You and CGS both disappear for weeks, months, and then just carpet-bomb the whole board with THOUGHTS. At least you generally stick around to reply to the replies, though.

My dad's almost 90. He rambles on incoherently, but I don't complain. Gotta respect your elders.

Has Bernstein watched enough of OAF DUNN yet? Does our STATHEAD Danny still think STRIKEOUTS are not necessarily bad?????

My dad's almost 90. He rambles on incoherently, but I don't complain. Gotta respect your elders.

I am sick and tired of watching all these MLB hitters STRIKE THE FUCK OUT.

The game is a FUCKING BORE!!!!!

Thank God Bernstein is fascinated by STATS.
He obviously watches little or no Baseball.

Bernstein is the goof who called Batting Average OLD SCHOOL. An OVERRATED Statistic.

Danny's precious outs

Earl Weaver was the first person to call your 27 outs "precious." It suited his teams well. Of course, his teams' hitting were built for on-base percentage and home runs whereas the Cardinals are built for punch-and-judy stuff. On the pitching side, the Cardinals--at least under Dave Duncan--were built to induce grounders rather than strikeouts. You could argue both approaches are more volatile, as they require more moving parts and run the risk of more things going wrong.

In the Cards/Philly game tonight, tie game with a runner on second and no outs. The Cards bunt the runner to third. Thus, giving up one of Danny's precious outs - no doubt he would be yelling about this decision. After a walk, Allen Craig hits a sharp ground ball to short which gets past Rollins and scores the run.

So the bunt moves the guy to 3rd which brings the infield in two steps which is JUST enough to sneak the hit by the SS. That's too complicated for the metrics to factor in, but it's real.

Of course the counter argument is that sacrificing reduces total run probability for the inning.

Baseball is a complex game with many nuances. It isn't as black and white as Danny wants the stats to make it. Terry (I think) understands this but just doesn't seem to care to enough to make an argument anymore.