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Forum: Sporting Events 08-26-2007, 04:15 PM
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Posted By shemp
Re: ~~~ OFFICIAL YANKEES 2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS OR BUST THREAD ~~

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I will gladly take action on Moose going at least 5 innings and letting up under 5 runs.

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Heroic faith in Mussina's ability to give a quality start there.
Forum: Sporting Events 07-20-2007, 11:32 PM
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I don't think it matters in the scheme of things, but I don't think I use 4 pitchers down 9 runs. I sit Posada and Jeter and maybe someone else and let the rookie give up 14 until he gives me 9 outs....
Forum: Sporting Events 07-18-2007, 02:20 PM
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Sox have this totally locked up lolol

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I <3 Mediocre teams that manage to keep hope alive deep into September.
Forum: Sporting Events 07-17-2007, 11:17 PM
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Posted By shemp
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I didn't watch this game. Did Bowa slide?

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Forum: Sporting Events 07-17-2007, 10:14 PM
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Posted By shemp
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Even though Jeter and Abreu both stranded the runner, Jeter did it much more clutchly.
Forum: Sporting Events 07-05-2007, 10:35 PM
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Posted By shemp
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Have the Yankees ever actually beaten the Angels? (sigh -- I don't think they're coming back to the A's this year)
Forum: Sporting Events 07-05-2007, 04:22 AM
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Posted By shemp
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man and i got so much crap early in the season when i would berate torre's in game management... i'm glad everyone's finally jumped on board

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Only Tim McCarver and the...
Forum: Sporting Events 07-02-2007, 09:35 PM
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Posted By shemp
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a-rah pulled with an injury

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Come on. Alex Rodriguez is male. He's legally married to a woman and everything.
Forum: Sporting Events 07-02-2007, 02:12 PM
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Posted By shemp
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1. I understand that the Yankees have the best rotation in the majors (in all of history?) according to some mysterious projection, but looking at the series with Minn... would you swap Clemens,...
Forum: Sporting Events 07-01-2007, 01:10 PM
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Posted By shemp
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HAW HAW. I think I figured it out. "Pettite is 66-31 following a Yankee loss." HAW HAW!
Forum: Sporting Events 07-01-2007, 11:50 AM
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I heard some [censored] up thing that Proctor burned his equipment after the game?

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yep he stood his equipment up in the dugout and lit it on fire

when asked...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-30-2007, 03:01 PM
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Posted By shemp
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Sooner or later a guy like Phillips is prolly gonna break out and start giving you the .640 OPS projected for him-- but to be on the safe side, Yankee fan might look into a Back-up Favorite team. The...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 01:16 PM
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Posted By shemp
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I don't speak for Andy. I'd be surprised if he hasn't considered the possibility that the Yankees were somehow unlucky (and either accepted it as the case or rejected it as irrelevant or something...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 12:49 PM
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Posted By shemp
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what you're failing to recognize is that cano, abreu, and damon are all absurdly underperforming expectation.

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What you're failing to recognize is that you vastly over...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 12:32 AM
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Posted By shemp
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good thing rivera was all rested for his appearence in the 8th tonight - we needed those outs

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A mediocre team that needs ~500 innings from it's...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 12:27 AM
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Posted By shemp
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I was at the game tonight and I exploded into this huge rant about how retarded it was to not use Rivera last night and use him tonight... all the dumb O's fans in my section just stared...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 12:08 AM
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Posted By shemp
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My assertion that bringing in your closer with a lead to close the game does not contain a hidden assumption about bringing in your closer in a tie game.



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Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 05:34 PM
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Posted By shemp
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Saving the closer for a "save situation" is exactly how "conventional wisdom" dictates the "division of labor" in a bullpen. If that's not the "better situation" for which you're thinking...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 05:20 PM
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The crux of it is the view that a d% increase in getting a win is more valuable than a d% decrease in avoiding a loss because of the finality of a closing a game versus the...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 03:26 PM
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I'm quite surprised as well and wouldn't mind someone checking to make sure I'm not an idiot reading the chart wrong even after quintuple...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 11:31 AM
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I'm quite surprised as well and wouldn't mind someone checking to make sure I'm not an idiot reading the chart wrong even after quintuple checking.

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Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 11:27 AM
Replies: 3,421
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Posted By shemp
Re: ~~~ OFFICIAL YANKEES 2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS OR BUST THREAD ~~

Another part of both teams winning 50% of tied 9th inning games/extra inning games (that go at least one more inning) is that they don't necessarily win them in the next inning. So assuming that less...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 12:36 AM
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Posted By shemp
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I would have to reacquaint myself with Poussin distributions to accept this presumably elementary fact... It's late and I'm old and lazy.

Heh. Now I've convinced myself it is trivial (assuming the...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 12:29 AM
Replies: 3,421
Views: 16,651
Posted By shemp
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I'm quite surprised as well and wouldn't mind someone checking to make sure I'm not an idiot reading the chart wrong even after quintuple checking.

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I'm floored by that...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-27-2007, 12:15 AM
Replies: 3,421
Views: 16,651
Posted By shemp
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If you get through the 9th, a better situation has arisen. You have 3 outs and they have 3 outs, and there is some fraction of a run that you can expect to be ahead...
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