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This Batman egg cup and toast cutter is sure to brighten any Batman fans morning.
Create an African animal theme with these cookie cutters!
For those baking lovers, this is better than a magazine subscription!
Perfect for those who love bacon.
Add a scent to the page with these sketch and sniff pencils.
Ideal gift for those budding artists out there.
Not only will your child be using their creative skills, they will also be learning geography.
This is a lovely gift for those budding artists and plant lovers.
Teach your child how electric circuits are made with this Buzz wire kit.
Make their very own bouncy balls.
The perfect kit to show kids that science is all around them.
Kids with inquisitive minds will love this potato clock.
A perfect treat for video gaming lovers.
Teach your children how to code with this coding book for beginners!
These headphones are both fun and safe to use with several animal designs to choose from.
These cars don't only drive on the floor, they go up the wall too!
These giant space hoppers are bound to give your child hours of fun. And they are perfect exercise too!
A delightful addition to the garden and a great way to educate children about bugs.
These cute little animal blowing bubbles make lovely stocking fillers.


One of the great new features included in ImageFramer 3.3 is the ability to generate PDF reports called Design Reports, which are reports that show all of the specific sizes and style elements that you've added to your photo. By allowing you to adjust the size of your photo to "real world" sizes (inches, centimetres, etc) you can generate reports unique to your project and reference the work you've done when you take your art to a print shop or framer, ensuring that you always get the results that you planned for.
Let's go through the steps to produce an ImageFramer Design Report!
The first thing I did was drop a shot of a newly-married couple into ImageFramer. Another great new feature is that you can drag and drop an image directly from a website, so I used one from one of my favourite stock image sites, stocksnap.io to find a photo for this example and dragged it right into the app in my menu bar.
The last step before generating the Design Report is to enter the image size. This setting is changed in the Design Settings panel, located on the right.
This is what the Design Report looks like. It opens in Preview automatically and is print-ready!
As you can see, it's pretty straightforward and really easy to read. It tells me the photo file name and gives me what the "real world" size will be once it's printed, as well as the details of the layers I've added in ImageFramer.
By generating a Design Report you can print out the details of the style choices that you've made in ImageFramer in sizes that you can then take to a printer or a framing shop. Because you can adjust the image size to meet the specifications of your project the Design Report allows you to make sure that you get exactly what you planned for when getting your art framed for yourself, your loved ones, or your customers.
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Sorry for my absence yesterday but Sunday turned out to be a bit more exciting than I had planned which left no time for blogging. Don't believe me?
Sunday was not unlike many others before it. In fact, now that football has come to a close, Shaun and I were thrilled to have the day to catch up on food shopping, closet measuring, laundry and other fun adult Sunday things. In fact, I spent the morning planning our meals for the week, followed by food shopping, followed by cooking. I was planning to share all of that with you yesterday, however, when I get to the details of how Sunday went down, you'll understand why my measely meal planning got the bump.
While I was cooking away, Shaun had recently watched Giada at Home, where Giada made some potato chips and decided that he too had a hankering for some homemade chippies. After whipping up Rocco's blue cheese dip (our favorite of yore), Shaun broke out this guy to get his chip on (minus the protective guard). You can probably guess where this story is going.
There it is. I'll spare you the intimate details. Let's just say that there was blood. Some screaming (mostly from me). A lot of orange Gatorade. A lengthy amount of time passing before we made the decision that yes, it was pertinent to get to a hospital stat. It wasn't pretty. In fact, I'm still feeling a bit traumatized by the whole ordeal.
So we left the half sliced potatoes on the kitchen island and hopped in the Prius over to Jersey City Medical (a fine establishment, if you are in need of a hospital, by the by). A little while later, we were home, bandaged, medicated (painkillers for the man and a sedative for me...just kidding...sort of) and relieved that this bloody ordeal (er...pun not intended) was behind us.
Some of us were more relieved than others. At least the latter in this situation got some good painkillers out of it. That made him happy.
The finger in question is just a coincidence. I think. At this point, he did encourage me to tell this story on the blog, though in hindsight, it could have been the meds talking.
...it's probably the most dangerous kitchen tool you could own. And not worth the risk of chopping off the tip of your finger (and fingernail). And so not worth seeing your awesome husband (or awesome self) in so much pain. Take it from me, it's not pretty, it's not pleasant, and it's going to take a heck of a lot longer to heal than a simple bandage.
But if you do own one, or aren't deterred by the bird-flipping man in the photos above, please for the love of Jesus, use the guard it comes with or at least an oven mitt for protection. I'm pretty sure I won't be looking at a mandolin ever again. Of all of our kitchen mishaps, this has by far been the worst one and was a real wake up call to be SO super careful in the kitchen when handling any sort of tool, be it blades, knives, or electrical equipment. It's so easy to make a simple mistake and all it takes is one wrong move. My poor sweet husband has the severed finger to prove it. So please, be super super duper careful when handling this tool.
That will conclude today's PSA.
On Saturday, Shaun and I had a little party to watching the Jets clinch it over the Colts. Nothing like good friends and good food on a Saturday night!
I love playing host to our friends. I go a little overboard with cooking and baking, but I don't think they mind!
If you follow me on Twitter or 'Like' us on Facebook, you may have noticed that I attempted to make a Jets-themed cake to mark the occasion. And since I'm the farthest thing from a cake decorator, I came up with an idea to make a green cake. You know, to chicly say that we are rooting for the Jets, but without hanging football-theme crepe paper all over our apartment (not that there's anything wrong with that). But this couldn't be just any green cake. I'm talking bright, rich, deep, bold green that would have all of our guests (and most importantly my husband) ooohing and aaaahing at my creativity and baking prowess. You know, as I'd simply toss my hair over my shoulder and proclaim how it was nothing.
In hindsight, the smart thing to do would have been to simply make a vanilla cake and add a boatload of green food coloring. But because I had to be oh-so-fancy-schmancy, I decided that it was necessary to take it a step further. Plain ol' vanilla cake wouldn't do. It had to be green velvet.
Sounds simple enough, right? Take a red velvet cake recipe and substitute the red for green. Oh if only that were the case my friends.
I even completely ignore the fact that the 1.5 bottles of food coloring revolted and semi-permanently stained my fingers. Both hands. Front and back.
I had bright green cake! Who cares about my fingers?!
Unfortunately, I happy danced too soon. The moment the cakes came out of the oven, I knew that something went awry.
That vibrant green was nowhere to be found. Instead, I was left with a mossy exterior that couldn't look more unappetizing. I iced it up anyway and served it to my guest with warnings.
Though I hoped that the inside was salvaged, no luck. I served my wonderful guests mossy green cake. Luckily I have great friends and they ate it with a smile. Luckily, the cake still tasted delicious. Even though it looked fairly hideous.
Don't judge this book by its cover. If it wasn't tinted green, I'd think this was a moist, flavorful and overall yumtastic cake. Unfortunately I'm too embarassed to send the leftovers with Shaun to work. I have a rep to protect.
So there you have it. One of my most disappointing kitchen fails to date. So what do you think? Have you ever had a fun idea that turned into a big fail?
And when it looks this pretty, how could it go so wrong?
I refuse to blame this little baby, which has brought many a mean soup and chili over the last year.
1. I have never cooked with dried beans before. Typically, I'm a from-the-can kind of girl. Perhaps I did not cook the soup long enough?
3. The recipe called for pureeing some of the soup and then mixing it back in. Though the wall got a good splattering of black bean juice, that aside, I thought I had done it as instructed. Perhaps I should have pureed more?


