Fun With Numbers: The Meta Edition
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 3, 2010 2:03 PM CST
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PrintSo, yeah, slow day, so I thought some folks might be interested in seeing what sort of traffic LSB gets.
Over the past 12 months (ending 1/31/10):
| Month | Visits | Page Views |
| Jan. '10 | 226,002 | 567,684 |
| Dec. '09 | 219,521 | 544,392 |
| Nov. '09 | 140,762 | 332,187 |
| Oct. '09 | 131,809 | 308,640 |
| Sept. '09 | 190,969 | 445,737 |
| Aug. '09 | 262,906 | 691,339 |
| July '09 | 245,406 | 639,389 |
| June '09 | 215,043 | 584,684 |
| May '09 | 225,109 | 623,425 |
| April '09 | 209,769 | 596,978 |
| March '09 | 187,919 | 510,205 |
| Feb. '09 | 174,723 | 449,777 |
These patterns have held pretty steady since I started doing LSB...interest peaks in the summer, starts fading in August or September, and then October and November are the slowest months, with activity picking up again in December when the offseason gets into full swing.
As a point of comparison, here are the figures from the 12 months before that:
| Month | Visits | Page Views |
| Jan. '09 | 196,030 | 584,114 |
| Dec. '08 | 161,128 | 521,216 |
| Nov. '08 | 130,023 | 415,142 |
| Oct. '08 | 108,667 | 332,567 |
| Sept. '08 | 111,255 | 322,741 |
| Aug. '08 | 153,464 | 517,186 |
| July '08 | 176,362 | 661,676 |
| June '08 | 149,454 | 539,664 |
| May '08 | 135,141 | 462,429 |
| April '08 | 124,479 | 414,521 |
| March '08 | 123,912 | 472,636 |
| Feb. '08 | 114,227 | 439,814 |
Once SBN 2.0 kicked in, with new comments automatically showing up in threads, page views went down (relatively speaking), because people weren't having to F5 to see the new posts in a thread.
Anyway, I just thought it might be interesting for folks to see what sort of traffic LSB really has.
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Can you get a geographic spread?
I’d be curious to see which non-predictable states show up.
Go Rice Owls!
yes, please.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 2:12 PM CST up reply actions
Got it a bit mixed up.
It’s visit vs page view. And it’s essentially what they might suggest. A visit as defined as someone “visiting” the site. Once you hit the home page, anything you do on that site while not leaving it (sort of, it’s actually hard to tell when someone leaves) is considered part of the visit.
A page view is simply any time someone pull up a page. Any regular user around here probably has several page views within each visit, as they click on different fan posts, click on the comments sections of different main posts, etc. Even refreshing the page counts as a page view because it re-requests the page from the server, hence Adam’s observation about the views going down when the site began auto-updating comments.
Actually
I shouldn’t have specified “home page”. Once you enter the site at any entry point, you’ve activated a session and started a “visit”. That session has to time out (inactivity on the site for a certain period of time) for the visit to end.
The drop-off from August '09 to September '09
It’s not like we were completely out of it. What gives?
Chris Davis started hitting the baseball.
Rangers pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report on Thursday, February 18.
Chris Davis
didn’t start hitting the baseball until after September 20.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
All the teachers
and students going back to school
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Feb 3, 2010 2:29 PM CST up reply actions
We where completely out of it.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 2:27 PM CST up reply actions
Not mathematically
But logically? This team put up a weakass 678 OPS after the first week of September and had it’s second-worst month team ERA wise.
The team basically folded in September, and we where, for all practical purposes, out of it by the middle of the month.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 2:39 PM CST up reply actions
Revisionist history, lsj
On September 8 we swept the Tribe and then turned around and whipped their asses 10-0 the next day.
Then there was an off-day, a rain out and it was right then that the OBP problem everybody hoped would go away (never a good strategy) bit us in the azz.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
Is this "we where" a bit?
Or do you not know its “were”?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Eh, it's my own permantently wired typo
I’ve been getting reprimanded on that going all the way back to grade school. Never cared enough to to correct it.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 3:00 PM CST up reply actions
hM
I think you should start caring now.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:07 PM CST up reply actions
Nah.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:10 PM CST up reply actions
Seriously, I can't stop it.
