JFLNYC wrote:Someone please send them TMac's reel and tell them we'll throw in their choice of Wheels or Sarge at no extra cost.

FTN wrote:

Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin said Sunday that he is hoping to be considered for the Blue Jays' managerial opening.

Mackanin first wants to focus on guiding his Phillies as far as possible in this year's postseason, but he's familiar with Toronto's system and is hoping to be considered as a possible successor to Cito Gaston. "Toronto has a lot of good players," Mackanin told the Toronto Sun. "We don’t see them a lot, being in the other league. Everyone knows about their power potential. I really liked what I saw of Ricky Romero and Shaun Marcum."

Pitcher Jair Jurrjens said he hopes the next manager is in the same mold as Cox, who didn't ask much of his players beyond working hard and showing up on time. If they followed those two simple rules (and abided by a couple of other minor pet peeves: No loud music or using cell phones in the clubhouse), they knew Cox had their back.

"When you come in here now, you know what kind of rules you have," Jurrjens said. "You hope it's not going to be different, just the same type of guy, someone who let's us do our thing and have fun. I don't want a sergeant to come in here with a bunch of rules."

Brooks Conrad, whose three errors in Game 3 helped shorten Cox's final season, ran into his now ex-manager in a hallway. They hugged and Conrad asked if Cox planned to be at Turner Field on Wednesday. Cox said he would be.

"Would you mind signing a few things for me?" Conrad asked.

"I'll sign anything you want," Cox said with a smile.

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
By JOHN BRANCH

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay.

To those whose job is to put the moment into Major League Baseball’s new, digitized archives as soon as possible, it was a furious series of 38 mouse clicks. The play that completed the second no-hitter in postseason history was instantly tagged with various descriptions so that it could be easy retrieved in coming years.

There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.”

Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon.

This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary....

It is not only the game action that is tagged. If a squirrel runs onto the field, the play will be tagged with “animal.” If there is a shot of a man sipping a beer, there is a “drinking” option under the “fans” category. Those frequent shots of boats bobbing in San Francisco Bay during Giants games are tagged with “boat.” “Pine tar,” “rosin,” “babies,” “bat boys/girls” and “on-deck circle” have their own notations. So do “fist pump,” “curtain call” and “throw equipment....”

Fusilli Jerry wrote:Pretty cool article, made cooler by the fact that it starts out talking about Roy's no-no.

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
By JOHN BRANCH

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay.

To those whose job is to put the moment into Major League Baseball’s new, digitized archives as soon as possible, it was a furious series of 38 mouse clicks. The play that completed the second no-hitter in postseason history was instantly tagged with various descriptions so that it could be easy retrieved in coming years.

There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.”

Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon.

This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary....

It is not only the game action that is tagged. If a squirrel runs onto the field, the play will be tagged with “animal.” If there is a shot of a man sipping a beer, there is a “drinking” option under the “fans” category. Those frequent shots of boats bobbing in San Francisco Bay during Giants games are tagged with “boat.” “Pine tar,” “rosin,” “babies,” “bat boys/girls” and “on-deck circle” have their own notations. So do “fist pump,” “curtain call” and “throw equipment....”

This is probably the opposite of random:

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play

drsmooth wrote:

Fusilli Jerry wrote:Pretty cool article, made cooler by the fact that it starts out talking about Roy's no-no.

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
By JOHN BRANCH

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay.

To those whose job is to put the moment into Major League Baseball’s new, digitized archives as soon as possible, it was a furious series of 38 mouse clicks. The play that completed the second no-hitter in postseason history was instantly tagged with various descriptions so that it could be easy retrieved in coming years.

There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.”

Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon.

This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary....

It is not only the game action that is tagged. If a squirrel runs onto the field, the play will be tagged with “animal.” If there is a shot of a man sipping a beer, there is a “drinking” option under the “fans” category. Those frequent shots of boats bobbing in San Francisco Bay during Giants games are tagged with “boat.” “Pine tar,” “rosin,” “babies,” “bat boys/girls” and “on-deck circle” have their own notations. So do “fist pump,” “curtain call” and “throw equipment....”

I mistakenly put this in the random Phillies thread, but looks like there's a call for it here:

This is probably the opposite of random:

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play

TenuredVulture wrote:I was listening to that idiot (I can't remember his name at the moment) on Sirius Maddog radio in the evening and he said something about 2 wild card teams from each league in the playoffs last year. This is the first I've heard of this--anything to it?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

This is probably the opposite of random:

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play

This seems a little weird to me, because if it's an institutionally controlled Encoded Archival Description type system, there's no such thing as a tag not being offered. Maybe their interface neglected to make a button for it, but I assume they can type in the no-hitter tag and go from there.

BassGuiFloyd wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I was listening to that idiot (I can't remember his name at the moment) on Sirius Maddog radio in the evening and he said something about 2 wild card teams from each league in the playoffs last year. This is the first I've heard of this--anything to it?

What do you mean?

Grotewold wrote:There are rumors that Selig has already agreed to adding another wild card in each league starting next year. The two wild cards in each league would have a "play-in" game, with the loser going home and the winner facing the top division winner next.

Grotewold wrote:There are rumors that Selig has already agreed to adding another wild card in each league starting next year. The two wild cards in each league would have a "play-in" game, with the loser going home and the winner facing the top division winner next.

Grotewold wrote:There are rumors that Selig has already agreed to adding another wild card in each league starting next year. The two wild cards in each league would have a "play-in" game, with the loser going home and the winner facing the top division winner next.