There's no other sport as streaky as Baseball
by white angus on Sep 8, 2010 9:19 AM EDT
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PrintMost people are surprised to hear that Baseball is an individual sport. No other sport has a true one-on-one
situation as Baseball has with the pitcher and the batter. A baseketball, football or even hockey player can keep
their "awesomeness" going for a full season, yet a baseball player has many ups and downs. Well, everyone not
playing 1B for the Cards. Baseball is a game of streaks. Players get hot, and its a hot streak. They get cold, and...
you get the picture. Neil Walker is having one of these amazing hot streaks as we speak; 14 game hitting streak.
Tabata is doing the same. Soon these players will hit a wall and the dreaded cold streak will start. It happens.
Now baseball TEAMS also have streaks. The team will catch fire, such as the Reds, or completely fold up for a
tad, like the Padres. Even the Pirates had a 12 game losing streak. But here's something you might not realize;
the Pirates top WINNING streak this season is 3 games. The last time the team won more than 3 games in a
row was last August 17-22. I have been a baseball fan for decades, and I've never seen a team not win 4 games
in a row for an entire season. I believe streaks, the winning kind, are the product of a team learning to win
together. Youth could be the major reason why a winning streak has not been produced, or maybe even the
obvious pitching deficiencies played a major role. Momentum should be attained by playing the "core"
regularly, but with the September callups I just don't see that happening. But its okay. This is a learning
process with our core. We have seen some very good play from the youth the last month or so. Maybe a
streak, the good kind, is around the corner.
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of the managing editor (Charlie) or SB Nation. FanPosts are written by Bucs Dugout readers.
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Currently 1 win away
From matching our season high. You may have to revise this post if we can pull out our next 2. Of course, with our winning , the likelyhood of us doing that is 11.6
i was just thinking this yesterday
we are due for a streak, a winning streak. hopefully they catch fire with the call ups.
You're talking about the team sports, obviously.
Wrestling and boxing are probably the ultimate one-on-one sports otherwise.
Actually, I give the edge to wrestling. No gear involved except ear protection and a jock (and since more girls wrestle competitively now, the jock is optional). Just you and your body against the other guy (girl).
But yeah, streaks are weird, and must be almost completely random. You can take any 25 major league players and put them together on a roster and call it your fantasy league team, and that team will have hot streaks and cold streaks. Obviously, you’ll get more hot streaks if your 25 players are good to start with, but even bad teams have good streaks, and good teams bad. I don’t know which would be worse right now, watching the hope-long-lost Pirates try to eek out a four-game win streak or being a Padres fan and watching your team collapse and your lead disintegrate.
we're not the only recent team to not have a 4 game winning streak
the 2004 D’backs had 3- 3game winning streaks on the way to winning only 51 games. the 2003 tigers, who won only 43, had 1- 4 game winning streak.
Glad someone brought this up, we can thank the SPs
I’m glad you posted this white angus. When your starters (minus Ohlendorf and Karstens) have ERAs that are well above pathetic, past embarassement, and into the humiliating range; it makes sense why we can’t get a streak going.
i feel the same way
but im still stoked about the pirates future. we may not win a world series, but we werent going to with the old regime anyway.
people always bring up the 3 years of the Russell era
right now we have 176 wins, so far, in the 3 seasons of john russell. other teams over the last 30 years to have similar or worse 3 year periods are:
detroit…… 01 to 03———— 164 wins
TB…………. 01 to 03———— 180
Atlanta…… 88 to 90———— 182
Balt……….. 08 to 10———— 185 so far
Fla…………. 98 to 00———— 197
KC…………. 04 to 06———- 176 team also had 4- 100 loss seasons in the last decade
Mil…………. 01 to 03———- 191
Minn……… 97 to 99———— 201
Toronto won a total of 166 games in their first 3 years, but i tried not to count
expansion ballclubs. Toronto also is one of the few teams to never win 100 games,
but they havent lost 100 since 1979 either.
by the way, the washington nationals, from 2008 to now, have won 178 games.
but the worst period of baseball, from any team in the last 40 years, was the
san diego padres. from their first year in 69 through 1977, their highest win total
was 73.
so if you think youre Pirates are having it bad, youre right. but they are not alone.
Well - For the Pirates, it has been ONE very long 18 year streak of futility
Hey Charlie….Aren’t you in the SD area?!
