Give yourself a break, Mom
I’ll let you read that ridiculous statement one more time for effect.
That’s like saying that I stopped breathing or eating because I thought I didn’t deserve it.
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James Paxton Scouting Report 9.6.13 - the Good
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Q. How haaaaaard does this guy THROW?
A. To open the game, he leaned back, whipped the arm through, and -- 94 MPH. The rock and fire was as easy as soppin' country gravy with a buttermilk biscuit.
One pitch in ... Dr. D is thinkin' ... that delivery, that inertia on the ball, we been hearing 92-95 MPH and we been hearing wrong.
Paxton's first two pitches were 94 MPH.
Then he threw two fastballs at 95 MPH.
The three fastballs after that were 96 MPH.
The next two fastballs after that were 97 MPH, and the inning was over. Dr. D never noticed a Ray load up on a pitch again. (Longoria's HR, Paxton supplied the power in Big Unit fashion, and Longoria took a short swing, squared it super cleanly, and then flourished the finish.)
James Paxton Pitcher Family
Q. Mojo axed about the Pitcher Family.
A. Bill James actually called a family here, the "Blow 'Em Away Lefties," led by Randy Johnson and Lefty Grove. James was dividing up the 100 best pitchers of all time into templates.
Steve Carlton was in this family ... you don't have to hit 100.2 MPH to be a lefty who leads the league in strikeouts. Mark Langston was in this group, though not at the head of it, of course.
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Baking salmon: The easy way
A while back, I confessed that I have never cooked fish. It's partly because of the cost, and partly because I never picked up the skill. (And I am picky about seafood.) But last weekend Safeway had a sale on frozen salmon fillets, five bucks for two, so I figured what the heck.
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The search for unpasteurized apple cider and juice
Speaking of the apple season which is just getting underway, every year a lot of people go on the hunt for unpasteurized apple cider and apple juice. It's not easy to find!
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Glow-in-the-dark spinning fiber
Who doesn't love stuff that glows in the dark? One of the most precious items in my stash is a cake of glow-in-the-dark yarn called Nightlights by Fiber Fantasy. Sadly this yarn has been discontinued. Nightlights is (was) a true glow-in-the-dark yarn: hold it up to a strong source of light, turn out the lights, and it glows in the dark.
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Fandom Crafts: Sherlock skirt
This pretty and hilarious (and pretty hilarious) BBC Sherlock skirt is so awesome it almost makes me wish that I wore skirts. Get it now from Etsy seller TootSweetSkirts, who has a lot of other fandom skirts available for sale too.
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Felix for the Cy ... of the Decade
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Jayson Jenks with a really fun little article on Felix' chances to win the Cy Young again. The quote from Jonathan Lucroy is worth the price of admission (um, $14.95 I think) all by itself.
Lemme say good-naturedly that the Cy Young debate is pretty much for 6th-grade kids. We mean it in a good way.
When I got into roto in 1995, the first thing I noticed was that the magazine covers were dominated by headlines like JUNIOR OR UNIT? WHO'S THE BEST #1 PICK? ... and when you trolled the little AOL chat rooms, the drafters spent most their time wondering who would draw the 1-1 slot, and arguing about who their first-overall pick should be.
It didn't take Jemanji long to realize that this ain't how you win roto championships, by figuring out whether Felix or Justin Verlander was the better pitcher. The arguments about Mike Trout vs Miguel Cabrera have absolutely zero value, not as it pertains to the attempt to win a pennant.
Ergo, if you want to argue over the 2013 Felix vs the 2013 Chris Sale? This is strictly a pastime; whose 2013 stats are a shade the better, a shade the worse, matters not one whit to SSI. A Hall of Fame pitcher is a Hall of Fame pitcher. You better worry about your other 24 roster slots.
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Now, what IS interesting, is this question: "Can you count on CC Sabathia for a Hall of Fame season in 2014? Who is giving you a Cy Young season not in 2013, but in each season?" There are four of those guys right now. Can you name them?
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