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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #725: August 14, 2015, 05:15:01 PM »
John Farrell has cancer :(   I've liked him since 2007 and wanted the Nats to hire him, mainly because he is a very good looking man :mg: Some Sox fans are very down on him for the past 2 years but 2013 was such an unexpected gift of a season I just can't help but think he's terrific, good thing is it sounds like it was caught early but man, what a bummer for an already atrocious Red Sox season. 

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/14/red-sox-manager-john-farrell-announces-that-he-has-stage-1-lymphoma/

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #726: August 15, 2015, 09:49:40 AM »
MLB TV is 24.99 this weekend. So you can watch Major League Baseball vs whatever it is the Nats have been doing lately.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #727: August 15, 2015, 04:36:59 PM »
I have a feeling Lloyd McClendon is getting fired today.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #728: August 15, 2015, 06:01:59 PM »
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametracker/boxscore/MLB_20150815_SEA@BOS

Boston 22- Seattle 10.  I thought that was going to be the score of the super bowl.

Edit - 10 runs against Felix el Rey in 2.1 innings.  Joe Beimel citing - 4 runs in 0.1 inning.  Jesus Sucre pitches and gives up 3 more.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #729: August 15, 2015, 06:24:55 PM »
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametracker/boxscore/MLB_20150815_SEA@BOS

Boston 22- Seattle 10.  I thought that was going to be the score of the super bowl.

Edit - 10 runs against Felix el Rey in 2.1 innings.  Joe Beimel citing - 4 runs in 0.1 inning.  Jesus Sucre pitches and gives up 3 more.
Does this mean I can no longer claim to have seen Felix's worst game ever?

EDIT: Nah, 8 runs in 1 out, I still got that bragging right.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #730: August 17, 2015, 02:57:51 PM »
The odds are 1 in 2**15, or 1 in 32768.  Given there are 2430 games each year (15 * 162), one would think this would happen every 14 years or so.


Your math is incorrect.  While you are right there is a 1 in 32768 chance of it happening in every instance, each instance is a series of games.  Not 15 games in one day or 15 chances in one day.  So if you take 32768 / 162, the odds are this will occur once every 202 years.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #731: August 18, 2015, 02:34:27 PM »

Your math is incorrect.  While you are right there is a 1 in 32768 chance of it happening in every instance, each instance is a series of games.  Not 15 games in one day or 15 chances in one day.  So if you take 32768 / 162, the odds are this will occur once every 202 years.

I think this is correct - I got 202.2716 etc.   However, this presumes a 50-50 chance of each home team winning.  If you bump that to a mindfacted 55% the odds would improve to about 1 in 184.

But of course for many years there were fewer than 30 teams, thus fewer than 15 games a night.

And then you have nights where some teams don't play - were those games counted in the "never before happened" streak?  Or was that a claim that only was made of the nights that 15 games occurred, a small subset of the overall history of MLB and thus a lesser accomplishment?  Rhetorical questions, not expecting you to have those ready.


However, it would be a nice project for a WNFF newbie.      :P

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #732: August 19, 2015, 05:24:37 PM »
Dodgers get Utley. Wow

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #734: August 19, 2015, 05:49:03 PM »
Chase and Jimmy reunited for one more run. I hope they both retire after this year as their skills have deteriorated quite a bit.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #735: August 19, 2015, 07:05:03 PM »
Somewhere, Mac is weeping.


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« Reply #736: August 19, 2015, 07:12:31 PM »
Somewhere, Mac is weeping.



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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #737: August 20, 2015, 03:36:11 PM »
JCA, take on the Dombrowski / Cherington news?

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #738: August 20, 2015, 04:51:08 PM »
Giants get Byrd now.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #739: August 20, 2015, 05:16:41 PM »
JCA, take on the Dombrowski / Cherington news?
Complicated.  I have not followed the details, but it seems that at some point, there was a communications breakdown with Cherington, either deliberate or in error, that led him to think he could not work as the Hoyer to Dombrowski's Epstein.  Philosophically, Dombrowski seems to be much more willing to trade prospects for established players, but some of that might have been due to the owner in Detroit.  He was in Florida when Henry owned the team, and there he traded away guys for prospects.  He seems pretty high on most of the young players on his roster (Rodriguez, Bogaerts, Bradley, Swihart all were praised).  I suspect the first big moves will be to wrap either Panda or Hanley up with enough prospects to make them tradeable. That would clear space for reallocating money to the pitching staff.  They are talking about bringing in Wren, which might mean a renewed focus on self-scouting and dealing prospects.  Dipoto is there for a while, too, and might become the GM.  To the extent Dipoto wants numbers used, he might balance out a Dombrowski weakness in Detroit.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #740: August 21, 2015, 10:43:59 PM »
Mike Fiers just threw a no-hitter.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #741: August 21, 2015, 11:08:21 PM »
I think Ben Cherington is a complete donk.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #742: August 21, 2015, 11:14:05 PM »
Mike Fiers just threw a no-hitter.

somewhere Giancarlo is relieved

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #743: August 22, 2015, 09:03:51 AM »
I think Ben Cherington is a complete donk.
get 2 or 3 rings then make statements

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #744: August 22, 2015, 08:41:40 PM »
Mets already up 3-0.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #745: August 22, 2015, 08:50:11 PM »
Mets already up 3-0.

Where did Bryce's ring go?

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #746: August 22, 2015, 11:32:48 PM »
jays !
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donaldson !
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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #747: August 23, 2015, 05:10:52 PM »
Rafael Betancourt DFAd.

ACQUIRE RAFAEL BETANCOURT. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

Dude has a 3.32 FIP and his K and BB rates are the same as previously. He will improve. Let's be the team that helps him bounce back.

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« Reply #748: August 23, 2015, 06:03:49 PM »
Rafael Betancourt DFAd.

ACQUIRE RAFAEL BETANCOURT. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

Dude has a 3.32 FIP and his K and BB rates are the same as previously. He will improve. Let's be the team that helps him bounce back.

He's a bum.

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Re: MLB & Division Watching (2015)
« Reply #749: August 23, 2015, 06:11:38 PM »
He's a bum.
You're thinking of Yuniesky.

Fun trivia: Rafael Betancourt is working on an amazing 12-year streak of not hitting any batters.