On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is obviously not true that Joe Morgan > knows nothing about baseball; it is that he stubbornly sticks to an > old fashioned, or traditional approach to baseball that is informed > more by gut, feel, intuition and tradition than it is by highly > processed and tightly validated empirical data. I'm not even worried about the Sabermetric stuff - how about getting the basics rights. Last year before a Yankees game, he stated that Derek Jeter was on course to hit his typical 25 home runs in that season. Derek Jeter has never hit 25 home runs in a season. 24 once, 23 once, 21 once but every other season is under 20, a lot are under 15. A 15-year player with about 200 home runs doesn't have "typical 25 home run" seasons. It is simple math not "highly processed and tightly validated empirical data." And it is Derek Jeter. It is not some guy who plays for the Pirates or Nats and never gets much national attention. I've always found Miller and Morgan just tedious. Now with Steve Phillips in the booth it is the trifecta of guys I don't want to hear. > It all comes down to SportsCenter, and how much they want to pimp that > show out. I feel about SportsCenter almost exactly the way I feel > about CNN - much of it sickens me, except that when I really want to > know what is going on, I still tun to them. > They did an amazing job today with the Mark Buehrle (sp?) perfect game. They stuck with the White Sox Comcast telecast through the post game and the wrap up with Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone (I think). It was terrific. They had Buster Olney talking about the two perfect games he saw (he was the Times Yankees beat reporter for the Wells and Cone perfect games) and while I can live with Buster not dissing Cone's effort, he had an interesting analysis. Tell me who won, show me the good highlights, let the better analysts talk and keep Skip Bayliss to a minimum and I'm mostly pleased. TVG --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
