THE BOOK cover
The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!
An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
Read Excerpts & Customer Reviews
If you are a media member and would like a review copy of The Book, please contact Kevin Cuddihy of Potomac Books.

Buy The Book from Amazon

MOST RECENT ARTICLES
MAIL : You ask | We say

Advanced


THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Filter posts by...

 

Thursday, January 03, 2008

The SlumpBusters

By Tangotiger, 10:35 AM

Trying to bust a slump?  No worries, it’s only women.  Voting in drug abusers and addicts into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?  We need someone in there.  Wife-beaters already in, or eventually in, various hall of fames?  They all deserve redemption. A presidential candidate admitting to past cocaine use?  Presidents abusing alcohol?  What’s a little vino among friends.  But, gosh-darn it, if I am an old white guy, and I have my Harlequin fascination with baseball, then I expect my baseball players to be virgin with cocaine, steroids, and hGH.  Let them abuse all other vices, including amphetamines, alcohol and women which you probably term as “harmless vices.. but drugs is a dirty business”. 

Live in the real world, baseball writers.  You want to make baseball as romantic as you want.  Fine.  But, don’t try to impose your fantasy into the world’s reality.  If an athlete is going to abuse something, I’d rather he do it to himself.  It’s not my fault you give the number 61 such romantic properties.

(6) Comments • 2008/01/07 • SabermetricsSteroids
Page 1 of 1 pages

Latest...

COMMENTS

Dec 05 11:47
Sabermetric Moves of the 2009 Pre-Season

Dec 05 11:31
NYC’s 3 1/2 year mandatory jail time sentence for carrying a loaded weapon

Dec 05 10:28
Raines for the Hall

Dec 05 05:33
Avery being Avery

Dec 04 23:42
Poll: Would you vote Raines for the Hall?

Dec 04 23:07
How to calculate the area of a baseball field

Dec 04 22:48
Complete Run Expectancy, Retrosheet Years

Dec 04 15:55
Mailbags on Parade

Dec 04 14:01
What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?

Dec 04 11:49
Estimating BABIP

THREADS

January 03, 2008
The SlumpBusters