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Beau Vine

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  1. Worse, it's southern Ohio, basically Kentucky.
  2. Just figuring out that there are several more unless you toss out the 19th century guys, including Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty: And if you've never heard of Ed Delahanty...
  3. That 1B was a first-round pick. He got cut in July of that year, and finished the year in Korea, then never played again after 2021, ending his career with -0.7 bWAR. He's now an assistant at Belmont University: https://belmontbruins.com/staff-directory/will-craig/385
  4. Another great asterisk would be Monte Irvin, who won 3 batting titles and a HR title in the Negro Leagues and an RBI title with the NY Giants:
  5. So... Aaron, Ruth, Dimaggio, Mize, and Speaker Pujols, Manny, Bonds, Arod, and Galarraga
  6. Willie never led the league in RBI and Musial never led the league in HR.
  7. Boom! The other "Big Cat." Hall of Famers: Ruth, Speaker, Dimaggio, Mize, 1 more and it's easy. non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga
  8. To be fair, I did not have a kayak the weekend I went.
  9. I knew one of the Immaculate Grid guys would get this one: This is the hardest one, IMO: For the 2nd-hardest one, the big hint is that he had the same nickname as AG. Hall of Famers: Ruth, Speaker, Dimaggio, 2 more? non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga
  10. Since we're getting off of MLB-only, my two favorite baseball parks in the world: Carroll B. Land Baseball Field: Jim Darden Field:
  11. This is one of my greatest parenting victories: When my daughter was in HS, we took a trip to Boston. We went to a Sox game, then rented a car and drove to Cooperstown for a couple of days. Then we drove several hours through heinous traffic to get to a Cape Cod League game. We were sitting on the berm in Falmouth (?) watching the game and I started worrying that this was too much baseball for her. Literally right about that point she piped up, "I wish they had something like this in Wimberley. I'd make my friends go every night."
  12. Dimaggio and Ruth from the HOF list. 3 more? Pujols, AROD, and Bonds from the not (yet?) HOF list. 2 more?
  13. Whoops, there's another that forgot to count because I think of him as a HoFamer even though he's not in yet. The three guesses so far are correct... Bonds: Pujols: Arod:
  14. Churro splits taste amazing, but they are also incredible gut bombs. I mean, you're eating ice cream covered donuts.
  15. They're better when they're not 3 years old.
  16. That's a bigger problem if you're selecting the hockey field (16 teams). But ASU got an at-large bid this season with the #49 RPI. If you're not in the Top 50, even with some catastrophic injuries early, you're probably not that great in the first place.
  17. Boyd Nation (from old rec.sport.baseball.college) developed this thing called the ISR: http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/isr/currentisr.html IIRC, his criticism of the RPI is that it's biased if you don't have sufficient play across regions. In areas where you have few teams (West), your rankings will tend to be pulled to the mean, while in areas where there are lots of teams (South), you don't have that problem, so the RPI tends to overrate Southern teams and underrate Western teams. He once sent me a numerical example showing this, but I've long since lost it -- it might be on his boydsworld page. He once told me that when Pat Murphy was at ASU, Murph paid for him to fly to the national coaches' conference and do a presentation on this and introduce ISR. Boyd said that every other coach just sat there with their eyes glazed over and nothing came from it.
  18. OK, this one is pretty amazing... Definition first: "Career Triple Crown" = won batting title, HR title, and RBI title sometime in their career (but not in the same year, so we're not talking about Yaz, Miggy, Williams, etc.). Here's the list of season Triple Crown winners so that you can know who's eliminated: https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/triple_crowns.shtml Hint: Example: Here's Babe Ruth (probably the easiest of the ten): That's a HR title in 1918, an RBI title in 1919, and a batting title in 1924 for his Career Triple Crown, and he never led in all three in the same season. (This does leave out Negro Leagues, so do not count Turkey Stearns.)
  19. And make sure you read all the bricks surrounding the Tony Gwynn statue. Bring Kleenex.
  20. I think RPI sucks and has demonstrated biases, but I'd be happier if they seeded the whole tournament using nothing but RPI, rather than claiming that they don't rely on it that much. NCAA hockey tournament goes straight off their computer rankings, and their selection process almost never has any controversy.
  21. I think Oracle is the most overrated sports stadium I've ever been to. The setting is beautiful, but the wind suuuuuucks and I thought the sight lines were terrible from the upper and lower decks. Upper deck is so steep that you feel like you're a mile away. Lower deck slope is not steep enough and it's hard to see around the people in front of you. My rankings would be: 1. Fenway 2. Coors 3. San Diego 4. Seattle 5. Wrigley 6-10: Dodgers, Minnesota, Texas, KC, and Houston in some order. Have not been to PNC, and if we were doing this for all parks, old Tiger Stadium would be a runaway #1.
  22. Geraldo Perdomo has a 144 OPS+ with 33 BB and only 25 K. Who saw that coming?
  23. I started to make a joke about this, but then I made the mistake of actually thinking about it and now my brain feels all broken. Can anyone tell me how it makes any sense at all for the Rockies to sign Orlando Arcia?
  24. And 15th in attendance IIRC.
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