Flip Flop Fly Ball

MikeD. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:28:26 -0000

Flip Flop Fly Ball

If you love baseball (and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say everyone that frequents this site does) and are interested in infographics, this site is pretty cool. I found it randomly from someone I'm following on twitter.

Annoying Broadcaster Clichés

MikeD. — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:08:31 -0000

I know that everyone here has his or her own personal gripes with broadcaster clichés, but I figured I'd bring up the two that annoy the bejesus out of me. Basically, I used to hear these sorts of things being spouted by broadcasters and once amateur bloggers caught on I heard and read similar statements everywhere. I'm not sabre-inclined, but each of these just seem so wrong to me:

1.) As [INSERT THE NAME OF A "SPARKPLUG" PLAYER] goes, so too do the [INSERT TEAM NAME]

Example usage of phrase:

Jimmy Rollins has really been struggling lately. Let's hope he can right the ship. Everyone knows that as J-Roll goes, so too do the Phils.

2.) The [INSERT TEAM NAME] are [INSERT RIDICULOUS .700 OR .800 RECORD] when [INSERT PLAYER NAME] scores a run.

Example usage of phrase.

The Mets are 34-6 when Jose Reyes scores a run.

A bit more after the jump...

Ok, so I'm a big fan of BTB and this whole community, but I'm still an infant when it comes to adding any graphs or sabremetric data to support my conclusions, so I may need some of the community's help here. That said, as I stated earlier, my intuition tells me that each of these statements is just flat out stupid (especially statement two).

I just fail to see why it's any more valuable to a team if Jose Reyes scores a run versus if Luis Castillo scores a run. What difference does it make? I see each of these statements as being similar to one another.

What do you guys think? Can you prove me right? Wrong?

(P.S. this is my first ever fan post... so go easy on me if this topic has already been brought up.)

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Flip Flop Fly Ball

Flip Flop Fly Ball

Annoying Broadcaster Clichés