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Ask Bill is still only $3 per month to interact with Baseball's Aristotle. Sign up rat cheer. Two of this weeks' answers were (a) meaty, (b) Zen-like and (c) very relevant to the M's #60 and #72 picks:
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It's a #Norman rockwell #NJWriter #Single
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Q. How do you know whether it's the manager's fault?
A. We just spent the winter talking about it. You can measure whether a team is Underperforming, Overperforming, or None Of The Above. If there's a way to measure a manager's ability, that's how yer do it. What a team would be doing with a "placeholder" manager, and what it's doing now.
Strike one.
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Q. What is the number one cause of underperformance?
A. Lack of self-belief, lack of confidence, lack of conviction. Overpressing.
Norman Vincent Peale (of all people) quoted Branch Rickey in The Power of Positive Thinking. Rickey didn't care if you were talking about Stan Musial or Ty Cobb; once a player has the wrong mental attitude, that of trying too hard, he was going to be on the bench.
Relaxed power is the name of the game. You could look it up, or you could ax a scratch golfer.
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Mike Zunino hit a home run, impossibly, over the beer garden in center field. They gave him credit for 445 feet, of which ripoff stunned Jay Buhner into silence. That should give you a feel for how chintzy the measurement was. Then again, Stanton's ball was off the legal premises at Dodger and that got only 475 feet, so okay. But here's the vid if you want to savor id.
Plans had been in the works for a Silent Hills game featuring Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) and produced by Guillermo Del Toro. Sadly, today Konami has confirmed that the planned game has been scrapped.
The plans have failed in the wake of an unforseen split between Konami and Kojima Productions, helmed by the man who was largely responsible for the Silent Hills games.
Image copyright Konami
#Norman Reedus has a black #Cat named Eyes in the Dark and he loooves his kitty: <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/these-photos-of-#Norman-reedus-with-h... target="_parent">http://www.buzzfeed....</a> #Erika_B #Single
Wow, hashtag on #Norman? What's that about? #Single #SunshineNJ
Every message I got from the seminars I got was: If you are not #Norman Mailer or F. Scott, you won't get published. #Single #SunshineNJ
