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the "baseball only" thread

Anyone ever read this one?

"Teach Yourself to Win" by longtime Chicago Cubs announcer and Cy Young winner Steve Stone. It centers around Stone as he's toward the end of his career, a .500 starting pitcher at best his whole time in the majors.

He's the #5 starter on an otherwise very powerful Baltimore Orioles rotation. Toward the end of the regular season, the Orioles are the likely winners of the AL East. Manager Earl Weaver basically tells Stone "the book on you is you're a loser. We have 4 quality starters. If you can't pull your weight, we can do it without you. Win your next 2 starts or we go to a 4 man rotation."

Basically Stone practices visualization, practicing in his head ahead of time the game he will pitch. Almost overnight after beginning his visualization, he becomes a winning starting pitcher. The next season (his next to last season before his arm had finally had it) he won the Cy Young Award. Fascinating story, and Stone explains how the reader can use these techniques for success.
 
I haven't read it, but it sounds good. Thanks for the recommendation. 😀
 
world series

I predict the World Series will be St Louis vs the Chicago White Sox and the Cards win in 7.

But my heart belongs to Boston so I have to say it will be a repeat of last year's World Series only this time it will go to seven. :rotate:

Etienne

p.s. actually my heart belongs to isabeau but that is a different story
 
Anyone who read that article I posted about the "NL Worst" might have wondered "what was he talking about? I didn't see anything about a batboy and a gallon of milk." 😕 When I was copying and pasting that article, trying to avoid advertisements on the page, I missed this paragraph which I have edited into the original post:

The good news is that not all of the Dodgers are consumed by [the Jeff Kent/Milton Bradley] controversy. According to the Miami Herald, L.A. pitcher Brad Penny recently bet a Marlins batboy that the kid couldn't drink a gallon of milk in an hour without vomiting. Several teammates kicked in, upping the ante to $1,000. The batboy drank it all, but it didn't stay down, leaving him feeling like many Dodger fans this year. :xlime:
 
Etienne said:
I predict the World Series will be St Louis vs the Chicago White Sox and the Cards win in 7.

But my heart belongs to Boston so I have to say it will be a repeat of last year's World Series only this time it will go to seven. :rotate:

Etienne

p.s. actually my heart belongs to isabeau but that is a different story
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That White Sox? What are you smoking? Can they beat the Yankees or Red Sox when the chips are down? They don't have the experience to beat either team. White Sox if they make the play-offs will exit in the 1st round.
 
I dunno....

They have had arguably the best pitching in the American League this season, certainly much better than the shaky pitching of either the Red Sox or Yankees. And as a general rule, good pitching beats good hitting. If Oakland is the Wild Card though, and the White Sox have to play them in the 1st round, the A's probably scare White Sox fans more than either Boston or New York, believe it or not. The White Sox just have not done very well against the A's.
 
Anyone know of a website where I could find every team's all-time record against every other team? Also, does anyone know the Yankees all-time record against the Red Sox at Yankee stadium? I know at Fenway they are separated by only a couple games or so.
 
pitching, pitching, pitching

Much as I love the Red Sox, their pitching has no depth this year. Much as i hate and fear the yankees their pitching sucks this year too. Its the teams with some pitching depth that will make it through the post season, hence the White Sox have a shot.

Etienne
 
I have a question for everyone. In the last 5 years has the Oakland A's had the best staff in baseball with Zito, Mulder and Hudson? How many championships have the A's won in the last 5 years? Sometimes pitchers do a bad job at crunch time. Anyone expecting the White Sox to win with ABSOLUTELY no experience up and down the roster in post-season ( I mean really experience not just 3 games.) you are fooling yourself. Only one you will be able to count on is Orlando Hernandez. He has been a PROVEN winner through the years with the Yankees. Don't expect Garland or Buehrle to go in and be world beaters. Think about this: The Yankees made the play-offs in 1995 and lost in heartwrenching fashion to the Seattle Mariners in 5 games. They got the experience and then won 4 of the next 5 World Series. Expect the White Sox to take their lumps. If they return to that stage next year then I will give them a better shot. But this season expect the White Sox to say SEE YA :wavingguy in the 1st round.
 
