#15 Gordon Beckham...Atlanta, GA. The White Sox 2nd Baseman has paid an impromptu in-studio visit to the "B & B Show"...

If a State Police report determines Maddux Boy was found to be on a motorcycle with Bernstein would Bernstein be fired.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

Dan just tried to kill Bacon's Bulls buzz. You know the game doesn't mean anything, right?

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Like the brutal honesty with questions and answers.
Bacon is cool

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Just a lucky guess. An overbearing know-it-all with an inflated vocabulary wrote an article shifting blame from Ozzie to opportunistically offended Cubans; I figured it was only a matter of time before confirmation bias overtook our own overbearing inflated-vocab know-it-all.

Then again, maybe Dan's smart enough to avoid Grantland and he received the link from someone who saw it here. Sort of a Weird Sisters thing. My brain hurts.

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I enjoyed the weird pause when Bernstein informed Karros that he would see lots of red jerseys this weekend because Cards fans would be snapping up tickets.......Dan check the Home / Away schedule you dope.

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Charlie Pierce has written some outstanding columns for Grantland. I'd say he got this one half-wrong: yes, we should normalize relations with Cuba and mine their baseball better; no, people whose families suffered or are suffering under Castro can get upset that the local ball team trying to curry their favor hired a Venezuelan who "loves Castro" for his failure to be assassinated.


Well technically, he won't not see red jerseys from Cards fans snapping up tickets!

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The regular season doesn't matter.

Was danny really suggesting that Theo's superior knowledge of where balls will likely be hit has improved the Cubs chances of turning double plays?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yes.

Yes he was.

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How does that fit into his popular narrative that balls in play are random more or less resulting in a BABIP of right around .300 for all pitchers? Has Theo discovered the magic formula for reducing BABIP via positioning? The Cubs Way! It's working already.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The knob slobbing just.wont.stop. Danny so desperately wants to be seen as "Above" meatball-ism, where he only hangs with "smart" people and he only talks in numbers and stats and acronyms. The fact that he really doesn't understand them is besides the point.

It has to be a bit right?

Having your GM magically make you better at turning double plays?

BIG.BOY.BASEBALL

Pierce is among my favorite non-fiction writers, which is partially why this particular column was so disappointing. I mean, after all the stuff he's written at the Esquire blog, his reaction to this situation is basically to tell Cuban expats to get a life?

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JORR isnt what Bernstein's suggestion of defensive positioning just an extension of good ol fashion defensive positioning?

Just throwing some data in there instead of conventional wisdom of the manager?


Im not saying it makes a huge difference but I think its a good approach

I agree. Positioning fielders is as old as the game itself. But it's fashionable to believe that pitchers can only "control" strikeouts, walks, and homeruns. bernstein has expressed such thought. I believe he may have even ridiculed the concept of a pitcher "inducing" a double play. So I'm just wondering what is the basis for the positioning?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

BernSTINE read it somewhere in a FanGraph blog.

BernSTINE with stats is like a mule with a spinning wheel....nobody knows how he got them and danged if he knows how to use them!