there are four different teams who could win the NL East in 2012 for example. tadashi fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 19:45 |
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Someone made a projection for the Nats to win the NL East this year?
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Toffile posted:Someone made a projection for the Nats to win the NL East this year? I'd say it could happen but it's pretty far from likely. The Braves, Phillies, and Marlins all have key players with dicey injury histories.
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tadashi posted:As much as I like the SAS MLB posters, we rarely put together unified and nice-looking mega-threads like the NBA Meet the Team thread I was actually gonna do this once spring training rolled around 
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Does anyone know how mlb.tv blackouts work in Canada? I assume all Jays games are blacked out, but what about games on TBS or ESPN, neither of which are available up here?
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barkingclam posted:Does anyone know how mlb.tv blackouts work in Canada? I assume all Jays games are blacked out, but what about games on TBS or ESPN, neither of which are available up here? I'm pretty sure blackouts work the same there which means you'll be blacked out of ESPN games. I think TBS only does poo poo for the playoffs now, which of course are blacked out. Proxies are ridiculously easy to use so you shouldn't have to worry about not being able to watch a game. I check MLB.TV every day to see if the packages for 2012 are out yet, and they aren't.
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