Sports Thread #1 for 6/17/09: I Like Ken Rosenthal, But He Was A Real Jerk Here
Thanks to James, who may have more on this tomorrow, an important conversation from Outside the lines on Sunday, where Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal attacks blogger Jerod Morris over Morris posting his speculation on whether Raul Ibanez could be taking steroids during a career year this year. Here's what Morris wrote in his now talked about post on his site, which is really a thro statistical analysis of Ibanez production, something I really didn't expect, including : From 2006-2008, Raul Ibanez’s ratio for AB/HR was 23.8, including his career year in 2006 when he hit 33 HRs. In his home games this season, Ibanez has hit 8 HR in 93 AB, which is a HR every 11.6 ABs. Based on the four-year averages of the HR factors of Citizens Bank Park (1.165) and Safeco (0.9225), we would expect Ibanez’s HR rate at home to increase 21%. It has improved much more than 21% however, more than doubling so far in 2009. But Ibanez is not just taking advantage of his home ballpark. In his road games...