Comments on: Brewers strike first http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Dukeofflatbush http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161953 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:50:20 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161953 Baseball’s great for that…
Except know for a mic in every dugout and 33 camera angels and instant replay, you’ll never get those great stories that are a bit fact a bit fiction.
Ruth’s called shot for instance… I’m glad we don’t known the truth there.

"You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
No , sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. … "

]]> By: John Autin http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161782 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:17:56 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161782 Duke -- The Gibby/Goose story has been known to Tigers fans for a long time. Even before the '84 Series, we were aware of Gossage's dominance of the matchup. Goose fanned Gibson on 3 pitches in his big-league debut (ending the game), and over the next few years he seemed to take special delight in tormenting Gibson.

There are different versions of the WS story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Gibson
(see 3rd paragraph under "Detroit Tigers" heading)

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/readers/greatest/worldseries/moments.html (see item #9)

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070720&content_id=2098775&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det
(see 4th paragraph)

There are slight differences in these versions; I used an amalgam.

]]> By: Dukeofflatbush http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161765 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:30:16 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161765 John, excellent story about Goose and Gibby.
Where did you unearth that from?
As much as I love stats, its nice to put a bit of hunch, luck and humanity into a story.

]]> By: Dukeofflatbush http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161763 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:26:47 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161763 Triple dog dare?
Skimpy Lee gave you has a chance to see Moneyball?
Do they have theaters in Yahoo?

]]> By: John Autin http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161622 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:48:07 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161622 Hmm ... realizing that Big Bill James was a teammate of Babe Ruth in the first half of 1919, and finished the season with the "Black Sox" -- maybe he does have some mysterious occult connection to the Double-Reverse Curse!

]]> By: John Autin http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161621 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:45:08 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161621 Big Bill James hasn't pitched for the Red Sox since 1919, and Seattle Bill James helped bring a title to Boston in 1914 (albeit in the other league).

I hardly think it's fair to blame them for the 2011 collapse!

]]> By: DavidRF http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161514 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:15:30 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161514 @1,2
How is this going to affect Frank Tanana?

This is a recap of an NLDS game. Why are you asking a ridiculously absurd Red Sox question here? 🙂

]]> By: Timothy P. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161400 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:15:50 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161400 @1 Let me put it another way, is Bill James to blame for the collapse of the Red Sox?

]]> By: Timothy P. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/15525/comment-page-1#comment-161381 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:48:24 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=15525#comment-161381 In all seriousness, do you think Bill James has anything to do with the Red Sox collapse?

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