TJ Simers Presents Jackass/Dumbass Baseball Media 2011

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/04/opinion/pearlman-mariano-rivera/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

certainly can't argue with rivera's bonafides but:

The best pitcher any of us has ever seen is, in all likelihood, done.

Yes, it needs to be said. Twice. Three times. Mariano Rivera, the Yankees' unparalleled 42-year-old closer, is the greatest pitcher of our lifetime. Better than Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton. Better than Tom Seaver and Greg Maddux. Better than Dwight Gooden in 1985, Pedro Martinez in 1999, Justin Verlander in 2011.

Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson are rolling over in the graves

think i'd rather listen to mccarver than eric karros tbh

@JonHeymanCBS
At M83 concert. Oldest one here. By 25 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPJ2Qfv0Ko&feature=player_embedded

Lord.

Listening to Bob Costas as the announcer for MLBtv was pretty rough yesterday. He spent like 20 minutes moralizing about Eric Chavez not running hard enough. It was endless.

harold reynolds is probably the most wrong person i've ever heard

he will literally just say whatever

Take your pick

http://msn.foxsports.com/writer/Jon_Paul_Morosi

OK, here's one from September 18:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/detroit-tigers-poor-defense-unearned-runs-hurting-playoff-chances-091712

The Chicago White Sox haven’t sprayed champagne or passed out American League Central championship T-shirts, but that day will arrive soon enough.

And then a tweet from today:

The #Tigers have been greatest benefactors of changed postseason schedule. My column at http://FOXSports.com : http://on-msn.com/QJYugb @MLBONFOX

Why wait for two series to play more than one game to make this statement?

There is no doubt that Bronson Arroyo is the best pitcher in MLB right now.

Giants made Arroyo look like Greg Maddux.

Some guy on CNN, proffering advice to Bud Selig, just said Atlanta and St. Louis had their game "decided by a blown call." Meaning a game where you've got one out, bases loaded, and you're down 6-3 in the 8th inning is pretty much a sure thing.

I've made sure not to say anything that stupid, but it would have been nice to find out how the game would have ended without a blown call. I'd probably put their chances of tying at about 25%.

The 2/3 schedule really doesn't make for much of a "home field advantage"

The answer's here. Somewhere. But since the table's per 27 outs, I think further calculations are required.

5.00 r/27    3.75 r/27  5.00 r/27
| runners_on_bases | outs | boLI_tango | boli_low | boli_high |
+------------------+------+------------+----------+-----------+
| 000              |    0 |       0.90 |     0.92 |      0.90 |
| 000              |    1 |       0.65 |     0.63 |      0.65 |
| 000              |    2 |       0.41 |     0.40 |      0.41 |
| 100              |    0 |       1.43 |     1.60 |      1.43 |
| 100              |    1 |       1.16 |     1.20 |      1.16 |
| 100              |    2 |       0.78 |     0.79 |      0.78 |
| 010              |    0 |       1.14 |     1.30 |      1.14 |
| 010              |    1 |       1.19 |     1.33 |      1.20 |
| 010              |    2 |       1.07 |     1.17 |      1.08 |
| 001              |    0 |       0.97 |     1.09 |      0.94 |
| 001              |    1 |       1.29 |     1.53 |      1.28 |
| 001              |    2 |       1.26 |     1.36 |      1.25 |
| 110              |    0 |       1.74 |     2.06 |      1.74 |
| 110              |    1 |       1.80 |     2.02 |      1.81 |
| 110              |    2 |       1.53 |     1.63 |      1.54 |
| 101              |    0 |       1.45 |     1.70 |      1.42 |
| 101              |    1 |       1.71 |     2.10 |      1.70 |
| 101              |    2 |       1.64 |     1.72 |      1.64 |
| 011              |    0 |       1.28 |     1.52 |      1.29 |
| 011              |    1 |       1.44 |     1.66 |      1.43 |
| 011              |    2 |       1.75 |     1.85 |      1.75 |
| 111              |    0 |       1.82 |     2.31 |      1.85 |
| 111              |    1 |       2.31 |     2.75 |      2.30 |
| 111              |    2 |       2.60 |     2.84 |      2.58 |

