it was a stomach twisting game, at least when you are at home watching, and you know it’s a leverage situation, you can turn on SouthPark or something to get away from the debacle, at the game man, you got to take it…no switching the channels when shiz get’s jacked.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 1:38 pm (#749750)
our seats were right by the lone mixed drink stand at the park, timmy was in the mood for 7&7’s last night.
hahahaha, very nice. bet they cost you a pretty penny.
it was a stomach twisting game, at least when you are at home watching, and you know it’s a leverage situation, you can turn on SouthPark or something to get away from the debacle, at the game man, you got to take it…no switching the channels when shiz get’s jacked.
tru tru, i watched south park during the rain delay! guiter hero ep is fabulous
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 1:39 pm (#749751)
woah now, I don’t have a puppy…but if something happens to my sister I will find Albert Pujols and force him to make a sex tape with Verne Troyer. See how well your baseball team plays then!
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm (#749766)
Your mom eats my poo.
….
:)
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 2:27 pm (#749767)
Dep, Penguins signed Satan and Tank.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm (#749768)
I am all aerodynamic now! woot!
Dep, Penguins signed Satan and Tank.
wow. Satan is gonna play well there imo as a secondary piece, he must be thrilled considering the poop he’s played with recently.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 2:31 pm (#749769)
Satan is not going to help the Pens defensive system though.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 2:35 pm (#749770)
that’s true, he’s poor defensively and he’s a slacker in terms of defensive effort
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 2:37 pm (#749771)
The problem is: do you dare put him on a line with Malkin who is at best okay defensively?
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 2:39 pm (#749772)
that’s an interesting question lunk
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 2:40 pm (#749773)
I think Chris Aguila was called back up
lol @ us
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 2:41 pm (#749774)
The New York Daily News reports that Luis Castillo will be placed on the disabled list with a strained left hip flexor.
Castillo played as a defensive replacement on Wednesday, so his 15-day stint will begin today. Damion Easley will see the majority of time in his absence. RHP Carlos Muniz is also expected to be sent to Triple-A, with OF Chris Aguila and 2B Argenis Reyes expected to be promoted from the minor leagues.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 2:42 pm (#749775)
I hated entering time…….running around looking for job #’s and then account people asking why you have a half hour on their project….the worst. Especially when your slow and you have to make yourself look like you are important.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:02 pm (#749787)
hahahaha, i wish.
he’s actually a cool dude and i chill with him sometimes and get drunk and he even gets high and all that.
but man oh man, some days i wanna beat the living crap outta him
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm (#749788)
I have to enter time but I only have one job code (help desk) so it’s easy as hell.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm (#749790)
I hated entering time…….running around looking for job #’s and then account people asking why you have a half hour on their project….the worst. Especially when your slow and you have to make yourself look like you are important.
abso-fucking-lotuley
i despise it.
so true on when you’re not busy, what time codes do i use??!@??!?! AH!?!?!?!?/ READING = 8 hours! lol
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:04 pm (#749791)
my boss constantly jokes that one day he’s gonna add metsgeek as a time code just for me LOL
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:04 pm (#749792)
I have to enter time but I only have one job code (help desk) so it’s easy as hell.
LOL. that works!
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:05 pm (#749793)
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:08 pm (#749795)
hehehehehe. exactly
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:09 pm (#749796)
you gonna be around tonight timmy???? i’m not sure if i’ll be on the thread tonight or not just yet
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:19 pm (#749798)
Is it 5 yet?
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm (#749799)
Damnit, everyone else went home. :(
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm (#749800)
me still here
maybe me leave at 4. we see.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:22 pm (#749801)
That sucks. You get bogged down with a project?
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm (#749803)
I was handed something at noon today (by the boss’s son) that needs to be good to go by monday basically.
doesnt leave me much time! LOL
ridiculous, but such is consulting sometimes.
I can work on it monday morning, but you know what, i dont “need” to leave right now, might as well set myself up nicely and get most of it done now.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:27 pm (#749804)
Yeah, then you don’t have to worry about getting sh## done as soon as the holiday is over. Start fresh.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:28 pm (#749805)
exactly lunk
and i mean if i had a party or someone to meet or something i would leave, but to have to leave to go get burnt and workout and watch TV, that can wait.
although i could hit the 4:20….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm LOL
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:31 pm (#749806)
hahahahah I say you need to party right there. Break out the secret stash!
