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:

Bob Dutton (and Chris Young)
Midnight (or noontime?) at the oasis, Dept.
Posted on: 05/27/14
4 Comments
Fandango!, 5.20.14
like SSI … it's best for 6-year-olds
Posted on: 05/19/14
2 Comments
Posted on: 05/16/14
5 Comments
Fandango! 5.10.14
SSI, your daily Multicultural M's Fix
Posted on: 05/10/14
2 Comments
It's ALLLLIIIIIIIIVVVVVVE !
… but that's coming from a mad scientist, and worse, a lawyer
Posted on: 05/06/14
2 Comments
Shout Box, 4 May 2014
Jemanji decides to be contrarian, for a change
Posted on: 05/03/14
Shout Box, 5/4/14
Mickey, you are AMAZING (relatively speaking, that is)
Posted on: 05/03/14
3 Comments
Shout Box, May-04
So explain to me, Blake Griffin trying to dunk and missing the rim
Posted on: 05/03/14
Shout Box, 4-May
At least Dr. D's (and Danny's) blood isn't donated to anything silly
Posted on: 05/03/14
1 Comments
Posted on: 04/24/14
2 Comments
Earl's Ninth Law
He was never fired from any baseball job, at any level. Ever
Posted on: 04/18/14
17 Comments
Posted on: 04/18/14
2 Comments
Fandango!
1. A lively dance for 2 people. 2. A foolish or useless act or thing.
Posted on: 04/15/14
6 Comments
M's Feeb'ing Out vs. Elite Pitching
You think Jeter is admired for NO reason? Think again
Posted on: 04/14/14
5 Comments
Taijuan Held Back a Grade
Ah, what's one game
Posted on: 04/12/14
7 Comments
Hey Bill
Baseball is about the strike zone, Dept.
Posted on: 04/03/14
6 Comments
What is Smoak's Ceiling? We're About to Find Out
mm - mm - mm - MMAAAHHHH, dept.
Posted on: 04/01/14
1 Comments
Monday Morning Macchiato
Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys … for Felix, that is
Posted on: 03/30/14
9 Comments
Posted on: 03/26/14
Erasmo Goes On April 1
When 2 is the new 5
Posted on: 03/26/14
3 Comments
Nick Franklin at #5 OF
Yu gotta be kiddin' me
Posted on: 03/26/14
8 Comments
Baker Out, Elias In?
M's get the healthy Baker - and THEN shed him
Posted on: 03/24/14
15 Comments
Posted on: 03/24/14
11 Comments
See Ball, Hit Ball
Dr. D jumps onto the top of the pile
Posted on: 03/20/14
Hot Linx
Dr. D's piano playing and his blogging = sausage fingerwork
Posted on: 03/17/14
2 Comments
Posted on: 03/13/14
14 Comments
Nick Franklin Deal: the Moral Compass
Get back the best player in the deal. Especially this time
Posted on: 03/13/14
7 Comments
Taijuan's Bursitis
Dr. D slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night
Posted on: 02/27/14
6 Comments
The Price is (Now) Right?
How do y'do? I do just fine, thanx
Posted on: 02/26/14
8 Comments
David Price Linkage
Time ain't on yer side, Andrew
Posted on: 02/26/14
1 Comments

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