SB Nation User Blog: appleshampoo

BSU jerseys

appleshampoo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:30:48 -0000

Hey folks,

I'm looking to buy a BSU jersey but I'm not finding a lot of options on line. The official BroncoShop online has no jerseys at all, although I did find a couple 3rd-party stores that had replicas:

College Football Store

The Blue and Orange store

I like the first store because they have something other than the new unis this year, which I really don't like. The orange Adidias replica looks pretty good.

I'll be in Boise for Christmas but I'd like to order something before then, anyone have any suggestions? As far as numbers go, I'd be okay with Kellen (#11) which seems to be the most widely available now, but it would be super cool to find a place that offers customizable numbers - I'd really like a 25 (Korey Hall) or a 79 (Clady).

Thanks!

Buying an authentic jersey: nflshop.com vs. denverbroncosproshop.com

appleshampoo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:53:01 -0000

Hey folks, I'm looking to buy my first authentic Broncos jersey (orange 78 Clady FTW). First I went to the shop link from DenverBroncos.com and started my order, but when I got to the page for the orange customizable authentics, the sizes were severely limited (only 46, 54, 56; I need a 50). The price here was $269.99

I then went to nflshop.com and they have the the right size for what I need, but the price is $239.99. Now I'm not one to complain about a lower price, but it seems weird that the prices are different and that the NLF wouldn't mandate that all the teams sell their stuff through a branded version of the main NFLshop site (MLB does this). They are both supposed to be authentic NFL-spec jerseys, so I wonder at the price difference...

So basically I'm just looking to see if anyone has experience buying from one or both of these sources and has any advice to stay away from one or the other. I'm itching to pull the trigger on the NFL shop site, but if the DB shop is going to restock the sizes and there is a legitimate reason to wait around for it, I could do that.

FYI I searched old FanPosts and found this nice post on spotting fake "authentic" jerseys, but nothing on this specific topic.

Thanks for any insight!

tRA on FanGraphs

appleshampoo — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:30:27 -0000

tRA on FanGraphs

In case y'all didn't read this over on FanGraphs. Props to Graham for getting his work on a legitimate baseball statistics site (har har).

Washburn "turning a corner" etc

appleshampoo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:00:19 -0000

I was going to put this as a comment in the recap thread, but understandably the comments closed.

Regarding whether Jarrod has "figured something out" or "turned a corner" or the always-entertaining and mythical "tweaked his mechanics and is doing something different now." Clearly he is the beneficiary of our new amazing outfield defense, but he's also posting some better peripherals.

He's posting a swinging strike rate of 7.5%, compared to last year's 6.0%, which is a career high from the years available on StatCorner. His K/9 is up to 5.90 which is also a career high. His groundballs are slightly up from career average (38.0% compared to 36.2%) and his flyballs are slightly down (40.2% / 43.5%). LD% is pretty much right in with his career norms. His HR/FB% is at 8.5% which is only slightly lower than his career norms, which makes it seem unlikely he's going to start allowing tons of bombs.

Maybe the percentages I'm quoting here are too small to be relevant, but all this combined amounts to his tRA this year of 5.16, which is silghtly down from his past years in Seattle. I know the basics of tRA but not the intimate details, I'm guessing the slight improvement in the above peripherals accounts for the slight dip.

So all that being said, I think it's possible in Washubrn's case he actually has figured something out with the new 2-seamer, and while I think he's getting way more credit in the MSM due to the shiny ERA (mostly defense, .248 BABIP), it seems like around these parts he's getting very little credit for some legit improvements.

Last night was fun but obviously that was way beyond his ability - let's give him some credit for actually improving a bit so far this year, though. Maybe that improvement is too small to warrant a fanpost of this magnitude, but I felt like saying it after the repeated "he's the exact same crappy pitcher with good defense" comments. He seems to be a slightly less-crappy pitcher with good defense.

live-update comment usability bug

appleshampoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:40:27 -0000

Hi folks,

I've been really annoyed recently with what looks to be a usability bug in SBN2.0, so I'm posting to see if other people are experiencing it or if it's just my uncommon setup (Firefox + Ubuntu GNU/Linux).

