DODGERS OFF-TOPIC Thread

I didn't do my homework on him, I just assumed he wasn't a star because he was drafted in later rounds. I get what you're saying though and I agree. I just don't agree with them making it into a huge story because a person's sexual preference doesn't define them.

 

Yep, I agree. Dolphins already had to fine one of their players.

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/47144/clayton-kershaw-gives-up-hr-on-a-curve

 

I liked the sole ESPN comment... "like its a story just because someone hit an HR off of his curve"

that DOES say it all

 

Whatev's.

As long as you don't try to pin unemployment on him.

 

As for throwing the curve with 3 balls, I think the logic is fucked. Kershaw isn't relying on the curve for the strikeout, he is utilizing it.

Over two seasons, batters had gone 24-for-267 (.090) with 151 strikeouts and no walks against Public Enemy No. 1, as Vin Scully labeled Kershaw's curveball.

Nice. But he has struck out 461 batters over those two seasons so less than 1/3 came off of Uncle Charlie. In effect, the less he uses it the more effective it becomes. But the logic to me also indicates that throwing the curve with 3 balls increases the chances of a runner reaching base- it definitely increases the chance of a walk as the article indicates, but it also increases the chance of a ball in the dirt, passed ball, error situation in which the runner could reach base even with a swing and a miss. IMO Kershaw is smart to avoid the curve with a 3 ball count. He is much more likely to succeed in keeping the runner from reaching by throwing gas or the slider, much easier pitches to locate. So in short, WTF does this guy know?

 

and in reality WTF do any of us know?

I agree that CK utilizes his pitches quite nicely and as such HE KNOWS that he can't count on good old 'passed ball' AJ to keep an errant throw in front of him... so he throws heat instead... and it works.

I'm OK leaving CK to CK..

bone head writers have to write about something and they don't understand much other than random speculation so this sort of stat review is inevitable.

 

I have a PS4, BDK_EINSTEIN.

 

War of 1812 was more of a war of opportunism than anything. The biggest deal being impressment by the Brits which had been going on since the end of the revolutionary war. So we saw they were in a war with Napoleon and struck canada, well it's canada now. We burned the capital of York, modern day Toronto to the ground. Once the Brits were done with Napoleon they retaliated by burning DC to the ground.

In the end the biggest issue of impressment settled itself because the Brits were no longer at war with the French.

In a nutshell that's the war of 1812.