Hit and Run – April 23, 2009
I decided to give the bossman a break this morning and write this thing. Plus, branching out beyond my comfort zone like this expands my horizons and looks really good on my resume.
Since I’m writing about beisbol, I have to focus only on the Yankees and Red Sawx, right? Ok. The Red Sox won twice yesterday and the Yanks only won once. Yankees suck!
Dun.
Yankees 9, Athletics 7 – Baseball decided to change the rules, but only for the Yankees. Since they can’t seem to win a game the traditional way – you know, by outscoring their opponent in 9 innings – Baseball decided they would just let them play until the Yanks have the lead…took 14 innings yesterday.
Red Sawx 10, Twins 1 – So…they scheduled this game for Wednesday, but it was postponed until last night because there was precipitation on Wednesday and baseball players are made of sugar and can’t play in the rain. Then, the make-up was called early last night after only 7 innings due to more rain? Maybe if Beisbol’s regular season didn’t consist of 957 games, this wouldn’t happen. Here’s an actual gchat that took place concerning this topic earlier this morning:
me: what the fuck *censored* does this mean? “Completed Early: Rain — PPD on 4/21” for the Sawx-Twins game that ended 10-1
sparty: um, that they started, and completed the game on another date. usually means the home team didn’t get their equal at bats when they called the game because of rain
Sent at 8:14 AM on Thursday
me: so they started the game on 4/21 and it was postponed due to rain to last night and then called early last night after only 7 innings due to rain?
Sent at 8:15 AM on Thursday
sparty: is that what the recap says?
me: no, that’s what I’m inferring.
sparty: read the damn recap!
me: you suck! you want me to write about beisbol AND read about beisbol!?
Good times.
Red Sawx 7, Twins 3 – The rain finally ended and Boston’s winning streak continued. I love these obscure beisbol stats - Terry Francona becomes the second manager in MLB history to sweep a doubleheader on his 50th birthday.
Giants 1, Padres 0 – So, let me get this straight…after eleventy hours of scoreless baseball, it’s called a pitching duel, but after 90 minutes of scoreless soccer, it’s called boring? Got it.
Reds 3, Cubs 0 – The Cubs choked again…prolly because of that goat named Bartman. That’s all I know about the Cubs because that’s all ESPN will tell me about them…never heard of the Reds.
Please allow me a minute of your time for a slight diversion. I’d like to show you the level of mediocrity present in the 2009 season thus far based on the 16 games played yesterday between the 30 MLB teams:
(ED Note: See this comment for an explanation of the results of the above exercise. If you still don’t understand, the following table is for you.)
Back to our regularly scheduled programming…
Hitters Who Failed Less Yesterday Than They Normally Do:
1. Carl Crawford (Devil Rays) - 4/5, 1 BB, 3 Runs, 1 RBI
2. Adam LaRoche (Pirates) – 4/5, 2 Runs, 1 RBI
3. Curtis Granderson (Tigers) – 3/4, 1 HR, 1 BB, 2 Runs, 1 RBI
Pitchers Who Threw the Ball Yesterday:
1. Johnny Cueto (Reds) – 7.0 IP, 3 SO, 0 BB, 4 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 HR, WINNER!!
2. Joel Piniero (Cardinals) – 8.0 IP, 0 SO, 2 BB, 6 Hits, 2 Runs, 0 HR, WINNER!!
3. Chris Young (Padres) – 7.0 IP, 3 SO, 4 BB, 2 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 HR, No Decision.
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i don’t care if he was only 2-6. Melky is the numba 1!
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Not sure what that table shows. The wins against teams greater than .500 is obviously wrong since teams above .500 have obviously lost more than 15 games.
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btw- the conversation actually concluded with me telling miz that they played a DH.
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definitely having you do H&R more often.
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should’ve explained the table better. teams that played yesterday and met the categories of having a win percentage greater than 0.500, 0.600, and 0.700 after their game were assigned a value of 1.
then, I compiled the values at the bottom of the table to show that of the 16 games played yesterday, only 15 teams emerged with a win percentage greater than 0.500 (Sawx counted twice so there were only 14 teams playing yesterday that have won more than half of their games), only 5 teams with a win percentage greater than 0.600, and only 1 team with a win percentage greater than 0.700.
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Weekly caption: That’s not what Arod meant when he told Jimmy Rollins it’s fun getting hit with balls in the face.
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Good table miz. I’ll have a pie chart for everyone later.
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Soccer > Baseball
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trey, does your pie chart track your weekly consumption of pie? If so I’m intrigued.
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Best H&R evAr…well done miz.
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No even better.
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That could be your best spreadsheet ever Miz. I have no idea what it means, even after reading the explanation, but it’s awesome.
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/tease’d
I’m always up for a good pie chart.
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Pie Chart v. Bar graphs…pick it.
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I have modified the first table and added the new table to further explain the results of the first table…see above.
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The last column of the modified table makes perfect sense to me.
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especially the part where Boston sucks twice.
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and why the hey have the Cubs only played 13 games and the Blue Jays have played 16?
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I vote for a pie chart.
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13 games American = 16 games Canadian
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forgot to factor in the exchange rate, john. thanks.
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Pie > Bars
Mmmmm. Pie.
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by the way, I forgot to add this to the post above:
YANKS VS SAWX STARTS TOMORROW!!!! 24-HOUR COVERAGE BEGINS NOW!!!!!!!!
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Would someone keep Miz away from the Excel spreadsheets please!
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I couldn’t figure the table out since I didn’t realize it was a joke. I guess joke was on me. Getting waterboarded too much as a chi
Then again, as far as managers who have won a double header on their 50th birthday – laughing my ass off.
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I think Miz put down Excel spreadsheet knowledge on his resume and is using this blog as a learning experience.
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