I do it without thinking. “Where” is simply how I spell “were”.
It’s weird, I know, but look at it this way: I can’t run any sock puppets without being identified within 5 minutes.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:13 PM CST up reply actions
You and Sock Puppets
That would be impossible, I’d think. Seems like you stay busy enough.
A good way to break habits…when you screw up, hit yourself in the hand with a hammer. Not hard enough to break anything but enough to hurt like a motherfucker. That’s discipline.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:16 PM CST up reply actions
Not a bad idea
But as a rule, I don’t generally allow myself to keep hammers within a 10-yard radius when browsing LSB. Especially on days bigsteve is around.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:19 PM CST up reply actions
Well you can walk thirty feet can't you?
Geez, these kids today.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:22 PM CST up reply actions
One of the the roots
of obesity
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:25 PM CST up reply actions
We didn't fall out of it
until the ghastly September 12-20 streak.
We started September 12 only 3 games behind the Red Sox. On September 20 we were 8 games behind them.
It was one of the most painful weeks in the history of the team, punctuated by rain, small crowds at TBiA and a 5 game losing streak where we scored one run.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
One of the most painful weeks in team history
Not really.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
What weeks would you consider
more painful in Ranger history than what we saw last September?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
The long term curve of the team
was definitely going in the right direction, and it was a team we didn’t really expect to be in contention, so to me it wasn’t as painful as it would be to have that happen in 2010. The end of 2004 was more painful, since they were closer. The playoff loss in 1996 against the Yankees was much more painful.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
What about...
….that long road trip after Kenny Rogers got suspended where they went something like 2-14? Anyone recall that one?
Completely agree
That was a heart-breaking week.
by Mike the Grate on Feb 3, 2010 3:09 PM CST up reply actions
The '96 team survived
their attempted choke job v Seattle and they played well against the Yankees in the playoffs.
Their Henneman Problem killed them in the end but I thought the epic and collective bed shitting last September (when everybody acted surprised we couldn’t score runs at the most important time of the year) was far more painful.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
You're right again
I thought the epic and collective bed shitting last September (when everybody acted surprised we couldn’t score runs at the most important time of the year) was far more painful.
It had nothing to do with MY and Hamilton getting hurt sitting out most of September. I mean the Yankees would clearly still have won if they lost Teix and Arod – just a flesh wound. Have you been wearing your high horses’ blinders again?
Your 2009 Snow Monkey Ambassador
they could
have won any one of those games… I was at the two home games… TERRIBLE. 1996 was easily their best chance ever
Yo Adam,
how does LSB compare to some of the other sites in terms of visits?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
October '10 record shattering /= LSB vs other site visits.
HUH?
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
x
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=135933452291
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 4:39 PM CST up reply actions
I have forbidden my daughter
to ever watch that show.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Good.
My son is too young for it.
Although when the commercials for it come on Noggin’ he boogies down.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 6:17 PM CST up reply actions
I like Wonder Pets
and Backyardigans, pretty clever music for that target age.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Oh yeah, for sure.....I miss Jack's Big Music Show...
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 6:28 PM CST up reply actions
Check out Yo Gabba Gabba
That sweet little girl on my profile pic loves it. She runs around the house singing “I love bugs.”
Your 2009 Snow Monkey Ambassador
the bomb.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 7:25 PM CST up reply actions
That shits worse than Barney
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
Yo Gabba Gabba is the Electic Co of our day.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 7:41 PM CST up reply actions
Damn man you go way back
I had to look that shit up and still don’t remember it.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
~
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
Yo Gabba Gabba
is the greatest childrens show ever made.
There’s a party in my tummy.
So yummy.
So yummy.
It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard.
- Nolan Ryan
Straight up
best show on Nick Jr is Backyardigans.
It has the best music (probably tied with Jack’s Big Music Show, but Jack’s give me a chance to stare at Laurie Berkner’s large breasteses), best humor, best storylines, and best animation.
