Waiting for Paul Harvey to tell us who that rabbit grew up to be.
And now, you know, the rest of the story.
Is Paul Harvey still going?
I mean, I know he is dead but did the progam keep going?
I don't think so. Mike Huckabee took it over for a while, but then stopped when he ran for president and I think the program went away at that point.
because we can't stop talking about Kobe. I was listening a few minutes ago to a rant by Jason Whitlock about how Kobe was overrated. Tru dat. His data point: Kobe was never at any point in his career the season leader in VORP in the NBA. Indeed, a perusal of basketball-reference.com's year-by-year top 10s for VORP show that Kobe was 3rd once, 4th once, 5th once, 6th twice, 7th once and 8th once.
In contrast, since they started calculating this stat (going back to 1973-74), Lebron led the league 8 times, MJ 7 times, Kareem 6 times, Bird 4 times, KG and the Admiral 3 times each, Steph Curry twice.
Bryant also never finished higher than 4th in Win Shares (Kareem and MJ each led the league 9 times, Wilt 8 times) and never higher than 5th in Box Plus/Minus (going back to 1973-74: Lebron 8 times, Kareem and the Admiral 6 times each, MJ 5 times, Bird 4 times), and never higher than 3rd in PER (Kareem 9 times, Wilt 8 times, MJ 7, Lebron 6, Shaq 5).
In other words, it's pretty easy to conclude that Kobe was never the best player in the NBA. And certainly not the best Laker of all time.
one place where he does top the leader board multiple times: Usage Rate. There's a shock. Kobe led the league 3 times, was 3rd 7 times, 4th twice. Other multiple-time league leaders since 1977-78 (first year calculated): MJ 8 times, AI 5 times, and twice each for John Drew, Dominique, Mark Aguirre, and D.Wade.
I try to stay away from anything Whitlock related.
I just can't quit him.
Kobe led the league in FG missed six times. He is the career leader, having missed 14,481 attempts -- more than 1,000 more misses than the next guy on the list (John Havlicek). More than 2,000 more misses than MJ!
By basketball-reference's ELO ratings (a user-based ranking system involving serial head-to-head comparisons), he ranks 417th all time (giggle), tied with Vern Fleming and Raymond Felton.
Even Barry Bonds ranks higher than that. He's at 141. Edgar Martinez is 139th and John Olerud is 143rd.
I feel fairly confident in saying warriors in four.
Hell, they might do it in three.
Junior's team got their first win today. He was the starting pitcher and looked good through 2 with 1 run allowed on 1 hit, 2 walks, 1 hbp and 4 strikeouts. He also got a 2-out RBI single in the second to put the Mariners ahead 2-1. However, he gave up 6 runs in the third and was moved to LF with 2 outs. The Mariners scored 4 in the 3rd and 4 in the fourth to win 10-9. A popup fell in on a windy day to score the winning run. There was a 2-hour limit, so everyone knew there would not be a fifth inning, so it was essentially a walkoff win. We got home and saw the Twins win and now we will be leaving soon to watch Trey's 10-0 Astros play the last-place Padres to go for the clean sweep of the day.
Astros win big to make it a clean sweep. It was 34-6 before they turned the scoreboard off. Trey thinks it was 36-6. He started in RF and had an RBI groundout and a strikeout. On the groundout, he smoked the ball up the middle but it deflected off the pitcher's leg to the second baseman, who then threw him out.
Here's why the Royals pitched around Joe Mauer in the Twins series
Interesting read from an outside perspective.
well, you know, Joe Mauer can't do it all by himself, because he's a f@(@#(&^@ pussy singles hitter!!!111one111!!!
Nunez has an OPS+ of 397.
Also, Beltre just signed a 2 year extension. That makes me happy.
If he stays healthy, he should get to the3,000 hits plateau next season
Nunez?
I was thinking, if he bats. 800, he'll get about 350 hits, but even that will leave him quite a ways short.
No way he gets 350 hits. Now 350 IBB yeah, he'd totally get that.
Heh, if he's batting 800 by say... June, would he see another hittable pitch the rest of the year? Bases loaded? Bases empty?
Be the battlin' rabbit.
Waiting for Paul Harvey to tell us who that rabbit grew up to be.
And now, you know, the rest of the story.
Is Paul Harvey still going?
I mean, I know he is dead but did the progam keep going?
I don't think so. Mike Huckabee took it over for a while, but then stopped when he ran for president and I think the program went away at that point.
because we can't stop talking about Kobe. I was listening a few minutes ago to a rant by Jason Whitlock about how Kobe was overrated. Tru dat. His data point: Kobe was never at any point in his career the season leader in VORP in the NBA. Indeed, a perusal of basketball-reference.com's year-by-year top 10s for VORP show that Kobe was 3rd once, 4th once, 5th once, 6th twice, 7th once and 8th once.
In contrast, since they started calculating this stat (going back to 1973-74), Lebron led the league 8 times, MJ 7 times, Kareem 6 times, Bird 4 times, KG and the Admiral 3 times each, Steph Curry twice.
Bryant also never finished higher than 4th in Win Shares (Kareem and MJ each led the league 9 times, Wilt 8 times) and never higher than 5th in Box Plus/Minus (going back to 1973-74: Lebron 8 times, Kareem and the Admiral 6 times each, MJ 5 times, Bird 4 times), and never higher than 3rd in PER (Kareem 9 times, Wilt 8 times, MJ 7, Lebron 6, Shaq 5).
In other words, it's pretty easy to conclude that Kobe was never the best player in the NBA. And certainly not the best Laker of all time.
one place where he does top the leader board multiple times: Usage Rate. There's a shock. Kobe led the league 3 times, was 3rd 7 times, 4th twice. Other multiple-time league leaders since 1977-78 (first year calculated): MJ 8 times, AI 5 times, and twice each for John Drew, Dominique, Mark Aguirre, and D.Wade.
It's weird agreeing with Jason Whitlock.
Deadspin wrote about this the other night.
Yes. He referenced Deadspin.
I try to stay away from anything Whitlock related.
I just can't quit him.
Kobe led the league in FG missed six times. He is the career leader, having missed 14,481 attempts -- more than 1,000 more misses than the next guy on the list (John Havlicek). More than 2,000 more misses than MJ!
By basketball-reference's ELO ratings (a user-based ranking system involving serial head-to-head comparisons), he ranks 417th all time (giggle), tied with Vern Fleming and Raymond Felton.
Even Barry Bonds ranks higher than that. He's at 141. Edgar Martinez is 139th and John Olerud is 143rd.
I feel fairly confident in saying warriors in four.
Hell, they might do it in three.
Junior's team got their first win today. He was the starting pitcher and looked good through 2 with 1 run allowed on 1 hit, 2 walks, 1 hbp and 4 strikeouts. He also got a 2-out RBI single in the second to put the Mariners ahead 2-1. However, he gave up 6 runs in the third and was moved to LF with 2 outs. The Mariners scored 4 in the 3rd and 4 in the fourth to win 10-9. A popup fell in on a windy day to score the winning run. There was a 2-hour limit, so everyone knew there would not be a fifth inning, so it was essentially a walkoff win. We got home and saw the Twins win and now we will be leaving soon to watch Trey's 10-0 Astros play the last-place Padres to go for the clean sweep of the day.
Astros win big to make it a clean sweep. It was 34-6 before they turned the scoreboard off. Trey thinks it was 36-6. He started in RF and had an RBI groundout and a strikeout. On the groundout, he smoked the ball up the middle but it deflected off the pitcher's leg to the second baseman, who then threw him out.
Avoid knee surgery if you can.
Co-sign. Also, shoulder surgery.