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Post by thomasj13 on Apr 12, 2018 17:37:57 GMT -6
Maybe Felipe Rivero changed his last name because he got off to a bad start. Maybe this is a solution for Giles. He can change his name to _______________________. (fill in the blank) PTBNL ***** |
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Post by marshall on Apr 13, 2018 12:53:56 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 13:04:10 GMT -6
Calm, I say calm down down, son! Sipp is no good! No doggone good! He’s no chicken hawk! Sipp is on the DL right now...and the Astros are better for it. Chomping at the bit to be able to call him "Pink Slip" Sipp. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 14, 2018 22:58:08 GMT -6
Well, Peacock is not looking so great recently...
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Post by thomasj13 on Apr 19, 2018 19:26:26 GMT -6
Bump.
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 19, 2018 19:31:08 GMT -6
I guess you win. You're the new closer
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 20:05:52 GMT -6
I guess you win. You're the new closer He's really gonna knock them out with that 35 mph fastball.  |
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 19, 2018 20:10:06 GMT -6
Totally he's Doc from Major League 3
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 19, 2018 20:27:33 GMT -6
Totally he's Doc from Major League 3 Doc Windgate is a legend. |
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Post by thomasj13 on Apr 20, 2018 10:22:30 GMT -6
I guess you win. You're the new closer He's really gonna knock them out with that 35 mph fastball. 73mph, I can still bring it. |
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 20, 2018 11:36:50 GMT -6
Totally he's Doc from Major League 3 Doc Windgate is a legend. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 20, 2018 13:38:04 GMT -6
My problem with that movie is you previously had Clu Haywood and Jack Parkman as the main rivals and follow that up with Carlos Liston. He didn’t even hit real pitches!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2018 14:00:48 GMT -6
Totally he's Doc from Major League 3 Doc Windgate is a legend. Problem I got guys, is that in my eyes Scott Bakula can only be Captain Archer..... NO One ELSE!!!!! |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 20, 2018 14:13:14 GMT -6
Doc Windgate is a legend. Problem I got guys, is that in my eyes Scott Bakula can only be Captain Archer..... NO One ELSE!!!!! There has never been a more miscast role in the history of tv. He's the quantum leap guy, period. |
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 20, 2018 14:18:07 GMT -6
Clu Haywood and Jack Parkman as the main rivals and follow that up with Carlos Liston. He didn’t even hit real pitches!
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Post by marshall on Apr 20, 2018 15:45:06 GMT -6
I've voted for Thomas just because I can.
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Post by marshall on Apr 20, 2018 15:48:13 GMT -6
OK. I liked a post above and it said I was mobile. I use a flip phone and I'm always here on a wired in PC via internet. How is that mobile?
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Post by marshall on Apr 20, 2018 15:51:01 GMT -6
Problem I got guys, is that in my eyes Scott Bakula can only be Captain Archer..... NO One ELSE!!!!! There has never been a more miscast role in the history of tv. He's the quantum leap guy, period. Oh Boy! |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 20, 2018 18:15:34 GMT -6
Scott Bakula can be a manager as long as Dean Stockwell can be the pitching coach.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2018 19:57:42 GMT -6
Problem I got guys, is that in my eyes Scott Bakula can only be Captain Archer..... NO One ELSE!!!!! There has never been a more miscast role in the history of tv. Sorry .... T'Pol says your argument is illogical.  |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 20, 2018 20:10:36 GMT -6
I watched the Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek” the other day, and about died laughing when she was changing into a dress behind a sheet hanging on the line...lmao. Gratuitous.
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 21, 2018 9:59:46 GMT -6
I watched the Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek” the other day, and about died laughing when she was changing into a dress behind a sheet hanging on the line...lmao. Gratuitous. Gratuitous but appreciated. |
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Post by marshall on Apr 21, 2018 14:13:48 GMT -6
Thanks. I just watched the episode. Of course it was reversed, but that might be a trick to keep it from showing up as an unauthorized online feed. It was... fascinating...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 16:50:31 GMT -6
I watched the Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek” the other day, and about died laughing when she was changing into a dress behind a sheet hanging on the line...lmao. Gratuitous. Gratuitous but appreciated. Figured a hot bodied Vulcan might raise you diastolic rate a few bars. |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 21, 2018 16:53:55 GMT -6
I guess the next logical step in Star Trek, from the decon scenes and the vulcan behind a sheet on Enterprise, was the travesty known as Discovery dropping Trek's first F-bomb. And advertising that they were gonna do it.
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 27, 2018 22:08:38 GMT -6
Well, Joe Smith certainly isn’t making a case for the job.
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 27, 2018 23:43:41 GMT -6
Gratuitous but appreciated. Figured a hot bodied Vulcan might raise you diastolic rate a few bars. I actually knew a congressional aide to a well-known senator whom I won't name here (he represented Rhode Island) and this fellow told me that one of the Senate subcommittees actually did have a meeting to address the question of: Should aliens land on Earth and find themselves genetically compatible with humans, should the U.S. Congress take actions to make human-alien mating illegal? He claimed not to know what conclusions, if any, that subcommittee reached. |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 28, 2018 0:15:30 GMT -6
Lincoln Chafee
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Post by astrosdoug on May 10, 2018 19:38:34 GMT -6
Here is an encouraging off-day stat on the Astros bullpen.
We all know that the bullpen has often been quite bad in high leverage situations. So bad, in fact, that the Astros bullpen ranks dead last in MLB when the game is on the line. In those situations, the bullpen has a 10.50 ERA and opponents are hitting .364. It's like Barry Bonds just suddenly appears at the plate in these situations.
The good news is that the Astros relievers aren't really pitching very badly in those situations -- in terms of the % of swings and misses they are generating,the ratio of strikeouts to walks, the amount of weak contact, the number of ground balls, etc. Based on all those things, the Astros bullpen has an xFIP (we can sort of think of it like a predicted ERA) of only 3.06 and opponents "ought" to only be hitting .222. The results going forward should, in theory, trend more towards that opponent batting avg of .222 and ERA of 3.06. I can live with those numbers!
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Post by astrosdoug on May 10, 2018 19:48:27 GMT -6
In fact, the Astros bullpen in high leverage situations is hands-down the least likely bullpen to give up a walk (7% chance), and one of the most likely to get a strikeout (28%).
Right now, opponents are running a completely unsustainable .500 BABIP (which compares to the MLB average of .270 in these situations). It means that the luck factor, in terms of bloops that find a patch of grass, or grounders that squeak through the shift, has allowed opponents to do almost double the amount of offensive damage one would normally expect based on how they hit the ball.
Last season, the highest BABIP against under high leverage that any team had to endure was .346 (for the 2017 Astros it was .342). So I would expect that current BABIP against of .500 to fall to somewhere around the .300 area but it certainly shouldn't be anything higher than .350 by the end of the season.
In 2017, opponents hit .243 against the Astros bullpen in high leverage situations. I have to think that the current .346 average will fall to no more than the .250 level by October and probably a bit lower than that still.
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