metsmarathon

Edgy DC wrote: security intensive boy you ain't kidding. they've got ushers in there willing to take foul balls for the players wives. i wonder if they also get the cool earpieces and dark sunglasses like the real secret service...

i suppose it could be statistically measured, comparing a team's rate of winning after a win, and losing after a loss, to a team's overall win-loss rate, across baseball-time. if momentum is real, a team will be signifcantly more likely to win a game after having just won a game than would be expected by their 0.566 winning percentage, and likewise with the losing. but i'm only geekly enough to propose such a thing. i can't begin to start doing it!

he's a baseball player. he can't afford to actually pay for tickets for his wife and kid when he can get them free!

some games you play well. that's not a guarantee that you won't play poorly the next. its nice to think that momentum is a real commodity in sports, but i've come to be very much not a believer in that. if it was true, especially in sports like baseball, why don't teams with three-game winning streaks almost always turn them into four game winning streaks? fours into fives, fives into sixes, etc? if you're playing well, playing well is likely to continue. what i'm arguing against is the carry-over effect. or perhaps more to the point, the extent to which the carry-over is overemphasized as if it were a causal fact, and one to be heavily weighted in predicting who will win what game. case in point, the (NFL) giants game. you'd think that the week 2 win against hte eagles would've built up some momentum. they clicked in teh 4th quarter, tehy got lucky, they played exceptionally well, they had a teriffic win, a momentum building come-from-behind improbable win against a division rival. is there no better recipe for momentum? and where did that get them against seattle? they were flat. they were awful. they played like crap. they played like statues. they played like hte crap on statues that don't have the little pointy spikes that scare off pigeons and keep them less crap-covered. they were awful. what happened to momentum? yes, there's confidence. yes there's chemistry. yes tehre's good team play. what there isn't is momentum. to put it in a more metly context... i'm no more afraid of us playing the houston astros than the st louis cardinals as a result of any supposed momentum that might be ascribed to them as a result of their making it into the playoffs on the backs of a rousing september push and simultaneous st louis collapse than i would be from the inherent talent and personnel that the team brings to the game. the ability of a manager to rest or not use a certain player aside, wether a team wins or loses its previous game has terribly little to do with wether a team wins or loses its next game. when a team wins the game immediately following a great win, its attributed to momentum, and when they lose, its blamed on everything but. when a team loses a game immediately following a heartwrenching loss, its attributed to momentum, and when they win, its credited to everything but.

"train derails" and "no injuries" are phrases rarely appearing in the same sentence.

there's no such damned thing as momentum, and it sickens me every time i hear it spoken in sports media. especially since half the time, you hear "you'd think the momentum from last time's wonderful performance would've carried 'em through, but it didn't." or "you'd think last time's crushing failure would've carried over, but it didn't" half the time, momentum works. half the time momentum fails to have an effect. (or so it seems) doesn't that flatly impugn the validity of the entire notion of momentum?

KC wrote: Is today really your birthday? indeed it is the first of many 29th birthdays. i'll put off turning 30 as long as my boyish good looks allow me! and i'm near tears here that nobody noticed. actually i'm not. i'd be surprised, and a little scared, if y'all had found it out somehow without me having ever, to my knowledge, told ya. and i've gotta admit. i'm a little worried about hte whole game 5 thing. i don't have the greatest track record in terms of mets wins while at attendance, as yesterday proved.

damn. too slow. no tixx available, as far as i can tell. well, i could go by my lonesome, but i'd feel bad leaving the wifey at home. OE: i stand corrected. patience and a whole lot of clicking paid off! Game 5, Upper Deck Section 27, row P Happy Birthday to me! ...tho the CPF ticker fails to acknowledge such a thing what are the projected game 5 dates again?

in our predictions game, i had him pegged at 0.355 its one of only a few stats i think i have a chance at getting right in that thing, btw...

walter johnson 110 career shutouts. 2nd place was pete alexander with 90. roger clemens is 26th with 46 the big uint is 57th with 37 maddux is 71st with 35 and the next closest active player is tom glavine with 24.

how bad was that foul ball call, anyways? was the ball really foul, or did the ump just foul it up by not calling it fair all the way? i was getting concessions at the time...

son of a bitch. first game i choose to go to in about a year, and guess who's pitching. steve trachsel. oy. anybody else going on sunday? and to clarify, i'm not going on monday, and therefore will miss out on the opportunity to obtain a free fandini. if somebody is willing to send me one, and really really wants that picture...

i'm still trying to figure out how you would talk out of hte side of your neck. i think its been glossed over in this whole discussion. i mean, sure, talking out of the front of your neck - that i'll buy. there's that whole anti-smoking commercial thing that shows just what that's all about, along with a sad sad tale of a man no longer able to swin. but the side of your neck? that's just dangerous. there's big blood vessels in the way, and a fair amount of musculature and other connective tissues. its just not even a good idea to try it. i should reconsider my approach for making friends on new forums (not that i would ever have need to find new or different online friends. y'all are the best! i've gotta just start off with ] "NEW AND DEVELOPMENTAL MILITARY HARDWARE FOR SALE!" wargame used Ammo cans! wargame used Fuze wrenches! wargame used Artillery Shells!* wargame used bullets!* wargame used Portable Inductive Artillery Fuze Setters! Det Cord & Primer NIB! Sensor Fuzed Munitions NIB! Huge selection of new and used UAVs! Huge selection of training simulators** Actual Training Manuals (TMs) and Field Manuals (FMs)! Learn the way the pros learn! >>>check back soon as we add precision guided mortars and artillery to our wide inventory!!!!<<< *not responsible for UXO **condition may vary. all training simulators are sold as is.

mike lupica wrote: We find out as much about Giambi the next couple of months as we do about Alex Rodriguez. Giambi couldn't beat the Yankees when he played for the A's. When he came here, he sat out the biggest game of his Yankee career, Game 5 of the 2003 World Series against the Marlins, Series at 2-all, because of a bad knee. Only Giambi knows how bad his knee was that night. Here's what Yankee fans know: Paul O'Neill would have crawled out to play a game like that, and nearly did one time, another Game 5, against the Braves in 1996. this is probably one of the dumber paragraphs i've read in a while...

wow, i'll bet that John Pachot jersey is a hot hot hot seller!

heh... i like the black. maybe its because i think that i personally look ridiculous in reams of bright blue. its selfish, but true.

i never really votd in the beer polls because i could never come up with a good enough methodology, and "by gut" didnt really cut it. if they're around next year, i'll play in both polls.

namely tom glavine. endy's gotta be out there thinking "what the hell am i doing out here with all these scrubs?!"

Trachsel 5 Valentin 4 Beltran 1

i guess i'm not paying enough attention... what did floyd do that was sipworthy of schaeffer last night? not that i'm really questioning it... i'm just trying to figure it out. the box score tells me that beltran had the better night, but cliff gets half a bottle of schaeffer almost across the board, while carlos gets nary a drop. unless he gets the beer for catching the last out...?

OHernandez 6 Delgado 2 Loduca 1 Beltran 1

Bell 3 Reyes 3 Difelice 1 Oliver 1 Feliciano 1

on sny there was an ad for ticket sales for the game in question. mr met was gaily waving what looked like a towel with blue and orange something all over it. couldnt really tell. youd think if it were cool, thered be pictures all over the place.

i think its a mets-themed homer hanky. i fear it could be something even lamer.

Sept 24th, last home game of the regular season before they give out "fandinis" and ruin the whole thing. i'm hoping to pass off the wife as a 14-y/o so i can get me a banco popular helmet bank, but i don't htink it'll work. section 33, mezzanine boxes