New quiz, chat, etc.

Posted on May 28, 2009 · 13 Comments

Sorry for the lack of action over here – I’m tied up writing reports and making phone calls. I’ve even ground to a halt in Gone With the Wind.

Klawchat tomorrow will be at 1:30 pm EDT and I’ll probably have to stop at 2:30.

Today’s quiz on mental_floss is on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Interesting piece on why more roads may not reduce traffic.

Vote for Manny.

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13 Responses to “New quiz, chat, etc.”

Kevin S. on May 28th, 2009 3:42 am

Milledge/Ramirez ’09!

Except Manny has a legitimate chance of getting elected. How amazing would that be?
Rich on May 28th, 2009 4:37 am

Isn’t that fairly common wisdom after what Robert Moses did to New York?
John on May 28th, 2009 1:40 pm

Klaw,

Chatting opposite Goldstein could cause draftniks’ heads to explode.
Marco on May 28th, 2009 2:47 pm

If only I knew how to spell “lollypop”…
SK on May 28th, 2009 2:48 pm

14/15. I am mildly disappointed in myself.
malcolm on May 28th, 2009 3:57 pm

Rich,

I agree; I thought that was old news! Keith, you still need to read The Power Broker.
Jeff on May 28th, 2009 6:57 pm

“They tried to get him to leave, but they told him to “take a walk,” and he was just hopelessly confused.”

Well played, sir.
Kevin S. on May 28th, 2009 7:17 pm

Hah, that was classic Klaw snark at it’s finest.
Will on May 28th, 2009 8:37 pm

The AJ Burnett comment from the Klawchat was from an article that Olney posted. It was a quote from an unnamed scout.

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3963745&name=olney_buster
H on May 28th, 2009 8:46 pm

I think he said, “why should I take a walk? They don’t show on-base percentage on the scoreboard.”
BSK on May 29th, 2009 12:51 am

KLaw-

Interesting comments regarding the IBB. Do you feel the same way about “pitching around” a guy? These are often not-so-subtle IBBs.

What type of numbers would a guy have to put up to justify giving him a free base over just letting him hit? Would Bonds at his 2000′s peak qualify?
Dave on May 29th, 2009 1:49 pm

BSK: Probably not. Until a guy has a sustained SLG of >1.000, its not worth handing him a free base. Bonds’ best SLG was .863 in 2001 so simply handing him 1st was still doing more to yourself than he was expected to do. There were situations where an IBB made sense, just not nearly as many as he got.

(Diverging a bit, how ridiculous is it that a guy who was intentionally walked 43 times one year couldn’t get a job the next? T-5th highest ever but not worthy of a one year deal.)
BSK on May 29th, 2009 4:35 pm

Dave, that is what I intuitively thought, but wasn’t sure if that was too obvious. I assume that the 1.000 SLUG is the break point because, once above that, it means a guy “averages” one or more bases per at bat. Therefore, giving the guy “just’ first base makes sense, but otherwise, you are giving up more than you are protecting, absent an extreme situation.

And Bonds didn’t get a job because he’s a world class jerk, duh! (end sarcasm)