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Beau Vine

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  1. That's a bigger problem if you're selecting the hockey field (16 teams). But ASU got an at-large bid this season with the #49 RPI. If you're not in the Top 50, even with some catastrophic injuries early, you're probably not that great in the first place.
  2. Boyd Nation (from old rec.sport.baseball.college) developed this thing called the ISR: http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/isr/currentisr.html IIRC, his criticism of the RPI is that it's biased if you don't have sufficient play across regions. In areas where you have few teams (West), your rankings will tend to be pulled to the mean, while in areas where there are lots of teams (South), you don't have that problem, so the RPI tends to overrate Southern teams and underrate Western teams. He once sent me a numerical example showing this, but I've long since lost it -- it might be on his boydsworld page. He once told me that when Pat Murphy was at ASU, Murph paid for him to fly to the national coaches' conference and do a presentation on this and introduce ISR. Boyd said that every other coach just sat there with their eyes glazed over and nothing came from it.
  3. OK, this one is pretty amazing... Definition first: "Career Triple Crown" = won batting title, HR title, and RBI title sometime in their career (but not in the same year, so we're not talking about Yaz, Miggy, Williams, etc.). Here's the list of season Triple Crown winners so that you can know who's eliminated: https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/triple_crowns.shtml Hint: Example: Here's Babe Ruth (probably the easiest of the ten): That's a HR title in 1918, an RBI title in 1919, and a batting title in 1924 for his Career Triple Crown, and he never led in all three in the same season. (This does leave out Negro Leagues, so do not count Turkey Stearns.)
  4. And make sure you read all the bricks surrounding the Tony Gwynn statue. Bring Kleenex.
  5. I think RPI sucks and has demonstrated biases, but I'd be happier if they seeded the whole tournament using nothing but RPI, rather than claiming that they don't rely on it that much. NCAA hockey tournament goes straight off their computer rankings, and their selection process almost never has any controversy.
  6. I think Oracle is the most overrated sports stadium I've ever been to. The setting is beautiful, but the wind suuuuuucks and I thought the sight lines were terrible from the upper and lower decks. Upper deck is so steep that you feel like you're a mile away. Lower deck slope is not steep enough and it's hard to see around the people in front of you. My rankings would be: 1. Fenway 2. Coors 3. San Diego 4. Seattle 5. Wrigley 6-10: Dodgers, Minnesota, Texas, KC, and Houston in some order. Have not been to PNC, and if we were doing this for all parks, old Tiger Stadium would be a runaway #1.
  7. Geraldo Perdomo has a 144 OPS+ with 33 BB and only 25 K. Who saw that coming?
  8. I started to make a joke about this, but then I made the mistake of actually thinking about it and now my brain feels all broken. Can anyone tell me how it makes any sense at all for the Rockies to sign Orlando Arcia?
  9. And 15th in attendance IIRC.
  10. When you see it...
  11. My daughter took her first trip to the CWS with me that season, and she was a huge fan of their CF Ollie Linton, who just caught absolutely everything that didn't go over the wall. He was a teammate of Goldschmidt in the minors, and when I mentioned that she was a big fan to Paul, Ollie sent my daughter an autographed ball.
  12. Disch-Falk wouldn't have played or felt like a home series either the way Irvine's pitching and defense dominated.
  13. And somehow, they managed to NOT hire Brian O'Connor last summer, when they had all of this future major league talent returning, but NOW he's the guy and he's ready and anxious to become an agroid!
  14. This guy is getting the rollercoaster going:
  15. HCU: https://hcuhuskies.com/sports/baseball/stats/2025
  16. Breaking News: Texas A&M has accepted a bid to the baseball NIT. The Aggies, defending almost-national champions, have been named the #1 seed in the field and will host SMU in a 3-game series at Olsen Field Friday-Monday.
  17. Seems odd that UALR doesn't get sent to Fayetteville...
  18. Some people have to be angry about something.
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