Catch-All Anything Thread

[Balta1701]

Inexplicably in the mood for some Pink Floyd now.

It's almost as though we have a thread running titled "The Wall"

[FlaSoxxJim]

It's almost as though we have a thread running titled "The Wall"

 

Strangely, it's the Dark Side of the Moon that's going through my head. . .

 

[Texsox]

Inexplicably in the mood for some Pink Floyd now.

 

 

I was just thinking how much fun LPs were when you could flip them over and listen to the other side.

[The Critic]

I just read this on Yahoo:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-1...name-game_N.htm

 

The part that caught my attention was this:

"major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K (the strikeout-signifying letter) are significantly more likely to strike out, according to the report published in the December issue of Psychological Science."

 

So here are the all-time single season strikeout leaders:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SO_season.shtml

 

The FIRST person with a K in either name?

Dave Kingman, tied for 89th place, then Kingman again tied for 110th place.

The first non-Kingman K name?

Ron Kittle, tied for 135th place all-time.

 

Career strikeout leader for the letter K?

Kingman, 10th all-time, followed by Harmon Killebrew at 15, Ken Griffey Jr at 25 and Jeff Kent at 48.

 

Not exactly "significantly" more likely to strike out IMO...

[Balta1701]

Not exactly "significantly" more likely to strike out IMO...

That's not at all how one would determine whether or not a correlation was significant. If nothing else, the obvious place to start is to determine the average. For every guy at the top of the list, there's a guy at the bottom of the list too. So you could probably calculate an average per player amongst each letter, and an average k/ab for each letter as well.

[The Critic]

That's not at all how one would determine whether or not a correlation was significant. If nothing else, the obvious place to start is to determine the average. For every guy at the top of the list, there's a guy at the bottom of the list too. So you could probably calculate an average per player amongst each letter, and an average k/ab for each letter as well.

 

Nah, that's too much work. I lost interest halfway through my own post, for cryin' out loud!

 

 

[knightni]

I just read this on Yahoo:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-1...name-game_N.htm

 

The part that caught my attention was this:

"major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K (the strikeout-signifying letter) are significantly more likely to strike out, according to the report published in the December issue of Psychological Science."

 

So here are the all-time single season strikeout leaders:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SO_season.shtml

 

The FIRST person with a K in either name?

Dave Kingman, tied for 89th place, then Kingman again tied for 110th place.

The first non-Kingman K name?

Ron Kittle, tied for 135th place all-time.

 

Career strikeout leader for the letter K?

Kingman, 10th all-time, followed by Harmon Killebrew at 15, Ken Griffey Jr at 25 and Jeff Kent at 48.

 

Not exactly "significantly" more likely to strike out IMO...

 

 

1. Reggie Jackson+* 2597 L

2. Sammy Sosa (38) 2306 R

3. Jim Thome* (36) 2043 L

4. Andres Galarraga 2003 R

5. Jose Canseco 1942 R

6. Willie Stargell+* 1936 L

7. Mike Schmidt+ 1883 R

8. Fred McGriff* 1882 L

9. Tony Perez+ 1867 R

10. Dave Kingman 1816 R

11. Bobby Bonds 1757 R

12. Craig Biggio (41) 1753 R

13. Dale Murphy 1748 R

14. Lou Brock+* 1730 L

15. Mickey Mantle+# 1710 B

16. Harmon Killebrew+ 1699 R

17. Chili Davis# 1698 B

18. Dwight Evans 1697 R

19. Rickey Henderson 1694 R

20. Dave Winfield+ 1686 R

 

6 of 20.

 

Yeah.

 

That theory works out well.

 

 

FWIW, Thome could have the record in 3 seasons.

Edited November 17, 2007 by knightni

[Heads22]

http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/cupchicks/male

 

 

 

Bwahaha.

 

Teehee.

