Dr's R/X

Gotta get yer three W's --- > Wit, Wisdom, and Wayyyy too much caffeine. As y'know, we live to serve

Dr. Detecto's Mariner prescriptions.  The Mainframe circuit boards were originally designed to solve chess positions before they started fritzing out on baseball shtick.  Like Bobby Fischer said, "Chess is not that hard a game.  Whatever position you've got, it's been played before."

Well, yeah - if you can fit an Isolated Queen Pawn position into a block of similar patterns that you recognize, THEN you can ask "in what ways is this situation subtly different?"  Figure out what has been done before, and what has been said before, and you might be able to organize your thinking as to how you judge the situation in front of you to be different.

When Tim Lincecum came into pro baseball, one thing different about him was that he could throw 150 pitches on Friday and then enjoy an easy game of foul-line-to-foul-line long toss the next day.  Scott Bankhead he wasn't.  Nolan Ryan less a few inches was more like it.  Get you the right basic template, and then it's easy and pleasant to start asking where you see differences.

Ah, but what's the right basic template?  That's what makes a ball game ... :- )

Posts in this blog:

Posted on: 10/18/14
5 Comments
Ebb & Flow
All things must breathe and exhale. Nature rule, Daniel-san, not mine
Posted on: 10/05/14
1 Comments
For Want of a Nail !
… the 2014 season was lost. Anybody wanna count 'em?
Posted on: 10/02/14
3 Comments
Sizzlers and Fizzlers
How does Dr. D define sizzle? Riveting games in September, that's how
Posted on: 09/13/14
5 Comments
Mosh Pit, 9.2.14
Condor clings to his hope of ML stardom
Posted on: 09/02/14
Enjoy the Journey
August and September games that matter? Do you care?
Posted on: 08/29/14
3 Comments
A Dozen Key Decisions
They look great … after the fact
Posted on: 08/29/14
3 Comments
Trade Deadline: Pro
Dr. D goes even more schitzo than usual
Posted on: 07/31/14
Trade Deadline: Con
Squidward and Spongebob, Dept.
Posted on: 07/31/14
28 Comments
Ackley and Zduriencik
The problem isn't IQ … for Jase, either
Posted on: 07/28/14
20 Comments
Fatballs
Pride goeth before the fall, Dept.
Posted on: 07/23/14
Posted on: 07/22/14
4 Comments
Marlon Byrd's 1 yr / $8M extension the logjam ?
Tells yer everything you need to know, right there
Posted on: 07/17/14
5 Comments
Editor's Choice, 7.10.14
Rock on, SSI denizens
Posted on: 07/10/14
6 Comments
Kings of the Hill ?!
Can we ever just enjoy? :- )
Posted on: 07/04/14
3 Comments
Posted on: 07/04/14
3 Comments
Mosh Pit, 6.30.14
Personal record for fastest dropped bat?
Posted on: 06/29/14
2 Comments
Posted on: 06/25/14
3 Comments
Whoa! Have the M's Stopped Throwing Away Felix' Masterpieces?
4 reasons the M's might be better than we think
Posted on: 06/25/14
9 Comments
A Month of Letters
M's rotation making possible a quite leisurely summer
Posted on: 06/23/14
Twitters and Shouts on the Trade Blox
Rainbows and Sunshine, dept.
Posted on: 06/23/14
2 Comments
Posted on: 06/19/14
#2
There is no #1-2 we would swap our two for
Posted on: 06/19/14
#5-#6 Starters
Tough Choices
Posted on: 06/19/14
2 Comments
Yankee$ 6, Mariners 3
Dr D can feel the love
Posted on: 06/12/14
10 Comments
Trade Market One-Offs
Slap me silly, dept.
Posted on: 06/11/14
12 Comments
M's +2 in Wild Card Race!
Follow the pennant race with Dr. D's blessing
Posted on: 06/08/14
8 Comments
Fandango!, 6.5.14
Grizzle and Rick hip-check Dr. D into the cheaps
Posted on: 06/05/14
1 Comments
State of the M's #5 SP
What, did we say something funny
Posted on: 05/30/14
2 Comments
Taijuan Needs to Make the Team, Eh
Matt Moore, Stephen Strasburg, Tim Lincecum dept.
Posted on: 05/30/14
6 Comments

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