It’s incredible what having children does to you, huh?
x
I don’t think Backyardigans is even the best kid’s show with backyard in the title…that would have to go to Back at the Barnyard. That show is hilarious.
by GregoryM on Feb 4, 2010 9:11 AM CST up reply actions
Backyardigans is the shiznit
but it ain’t Yo Gabba Gabba. How can you argue with a kid show that’s written by acid tripping hip-hopsters(have you seen Muno and Brobee?) with acts like Roots, Jack Black & Black Eye Peas/
Your 2009 Snow Monkey Ambassador
agreed.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 PM CST up reply actions
but I still like it.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 PM CST up reply actions
Ok, men, this is getting sad and ridiculous
We have children, and we can appreciate the merits of clever music from Jack, Back, and Wonder Pets, and the righteousness of bringing them up to abhor that idiot in the Fresh Beat Band, but stop it already.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
So says the guy with the Mr. Toad profile pic
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride...
….is hands down THE best ride at Disneyland. Simple message: you drink, you drive, you go to hell. Such a creepy ride.
X
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 4, 2010 4:45 PM CST up reply actions
Among the baseball sites
I think LSB is one of the 5 most trafficked. Athletic’s Nation, Minor League Ball, Lookout Landing, Bleed Cubbie Blue are also up there, from what I recall.
Not sure about the other sites, although I think the SBN MMA site got something like a million hits in December, or something like that.
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 3, 2010 2:49 PM CST up reply actions
It would also appear The Great War
made for a nice side car to the pennant race and was followed with a lot of fervor by LSB this past summer.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
It would also appear
that your self-aggrandizement knows no bounds.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Other sites
haven’t got a snowballs chance in hell in coming close to the same number of visits unless you are shitting the bed there too. You must have forget who you are and the influence you claim to have. Wake up and shit the bed again.
Who gives a shit what Josey says.............................
by Lil' Jonny Donuts on Feb 3, 2010 6:54 PM CST up reply actions
Is this general visits, or "unique" visits...
say, January 2010 has 226,002 visits. Is that 226,002 people that have separately visited the home page; or is that counting the 202,000 that lonestarJon did?
visits are unique
page views are not. at least that’s how i understand it. but visits are only unique in the sense that if I log on to lonestarball and stay logged on, visiting other pages, then it is all 1 visit. But if I log on to lonestarball, close the page, then open it up again within minutes, that is 2 visits.
Then they're not unique visits after that first time, I don't think.
Unique would be assuming all 226,002 of those visits belong to different IP’s, I believe.
Right
I don’t think I have a unique visit counter.
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 3, 2010 2:48 PM CST up reply actions
If it's still sitemeter ...
" SiteMeter does not currently track Unique Visits/Visitors. Our measurement is defined as a Visit. The basis of this measurement is calculated on a 30 minute time period, from the last page viewed (i.e. last activity seen).
.
As you are no doubt aware, a Unique Visitor is measured using a cookie (or other similar user hosted ID tag). This method permits one to measure hourly, daily, weekly, etc. unique visitors. You could even measure the number of unique over an entire year – which by the way will be an option for SiteMeter members in an upcoming new phase release. Of course there are limitations to this form of measuring traffic, not the least of which is people who disable cookies. "
Rangers pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report on Thursday, February 18.
Sort of
IP Address isn’t really a reliable indicator for uniqueness. People have dynamic ip addresses that shift and are shared, and people using dial up generally get a new ip address every time (as rare as that may be nowadays).
To track unique visitors you’d have require people to login, or you’d have to use cookies.
Right
but it gives you a general idea of how many different people actually visited the site, as opposed to just “visits”
A rough cut at guessing unique visitors
If your statcounter doesn’t sort it, even by unique IP. Divide the number of pages typically loaded (including refreshes) a user would typically make, into the total page view count. My site has a very narrow niche market (export regulatory issues) and when I see 10,000 page views I know somone is repeatedly bring link pages up to chase, or going from the “hit” page from a search to a set of related pages for more information, or simply using the back button to return from one of the Federal sites or etc.
Example: If in a user session, a user brings up front column topics for the day, scoots over to fanposts and reads three of them, then looks for new posts in older items, he might create 17 page views. If there are 220,000 page views in the time allocated, you can estimate about 13,000 different user sessions took place. Then if some people return to the site a second or third time, say two thirds of them do, than can be swagged down to 4,000 to 6,000 separate individual unique users with sessions. (in my case, on techxport, my 1100 page views turns out to be about 280 separate unique users)
Just a swag suggestion.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 4:44 PM CST up reply actions
Does this guy know how to party, or what?
