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Post by hchoops on Oct 30, 2017 9:24:11 GMT -5
Thank you Power has returned, but sustained current winds make it likely to occur again
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 30, 2017 9:38:13 GMT -5
I put in a whole house generator which should ensure that Louisville will have no more power outages....
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Post by hchoops on Oct 30, 2017 9:48:55 GMT -5
I put in a whole house generator which should ensure that Louisville will have no more power outages.... Ricky’s power has had a permanent outage.
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Post by timholycross on Oct 30, 2017 20:28:05 GMT -5
Believe it or not, in the good old days, people listened to the Series on radio or watched their black & white TVs. If you went to a Catholic school and had nuns from Brooklyn and the Dodgers were playing the Yankees (we didn't need no stinkin west coast or southern teams in those days in a World Series), the right nun would have the game on the radio and you listened to some of it on a portable radio on the school bus home, jumped off the bus and turned the game on TV to watch the end. If the nun didn't allow the class to listen (a possible Giants fan), the principal would make periodic announcements over the PA system. I remember Game 1 or Game 2 of the 1967 World Series. School got out at 2PM ...I think game started at 1. I got to see "crunch time" of the baseball game and still made soccer practice at 3:30.
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Post by timholycross on Oct 30, 2017 20:36:59 GMT -5
The record number of home runs hit in this Series (22 and counting) is a little distressing for us purists, but probably thrilling for many fans who want more juice in their viewing experience. Maybe the balls are livelier, or slicker - www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/29/world-series-baseballs-leather-justin-verlander-yu-darvish-ken-giles-kenley-jansen - but the trend in MLB increasingly favors the free-swinging, Three-True-Outcome hitter-types like Aaron Judge. HRs/G increased in 2017 for the fourth straight year to an all-time record high, while K/G increased for the twelfth consecutive season, also to an all-time high, and a number of parks are shortening their fences, to boot. I guess this is how TPTB want to compete for an audience, but last night's 5 1/2 hour marathon concluded while many of us old-timers were deep in dreamland. No question the ball is juiced. Some of the swings on homers don't even look like solid contact../and the ball still goes out. The other thing that has to be a factor is the ballparks. Lots of ballparks opened in the 60s and in nearly every case the transition was from hitter friendly to pitcher friendly. (Ebbets Field to Dodger Stadium; Crosley Field to Riverfront come to mind first). Starting in the 90s, for the most part it's gone the other way. Seattle's playing in a bigger park; just about everyone else has gone in the other direction. Those wall balls and homers to left last night in Houston were a joke even by (old, before the built the 406 Club and the winds don't help like they did) Fenway and Wrigley standards. Even the new Yankee Stadium is a homer heaven.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Oct 30, 2017 22:52:21 GMT -5
Exactly TimHc. Minute Maid is a band box.
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Post by Tom on Oct 31, 2017 8:27:53 GMT -5
Those wall balls and homers to left last night in Houston were a joke even by (old, before the built the 406 Club and the winds don't help like they did) Fenway and Wrigley standards. Even the new Yankee Stadium is a homer heaven. Fenway is kind of anomaly. The wall giveth and the wall taketh away. A wind aided pop-up can be a home run (especially down the line) when it would be an out in most other ball parks, but there are also plenty of line shots that would be out of every other park, but at Fenway bounce off the wall for a double or even a single
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 31, 2017 8:41:36 GMT -5
Knowing how to play the Green Monster can decide many games during a season.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 31, 2017 9:13:44 GMT -5
Fenway Park used to be favorable to batters to an extreme. That batters advantage appears to have diminished in recent years. If you go back 30-40-50 years you see that Red Sox like Yastrzemski, Rice, Petrocelli were much different batters on the road than they were at home. The Wall was only one factor--I think the great hitting background really helped batters. Baseball-Reference provides stats on "Park Factor" and "Home and Away Splits" for individual players.
Minute Maid, according to Baseball-Reference, does not stand out as a hitters park. Looking just at home runs (and there are other measures for being a hitters park) we see that this year Springer had 16 at home and 18 on the road in the regular season. Altuve was 9 home 15 road and Correa 11 vs 13. On the other hand Gonzalez had 15 at home and 8 on the road.
