Comments on: Wrapping Up The Silva Thing

By: VaughnStreet

VaughnStreet — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:04:28 +0000

This team sucks, and there’s no point analyzing much further. At least Baker provides insightful reporting. But if you want crappy analysis, he’s no better than that gawd awful detect-o-vision.

A lot of people are losing their minds over this crappy team, and if they don’t start firing the craptastic players, and damned soon, there’s going to be blood.

By: smb

smb — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:58:23 +0000

Being named Jose Vidro?

By: Milendriel

Milendriel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:31:03 +0000

This is why good hypotheses are formed a priori. And really, if a mechanical change is all it takes to go from suck to good, what excuse is there for ever sucking?

By: Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:42:37 +0000

I don’t think we can call that legit. Sounds to me like Silva was just trying to retroactively explain away why he struggled early on.

By: Mere Tantalisers

Mere Tantalisers — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:50:40 +0000

Baker’s other counterargument – that Silva ‘got comfortable’ with the new technique or whatever in the fifth – was actually legit. It was also an absurdly small sample so we’ll see how the next start goes.

By: bratman

bratman — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:30:01 +0000

Group A is full of good players, while Group B is full of disastrously awful players

hahaha wow – that made my morning. its a sad day in Mariner-dom where Gee-off is turning on the USSM.

By: Spanky

Spanky — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:22:08 +0000

Dave, I’ve appreciated many things you’ve written over the past 3 or 4 years, but the last part of this post has to be one of my most favorite. It’s truly unfortunately that it involved Baker being utterly stupid. Does he think we dislike them because they can’t act in a TV commercial or something? How stupid does he think we are as fans if he thinks we base our like/dislike of a player for anything other than their performance? Has he drunk the Mariner Organization Kool-aid?

Rather than post their names, maybe you should just list them by their stats. If we put Mr. .571…that is obviously Vidro (his OPS). You know…just now typing .571 I was just astounded that we have someone even on the team (let alone being our DH and #4 hitter) that is sporting a .571 OPS!!!

.571…let that sink in….571!!!

Maybe if we did that, no one (not even Baker) could write something so stupid again.

By: Malicious_Draconian

Malicious_Draconian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:54:56 +0000

Wow, I just read that Baker article, and he took almost everything Dave said completely out of context so he could sound smart…it is almost like he didn’t read the articles and let someone else that hates sabermetrics explain how dumb Dave’s post was…I really like how he said that Dave claimed Silva threw a splitter, and then went on to tell you that is crap…

By: Some Dude

Some Dude — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:16:51 +0000

Since when the hell has Bedard been on anyone’s “fan favorite” list?

By: 88fingerslukee

88fingerslukee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:16:15 +0000

Is there any way we can stop Baker from analyzing and have him stick to reporting news?