The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and residual oil continues to require follow-up by public health professionals. Conflicting reports from various scientific groups and governmental agencies contribute to a lingering concern about the effects of the oil. For instance, the Food and Drug Administration and state health agencies have conducted extensive monitoring, however, many consumers are still uncertain about the safety of Gulf seafood. Fear from possible long-term effects of the oil spill and the economic impact on fishermen and the tourist industry continues to impact the Gulf Coast increasing stress and contributing to mental health issues.


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require 'multiset'
require 'multimap'
require 'nested_multimap'

require 'enumerable_examples'
require 'hash_examples'
require 'set_examples'

# Rubinius Hash isn't ordered by insert order
Spec::Matchers.define :sorted_eql do |expected|
  if defined? Rubinius
    sorter = lambda { |a, b| a.hash <=> b.hash }
    match do |actual|
      expect(actual.sort(&sorter)).to eql(expected.sort(&sorter))
    end
  else
    match do |actual|
      expect(actual).to eql(expected)
    end
  end
end

require 'set'

if defined? Rubinius
  class Set
    def <=>(other)
      to_a <=> other.to_a
    end
  end
end

require 'forwardable'

class MiniArray
  extend Forwardable

  attr_accessor :data

  def initialize(data = [])
    @data = data
  end

  def initialize_copy(orig)
    @data = orig.data.dup
  end

  def_delegators :@data, :<<, :each, :delete, :delete_if

  def ==(other)
    other.is_a?(self.class) && @data == other.data
  end

  def eql?(other)
    other.is_a?(self.class) && @data.eql?(other.data)
  end

  if defined? Rubinius
    def hash
      @data.hash
    end

    def <=>(other)
      @data <=> other.data
    end
  end
end

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import re

from django.http import Http404

from account.utils import handle_redirect_to_login

from .conf import settings
from .models import Team, Membership

def check_team_allowed(request):
    allowed = [
        r"^/teams/[\w-]+/account/login/$",
        r"^/teams/[\w-]+/account/signup/",
        r"^/teams/[\w-]+/ajax/username-validation/",
        r"^/teams/[\w-]+/account/password/reset/",
    ]
    for allow_re in allowed:
        if re.search(allow_re, request.path):
            return None
    return handle_redirect_to_login(request, redirect_field_name="next")

class TeamMiddleware(object):

    def process_request(self, request):
        team_slug = request.environ.get("pinax.team")
        if team_slug is not None:
            try:
                team = Team.objects.get(slug=team_slug)
            except Team.DoesNotExist:
                if request.user.is_authenticated():
                    request.user.teams = None
                    raise Http404()
                else:
                    return check_team_allowed(request)
            else:
                request.team = team
        else:
            request.team = None
        if request.user.is_authenticated() and settings.TEAMS_PROFILE_MODEL:
            if re.search(r"^/teams/[\w-]+/account/signup/", request.path):
                return None
            profiles = settings.TEAMS_PROFILE_MODEL.objects.filter(
                user=request.user
            )
            request.user.teams = profiles.filter(
                team__isnull=False,
                team__memberships__state__in=[
                    Membership.STATE_ACCEPTED,
                    Membership.STATE_AUTO_JOINED
                ]
            ).distinct()
            try:
                request.profile = profiles.get(team=request.team)
            except settings.TEAMS_PROFILE_MODEL.DoesNotExist:
                raise Http404()
        else:
            if team_slug is not None:
                return check_team_allowed(request)

class WSGITeamMiddleware(object):

    def __init__(self, application):
        self.app = application

    def __call__(self, environ, start_repsonse):
        m = re.match(r"(/teams/([\w-]+))(.*)", environ["PATH_INFO"])
        if m:
            environ["SCRIPT_NAME"] = m.group(1)
            environ["PATH_INFO"] = m.group(3)
            environ["pinax.team"] = m.group(2)
        return self.app(environ, start_repsonse)


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The federally required minimum wage is $7:25 per hour of work performed, which everyone agrees is insufficient to maintain a nonpoverty lifestyle in Wisconsin without government subsidies or having to work two or more jobs. Some state governments have have elected to increase the required minimum wage per hour that employers in their state must pay their employees; however, Wisconsin is not one of them.
Paying individuals and families who minimize their annual global footprint could add significantly to an individuals or family's annual income. Depending on how successful each individual or family was at minimizing their driving mileage and flying, and minimizing their energy use in their home, they could earn up to $22,800 in a year. African-American individuals and families would be eligible to earn a higher maximum of $30,400 per year.
Although the above amounts would be the maximum one could earn by not driving a motor vehicle or flying at all throughout a year, most Wisconsinites would find it difficult to max out in the residential home heating and use of fossil fuel derived electricity, since few homes exclusively use solar or wind power. But most homes in Wisconsin could be better insulated, use less hot water, or kept a few degrees cooler (winter/spring/fall) or warmer (summer, using less air conditioning) than their residents might be use to, so they could add to their income by having to pay less in energy costs plus whatever income they might earn, by using less energy than the typical Wisconsin household of the same size.


