Monday, May 06, 2013
Parkhouse: Do advanced stats have a place in high school baseball?
(heraldargus.com)
Well…it is K8 and not K/9.
Read More...I began thinking of this often this week as I was watching local high school teams play the game. Specifically, Michigan City and La Porte.
I became frustrated watching these players, particularly at the plate. In my opinion, too much first-pitch swinging is going on, which flies directly in the face of stats like on-base percentage, who many people - myself included - feel is a greater indicator of batting success than the more popular batting average.
If the ...
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1. Justin T is expanding the aperture of awareness posted on May 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Well, it's too late for that NOW, anyway.
1. I predict lawsuit against the school for infringing on the urinator's First Amendment rights in 5... 4... 3... 2...
[1a. This could easily lead to a 500 post thread in 5... 4... 3... 2...]
2. Why should the school have to suffer through some stupid jock's presentation on patriotism?
How do you "tall" rights away? It seems to me these "parents" need to get them some schoolin'.
"... and allow our kids to run totally wild and do what they want, as though they already aren’t wild now."
Parents, your premise is that they already are running wild. So by inference you are claiming this "U.N. effort" will have no effect?
"Parents need to get a backbone ..."
One backbone or many backbones for all these parents out there yonder?
"... and take their kids in hand and do something."
You're planning on hitting my kid with a backbone?
"Otherwise, it’s going to get far worse than it already is."
Spinal tap?
Southwest Airlines could do a "Want To Get Away" spot from this.
Not that I'd want to do all that much in the way of punishment, but that has got to be the most absurd comment I can imagine.
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Southwest Airlines could do a "Want To Get Away" spot from this.
But they'll never top the woman who went snooping in her friend's medicine cabinet.
Not that I'd want to do all that much in the way of punishment, but that has got to be the most absurd comment I can imagine.
Not so. He wanted the world to know that America is #1.
Not to mention the embarrassment of whipping it out and nobody noticing.
She'd wait for God Bless America.
Why? It reflects the reality that a lot of people don't understand or appreciate what a National Anthem is, or what our National Anthem represents. To a lot of people, it is just the song they play before the game starts. And as we have pointed out many times on these threads before, it is hardly the most stirring anthem out there.
I will be you that this kid was not thinking about insulting America, the National Anthem, Fort McHenry or anything else unpatriotic when he chose to act out. He was just thinking of pulling a very stupid stunt just before the game begins. If they regularly opened games with a stirring rendition of "Talking Baseball (Willie, Mickey & the Duke), he would have done the same thing.
Now, it may have been objectively insulting to the good 'old U S of A to start to urinate in time with the national anthem, but the fact that HE didn't consider it to be unpatriotic does not strike me as absurd.
we don’t have to behead him, we don’t have to crucify him.
So simple firing squad? Or are we going to wimp out with a flogging?
There is a grassroots effort going to stop the United Nations from passing a treaty concerning the “rights of the child.“ Basically this mess, if ratified, will tall ALL rights of parents away and allow our kids to run totally wild and do what they want
Yes, otherwise the jackbooted thugs of the UN Police will kick down your door and haul you off to the Hague.
It was in time, too? Sweet.
Not that I'd want to do all that much in the way of punishment, but that has got to be the most absurd comment I can imagine.
Why? It reflects the reality that a lot of people don't understand or appreciate what a National Anthem is, or what our National Anthem represents.
The part of me that knows that to be true is the part of me that doesn't want to come down to hard on the kid. OTOH it might not be such a bad idea to have a talk with his parents.
Yes, otherwise the jackbooted thugs of the UN Police will kick down your door and haul you off to the Hague.
And you might wind up being jackbooted by The She-Wolf of the SS.
<a >UN, you have a problem with that? You know what you should do? You should sanction me. Sanction me with your army. Oh!! Wait a minute! You don't have an army! I guess that means you need to shut the #### up! That's what I'd do if I didn't have no army. I would shhhhhut, the #### up. Shut. The. ####. Up!! That's right!</a>
T'was so gallantly streaming.
Whenever a fellow named Rex,
Flashed his very small organ of sex,
He always got off,
For the judges would scoff,
De minimis non curat lex.
Depending on what song is playing, you can't even pee in private in Yankee Stadium.
LOL
Plenty of mistakes are pre-meditated and intentional. Nonetheless I doubt there was a whole lot of deliberation involved.
I'd be more scared of the UN if they proved they could handle machete-wielding paramilitaries on horseback in Sudan.
Similarly, why does it matter that it was allegedly done on a dare? The "he dared me to rob the bank" defense doesn't exist (last I checked).
I'd tolerate it, and probably laugh.
Guess it is semantics, but in my mind a mistake is something occurring that was not intended; you drop a dish when it slips out of your hand; when paying bills, you put the wrong check in the wrong envelope and accidently sent the gas check to the electric company. Everything that happened here (except post act consequences, I guess) happened just as the perpetrator intended. It was a stupid decision; it was bad judgment, but it was not a mistake.
No comment.
My thought exactly.
Edited to add:
mis·take? ?/m??ste?k/ Show Spelled [mi-steyk] Show IPA noun, verb,-took, -tak·en, -tak·ing.
–noun
1.an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
No mention of lack of intent or meaning.
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