Comments on: Can’t Win ‘Em All

By: RIYank

RIYank — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:37:32 +0000

Hm, what would be a good verb meaning “to help construct a .500 team with a $175M payroll”?

“If you want to seriously James up a team, you’re going to have to pay some guys not to play.”

“I wonder who Cherrington can get to BJ his team this winter.”

I kind of like the second one.

By: Dimelo

Dimelo — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:48:43 +0000

[1] F-K You Bill James!!!

By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo

Mr OK Jazz Tokyo — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 08:22:14 +0000

[1] Love his Historical Abstract but Bill James has always been an arrogant Yankee hater. And Jeter is 14th on the all time hit list, he deserves all the praise he gets.

By: Ara Just Fair

Ara Just Fair — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:23:05 +0000

[1] Fuck James! And for the first time in months I’m not talking about the basketball player. : ) I missed about 95% of tonight’s game. But I did see that lanky #77 ss make a few plays. Damn. That’s how you throw the ball, NunE(4,5,6,7)! I hope the good guys are awake tomorrow. No use going into the ASB with a 2 game losing streak.

By: Bruce Markusen

Bruce Markusen — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:01:37 +0000

Well, Red Sox employee Bill James is at it again. In one of his mailbox sessions, he was asked about player names being used in a way to describe an illness or condition. As part of his response, he says, “In my household, laying on excessive and redundant praise is called “Jetering”.” Nice.

You would think a guy who works for the Red Sox would be told to lay off the bulletin board talk about the team’s archrival.

And Bill, what is overmanaging and alienating your players called, “Valentining?”