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
by jam0152 on Feb 3, 2010 4:47 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
OT: Anyone else wish the word "meta"
was completely erased from any kind of vernacular?
Well played senor.
On a related note, the “Brown Hand Center” signs in Houston make me laugh. I’m good, but all you white MF’ers with hand problems need to keep on searchin.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
Is the Brown Hand Center
located in the Montrose district?
It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard.
- Nolan Ryan
Good ole'
metacarpals
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:01 PM CST up reply actions
Don't give a shit.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 3:49 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Carl Sagan
Would like to discuss this with you.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 4:47 PM CST up reply actions
I'm a huge Carl Sagan fan,
The Cosmos have put to sleep many nights.
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
Since you posted that in the imperative form
I’m assuming you are instructing MikeEl not to care.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Franz Kafka weeps in his grave
Like he did when he was alive.
There are probably a lot of guys like me
I never post comments, but I spend countless hours per day reading all of your comments. I’m probably only logged in for 1 hour for every 3 I spend on this website. I found this website about a year ago when I got tired of reading the comments on TR’s articles. Much better quality of posters here. Ill get back to creeping!
by slapapitch on Feb 3, 2010 4:02 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I had no idea we where that entertaining.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:05 PM CST up reply actions
stop it.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 4:05 PM CST up reply actions
Fuck off.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Sounds like a brutal thumb war is in the making
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 5:01 PM CST up reply actions
It's contagious.
Just seeing his name in print propels me to type that. Sorry, it’s an impulse.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Me too
Ive started posted recently and am proud to report that I’ve contributed nothing to the overall level of conversation. Ill probably just go back to lurking where I belong
There's a typo in your username
though I assume you did that on purpose.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Ugh.
Back to reclusion for you friend.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Ok, Fozzie.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
No Way
You can’t get off that easy. Just fading away like that? No. Post something stupid so the community can ridicule you to the point of tears. It’s a rite. You cannot escape, or at least you shouldn’t.
GODDAmmit
REPLY FAIL AND CAPS LOCK FAIL
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:05 PM CST up reply actions
I ridicule you
for this post
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
Well that wasn't very good
Much more aggression is required.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:14 PM CST up reply actions
I'm shaking my fist at you.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
I'm sure someone has mentioned a few 1000 times,
but how long as AJM been the mod here again?
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Well, he kind of started the entire site...
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:08 PM CST up reply actions
No he didn't.
He was the first Rangers blogger on SBN, but SBN was formed by that guy. The one with the big liberal blog. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 4:10 PM CST up reply actions
Well, no, you're right, he have a hand in the starting of SBN.
But he started his own site over on blogger, and simply moved over here in 2005(?) when they invited him.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:16 PM CST up reply actions
so 2005?
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:29 PM CST up reply actions
I think so, yeah.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 4:32 PM CST up reply actions
Thanks, after finding this board last year,
I’ll never return to my old joints. Good stuff sir.
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
Where's the 5-year birthday party?
surely you’re already planning it…
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
Damn that's right,
just a few months away…
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:48 PM CST up reply actions
How many others are like me?
Visiting 10, 20, or more times a day just to see what clever commentary fellow LSBers have come up with?
Am I alone in my loserdom?
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
Nope. If it weren't for my ability to multi-task I'd be homeless.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 4:12 PM CST up reply actions
I leave the site in an active tab
Practically aorund the clock, and refresh to find new content. Maybe 15 or so times in a calendar day.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 4:51 PM CST up reply actions
As opposed to a sidereal day?
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Heh
Yep, afraid my vernal equinox might be out of whack.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 5:03 PM CST up reply actions
I've been F5in' ever since this came up
let’s hit a million in Feb ’10. ….
….
ouch, how can you tell if you broke your meta carpal tunnel
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Get around a bunch Yankee/Angel fans?
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 4:23 PM CST up reply actions
Depends
On how violently and how often you give the old’ digital signal.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
I would hope it's pretty involuntary
for the majority of us around here.
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Feb 3, 2010 5:17 PM CST up reply actions
More Fun with Numbers
I decided to kill time today by putting CHONE’s Rangers projections into Beyond the Boxscore’s depth chart spread sheet to see what it says about the team.