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:32 pm (#749807)
omg. i have to go to Cali. bye!
The 22-year-old actress is said to have ended her four-year relationship with former ‘Beverly Hills 90210′ star Brian Austin Green, 34, because she feels too young to settle down.
A source close to the ‘Transformers’ star said: “Megan still cares about Brian, but she now realises she’s too young to marry him.”
She reportedly notified her friends and business associates of the news last week.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:33 pm (#749808)
hahahahah I say you need to party right there. Break out the secret stash!
hahahahaah, that would be craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy! and fun!
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:35 pm (#749809)
I’m totally emailing megan fox.
i. dont. care.
Comment posted byDepon July 3, 2008 at 3:44 pm (#749812)
aight lunk, i’m actually off this PC. Its WiiBowling time.
Be good brother. Have a great and safe 4th and weekend if i dont see you online again and all that.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:48 pm (#749814)
Later Dep. Have fun.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm (#749815)
If you get a date with Megan Fox, ask if she has an equally attractive friend. Lorraine would understand :)
Back on April 22, I wrote a post titled “Nasty Nate McLouth”, dissecting the hot start of the Pirates outfielder. He had a ridiculously high BABIP at the time which led to quite the inflated slash line. Additionally, while sustaining a very similar walk rate he had drastically reduced his strikeout percentage. Here are some of his numbers at the time of the first post and his overall numbers as we speak:
As expected, his BABIP dropped significantly, and his slash line fell as a result. His strikeout rate has increased a bit but the 13.8% is still much lower than the 23.4% of last year. Speaking of the 2007 season, McLouth now has virtually the same amount of at-bats this year as last. Here are his numbers from the last two years:
Things appear very similar with the exception of the strikeouts and added power; McLouth’s increase in doubles and home runs has led to not only the higher batting average but the higher slugging percentage as well. His ISO in 2007 was .201 compared to the .242 so far this year. Unfortunately, or fortunately if you are a Pirates fan, he actually gets lost in the shuffle a bit because the entire Bucs outfield is producing at a high level.
Amongst NL outfielders, McLouth ranks 8th in WPA (1.54) and 7th in WPA/LI (1.56). Jason Bay and Xavier Nady rank ahead of him in both areas. McLouth’s 22.58 BRAA and 2.24 REW rank third amongst NL outfielders, though, higher than both of his teammates. He has cooled off quite a bit since riding the coattails of a 19-game hitting streak early in the season but he is still producing at a high level; or at least much higher than we might have expected entering the season. I also would not be surprised if he has earned his first All-Star berth given his solid numbers and the fact that surprising players make good stories.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm (#749817)
McLouth is coming down to earth. I wouldn’t be surprised if his average ends up in the .260-.270 ranger and he barely makes it to 20 homeruns.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:02 pm (#749818)
McLouth’s OPS per month:
April: 1.083
May: .920
June: .621
That’s a downward spiral if I ever saw one. In addition, his batting average has gone:
April: .342
May: .279
June: .214
Comment posted bylittlefallsmetson July 3, 2008 at 4:03 pm (#749819)
Reyes-Dos… nice call up to give a shot, at least he’s young enough where the best out of him might be yet to come.
Christina Aguilera… not so much but… I mean, the cupboard is so bare at AAA for position players that why not?
What’s funny is, though, Andy Hernandy is now officially the only everyday player at AAA under the age of 29.
LFM, is the ultimate cherrypicker. He should join the union in California…
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:09 pm (#749823)
Ramon, this is why I don’t believe in McClouth’s power: he already has more major league homeruns than he has minor league homeruns…. in half the at bats. Now, if he came up from the minors when he was, say, 22 and developed power at the major league level, I’d understand. But he had over 400 plate appearances in the minors when he was 23 and hit a total of 5 homeruns and only 20 doubles. (.401 slugging).
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:11 pm (#749824)
Looks like it’s just you and me, Ramon. Everyone else is probably eating hot dogs as we speak.
Comment posted bylittlefallsmetson July 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm (#749825)
Of the names I usually see in the minor league recap box score? Sure. That’s why I said “everyday player” as opposed to “position player” or what not.
Look:
When there were 24 teams, there were 600 major leaguers and 600 AAA players.
Nowadays there are 30 teams, 750 MLB players and 750 AAA players and… moreover… there’s much better chances for AAAA type guys to play in the East Asian or Latin American leagues and be starters or stars.
