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  1. JoeCarter
    Frasier is one of the most well-written shows of all time, period. If you disagree, you're wrong. FWIW, I'm watching the Mariners' TV broadcast. They praised Edwin as being on the short-list of MVP candidates, so the dum extends far beyond just homers Buck + Tabby.
  2. JoeCarter
    That it takes our starter firing 7+ innings of 1-hit ball just for us to eek out a 1-run victory should be reason enough to stay concerned about prolonged offensive drought - time is running out to start swinging. I'm already getting ready to be without Donaldson for 1 game. Whether or not he bumped ump, Torre + henchmen sent a memo to all teams this Summer warning of suspensions if players or managers cross the line of decorum protesting balls + strikes, regardless of whether contact is made with the ump. I think he's getting a game..
  3. JoeCarter
    This. Lol at all the Gibbons pilers-on calling for Cecil there being a no-brainer solely b/c of LHP-vs-LHP, exactly the kind of mindless adherence to dogma they jump all over Gibby for. Cecil has been indiscriminately terrible all year. He's got no business in this game.
  4. JoeCarter
    Don't forget that per Tabby he's gonna get ALL KINDZ OF MVP VOTEZZZZ!!!ZZZ!!!!!!!Z!
  5. JoeCarter
    Rule 7:05 C: "Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance -- © Three bases, if a fielder deliberately throws his glove at and touches a fair ball. The ball is in play and the batter may advance to home base at his peril." I guess the glove didn't touch the ball? (Or it was deemed he didn't intentionally throw the glove but rather it came off accidentally?)
  6. JoeCarter
    Um, not since they went to a 2-wild-cards-play-1-game-elimination format in 2012 (after which only 1 WC team has won it all, the 2014 SF Giants). In fact, the very reason they went to two WC teams + a 1-game elimination game was BECAUSE baseball playoffs are basically a crapshoot, and the prevailing sentiment was that winning your division over 162 games should put you on better playoff footing than sneaking into the #4 spot. So, uh, yeah "anything can happen". But they changed the rules to more or less slice in half the odds for WC teams. So YMMV.
  7. JoeCarter
    Obviously not, don't be dumb. Just reaching for reasons to feel marginally satisfied with the WC consolation prize that's shaping up to be our fate.
  8. JoeCarter
    Obviously we'd rather be division champs, but a silver lining to this WC scenario is that i'd sure as hell rather face the Rangers in the ALDS than the juggernaut Sox. And that looks to be the way the standings are shaping up.
  9. JoeCarter
    Wow, by your sweet logic, every single pitcher will throw a perfect game every single game. Look, you're wrong about a decrease in WPA% being unimportant. It is. It was a mistake to bunt, end of story. Reasoning that 'well it was only a SMALL mistake, and therefore unimportant' is just silly. Numbers aren't things that you get to employ when they're convenient and ignore when they aren't.
  10. JoeCarter
    Make a 1-2% -WPA decision every game and then tell me how you feel when we finish the season a game behind the 2nd wild card spot. Also, how is it that you make a post citing all kinds of things that look like numbers, and then end it with 'BUT WHO CARES ABOUT NUMBERS ANYWAY GUYS, AMIRITE!?????'
  11. JoeCarter
    I'm beginning to strongly suspect that a # of forum members cheated on their 'What is 9 + 7?' captcha test while creating their accounts.
  12. JoeCarter
    What are you talking about? Where do you see any assumption or mention of a bunt? Some guy made a goofy post about the score "in all likelihood" still being 0-0 if Saunders was left to hit away, and I simply showed that his 'in all likelihood' language was easily disprovable nonsense. It's significantly more likely than not that we score a run from that starting situation.
  13. JoeCarter
    Math called. It awards you no points and asks that you delete your account. With a runner on 2nd and 0 out, we have a 61.4% chance of scoring at least 1 run in that inning. So...uh yeah "in all likelihood" = Fail. It struck me that the Internet has really ruined things for people who got a little too comfortable with pulling numbers out of their butts. You know we can fact-check you now, right?
  14. JoeCarter
    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that your GG stands for 'generally good'. (Because if it's the alternative, then you're out of your mind.)
  15. JoeCarter
    Lol, i live close to the Dome and had this exact idea last year, but ran #'s and seemed like it was way more trouble than it was worth. Thought I could bring in $100 / day at very most, which hey I guess is not bad money for 2 hrs of my time, but i just let it go. Also I'm like 95% sure that I've purchased tix off StubHub, and run my phone under the ticket scanner at the gate and it worked fine, just as if I'd run a printed sheet under. And the stadium staff seemed fine with me doing that, so not sure why they say you MUST have printed tix... (don't quote me on the above; i could be mis-remembering, but i really don't think so)
  16. JoeCarter
    Er...what am I missing, then: other than wind conditions, shouldn't exit velocity + launch angle literally be all that's needed to calculate the distance a ball will travel? IOW, is the only reason it didn't leave the yard b/c of the part of the ballpark it was hit to? (whereas all the previous balls hit with those #s were hit to shorter parts of the yard?)
  17. JoeCarter
    Fact is the Jays are exactly where they deserve to be, and probably commensurate with our overall talent level to boot. We're a very good, albeit flawed and aging team. I know it feels warm and cuddly to believe that our pitching staff's "true" proficiency level was the league-crushing pre-August performance, but most reasonably minds knew we were modestly overachieving, and we're seeing the entirely natural regression to the mean right now. Likewise, the hitting's been abysmal of late -- but they'll be fine. JD will get back to doing JD things, and the reports of Jose's demise are greatly exaggerated. We're a very good team talent-wise, teetering somewhere on the border of Wild Card-worthy and Division Champ, but get the short end of the stick b/c we just so happen to play in the most competitive division in baseball.
  18. JoeCarter
    First off lol brock holt, but secondly huge credit to Loup: the guy's barely pitched this year, comes into pressure-packed situation in biggest game of the year, has wherewithal to recognize very rare situation (steal of home), step off without balking, make perfect throw with little margin for error, and does it all. Well done, Loupy.
  19. JoeCarter
    Are Buck and Tabby getting worse, or have they always been this bad? Makes me long for the days of muting the TV and tuning into 590 (technically 1430, shout out to other OGs) for Tom + Jerry.
  20. JoeCarter
    Won't show up in boxscore but mistakes like that cost games. An online throw gets cut by Edwin, run scores but runner going to 2B out by a mile. Pillar been making way too many mental mistakes lately.
  21. JoeCarter
    Near King + Peter.
  22. JoeCarter
    The AA love-fest was always an ill-conceived joke, but some of the above is just way too results-oriented. re The Marlins trade, you may not remember, but there was quite the outcry from around baseball that it was an outright fleecing by Jays, and calls for commish to reverse the trade. I had never heard -- neither before nor since -- multiple informed voices openly wondering whether an MLB trade should be reversed by the commish. Just a trade that didn't work out for us. I don't put it in the fk AA bucket.
  23. JoeCarter
    I live blocks from the Rogers Centre, and NOTHING makes me happier than hearing the victory fog-horn from outside before the last pitch is thrown on TV.
  24. JoeCarter
    Ah, I see on twitter he didn't realize there were 2 outs and was jogging back to 1st. Yeah, that's pretty inexcusable in that spot. Good for hometown announcers laying into him. More Zaun, less Buck.
  25. JoeCarter
    Was he lollygagging? I don't think they showed it on SN...if he was, they're right to rip him -- that was hit in a weird spot and way Jays have been playing D lately you'd better be sprinting. Hell, sprint either way.
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