Out of the Past

Opinion: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge Whether you guys agree with the methods around determining WAR and other statistics similar to it, the bottom line is that it IS based on facts and knowledge. My opinion is that Dodger Stadium is a great place to watch a baseball game. A fact is that Dodger Stadium is in the Elysian Park area of Los Angeles. My opinion is that the orange Marlins jerseys are horrible. A fact is that Adeiny Hechavarria is horrible. See what I did there, guys? See how I brought Adeiny into it? It's NOT a fact that WAR measures "wins above replacement" accurately.

I think you are patting them on the back too much. They did make some good decisions, but there are some really dumb ones that most other teams probably wouldn't make. The way that they handled the Ryan Webb arbitration is downright infuriating. He would be a great asset for the pen right now and they basically spent half of his would-be salary on Marmol "because they thought they could fix him." They tried to do things on the cheap and it was predictably a bad decision. The $3.5 million they are spending on Furcal shouldn't be downplayed, either. That was a waste of money even if he wasn't having injury problems. It just shows how dumb they are for not wanting to spend a little bit of money on a solid reliever but have no problem wasting it on Furcal and Marmol. Not every decision will work but the team looks like a .500 team with the lowest payroll in MLB so they must be doing something right.

The offense is a lot betrer than last year. Not MLB worst anymore. Probably around bottom 10 which is a big improvement.

There's 30 teams.. 25 players per team.. 162 games per season.. so there's 121,500 chances for players to be late per season and you hear of maybe 10 tardiness cases per year and people freak out when it happens. In my company we have 90 people in Miami and easily 20 are "late" everyday and people don't freak out. And there's nothing wrong with bat flipping.

I would have a four team playoff. To help select the playoff teams, at the end of the season (after Conference Championships) I would have a Sagarin type system ranking all FBS teams from 1 to 116. Then each team would be given points for each of their wins with the number of points depending on the quality of the opponent. For example, if you beat the No. 1 team you get 116 points but if you beat the No. 116 team you get 1 point. If you beat a non-FBS team you don’t get any points. The four teams that accumulated the most points would make it to the playoff.

Saban's post game press conference blaming the players was pretty classy. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QaAeMW5bOE I don't see what it is he said that was so wrong.

Ortiz is just cheating or something. He's at .733 batting average for the series I think. Just unbelievable. He may set a few records. Normalize his BABIP and his numbers will nosedive... luck luck luck.

The unfortunate thing is that I really doubt this ever gets repealed. Fortunately, voters might be waking up, though. From the article I posted: Pam Kehaly, president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, said she received a recent letter from a young woman complaining about a 50% rate hike related to the healthcare law. "She said, 'I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,'" Kehaly said. Remember that Obamacare was pretty damn unpopular in the first place. The backlash was dampened because Obama managed to convince a lot of idiots that the law would make costs go down and that if they "liked their plan, they could keep their plan." It could be seen from a mile away that both of those Obama "promises" were falsehoods. I hate pieces of s*** like that and I'm so happy she got screwed.

Those people who are getting the heavily subsidized care benefit in the short term, but everyone loses in the end when health care costs continue to go through the roof and the quality of care goes down. I think wealthy people with low taxable income will come out quite well getting subsidized health care even if quality eventually goes down. Free stuff is really good especially when you don't need it to be free.

Half a season was enough evidence really, that team was going nowhere. It was pretty clear before opening day that they didn't build a playoff contender. Hindsight is 20/20... there were plenty of "experts" picking the Marlins to make the post-season... I think the consensus around here was that it was a mid 80's win team.

Boston is tops in WAR. St Louis is 19th.

Ten years of no playoffs. Cardinals/sox 7th World Series together in ten years. Getting tired of this. Loria spend money. We tried that. Marlins tried it for half a season and gave-up. That's not really trying.

What's been bad about his strike zone? He called "strikes" several Boston pitches that were balls. He called "balls" several Detroit pitches that were strikes. I don't like home plate umpires having such a huge impact on who wins and losses because of their incompetence (or something else). I know some people don't care about that but I do.

After tonight's performance home plate umpires should no longer call balls and strikes.

WHIP is not even a difficult stat to understand. You'd think an old guy would love that statistic. WHIP is a retarded way of measuring base runners allowed. OBP allowed is better way.