S15 'Harry A Frith' at Swanage, on 'Golden Arrow' driving experience turns.
Instruction time for the 'experience' crew from the regular Swanage driver.
Last minute instruction as the S15 waits for the 'off' - remember that SR poster?
With a strong exhaust, the S15 passes the excavations for the new Swanage signal box.
'Harry A Frith' passes the Swanage MPD as she returns at the end of another 'Golden Arrow' experience turn.


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Blackrock's CEO, Larry Fink, Just Taught Us a Lesson About Impact Investing
Posted by Steve Distante on 3/6/18 4:08 PM
When you hear the word "Blackrock", images of advocating for the common good aren't the first ones that comes to mind. Recent events, though, have led us to believe that perhaps Wall Street is warming up to the sustainability movement. Actions taken by Blackrock and a host of Fortune 500 companies are proving that American capitalism doesn't have to be self-serving – as these companies show, making a profit and making a difference don't have to be mutually exclusive.
As head of the world's largest asset manager with nearly $2 trillion under management, Blackrock's Larry Fink is a powerful person with the ability to influence what companies all over the world are doing. As a substantial institutional holder of many of the world's largest companies, Blackrock has the ability to remove companies from its portfolios if it they feel it is not in their shareholders' best interests. Blackrock also has the ability to vote by proxy on behalf of its clients, if the client elects so.
In his 2017 letter, Larry Fink expressed what seems like a pretty strong vote in favor of sustainability as a driver of long term value creation:
Companies must ask themselves: What role do we play in the community? How are we managing our impact on the environment? Are we working to create a diverse workforce? Are we adapting to technological change? Are we providing the retraining and opportunities that our employees and our business will need to adjust to an increasingly automated world? Are we using behavioral finance and other tools to prepare workers for retirement, so that they invest in a way that will help them achieve their goals?
As we enter 2018, BlackRock is eager to participate in discussions about long-term value creation and work to build a better framework for serving all your stakeholders. Today, our clients – who are your company's owners – are asking you to demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only their own investment returns, but also the prosperity and security of their fellow citizens. We look forward to engaging with you on these issues. (Blackrock, n.d.)
While this passage reflects a pretty serious intention to support impact investing, but talk is just talk. Interesting, Fink's actions since then have shown this treatise isn't just lip service.
In the aftermath of the traffic Parkland shooting, Fink shocked the world with his response, taking a stand on gun control by reexamining holdings in gun makers and retailers. Blackrock said they would provide investors the ability to invest in gun-free funds and more actively engage in discussion with gun manufacturers. (CNN, 2018).
What impresses us is the urgency and speed with which Blackrock took action. This serves as an outstanding example of how impact investing can be transformative and be applied to influence societal outcomes that improve society.
Other Sustainable Businesses We Like
Blackrock isn't the only one making a difference.
It is a common misperception that only non-profits charities, and philanthropic institutions have the public interest in mind. We see these businesses making an impact and a profit at the same time, giving so much to the world, giving not just by monetary donation but also by making the purpose of their business to solve social problems.
Tesla, with its electric cars, is making its impact on the world by challenging the status quo and elevating the level of technical sophistication in the automobile industry. In doing so, it has helped reduce fossil fuel emissions. Tesla's ultra-safe design has maybe even saved a life or two.
When I saw Revenge of the Electric Car, I realized the impact that electric vehicles could have and saw how Elon Musk, whom I really admire, risked everything he owns to make Tesla succeed. I see Elon Musk as a model of congruence. He doesn't have to defy his values in order to make a profit. In fact, by making his passion for doing good come alive, he's only make his business more successful.
Nike is taking a green approach to its manufacturing, both in how they conduct their own operations and who they choose to work with as partners. Every supplier in their chain has to follow Nike's Code of Conduct, and their sustainability score is factored into their performance review (Nike, n.d.)
The next time I need a pair of shoes, I'm buying Air Jordans.
Dell's headquarters is completely powered by renewable energy (Angelova, 2009). As the first LEED-platinum certified building on Long Island, we love this idea.
Not only does a sustainable workplace promote higher health for the company's workers, it can also have a great impact on the surrounding community. Green buildings reduce the carbon footprint as well as noise and air pollution.
Click below for a live example.
For the last several years, Apple has been named one of the world's most environmentally-friendly companies in the tech sector (Fingas, 2017). It earned this accolade for its conservative use of coal, nuclear, and natural gas as energy sources, among other things.
We love how they are pushing for increased access to renewables. It's a great thing when a leading company uses its clout to do something sustainable. This sets an example for the rest of the industry.
Originating change from the top makes the potential for impact even stronger.
Tom's of Maine
Tom's was one of the pioneers of the sustainable personal products industry. Its natural oral care, antiperspirants, baby products, and body and lip products offer the public ways to care for themselves and their families without exposure to harsh chemicals.
Having been in existence for over four decades years, Tom's was an early adopter of sustainability when the movement began and who knows who they've inspired?
Investing and Personal Values Not Mutually Exclusive Anymore
It is commonly believed that nice people finish last. Unfortunately this idea has demolished the reputation of the financial sector. The industry has evolved to the dawn of a new day and the time has arrived for a new mantra.
For example, at our firm, advisors believe that the way to business growth is conducting the practice in congruence with the values that govern our lives. And it's working.
Our five core values are represented by GRITT:
The result has been a culture unseen before in the financial services industry, one that results in outcomes that maximize the benefit for all parties in the long term, from investors to society and the world at large.
Our people make decisions very differently from other broker dealer firms in the industry because we see the purpose of our business as to do good. When making decisions, the first question is always, "Does this maintain our values?"
What is your company doing to make the world a better place and counterbalance the problems that plague our society? Comment below.
Angelova, Kamelia. (23 Sept, 2009). The 15 Best Companies For The Planet. Business Insider. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-best-companies-for-the-environment-2009-9#2-dell-14
Fingas, Roger. (10 January, 2017). Apple again named Greenpeace's most environmentally-friendly company. Retrieved from http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/10/apple-again-named-greenpeaces-most-environmentally-friendly-company
Fink, Larry. (n.d.) Larry Fink's Annual Letter to CEOs: A Sense of Purpose. Retrieved from https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter
Isidore, Chris. (2 March, 2018). BlackRock turns up the pressure on gun makers. CNN Money. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/02/investing/blackrock-gunmakers/index.html.
Nike. (n.d.). Nike Aims to Transform Manufacturing. Retrieved on February 15, 2018 from https://about.nike.com/pages/transform-manufacturing