So if you wanna say that even 50 players are in the international leagues instead of stewing in AAA…
That means 350 players… or half of the AAA rosters… are guys who wouldn’t be at that level if not for expansion spiralling out of control.
Now, more than ever, you gotta look at AAA numbers in a very particular sort of way to make any sense of them.
A twenty-five year old’s numbers mean a lot more than a thirty-year old’s who has just been lingering there for so long that they’ve perfected hitting flawed straight-ball AAA pitching.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:27 pm (#749826)
Ummmmmmmm…. not that you’re correct considering you’re ignoring expanded scouting and a much larger player base…. what’s your point?
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm (#749827)
Also, I count 4 members of N.O.’s regular starting lineup to be under 29. That’s 50% if you understand math.
Comment posted bylittlefallsmetson July 3, 2008 at 4:35 pm (#749828)
I’m mostly just saying “here is why we can’t be depending on AAA stats for career organizational filler type”… i.e. why it is important to point out the ages of the guys at AAA and take them heavily into account.
Why only four years of age at AAA could mean volumes of difference in terms of the potential of a player hanging around on the New Orleans squad.
Expanded international scouting probably ameliorates the effects of what I’m talking about, yeah, but… I’m not sure how much.
Such a vast number of American AND International guys wither on the vine in single-A-and-lower leagues that you have to wonder how much of the effect actually “trickles-up” to the high minor league talent pools.
Comment posted byLunkwill Fookon July 3, 2008 at 4:39 pm (#749829)
Statistically, you have to image the same percentage make it to the AAA level. And scouting continues to expand whereas expansion seems to have fallen into a lull over the last decade. We’re now scouting Europe and Australia and scouting Asia and South America more diligently than ever.
And for AAA organizational filler, all you can take into account is their AAA stats. If they had decent MLB stats, they wouldn’t be in AAA. That’s the problem with organizational filler.
This weekend Omar’s Latinas invade CBP. Philadelphia fans already have the broom out. Should be an enjoyable weekend.
Comment posted bylittlefallsmetson July 3, 2008 at 5:10 pm (#749832)
Lunk, that’s all I’m saying, really.
When all these people are waving a flag for Pascucci’s numbers or Armas’s numbers or whatever, saying “look at those AAA numbers, he’d be helping this club!”…
I just want people to remember that… if any front-office in baseball thought that they could replicate those numbers at a major league level against major league talent, they wouldn’t have signed on to play at New Orleans.
It’s one thing when you’re a prospect or you’re young enough to still be learning… but if you’re 29 and no one took you for their bench outta the spring, the vast odds say that this is not a major league talent.
The vast odds say that this is a dude accumulating empty numbers against guys who weren’t good enough to make a 25-man roster either.
i know, i was talking to NJ
you cant trust the mets doctors to rule correctly on the situation either, so they’re fucked regardless
lunch!
OUCH!!!!
http://withleather.uproxx.com/post.phtml?pk=6271
When I was trying out for the adult baseball league I’m in, another guy trying out managed to foul a bunt into his face. It was pretty funny.
that sounds like something id do lol
haha
did he make the team?
LOL! Why is someone else’s pain and humiliation so often funny???
Well, it was a general tryout for all the teams in the league. If he made it, it was with another team.
I dunno. But it is!
Shadenfraud……
::glares at timmmy::
If it’s any consolation, my ass was wet for 3 hour last night…and I dropped about 3 bills.
hahaha, not really. ;)
hope you had fun yo
our seats were right by the lone mixed drink stand at the park, timmy was in the mood for 7&7’s last night.
it was a stomach twisting game, at least when you are at home watching, and you know it’s a leverage situation, you can turn on SouthPark or something to get away from the debacle, at the game man, you got to take it…no switching the channels when shiz get’s jacked.
hahahaha, very nice. bet they cost you a pretty penny.
tru tru, i watched south park during the rain delay! guiter hero ep is fabulous
http://www.misternicehands.com/
hilarious…..
http://www.kontraband.com/videos/12617/Mini-Me-Sick-Tape/#show
sorry if you’ve seen it
basically 10 bucks per drink, 8.75 bt ya got to float the honey the tip or our get a thimble of Seagrams the next time.
hahahaha, that was great.
damn, dem be big city prices!
oh yeah dep…we be big time here…got a crate and barrel and everything.
