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A skosh of political commentary follows. If such would deflower your virgin internet ears, we've got the prophylactic links sittin' there on the desk for yer.
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DaddyO sez,
"I've been getting some things wrong. I should stop bothering people at SSI." Or somesuch.
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Talking not to DaddyO, but to Whom It May Concern ...
Maybe Dr. D heard you wrong :- ) but on the off chance you actually said that, I'm gonna tell yer something you already know. (Rocky father son speech)
The dumbest way to measure yourself is by the criterion of "flawlessness." :- ) "Hey, I read a speech for Toastmasters and didn't stumble over a single word. " THAT is a lousy public speaker. B'lee DAT.
SSI, and life, is not about avoiding mistakes, achieving a "Can't Miss" reputation. People dislike those who Can't Miss.
It's about bringing good things in, that overwrite the bad things. It's about sincerity, not about appearances. Which is why you're one of the, if not the, most beloved commenter here.
If you, or I, or whoever, lays out (1) an idea that --- > does not (2) overlay the truth, other commenters will follow on and then we'll triangulate truth -- often because of the first, mistaken, hypothesis.
Back to DaddyO ... sure hope you find time to hang on to your oar on the SSI Warship. You and others like you are what make this fun for me.
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By the way, our aiki shihan had an odd philosophy. "Sincerity" was his #1 moral value. "Nothing in the universe exists or can prosper without sincerity."
Dr. D wouldn't put it exactly that way, but still. :- )
SammySoSo sez,
Hey, I got a question for ya'll. They just flashed an interesting graphic about the mariners in Game 1's of a series. Among other awesome stats was that they are +70 in run differential in those games. As of today, they are +89 overall.
So am I crazy, that in all other games (which is what, slightly more than 2/3 of them) they are only +19? That number is not conducive to wins in ~67% of games. Fatigue? Or does this not concern you? There are more playoff games following the wild card play-in, methinks :)
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Thanks for joinin' us Sammy! :- ) Interesting question too. Didn't know about the 1st-game split. Don't know why it is, but:
1. Any time you are great in an (important) split and okay the rest of the time, you're a championship team. That's any sport. If the Spurs are 39-2 at home and .500 on the road, that means they're the best. If your Big Three Starters are a combined 45-15, and the back of your rotation is anywhere near .500, you're the best.
So, no worries about the implications of that split, even if it's not a random situation.
2. My guess is that it's a random situation. :- )
2a. It could be skewed, a little bit, by some extra presence of Felix and Iwakuma in Game 1's.
3. If anything, the M's have a disadvantage in Game 1's, because they fly more than other teams.
4. If you cut the data more fine-grain ... like hitters' BB/K ratio in Game 1, 2, 3 ... you might find something. but I'll bet you a dollar it doesn't persist into the future.
:: shrug :: something to keep an eye on. This is about 20 degrees to the left of the question, but of course the Mariners have an ideal pitching staff for a short series in October. Managers go to their top SP's and their best RP's.
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M's Offensive Surge
Reggie Jackson wrote in one of his autobiographies, about the early-70's A's ...
(Bert) Campaneris would lead off with a walk and steal second. (Bill) North would move him over to third. I (Reggie) would be swinging one my (season's worth of Charles O. Finley) two dozen bats in the on deck circle. Sal (Bando) would hit a fly ball to drive him in, and we'd be up 1-0.
Catfish would be on the mound. Rollie (Fingers) would be out there twirling his moustache in the pen.
We wouldn't have a base hit yet, and we'd have them on the ropes.
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The M's got 2 runs early for Paxton on Friday, and that's how it felt. You get the sense that the M's offense is relaxing into its game. Willing to take tough pitches and turn them into soft line drives.
Or not,
Dr D
Oooooooh-eeeeeee! The M's now have the classic build for shortening ballgames. 2.5 Aces (giving Paxton only a .5) and a pen that beats the snot out of you. All of them.
So, you say you're down two in the 6th AL bad guys?
That's the fat lady you hear singing.
In case you didn't know.
moe
My comment didn't have to do with having to be right all the time or be perfect in order to engage in conversation. It had to do with the increasing combined effects of aging and chronic health issues on my ability to remember things correctly. Anyone who has experienced this to the degree have knows how frustrating it can be.
An hour or so before I befuddled myself in a series of SSI posts, I was on the phone affirming for certain the facts of a state-issued birth certificate request for one of our daughters, when I pulled up a PDF of the hospital certificate and suddenly realized that I had confused our son's birthplace in Washington with our daughter's birthplace in Oregon. This kind of thing happens to me all the time, I just have to live with it. I increasingly have to work very hard just to keep things straight, and no matter how hard I try I still don't. It's not a matter of perfectionism, it's a matter of coherence sometimes.
Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to provide encouraging words.
Daddyo, just because one does not get their facts straight all the time, does not mean the points you make are any less valuable or engaging or pertinent to the conversations around here.
Understood and agreed, thanks TR.
And, in a more philosophical vein, I would submit to you that the some total of accurate knowledge which a person possesses is of far less import than the process by which that person came by said knowledge. When discussing things online, this becomes even more important because the 'data' is at everyone's fingertips. What every community needs are 'nodes' of reason, perspective, and vision which can contribute to said community's understanding and collective perspective. If someone gets the raw data wrong but applies good process to it, everyone benefits. I mean this quite seriously: knowledge stored in a person's brain, in this day and age, is overrated. Thought process rules in the internet-driven world.
So, as someone who far too frequently forgets the entire reason he drove to town, allow me to suggest that so long as what you do when you're there is good then it really doesn't matter why you took the drive*. We, as a community, benefit more from observing facets of your process than we do by supposing that your data is flawless. And I suspect the same is true of everyone else in your immediate circle :)
* - Obviously, this could become problematic if, say, you really love Twinkies but every time you go to buy soap you end up forgetting why you went to the grocery store, so you just default to buying a box of Twinkies...well, actually, I suppose that's not all bad. Especially if you've got kids/grandkids running around - they'll think you got them just for them. Never mind ;)