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As I've mentioned more than once, I'm not exactly up to speed on the intricate, detail by detail ins and outs of all the SABR data. I haven't seen it put this way before and at least now I now what to call it when I looked at Ackley in the batter's box and thought "he just doesn't look comfortable up there. He's fighting something. I don't know what, but he's just not right." There were many thousands of words dedicated to what was (or wasn't) happening to him, why it was (or wasn't) happening for him, and I pretty much stayed out of it because I couldn't elucidate my feelings in a way that I thought would be accepted. It got better over the season, and I chimed in a little bit more, and to my surprise and relief I wasn't excoriated for expressing a view that didn't have a hundred data points to back it up. I know I'll never be more than average at this stuff, but at least I know if I have a question or opinion I can put it out here and I'll be commented upon in an adult manner, instead of what you get at other places which shall remain nameless but their initials are FG, BR, and (sometimes) LL. I actually use my real name here instead of the pseudonym I usually use on forums.
Plus, there's a whole lot less cursing here. I'm no prude, but I find it tedious to read the "F" word so frequently.
Thank you Gordon, Jemanji, Spec, and the rest of the folks who populate SSI.