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This recipe was adapted from Pesach − Anything's Possible! by Tamar Ansh. We used a loaf of frozen Salmon Gefilte Fish. The results are light and tasty. For those who do not care for the typical flavor of gefilte fish, this is a good alternative.
Defrost the frozen Salmon Gefilte Fish Loaf in the refrigerator.
Cut 1 onion into quarters and the carrots into chunks. Place into bowl of food processor along with the garlic, and parsley. Using the metal blade, process until the mixture resembles small pieces. Add the eggs, pepper, salt and sugar and continue to blend until it is completely pureed - it should not be liquid. Add the defrosted Salmon Gefilte Loaf and pulse several times until blended.
Place the above mixture into a large mixing bowl and using an electric mixer, beat for about 10 minutes until the mixture thickens.* Cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight (we chilled it overnight).
In a very large pot, filled a little more than half, add the sliced onion, carrot, sugar and salt. Bring to a rapid boil. Using wet hands, form large balls and drop, one at time, into the boiling water. You may have to wet your hands several times. Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook 75 - 90 minutes, depending on the size of the balls. We cooked ours for 75 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, remove the fish to a platter or large cookie sheet and cool. Place in covered container and refrigerate.
Serve with horseradish, Dill Mayonnaise** or sauce of choice.
Yield: 12 single portions. Can have more if made smaller.
*It is important to beat it until it thickens so it will hold its shape during cooking.
**Dill Mayonnaise: Add chopped Dill and Parsley to Mayonnaise. Refrigerate until serving.


