Just to beat GD to it........

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Trolling: a hobby for the mentally unstable.

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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 Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

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Every fat lefty power hitter looks like Ruth


There just havent been enough of them.

Don't get me wrong: I appreciate being referenced as inspiration, but I can't help but think this is how Jackie Gleason and Art Carney felt when Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps reprised their roles

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

are you calling Tom Tango's coauthor a troll?

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I wonder how often Ruth actually ate a somewhat sensible breakfast?

By reasonable do you mean less than three glasses of whiskey and two cigars? If so, then, probably never.

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Here's the thing about the way most people "use" SABRmetrics. If RPB and I started a baseball blog and called ourselves Bryan Bravo and Robert Romeo and we published an article that appeared to be scientific with enough charts, graphs, and diagrams that purported to be a study of bat rotation through the strikezone, guys like Len Kasper and dan bernstein would read it and start regurgitating that bullshit and spouting it like fact. And by the way, did you know that Kris Bryant has the most incredible bat rotation through the zone that we've ever seen?

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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 Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Can I see the graph?

"The Book" by Tango is interesting especially his take on batting order optimization which it appears Joe Maddon is using.

BTW Tom's coauthor is none other then Andrew C. Dolphin.... at least now we know GD's first name ...please address him as Andrew from now on.

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Well, as I said in another thread, Maddon is about as cutting edge as a manager can get without taking a whole lot of heat if shit breaks bad. I think Tango would probably have Rizzo leading off. That's just too damn radical right now.

Also, batting order optimization is all theoretical and based on modeling since we don't have real life examples to go on.

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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 Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I bet you can spell his name correctly now, I hope.

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