Dr's R/X

Gotta get yer three W's --- > Wit, Wisdom, and Wayyyy too much caffeine. As y'know, we live to serve

Dr. Detecto's Mariner prescriptions.  The Mainframe circuit boards were originally designed to solve chess positions before they started fritzing out on baseball shtick.  Like Bobby Fischer said, "Chess is not that hard a game.  Whatever position you've got, it's been played before."

Well, yeah - if you can fit an Isolated Queen Pawn position into a block of similar patterns that you recognize, THEN you can ask "in what ways is this situation subtly different?"  Figure out what has been done before, and what has been said before, and you might be able to organize your thinking as to how you judge the situation in front of you to be different.

When Tim Lincecum came into pro baseball, one thing different about him was that he could throw 150 pitches on Friday and then enjoy an easy game of foul-line-to-foul-line long toss the next day.  Scott Bankhead he wasn't.  Nolan Ryan less a few inches was more like it.  Get you the right basic template, and then it's easy and pleasant to start asking where you see differences.

Ah, but what's the right basic template?  That's what makes a ball game ... :- )

Posts in this blog:

Spahn and Sain and two days of rain?
Posted on: 10/03/13
1 Comments
Ask the nicest guy you know, Dept.
Posted on: 10/02/13
3 Comments
John Lennon "Gimme Some Truth," Dept.
Posted on: 09/29/13
Posted on: 09/29/13
9 Comments
Sour Grapes Award
Posted on: 09/28/13
33 Comments
Destined, like Bob Melvin, to laugh his head off at his next stop?
Posted on: 09/27/13
11 Comments
Posted on: 09/25/13
7 Comments
Stupid is as stupid does, Dept. :- )
Posted on: 09/24/13
4 Comments
Spectator's arguments weigh heavily
Posted on: 09/24/13
7 Comments
Posted on: 09/20/13
14 Comments
Dr. D overestimating the M's resources again
Posted on: 09/19/13
66 Comments
Trade Taijuan as you would trade a min-wage Felix
Posted on: 09/05/13
11 Comments
Historically, how much does a big debut matter?
Posted on: 08/29/13
1 Comments
Big shoes to fill. Especially Pineda's
Posted on: 08/29/13
1 Comments
Taijuan next? Thanks Spec
Posted on: 08/26/13
5 Comments
Steady hand at the tiller, mate
Posted on: 08/26/13
19 Comments
Only one Mariner over 1.2 WAR on the year
Posted on: 08/24/13
2 Comments
Hall of Fame Awards maybe a teeeeny bit prematurely
Posted on: 08/12/13
3 Comments
Cheap at half the price
Posted on: 08/12/13
17 Comments
You ain't gettin' your shampoo commercial outta the pen
Posted on: 08/05/13
16 Comments
Ron's prediction: Long, slow climb back up
Posted on: 08/05/13
3 Comments
5 card draws, 2 Moraleses and Rauullls
Posted on: 08/02/13
5 Comments
Taking a sharp pencil to the ACKLEY CF situation
Posted on: 08/02/13
4 Comments
Broad Brush Victims, dept.
Posted on: 07/30/13
3 Comments
Looks like he's an M, boys
Posted on: 07/30/13
13 Comments
Shame we didn't cough up him and Taijuan for Upton
Posted on: 07/25/13
11 Comments
Assembly-line baseball
Posted on: 07/20/13
11 Comments
Brad Miller has yet to witness his MLB team score less than 3 runs
Posted on: 07/19/13
8 Comments
Classic beauty in sport
Posted on: 07/18/13
1 Comments
Gordon's thread a classic "deep-sea dive"
Posted on: 07/18/13
5 Comments

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