4.0 DELI SCRUBS

I can't do it. I just can't do it.

Last week, we had error amnesty after my rant/whine/pissy pants dance about errors vs hits. I hated last week's stats because there are a few hits in there that weren't hits. I'm trying my hardest to be more of a "homer" scorer in making the hits/errors decision, but I can't put out a product that I know..and you know..is wrong. So starting with today's game with the Reds .. maybe because of it, because there is no way to call it a hit when the third baseman yells "Ole" as the ball goes by or pulls the first baseman off the bag with a bad throw .. there will be some "on base on errors" in today's stats. And the left side of Jimmy's infield had a horrible day.

I promise to be as generous as possible, but disregarding the old "the glove never touched it" idea, which you will find nowhere in the Official Rules of Baseball. (I personally think this "touched the glove" business is an urban legend, created to help "Little Leage Moms" who get drafted into being the team scorekeeper to have some way to decide hits/errors. When my boys were in Little League/Pony/Senior League this idea was practically the biblical Eleventh Commandment with the scorekeeper Moms who had never heard of catchers interference and couldn't explain the infield fly rule. A ball running between the shortstop's legs is always an error, glove or no glove. A jumping, running or diving try at a deep fly ball where the outfielder is two inches too short but the glove touches/tips the uncaught ball is never an error if he's making a legit try to catch it but is a few inches too short or a few inches too late.)

And, by the way, my rant/whine/pissy pants dance is not meant to discourage anyone from contacting me if I miss a run, a hit, a stolen base or anything else in compiling the stats. Sometimes, because the book is often less than tidy (you've seen how it's kept), when I sit down to do stats I'll miss a 2B or an SB or an RBI somewhere and not get it into the computer. I ALWAYS want to know about those. I'm just not up for debating the judgement calls one at a time.

Stats vs the Reds should be up early Sunday. As always, there will be a banner on the home page when they are.

GREAT JOB going 2-0 vs the Reds!

-Doug

I'll be honest, cheap stats don't make any of us better ball players. IF we didn't have this fine luxary of someone keeping VERY accuarate stats on our team for close to 10 seasons now we'd ALL be hitting .500, including Doc who really is hitting close to .650 In a sport where failure is common, accurate bookeeping is necessary for the integrity of the game. I don't think anyone wants gimmie stats. If I'm hitting .240 I want to know about it!

Bottom line is this, we have ALL had a 'better' day than we thought when we check the stats and noticed an RBI, an SB on a pass ball, a 2-4 instead of the 1-4 you got but it was an hard 'E'. I know I have!

All I know is we could probably whoop the shit out of the Padres, they fucking suck!