4/29 vs Yankee$

[sbauer]

Thorne talking Fangraphs? Who knew?

Very interesting. I was surprised, and impressed, to hear him say that.

[mrbig1]

There goes the no hitter.

[Goober Noodles]

Anyone see the yankee fan who caught Hughes' foul ball? Dude was so proud of himself for catching a 20ft high 1 hopper. lol

[The Rick]

Very interesting. I was surprised, and impressed, to hear him say that.

Thorne has really been diving into statistics a lot more I've noticed in the past couple of weeks. I'm still amazed, however, at the mainstream radio guys (Garceau, Viviano, Davis, Conn, etc.) who still haven't evolved to appreciating the significance of more modern day statistics. All of those guys overvalue wins by starting pitchers WAY more than they should, and I don't think I've ever heard one of them talk about BABIP or other variables to explain a players hot or cold streak. I realize much of their audience wouldn't even know what they were talking about if they tried, but you gotta start somewhere.

[mrbig1]

Well that sucks.

[alaniee]

Wow awesome catch by Nick!!!

Great inning by Matusz!!!

:clap3: Time for the offense!

[berto]

Nice catch by Nick.

[Mackus]

Six pitches. Sexy.

[Icterus galbula]

Hell yeah Kakes and Matusz!

[Big Mac]

Nice play by Nick! quick inning for Matusz, lets get some offense going!!!

A leadoff HR by Reimold to start the inning would do the trick....

[alaniee]

Dang Reimold robbed of a single.... someday we'll get these breaks!! :cussing:

[Tank]

Reimold robbed. Wow what a play by Cano.

[berto]

Wow. Great play by Cano to rob Nolan.

[commish]

Burnett really doesn't have good command today. We've been hitting him square, just need to start driving these mistake pitches.

[sbauer]

Thorne has really been diving into statistics a lot more I've noticed in the past couple of weeks. I'm still amazed, however, at the mainstream radio guys (Garceau, Viviano, Davis, Conn, etc.) who still haven't evolved to appreciating the significance of more modern day statistics. All of those guys overvalue wins by starting pitchers WAY more than they should, and I don't think I've ever heard one of them talk about BABIP or other variables to explain a players hot or cold streak. I realize much of their audience wouldn't even know what they were talking about if they tried, but you gotta start somewhere.

You're right. Of all of them, I'm more surprised by Conn and even Viviano. Although I'd imagine it's difficult to have an intelligent conversation when your co-host is the Bulldog.

With that said, football season is quickly approaching. Phone lines will turn to all Ravens, all the time. Between that, and the really awful caller opinions, I'd imagine it'd would be quite difficult to keep a stats conversation going.