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Post by lou on Oct 31, 2017 10:00:02 GMT -5
Spring, 1965 ... HC vs UConn at Fenway Park, best of 3 winner goes to Omaha. Sophomore Jack Avis hit a rocket off the monster, home run anywhere else, turned into a single, Jack not the fleetest afoot.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 31, 2017 10:35:13 GMT -5
Nice memory, Lou
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Post by WorcesterGray on Oct 31, 2017 10:44:57 GMT -5
Fenway Park used to be favorable to batters to an extreme. That batters advantage appears to have diminished in recent years. If you go back 30-40-50 years you see that Red Sox like Yastrzemski, Rice, Petrocelli were much different batters on the road than they were at home. The Wall was only one factor--I think the great hitting background really helped batters. Baseball-Reference provides stats on "Park Factor" and "Home and Away Splits" for individual players. Minute Maid, according to Baseball-Reference, does not stand out as a hitters park. Looking just at home runs (and there are other measures for being a hitters park) we see that this year Springer had 16 at home and 18 on the road in the regular season. Altuve was 9 home 15 road and Correa 11 vs 13. On the other hand Gonzalez had 15 at home and 8 on the road. Fenway has long been a very poor HR park for left-handed pull hitters, just as the old Yankee Stadium was a poor HR park for right-handed pull hitters - one of the reasons why there was some (admittedly scotch-fueled) talk between the Red Sox and Yankees in the late '40s of a Ted Williams-for-Joe DiMaggio trade. (Their career numbers, btw, show a significant park-factor impact on Joe D., very little on Williams.) ESPN's 2016 look at park factors, based on five-year averages, confirms Minute Maid as largely neutral for home runs. www.espn.com/fantasy/baseball/story/_/page/mlbdk2k16_parkfactors/which-parks-most-least-favorable-fantasy-baseball-hitters-pitchers-mlb
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Post by Tom on Oct 31, 2017 11:37:03 GMT -5
Fenway Park used to be favorable to batters to an extreme. That batters advantage appears to have diminished in recent years. If you go back 30-40-50 years you see that Red Sox like Yastrzemski, Rice, Petrocelli were much different batters on the road than they were at home. The Wall was only one factor--I think the great hitting background really helped batters. Baseball-Reference provides stats on "Park Factor" and "Home and Away Splits" for individual players. Minute Maid, according to Baseball-Reference, does not stand out as a hitters park. Looking just at home runs (and there are other measures for being a hitters park) we see that this year Springer had 16 at home and 18 on the road in the regular season. Altuve was 9 home 15 road and Correa 11 vs 13. On the other hand Gonzalez had 15 at home and 8 on the road. I thought the wall was always a bigger help to the Boggs or Lynn type players. They weren't hitting home runs over it, but could take outside pitches and scrape the wall for a base hit. Left field at Fenway turns more outs into base hits than it creates home runs. Yes, it's short - but you still have a 37 foot wall to get over
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 31, 2017 12:54:56 GMT -5
There's also a belief among some observers (conspiracy theorists?) that it is not really 310 feet (was it once listed at 315?) down the left field line at Fenway
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Post by hcross22 on Oct 31, 2017 14:26:29 GMT -5
There's also a belief among some observers (conspiracy theorists?) that it is not really 310 feet (was it once listed at 315?) down the left field line at Fenway Pretty easy to dispel that myth these days w/satellite photos and google maps.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 31, 2017 14:44:30 GMT -5
There's also a belief among some observers (conspiracy theorists?) that it is not really 310 feet (was it once listed at 315?) down the left field line at Fenway Pretty easy to dispel that myth these days w/satellite photos and google maps. Has such an analysis been done?
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Post by lou on Oct 31, 2017 15:11:38 GMT -5
tried it w/google maps - 310'
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 31, 2017 22:45:11 GMT -5
Dodgers win. Another great game. Hard to believe it, but tomorrow's game will be the first ever 7th games of a WS at Dodger Stadium
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Oct 31, 2017 22:50:46 GMT -5
We will see you tomorrow nite!
This is one of the most captivating WS's in my lifetime.
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 1, 2017 7:19:54 GMT -5
November 1st. Is it still baseball season? Had more concerns about being w/o power for 2.5 days. But finally got it back!
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Post by timholycross on Nov 1, 2017 8:58:33 GMT -5
Dodgers win. Another great game. Hard to believe it, but tomorrow's game will be the first ever 7th games of a WS at Dodger Stadium Can only say there was one particularly memorable WS game at Dodger Stadium, the Gibson HR game in 88. And that encompasses 9 World Series at this point.
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Post by clmetsfan on Nov 1, 2017 11:17:19 GMT -5
It would've been such a shame if this series didn't go seven games.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 1, 2017 11:20:54 GMT -5
McCullers vs Darvish On paper, the best path to a classic game 7 may be another 11-10 marathon
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Post by WorcesterGray on Nov 1, 2017 11:24:37 GMT -5
With Jansen working six outs last night, assume Kershaw will be available, maybe even the choice, for some late-inning duties tonight.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 1, 2017 11:30:16 GMT -5
Roberts deserves to lose by pulling almost every pitcher except Jansen so early. Not so much last night when it was an elimination game, but most/all of the previous ones. Madden deserved to lose last year by overmanaging. Roberts has surpassed him
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