FYI Radio station 1090 (the Padres home station) reported “twice” in
the past ten days that the Pirate ownership had pocketed over $30 mil
in the past couple of years.
The story was reported by Darren Smith & Lee Hamilton.
Just filling you in on the story from the west coast…..
FYI Radio station 1090 (the Padres home station) reported "twice" in
the past ten days that the Pirate ownership had pocketed over $30 mil
in the past couple of years
Does “twice” mean not really twice? The quotes have to mean something. Or did the Pirates pocket $30 twice in that last 10 days? I think “twice” means incorrectly, but that’s just me.
by Wizard of Woz on Sep 8, 2010 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I do enjoy the quotes around the word ‘twice’.
It’s like you don’t understand how this stuff works.
[insert pejorative term here, initial letter being ‘i’, followed by ‘diot’]
rye and other as*clowns
funny how you and your clan of enabler misfits jump on something within a post instead of the cheating scoundrel manipulating MLB and the city of Pgh…….
18 years and counting…… enjoy.
what is in it for you?
Are you in ncle Ogdan’s will or something Rye-dick?
YOu all calim to be fans, yet you enable this scoundrel to pocket money meant for the betterment of the team…………
Are you in ticket sales? Marketing? nahh. You are not clever enough for either of those positons…….. you gotta be his long lost ugly nephew…..
Enjoy the footlong hot dogs…………
What’s in it for me? I like seeing a team with a future in the minor leagues for the first time in my life. Obviously not happy with the record (actually, I am, since it secures us a first overall pick, but I’m quite facetious when I say that), but I think the winning ways of the farm system speaks for itself.
Other than that, I’ve already mentioned that I don’t care who owns the team, as long as the current plan is executed and we don’t go back to relying on free agents to supply us with sub mediocre play.
Now, I’m starting to notice a structure to your posts.
Hey [use of Nutting’s name as a relation to intended party],
[reference to the teams record].[attack on management for anything and everything done in the past three years (or fourteen years, depending on the situation][complete misunderstanding of any other viewpoint, made obvious by statement in post][more uses of Nutting’s name as being related to the intended target of this post]
Enjoy your [Nutting juice/terrible food/peanuts/18 losing seasons]!
and your posts
typically are structured as such
Frank C talking point #1
Frank C talking point #2
ect……
Rinse and repeat for 18 years, but this year is different…… yeah.. Right!
I've been trying to stay out of this
so as not to encourage you, but my curiosity gets the better of me: What do YOU get out of this? Just getting off on getting a rise out of the fanbase here? I thought that would be beneath a “man” of your obvious baseball acumen.
I eagerly await whatever name-calling or gay-bashing you’d care to do in lieu of an actual answer.
What I get?
Nothing? I am speaking my mind of the subject of the Nutting Pirates. They are a complete disaster thanks to the 3 fools running the show and their propaganda machine give people such as the posters here false hope (AGAIN).
I am stating facts. Nothing more to it. “You” people don’t like the facts.
The only fact you tend to post
has to do with the eighteen years of losing, which we are all aware of being Pirates fans and all.
Unless every trade being bad is also a ‘fact’. Tell that to Atlanta, who would do that trade back again in an instant. Or perhaps the Yanks. Man, what a terrible trade, getting Tabata.
Wow. Structured exactly to my specs. Bravo!
People tell me not to respond to you, since trolls feed off of responses, but it’s the Internet. I don’t particularly care who feeds off of what. Honestly, if the thought of riling up a group of anonymous people does excite you in real life, you are more pathetic than I assumed.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 8, 2010 11:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
There is nothing Nutting can do
Anyone with a day in an accounting class knows Nutting is doing the right thing. There’s no way he can turn this team into a contender next year, we just have to wait.
And at least, unlike previous administrations, there is something to wait for. Between, Tallion, Allie, ZVB, Cain, Wilson, Locke, Morris, Owens, Heredia (Do i need to continue?), some of these guys (based on the law of averages) will come to the majors and be impact players.
BFD1, do you ever remember having that many heralded pitching prospects in our system over the past 18 years? Previously we have had one, two, maybe three heralded pitching prospects in our system. With the way pitchers develop, that’s way too few.
the last "truely" heralded pitcher in our system
was kris benson. bullington wasnt the consensus top anything when he went number 1. now having 3 potential top of the order guys, and a handful of number 2s and 3s??? should make every Pirate fan happy for the future.
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