Comments on: Houston, You Are Not Good

By: Joe R

Joe R — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:23:44 +0000

To be fair, the ‘stros are 4 games up on their phytag W-L.

Still, even if they are only a 76 win team at year’s end, it’s better than the absolute miserable portrayal here.

By: Tweety

Tweety — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:47:55 +0000

Vital COG – that is all

By: Tom B

Tom B — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:50:48 +0000

it looks like this article was written months ago and new numbers were just plugged in or something. he’s got AAA guys and guys not even on the roster negatively effecting the review, and failed to even mention their 2 youngest and brightest, bourn and pence.

there was more research conducted in the comments than he actually did for this article and its really sub-par for this website.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:25 +0000

doesn’t change the fact that this article was poorly written and seemingly rushed. there’s more research done in the comments than in the original article.

By: lester bangs

lester bangs — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:15:47 +0000

Totally agree, Reuben. It should have been retired a long, long time ago.

By: BlackOps

BlackOps — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:11:49 +0000

Damn, what’s with the influx of the fuckheads?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:51:02 +0000

I am shocked at the responses to this article. The article rang pretty true to me.

By: gary

gary — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:45:08 +0000

What this shows is that stat geeks are just as irrational as the mainstream writers they hate on. When real world events don’t match the stat geeks’ assertions, they just dismiss the real world. Classy.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:55:04 +0000

When a team is the “luckiest” in baseball two years in a row, does that mean something else is going on? Or still too small a sample to call it a pattern? I thought HOU was hugely fortunate to be where they were last year, and now here they are again, doing the same thing. My argument that it’s all luck gets weaker the more that happens.

By: Travis L

Travis L — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:42:22 +0000

This must be a reference to Joe Morgan’s infurating quotations about how he hates slow guys who get on base a lot because they “clog up the bases”. Very funny, even if unintentional.