The Cardinals are insane w/RISP

[Judge Jude]

Maybe the Cardinals should hire a hitting coach who gets them to try just as hard when no runners are in scoring position.

[cavebird]

The KEY difference is that in regular baseball the players are actually determining the outcome of the games..hence a large amount of skill is involved.

In fantasy baseball we have no affect on the outcome of any games or player performances...hence a large amount of luck is involved.

Heisenberg (sp?) disagrees.

[Mithrandir]

Heisenberg (sp?) disagrees.

Really? Then he's wrong.

[DMT]

Heisenberg (sp?) disagrees.

As does Crash Davis.

[cavebird]

Really? Then he's wrong.

It's sad that a physicist who probably knew little about baseball and cared less gets deemed wrong by Mith when Mith apparently doesn't even know what I am talking about.

[Mithrandir]

It's sad that a physicist who probably knew little about baseball and cared less gets deemed wrong by Mith when Mith apparently doesn't even know what I am talking about.

Well I know what i said is correct.

Sorry I'm not on your plane of intelligence and couldn't figure out what you meant. I didn't know if you were referring to quantum mechanics, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays or subatomic particles and exactly how it related to my comment. It would help if you explained your comment to us dummies....

[cavebird]

Well I know what i said is correct.

Sorry I'm not on your plane of intelligence and couldn't figure out what you meant. I didn't know if you were referring to quantum mechanics, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays or subatomic particles and exactly how it related to my comment. It would help if you explained your comment to us dummies....

It's an old semi-comincal application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP). IIRC, the HUP basically provides that we cannot know which direction an electron is spinning because if we slowed down the electron enough to determine this, our actions could be the cause of the direction of the spin. The more basic idea behind it is that you can never be certain if you cannot do an exactly controlled test. Thus, I cannot know if the Braves would have won last night if I had just worn a Braves jersey while watching the game on TV---there is no reason to believe that this would have changed the result, but there can be no way to conclusively prove this because I cannot return to last night and wear the jersey. It has been cited as a reason to wear rally caps, etc.

[Mithrandir]

It's an old semi-comincal application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP). IIRC, the HUP basically provides that we cannot know which direction an electron is spinning because if we slowed down the electron enough to determine this, our actions could be the cause of the direction of the spin. The more basic idea behind it is that you can never be certain if you cannot do an exactly controlled test. Thus, I cannot know if the Braves would have won last night if I had just worn a Braves jersey while watching the game on TV---there is no reason to believe that this would have changed the result, but there can be no way to conclusively prove this because I cannot return to last night and wear the jersey. It has been cited as a reason to wear rally caps, etc.

Thanks.