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Sons of Steve Garvey: Psycho Pspeaks Pstupidly

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Collins: Baseball, you mentioned it before, it’s a numbers game. It’s a game of percentages. And if you put yourself in the best possible situation through percentages, theoretically you have a better chance of winning games.

Ozzie Guillen is with you. You guys are teammates to the core. He is a feel-guy, a gut-guy, and I don’t think he looks at too many of the things that the seamheads toss his way.

Lyons: What?

Collins: We call ourselves “seamheads.”

Lyons: “Seamheads”?

Collins: Yeah.

Lyons: I thought you said “sea-meds.”

I heard this part during a MLB Har-oldtimer Network break-in last night and I cut myself deeper than I meant to.

Repoz Posted: June 25, 2009 at 05:31 PM | 11 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Sox Machine Posted: June 25, 2009 at 05:58 PM (#3232756)

Watched the same feed yesterday. Two more things:

1. Lyons said he took stats twice in college, and got a D both times.

2. When Bobby Jenks came into the ballgame, Lyons cited Jenks' excellent strikeout-to-walk ratio as an indication of his effectiveness this year.

2. Vida Blew Over the Legal Limit Posted: June 25, 2009 at 06:06 PM (#3232776)

/Tosses stick of dynamite in fish barrel.

3. puck Posted: June 25, 2009 at 06:30 PM (#3232855)

2. When Bobby Jenks came into the ballgame, Lyons cited Jenks' excellent strikeout-to-walk ratio as an indication of his effectiveness this year.

Why is this wrong? I mean, it's not the be-all end-all stat, but it does tend to indicate effectiveness.

4. Tripon Posted: June 25, 2009 at 06:31 PM (#3232857)

I think he's pointing out that Lyons himself uses stats to justify his opinions.

5. Tripon Posted: June 25, 2009 at 06:34 PM (#3232865)

Also, it should both be pointed out that both Collins and Lyons are working on one year contracts. We might not see this duo next year.

6. Sox Machine Posted: June 25, 2009 at 06:35 PM (#3232870)

Bingo. Strikeout-to-walk ratio doesn't indicate how much salt crust is on Jenks' cap, or whatever it was Lyons said he wanted to know about a guy above all else.

7. puck Posted: June 25, 2009 at 07:04 PM (#3232951)

I see. There must be a salt crust, dirt on the uniform stat somewhere.

8. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: June 25, 2009 at 07:07 PM (#3232961)

There must be a salt crust, dirt on the uniform stat somewhere.

there is--it's called the Eckstein quotient

9. Obama Bomaye Posted: June 25, 2009 at 07:09 PM (#3232973)

Wetteland led the league in salt crust 4 times, but never did that well in dirt on the uniform.

10. puck Posted: June 25, 2009 at 07:20 PM (#3233006)

Maybe there needs to be a positional adjustment for pitchers.

11. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: June 25, 2009 at 07:30 PM (#3233039)

David Cone is a salty crusty uniform Hall of Famer.

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