Anyway, while looking at this, I discovered CHONE’s defensive projection for Borbon: 11 runs above average. So, like, more than a win all by himself in the field. Jesus.
It has Elvis slightly below average, btw. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Seriously?
He must move at light speed cause the arm is a billion below average.
Your 2009 Snow Monkey Ambassador
Heh, good one
They figure since he’ll inevitably catch the ball, throwing it won’t matter. That places his range from about five feet in front of the pitchers’ mound back to the wall in CF, and from 12 feet in on each foul line across the diamond. He shall be called “Roadrunner”. BEEP.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 5:06 PM CST up reply actions
Well, yeah, his range has always been applauded.
He had a TZ/150 of 18 in AAA, which correlates very well in to the Majors for outfielders, coupled with great scouting reports. He had a ridiculous 36 TZ/150 in Frisco (certainly sample-size aided) and was a plus fielder every year of his minor league career according to Minor League Splits.
There’s obviously a lot more to fielding than a strong arm, and both anecdote and statistics seem to think Borbon’s got that.
First draft says 84 wins.
I would, however, take the over on a lot of the individual player projections.
OT
Mariners considering Bedard according to mlbtraderumors.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
They can have him
such a whimpy pussy
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
what are we considering shoulder problems?
He’s a pussy!
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
I didn't know
JW has shoulder problems.
Who gives a shit what Josey says.............................
by Lil' Jonny Donuts on Feb 3, 2010 7:06 PM CST up reply actions
He's from the Denton Independent School District, leave him alone.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 6:31 PM CST up reply actions
Hey man, I'm right there with you, no need to be hostile.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 6:57 PM CST up reply actions
Sorry dude...
had a few brews…a little jumpy.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
and vodka
damn what day of the week is this?
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
Wed.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Feb 3, 2010 7:12 PM CST up reply actions
Whimpy looked so much better
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - Terence Mann
OT. The Rangers get a prime time game on FOX vs. the Cubs
@BizballMaury MLB on FOX Unveils 2010 Broadcast Schedule, Includes Two Games in Prime-Time http://ow.ly/13BKx Here’s the 26 game schedule #MLB
and 7 other games.
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
What the hell?
Mariners get the maximum of 9 games to the Rangers 7? They’re going to show the Mariners more than the Yankees or Red Sox? Whatever dude.
"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.
Then he grounded out weakly to second.
JACK Z IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
Ichiro, Griffey
probably have more to do with it.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Maybe they expect lots of drama from Milton Bradley
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
by LSJ on Feb 3, 2010 6:32 PM CST up reply actions
Or have some demographic about their market share in different places
Flavored by time zone.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Feb 3, 2010 7:23 PM CST up reply actions
I have it on good confidence...
…that the Mariners have the best nickname in baseball. Maybe that’s why…
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
This of course is the correct answer.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
They want to leverage that massive media market in Seattle
clearly
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
Adam --
I’ve got a CE class I’m taking for Time Series and this is a perfect example of seasonality with an upward drift.
Is there anyway you can create a Google spreadsheet or send me an Excel spreadsheet or a text document with the Visits per month going back as far as you have them?
This would certainly make me alot more inclined to finish up my project up, and I’d be sure to share it with y’all to show how the visitors have increased on average year-over-year (or something like that).
There's a little square at the bottom
Click on it.
by Black Francis on Feb 3, 2010 11:02 PM CST up reply actions
Lol, thanks
I went looking at his profile for an “email” button.
Now I know where to look!
Where is my mind, I mean really. Probably up in the clouds or some such.
And I've been set straight again
There’s another button down there for the SiteMeter stuff.
Thanks all
Is that Cowboy Curtis from Pee-Wee's Playhouse?
"Josey drives to games???
I always assumed he rides in on his high horse"
jam0152
Martin Perez, "Mucho queso"
Off to take my exam in The Christian Scriptures
I was pretty confident until yesterday when I did a Mock Exam >.<
What school?
And good luck.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
If I ever get rich
the first thing I’m doing is putting a ball pit in my house.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin
by JBP on Feb 4, 2010 8:55 AM CST up reply actions
I have never watched 1 ep
I assume you love it?
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
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