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The Hall of Fame Case for Don Mattingly
In a change of pace, some comments on the commitee:
Nothing would surprise me after Harold Baines got in last year. Which, as I argued last year, was in no small part a function of Tony La Russa, Jerry Reinsdorf and Pat Gillick being on the committee. Each of those three employed and, quite apparently, admired Baines during his career.
Do we have anything like this year? Let's look at the Committee:
George Brett;
Rod Carew;
Dennis Eckersley;
Eddie Murray;
Ozzie Smith;
Robin Yount;
Sandy Alderson;
Dave Dombrowski;
David Glass;
Walt Jocketty;
Doug Melvin;
Terry Ryan;
Bill Center;
Steve Hirdt;
Jack O'Connell; and
Tracy Ringolsby
Not that I expect cronyism as a matter of course, but unless I'm missing a connection here I can't see any of those guys stumping for any of the individual candidates on this year's ballot like La Russa quite clearly stumped for Baines.
For those interested, a consideration of Don Mattingly- for those not interested, there are only three of these to go…..
Tags: don mattingly, hall of fame
1. Howie Menckel Posted: December 04, 2019 at 10:19 PM (#5905771)
Jack finished 3rd in my Rotisserie League's inaugural season of 1984. he's good people - now is THAT GUY who calls you to let you know that you've just been elected to the HALL OF FAME. he covered the 1986 Mets, which was not a bad gig at all.
Don't let it be forgotten that Don Mattingly was once regarded as a consensus future Hall of Famer:
Between 1984 and 1989 he posted a batting line of .327/.372/.530 batting line and averaged 27 homers — back when 27 homers meant something — and 114 RBIs. That slugging percentage was the best in baseball over that span, as was his extra base hit total (428) and RBI total. He was the American League batting champ in 1984 and was the MVP in 1985.
They didn't call him Donnie Baseball for nuthin'. Alas, his back betrayed him.
3. PreservedFish Posted: December 04, 2019 at 10:45 PM (#5905780)
Played like a clear Hall of Famer for 3-4 years. I'm a would-be peak voter, happy to give extra credit for his awards and prominence, and so am sympathetic to his case, but it's still way too light.
4. Zonk didn't order a hit on an ambassador Posted: December 04, 2019 at 11:15 PM (#5905785)
His '84 Topps card has a fringe peak chance...
5. BABiP_Roberts Posted: December 05, 2019 at 03:44 AM (#5905811)
Can anyone explain why David Glass gets a vote? Are we sure he knows anything about baseball? Also isn't he out of baseball now that the Royals have been sold?
6. Rally Posted: December 05, 2019 at 08:08 AM (#5905813)
If he had more years like that, he'd be a HOFer. His great years are not that much different from the peaks of someone who is only considered a career candidate - Eddie Murray.
Mattingly's 1984-86 OPS+: 156-156-161
Murray had 3 straight years of 156, and followed that up with a 157.
Just saying as a peak candidate, he's no Koufax where the heights he reached overcome the lack of a long career. He's Eddie without the steady.
Totally agree with [6], though Mattingly loomed larger then since AVG/RBI were king. His 145 RBIs in 1985 was an eye-popping baseball card stat and easily the most of the decade.
8. Random Transaction Generator Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:15 AM (#5905827)
Don Mattingly is a curse!
1981 - New York Yankees go to the World Series for the 33rd time
1982-1995 - Don Mattingly plays for the New York Yankees, during which time the Yankees never go to the World Series (the longest drought in franchise history since becoming the "Yankees"). He retires at the end of 1995.
1996-2003 - New York Yankees go to 6 World Series in this time span.
2004-2007 - Don Mattingly joins the New York Yankees as a hitting coach, during which time they never go to the World Series (despite winning their division 3 times in that span).
2008 - Don Mattingly leaves the Yankees organization. The very next season, the Yankees go back to the World Series.
2008-2015 - Don Mattingly joins the Los Angeles Dodgers (first as hitting coach, then manager), during which the Dodgers never go to the World Series (despite winning their division 5 times in that span).
October 2015 - Don Mattingly leaves the Dodgers organization
2017-2018 - Los Angeles Dodgers go to the World Series
9. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:20 AM (#5905829)
HoVG, not HoF. Classic "what might have been" injury case.
10. Howie Menckel Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:40 AM (#5905836)
don't let anyone on the vets committee buy into the narrative of "let's induct all 3 Yankees captains at once" and carry Mattingly and Munson in with Jeter. think of the national security implications if all those NYY fans are gathered in one place this summer.....
11. Ithaca2323 Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:41 AM (#5905837)
#6 is dead on.
Mattingly just wasn't as good a hitter as he was portrayed to be during his era. The power was good, not great. He almost never walked (~40 non IBB a season). The RBI totals were very good, but the guy had Rickey Henderson hitting in front of him for most of his prime, so it'd be stunning if he *wasn't* driving in 110 runs a season.
My favorite player growing up, and a shoo-in had he stayed healthy, largely because I think he would have accrued 3,000 hits, and probably 600 doubles. But, as Snapper says, he's a HOVG guy.
12. Joyful Calculus Instructor Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:49 AM (#5905844)
100% ballplayer, 0% bullshit.
J/k, he comes up well short of HoF quality.
13. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: December 05, 2019 at 09:56 AM (#5905848)
My favorite player growing up,
Ditto, and still my favorite player of all time.
Also, a great aesthetic player. High average, low walk, moderate HR, high doubles, high RBI is the absolute best "shape" for a great offensive player. Add in the slick fielding, and just a super fun player.
14. Tom Nawrocki Posted: December 05, 2019 at 10:27 AM (#5905853)
It's a little hard to see because the 1994 strike limited his counting numbers, but Mattingly was one of those hitters who took more walks as he got older. His career high in OBP came not in his much-ballyhooed prime but in 1994, his-next-to-last season.
tremendous guy to deal with.
near the end of his career, he was to "go-to guy" in the Yankees clubhouse, which is a key role because of the amount of media who need to fill space with stories before games even start. if you don't have such a guy, lots of players are liable to be prevailed upon who are in no mood for chitchat.
so Mattingly would graciously hold court hours before every game, taking on all comers because he knew that his analysis of anything baseball-related carried plenty of weight. not controversial - but not so defensive that he offered nothing but pablum #coughcough
16. The Good Face Posted: December 05, 2019 at 11:30 AM (#5905882)
Excellent point. Mattingly didn't walk and he didn't strike out; he made contact and hit the ball HARD. Just a fun guy to watch. Shame he was essentially done as a star player at 27.
17. Lassus Posted: December 05, 2019 at 12:00 PM (#5905904)
Is his HOVG ranking higher than David Wright's? In my head, without actually looking, they seem comparable. With David ranking higher, which I fully admit is biased.
18. . Posted: December 05, 2019 at 12:11 PM (#5905911)
Basically what Fish said in 4 and snapper in 13. I especially like snapper's final sentence in 13 which is dead spot-on. Better Mattingly than the walk compilers like Grich and Dewey Evans and Lou and all the rest. Mattingly's athletic feats are simply superior to the walk compilers, as sensible people realize. That's ultimately what posterity should be rewarding, and for the most part still is.
To broaden the point out, it's just creepy and weird that the saber devotees continue to insist that the walk is something no one realized the value of until their brightness finally shined the light on a fallen world. "Walk's as good as a hit" has been a staple of little league coaching and positive bench jockeying/encouragement for at least 45 years and it wouldn't surprise me if ten-year-olds and their coach-fathers were saying it on little league sandlots in 1923.
