Weekend Mug for 2/14
by morineko on Feb 14, 2010 12:11 PM CST
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PrintHappy New Year 4707, everybody! It's the Year of the Tiger, and luckily the Brewers will not be facing them (or Justin Verlander) this year.
It's a slow weekend for Brewers and ex-Brewers news, unless you'd like fan rants about Corey Hart's arbitration win. Hart himself didn't think he would win.
Miller Park Drunk brings us a non-roster invitee fanfic chat script.
In-Between Hops also has a copy of the 2010 Bill James Handbook and he's been combing it for statistical tidbits.
As seen in this FanShot, Felipe Lopez has acquired new representation. His agent may have something to do with his unsigned status, but there are also other reasons.
In minor league affiliate news, the Timber Rattlers and Cedar Crest are collaborating on a new ice cream flavor and they'd like fans to go vote for the name.
around and around the rest of the majors:
Blue Jays: Scott Richmond has an injured shoulder.
Mariners: Mike Sweeney signs a minor league contract.
Orioles: Settle with Jeremy Guthrie before arbitration hearing, $3 million for 2010
Rays: Win an arbitration case. Again. B.J. Upton will be making $3 million in 2010.
For those of us who are complete nerds about Asian baseball, it's been hard to follow players for very specific reasons. Michael Street at Baseball Daily Digest explains why stats for Korean professional baseball are hard to come by. (Also, to editorialize, a lot of Korean websites use government-issued identification to restrict access to Korean citizens or permanent residents only...it's a bit of an irritant for certain fandom participation.)
This weekend in Brewer birthdays: 2/13: Sal Bando (1944,) Matt Mieske (1968;) 2/14: Jaime Cocanower (1957,) Kelly Stinnett (1970.)
This is my last weekend Mug. I'm on a new work schedule involving, ugh, weekends as of this week. It's been absolutely great! I'll still be commenting (after 8 PM, or on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.)
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Thanks for your help!
It’s been great having you as a weekend editor. Thanks so much for all your work.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
I just don't think I would ever be able to do that.
I have trouble enough getting up at 8:15 for class.
Or when he's got a kid asking for froot loops at 4AM.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 14, 2010 4:33 PM CST up reply actions
My parents would've told me to go back to bed
Or to get my own Fruit Loops
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Feb 15, 2010 8:39 AM CST up reply actions
trademark spelling fail
yes, it really is “Froot”
sadly.
by PagsBrewCrew on Feb 15, 2010 8:57 AM CST up reply actions
My bad
I’ve never noticed. Maybe because the last time I ate Froot Loops I couldn’t read
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Feb 15, 2010 11:54 AM CST up reply actions
Seriously?
We ate cold cereal in our house until I left for college, at which point I continued to eat cold cereal – in fact I crushed it.
Of course as I got older I ate more of the Raisin Bran, and mini-wheats — but I certainly ate some of the sugary ones well into high-school. Kelloggs always had baseball cards in their cereal, that was a factor in our house.
I refrained from making a Marquette/literacy joke here — just for the record.
Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog
by Fatter than Joey on Feb 15, 2010 2:18 PM CST up reply actions
Wow... you actually got up early enough to eat breakfast?
When I was in college, I barely got up early enough to shower/get dressed. If I had a few minutes, I threw a couple Pop Tarts into the toaster… otherwise, it was off to class with a grumbling stomach.
I'm not really a fan of breakfast food (other than bacon)
so I often avoid eating it. I didn’t really like Froot Loops either. I was more or a Reeses Puff’s/Lucky Charms girl when I was a kid.
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Feb 15, 2010 5:02 PM CST up reply actions
It's spelled that way for a reason...
there isn’t really any fruit in the cereal… the beauty of artificial flavoring!
Agreed
I’m not sure if my parents did it intentionally or it just happened this way, but Saturday mornings at my house were a great lesson in independence and the value of quiet.
There was never a rule about how early I was allowed to get up, and as an only child I had control over the TV and video games until someone else got up. So, I got up at 4 or 5 and enjoyed the ability to watch whatever I wanted or play whatever game I wanted as long as I wanted, as long as I could do so without waking anyone else up. Because I was routinely up so early, I’d get tired and go to bed early. Double bonus.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, my mother in law recently showed me notes she used to leave for her two daughters, with detailed directions for things like making microwave oatmeal, pouring a bowl of cereal, etc.
Either way, neither of us were bothering anyone for Froot Loops at 4 am.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
We heated our house with a wood furnace.
So usually the first person to cross my Dad’s path was hauling in wood in the AM, so it paid to be ninja-y in our house in the early AM.
Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog
by Fatter than Joey on Feb 15, 2010 2:19 PM CST up reply actions
I never used to be a morning person
But this site has changed me. I’m up at 6:15 every weekday to start working on the Mug. On the weekends I sleep until 8 or so, but I try not to go much longer than that, to keep my sleep cycle in a rhythm.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
How much is Lopez asking?
And what happens to a guy like this? He can obviously play (better than a lot of people on rosters at his position), does he suck it up and sign a 1-yr somewhere?
OPS-against-pitch
from the IBH bill james links.
How is that statistically valid? A player doesn’t have a full AB against a particular pitch. So, how are “outs” calculated? Just based on the final pitch of an AB? I could see a BABIP-against-pitch, but not avg, obp, ops, etc.
I'll have to look it up in the handbook myself
once I can find the thing. I liked the relief section and the “pitchers hitting, hitters pitching” sections but there’s a lot of stuff there that may just be for amusement purposes only.
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