Comments on: I reprint, you decide: the Times on Manny, pt. 2 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:56:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: yerfatma http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19414 yerfatma Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:23:45 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19414 Thank God you clarified that. The lion sleeps soundly tonight. Thank God you clarified that. The lion sleeps soundly tonight.

]]> By: DanRosenheck http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19225 DanRosenheck Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:32:22 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19225 I just realized I got one point backwards. Since players tend to hit worse as DH's because they often have nagging injuries that prevent them from playing the field, that would partially *explain* why he hit better as a 1B in Minnesota, rather than counteract it. Which somewhat weakens my argument, although the point that he *did* hit better as a 1B than as a DH still stands. Just for the record. I just realized I got one point backwards. Since players tend to hit worse as DH’s because they often have nagging injuries that prevent them from playing the field, that would partially *explain* why he hit better as a 1B in Minnesota, rather than counteract it. Which somewhat weakens my argument, although the point that he *did* hit better as a 1B than as a DH still stands. Just for the record.

]]> By: yerfatma http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19197 yerfatma Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:47:37 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/03/21/i-reprint-you-decide-the-times-on-manny-pt-2/#comment-19197 Blog fights always turn into an NBA-style brawl and it's damned disappointing to the plebeians sitting comment-side. Somebody put a foot in somebody else. These things <i>always</i> stay civil because implicit in the argument is the fact the other party is reading your blog. At the end of the day, the stats say use of the word "corpulence" for comedic effect gives me a 95% confidence someone is a tool, within a couple standard deviations of Screech from <i>Saved by the Bell</i>. Or Dustin Diamond. Take your pick. Blog fights always turn into an NBA-style brawl and it’s damned disappointing to the plebeians sitting comment-side. Somebody put a foot in somebody else. These things always stay civil because implicit in the argument is the fact the other party is reading your blog.

At the end of the day, the stats say use of the word “corpulence” for comedic effect gives me a 95% confidence someone is a tool, within a couple standard deviations of Screech from Saved by the Bell. Or Dustin Diamond. Take your pick.

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