Comments on: A new baseball stat: Meaningful Home Run Index

By: RandBall

RandBall — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:04:06 +0000

I accept full responsibility for posting that on the same day A-Rod hit a 1.5.

By: newbie

newbie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:02:25 +0000

Hey good job guys, giving A-Rod some bulletin board material to hit the Game Winning HR in the 12th. I guess he got 1.5 points for that.

You know he reads the Randball! Gosh!

New Stat… ummm, TPWGUMHRI or Twins pitchers who give up meaningful home runs, index. Current Bullpen = lots.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:44:26 +0000

Late Nite Off-Topic:

What’s bigger: the Grand Canyon or Mike Mussina’s strike zone?

By: Toonces51

Toonces51 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:32:55 +0000

Brandon - In the standings, April=September. In the actual game, not so much.

You can look at all the stats you want–you can’t tell me that hitting in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, two on, and down by two in April with five months of season ahead of you is the same as hitting in the bottom of the ninth with two on, two out, down by two in September and you’re a half game out of first place in the division.

Well, scratch that–maybe to some guys it is the same. Those are guys you want on your team. For some guys, they #$%^ the bed in those situations. And for all the good those guys may have done in getting you to be in that spot, they do no good if they can’t carry it all the way through.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:59:46 +0000

RE: anchors. Although I was fortunate enough to miss it when I was down there, my brother says that former KSTP Sportsdouche Mark Curtis is now a straight-up Anchordouche in Phoenix, mustache and all.

By: Merx

Merx — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:56:26 +0000

AZGG: I never thought much about the quality of news anchors in the Twin Cities until I moved to Iowa. I thought they were bad in Des Moines compared to the TC, but then I moved to California, I now get the news out of Yuma. Lets just say I went from the Majors of news casting to AAA to now Low A. I don’t even bother watching the news out here. Thank god for the internet.

By: Clarence Swamptown

Clarence Swamptown — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:55:59 +0000

If Stu is taking requests for rewriting songs based on Rand’s physical appearance in GoodSports, may I suggest “Cod Piece” set to the theme from Good Times.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:42:35 +0000

or “trust me,” for that matter.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:41:54 +0000

Brandon: I’m lost after “Michael, don’t you go and cut your hair/do you think we’ll forget Perk at Play?”

AZGG: I live with three women. Simple osmosis rather than conscious choice, truse me.

By: AZGopherGirl

AZGopherGirl — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:36:55 +0000

Good work, Stu. Nice try going high-brow by attributing the song to the musical. We all know you own Grease on VHS and DVD.