19. The Duke Posted: December 05, 2019 at 01:13 PM (#5905953)
I would say there are going to be 4-5 strong votes for Simmons and Whitaker on that committee And I think Mattingly might do well with this group
20. fhomess Posted: December 05, 2019 at 02:24 PM (#5905980)
I was a HUGE Mattingly fan as a kid. Still have something like 300+ of his baseball cards. I hunted down all the weird cards I could find, too. Nothing saddened me more than his back issues. I would have loved to see him elected for the career he should have had, but he didn't have it, so I'm firmly out on him.
I loved Mattingly's quiet stance, his mustache and cleft chin bespoke a seriousness in the box. He was all concentration and confidence. I feel like we don't have as many fun, unique batting stances anymore, but maybe part of it is that we just don't pay attention to that like we used to. Rickey, Julio Franco, Bagwell, Sheffield... Ichiro is a more recent one that sticks with me.
All that said, I can't stand Mattingly the manager.
21. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: December 05, 2019 at 02:28 PM (#5905981)
his mustache and cleft chin bespoke a seriousness in the box
Yeah, unlike all of those frivolous clean-shaven hitters with their silly uncleft chins...?
22. gef, talking mongoose & vexatious litigant Posted: December 05, 2019 at 02:32 PM (#5905984)
Nothing saddened me more than his back issues.
Was he a particularly inept collector of periodicals, then?
23. Zonk didn't order a hit on an ambassador Posted: December 05, 2019 at 02:58 PM (#5905993)
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24. Ithaca2323 Posted: December 05, 2019 at 03:12 PM (#5905998)
I think this is a bit of an unfair characterization of those three player, but Evans in particular. He hit for more power than Mattingly. He had as many 30 HR seasons, and more seasons with a .500+ slugging percentage (despite the significantly lower average), and a higher HR %. And his RBI totals were pretty solid too, albeit without the monster 145 (but again, put prime Rickey on base in front of someone, and that's what happens). They were all also particularly good defenders, and Whitaker a good baserunner as well
25. Rally Posted: December 05, 2019 at 03:22 PM (#5906001)
I think this is a bit of an unfair characterization of those three player, but Evans in particular.
Unfair, but consider the source. As far as athletic feats go, turning double plays like Grich or Whitaker, or throwing a strike to third base from the RF corner like Dewey are up on my list. Not that I'm criticizing Mattingly here, while first base is less demanding than other positions, Mattingly was an amazingly player in his own right, even playing a bit of third base as a lefty. Is he the last guy to do that?
None of the mentioned players were exactly Ed Yost, players whose walk totals were the main thing anyone noticed about them. But they walked a bit more often than the player singledot is comparing them to, so they must be denigrated.
26. caspian88 Posted: December 05, 2019 at 03:26 PM (#5906003)
Damn those players for oafishly getting on base, instead of grounding to third and getting thrown out by two steps like Don Mattingly and Steve Garvey, who were Real Men and not nerds.
To answer my question:
Gerardo Parra played third base just this year. Kind of a joke though. He took the mound at the end of a blowout loss and couldn't get anyone out. So they moved 2B Dozier to the mound, Parra to third, and Rendon to second. After one play, Parra and Rendon switched spots.
In 2017, Anthony Rizzo played an inning at third. In 1986 Mattingly played 18 innings at third, and impressively recorded 11 assists.
28. Qufini Posted: December 05, 2019 at 04:16 PM (#5906031)
I've been enjoying these. Well written, well reasoned. We sometimes throw "Hall of Very Good" around as an insult but these articles are a reminder that all of these players had very good careers, even if some of them don't merit Hall of Fame induction.
Two 14-year careers:
Wright 50.4 - Mattingly 42.42
Wright 5998 - Mattingly 7003
Wright 242 - Mattingly 222
Wright .296 - Mattingly .307
Wright 949 - Mattingly 1007
Wright 196 - Mattingly 14
I find the similar batters to be weird, with Mattingly's seemingly way better than Wright's, given the above. I probably just don't do this enough.
EDIT: Yeah, I think I'm judging this wrong, going on names and narratives rather than numbers.
WRIGHT:
Similar Batters
Ken Caminiti (908.7)
Ryan Zimmerman (904.6)
Hanley Ramirez (902.1)
Andrew McCutchen (901.4)
Mike Lowell (896.6)
Matt Kemp (889.3)
Evan Longoria (889.2)
Travis Fryman (879.0)
Hunter Pence (878.3)
Dante Bichette (877.4)
MATTINGLY:
Cecil Cooper (933.3)
Wally Joyner (907.2)
Hal McRae (895.3)
Kirby Puckett (891.0) *
Will Clark (879.3)
Adrian Gonzalez (878.3)
Magglio Ordonez (877.6)
Jeff Conine (875.2)
Tony Oliva (867.3)
Keith Hernandez (861.6)
30. Never Give an Inge (Dave) Posted: December 05, 2019 at 05:05 PM (#5906066)
I think Topps started including BB on the back of baseball cards in 1981. Not sure what year they started including OBP but it was after 1981. Also pretty sure that the daily box scores didn't used to include BB (for hitters, at least). Not sure when that changed.
The idea that people have always appropriately valued walks is simply not true -- it was difficult even to find out how many times a guy had walked, let alone value it appropriately.
31. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: December 05, 2019 at 05:16 PM (#5906074)
The idea that people have always appropriately valued walks is simply not true
well that depends what you mean by "people"--Alan Roth, Branch Rickey, and Earl Weaver certainly did; most other people--not so much
I played in a fantasy league in the early 2000s that used points scoring. I got into a big battle with the commissioner about the relative point values of the various stats, the most ridiculous being that a pitcher win was +10 while a loss was -5, meaning basically a pitcher's entire outing rested on whether he got the W. We also argued over walks, with him taking the position that it took no skill on the part of the batter to "just stand there while the pitcher throws four bad pitches."
I didn't stay in that league very long.
I remember talking to a Yankee fan during the 1988-1989 school year about whether Mattingly had already done enough to make the Hall. The Yankee fan said he had done enough, while I said he needed more. We agreed we'd never know, since it was silly to think he wouldn't be one of the best players in baseball for another decade after that.
One of these days I'm going to buy a wax box of 1984 Donruss on eBay and open it, just to see if I can have the thrill of pulling a Mattingly.
35. Howie Menckel Posted: December 05, 2019 at 11:34 PM (#5906143)
just to see if I can have the thrill of pulling a Mattingly.
is that what the kids are calling it these days?
36. Misirlou gave her his Vincent to ride Posted: December 05, 2019 at 11:50 PM (#5906146)
Statis Pro Baseball taught me the value of walks almost 40 years ago. I had the 1981 version of the game, using the 1980 stats. Willie Randolph (.294 BA) and Rickey Henderson ( .303) were far better leadoff hitters than Al Bumbry (.318), Willie Wilson (.326) and Miguel Dilone (.341)
37. Mefisto Posted: December 06, 2019 at 08:55 AM (#5906165)
John McGraw was very aware of the value of walks. His teams regularly finished near the top of the league, and he himself drew lots of them as a player.
38. . Posted: December 06, 2019 at 10:16 AM (#5906191)
It wasn't really difficult at all, or else Stratomatic and Statis Pro and the game publishers never would have been able to publish cards with accurate walks. How do we know Babe Ruth walked 150 times in 1920 unless someone in 1920 was keeping track?
The MacMillan encyclopedia, the league's red and green books, etc, had the walk data. On a realish-time basis, the Sporting News and various newspapers who published team stats did. They obviously weren't totally real-time because none of the stats were.
