Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Moving & Jack Morris and the Quotable Stat
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This is the new home of my Nationals related blogging. Two Solariums, quite a find. All will be moved and nice and ready by the end of this weekend, but posting has already begun. I'm sure this will increase my readership by leaps and bounds as anti-Expo Washington sites will be forced to acknowledge my presence, now.
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Jack Morris and the quotable stat
Originally the stat to quote for Jack Morris' HOF case was "Most wins in the 80's" Then people realized most wins in the 80's doesn't mean you have the most wins from '78 to '88 or '81 to '91. It was just an arbitrary 10 year period and when you start looking at such things you get a lot of non Hall of Famers leading the lists. So now the quote is "Won 36 more games than any other pitcher during the time period in which he pitched". That got me thinking. Who exactly did he outduel? The 80's weren't exactly known for it's pitching (or it's hitting, for that matter. It was the decade of the Stolen Base and Slap Hitter) The list...
Jack Morris... 233
Bob Welch... 192
Dave Stieb... 174
Hmm. That's a mighty mediocre list Morris beat out there (to be fair I think Nolan Ryan is 4th or 5th - but he didn't get in because of his win total). Is "Better than non Hall of Famers" now all it takes to get in? I'm pretty sure that Tim Wallach was better than say Mike Pagliarulo and Dean Palmer.
Put Tim Wallach in the hall!
Natsbaseball.blogspot.com
This is the new home of my Nationals related blogging. Two Solariums, quite a find. All will be moved and nice and ready by the end of this weekend, but posting has already begun. I'm sure this will increase my readership by leaps and bounds as anti-Expo Washington sites will be forced to acknowledge my presence, now.
The original and still the best exposbaseball DOT blogspot DOT com will still be bringing you Expos news and the occasional random thought. Such as
Jack Morris and the quotable stat
Originally the stat to quote for Jack Morris' HOF case was "Most wins in the 80's" Then people realized most wins in the 80's doesn't mean you have the most wins from '78 to '88 or '81 to '91. It was just an arbitrary 10 year period and when you start looking at such things you get a lot of non Hall of Famers leading the lists. So now the quote is "Won 36 more games than any other pitcher during the time period in which he pitched". That got me thinking. Who exactly did he outduel? The 80's weren't exactly known for it's pitching (or it's hitting, for that matter. It was the decade of the Stolen Base and Slap Hitter) The list...
Jack Morris... 233
Bob Welch... 192
Dave Stieb... 174
Hmm. That's a mighty mediocre list Morris beat out there (to be fair I think Nolan Ryan is 4th or 5th - but he didn't get in because of his win total). Is "Better than non Hall of Famers" now all it takes to get in? I'm pretty sure that Tim Wallach was better than say Mike Pagliarulo and Dean Palmer.
Put Tim Wallach in the hall!
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My "anti-Expos" jab was only because I noticed that most of the DC blogs with links don't link me but they link sites that link me so they must know I'm around. In fact it might just be you and the Nats. Honestly if they don't link me, that's fine. If you blog for high readership numbers - you probably will end up disappointed.
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My "anti-Expos" jab was only because I noticed that most of the DC blogs with links don't link me but they link sites that link me so they must know I'm around. In fact it might just be you and the Nats. Honestly if they don't link me, that's fine. If you blog for high readership numbers - you probably will end up disappointed.
I never was the only kid on the block. I was one of three, in my opinion. Check out the Most Valuable Network for the most venerable and wise one. (The other one has been pretty dead since season's end)
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