It's That Time Of Year Again...

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:44 am

A one and a two...Hit it John:

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:07 am

Girls' game. . .

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:41 pm

By a happy chance my favorite cousin is down from Maine for a work conference just outside Boston, accompanied by his lovely wife. They are driving down to meet me tonight at a local joint for dinner and to watch the opening BoSox game together - should be fun!

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 1:18 pm

Is any MLB team opening with a day game? Have the umpires announced just how they are gonna ignore the rule book about the strike zone this year?

Have any groundskeepers come up with a new artsy pattern for cutting the outfield grass?

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Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 4:45 pm

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Girls' game. . .

Meade, why don't you just pour yourself a warm beer, grab a bag of marmite covered cashews and watch a Jane Austen movie?

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:57 pm

BP, here's a list aof game times; quite a few are day games--pretty rare fir a weekday.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:34 pm

Lord Jim wrote:
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Girls' game. . .

Meade, why don't you just pour yourself a warm beer, grab a bag of marmite covered cashews and watch a Jane Austen movie?

What?!?!? While the cricket is on?!?!?

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:01 pm

No, during the tea interval.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:44 pm

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Girls' game. . .

You don't say.....

P L A Y B A L L ! ! !

-"BB"-

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:02 am

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Girls' game. . .

And as was shown here before, in the good ol' USA, we have 13 year old girls playing this game who can pitch as hard as professional cricket bowlers:

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RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:09 am

Burning Petard wrote:Is any MLB team opening with a day game?
snailgate

sg, I just found out the Phillies season opened today with a day game.

They apparently won 10 to 4 over the Braves.

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:18 am

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:24 pm

I get my fix with regular American Legion Ball and 2-3 times a season at the Wilmington DE Blue Rocks (when they are also having fireworks) MLB baseball in Baltimore or Philly is just too costly for me. TV baseball I find to be a travesty--the producers never give attention to what I want to see--the simultaneous movement of offense and defense players all over the field. Such as a runner on second, one out, right hand pitcher has high count, right hander at bat with 2 balls and no strikes, what is the bull pen doing and what is the right fielder doing, how big a lead does the runner take, where are the left fielder and short stop? I want to be able to check this all out in less time than it takes the pitcher to shake off one signal from the catcher.

Baseball is a beautiful game of potentials. Sometimes nothing happens for inning after inning and then suddenly it is like a pool game with two cue balls and both cue balls are moving at the same time among all the balls on the table.

snailgate.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:17 pm

Lord Jim wrote:And as was shown here before, in the good ol' USA, we have 13 year old girls playing this game who can pitch as hard as professional cricket bowlers

(a) bowlers do not pitch; they bowl. It's a different action.
(ii) bowlers would be terrible at basebats
(4) pitchers would be terrible at a gentleman's game
[..] enjoy your game where a batter is considered a genius if he fails only 2/3 of the time

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:14 pm

Ty Cobb was a great baseball player, in no small part because he was not a gentle man.

We like to do things with high probability of failure. Once upon a time the Brits did too. See career of Robert F Scott.

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RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:17 pm

Burning Petard wrote:Ty Cobb was a great baseball player, in no small part because he was not a gentle man...
snailgate

In my youth I was told that Ty Cobb was a racist and a cheat. Later on, I was told this was a horrible distortion of the truth.

I'd like to think this vid defines Cobb more as the man he was.

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:07 pm

and meade, very few good pitchers give up more than a few runs per game, while an average of nearly 19 runs (something only the worst pitchers would do in a game) per wicket will place a bowler among the best every (at least according to ESPN).

I'd have left it as comparing apples and oranges, but you chose to draw the parallel.

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:25 pm

MajGenl.Meade wrote:" ...
(4) pitchers would be terrible at a gentleman's game
[..] enjoy your game where a batter is considered a genius if he fails only 2/3 of the time

A lot of athletics were "gentlemen's games" until the competitive level improved and gentlemen hacks could not compete anymore.

MajGenl.Meade wrote:" ...

[..] enjoy your game where a batter is considered a genius if he fails only 2/3 of the time

Isaac Newton is considered a genius even though most of his career was spent doing alchemy which is today considered worthless.

yrs,
rubato

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:36 am

Oh but Big RR. . . it's the batter "hero" who fails 2/3 of the time (not the pitcher). Your stats bear out the point that rounders batters are not as good at their job (vs. the ball delivery person) as cricket batsmen. [As in basebats, the bowlers of course are not as proficient with a bat as are the "hitters" - to borrow a term]

Ah rubato, a gloom on every sunny day. But in the spirit of the thing, true science excels at failure in pursuit of the wrong object, thus clarifying the way forward, as does invention. Newton's (at the time not unreasonable) pursuit of 'chymistry' has no relevance to his contributions in different fields such as mathematics and physics.

Had Newton declared on two days out of every three that gravity did not exist but on one day insisted that it did, then even his genius would be in question.

ex-khobar Andy · Post by **ex-khobar Andy** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:02 pm

rubato wrote:
Isaac Newton is considered a genius even though most of his career was spent doing alchemy which is today considered worthless.

As it happens just yesterday I was reading an article on failure and how a scientist should treat it as just another data point. Plenty of people were saying that they had transmuted base metals (usually lead) into gold and to Newton, who was ignorant of the basic laws of atomic structure and thermodynamics - a couple of hundred years before its time - it seemed like an idea worth trying. Had he said that he had been successful he would have been a charlatan and a quack like the rest: he didn't and he wasn't. It's possible that some of his alchemical research led to chronic mercury poisoning which might explain some of his known issues which include what we would nowadays call mental breakdowns.

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