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Earl Webb joining Hammerin' Hank?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HeinekenMan, Jul 3, 2007.

  1. Mayfly

    Mayfly Active Member

    Don't forget that wind that creeps up at Wrigley.
     
  2. Mayfly

    Mayfly Active Member

    Re: Winds at Wrigley

    http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197905170CHN
     
  3. HeinekenMan

    HeinekenMan Active Member

    Plus, with assholes like Keith Moreland and Jacque Jones patrolling the grass, almost every ball that clears the outfield has a good shot of being a double.
     
  4. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    A team's W-L record is a tangible, daily number.

    "On pace for" be it a team's wins or an individual's stats is a projection that changes daily.

    On May 1, A-Rod was "on pace" to hit 98HRs and drive in 239.
    Now, he's "on pace" to hit 57 HRs and drive in 163.
    And now he has a strained hammy and is going to miss a few days, so when he comes back, he'll be "on pace for" lower numbers.

    Tell me what sense "on pace" makes?
     
  5. HeinekenMan

    HeinekenMan Active Member

    Boy, the stories you could tell about the guys on the field that day.

    We have Bill Buckner, Pete Rose, Tug McGraw, Bruce Sutter, Larry Bowa, Mike Schmidt, Bob Boone, Donnie Moore and Dave Kingman. Can you imagine somebody from the future gathering them together and saying,

    "In the next 25 years, one of you will be banned from baseball, another will be the goat in the most notorious defensive blunder in baseball history, another will die from a brain tumor, another will commit suicide, another will be an assistant GM for the team in D.C., another will be a manager of the year."
     
  6. Mayfly

    Mayfly Active Member

    The thing about the ivy is that it is just the same with any wall, it depends where and how the ball hits. If the ball hits a space when the ivy is not that much, it will ricochet off the brick and shoot somewhere else. The ball will become tangled in the deep ivy or be hard to pull out, hence a lot of ground-rule doubles.
     
  7. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    "... and Bruce Sutter will be in the Hall of Fame before Pete Rose." ;D
     
  8. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    ....and Dave Kingman is still an asshole who can't hit .225
     
  9. Mayfly

    Mayfly Active Member

    But still hit a moonshot that cleared a house at Wrigley. Well so did Glenallen Hill.

    "That one's in Milwaukee!" - Chicago radio broadcaster Lou Boudreau, describing a very long Kingman home run at Wrigley Field.
     
  10. HeinekenMan

    HeinekenMan Active Member

    Spnited is correct. We could just say that his incessant fussing is the result of a man who will be 85 next year. But that's just what he's on pace for. There's no certainty that he'll make it, especially if he gets this worked up over something as trivial as a baseball statistic.
     
  11. JackyJackBN

    JackyJackBN Guest

    The fact that Edgar Martinez, who could run like a deer--a stuffed deer--had 52 doubles two years in a row is one of the amazing statistics of modern baseball.
     
  12. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Not only that, but Edgar was 32 and 33 years old when he did it.

    That said, Albert Pujols ain't exactly Mr. Fleetfoot himself. And he put up 51 and 51 in consecutive years.
     
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