(5/06/2015 09:05:00 PM) - Al
Wily Peralta is a career .108/.111 hitter.
The casuals that keep insisting he is a good hitter are proving why they are casuals. I'd call 'em clowns, but I wouldn't want to offend clowns.
Casuals get facts wrong! Proves why they are casuals. Sheesh.
(5/09/2015 05:53:00 PM) - Al
Maddon surprised Cubs last in defense: "Our 'd' has not been that bad. Physical errors, I don't care. Mental errors have been rare."
That's because they're not, they just have the most errors. That's akin to saying the guy with a .325 BA is the best hitter on the team and the guy with a .250BA and 15 HR's is the worst hitter on the team. It's actually quite embarrassing to ignore all the info available and use stats that haven't mattered since I was a kid.
Goodness, Robin Yount won a Gold Glove in 1982 and led the league in errors, so when you're using numbers that no one gave a damn about thirty plus years ago, it might be time to not use those numbers anymore.
Rafeal Ramirez led MLB in errors. Oh, wait, surely my being a casual I didn't know he meant the AL when he said "league". I'm such a casual.
Paul Molitor led the AL in errors. What? Ohhhh, surely my being a casual I must realize that in Al's world, generalizations like "he won a Gold Glove and led the league is errors", is simply a hyperbolic statement that supports is main premise that Errors are not a good stat (True!) and gold glove winners have had lots of errors.
Dumb Casual I am. Everyone else can and should be interpreted LITERALLY TO THE LETTER OF THE LAW, while Al can use generalizations and approximations to support his points.
Farking duh.