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Ryan Madson to the Dahhhdgers.
Gio Gonzalez does the Charlie Brown walk across the field in a Nationals uniform after being traded to the Brewers. WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Our long Nationals nightmare is finally OVER!! Now Brewers fans can watch him trudge up the mound with a dejected look as he surrenders yet another home run in the 1st inning.
Jose Martinez ups his average to .312 with a single, but nothing else going on in the bottom of the first.
Wong's DL appearance probably killed whatever momemtum he had for winning the gold glove though.
And I might have a date with Jennifer Lawrence when I visit her old hometown this weekend.
after that first inning i was thinking the fairy tale run is over ...
then i remembered we are playing the reds. we can score runs on these guys.
what a b.s. call ... adams touched the bag.
That's ZimmermaNN to you. With 2 Ns, just like the number of runs he surrendered in giving up the no-hitter.
If he can get healthy, man.
He has not performed well based upon one metric,(batting average with men on base.... his slash with men on base is .239/.413/.451/.863---you have to be a special type of stupid to think he hasn't performed well with men on so far this year) the argument that the person was making was about why Carpenter has fewer rbi than Harper, and the argument implied Carpenter was inferior to Harper in clutch situations, the reality is that that wasn't remotely the case. It was because Carpenter leads off, pure and simple, there is literally no reason to take Harper over Carpenter in any situation when it comes to offense this year.
In February, the Cardinals 2018 rotation was going to be Carlos Martinez, Alex Reyes, Adam Wainwright, Miles Mikolas, and Michael Wacha....
The current rotation is Miles Mikolas, Jack Flaherty, John Gant, Austin Gomber, and whoever... (with a couple of names that it could be.... Luke Weaver, Daniel Poncedeleon, along with the potential returns of Wacha, Wainwright, Weaver, Hudson or even Carlos Martinez who has been relegated to the pen)
Assuming that isn't an Onion quote, that is an awesome quote.
Nothing wrong with it, depending on how strongly one feels about ending sentences with prepositions. Doesn't bother me at all, but some would recast that passage as something along the lines of "and to which I have a sentimental attachment."
it feels wrong the way it is written but I don't know why)
You ended it with a preposition.
That isn't a real rule though, it's just a stick up the ass rule.
Because it's too good to be a ballplayer quote?
I guess some of my overbearing English language rules are still stuck in my head even if I fully think that particular rule was an idiot rule that doesn't follow any logic of language... I was more concerned with the proper usage of to vs too there, but at the same time it was obvious to me that too wasn't correct, but it still felt wrong, and it was most likely the idiotic preposition rule that I was thinking of.
Right, which is why it feels and sounds wrong.
A stick up the ass would itself feel & sound wrong, I'd wager.
See also: infinitives, split. Those also don't really bother me, though I didn't come around to that position till somewhat later.
No, this is plainly incorrect, and antagonistic to add the perjorative. The metric was his full batting line, hs OPS, has been much worse with men on than with no men on. Less avg, much less power. It's not that he has perfomred poorly, but he has not performed NEARLY as well as with the bases empty. Which is partly why (batting leadoff another huge reaosn) he has fewer RBI than his raw stats would suggest. If Babe Ruth slugged only .550 with men on, we wouldn't say he hadn't performed well. But it would be true his value was less than if he had slugged his .700 with men on.
The kind of nonsense up with which you will not put?
The point was that the guy making the argument was looking at one stat, and one stat only which was comparing batting average between the two of Harper and Carpenter in one slice of data... while ignoring the rest of the data that would relate to this one guys argument.
Again, let's go there... we'll go to 2018 split stats, and they have a category called clutch stats and leverage...both of these apply to a guy's ability to perform in the clutch.
so Harper vs Carpenter....with men on base..
Harper .314/.471/.543/1.014 240 pa of his 565
Carpenter .239/.413/.451/.863 189 pa of his 556 so one small advantage for Harper... but at the same time it's clear Harper has had much more pa in this situation relative to his pa overall... I mean 42.4% of Harpers plate appearances feature men on base... 34% of Carpenter's plate appearances feature a man on base...
This was always going to be an idiotic comparison, and that alone points it out. 13 more rbi for Harper over Carpenter is pretty much summed up right there.... Harper has 51 more plate appearances with runners on base than Carpenter... assuming the same "drive in percentage" ...
So you are saying mr clutch failed?