LMAO timmy.
Big city prices in that cesspool of a city? Somehow St. Louis became even worse of a city, if that was at all possible. :)
ahhh you’ve been? Be it ever so humble…….
I was there for the FF in 2007. It was a cesspool. Downtown is horrifying, and I saw a cop pull a gun on someone on the train.
Simply put it was a very scary place.
I love that you can slam someone really good, but somehow it’s okay…I put a smiley face at the end.
I hope your sister and puppy die in a car fire : )
woah now, I don’t have a puppy…but if something happens to my sister I will find Albert Pujols and force him to make a sex tape with Verne Troyer. See how well your baseball team plays then!
Sounds about right….downtown isn’t exactly the place to go. And wow, there was a cop on the train?
you didn’t put a smiley on there….who says you’d have to FORCE Poo to do that?
Well his name is pronounced Poo-Holes.
Be afraid Mini-me!
Your mom eats my poo.
….
:)
Dep, Penguins signed Satan and Tank.
I am all aerodynamic now! woot!
wow. Satan is gonna play well there imo as a secondary piece, he must be thrilled considering the poop he’s played with recently.
Satan is not going to help the Pens defensive system though.
that’s true, he’s poor defensively and he’s a slacker in terms of defensive effort
The problem is: do you dare put him on a line with Malkin who is at best okay defensively?
that’s an interesting question lunk
I think Chris Aguila was called back up
lol @ us
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25518225/
Utah’s government is switching to a four day workweek.
wow. almost like the jetsons!
ARGENIS!!!!
I like giving him a shot, he looked aight in Spring Training
LOL!
that whole thing today at my job if you get in late you must stay till 6 was just rescinded
it was a joke.
not funny , lol
hahaah Punch someone.
Punch someone randomly and then scream “WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, BITCH?”
that was funny….how do they know what time you get in….key card? clock in? chip implanted in your neck?
LMAO. too bad all the bosses are out today and just harassing us by email, i can only punch my partners in crime here.
we have spies everywhere.
our big big boss’s son works here, he’s a back-channel to the head honcho
we also have billable time that we have to enter into a system so they know if we are missing hours
The boss’ son? Is he available for punching?
I hated entering time…….running around looking for job #’s and then account people asking why you have a half hour on their project….the worst. Especially when your slow and you have to make yourself look like you are important.
hahahaha, i wish.
he’s actually a cool dude and i chill with him sometimes and get drunk and he even gets high and all that.
but man oh man, some days i wanna beat the living crap outta him
I have to enter time but I only have one job code (help desk) so it’s easy as hell.
bosses son’s are always grade A queefs.
abso-fucking-lotuley
i despise it.
so true on when you’re not busy, what time codes do i use??!@??!?! AH!?!?!?!?/ READING = 8 hours! lol
my boss constantly jokes that one day he’s gonna add metsgeek as a time code just for me LOL
LOL. that works!
another saturday night game this weekend
i hate that shit!
metsgeek job #420247
hehehehehe. exactly
you gonna be around tonight timmy???? i’m not sure if i’ll be on the thread tonight or not just yet
Is it 5 yet?
Damnit, everyone else went home. :(
me still here
maybe me leave at 4. we see.
That sucks. You get bogged down with a project?
I was handed something at noon today (by the boss’s son) that needs to be good to go by monday basically.
doesnt leave me much time! LOL
ridiculous, but such is consulting sometimes.
I can work on it monday morning, but you know what, i dont “need” to leave right now, might as well set myself up nicely and get most of it done now.
Yeah, then you don’t have to worry about getting sh## done as soon as the holiday is over. Start fresh.
exactly lunk
and i mean if i had a party or someone to meet or something i would leave, but to have to leave to go get burnt and workout and watch TV, that can wait.
although i could hit the 4:20….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm LOL
hahahahah I say you need to party right there. Break out the secret stash!
omg. i have to go to Cali. bye!
hahahahaah, that would be craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy! and fun!
I’m totally emailing megan fox.
i. dont. care.
aight lunk, i’m actually off this PC. Its WiiBowling time.
Be good brother. Have a great and safe 4th and weekend if i dont see you online again and all that.
Later Dep. Have fun.
