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His methods don't work.

Kurtz: "What did they tell you?"

Willard: "They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound."

Kurtz: "Are my methods unsound?"

Willard: "I don't see any method, at all, sir."

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That list is pathetic. Meche already pitched today again! Good grief.

Dave says "mild injuries". I say "Benson out for the year". Dave includes pitcher who pitched today on injured list!

Nothing wrong with making an unsubstantiated comment and taking it back, Dave.

Benson = Trachsel. The O's are losing very little, if anything, in that exchange.

Meanwhile I give you a whole list of guys as good but mostly better (several far better) than Benson, and you scoff at it because one guy out of three dozen is now back.

The O's injury woes so far this year have been mild. Hernandez is a solid catcher and not easily replaced, but he's hardly a superstar or a game-changer. Beyond him, it's a whole lot of nothing. You're in a world of hurt if you can't get by without Jay Payton or Jaret Wright.

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Benson = Trachsel. The O's are losing very little, if anything, in that exchange.

Meanwhile I give you a whole list of guys as good but mostly better (several far better) than Benson, and you scoff at it because one guy out of three dozen is now back.

The O's injury woes so far this year have been mild. Hernandez is a solid catcher and not easily replaced, but he's hardly a superstar or a game-changer. Beyond him, it's a whole lot of nothing. You're in a world of hurt if you can't get by without Jay Payton or Jaret Wright.

Benson is better than Trachsel.

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LOL!

Benson's better than Trax because SG's crystal ball says so.

How persuasive.

Benson's DIPS last year was 5.25...Trax's was 4.98.

Adjust for park, league and defense and Trax's DIPS would be alot closer, if not above, 5.50 and that was for last year.

Trax will be very lucky to have an ERA better than 5.50 this year. Benson should have easily done that this year.

However Dave, we are still talking about easily replaceable guys as you were saying.

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Benson's DIPS last year was 5.25...Trax's was 4.98.

Adjust for park, league and defense and Trax's DIPS would be alot closer, if not above, 5.50 and that was for last year.

Trax will be very lucky to have an ERA better than 5.50 this year. Benson should have easily done that this year.

However Dave, we are still talking about easily replaceable guys as you were saying.

Yeah I got you the first time.

Benson's better than Trax because your crystal ball says so.

And out of curiosity, why would you adjust DIPS for defense? Or how, for that matter?

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Yeah I got you the first time.

Benson's better than Trax because your crystal ball says so.

And out of curiosity, why would you adjust DIPS for defense? Or how, for that matter?

Well, if he had our defense behind him last year, his overall ERA would have been higher, thus his DIPS would have been higher.

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Do you even know what DIPS stands for?

What does this have to do with anything? Yes, i know what it stands for btw.

The point is that Trax was pretty much as bad as Benson last year and he did it in a far easier league, division, park to pitch in and with a much better team around him.

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What does this have to do with anything? Yes, i know what it stands for btw.

The point is that Trax was pretty much as bad as Benson last year and he did it in a far easier league, division, park to pitch in and with a much better team around him.

Why don't you tell us what DIPS is an acronym for then.

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