Hart Avoids Arby

Yippeeee, no hearings...

EDIT: $3.25 million, per NY Post, with incentives for being an All Star, Silver Sliugger, Gold Glover, LCS MVP, WS MVP, or finishing in the top 3 in MVP voting. (thanks, Rendezvous)

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Hey everybody (especially mods)

wouldn’t it be cool if, by the end of the day, all 12 front-page posts were fanshots? Heh.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 5:08 PM CST reply actions

The Brewers have been busy!

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

by Kyguy922 on Feb 17, 2009 5:21 PM CST up reply actions

I'm sort of sad.

I wanted The Mustache to destroy ol’ Hick-Trap in a hearing. Someone’s got to beat into his skull that its NOT OK to simply refuse to adjust your plate approach when it isn’t working.

Ah well.

by Charlie Marlow on Feb 17, 2009 5:12 PM CST reply actions

Maybe CH was going over his arby strategy with his agent, did a little role reversal, and convinced himself he doesn’t deserve what he asks for. Now he’ll be a repentant walking machine.

Or not.

by Mykenk on Feb 17, 2009 5:14 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

Now he’ll be a repentant walking machine.

Ha!

by Charlie Marlow on Feb 17, 2009 5:18 PM CST up reply actions

3.25 mill

Per the NYP
http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/

How far will this one fly?

by Rendezvous on Feb 17, 2009 5:20 PM CST reply actions

so, 3.25 after incentives, essentially.

by Mykenk on Feb 17, 2009 5:36 PM CST up reply actions

Maybe one of the icentives is and extra 5k for every walk?

You're not a sexist, violent, porn-peddling racist. Congratulations. I'm sure your Nobel Prize is in the mail.

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 17, 2009 5:37 PM CST up reply actions

so, 3.25 after incentives. ;)

by Mykenk on Feb 17, 2009 5:38 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

rimshot

by Charlie Marlow on Feb 17, 2009 5:46 PM CST up reply actions

HAHAHA

"....si si Peeeeedro"

by trippingandy on Feb 17, 2009 5:50 PM CST up reply actions

boom, roasted.

by tcyoung on Feb 17, 2009 8:47 PM CST up reply actions

well played sir

I just sit back and root for the taser

by Hyatt on Feb 17, 2009 9:16 PM CST up reply actions

But

can Prince avoid Arby’s?

September 15: Not a bad little Monday

by molitorfan on Feb 17, 2009 7:26 PM CST reply actions

well played

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 7:27 PM CST up reply actions

Veering this bus off-topic

I have an Alcides Escobar BABIP story I’ll post tomorrow afternoon, and the spray charts are coming in handy. Everyone go look at them they are very pretty MLS do it now.

I’m assuming you’ve fixed the Chrome issue?

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 8:00 PM CST up reply actions

You have my intrigued...

BCB, the preferred above replacement level sarcasm supplier.

by MadJimiBrewha on Feb 17, 2009 8:03 PM CST up reply actions

Like usual, it is getting too long

I have found some interesting things, however.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 8:10 PM CST up reply actions

Seriously, this is torture.

by HRF on Feb 17, 2009 8:12 PM CST up reply actions

Both the waiting, and going to the spray chart page and trying to decipher between small red and green dots.

by HRF on Feb 17, 2009 8:13 PM CST up reply actions

haha

originally, they were dark gray and light gray. That was worse.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 8:22 PM CST up reply actions

Why would you even do that?

Wouldn’t one think to oneself immediately that it might possibly be a bad idea?

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by Noah Jarosh on Feb 17, 2009 8:29 PM CST up reply actions

actually

I first put together something spray-chart like from this data for a book that was printed in black-and-white. In the book, it worked out pretty well using various shades of gray.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 8:50 PM CST up reply actions

Must have been pretty different shades of gray. :)

I don’t think I have good enough eyes to differentiate between such similar colors.