It happens when you are scrolling through comments, either using Z or C+X, although I'll reference 'X' for this post, since that's how I do it. When a new comment appears above you. If at this point you hit X (or Z) to try to mark the comment you are currently visiting as 'read', it will actually mark the new comment above your focus as 'read', and you lose the ability to scroll to and find the new comment (other than by manually searching for it).

You can try to mitigate the bug manually by scrolling back to your current comment anytime you notice a new comment has appeared above you (you can usually notice the screen shifting down). But then you get into a race condition, because if you hit 'X' within a very short amount of time of a new comment appearing above you, you'll usually un-mark the wrong comment. This gets really bad in heavy game threads, as you can hit 'X', then wait for a few seconds as a bunch of new comments come in, and then end up marking a comment way above you as read which wasn't even on the page when you hit 'X'.

Anyway I'll stop rambling now as hopefully I've laid the problem out pretty clearly. I'm surprised no one else has bitched about this, hence my suspicion it's not an issue in IE or on Windows. In any case I should probably just talk to the SBN tech folks, but I wanted to get some feedback first. Does SBN have an official support channel or bug-tracking site somewhere for us proles? Or should I just funnel my feedback through the mods? It doesn't seem like the fix should be too hard, just don't change the focus when a new comment appear above the current focus.

Thanks for reading, and let's go get 'em Erik.

MLB jersey sizes

appleshampoo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:46:32 -0000

I'm thinking about dropping too much money on a Felix Venezuela WBC jersey, because I think they look really sharp, and I've been needing a jersey for a while now (hopefully they don't get knocked out and he gets at least another outing, but anyway).

This is the one at which I'm looking; however, I'm a little distressed about the size options. Looking at this sizing chart, based on my dress shirt/pant size measurements I should probably be a medium, but in regular t-shirts I'm usually a large/XL depending on the fit. These things always look huge, so I'm wondering if the sizes just run a little big. Any experiences from you guys that have bought the MLB replica jerseys in the past would be great. Thanks!

For some reason I thought some people here might find this amusing.

appleshampoo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:06:31 -0000

For some reason I thought some people here might find this amusing.

LL wiki, is it dead?

appleshampoo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:28:37 -0000

I noticed it's no longer sidebar-linked (or I'm blind), although there have been edits as recently as 25 Jan:
Recent Changes
However, I can't edit any pages whether I'm logged in or not.

Mostly I just wanted to fix Ichiro's page, which still says he's a center fielder. I'm sure there are lots of other potential improvements that could be made, but it might be best to let it die given how outdated it is.

Filling the other position?

appleshampoo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:39:11 -0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't seen or heard much about the Broncos looking for a new GM. Quote from Bowlen's press conference:

On if he will be looking for a new general manager
"We haven’t gotten to that point yet."

So does that mean he might keep the GM responsibilities for himself? For the historically ignorant, before Shanny took over GM duties, did the Broncos have a separate GM in place or was Bowlen making the personnel decisions?

New-ish here

appleshampoo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:52:27 -0000

Hey folks,

I have been lurking off and on here for a while and have decided to start posting more, I hope I can contribute positively to the discussion. Since I haven't been around much, please let me know if any of my posts are re-hashing old subjects that have been beaten to death, etc. Also are there any ground rules here or anything, beyond the basic SBN stuff?

I am a 12-year Broncos fan, but over that span I haven't paid much attention to the off season and personnel management, mostly I have just watched the games. I'm hoping to change that as it will give me something to do during the NFL off-season, and I enjoy following baseball player deals and off-season shenanigans (highly recoment LL if you are a Mariners fan).

I grew up in Boise, ID and hence have a tendency to be a Plummer fanboy, which I will do my best to keep to a minimum...I have fond memories of his '04-'05 seasons (especially the win over NE, so so sweet) and try to block out his '06 collapse from memory as much as possible, though it's why he's not playing anymore.

Also being from Boise I'm a huge BSU Broncos fan and am stoked that Denver picked up Clady and he had an awesome season, and was intrigued to see Putzier back on the roster at the end of '08.

That's it, I'm in Seattle and have never been to a Broncos game in person...hoping to make the trip to Invesco sometime in the next few years. Also if the NFL doesn't re-jigger their scheduling algorithm, Denver will come here in '10, which I will absolutely go to.