Chris Rusin went back to Iowa and turned in a great start working 7 IP and allowing 3 ER while striking out 7. Rusin will be back soon so hopefully he took one more ride on the Des Moines pleasure float.
Jae Hoon Ha went 3-4 with a triple and has raised his OBP to .356. Trey McNutt worked two scoreless innings out of the pen and has been much better as of late in relief work.
Daytona
No Game
Dustin Geiger went 3-4 with 3 RBI's which was nice seeing as he has struggled as of late. Soler was 2-5 with a double and got his BA back to .315. Pin Chieh Chen was 2-4 with a BB and stole his 33rd base of the year. Jeffery Antigua struck out 7 over 7 scoreless IP. Antigua is way to advanced for Peoria however so don't get too excited.
Jeimer Candelario went 2-3 with a walk. He's about the only one who had a good game. Rare off night for that offense.
Ben Carhart went 3-5 and is hitting .375. The heir to the rugged jacket empire is a bit old for the level though so we wont know what we have until next year when he gets promoted. Juan Paniagua who used to have a different name with like two other teams pitched last night striking out 3 in 1.2 IP. Keith Law was on hand and mentioned that Paniagua was up to 94-97 with a plus slider. That is nice to hear and seeing that the Paniagua version of this human being is "22" we will hopefully see this guy in Daytona or Tenn next season.
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
It does a decent job at training you to write “here are the three things I will talk about, here are the three things, there are the three things I just told you” papers (dying laughing)
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
I’m a single draft guy, but typically my papers sit on my hard drive for so long while I finish the last 1% of the paper that I end up revising it half a dozen times anyway.
@ Berselius:
Not even that! That’s exactly what I ask them to do, and too many of them simply don’t know what I mean. I now spend the first day of class going over what it means to read and write philosophy. I have to explain thesis statements, what an argument is, how to use evidence…it’s sad, really.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I get students in relatively advanced college math courses (freshman calculus) that can’t add fractions consistently.
Re: the last thread about the age of NL ballparks, I imagine the oldest ones are probably Wrigley and Dodger Stadium. Most of the other guys had brand spanking new stadiums built within the last 20 years. I think the Rockies played in Mile High until they finished Coors Field for them. Pretty much the entire NL Central has a fancy new dig except the Cubs.
@ Berselius:
That’s terrible. My math mind has atrophied and even I can do fractions (dying laughing)
Yeah, revising and thinking about what I’m doing are the hurdles i’m struggling to overcome in my writing. My problem (with apologies for sounding like an asshole) is I was always told whatever shit I spit out was awesome. I cruised through school and got lazy. It’s tough to overcome 25 years of cruising, in regards to my writing, in just a few years.
@ Berselius:
See, that’s what I’m talking about. The slow erosion of basic skills brought on by teach-to-the-standardized-test curriculums in most American schools.
@ Berselius:
I had the same problem in Math that I do with writing. Calculus came easy to me, for whatever reason. The tricks and techniques did, anyway. I never cared about the motivation. It was just learning new tricks and applying them. I was always really good at that game, but when it came time to do proofs and think about it on a deeper level, I was lost.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
They teach to the middle. I found that in my school, and it was tiny and pre-standardized tests (well, except the ACT, obviously). They just teach to the middle. The kids who can progress faster just sit there staring out the window. The kids who can’t keep up, the same.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I’m not so sure in this case – arithmetic like adding fractions is exactly the kind of thing that’s easy to standardize. The bigger problem is the tendency in mathematics assignments to say “this problem is in the homework for section 5.3, so I’m going to use (new method here) to solve every single one of these problems”. Then they’re clueless when they get to a situation where they need to choose an avenue of attack.
@ Berselius:
That’s a really good point. My math prof in college was good at giving us questions that challenged us to use what we’d learned in a new way, but high school it was more like memorization through repetition.
@ Berselius:
This seems to prove my point. They’re taught to find the strategy and use it; they’re not taught to learn a set of skills, which they can then deploy in various environments. Teaching to the test strongly encourages the former approach.
So I’ve resorted to producing fairly extensive grading rubrics which basically outline papers/assignments for students. All they have to do is look at how/what I’m going to grade, put it on paper (or electronic) and then review it themselves against the rubric.
For better students, it helps them manage time and keep from going off on a “what’s the prof want with this vague assignment” tangent. For other students it makes little difference. For me, it cuts downs a lot on complaints, because I can go back to the rubric to point out where the mistakes were. (i.e. The rubric asked for 3 examples of how X environmental regulation was developed using the cultural context of the policy process. You gave me one–and didn’t even do that well.)
Maybe we need an OV academic/creative writing support group.
(dying laughing)
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Yeah, but adding fractions is one of those sets of skills that should apply anywhere (dying laughing)
@ SVB:
Heh, this is all my brain since I’m banging out a syllabus for my class this semester. It’s the intro to proving shit class for math majors, and I’m going to be much more demanding they keep up as usual because of it. I can’t wait.
Meanwhile, so you all don’t get too down about student preparedness/performance…
What happens when MISH gets hungry.
Berselius wrote:
I kind of want to take this class now (dying laughing)
@ SVB:
I also want a cookie.
@ SVB:
Yeah, I have a pretty solid rubric for my syllabi, but when they have no idea what it means to make a mistake in a paper, it doesn’t do a lot of good to tell them how I’m penalizing them for that mistake. (dying laughing)
@ Berselius:
I put all the exam and assignment due dates in my syllabus too, and a section on cheating and it’s consequences. The students don’t believe the former, because I’m the only prof here that does that, and they ignore the latter. Sometimes I think I should just have Google translate my syllabus into Swahili and see how many notice. (dying laughing)
Good luck B.
Oh, and
mb21 wrote:
THIS…thanks folks.
@ SVB:
And an OV metal band.
mb21 wrote:
Fixed
@ josh:
It’ll need more cowbell.
@ Berselius:
My intro to proving shit class was probably my favorite class in college. I actually don’t mean that as a joke. We started off with set theory in that class then progressed to some basic analysis. Then in real analysis my prof was a big fan of the Moore Method and ran the class that way. I was totally lost.
@ Rice Cube:
Hey Berselius, when you want to see if your class is paying attention, do you ask them to prove impossible things related to the Cubs? Like the number of negative win shares attributed to black cats >> goats?
@ SVB:
You know not all math classes are statistics, right? I know it’s hard for scientists to get that point.
@ Berselius:
Pizza Hut MILFs is the biggest attraction to this site.
Is it wrong that every time I see the word “math” that I see it as “meth”? I keep wondering why berselius is teaching meth classes.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/27/bob-brenly-expects-to-re-sign-as-cubs-announcer-despite-diamondbacks-speculation/
mb21 wrote:
They are getting a real run for their money by people searching for anal sex.
@ mb21:
It’s all he has left.
Levine was just on ESPN Radio and put forth a potential roadblock to getting Brenly done is that the Cubs’ broadcasting on WGN beyond 2014 is in question.
@ Aisle424:
Guy types: Anal sex
Google says: obstructed view
Guy: obstructed….view…. yes, that sound exactly like what I’m looking for.
josh wrote:
I always assumed it was the Pizza Hut MILF that was googling anal sex.
BTW, “Googling Anal Sex” is a great name for a band.
@ josh:
Heh, our math building is named after Moore, but no one here uses that method as far as I know. (edit: though apparently Wikipedia disagrees).
New Comic up. Toyed with titling it “Googling Anal Sex”: http://www.obstructedview.net/comics/hope-hangers.html
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