AmScray 355 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...amp;position=OFhttp://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...amp;position=OF This site kicks ass. Link to post Share on other sites
Shimmering Wang 1 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 This site kicks ass.If anybody wants, I'll link you guys to all my daily baseball reading. I just use an iGoogle homepage, and click to my heart's content for 3 hours each morning/afternoon. Some of it is analysis, and some is a little lighter, but all of it is really good. Link to post Share on other sites
PMJackson21 0 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 If anybody wants, I'll link you guys to all my daily baseball reading. I just use an iGoogle homepage, and click to my heart's content for 3 hours each morning/afternoon. Some of it is analysis, and some is a little lighter, but all of it is really good.::raises hand:: Link to post Share on other sites
Shimmering Wang 1 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 1) Fangraphshttp://www.fangraphs.comThese guys are awesome nerds, and the site has mini-articles written and posted more than daily. Their stats collections are near peerless.2) USS Marinerhttp://www.ussmariner.comA Mariners fan site. I read it daily even though I'm not a Mariners fan because these guys are shockingly good. Just fantastic. Dave Cameron also contributes to fangraphs.3) MLB Trade Rumorshttp://www.mlbtraderumors.comExactly what it sounds like.4) Joe Posnanskihttp://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/Joe writes for the KC Star, and started a blog to promote his Buck O'Neill Buck "The Soul of Baseball." He kept writing it. He's a fantastic writer.5) Fire Joe Morganhttp://www.firejoemorgan.com/Comedy writers and baseball fans send-up bad journalism. I hate bad logic, and these guys do, too, so: yay!6) The Baseball Analystshttp://baseballanalysts.com/Rich Lederer and friends analyze baseball. Like everyone on this list, these guys have a very rational, reasonable, SABRmetric bent. Good stuff.7) The Hardball Timeshttp://hardballtimes.com/Lots of content.9) Rob Neyerhttp://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?s...tring=neyer_robThe man himself. The only problem is, lots/most of his ESPN stuff is ESPN-Insider only, which is subscription-based.10) Shysterballhttp://shysterball.blogspot.com/Craig Calcaterra's take on baseball action. Lighter, less analytical, but still insightful.11) Sabernomicshttp://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/SABRmetrics and economics. The site has fallen off a touch lately, and as such has been moved down my list. Link to post Share on other sites
CaneBrain 95 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Steroids helped the ball leave the outfield.ESPN did a great statistical analysis on Page 2 once about Bonds HRs. They took all his HRs from his "steroid era" and wiped all the fence scrapers off the books. He lost like 50-75 HRs if I remember right.PMJ, phear the phish. Link to post Share on other sites
runthemover 39 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 that's quite the reading there, wang. necessary homework for your 'job' though. I hate espn insider because I've had a subscription to ESPN mag for a little over a year (error in my favour!) and apparently this doesn't translate to me having insider as well. thanks espn for selling me a magazine where all of the articles are available on your website before the mag comes out. Link to post Share on other sites
pockets 0 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I blame the guy with wrist bands. Giving the game ball to Ortiz on the mound, overusing Nenn (granted this off memory, I'd have to look at his workload that year to be sure) so he was unavailable at that point, starting Livan in game 7, etc. I can't even recall what scrubs he pitched that the Angels lit up, but I'm reasonably sure one was Tim Worrell. Anyone that puts trust in a Worrell deserves to lose.Also, **** the Marlins until Sunday IMO. Nen was pitching injured that whole postseason.Worrell was pretty good that year. He wasn't a bad pitcher until he left the Giants after 2003.Dusty in that series started Shinjo, a defensive specialist who wasn't much of a hitter, at DH (seriously) and put Kenny Lofton in center field (seriously).Livan over Rueter in Game 7 was a complete disgrace. Livan was awful that year except for Game 4 of the series against the Braves.And the team was completely flat in Game 7, too.I'm glad I'm thinking about this. I wasn't angry enough before. Time to go punch a baby. Link to post Share on other sites
