Posts Tagged ‘phillies’

Bud Harrelson

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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A member of the 1969 World Series winning Mets, as well as a coach for the 1986 World Series winning Mets.

Jayson Werth – World Series Nerd?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

The following story is about a girl who lived down the hall from me for several years during college. I had not thought about this particular sequence of events for years before seeing the Jayson Werth rookie card embedded later in this post. And then it all came flooding back…

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Alan Knicely

Monday, August 17th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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This is Mr. Knicely’s 1986 Topps card. Anyone want to guess which television drama about cops in South Beach was a top-ten-hit that year?

Giving it away…

Friday, June 12th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

Last night’s Mets/Phillies game lasted 10 innings (Phillies won 6-3).

10 innings = 30 outs on offense for each team. The game can’t end before you run out of these outs…these outs are valuable baseball commodities.

So can someone please explain why Jerry Manuel called for three (3!) sacrifice bunts? None of these occurred in the 8th/9th innings. Two of these occurred after lead-off doubles, so the runner was already in scoring position with no outs. The other occurred with a man on 1st and one out. All occurred with the struggling, soft-throwing Jamie Moyer on the mound (current ERA 6.11, current WHIP 1.49).

Had all three of these bunts worked as planned, the Mets would have conceded a full inning’s worth of outs. While playing against the team that has scored more runs than any other in the major leagues this season. And having Tim Redding as their starting pitcher (he actually threw a good game last night).

Someone please explain. PLEASE. I must be missing something.

Don Carman

Monday, May 18th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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carman-don_1Interesting Don Carman facts from Wikipedia:

1) All-Stars Craig Biggio, Ken Griffey Jr., Jeffrey Leonard, Pete Rose, Larry Walker, and Matt Williams went a collective 1-for-40 against Mr. Carman in their careers.
2) Following a game in 1990, Mr. Carman grew tired of the repetitive post-game questions he was forced to answer. After creating a handwritten list of 37 standard responses to these questions, he posted them on his locker, and invited reporters to choose which response they wanted. The list included cliches like “I’d rather be lucky than good” and “We’re going to take the season one game at a time.

Greg Gross

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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Walking the Walk Part II: Pitching and Defense

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000

A baseball team has two jobs.  One is to score runs, and the other is prevent runs.  If we look at how teams score and prevent runs, then we can measure player’s values directly in the runs they contribute.  Nerdbaseball has a model for run scoring, now we need a model for run prevention.

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Kent Tekulve

Monday, February 9th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
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There's more Kent Tekulve where this came from...trust me.

There's more nerdy Kent Tekulve cards where this came from...trust me.