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I love how Chip always talks thru his laughter, and he laughs pretty easily. Always trying to stay professional. They had fun (but Joe and Boog always have a TON of fun. You missed a good energy if you forcefed thru that ESPMETS bullshit. They can all choke on a dick. The Bravos are coming back whether they want it to happen or not.

Yeah, that one is…interesting. But for everyone one like that, they have one like this.

Fair enough, I’ll give you that. I was talking more along the lines of they don’t get all up batshit crazy when a player is on a cold streak demanding he be demoted. Most of their pessimistic posts are very well reasoned. That’s all.

I still can’t believe he let it happen…

That’s a good question – you kind of have to wonder who Soriano’s friends even are, because the guy is so scary intense during the game, it’s hard to imagine anything outside of serial premeditated murder on his mind at any given time. The fact that he does that little hop over the base line after an inning is weird enough given his extreme persona.

But Gonzalez was on the radio pregame yesterday saying that he doesn’t mind going in the 8th because he fully trusts Soriano behind him in the 9th, and the utmost importance is still the win, not stats.

Alright, alright…take it easy. I had to go look at a new apartment last night, so I was only able to watch the 1st inning before leaving and then got back when it was the 5th inning.

I can’t juggle watching my team, while making witty remarks on here at the same time. It just aint happenin’. Well……every now and then.

From FJM’s Glossary of Terms:

VORP (Value Over Replacement Player)
An offensive stat only, VORP attempts to calculate the number of runs a player is contributing above what a replacement-level player at the same position would if given the same percentage of team plate appearances. VORP is a counting stat, not a percentage stat – so, for example, as of July 22, Andruw Jones has a VORP of 31.0. That means that he has created 31 more runs for his team than the average AAA call-up guy would have by this point in the season. It also turns out that every ten runs a player creates is worth roughly one win, so Andruw’s offense alone has earned the Braves three wins. (There are other stats, like Fielding Runs Above Average [FRAA] that do the same thing as VORP, for defense.) See WARP below for more.

Old Baseball Men, this is another good one to bandy about if you’re interested in tearing down a nerd’s argument. Because it sounds funny. VORP. Please. What’s that doing in baseball? Forget VORP, let’s come up with a stat for the size of a guy’s heart, am I right, people? We’ll call it the Eckstein Quotient. No, wait, that sounds too nerdy. Eckstein Number. Nope. Still too smart. Eckstein Thing. How about just Thing? The highest Thing in the majors? You guessed it: David Eckstein. That’s why they almost named it after him.