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  • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

    Originally posted by jen View Post
    Ted Williams may not be your best choice for a player to represent.... well, any other player. For very top level players, the numbers probably changed a lot less than most players, because how many players - any race - can bump Ted Williams down from anything? The talent level getting higher is a big reason - besides overt racism - that many players did not want integration. They were afraid they'd lose their jobs, because frankly, they weren't that great at their jobs when compared to a broader set of talent. I can't imagine it can be statistically proven, because you'd have to quantify what was missing, pre-integration, and compare it to post-integration to allow for the differences, and quantifying the talent in the Negro Leagues is an age old problem. Whether it's willful ignorance, bad record keeping, or aging - it's hard for people to imagine what MLB would have been like if it was integrated, and it's certainly not quantifiable in any way I can imagine. Common sense, with a little knowledge about the Negro League, stands that the lower level or even average players in MLB would have been bumped out of the league by average or high level Negro League talent, thus raising the bar.
    Spot on.
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    • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

      Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
      That, and it's tough for a headless skeleton to swing a bat.
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      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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      • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

        Wonder how many times a team that is on pace to set the major league record for number of wins after 120 games looks as bad as the Dodgers have looked for the last two weeks? Since sitting atop the baseball world with a .719 winning % on August 20, they've gone 5-12, been shut out 3 times, lost by 5 or more runs 4 times and been outscored by more than 30 runs. Right now their post season chances look to be shaping up a lot more like the 2001 Mariners than the 1998 Yankees.

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          Ruth was up against a taller mound and a much larger strike zone.

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            • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

              Is Cleveland going to lose again? Ever?
              the state of hockey is good

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              • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

                Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
                Is Cleveland going to lose again? Ever?
                A local window company did a deal where anyone who installed windows in July gets them for free if the Tribe rattles off 15 straight.

                They have to be sweating now.
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                • Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                  A local window company did a deal where anyone who installed windows in July gets them for free if the Tribe rattles off 15 straight.

                  They have to be sweating now.
                  Francona managed teams have a knack of fulfilling stores' promotions.
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                  • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

                    Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                    A local window company did a deal where anyone who installed windows in July gets them for free if the Tribe rattles off 15 straight.

                    They have to be sweating now.
                    Typically, stores that have those type of promotions buy insurance in case the event actually occurs. My guess is the window company is rooting for it to happen along with anyone who had their windows installed in July. That way, they'll get to promote the heck out of it next season and have even more business.

                    Now, the insurance company is probably sweating it, but people never seem to care about the insurance company's feelings.
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                    • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

                      Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                      A local window company did a deal where anyone who installed windows in July gets them for free if the Tribe rattles off 15 straight.

                      They have to be sweating now.
                      Originally posted by Fighting Sioux 23 View Post
                      Typically, stores that have those type of promotions buy insurance in case the event actually occurs. My guess is the window company is rooting for it to happen along with anyone who had their windows installed in July. That way, they'll get to promote the heck out of it next season and have even more business.

                      Now, the insurance company is probably sweating it, but people never seem to care about the insurance company's feelings.
                      Similar thing on a larger scale actually happened in 2007.

                      http://www.pricingforprofit.com/pric...-very-well.htm

                      http://www.pricingforprofit.com/pric...for-jordan.htm

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                      • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

                        And there's 15.

                        $1.8 million in window installations on the house.
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                        • In minor ball last night, the Mets' double A team suffered a no hitter after their 1 hit in the second was changed to an error in the 8th.

                          Sorry, Kepler.
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                          • Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                            And there's 15.

                            $1.8 million in window installations on the house.
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                              Brewers blowing out the Cubs. So the tv team is talking about coffee.
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                              • Re: 2017 MLB Season - The Goat Memorial Thread

                                Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
                                In minor ball last night, the Mets' double A team suffered a no hitter
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