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To: reaper who wrote (50536)	8/17/2002 12:52:19 PM
From: The Freep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

OT/baseball -- So let me get this straight. You actually think Rickey Henderson raises the level of play of those around him, and yet you said earlier that the very idea of players raising the level of play of those around them is bs? Glad you made that clear. I am sure no pitching coaches, batting coaches, or managers make a difference either, except for the ones that do. BTW, you tell me Erstad sucks and G.A. is underappreciated (he is). Yet you throw out three years of the vaunted OPS which show Erstad's average OPS is .824 while Anderson's is .804. So during 1998-2000, how do you quantify Erstad's suckiness? Or is this just your bias (and the addition of his injury marred 2001)? Looks like Tim Salmon, per OPS, is the far better player than G.A. Do you believe that to be true? I guess what I'm saying, again, is that human nature makes baseball what it is, above and beyond the raw numbers. Yes, statistics and tendencies can give an edge, but they simply don't explain everything. You may quote chapter and verse of statistics, but I still know I'm right. <g> Enough on this. You want the last word, it's yours. Or we could go to PM and continue this infinitely, so that at least I can talk baseball when there's no game on the field. the freep