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Monday, Mar 28, 2005
bag lady
my question would be "how does james carville sleep at night?" talk about compartmentalizing, its as if bill clinton were married to ann coulter instead of hillary.
pixelmixela
Klaatu - California Jam
The Smiths - (Original Demos 83-84) - Reel Around The Fountain
Roy Ayers - Yes
Butterglory - She Got The Akshun
Incredible String Band - The Water Song
Cornel Campbell - Blessed Are They
Jackie McLean - My Old Flame
The Move - Yellow Rainbow
Charlie Parker - Tiny's Tempo
Barrington Levy - Nary Long Tougue
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msm = filtered + balanced
Sunday, Mar 27, 2005
billdingsroman
"Bill James: What has happened in the last fifteen years is that the expansion of the bullpens has all but eliminated platooning. Teams used to carry nine pitchers, not 15 years ago but 35 years ago. You have nine pitchers on a 25-man roster, that’s leaves 16 players for eight positions, and you can platoon at three or four positions. Bobby Cox in Toronto in the early eighties was platooning at five positions. Now, teams carry 12 pitchers. You’ve got 13 position players for nine positions, you’ve got a backup catcher and a utility infielder, your options for platooning are very limited.
But what we’re doing now doesn’t make any sense, because you can gain many more runs by platooning than you can save by having an extra left-hander in the bullpen. Eventually, people will realize that what we’re doing now doesn’t make any sense, and then they’ll start cutting back the pitching staffs and expanding the benches, and then we’ll go the other way for 30 or 40 years until something else happens and history tears off on some other tangent."