THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Comment deletion?

Say it ain’t so.

No comments have been deleted.

We do have a spam killer that queues potential spam for me to moderate.  I just went through it right now (46 of them), and they all looked like spam to me.

It’s possible that the “Submit” didn’t take.  It happens every now and then, though fairly rarely.  I’ve posted here a few thousand times, and I’ve lost one post.

I can’t imagine Tango ever deleting a post that was not pure spam or something obscene I suppose.

I finally read this interview and it is very good.  The guy obviously knows his stuff and is familiar with this case specifically.

Some highlights:

While everyone says that a prosecutor can get an indictment of a ham sandwhich, federal prosecutors rarely go for an indictment unless they think they have a strong case, which they usually do.

Bonds’ lawyers’ denials and proclamations that the goverment case is weak is typical grandstanding in a high profile case and means nothing, especially since they don’t even know the evidence against their client yet.

It didn’t realy take 4 years to get the indictment.  It took at most 2 years.  Grand juries typically take a long time to review a case, especially one like this which probably involves a lot of documentary and other non-testimonial evidence.

If he is convicted, he is looking at maybe a year or so, despite the “potential 30 years.” He does not say what he might be able to get in a plea deal.  IMO, if he is only looking at 1 year if convicted at trial, probation in a plea deal, or maybe 3 or 6 months does not seem to be out of the question.

The case will likely take until after the 08 season to be adjudicated one way or another, so he should be able to play for a team one way or another next year.  Plus I will add that sometimes a judge will even allow a person to finish an obligation before reporting to jail if they are convicted and sentenced to prison.

Really sensible interview.

Sensible interview, since Keith interviewed himself!  (It looks like he put it in Q&A form.)

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I have deleted a couple of posts that dealt with personal attacks. 

Any poster here that’s ever posted a single post that’s moved the thread forward, I have a very high tolerance for.

But, there are some posters that only and always post in a way to bring down the level of discussion (snarky or flamers).  Those people get moderated much heavier.  Basically, those are people I don’t want in my house.

And by “some”, I mean very few.  I can count them on one hand, with fingers to spare.

Odd.  Coulda sworn I checked the comment, saw it there, and wandered off.  Not that the content was anything but disposable, but I really didn’t expect it to vanish.

Thanks for the reassurances.