If you get a date with Megan Fox, ask if she has an equally attractive friend. Lorraine would understand :)
McLouth is coming down to earth. I wouldn’t be surprised if his average ends up in the .260-.270 ranger and he barely makes it to 20 homeruns.
McLouth’s OPS per month:
April: 1.083
May: .920
June: .621
That’s a downward spiral if I ever saw one. In addition, his batting average has gone:
April: .342
May: .279
June: .214
Reyes-Dos… nice call up to give a shot, at least he’s young enough where the best out of him might be yet to come.
Christina Aguilera… not so much but… I mean, the cupboard is so bare at AAA for position players that why not?
What’s funny is, though, Andy Hernandy is now officially the only everyday player at AAA under the age of 29.
Wow, Rene, that is a downward spiral indeed.
I love your stat cherry picking, lfm. I suppose Machado and Molina don’t “count” because they don’t have enough at bats to be considered “starters”.
LFM, is the ultimate cherrypicker. He should join the union in California…
Ramon, this is why I don’t believe in McClouth’s power: he already has more major league homeruns than he has minor league homeruns…. in half the at bats. Now, if he came up from the minors when he was, say, 22 and developed power at the major league level, I’d understand. But he had over 400 plate appearances in the minors when he was 23 and hit a total of 5 homeruns and only 20 doubles. (.401 slugging).
Looks like it’s just you and me, Ramon. Everyone else is probably eating hot dogs as we speak.
Of the names I usually see in the minor league recap box score? Sure. That’s why I said “everyday player” as opposed to “position player” or what not.
Look:
When there were 24 teams, there were 600 major leaguers and 600 AAA players.
Nowadays there are 30 teams, 750 MLB players and 750 AAA players and… moreover… there’s much better chances for AAAA type guys to play in the East Asian or Latin American leagues and be starters or stars.
So if you wanna say that even 50 players are in the international leagues instead of stewing in AAA…
That means 350 players… or half of the AAA rosters… are guys who wouldn’t be at that level if not for expansion spiralling out of control.
Now, more than ever, you gotta look at AAA numbers in a very particular sort of way to make any sense of them.
A twenty-five year old’s numbers mean a lot more than a thirty-year old’s who has just been lingering there for so long that they’ve perfected hitting flawed straight-ball AAA pitching.
Ummmmmmmm…. not that you’re correct considering you’re ignoring expanded scouting and a much larger player base…. what’s your point?
Also, I count 4 members of N.O.’s regular starting lineup to be under 29. That’s 50% if you understand math.
I’m mostly just saying “here is why we can’t be depending on AAA stats for career organizational filler type”… i.e. why it is important to point out the ages of the guys at AAA and take them heavily into account.
Why only four years of age at AAA could mean volumes of difference in terms of the potential of a player hanging around on the New Orleans squad.
Expanded international scouting probably ameliorates the effects of what I’m talking about, yeah, but… I’m not sure how much.
Such a vast number of American AND International guys wither on the vine in single-A-and-lower leagues that you have to wonder how much of the effect actually “trickles-up” to the high minor league talent pools.
Statistically, you have to image the same percentage make it to the AAA level. And scouting continues to expand whereas expansion seems to have fallen into a lull over the last decade. We’re now scouting Europe and Australia and scouting Asia and South America more diligently than ever.
And for AAA organizational filler, all you can take into account is their AAA stats. If they had decent MLB stats, they wouldn’t be in AAA. That’s the problem with organizational filler.
This weekend Omar’s Latinas invade CBP. Philadelphia fans already have the broom out. Should be an enjoyable weekend.
Lunk, that’s all I’m saying, really.
When all these people are waving a flag for Pascucci’s numbers or Armas’s numbers or whatever, saying “look at those AAA numbers, he’d be helping this club!”…
I just want people to remember that… if any front-office in baseball thought that they could replicate those numbers at a major league level against major league talent, they wouldn’t have signed on to play at New Orleans.
It’s one thing when you’re a prospect or you’re young enough to still be learning… but if you’re 29 and no one took you for their bench outta the spring, the vast odds say that this is not a major league talent.
The vast odds say that this is a dude accumulating empty numbers against guys who weren’t good enough to make a 25-man roster either.
You guys might luck out and not have to face the youngster Mitchell Boggs tonight…..we have a bit of a tempest problem today….
Boggs has okay stuff, he walks to many and is not a strikeout pitcher….he let’s ya put it in play.
He’s a right hander and he is Lily white.