The cool Sunday long lists didn't have walks, but then again they didn't have doubles, triples, stolen bases, or sacrifice flies either. Their philosophy was pretty clearly that the fundamental unit of accounting in baseball was the run -- thus they had runs and RBIs. That fact is as true today as it was then, notwithstanding all the revisionist efforts to browbeat people into properly "recognizing" the "value" of Dwight Evans's walks.
The revisionist beef isn't really that people didn't recognize the value of a walk; it's that they didn't care enough about walks as opposed to actually hitting and as I've explained, there was a perfectly reasonable and even admirable reason why that was the case. And they've never put forward any argument with any heft as to why people shouldn't actually care about what they care about. Why should we admire Bobby Grich's walks and not Don Mattingly's ability to actually hit? Forget about "value," that's just tautological and has nothing to do with why people admire things they admire. Any actual argument?
Properly considered, walks are really just an accident of the rules in a similar vein to tennis double faults. The games can't go on forever, so at bats have to be limited if the pitcher can't get the ball over the plate, so that nine innings can be completed in a reasonable time for the paying audience. If you had unlimited time, you could just wait until the batter actually put the ball in play -- and that would be a better game. Because of that accident and that reality, walks happen to have "value," but so what? There's no real athletic accomplishment there, anymore than there is in "drawing" double faults.
Strat-o-Matic has always capitalized walks on their cards in the same exact type size and font as hits, making it clear as early as 1978 how valuable a guy like Willie Randolph was. I picked him early on in my league of 14-and-15-year-friends and never looked back. 1 fielder at a prime position, AA stealer, got on base all the time, fantastic player.
There was never any mystery about this. The relentless insistence that there was is just weird and bizarre. I guess Bill James started it primarily because it gave him a niche, and it took off from there, but it was never actually true.
40. PreservedFish Posted: December 06, 2019 at 10:36 AM (#5906206)
Because of that accident and that reality, walks happen to have "value," but so what? There's no real athletic accomplishment there, anymore than there is in "drawing" double faults.
I'm more sympathetic to your argument that most people here, SBB, but you are overplaying your hand here significantly. The quoted here is a nonsense argument, an embarrassingly bad argument, to be honest.
I'm more sympathetic to your argument that most people here, SBB, but you are overplaying your hand here significantly. This is a nonsense argument.
The idea that it's a much more admirable and real and tangible athletic accomplishment to get a hit off a major league pitcher than to get a walk off one isn't nonsense in the least. Come on, now. It's ok to actually agree with something this obvious. Really, it is. You aren't going to lose your anti-me or anti-"troll" cred by simply agreeing with the obvious.
Not only is it obvious, but it explains everything that apparently befuddles the revisionists. The causal arrows go in the other direction. The newspapers and the like BITD didn't obsess about walks because of what I'm explaining. People weren't "missing" anything; they were consciously downplaying it relative to more accomplished and cooler things. Why would they waste the valuable and scarce real estate in the newspapers on something as mundane as walks?
Yeah, I understand that part of the argument, and as I said I'm sympathetic to it. But the part I quoted in #40 argues that there's no "real athletic accomplishment" behind, say, the extra 900 walks that Tony Phillips had over Garret Anderson in the same number of PAs. That it's the same as being on the lucky receiving end of double faults in tennis. Come on, that's garbage.
Ok, then the double fault thing is just an exaggerated analogy to make the point.
Where's the athletic accomplishment in the extra 900 walks? I'm not going to suggest that there's literally zero, but it's trivial compared to the ability to hit the ball successfully.
44. Panik on the streets of Flushing! (Trout! Trout!) Posted: December 06, 2019 at 11:19 AM (#5906230)
Plate discipline and pitch recognition is a skill. Everyone knows this.
Lots of skills aren't athletic accomplishments, even assuming that it is a skill which "everyone" manifestly does not "know." "Plate discipline" isn't even really a definable term. You can be highly undisciplined yet still manage to tick pitches foul with your bat.
"Bird recognition" is a skill too, but it's not an athletic accomplishment.
And even if we assume for the sake of argument those things were athletic accomplishments, they're still trivial ones compared to successfully hitting the ball in play.
I think your overall point about whether or not some feats deserve more recognition and acclaim than others - whether or not they match perfectly to a rigorous accounting of value - is an interesting one. I happily give Ichiro more HOF points because the shape of his accomplishments was more interesting and memorable than that of other competing 60 WAR guys.
But with the quote above, you're again being ridiculous. This comment doesn't really deserve a good faith response. Recognizing the spin and likely path of a ball has somewhat more in common with the court vision of a Jordan or Gretzky than it does with bird recognition.
This comment doesn't really deserve a good faith response.
I can't really be the judge of that, but it's entirely true. Put the ol' thinking cap on and you'll realize that there's no material difference between being able to recognize at distance a prothonotary warbler or a curveball.
Baseball is kind of unique here in that it has one of these valuable events that doesn't really involve any kind of athletic accomplishment. I'd guess the closest analogue in any other sport is maybe the free throw (?), but that takes way more athleticism than drawing a walk. There isn't even any bodily movement involved in taking a pitch and drawing a walk.
Recognizing the spin and likely path of a ball has somewhat more in common with the court vision of a Jordan or Gretzky than it does with bird recognition.
I'd quibble with this one a bit, but the more important thing to note is that it's the things that Jordan and Gretzky do in response to what they see that makes them great, and those responses are far more athletic than simply standing there. If Jordan or Gretzky had great court or rink vision and just stood there with the ball or the puck, then we'd have our analogue.
Fancying up the act of standing there and watching a pitch with terms like "plate discipline" and "pitch recognition" doesn't change the fact that the player ultimately just stands there and watches.
49. Panik on the streets of Flushing! (Trout! Trout!) Posted: December 06, 2019 at 12:50 PM (#5906277)
Except the player "standing there and watching" has to be ready to react quickly to possibly not stand there and watch if the pitch is a strike. It does not require running real fast or any sort of brute strength, but baseball is unique in that regard. The skill set hitting a baseball demands is not really predicated on footspeed or strength. Precision and skill and muscle memory are far more important, and deciding which pitches to swing at goes a long way to maximizing those skills. But as PF said...
Except the player "standing there and watching" has to be ready to react quickly to possibly not stand there and watch if the pitch is a strike.
So? Ultimately they make no movement of any kind, much less any athletic movement. Police academies have shooting contests with depictions of cops and bad guys coming out from behind buildings (*); it doesn't take any athletic talent to not shoot when you notice that it's a cop and not a bad guy.
(There's really no need for scare quotes around standing there and watching, since that's exactly what a player who takes a pitch does.)
The skill set hitting a baseball demands is not really predicated on footspeed or strength. Precision and skill and muscle memory are far more important, and deciding which pitches to swing at goes a long way to maximizing those skills.
