A good win today. Not Unit's best outting (5 innings, 6 hits, 6 runs, 4 BB, 2 SO, 4.71 ERA)

Thought you Red Sox fans should know Curt Schilling is planning on retiring after the 2007 season [/b][/quote]Why would that upset me? Hes been great. We have Lester, Papelbon, and Beckett as our future starters who do the Yankees have?

Sorry Don Jasani, we just had to take that series from ya :p A good note to go to Boston with

Funny Irishman you have the unique ability to be in denial about your team. You say something, I respond and then....nothing you have nothing to say. Oh yea nice win by the BoSox tonight, Ortiz what can I say? He's the man!

ortiz is the man. and to top it off damon did nothing tonight.the man upstairs is getting him back for being a yankee lol

Want to say Johnny Damon was a class act at Fenway. Its a shame the fans didn't cheer him. I understand why some of us are mad but once I saw that I wish people gave him a cheer. From now on though...FUCK YOU JOHNNY DAMON, YOUR A LITTLE BITCH AND YOUR WIFE HAS GOT YOU BY THE BALLS! GO SOX

Typical hypocrite fan who's crying because his OWNER couldn't and wouldn't get a deal done with Johnny Damon. Blame yourselves! New York had the balls to offer him the cash and he went. Since the Red Sox had no spine they didn't resign him!

Red Sox fans have to wake up and shut up about loyalty. How about loyalty from Red Sox management, who refused to sign your beloved Damon?

So change your mantra to this;
FUCK YOU JOHNNY DAMON, YOUR A LITTLE BITCH WHO WAS A HUGE PART OF US WINNING A WORLD SERIES AND YOUR WIFE HAS GOT YOU BY THE BALLS, LIKE EVERY OTHER MAN ON EARTH!

Typical hypocrite fan who's crying because his OWNER couldn't and wouldn't get a deal done with Johnny Damon. Blame yourselves! New York had the balls to offer him the cash and he went. Since the Red Sox had no spine they didn't resign him!

Red Sox fans have to wake up and shut up about loyalty. How about loyalty from Red Sox management, who refused to sign your beloved Damon?

So change your mantra to this;
FUCK YOU JOHNNY DAMON, YOUR A LITTLE BITCH WHO WAS A HUGE PART OF US WINNING A WORLD SERIES AND YOUR WIFE HAS GOT YOU BY THE BALLS, LIKE EVERY OTHER MAN ON EARTH! [/b][/quote]THANK YOU DON ANDREW! It wasn't Damon's fault the Red Sox didn't resign him. He went to a team that is a contender for the World Series every year and for a team that actually WANTED him. Sure, if Theo was in the front office he would have resigned him much the same he resigned Ortiz (DAME!). But, your loss is our gain. I cracked up when I heard people in Boston on ESPN saying "You can keep him, we got Coco." I just thought that was so hilarious Blame your front office Boston, NOT Johnny Damon

You guys don't think I appreciate what Damon did?? Are you kidding me when did I say that? My problem with Damon is hes a hipocrite. In Spring Training '05 he is quoted as saying he wouldn't go to the Yankees, he said the Yankees would come at him hard but that it wouldn't matter.
You guys probably didn't know that did you? Its ok though we all make mistakes. I'll love Damon as a Red Sox 6 RBI's in game 7 in '04 it was unbelievable.
As for the management I like the price they set on Damon. He got the same offer as Jason Varitek did 4 for $40 mil. So I don't think they relayed to Damon that they didn't care. The Yankees were hell bent on overpaying for Damon. I understand exactly why they did it, I have no animosity towards the Yankees in signing Damon they needed a leadoff hitter and they got it. I like the Sox picking up Coco to replace Damon.
So don't give me that "Boston Sour grapes" bullshit cause thats a tired act. I simply don't like Damon because he is on the YANKEES, the Yankee fans would feel the same way if a guy like...well i'm not gonna guess. Lets say for argument sake Bernie Williams. I say him because the Red Sox went after him real hard that year his contract was up I think in '99 or '00.

Some might. But at the same time - I think we could appreciate the fact that if he was getting a better deal in Boston, it would make more sense. Bernie is a class act.

Yea some might cheer him, but remember those same Yankee fans booed DEREK JETER! Or did you knuckle heads forget that? So I think you should all re-exam the Johnny Damon situation for Red Sox fans.

1.) Johnny Damon is a baseball player.
2.) Baseball players play for money and the World Series.
3.) The Yankees offered Johnny Damon money and a chance at the World Series.
4.) The Red Sox offered Johnny Damon less money and not so-good of a chance at the World Series.
5.) Johnny Damon signs with the Yankees.
6.) Boston fans boo the former face of their franchise, throw dollars at him.

Not much more analysis needed...

YOU GUYS BOOED DEREK JETER! you have no point.

A good win tonight for those Yanks. A good loss tonight for those Red Cocks. It couldn't have been a better night for baseball

I didn't.

Regards,
Double-J

AL EAST STANDINGS (Look at those shitty Yankees! :p )

I suggest you re-do your chart, DJ, with the six teams across the top and all the categories down the side so it doesn't extend the screen way out to the right and make the chart un-readable.

I'd do it for you, but I gotta run.

(Never mind....done)

What's that last column, "ExW-L"?

That's strange, maybe it has to do with screen resolution, because I checked it in the preview screen and again once I posted it, and it didn't stretch my screen...maybe my screen is set at a higher resolution?

As far as ExW-L goes:

That's from ESPN.

You also had some of the columns mis-aligned, and some numbers were misplaced.

Anyway.....

Strangely enough, I'm familiar with James' "Pythagorean Theorem", I just didn't realize that's what it was or that ESPN gave it any credence.

Basically, your (or ESPN's) explanation is pretty much it.

When he first developed the formula and tested it over hundreds of teams across dozens of seasons, it was amazing how close teams came to their actual W-L records after applying the formula to their runs scored and runs allowed.

The Yankees here are a great example, though, of the formula not working.

Because of all of their lopsided wins in which they scored bunches of unnecessary runs, and close losses in which some of those unnecessary runs scored in the wins might have averted some of the losses had they been scored in different games, their projected W-L record, had their runs been normally distributed, works out to be better than their actual W-L record.

Which is strange, because, as I said, I took some time to try and keep editing it until they were perfect on my screen, so maybe the resolution has something to do with it.

Damon sucks and is washed up!

Oops, he just hit a grand slam.

:p

But then they'll cry "oh, it was only 1 grand slam." But the dude's got 4 home runs so far this year, and he's a LEAD OFF hitter

But Damon sucks. He's too old. Let's throw our money at him! That will really show him! :p

Nobody ever said Boston fans were necessarily intelligent.

No they aren't And why haven't we talked about Unit's accomplishment last night? Congrats Randy on being only the 3rd pitcher in major league history to record more than 4,400 strikeouts

Thats a nice achievement, but if I were you guys I'd resign myself to the fact that while we may get flashes of the dominant RJ, the days of seeing him as a consistently dominating pitcher are over, and I no longer think he's one of even the top 15 starters in baseball anymore.

Yes, and he has 250 of them while a Yankee.

Yeah and he's been playing for the Yankees for only a little over a season

Listening To Baseball 101

Previous nights broadcast is reviewed and critiqued, as students learn to pay little or no attention to the words of NY Yankees radio personality John Sterling.


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:p

Yes they do. :p (as scary as it is to watch them almost blow it!)

....how bout them Blue Jays baby