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    Markakis being inducted into Os HOF

    in Orioles Talk

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    Was Cal an underachiever? I think if he had taken a few rest days along the way he could have actually put up some better numbers instead of the playing all those games through bumps and bruises where he was at less than 100%. 

    And imagine how good Babe Ruth would have been if he had been more serious about baseball instead of constantly, eating, drinking, and carousing.

    Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

    in MLB

    Posted

    9/9 today 57 total. Been struggling lately trying to thread the needle on rarity too much. Today I had nothing below 1% and didn't feel like thinking hard enough to avoid the #1 answer for Atl/NYM. Squeezed 4 Orioles in though.

     

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    Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

    in MLB

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    8/9 with 4 Orioles. @SteveA I got the same Bos/RF as you but kept it at .2%. My miss was guessing Gregg Jeffries when I meant who I got in mil/phi square.

     

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    Geoff Jenkins (5%), Todd Frohwirth (.01%), Richie Ashburn (6%)

    No guess, Jake Peavy (6%), Tony Gwynn (47%)

    Gerardo Parra (.2%), Darnell McDonald (.2%), Nick Markakis (.9%)

     

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    Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

    in MLB

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    Got a 9/9 today for a high score of 172. Was able to use a former Oriole in bottom right.

     

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    Jackie Robinson (67), Larry Doby (46), Minnie Minoso (51)

    Joe Beimel (.3), Brian Giles (4), Dovydas Neverauskas (.2)

    Pete Reiser (.2), Emmanuel Clase (2), Everth Cabrera (.07)

     

    Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

    in MLB

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Frobby said:

    They’re giving everyone an incentive to learn a little bit about the Negro Leagues, which is good.   I looked at a list of the Negro League players who are in the Hall of Fame (some of them also played in the AL/NL later), and I only knew 13 of the 34.  But I haven’t missed a Negro League question yet   

     

     

     

    I’m definitely for it. I got Larry Doby at 1B which I felt good about but I definitely need to brush up. My wrong guess was Hank Aaron. I thought his career started earlier I guess.

    Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

    in MLB

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    I got 9/9 all Orioles with a score of 37, 30 of it coming from one player. It's not my lowest score, but probably the one I'm most proud of. Had 2 players under .01%. 

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    Jim Thome - Brady Anderson - Jose Mesa

    Ryan O'Hearn - David Lough - Bruce Chen

    Scott Moore - Felix Pie - Lou Montanez

     

     

    Chris Davis 2019 and beyond

    in Orioles Talk

    Posted

    2 hours ago, 25 Nuggets said:

    Update to the misery:

    Davis is now OPSing .465, down from .480 at the start of this thread.  His OPS+ is 30.

    • He has struck out 83 times compared to 31 base hits.  He is approaching 3 Ks per base hit.  I don't know if that's ever been done in a qualifying full season.
    • He has four (4) home runs in 56 games played out of 64.  That is on pace for a whopping ten (10) HR on the season.  If that holds up, the past four years he will have gone down from 47, to 38, to 26, to ten HR.
    • His rWAR has reached -2.0.  His career rWAR was 17.9 and now it's 15.9.  He is on pace for -5.1 on the season.
    • His fWAR is merely -1.8.  His career fWAR was 17.0 and now it's 15.2.  He is on pace for -4.6 on the season.
    • As if you needed a reminder - he is making $23 million this season, partially deferred, and there are four more to go.

     

    Is it possible that he could get his career WAR back to zero by the end of this contract?

    History and Biographies

    in Book and Writers Club

    Posted

    I finished the John Adams biography and it was excellent, except that the guy lived for another 25 years after he was President so the book becomes less interesting over the last couple hundred pages. One thing I did not know, prior to reading this, is how accomplished John Quincy Adams was before he became President. The guy was going on diplomatic missions as a teenager. And all this time I assumed he was the 19th Century precursor to George W. Bush.

    Now I'm on to the Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow. I've read more history/biography in the last few months than I did in the previous ten years. I figure as long as I'm boning up on the Revolutionary/post-Revolutionary period, I may as well cover all the big names.

    I read the Hamilton bio last summer and he quickly became my favorite revolutionary-era figure. A brilliant, but flawed man who received an excellent treatment by Chernow. Chernow's bio of Washington is also excellent if you ever get the chance.

    History and Biographies

    in Book and Writers Club

    Posted

    I just finished John Adams last night, and read 1776 a couple years ago. I have the Johnstown Flood and also want to read Truman by McCullough.

    Over the summer I read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and it was excellent. I just bought Chernow's latest on George Washington which comes in at just over 900 pages. For me, he's up there with McCullough as far as writing on the founding fathers.

    Does anyone have a good recommendation for a Jefferson biography? After reading Hamilton and Adams, Jefferson doesn't come across very well. So if anyone knows of a good, fair biography of Jefferson, I'd appreciate the input.

    Short rants.

    in Rants

    Posted

    Dear jingle writers from 1990,

    I'll eat pizza any time I damn well please, bagel or no bagel. I've had enough of your heavy handed morality singing telling me that if I'm eating pizza in the morning, and it's not on a bagel, then it's not okay.

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