FB: Empire 8

[maninorangehat]

Bombers-

Your original comment was that there's no chance on earth the Mets would be underdogs on Sunday. I posted the Glavine/Marquis numbers to show there's not much disparity between them.  In fact, I'm pretty confident the Cubs will be the Vegas line favorite on Sunday.

Stop being salty that MIOH snagged Kerry Wood before you could get him in the FBL I'm dominating.

Go Bombers

[lineback]

Tommy G is my Daddy!   

Jason is Jewish.

I was at the depressing game yesterday, and after I go pick up 17 cases of PBRL, tater tots and 69lbs. of meat for my postgame/birthday party I am going to the game today.  My potential gf got me tickets to tomorrow's game too! good birthday weekend for the tranimal.

[fisheralum91]

lineback- what the hell was that?

anyway--welcome back fa05-good to have ya on

[maninyellowhat]

Happy birthday lineback.  I'm "exited" because all three games this series are televised here, so I don't have to sit in front of the computer and watch mlb.tv.

[TheEnforcer]

go bombers.

[theicdubbz]

ENFORCER!!  you gonna be able to make it to any games this year?

[not so rowdy bomber]

nother tough day at the office... after our 5 hour, 1500 person, all you can eat/ drink clam bake yesterday for the Chamber, NSRB just got invited to today's VIP Corporate reception at St John Fisher today from 1-5, for the Bills training camp-

the former Buffalo Jill who invited NSRB is also hosting the Jills at her place tonight.
dont think NSRB can handle this job, its just too much.

Not-so-salteads-today-but still-not so-rowdy-bomber

btw, lineback, happy birthday  lol... ac!  EH Bombers!


p.s. if any of you are out in the roch, maybe i'll see ya there

[dewcrew88]

Pep, a story just for you. Maybe you could help set the record at an Alfred game!
From Yahoo News:

Bid to break kazoo record fails
By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Aug 2, 11:53 PM ET

NEW YORK - Members of a 1980s funk and disco group hit a sour note in their attempt to break the world record for the largest kazoo ensemble, falling short of the some 2,600 impromptu musicians needed.

Organizers were hoping to sign up 3,000 impromptu players for the evening attempt in Harlem, which was led by the female vocalists of Skyy. Their 1980 song "Skyyzoo" featured the sound of kazoos being played for some gentle backup.

That backup still managed to get louder on Thursday, with more than 2,000 amateur musicians turning out for the concert.

"I don't know anything about it," said Cecilia Malone, standing among a crowd of spectators and looking at the plastic kazoo in puzzlement. "Which side do you blow on? Do you know?"

The current kazoo record was set this past New Year's Eve in Rochester, where 2,600 kazooers gathered to play shortly before midnight. Before that, The Quincy Park Band had held the record for gathering 1,791 players in Quincy, Ill., in 2004.

With some instruction from a professional kazooist — Barbara Stewart, author of "The Complete How To Kazoo" and member of the group Kazoophony — the Harlem kazooers' toneless buzzing soon transformed into lively tooting.

Stewart, who says she's leading a campaign to name the kazoo America's national instrument, declared the crowd members "proficient" players after the lesson, in accordance with Guinness World Records requirements.

With even utter amateurs able to toot one with little instruction, the kazoo has been a classic American instrument since it was invented in the 1840s. The Original American Kazoo Co., established in 1916, still produces the toy players and maintains a museum in the northwest New York community of Eden.

The Ladies of Skyy's lead singer, Denise Wilkinson, said that including the kazoo in the group's 1980 song was the whim of a producer, but ultimately the piece allowed the group to draw the audience in to participate.

"With the kazoo, anybody, if you can hum, you can play the kazoo," she said.

[dewcrew88]

Bombers15-

Glavine-  9-6, 4.38 ERA 137IP, 141H 49BB, 62K
Marquis- 8-6, 4.22ERA  128 IP, 117H, 52BB, 72 K

Wasn't Marquis like 6-1 early in the season after his 1 hitter...

Correct. He's sucked since. I dropped him from my fantasy team about a month ago. He has three "quality starts" in his last ten outings. That's not good.

Note: He actually only has four quality starts in his last 15 outings. Even worse than I thought.

*For those who don't know, a quality start is pitching at least six innings and giving up three or less earned runs.

Got this listening to MLB on my XM Radio:
Quality starts are a deceptive stat. If a pitcher goes 6 innings and gives up 3 earned runs, that's still an ERA of 4.50, higher than the league average. Not quality if you ask me. They should change it to 7 innings and 3 runs, which would be about a 3.85 ERA or make it 6 innings and 2 runs allowed, an ERA of 3.00.
I think it's a great idea, and if I could remember who said it, I would give them credit.

[maninyellowhat]

budcrew,

Check your email.

[theicdubbz]

nother tough day at the office... after our 5 hour, 1500 person, all you can eat/ drink clam bake yesterday for the Chamber, NSRB just got invited to today's VIP Corporate reception at St John Fisher today from 1-5, for the Bills training camp-

the former Buffalo Jill who invited NSRB is also hosting the Jills at her place tonight.
dont think NSRB can handle this job, its just too much.

Not-so-salteads-today-but still-not so-rowdy-bomber

NSRB will screw it up somehow.  i think there is a track in rochester soooo the buffalo cheerleaders will have to wait for NSRB to finish.  they'll probably give him their numbers but, he'll throw those away cus they weren't Giants cheerleaders.  

5-1 odds on a 20 that NSRB gets zip, zilch, nada this weekend.

[Pat Coleman]

Common sentiment among my Baseball Weekly former coworkers, budcrew.

Why do we need to tell people to check their e-mail or messages? I thought we got beyond that last year.

[dewcrew88]

Common sentiment among my Baseball Weekly former coworkers, budcrew.

Why do we need to tell people to check their e-mail or messages? I thought we got beyond that last year.

It seems to be a common sentiment through much of the baseball world, from everything I've read and heard. With 90 percent of teams happy with a pitcher only going 6 innings instead of 7 or 8 or (gasp!) completing a game they start, the quality start designation should change as well.

[Pat Coleman]

I might be willing to call six innings/three ER an Acceptable Start or Average Start.

[dewcrew88]

I might be willing to call six innings/three ER an Acceptable Start or Average Start.

I agree. Maybe they should have an Acceptable Start category as well for all the stat geeks among us.  8)