4.0 DELI SCRUBS

Gentlemen,

For the third straight week, I've had someone up my ass because I scored an error instead of a hit.

You guys are the owners of the team (you pay to be here), and believe me, I get it. So batting averages are about to climb, because beginning next game, I will not be scoring any errors on the other team and any ball you put in play on which you safely reach base will be a hit (unless it's a fielder's choice). I will continue to score errors on our defense, since that's the only way to determine earned runs. I will also score any move you make from base to base as a stolen base, even if it really is defensive indifference.

I know this will somewhat dilute the statistics, but it is, after all, adult recreational baseball and nobody's multi-million dollar contract is at stake, so it shouldn't matter and we can stop having the hit/error discussion every game. Since I have had this debate with one fourth of the team in the last three weeks, I assume this is what you want. And it's your team, so you've got it.

-Doug

Doug let me apologize for the team. You do what you do and we will shut our mouths. Fellas dont question our scorekeeper, its a mighty fine luxury to have such an awesome website and stats! You think the Jimmies team would ever even sniff this kind of shit. Were spoiled and the man who spoils us is Doug. So next time you question him say to yourself "Should I trouble this guy who works his ass off for the team for free?" <------On a side not these emoticons are addictive

Batting Average is for Fags...
Runs are what wins games...
RBI are what wins games...
Steady, good starting pitching wins games...
Getting ON base, anyway possible (hit, error, dropped third strike, BB, HBP) wins games...
Being accountable for what you can do best for the team that day wins games...
Picking up a teammate wins games..
Properly taring up a bat before battle wins games..
Taking 'tee-shirt time' wiffle before the games wins games..

Ultimately having fun. Being a grown man and getting to put on a uni once a week grab assing like a 12 yr old again with your friends doesn't win games, but it's the real reason we are out there. I want to win, and if we do the have fun, be a kid part, we win before we step foot on the field....

If I played a part in your frustration Doug, I apologize.

Last week I hit a ball to the 2nd baseman who was unable to get a glove on the ball. Even though I knew this was a routine ground ball, I thought it was interesting that no glove was put on the ball. So I questioned myself, Doug, and the team, if this was a hit... I joked about the play and how it was scored, but I never meant to piss you off...

I even opened the rule book and found my answer in section ( 10.5 ) of the rule book. "ya, I know the manager opened the rule book for the 1st time ever" ha ha

This team is a great group of guys playing a competitive game, nothing is better then seeing the stats each week to see who is better then who.... This is what it comes down to most of the time, a hit makes or breaks someones average.

I cant imagine what its like to sit there during the game and get 100's of questions fired at you; score, who is the non-runner, hit or an error, etc...

Scoring and the discretion of the play should come down to you and only you... if a player does not like the way its scored "then pound sand " Offer them up the score book and watch them back off really quickly...

I know I speak for the entire team by saying we appreciate everything you do....

This team is a great group of guys playing a competitive game, nothing is better then seeing the stats each week to see who is better then who.... This is what it comes down to most of the time, a hit makes or breaks someones average.

I don't look at the stats and compare who is better than who!? I don't think most of us do either. Stats are nice to indicate your personal success during a season, but stats don't always reflect what a player is doing for this team.

I will not be scoring any errors on the other team and any ball you put in play on which you safely reach base will be a hit (unless it's a fielder's choice).

You are more than generous all ready, don't change a thing. EVERYONE has benefited from generous scorebooking. We have all hit a grounder that leaked through, and should have been an error, but since the third baseman was so fat and slow he couldn't move two inches to his right to get it. We have all hit a routine fly ball that the left fielder doesn't have to move, and drops it--but we get a hit cause of generous record keeping. Or even this past week, I got a generous call on my hit when I layed out at first, it was a high throw that ultimately hit the back of our dugout. Was I going to be safe anyway?? Who knows, but I got the hit.

I cant imagine what its like to sit there during the game and get 100's of questions fired at you; score, who is the non-runner, hit or an error, etc...

I can't imagine either, I don't even know what inning or the score is half the time, keeping track of everything in baseball while all us are running around in the dugout has to be difficult. SO if you didn't get that 'hit' that you crushed 3 mph straight to the pitcher who has 10 minutes to throw it to first and airmails it into right don't get fussy that your Batting Avg dropped .0023 points. You can go 10-10 the next two weeks like Gino and raise it .200. Accurate stats in baseball is necessary for the integrity of the game. Baseball is obsessed with stats, there is one for everything. And it is the only sport I can think of where the stats are up the to the discretion of the scorekeeper. Imagine if in football the running back got 3,...maybe 5 yards on that last attempt?

On a side note, trust me, he likely gives us all the benefit of doubt in the field when we kick one/drop one/ airmail won to 'help' out our pitchers and their ERA...Nobody runs to him saying "That ball I was two slow and unathletic to get to should be an error so that run scored should be unearned so Mattys ERA stays down"....Just saying.....

We having bigger problems to worry about each week. Like winning the fucking game!

Sorry dan I have to say this, in your 1st post you said

Batting Average is for Fags...

I'm a homo