Yesterday, Derek Lowe pitched a one-hit shutout against the Cubs. Now if only he could pitch like that consisently. 😛
 
Well the Mets blew chunks again to Philadelphia as they were beaten 3-1 in the 3rd and final game of the homestand. The Phillies now lead the Mets by 2 1/2 games in the wildcard. But I feel sorry for Tom Glavine. Tom Glavine since the All-Star game is 4-5 and 1 no decision. But his 5 losses he gave up a total of 9 runs. He has gotten NO RUN SUPPORT from the Mets this season. Since the All-Star break he is 4-5 with a 2.61 ERA. Any baseball fan knows that in this day in age of baseball if you throw to that low an ERA that you are winning lots of ballgames unless your name is Tom Glavine. He has pitched 69 innings and has given up 65 hits and walk 12 and struck out 31. And has only given up 20 runs. That covers 10 starts. Do the math. He has pitched into the 7th inning in almost every start and has given up an average of 2 runs a game. If you are the Mets fan that I am, you look no further as to why the Mets won't make the play-offs than the lack of run support for Tom Glavine. He should have been to this point 14-7, but he is 10-12 on the season.
 
It's really frustrating for us fans when our team wastes a good pitching performance and loses by a score of 2-0 or 3-1. 🙁
 
milagros317 said:
It's really frustrating for us fans when our team wastes a good pitching performance and loses by a score of 2-0 or 3-1. 🙁
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Picture this Milagros, Tom Glavine has lost 3 games since the All-Star break by 2-1 scores, he has also lost by a 2-0 score which he gave up only 1 run in that game to Houston and he lost yesterday 3-1 in which he gave up 2 runs in 7 innings. Imagine how Glavine feels giving up so few runs and coming away with a loss. I mean a 2.61 ERA in the last 10 games is pretty darn good. Especially by today's standards. I know 35 years ago that is middle of the road but now that is outstanding work. The fact that he has lost 5 games giving up 9 runs is just bad :sowrong:
 
Yes, it must be even worse for the pitcher who puts forth the effort than it is for us watching it.
 
My dad seems to think that the reason why the Padres are struggling so much this season is because they're a team that is built to hit for power, but their new stadium is so much of a pitcher's park. He thinks the San Diego hitters are discouraged because it is so hard to hit a HR in their new park. What do you all think?
 
Chris Carpenter becomes the majors first 20 game winner, pitching a complete game as the Cardinals defeat the Astros 4-2.
 
unclebill said:
Chris Carpenter becomes the majors first 20 game winner, pitching a complete game as the Cardinals defeat the Astros 4-2.
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Do people real think that Roger Clemens as great a year as he has had to this point deserves a Cy Young award over Chris Carpenter? I think they should reconsider that thought.
 
ticklingfeet4fu said:
Do people real think that Roger Clemens as great a year as he has had to this point deserves a Cy Young award over Chris Carpenter? I think they should reconsider that thought.
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You bring up a good point ticklingfeet4fu. Carpenter has clearly been the best pitcher in either league this year. And from what I have been seeing on ESPN as of late the national media has jumped on his bandwagon.
 
unclebill said:
You bring up a good point ticklingfeet4fu. Carpenter has clearly been the best pitcher in either league this year. And from what I have been seeing on ESPN as of late the national media has jumped on his bandwagon.
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I have been saying dispite how great Roger Clemens has been that the object is to get wins. If Carpenter wins like 24 games ( and that seems VERY likely ) and Clemens wins the Cy Young Award winning 13 games then there is something WRONG with the voting procedures. I mean I do not believe that the Cardinals are where they are without Carpenter. I mean he is 20-4 with an ERA of 2.28. Now everyone is saying that Clemens is 43 and a 1.56 ERA is incredible. Should age be factored in? I mean Jae Seo is pitching for the Mets and in 9 starts he is 7-1 with a 1.79 ERA. Should we make an assumption that if he gets 30 starts that he would finish 22-3? NO, we should not so age should not be a factor to consider. Look at the records. See how they impact their respective teams and vote. Forget run support because the Astros entire staff has not gotten run support. So if we figure that if they got run support they would have better records. I mean if we figure in run support let's make the Astros World Series Champions. So Chris Carpenter hands down is the NL Cy Young Award winner.
 
The Cardinals beat the Cubs this afternoon by a score of 6-4. Ray (burger) King picks up the victory. I attended the game today and I gotta tell you all that Derek Lee is playing hurt. He looks like he is favoring his right leg. Nomar is swinging the bat well these days. And Mark Prior looked very sharp in his 6 innings of work. I realize anything anything can happen in a short playoff series, but my Cardinals look like the team to beat this year even without Scott Rolen.
 
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