P-Doc Hearts Slyde for Validating His Condescension

I guess I’ll go with congrats.

But what’s so ridiculous about that piece is that Doc doesn’t disregard the fact that lineup construction might make 2-3 wins difference. Instead, he condescends with

All those fans, geeks and radio guys, ranting and stroking out over two or three wins?

You know, Paul, when your team hasn’t had a winning season in a decade, 2-3 wins kinda matters. Also, teams spend millions and make countless roster moves in search of 2-3 more wins. You’re telling me something as simple as playing the right guys so you can get those wins doesn’t matter at all?

I’m glad Daugherty at least had a conversation with Slyde. That’s more than he would have done a couple of years ago. At least he’s sort of willing to listen. He’s coming along at a snail’s pace.

reporting on baseball, but derides someone else who “deals in inside-baseball stuff.”

Not to mention that he buries the two to three wins at the bottom of the piece, after leading with claims that the actual effects are zero.

constantly making every effort to appear stupider than they are in a misguided effort to appeal to “Joe Reds Fan”.

What a tired, banal schtick.

my exact words were, “Stubbs and Dickerson both have shown some success getting on base in the minors, so I think they’d be good choices for the top of the order.”

 I’ll be right back, I gotta go talk to my income tax professor.

We are surrounded by mentally lazy folks who love the status quo even when it is not in their best interest…
Mads “Thank you Jesus for RR.”

Jesus" No prob. what’s a God for anyway?"

And thinks it’s ok for Laynce Nix to start baseball games. And kind of the part where he is also stuck in the 1980s.

SS Ronny Cedeno has regularly been hitting 9th. Though he is pretty close to hitting like a pitcher as it is.

I’m sure the Tigers wish they’d had 2 or 3 more wins last year.

While retarded, Doc’s piece is a COLUMN. Not an ARTICLE.

Carry on.

/journalism geek’d

I thought he was full of shit back when he was still with the Post. I was wrong. he had plenty of room for more stupid shit. It’s too early to complain about lineups, but not too early to state:

It’s already obvious that the Home Team will do no worse than 4th in the Central, by default.

Oh well, I guess there will always be a place in sports journalism for those who pander to the lowest common denominator.

They deny the existence of Negroes.
Say its like the Holocaust…another made up thing by liberals.

When PD complains about the lineup whining, is he talking about RR? I’m out of town, so I can’t listen to the banana phone, but I doubt there are a lot of people calling in complaining about the lineup.

If PD wrote an almost-column about general complaining that was really specific complaining largely or entirely on RR, then I’d say we get a WIN.

Wow…all I can say is wow…the talk show ‘hosts’ on the big One are pretty scary… so many flat assertions, glossed over details and so much misinformation…
Now I see why they hired Brantley.
Wow…they might consider changing the call letters WOW

it made me LOL many times…

but I wanted to say, I think P-doc is pretty much an idiot and it was pretty crappy to characterize Slyde’s comments in that way. I just hope the average reader can see that lineup construction is relevant and 2-3 wins a year could be the difference between a winning season and a losing one or a playoff appearance. More importantly, as a couple people noted in this thread already, people who pay to see the team expect the best possible product on the field and if they can make the on feild product a little better by a lineup change, that seems like not too much to ask.

Thanks to JCH for qouting that P-doc article from ‘08. He atcually wanted tto trade Votto! Where would the offense be without him? I didn’t realize P-Doc was that nuts. The article that came from also showed clearly what is wrong with Baker and Jaconby’s hitting philosoophy. It is not patient enough. P-doc doesn’t seem to like walks, but to me they are every bit as good as a base hit and puts a runner on (also wears the starting pithcer out). What is wrong with walks?

All that being said, at least the article showed that there is another point of view on the matter, even though he didn’t characterize it as well as he could have.

If every case of improved strategy improves the odds of winning two or three games, it would seem to add up over a season. I can also say that in context of the two or three wins, it might depend on when you get them. The last game on the way out of town on a road trip can turn momentum.
Does momentum matter? I suppose Paul dismisses that as witches brew.
All in all, the issue of statistical difference is less important to me than the overall belief that the manager has the best plan in place.