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Ed Hartouni
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Livermore, CA
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Oct 30, 2018 - 09:42am PT
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seems like an age old question
Baseball Therapy: Is The American League Just Better?
"So, we have pretty good evidence that the American League may have been beating the National League in the most boring way possible: developing better young players and signing bargain free agents."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 30, 2018 - 09:48am PT
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developing better young players
You mean like teaching them how to meditate before games instead of listening to hip-hop
and learning how to be ‘centered’ at the plate?
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ron gomez
Trad climber
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Oct 30, 2018 - 09:48am PT
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Peace
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Some drunk nutjob threw full cans of beer at Cora and Mookie during the parade yesterday?
So wrong - I woulda thought there was a beer shortage in Beantown.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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LA Times said Cora was struck by a thrown full can. 😳
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looks easy from here
climber
Santa Cruzish
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I'm not questioning the result (there are videos of Eagles players getting clocked as well), I'm just curious about intent.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Bummer about McCovey, but he lived a life, no?
As for those of you who think the junior circuit is so great, how come they don't play real baseball?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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McCovey was a warrior. He would have been somewhat adrift in this weak-kneed world, if not constantly fined and suspended.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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I saw McCovey , 68 ? , hit a towering homer into the right field bleachers at chavez ravine...
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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I’m not sure the reality check of the big money teams dissing him will do anything for his attitude or aversion to ‘hustle’. In too many ways, Machado is a representative of his generation: ‘I deserve everything’.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Buh Bye Machado, Chris Taylor, Dozier, Hernandez, Toles, and the whole pen (minus Baez), unless Jansen goes to Jenny Craig or swears off plantain. I would keep Taylor, but get rid of Bellanger, The kid shows he chokes in the ws
I would get rid of Puig too.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 16, 2018 - 11:00am PT
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Yay! for Mookie Betts, AL MVP...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 16, 2018 - 01:30pm PT
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Mookie was a monster... what a year!! Bravo!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 16, 2018 - 01:39pm PT
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Has there been anyone skinnier to hit 32 dingers?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 16, 2018 - 02:02pm PT
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Correlations for weight, height and two measures of batting performance.
Hamburg L, Hines TM.
Abstract
The hypothesis that heavier baseball players are better batters was examined in two correlational studies of major league baseball players' performance. Neither height nor weight was significantly correlated with batting average. Both variables correlated significantly and positively with the number of home runs hit by American League players in the 1997 season. After partial correlations were computed, only the correlation between weight and number of home runs hit remained significant.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 16, 2018 - 03:01pm PT
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Was Nellie Fox counted? 🤡
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Nov 16, 2018 - 05:36pm PT
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kudos to deGrom for the Cy Young. deGrom is a dazzling pitcher but had the misfortune of having to wear a Mets jersey in 2018. Love watching him work. Brilliant stuff and has that vintage Bob Gibson demeanor
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apogee
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Nov 27, 2018 - 10:31pm PT
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Watching the fantastic Ken Burns Baseball series right now...a wonderful quote from the articulate George Will:
“I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.”
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Dec 21, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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Ch-ch-ch-changes.....
Kemp was on the back end, anyway...Puig was good but not consistently so...
In any case, the lineup for the last two years has only got the Dodgers close and not across the finish line due more to luck than outright skill....
It's time to shake things up.
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