"Triplpalooza"

Gotta be "Triplepalooza," or else you violate the "no three consonants in a row" rule.

RMc:

Are you going to tell the sphinx he is breaking "the rules"?

For a while it looked like Crawford was in the midst of a huge breakout season, instead of merely continuing to improve at a similar rat. He's an exciting, special player and I wish he was on my team.

The blurb discusses Crawford being the first player in a real long time to have three straight seasons to have 15 or more triples. Which is another in another of examples of some arbitrary cutoff being used to generate a story.

Maybe it's an "arbitrary cutoff," but in this instance I also think it has an actual story to tell, both about Crawford and his NL counterpart, Reyes (who this year has become the first NLer since Waner in the 30s to have back-to-back seasons of at least 15 triples), as throwbacks to an earlier time in baseball. You go back to the 20s and you find some pretty cool numbers with triples. Paul Waner's triples column on his B-Ref page is just evocative, with the following from 1926 to 1937:

22-18-19-15-18-10-10-16-16-12-9-9

Brilliant. Crawford and Reyes are doing what they are doing without the benefit of the spacious parks that allowed Waner to run around in, and it's great to watch. Not that I see Crawford that often, but, oh that Reyes. How cool would it be to have five, six, eight players regularly hitting double digits in triples every year in each league? Lead the revolution, you two. Baseball would be more entertaining more often.

the "no three consonants in a row" rule

Just yesterday, I was driving across the isthmus of Panama, thinking about Carl Crawford's strengths, when my girlfriend called to tell me that the latchstring on the front door was broken.

#5 is b1tchin'

It's funny, I agree with Sam that Reyes and Crawford are great to watch, but I remember when Lance Johnson had those 6 consecutive years of 12 triples or more, peaking at 21, and he was never that exciting to watch.

Just yesterday, I was driving across the isthmus of Panama, thinking about Carl Crawford's strengths, when my girlfriend called to tell me that the latchstring on the front door was broken.

She must have been practicing witchcraft nearby the newwstand.

Gotta be "Triplepalooza," or else you violate the "no three consonants in a row" rule.

Hitchhikers everywhere agree, and they'll pull a jackknife on you if you don't.

Gotta be "Triplepalooza," or else you violate the "no three consonants in a row" rule.

Get your head out of your grammar book and use a spreadsheet sometime.

Get your head out of your grammar book and use a spreadsheet sometime.

=right("Triplpalooza", 5) & "e" & left("Triplpalooza", 7)

Get your head out of your grammar book and use a spreadsheet sometime.

Hoo boy.

=left("Triplpalooza", 5) & "e" & right("Triplpalooza", 7)

VB? or vbscript? use a real language.

that's valid excel syntax (without the spaces, at least). i suppose the functions are probably vb.

Interestingly enough, =right("Triplpalooza", 5) & "e" & left("Triplpalooza", 7) evaluates to loozaeTriplpa in my copy of Excel. Clearly, Excel is misspelling the Lahman coding for Esteban Loaiza's brother Trip.

I'm going to be very interested to see Crawford's Sim Score list after this year.

actually, the spaces seem to be kosher. my mistake.

Stephen Drew has 7 3B in <250 PA. If this year is any indication, pretty much whatever he hits down the RF line or to the RC wall in Chase is going to be a triple.

VB? or vbscript? use a real language.

What else you gonna use in a spreadsheet?

Interestingly enough, =right("Triplpalooza", 5) & "e" & left("Triplpalooza", 7) evaluates to loozaeTriplpa in my copy of Excel. Clearly, Excel is misspelling the Lahman coding for Esteban Loaiza's brother Trip.

Piling on, just because I still don't know my left from my right. Wah! 8-(

What else you gonna use in a spreadsheet?

touche.

Lay off RMC. Diphthongs don't count. Neither do compound words.

This thread makes me miss Cristian Guzman, '00-'01.

I was shocked to learn that Steve Finley had 12 triples this year. Fastest toast in the West.

Lay off RMC. Diphthongs don't count. Neither do compound words.

Nor do implore, improve, entrench, spring, sprocket, strike, strap, stray, spray, splay, or any other word that actually does have three consecutive consonants. They don't count. Other than that, it's a good rule.

When he first came up, I posted here that Crawford would be a worthy successor to Sam Crawford when it came to triples.

Even a blind squirrel....

Diphthongs don't count.

Of course not. They're compound vowels.