Is there a Cubs game today?
Does hope spring eternal . . . ish?
Did my son proclaim, in response to my question yesterday evening about what tomorrow would hold, "It's Opening Day!"?
Does the murderous grip of optimism have a stranglehold upon my throat?
Will Steve Goodman forever ask from the grave what Chicago has to say? And will the Wrigley faithful always wait until after the game to answer him in joyous unison?
Can DirectTV customers watch WGN on their long-distance boxes of glowing baseball glory?
Do we, as reundiscredited bloggers and unheralded fans with brains resigned to the dismal truth and hearts ascribed to the eternal promise, wait with lusty anticipation for the first sound of ash cracking against spinning, speeding leather in a game that, according to the measure of the league, counts . . . and, according to the posture of our souls, truly matter?
Yes.
AUGH! Hope Monster!
/Homer Simpson
Will there be a game thread today?
@ Mish:
I’ll have a series preview up later this morning, and we’re planning on dusting off the chat room as well
Cardinals got #6org
Uh, I kind of forgot about the game. Thanks for the reminder!
@ Berselius:
I can believe that.
That last thread was so good it was cut short (dying laughing)
mb21 wrote:
I don’t have any data to back this up, but my lying eyes tell me there are some differences between between clubs. There probably isn’t much difference between the Yankees, Rays, and Red Sox but they have to be better than Cubs and White Sox. This could be because they have more draft picks and spend more money in the draft, but I don’t see the Rays picking up Hayden Simpson in the first round. Then again I don’t follow what other teams do so I am biased.
Didn’t fangraphs or someone do a study on this? I think it would be easy, just look at % of players drafted who make it to the majors and are average or better.
Edit: Here is the article I was thinking of http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/building-through-the-draft-worst-of-the-worst/
WaLi wrote:
The problem with such a study is that it doesn’t control for the amount of money teams spend. We wouldn’t expect a team picking 30th to have as good a draft as the team picking first overall. We’d expect a team that spend $10 million to have a better class than those than spend $4 million.
There’s just too much to control for to get an answer. I agree there is probably some small difference between the organizations, but I think it’s mostly overblown. I think it was GW who mentioned that here several month ago and I initially disagreed, but the more I’ve thought about it the more it seems it must be true.
@ Berselius:
I have a post coming up too. With a game thread that will be 4 posts by about noon. (dying laughing)
mb21 wrote:
It should surprise no one that I’ve got nothing.
@ Aisle424:
The hell are we paying you for?
@ Aisle424:
The one I published this morning I wrote 2 days ago. The one I have coming up is just nonsensical rambling so don’t feel bad.
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/random-opening-day-thoughts.html