I can't reprint someone else's entire blog post.

Career B.A. = .230
Career OBP = .341

How can a guy with such a low BA and no real power be walked that often?

A great Colbert Report is on tonight.

But a new guilty pleasure of mine? The new Gong Show on Comedy Central. Triumph is one of the judges. Anyone seen it?

Specifically, the two draft picks the Mariners got for A-Rod were Rene Rivera (currently one of our catchers at Las Vegas) and Michael Garciaparra (currently, I don't know, attending games at Dodger Stadium?)

The Mariners weren't very good at drafting except when they had the #1 overall pick.

Those three are Ichiro, Placido Polanco, and... Juan Pierre.

If you make the threshold a .150 ISO, you get to add Michael Young, Joe Mauer, Derek Jeter, and Sean Casey to the list.

If you make the threshold .182 (George Brett's career ISO), you add Pudge Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, and Garrett Atkins.

http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/prosports/mlb/dodgers/

15 - I remember hearing something about that. Not entirely sure what it means.

But ultimately, I guess the question is, what is most important for the team to win each game?

I was thinking more like twenty homers, but okay.

A highschool football team is trying to develop a new offense that uses two quarterbacks at the same time and all eleven players are eligible to catch the ball. (Actually, the Japanese did something similar over 50 years ago((American Football is relatively popular in Japan, certainly not as popular as Baseball or Soccer, but more like the Germans love of American Football)), but that's the Japanese so they don't count I guess.)

Uh-oh. I do not like the looks of that.

And they weren't pretty.

http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1067389.html

http://itmightbedangerous.blogspot.com/

I'm guessing that the Pads think the time DePo spends doing the blog benefits them, or they wouldn't have him do it.

With an under-.500 team, how many fannies in the seats (tm Reggie Jackson) can the guy expect?

http://tinyurl.com/6ac383

The Dodgers have the 4th highest home attendance in MLB at 2,206,905 for 49 home dates.

Frank, your greed is showing.

(*Oakland, Minnesota, Florida, and Tampa Bay would be bigger, but they artificially reduce their capacities by not selling certain seats.)

I paid $4.38/gallon for regular last Sunday.

My brother and I used to have a 15 game plan when we were both single. The last time we bought one was in 2005 but parking was still $10 and gas was in the $2 range.

Getting married changed my lifestyle a bit and it is far more responsible than cost for me not going to more games, but I'm not sure that I would be able to afford it even if I was single.

And the Dodgers could certainly use a spark plug. Although they are 11-9 without Pierre, the Dodgers have hit .253 -- slightly below their season average -- during that span, scoring two or fewer runs six times.

What does Pierre being in the lineup have anything to do with the rest of the teams batting average?

He also gets on base an awful lot. Makes his teammates better. Works hard. Provides a spark at the top of the order.

Dylan Hernandez chose Juan Pierre. Tony Jackson chose Don Mattingly. Diamond Leung chose Matt Kemp. Advantage, Leung.

He also threw in a "Bison" reference.

Although Matt Kemp, who has batted first most often in Pierre's absence, has a .393 on-base percentage and a .532 slugging percentage in the leadoff spot -- both far superior to Pierre's .327 and .318 figures -- he has also struck out nearly a third of the time, and only six of his 22 stolen bases have come when he was batting leadoff.

Okay, let's give this paragraph a rewrite.

Although Matt Kemp, who has batted first most often in Pierre's absence, has struck out nearly a third of the time and has only six of his 22 stolen bases while batting leadoff, he also has a .393 on-base percentage and a .532 slugging percentage in the leadoff spot -- both far superior to Pierre's .327 and .318 figures.

The words, they barely changed.

.294 and .290. Even worse.

Not only that, but 27% of Kemp's stolen bases were as a leadoff hitter, while only 22% of his ABs were as a leadoff hitter.

Not only that, but stolen bases are a stupid way of measuring leadoffhitterness anyway, especially when you're slugging .532 as a leadoff hitter.

I can't believe people get paid to write this stuff.

The way the times has it makes my head hurt.
It's... it's... inconceivable.

I dont even know what to say about that one... This is/was our hitting coach?

[Insert joke here]

Clearly. I mean, we've only scored 4.75 runs/game since losing Pierre's speed, compared to 4.09 runs/game before losing Pierre's speed.

http://tinyurl.com/6htz5v

www.firenedcollettinow.com

Even some casual baseball fans know that most of Uncle Ned's deals go about as smoothly as Joe Torre's face

"I hope that I can add a little bit more to the lineup," offered Pierre, who said his knee feels fine two days into his comeback. "I don't get caught up in trying to do too much. I just do what I can do: get on base and score runs and play good defense. Wherever that leads us, it leads us.

Quite the diligent journalist, that Jon Heyman.

74. The times sports writers, well it seems like most sports writers not just those with the times, are incredibly ignorant as far as sports go, think plashke. You'd think they'd at least learn a bit about the sports they cover but that would get in the way of the facts, as they see them so why bother.