[3E8]

2 girls 1 cup is the worst thing I ever have or will see in my life

[Gene Honda Civic]

I just read this on Yahoo:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-1...name-game_N.htm

 

The part that caught my attention was this:

"major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K (the strikeout-signifying letter) are significantly more likely to strike out, according to the report published in the December issue of Psychological Science."

 

So here are the all-time single season strikeout leaders:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SO_season.shtml

 

The FIRST person with a K in either name?

Dave Kingman, tied for 89th place, then Kingman again tied for 110th place.

The first non-Kingman K name?

Ron Kittle, tied for 135th place all-time.

 

Career strikeout leader for the letter K?

Kingman, 10th all-time, followed by Harmon Killebrew at 15, Ken Griffey Jr at 25 and Jeff Kent at 48.

 

Not exactly "significantly" more likely to strike out IMO...

This was debunked by THT... There are something like 10 other letters that produce higher results.

[Texsox]

You would also have to determine how often the letter K appears versus the other letters. To use an extreme example, if there were only 25 players with a "K name" and 23 where in the top 1,000 of all time, that would probably be significant. So it is more than just looking at the averages. If K represents 2% of the players and they are 5% of the strikeouts, that is significant.

[Gene Honda Civic]

You would also have to determine how often the letter K appears versus the other letters. To use an extreme example, if there were only 25 players with a "K name" and 23 where in the top 1,000 of all time, that would probably be significant. So it is more than just looking at the averages. If K represents 2% of the players and they are 5% of the strikeouts, that is significant.

They did... They used standard deviations.

[sox4lifeinPA]

They did... They used standard deviations.

 

 

Well, Tex is definitely your standard deviant

[AssHatSoxFan]

2 girls 1 cup is the worst thing I ever have or will see in my life

thank you urban dictionary for telling me so i didnt have to subject myself to watching that

[Heads22]

I tried to warn people in the catch anything thread a while back. Now that you have seen it, go on Youtube, and watch the reactions of people. Some are quite good.

 

I made it about one second into the "good" part.

[Chisoxfn]

2 girls 1 cup is the worst thing I ever have or will see in my life

That is just ridiculous. Have you seen the spoof done by John Mayer...so funny. But ya, I've never seen anything quite like 2 girls one cup.

[witesoxfan]

I made it about one second into the "good" part.

 

Yeah

 

[Kid Gleason]

One of the guys here at work got to about the "good part" and then stopped. I have no intention of seeing this thing.

 

One thought though. Once upon a time a person could make a film like this and be fairly sure that nobody they know would see this film. But now, thanks to the internet and how everybody now watches things that once upon a time they never would have, somewhere somebody just said:

 

"dude...that's your sister (daughter...whatever)".

[Heads22]

On a related note, I got to start out my morning with "let's check out that prostate".

 

Ugh.

[Gregory Pratt]

I know someone who licked dogs*** off of someone's shoe for a dollar and a dare.

[SnB]

I'm going ice skating for the first time in my life this week.

[Kid Gleason]

I'm going ice skating for the first time in my life this week.

 

You have slipped on the ice and landed on your ass before though, right? That's all my one encounter with "ice skating" was.

[The Critic]

You have slipped on the ice and landed on your ass before though, right? That's all my one encounter with "ice skating" was.

You really are the anti-jock, aren't you?

[Kid Gleason]

You really are the anti-jock, aren't you?

 

You betcha. I went skiiing once. It consisted of me getting to the top of the hill, deciding I didn't like being that high, and walking down it. Everybody laughed at the idea of me skiiing and just pictured me standing on a hill smoking and saying how much it sucked. That was pretty much it.

[The Critic]

You betcha. I went skiiing once. It consisted of me getting to the top of the hill, deciding I didn't like being that high, and walking down it. Everybody laughed at the idea of me skiiing and just pictured me standing on a hill smoking and saying how much it sucked. That was pretty much it.

I'm with ya on skiing. I bet I could do it if I wanted to, but I've seen enough skiing injuries to figure it's not worth it to me.