Portsmouth Daily Times strikes again!

[madpolecat]

Thanks for your efforts, ignert1, but I was aware of the origin of the Mendoza reference and that it was in relation to a .200 BA, which would still be a higher BA than the .1000 you awarded to boggerred.

Dead Greeks are cool, don't you know? Didn't you watch TROY or 300?

I take it that you didn't like Dennis Miller doing Monday Night Football, either.

I appreciate your help, though.

[boogerred]

Why didn't you just post the link to wiki???

[friday_nite_fan]

The actual quote is "at least above the Mendoza line". Like I said before KA, you might be too smart for a sport debate room. Why do you complain about your post being deleted. You can't seem to stay on topic. At least you didn't mention a bunch of dead Greeks this time.

The Mendoza Line is an informal term used in baseball when a position player's batting average falls below the boundary between extremely poor and merely below-average offensive production, or the offensive threshold below which a player's presence in the Major Leagues cannot be justified despite their defensive abilities. It is often used to characterize a batting average of below .200. Pitchers are not held to the Mendoza Line standard, since their specialized work and infrequent batting justifies less competence in hitting.

Origin of the term
The term is named for former shortstop Mario Mendoza, who hit .198 in the 1979 season. George Brett is believed to have coined the phrase when asked about his batting average. When shown his average in a newspaper, Brett was said to have made a remark along of the lines of, "I knew I was off to a bad start when I saw my average listed below the Mendoza line"

Dude, you copied that straight from Wikipedia.... Did someone say plagiarism???

[madpolecat]

claygrad wrote:

FNF, are you new to the internet? You surely didn't think I took credit for writing that, since I had admitted I had never heard of it. Try to keep up. Plagiarism on the internet, never heard of such a thing. WOW.

Are claygrad and ignert1 the same person?

Somebody call out Jim Jones!

[friday_nite_fan]

FNF, are you new to the internet? You surely didn't think I took credit for writing that, since I had admitted I had never heard of it. Try to keep up. Plagiarism on the internet, never heard of such a thing. WOW.

I wasn't talking to you....

[jimmyjones]

You rang?

I was off making a new elixir but the darned electricity was out and school was canceled!

[madpolecat]

Watched a show about you yesterday on the History Channel, jimmy.

They had all your buddies on there...

[Binary]

You peopld should be happy you don't have the Athens Mess. Talk about a piece of crap!

[coop]

PDT;

Valley finished the season 16-4 (11-3) NOT 14-6.......


They Strike AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sportsfan_1959]

I agree, but at least they were at the game covering it live.

[Dean]

Although the Daily Times is turning into the Community Common, which is not a good thing, the journal entries of Gerald Cadogen are the best thing in the sports page in a long time.

[Snowman]

you mean people actually read those...I would rather have AP stories than those...

[Dean]

You would rather have AP stories than a first-hand account of the NFL Combine from a local player who is experiencing the time of his life. Cutting and pasting AP stories is ok, but this is more like actual journalism. Congrats to the Daily Times---I hope to see more of this type of coverage.

[Snowman]

i would rather have sports news...his journal about his experiences just doesnt interest me and from the little i read it wasnt well written...i guess i didnt give it a chance...what would be nice if they could include that along with other sports news...while i am on the internet all the time i would like to have more college sports material as well...they do a fairly nice job with shawnee but how about rio, ohio, morehead, marietta, etc..you can always get info about the major colleges but not always about the smaller schools and conferences without going to espn or the schools internet site...