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:

Correcting errors -- vs -- Correcting thought patterns
Posted on: 07/18/13
3 Comments
Choo, Butler, Konerko, Gordon, Swisher the targets now
Posted on: 07/14/13
7 Comments
Cloud finally lifts, Zduriencik's BABIP reverts to norm
Posted on: 07/08/13
8 Comments
Posted on: 07/08/13
A tale of two GM's
Posted on: 07/02/13
14 Comments
The souurrrr science ... of M's prospecting
Posted on: 06/30/13
10 Comments
A better strategy: assisted disembowelment
Posted on: 06/27/13
5 Comments
Crackin' open a can of ... potential, I guess :- /
Posted on: 06/25/13
1 Comments
Time to shed some ded ... wood, that is
Posted on: 06/25/13
8 Comments
Stock up on Bournses, or is the SB too rissssky?
Posted on: 06/25/13
8 Comments
Everything that Nick Franklin is, plus one thing ... greed
Posted on: 06/24/13
11 Comments
Posted on: 06/24/13
6 Comments
History's most improbable age-41 season?
Posted on: 06/23/13
10 Comments
From one extreme to the other, Dept.
Posted on: 06/23/13
16 Comments
Better than the Sonics', that's for sure
Posted on: 06/23/13
10 Comments
No longer a synchro fit for the Seattle landscape
Posted on: 06/23/13
29 Comments
One extra buttermilk biscuit, Mikey
Posted on: 06/20/13
13 Comments
Pretenders vs Contenders, Dept.
Posted on: 06/20/13
37 Comments
See ya, wouldn' wanna be ya
Posted on: 06/14/13
57 Comments
A contentious post to go with a sour 9th inning
Posted on: 06/12/13
29 Comments
Posted on: 06/11/13
17 Comments
Hot Stone League chimes in
Posted on: 06/04/13
5 Comments
Saunders, Maurer, Harang, Beavan all deserve better
Posted on: 06/03/13
8 Comments
Social Media, dept.
Posted on: 05/30/13
3 Comments
To, um, listen to each other
Posted on: 05/29/13
21 Comments
You can't go up there hoping for Ball One, kiddies
Posted on: 05/29/13
16 Comments
Has the umpiring changed?
Posted on: 05/28/13
3 Comments
Ackley watchin' the box scores
Posted on: 05/28/13
1 Comments
Fall of the Roman Umpire, Dept.
Posted on: 05/21/13
26 Comments
Brains, yes. Magic Sparkle Dust, no.
Posted on: 05/09/13
16 Comments

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