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[NomarRS05]

The Rocks beat the Phils and the D'Backs. The D'Backs beat the Cubs.

true, my bad. My point stands.

[UNCSoxFan5]

fox sucks

[mandurro]

Watch for the bunt single by Taveras. I don't have stats but I think he does that more than anyone else in MLB.

[Stealth Beagle]

A buddy and I set a nightly over/under on the moment of Tim McCarver's first incredibly stupid statement. Tonight's line has been set at one minute before the upcoming top of the hour. Place your bets accordingly.

[mandurro]

Um, I don't think Soulja Boy jives with Beckett. Manny, for sure. Idiots at FOX...

[redsoxfan1776]

All right. Finally. Let's go!

[Cyberlibrarian]

I don't mean to keep being argumentative with you, but why is the 21 of 22 that much more relevant than the fact that they were 76-72 over the first 90% of the season? I can understand giving some degree of increased weight to recent results, but barring some wholesale personnel changes, it seems better to evalute the team over their entire season performance.

Not necessarily. I don't know how old you are, but the 1973 Mets were in last place on 8/30 and took the powerhouse A's to the bottom of the 9th in game 7 of the WS. It doesn't matter how cold you were 3 months ago as long as you are hot when it counts. I remind you once again of the Cardinals from last year. They barely made the playoffs and then won it all over the heavily favored Tigers.

The MFYs were 8 or 9 games under .500 and 14 games back of the Sox earlier this year, and they ended up only finishing a handful of games behind the Sox and making the playoffs after scores of people had written them off.

[boggartlaura]

How do they not show Yaz throwing out the first pitch?

[urayoan]

Watch for the bunt single by Taveras. I don't have stats but I think he does that more than anyone else in MLB.

That's because he can't hit.

[Bellhorn]

For what it's worth, the Baseball Prospectus simulations have the Sox winning the series nearly 60 percent of the time.

*ducks for cover*

[iowacityiconoclast]

So...Josh Beckett wins and throws a curveball.

You can always count on Fox for insightful and thought-provoking Scouting Reports.

[Cyberlibrarian]

A buddy and I set a nightly over/under on the moment of Tim McCarver's first incredibly stupid statement. Tonight's line has been set at one minute before the upcoming top of the hour. Place your bets accordingly.

It's too early to do a drinking game for that -- you'd be smashed by the 2nd inning.

[EllisTheRimMan]

OK, now that all of the crap Fox blather is finished...

ONE WORD:

KILL!

[nvalvo]

I liked that first pitch.

[Yazdog8]

How do they not show Yaz throwing out the first pitch?

Yaz means nothing to Fox. All they care about is the present.

[RedSoxTarheel38]

A buddy and I set a nightly over/under on the moment of Tim McCarver's first incredibly stupid statement. Tonight's line has been set at one minute before the upcoming top of the hour. Place your bets accordingly.

Under.

[KeyserSose]

A buddy and I set a nightly over/under on the moment of Tim McCarver's first incredibly stupid statement. Tonight's line has been set at one minute before the upcoming top of the hour. Place your bets accordingly.

I dunno about the exact moment of his first stupid statement, but I'm setting the line at +7 as to the number of stupid things he says during the broadcast

[PayrodsFirstClutchHit]

One of many to come.

[mandurro]

Unhittable pitch.

[NomarRS05]

hell yeah!!!!! sit down!!!

[EllisTheRimMan]

K

Generous strikezone tonight

[Cyberlibrarian]

YESS! K for Becks!

[Yazdog8]

BecKett

[urayoan]

If BecKett gets that pitch tonight, he'll be unhittable.

[JohnnyTheBone]

Taveras, sit your ugly ass DOWN!

Edited by JohnnyTheBone, 24 October 2007 - 07:40 PM.

[nvalvo]

Josh gets a pretty broad plate these days.

[Savin Hillbilly]

Has anybody noticed that Beckett has now officially joined the ranks of elite pitchers who get the trapezoidal strike zone? (i.e., it widens from the waist down).

[redsoxfan1776]

I dunno about the exact moment of his first stupid statement, but I'm setting the line at +7 as to the number of stupid things he says during the broadcast

That seems a little low.

[ypioca]

Good start.

[Yazdog8]

For what it's worth, the Baseball Prospectus simulations have the Sox winning the series nearly 60 percent of the time.

*ducks for cover*

ESPN had it even higher for the Sox. 75% of the time, the Sox won.

[bball831]

Matsui is terrible on the road: .249/.304/.333/.637

[chester]

Has anybody noticed that Beckett has now officially joined the ranks of elite pitchers who get the trapezoidal strike zone? (i.e., it widens from the waist down).

Not on bunt attempt

[EllisTheRimMan]

JB needs to keep the ball down... like that!!!

[Cyberlibrarian]

Cool. 3-0 now 3-2 on Kaz.

I pulled for him when he was on the Mets and I have nothing against him now. It just didn't work out for him at Shea.

[PayrodsFirstClutchHit]

Next!

[Savin Hillbilly]

That seems a little low.

"I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?—(looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body's assent)—Do not you all think I shall?"
--Jane Austen, Tim McCarver

[Yazdog8]

BecKKett!

[KeyserSose]

That seems a little low.

yeah, apparently Vegas agrees with you and have moved the over/under to 25... I'm looking forward to that first comment that leads to an awkward pause and Buck trying to quickly change the topic

[RedSoxTarheel38]

I love Josh BecKKett.

[JohnnyTheBone]

SIT DOWN, KAZ!

Anybody else doing Jim Beam and ginger ale?

[NomarRS05]

wow. ha. man love.

[mandurro]

MAN. I wasn't even worried wheh he wasdown 3-0. WHAT A BALLER.

[Cyberlibrarian]

2 Ks in Beckket!

[ypioca]

This is Beckett.

[urayoan]

Back the fuck off the plate Holliday!

[RedSoxTarheel38]

I've got Coke and Royal and some Sam Adams.

[nvalvo]

I like the first pitch to Holliday, also.

[mandurro]

Hello, Mr. Holliday.

[Bellhorn]

Not necessarily. I don't know how old you are, but the 1973 Mets were in last place on 8/30 and took the powerhouse A's to the bottom of the 9th in game 7 of the WS. It doesn't matter how cold you were 3 months ago as long as you are hot when it counts. I remind you once again of the Cardinals from last year. They barely made the playoffs and then won it all over the heavily favored Tigers.

The MFYs were 8 or 9 games under .500 and 14 games back of the Sox earlier this year, and they ended up only finishing a handful of games behind the Sox and making the playoffs after scores of people had written them off.

I'm 27.

The point is that teams go on hot and cold streaks (relative to their "true" level of ability) all the time, and there's no grounds for assuming that a hot streak is an indication that a team has suddenly figured out how to play well after being mediocre for most of the season. (Doesn't that seem a little implausible?) Of course, in some cases, it's something of a regression to a team's true level of ability, as in the case of the MFY this year. And I'll certainly grant that the Rockies were a 90-win team who took a while to get going.

The predictive power of a team's record increases as the number of games considered increases. If teams really did suddenly change their true ability level at such short notice, this wouldn't be the case.

[chester]

Smart to bring up and in to Holliday