metsmarathon

i'm not sure if this is relevant in any way, seeing as i'm not sure that i understand the question sufficiently... but that's never stopped me before... i just decided to look at the contribution of all the batting order spots (1-9) in terms of OPS, and compared that to the runs scored for each team. what i found was that, across the majors in 2006, 4-hitters are responsible for the most offense, followed by 5-hitters and 3-hitters. 2- and 5- are virtually tied, followed closely by 1- then 7- 8- and especially 9--hitters are responsible for the least offense. what does this all mean? nothing, aside from that i get bored, and subsequently distracted, easily.

i was gonna post her pic, but decided against it. i wonder why one would name their daughter after a toxic element... i don't think the wifey would let me name our daughter "arsenic marathon"

its not official yet, but... this looks rather good for me, and could prevent us from having to wait for that darned roger clemens! "Source: A's agree to 1-year deal with Stewart" http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2758035

="soupcan"]Buncha nerds.

metirish wrote: My apologies metsmarathon ,that's pretty fucking smart. "pretty fucking smart" and "totally lame" are not mutually exclusive. i wish i were clever enough to have posted a big giant letter "I" and then waited around for nobody to figure it out, and then posted "Te" tomorrow, and then maybe by the time i got around to... hey, why are there two "Y" elements in that periodic table? 23 should be a "V"... yttrium, somebody'd figure it out. but no, i'm only half-clever.

="seawolf17"] I like it. It's nerdy. I'm nerdy. It's a fit. Plus, I get to spend a day looking for pictures of antimony and molybdenum. good luck when you get to technetium, har, har, har!

we could just do this... its not totally lame

well, if we'd started 15 days earlier, we could've gone rather blue...

how does one pronounce "Pñna"?

Maine Perez Glavine Hernandez Sosa i think that would put glavine as our home opener starter, presuming a four-man rotation for the opening week, with Sosilliams being the first to get the call for the 5th start.

1) jose lima 2) steve trachsel 3) victor zambrano 4) carl pavano 5) joe blanton i'm tellin' ya, i've got the inside track on this one.

dale murphy

last year, detroit's starting pitchers had the lowest ERA, and kansas city's had the highest, at 4.00 and 5.85, respectively. last year, the minnesota twins' re leviers had the lowest ERA, and kansas city's had the highest, at 2.91 and 5.36, respectively. detroit's relievers pitched to a 3.51 ERA. last year, only four teams had bullpen ERA's higher than that of their starters - cleveland, florida, milwaukee, and san francisco. across the majors, starters had an ERA of 4.69, while releivers had an ERA of 4.20 if you can routinely get better performances out of your relievers, why would you pitch your starters more often? ...also, i think it has a lot to do with coaches and players becoming ever so much more risk-averse, and therefore continually cutting down on potential overuse, regardless of whether or not a specific pitcher can actually handle the use. the reward of finding a true innings eater who can go out and throw 300 innings is no longer, i guess, worth the risk of chewing up and spitting out all the otherwise fine pitchers who cannot. (if i knew where to get league- or team- data for past years that was split out into starters and relievers, i'd be more than happy to do the same for 1969 and such, but i don't, so i won't.)

that, we knew.

black lettering with orange outline? what's with the one blue-tipped shoe?

busting up his ankle walking in to third base. that kind of thing could only happen to cliff floyd. and ken griffey. and probably me. i'll always feel a strange kind of kinship with cliff for all his myriad injuries.

NEW TEAM metirish sharpie DocTee Nymr83 smg58 metsmarathon cleonjones11

you assume he had a date...

the biggest problem with weekly is that it locks in on monday morning. so if you don't get to it over the weekend, you're SOL. in the daily leagues that i play in, i do most of my rostering on monday mornings, so that always would screw up my own personal workings, and i seem very slow to adapt. i vote daily. (with inning cap)

take it in the canseco. get it? 'cause canseco's an ass! ha!

i would tend to think that they make less money by making the deal exclusive to one provider, as compared to all the money they could make by allowing anybody to pay for it irrespective of their cable or satellite system. and it would be better for building and maintaining a strong fan base.

well, i already have directv, and am gloriously unaffected this time around. i do have some advice for any of y'all out there who may be considering the switch to the dish. do yourself a favor and ignore the urge to get the directv receivers with the DVR built in. get a tivo instead.

the point is, partly, that those troubled entities cannot afford to give out such contracts, while baseball can.