You can also use that table to determine the exact day you will die.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/22/why-doesnt-major-league-baseball-just-suspend-ryan-braun-and-see-what-happens/

writers who dont believe in lawsuits

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_80x80/Boston/Library/Staff/Caricatures/shaughnessy.png

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/05/07/red-sox-slugger-david-ortiz-says-hard-work-not-steroids-has-him-torrid-pace/G5lIcF9HOmUYJECJyd9zrO/story.html

Mitch Williams @WildThingMLBN

I walked 7.5 guys per 9 inns. In my career. Is there anyway I should have saved 192 games? On paper, no way. Thank god I didn't play on pape

(yes there was no r)

who's gonna tell Mitch it's a junk stat?

We in Toronto remain lifelong Wild Thing fans.

This (inspired a Posnanski column today) has to be read to be believed:

http://www.themorningsun.com/sports/20131218/caputo-by-any-standard-morris-and-trammell-belong-in-baseball-hall-of-fame

The difference, the game overall was much less offensively porductive in the 1950s and, especially the 1960s, when Drysdale did his most impressive work. Hence, Drysdale had a much lower ERA.

Pat Caputo is even worse on the air.

The best line of all is the reminder that retired-in-'94 Morris did all his pitching during the heyday of steroids. Luckily for him, though, he was in the American League during the great Howard Johnson-Glen Davis HR chase of 1988.

Sorta hilarious that he's unaware that plenty of stat-heads champion Trammel and Whitaker like crazy!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2014-05-14at90303PM_zps19432812.png

Brian Jordan just said that Javy Lopez deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. "He's just such a nice guy."

Oh wow, it had been a while since I heard an announcer call a Japanese player "crafty."

Frank Tanana presents jackass baseball media 1977

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19770615&id=F3BRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3hEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6993,2552923

FRANK TANANA
Fox Hunter

SweetSpot has settled into a format whereby they summarize every postseason game in five key moments. That's fine, but between David Schoenfield's text, they fill the page with Tweets. Quite annoying and quite useless.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/52581/wongs-home-run-wins-a-postseason-classic

Three of the tweets SweetSpot reposted yesterday:

They did it!!! They did it!!! #Royals to the World Series!!!!!
@KoltenWong goes yard AGAIN. #NLCS
3 scoreless innings for Yusmeiro Petit.

Helpful.

The nerds have officially taken over the world. Just give into it. All those guys who used to sit in the back of the classroom with their black horn-rimmed classes, pocket calculators and clothes their mommies picked out?

They run things now. They’re making the decisions and signing the paychecks. All those years spent cozying up to the jocks and the popular kids just wasted.

The Dodgers have been undergoing an amazing transformation the past few weeks, going from a mostly old-school front office to one brimming with guys who know “analytics” and “sabermetrics,” which I think are the same thing, but I’m not taking any chances.

good job, good effort

Ryan Theriot laughs it off

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/ryan-theriot-laughs-off-dodgers-hiring-of-gm-farhan-zaidi-190201826.html

Murray Chass has borne many sons. xp

That Theriot thing makes me want the Giants to forfeit their 2012 WS just to take a ring away from him.

brandon mccarthy pointed out that both of theriot's rings were given to him by general managers who 'didn't play'

rob neyer loves the decemberists

i'm all for pooping on the cardinals, but c'mon plaschke

FBI probe of Cardinals makes it fair to question series with Dodgers

Man...

http://deadspin.com/t-j-simers-wins-7-1-million-judgement-against-the-los-1740676493

@BillShaikin
#Dodgers ask you to pay $6 for a 20-oz Coke but draw a financial line in the sand with Greinke? lat.ms/1Nyf6lz

hope andy mccullough literally shits on this guy's face

@LAObserved
Confirmed now: judge strips T.J. Simers of all $7.1 million in damages in suit vs LA Times.