Right, but this has nothing to do with drawing a walk. Drawing a walk is an accident of the rules, as I've explained. Your observation about hitting would be exactly the same if there was no such thing as a walk.
his comment doesn't really deserve a good faith response.
This really isn't an argument.
(*) See, e.g., Magnum Force.
51. PreservedFish Posted: December 06, 2019 at 01:22 PM (#5906282)
Not supposed to be.
52. Kiko Sakata Posted: December 06, 2019 at 01:26 PM (#5906283)
Well, then, how about we "recognize" the "value" of Dwight Evans scoring 100+ runs in a season four times plus 96 one season and 84 in 108 games in 1981. Or Evans driving in 100+ runs three times, plus seasons of 97 and 96 along with a league-leading 85 in 108 games in 1981? Or the fact that Evans is 79th in career runs scored and 82nd in career RBI according to Baseball-Reference? Nobody is really arguing that Dwight Evans is a Hall-of-Famer because of his walks. The argument actually is much closer to saying that Dwight Evans is a Hall-of-Famer because he scored (and drove in) a lot of runs and if you step back and ask "How did a career .272 hitter score so many runs?", the answer is, "Well, he walked a lot, so his career on-base percentage was .370".
Ultimately they make no movement of any kind, much less any athletic movement.
They absolutely do. Fouling off unhitable strikes, in order to get a better pitch to hit or eventually trot to first base is an athletic skill required of all players who draw a lot of walks. Nobody makes a career out of standing at the plate with his bat on his shoulder waiting for the pitcher to screw up.
You would experience a lot less rancor if you didn't characterize what you are arguing against in a cartoonishly exaggerated fashion . But then I suspect creating rancor is usually your goal.
Well, then, how about we "recognize" the "value" of Dwight Evans scoring 100+ runs in a season four times plus 96 one season and 84 in 108 games in 1981. Or Evans driving in 100+ runs three times, plus seasons of 97 and 96 along with a league-leading 85 in 108 games in 1981? Or the fact that Evans is 79th in career runs scored and 82nd in career RBI according to Baseball-Reference?
No issue with that in the least. One might have thought from hanging out here that RBIs and even runs scored were the stuff of fools, so your argument will likely be from other quarters than here. (I suppose also that perhaps you should be warned that once you start talking about a guy being 82nd in career RBI being worthy, you should note that Harold Baines is 34th on that very same list.)
Nobody is really arguing that Dwight Evans is a Hall-of-Famer because of his walks.
Not outright explicitly, but unavoidably by pointing to the WAR charts. All the "overlooked" guys were purportedly "overlooked" purportedly because they compiled a lot of walks -- which WAR recognizes, but voters allegedly don't.
Fouling off unhitable strikes, in order to get a better pitch to hit or eventually trot to first base is an athletic skill required of all players who draw a lot of walks.
I doubt it's an athletic skill at all, but in any event, it happens on only a small fraction of pitches that lead to walks.
But if we're at the point where people are justifying the walk fetish by arguing the "athleticism" inherent to foul tipping a baseball, I'll consider my efforts here at least a qualified success.
Their philosophy was pretty clearly that the fundamental unit of accounting in baseball was the run -- thus they had runs and RBIs. That fact is as true today as it was then, notwithstanding all the revisionist efforts to browbeat people into properly "recognizing" the "value" of Dwight Evans's walks.
I'm sorry, but I don't get this argument. Do walks not contribute to runs being scored?
They do, but why would anyone bother with publishing a component of the important thing, rather than just the important thing itself?(*) Even the five/six column cool-ass Sunday longlist showed up-to-date runs scored.
(*) Assuming as we should, limited shelf space.
Why does everyone keep answering this idiot?? Ignore him
As opposed to, say, "FIRE JOE MORGAN!!"? Or the formerly-weekly Two Days Hate against Murray Chass? No rancor there? No exaggeration, cartoonish and otherwise?
Hmm ... ok, then.
I don't understand why people who want "athletic accomplishment" and "aesthetic beauty" end up here... talking baseball.
Is Track and Field Think Factory offline?
60. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim Posted: December 06, 2019 at 03:24 PM (#5906336)
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You guys are suckers.
But then you miss the "LOL pitch recognition = stamp collecting" comments.
Bird recognition, not stamp collecting.
I decided to try my hand at some cartoonish exaggeration.
64. Sunday silence Posted: December 06, 2019 at 05:47 PM (#5906386)
The guy that derides "oafball" is now deriding players who are better at getting walks.
And championing the HOF cause of a good but not great hitter who could not run nor field in another thread.
I think Topps started including BB on the back of baseball cards in 1981.
I thought it was before that. I distinctly recall being in elementary school in the mid 70s and we were puzzling over what the term "BB" meant on the back of a baseball card. I suppose it could have been one of those Hostess cards or some other but hmm... Are you sure?
I distinctly recall being in elementary school in the mid 70s and we were puzzling over what the term "BB" meant on the back of a baseball card. I suppose it could have been one of those Hostess cards or some other but hmm... Are you sure?
Here is a 1978 Reggie Jackson card. No walks on the back.
Here is a 1982 one with walks.
69. QLE Posted: December 06, 2019 at 08:26 PM (#5906410)
I've also checked for other sets- neither Hostess nor Kellogg's (the two major non-Topps national sets of the mid-to-late 1970s) did not include batter walks.
The 1978 card seems to have less columns than I recall. I am thinking more like the 1972 cards or before cards.
EDIT: I guess you're right I looked at the Topps from 68-72 none of them shows BBs.
Its the ARCO 8x10" photos that they gave away at the gas station!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pittsburgh-Pirates-1971-Bill-Mazeroski-8-x-10-Photo-ARCO-Oil-Gas-Station-Promo/192876089132?hash=item2ce84f8f2c:g:UMoAAOSwIylZxSde:sc:USPSFirstClass!20850!US!-1
That Mazeroski one could have been the exact one we were looking at cause it was 1971-72 school year we were having this discussion.
Cool. I was just about to post that the first card I looked at was a 1971 Ron Santo, and it also did not have walks. I then decided to go later in the decade with Reggie!
The ARCO cards were great the photos were excellent. We would hang them on the walls.
Not entirely sure what this trip through memory lane is supposed to show about walks -- I mean, it's utterly delusional to imagine that no one knew how many times guys walked -- but checking ebay quickly, there's an original 1969 set of SOM cards for sale and batter walks are on there.
The 1969 SOM cards had walks but not RBIs, so there goes that silly ahistorical trope, too.
Original set of 1962 SOM cards. AB, H, 2B, 3B, HR, AVG, WALKS, Ks. No RBIs, no stolen bases.
I have the 1983 SF Giants 100th anniversary team yearbook -- a top notch item. Walks included in the stats. John J. Summers, Jr. walked 22 times in 65 games for Coos Bay in 1971, and right there for everyone to see are the hefty walk totals for Darrell Wayne Evans that now, 36 years later, a bunch of people say should get him in the Hall of Fame.
78. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: December 07, 2019 at 04:10 PM (#5906611)
Over 60 years ago, there was a simple rule of thumb on Little League teams: If you could hit, then you were encouraged to hit. If you couldn't hit, then yes, "a walk is as good as a hit" was drummed into your ears. We had one particularly sorryassed hitter who couldn't hit the broad side of the proverbial barn, and his favorite cliche was "I solved him for a walk."
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