but would you have guessed the Twins having the 6th largest average TV audience?

Although, who am I kidding? I watch at least 100 games per season, and I can’t think of a much better way to spend my summer either.

Though I am MUCH younger than those old codgers.

“It’s so crazy, it just might work!”

guys who are on shit teams are automatically at a disadvantage.

man, you’re bringing a smile to my face.

this is almost too easy, but I’ll take it!

Coop could fix him.

But Nate Robertson is a 4th or 5th starter on a good team. Maybe some NL team close to contending (Cardinals?) could get some value out of him…

It’s not like he’s a good pitcher that had a bad year. He’s an average pitcher at best that had a bad year. How much value can really be had?

While Gomes 2008 role morphed from the southpaw bashing portion of a platoon into team pugilist make no mistake that Gomes played up to his true talent level with a sub-.700 OPS. Consider Gomes’ 10% line drives and .200 BABIP for a moment. Knowing what we know about LD% and BABIP, one would expect a BABIP around .220 for a hitter with 10% liners. That’s only a difference of two hits, but for a guy with a limited number of at-bats an extra single and double could have made his line look a bit better.

Moving forward I would expect Gomes LD% to be closer to his career average of 19% than 10. More interestingly about Gomes tendencies were his decrease in strikeouts, dropping from 36 to 29% with minimal decrease in walks. At the same time though Gomes O-Swing% increased yet again coming dangerously close to 30%, leaving myself and others to wonder why Gomes insists on hacking.

Although Gomes offers little in the way of defensive value (comedic factor gains him points) as a cheap DH Gomes is probably just as deserving of a job as Josh Phelps, who was recently waived yet would have the built in advantage of a couple of arbitration seasons remaining and his prime years remaining.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/10/18/637841/buy-low-candidate-jonny-go

“With great sadness, I’m here to announce that Dewon Day has been claimed by the Boston Red Sox for personal reasons,” Williams said, holding back tears. “We will issue no further comment at this time.”

Boos washed over the podium as Williams retreated hastily into the stadium’s offices. Chicago Police reported more than dozen fights, but no arrests were made as most combatants did not have the heart to continue, instead choosing to embrace each other in consolation over the bad news.

Most fans stood stunned, silent.

“Why?” asked one Sox fan who wished to remain anonymous. “I mean…”

He trailed off, his moist eyes cast down 35th Street.

Answers are in short supply. Calls placed to Day’s agent, Dave Stewart, were not returned.

http://soxmachine.com/blogs/soxmachine/archive/2008/10/18/14184.aspx

On his first full day as the Mets’ long-term manager, Manuel forcefully attacked the SABR-type mathematical analysis some have fixated on in recent years.

    “You get so many statistical people together, they put so many stats on paper, and they say, well, if you do this and you score this many runs, you do that many times, you’ll be in the playoffs,” he said.

    “That’s not really how it works, and that’s what we have to get away from. And that’s going to have to be a different mind-set of the team in going forward. We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people. We have to win because we have baseball players that know and can understand the game.”

gosh, and here i thought playing baseball for, like, most of your life would cause players to know and understand it. i guess the mets were playing handball or something this year. once jerry gets them to realize what game they’re supposed to be playing, i see 125 wins next season. book it.