It Was Well Worth Stopping By Tragic Illness Today

The Tragic Illness website today had an unusually sane and unbiased look at a Dodger happening. The point was that the Yasiel Puig all-day, all-in, world of wonder was all about, well, hard to say. Fortunately there's no statistics on the guy so outlandish statements based on pseudo analysis couldn't be made. Instead the readers got - wait for it - a logical look at the situation.

AND the author said that Logan White - a baseball guy - might actually know more about baseball than he does. Armageddon People.

Good work Tragic Illness.

Another great thing occurred at TR ILL. My good friend TheRealPaul - the Tragic Hero of The Day, posted up this story with this note:

THE REAL Paul: I remember reading this a while back and stumbled across it again today. I feel like in light of some recent conversations and events that have taken place on here and elsewhere, it's worth a read. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/what-is-sabermetrics-and-which-teams-use-it/

I'd like to salute the author Bradley Woodrum. He's a sabre person who is honestly trying to move the knowledge base forward and not forgetting to include the, you know, actual playing of the game and circumstances and issues around the game that play into the possible final outcome. Bradley you are the man. And Bradley's also the man because he tries to make his points without the snark. Sabre kids don't do that very well either. Maybe Bradley's an alien brought to earth to lead the Sabre kids out of the darkness and into the light of reality-based analysis. Thanks again REAL PAUL. Revel in your award.

Who Will Rob The Dodgers First?
Edwin Encarnacion is having a career year. If I was Toronto I'd be thinking, yeah I'm in a pennant race but i probably won't win and, my lord, Edwin will never have as much trade value as right this second. I wonder what I could get the Dodgers to overpay for him. You'd have to ask the desperate Dodgers just in case they might lose their minds. Don't know what will happen but I'm just saying.

There Are Real Reasons Why You're In The Minor Leagues.
You truly understand how bad the Dodger situation is when you see them willing to send Van Slyke out to start a major league game in right field. He's an imposing fellow but his bat didn't get any faster in his recent vacation in New Mexico. He may get lucky at some point and find the ball hitting the sweet spot of his bat but he's got so little chance with that approach. I would say with no hesitation that Uribe has a better chance of hitting a line drive. I hope Van Slyke finds the right adjustment in his next trip to the minors.

Tragedy of the Day. This guy makes more posts per day on the Baseball Interweb than anyone alive or dead. Usually his most intelligent posts go something like this: Bunt, Bunt, Bunt. Otherwise he mostly talks "Beubs." We need a stat for quality per Interweb post. He'd lead the league in BADNESS wARr. Here's one where he apparently ran out of baseball wisdom and he starts analyzing Jeff Fisher the new Ram football coach. Fisher has a 142-120 record coaching for one of the cheapest owners in the league. The owner forced Fisher to play the guy's favorite college quarterback one year instead of like a real quarterback. The college QB was quickly out of the league. Knock yourself out Increbileboy14.

Justincredible14 1362 pts

 West Coast Ram  West True, but why hire a coach whose teams never post better than middle of the pack offensive and defensive numbers? Especially with so much talent developing? Plus, he looks like a girls AYSO soccer coach.

P.S. VIETNAMDODGER
Hey Viet I wasn't talking about you and Chad B. Reading comprehension. Remember we talked about this. I love you man. And your pet Crab.