I'm an optimist so you can't go by me, in the outfield though he has been surprisingly not horrible, but clearly below average. At first base people want to argue he has been horrible, but I thought that his defense improved as the season went along, indicating a willingness to improve.
He's destined to be a first baseman, even with the semi-strong arm that he has. He just needs more time to develop there.. This spring was the first time he ever really played the position in his career... And then being asked to play at the major league level. And my primary complaint with him as a first baseman was the fact that he semi-constantly pulled his foot off the bag for the stretch, that with replay, it's going to bite him on the ass. You are 6'6" you don't need to pull yourself off the bag.
Ultimately if given a chance, he'll be an average first baseman defensively and a plus hitter relative to his position, a recipe for a pretty good guy over the next five years.
When writing I have found instances where it's easier to construct a compound sentence by not waiting to the end of the sentence for the preposition. This also avoids the problem of someone getting wrapped around the axle trying to finish a sentence with two prepositions, like "...to to." You know you've heard this.
He did a much better job of explaining it for the masses, but it ultimately boiled down to "if the Cardinals play well, they are in the playoffs, no matter what the other teams do."(and then he backed it up with the comment, that if he was in the bullpen, he would be looking at the scoreboard anyway)
He's terrible. He's been a professional ballplayer for 12 years, so he's not likely to get better.
I'm fairly certain I've written this. To me, writing is about conveying a message, not focused on rules that were written 200 years ago. As I said, my writing style is purely conversational, some people appreciate it, others don't notice, very few are bothered by it.
Depending on what Greenback's definition of terrible is, that is the argument many Cardinal fans are making.
I've argued many times, that people over rate the level of average. Still by rField he's -9 defensively this year, which is pretty bad.
He looks like it. He runs like Frankenstein and by the standards of major league fielders his glove is a skillet. He doesn't flop around like Chris Duncan or Adam Dunn did, but Martinez has little chance of ever being close to average.
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/28/grammar-myths-prepositions/
that said, maybe you could have typed 'sentimental attachment for' ... ymmv
good lord this game has gotten revolting ...
I don't see anything wrong he did other than allowed Cecil to have a uniform, and that is beyond his level of control.
A 7-2 lead is exactly when you bring in a guy like Cecil.
Cecil got one batter too many, but, yeah, the bigger problem is that Cecil is on the active roster. But that essentially was the same problem Matheny had.
and the conversation has to be "it's Joey Votto you walked, don't take that result into the next batter, he's a different level of batter than the guys you are going to face going forward."
Brewers are going for it...Gonzalez and Granderson are both new Brewers.
last 8 starts: 7-0, 1.68 ERA
previous 13 starts: 0-5, 4.52 ERA
#lightbulb
The curse of Trevor Rosenthal.
The purpose of April/May/June is to establish who sucks who doesn't etc.... after that point in time, there is no reason for niceties.... The Cardinals front office recognized this after they fired Matheny and ejected the guys who were slowing the pen from becoming great, with one notable exception. The big ass free agent acquisition they got last season.
This was tweeted before that happened I believe:
clarkspencer @clarkspencer 10:12 PM - 31 Aug 2018
To recap: Marlins relievers have given up 20 runs over past 6 2/3 innings.
OUCH!
martinez should be batting second.
You will never hear me arguing against that.... flip the two and it makes sense from a stat analysis point of view.
wow, dejong with a little flair that drops!!! back to a 5-run lead and we've burned cecil, so our win probability must be pretty high right now.
And getting higher than a ptsd veteran in Colorado.
reds trotting out a position player after munoz smacks a two run single.
CARDS WIN111!1!1!
22 WINS IN AUGUST BAY-BEE!!!
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.
Zack Wheeler's final line:
7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K
Wheeler's last three starts:
21 IP, 15 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 22 K
Whack Zeeler eating innings.
Anyway, time for the 7th inning!
It's a good thing I was listening to Jon Miller on the radio overlay because NBC Sports spends about 99.9999% of the time showing his family in the stands rooting for him; the game on the field is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy down their priority list.
TRADE: The Pirates acquired minor league infielder Jesus Manuel Valdez from the Dodgers in exchange for INF David Freese.
MLB Network also going nuts about it.
at the risk of piling on, Keith Hernandez mentioned on the Mets broadcast that as he entered the stadium tonight, Garcia's parents went up to him and pointed out that they are Mets fans. he was delighted to pose for a selfie with them before they got to watch their kid make his debut.
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