PMJackson21 0 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Nen was pitching injured that whole postseason.Worrell was pretty good that year. He wasn't a bad pitcher until he left the Giants after 2003.Dusty in that series started Shinjo, a defensive specialist who wasn't much of a hitter, at DH (seriously) and put Kenny Lofton in center field (seriously).Livan over Rueter in Game 7 was a complete disgrace. Livan was awful that year except for Game 4 of the series against the Braves.And the team was completely flat in Game 7, too.I'm glad I'm thinking about this. I wasn't angry enough before. Time to go punch a baby.Yeah I recall Nenn being banged up the last half of the year, but I've chosen to blame Dusty w/out any proof. With his track record with pitchers, it wouldn't surprise me that he over worked him, but like I said I can't recall the exact details around his injury. Did he ever pitch again after that year?I remember Worrell was decent for you guys that year, but the Worrell name just brings up unpleasant memories for me. On a side note, Tim never seemed to recover from that game.I had forgotten about the Lofton/Shinjo thing. LOL at Shinjo at DH. Wasn't there some issue with Lofton and the Cardinals fans earlier that post season?Dusty starting Livan is almost as bad as Dusty starting Torres on the last day of the season in 1993 over Bill Swift. SOmeone should have reminded Dusty that you have to get to the 1 game playoff in order to use Swift, so no point in wasting him. Luckily, a rookie Mike Piazza was able to show him the error in his ways. Link to post Share on other sites
pockets 0 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Yeah I recall Nenn being banged up the last half of the year, but I've chosen to blame Dusty w/out any proof. With his track record with pitchers, it wouldn't surprise me that he over worked him, but like I said I can't recall the exact details around his injury. Did he ever pitch again after that year?No, he basically destroyed his arm trying to win the Series. Here'sa good ESPN article about him that year. He had nothing.http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/print?page=nen Link to post Share on other sites
PMJackson21 0 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 No, he basically destroyed his arm trying to win the Series. Here'sa good ESPN article about him that year. He had nothing.http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/print?page=nen Good article, thanks for the link. I was familiar with the basics of the story, but I didn't know the details. That tidbit about the Giants turning off the radar gun was especially interesting.EDIT: Just noticed it was an Eric Neel article. I like him, although he reminds me of Plaschke at times. I also might like him because he is a big Dodgers fan. Link to post Share on other sites
GeneralGeeWhiz 0 Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 so I walked into my class tonight and there was a hot asian chick wearing a dodger manny jersey. I told her that the Dodgers suck, and she pointed out in a ever so gleeful, polite manner that at least the Dodgers have won a World Series in the past 50 years. I fell in love and also despised her at the same time. And obv she had no clue that the Dodgers signed Manny, typical clueless Dodger fan. Link to post Share on other sites
wsox8 10 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 so I walked into my class tonight and there was a hot asian chick wearing a dodger manny jersey. I told her that the Dodgers suck, and she pointed out in a ever so gleeful, polite manner that at least the Dodgers have won a World Series in the past 50 years. I fell in love and also despised her at the same time. And obv she had no clue that the Dodgers signed Manny, typical clueless Dodger fan. She must not have a TV, the internet, or a radio. Link to post Share on other sites
GeneralGeeWhiz 0 Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 She must be a dodger fan thenfyp Link to post Share on other sites
miamicanes 0 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 kirk gibson faked his injury Link to post Share on other sites
king_tanner 84 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I know this topic is from awhile ago, so I don't know if it is worth discussing anymore.But weren't Cardinals fans just as bad when trying to defend Mark McGwire. I think Cardinals fans give Giants fans a run for their money. Link to post Share on other sites
GeneralGeeWhiz 0 Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 kirk gibson faked his injuryobv he did, he hollywood'd it.I know this topic is from awhile ago, so I don't know if it is worth discussing anymore.But weren't Cardinals fans just as bad when trying to defend Mark McGwire. I think Cardinals fans give Giants fans a run for their money.Lol, and just last year ESPN or one of those sports stations ranked cardinal fans as the loyalist and smartest of any teams fanbase. Link to post Share on other sites
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