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by Noah Jarosh on Feb 17, 2009 9:41 PM CST up reply actions

Prince John: Such an unusual name, “Latrine.” How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO “Latrine”?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be “Shithouse.”
Prince John: It’s a good change. That’s a good change!

by HRF on Feb 17, 2009 8:36 PM CST up reply actions

nope

Chrome still a problem, but I put them up anyway. There’s a warning to that effect on the front page.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 8:13 PM CST up reply actions

I emailed R.J. Anderson about the charts

there’s a fanshot up at Beyond the Boxscore, and initial reactions are decidedly positive.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 9:48 PM CST up reply actions

cool

I just saw he fanshotted it at draysbay too.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 9:58 PM CST up reply actions

yeah, wow

that’s a lot of IF hits.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 8:23 PM CST up reply actions

And a lot of outfield groundball hits

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 8:26 PM CST up reply actions

So, if I'm looking at the spray chart

Were almost all of Escobars home runs no-doubters? Or am I just looking at the distances from the dot to the wall too much? Because from all I’ve heard, Escobars power is near zilch.

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by Noah Jarosh on Feb 17, 2009 8:32 PM CST up reply actions

The second arc is 350 feet according to Jeff's paragaph there

It would make sense that most would be around 400ish to left center, anyway. But yes, it looks like the ones he hit stayed hit.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 8:36 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah, I saw the paragraph explaining the dimensions after I posted the comment.

Still interesting though. I’d have expected any HR’s he hit to barely clear the wall.

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by Noah Jarosh on Feb 17, 2009 8:41 PM CST up reply actions

I don't know exaclty how this data is recorded

but in the various players I’ve looked at, there aren’t a whole lot of “close” HRs. Almost all of them seem to be recorded as 375+. So I wouldn’t read too much into that.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 8:51 PM CST up reply actions

True

these are all judgement calls. I remember the time the Brewers played a game and a HR was hit into a corner and estimated at 2 feet shorter than the number on the wall. Ueck had Kent looking with the binoculars to see if it was rolling around in the corner. Plus no way that Branyan Dew-decker was only 465.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 8:57 PM CST up reply actions

There should be an "if" before "these" at the start of that comment

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 17, 2009 10:00 PM CST up reply actions

I'm guessing the milb locations are way more approximate than that

imagine one guy in the press box, with rookie-league quality lighting for a night game. He has a laptop he’s scoring the game on, and for every play, he clicks the screen where he thinks the ball landed. I might have some of the details wrong, but if the process is like that, 330 ft and 380 ft aren’t that distinguishable.

Initially I was hoping to do some more sophisticated work with this data — like see who was hitting the deepest home runs, or who was hitting the most ‘deep’ fly ball outs … but I don’t think it would be even close to reliable if I did.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 17, 2009 10:03 PM CST up reply actions

boom, roasted.

by tcyoung on Feb 17, 2009 8:47 PM CST up reply actions

Moustache is just trying to keep his streak intact.

We've got uniforms and everything, it's really great!

by drezdn on Feb 17, 2009 7:28 PM CST reply actions

by HRF on Feb 17, 2009 7:53 PM CST reply actions

thanks

that’s the funniest thing i’ve seen all day. and by funny…..i mean it made me sad….i cried a little.

"....si si Peeeeedro"

by trippingandy on Feb 17, 2009 7:58 PM CST up reply actions

Not everyone likes to make $3.25 million the same way.

BCB, the preferred above replacement level sarcasm supplier.

by MadJimiBrewha on Feb 17, 2009 8:00 PM CST up reply actions

this

needs to be someone’s avatar.

September 15: Not a bad little Monday

by molitorfan on Feb 17, 2009 8:58 PM CST up reply actions

I'm glad baseball is back...

I get to read news like this everyday… Let’s get to some games now!

Frank Kremblas for Crew Manager.

by CATALYST on Feb 17, 2009 8:12 PM CST reply actions

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