Post by Boxing World Online on Sept 30, 2018 9:14:03 GMT -6
Our reporter and his blonde companion sit watching football at Bazz with Cassandra Lynn Scerbo, Beth Harnois, Poindexter Del Crunchy, and the Man In The Hat.
Reporter: "That PPV was something, wasn't it?"
Pointy: "Well, it wasn't great for BAZZ, but, that will happen on pay-per-views. No gimme fights, so, sometimes, it all goes against you."
Beth: "It went pretty well for Foxfire with McAdams, Lind, and, of course, Mary..."
Cassie: "And, it went well for UNCLE WIZ, too..."
Tess (grinning): "Which brings me to a question. Who's at the top of your flyweight pecking order, Wiz?"
Man In The Hat: "Tess, did I ever tell you the story of Bruce Benedict?"
Reporter (rolling his eyes): "HERE we go..."
Cassie: "Smackey, I have a WAREHOUSE full of pudding..."
Tess: "Hush, dear."
Man In The Hat: "Bruce Benedict, nicknamed, of course, 'Eggs', was a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. Came up in the late 70s. Career .242 hitter. Good fielder, but not much with the bat. But. One year, after he'd been in the league half a dozen years, 'Eggs' starts hitting the heck out of the ball. By mid-June, a guy who'd never hit more than .264 is stroking 'em at well over .300 and he makes the All-Star game."
Reporter: "I don't see what this has to do with..."
Man In The Hat: "Human beings naturally look for patterns. Our brains are wired that way. They're wired, for example, to look for FACES, so we SEE faces when they aren't there. How many times in your life have you seen something that vaguely resembles the way the eyes, nose, and mouth are spaced on a human face...and you see the face? All the time. Well. We see patterns that way, too, because that's how our brains work. But. IS it a pattern, or is it a random series of events that LOOKS like a pattern? That's always the question."
Tess (smiling): "And Benedict's hitting wasn't a pattern..."
Man In The Hat: "Oh, it WAS, but the pattern WASN'T indicating that he'd suddenly become a good hitter. Now, this was the 80s, before all the advanced data gathering you see today, but, eventually, they caught on to 'Eggs'. See, what he was doing was actually pretty simple. Any time he'd get a pitch on the outside part of the plate, he'd put a three-quarters swing on it and bloop it in front of the right fielder. Ball drops. Single for 'Eggs'. But. Again. Teams caught on. Changed the way they pitched him and shallowed the right fielder up. Batting average dropped in the second half. Still ended up plenty respectable. .298. But. The next year he hit .223 and the following year, the Braves went and got another catcher and made Benedict the backup. What some people THOUGHT they were seeing wasn't what they were seeing."
Pointy: "And, the key to doing OUR job is knowing the difference."
Man In The Hat (nodding): "And we DO know the difference. We absolutely DO. Because, I see more than the results. I see, as our former Commissioner used to say, not just the RESULTS of the rounds, but what HAPPENS in the rounds. I KNOW when somebody slumping is just a slump and when it's more than that. I KNOW when a fighter on a hot streak is just on a hot streak and when it's more than that. When Willie Mays is 1-20, he's due. When Ray Oyler is 1-20, he just can't hit. And. I know when I'm watching Mays and when I'm watching Oyler."
Reporter: "Which one is Winter?"
Man In The Hat: "My guess is, she's NOT Ray Oyler."
Tess: "Odd Man threw out something interesting...that Holt could be a stepping stone to a title shot for K-Stew OR Winter..."
Man In The Hat: "We ain't bitin'. This stable isn't pushing for any more title shots in 2018. We HAD two. We CASHED one. And, Winter's taking October off, period. What we're gonna do for these last three months is get ourselves ready for a big 2019. We've got a reorg going on among the bigs and we've got our flys pushing forward while King and Reinhart look to step up to join Dennings and Bennet at the top of bantam. Lots to be accomplished. And, that's gonna be our focus. Now. Let's watch some ball."
Reporter: "That PPV was something, wasn't it?"
Pointy: "Well, it wasn't great for BAZZ, but, that will happen on pay-per-views. No gimme fights, so, sometimes, it all goes against you."
Beth: "It went pretty well for Foxfire with McAdams, Lind, and, of course, Mary..."
Cassie: "And, it went well for UNCLE WIZ, too..."
Tess (grinning): "Which brings me to a question. Who's at the top of your flyweight pecking order, Wiz?"
Man In The Hat: "Tess, did I ever tell you the story of Bruce Benedict?"
Reporter (rolling his eyes): "HERE we go..."
Cassie: "Smackey, I have a WAREHOUSE full of pudding..."
Tess: "Hush, dear."
Man In The Hat: "Bruce Benedict, nicknamed, of course, 'Eggs', was a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. Came up in the late 70s. Career .242 hitter. Good fielder, but not much with the bat. But. One year, after he'd been in the league half a dozen years, 'Eggs' starts hitting the heck out of the ball. By mid-June, a guy who'd never hit more than .264 is stroking 'em at well over .300 and he makes the All-Star game."
Reporter: "I don't see what this has to do with..."
Man In The Hat: "Human beings naturally look for patterns. Our brains are wired that way. They're wired, for example, to look for FACES, so we SEE faces when they aren't there. How many times in your life have you seen something that vaguely resembles the way the eyes, nose, and mouth are spaced on a human face...and you see the face? All the time. Well. We see patterns that way, too, because that's how our brains work. But. IS it a pattern, or is it a random series of events that LOOKS like a pattern? That's always the question."
Tess (smiling): "And Benedict's hitting wasn't a pattern..."
Man In The Hat: "Oh, it WAS, but the pattern WASN'T indicating that he'd suddenly become a good hitter. Now, this was the 80s, before all the advanced data gathering you see today, but, eventually, they caught on to 'Eggs'. See, what he was doing was actually pretty simple. Any time he'd get a pitch on the outside part of the plate, he'd put a three-quarters swing on it and bloop it in front of the right fielder. Ball drops. Single for 'Eggs'. But. Again. Teams caught on. Changed the way they pitched him and shallowed the right fielder up. Batting average dropped in the second half. Still ended up plenty respectable. .298. But. The next year he hit .223 and the following year, the Braves went and got another catcher and made Benedict the backup. What some people THOUGHT they were seeing wasn't what they were seeing."
Pointy: "And, the key to doing OUR job is knowing the difference."
Man In The Hat (nodding): "And we DO know the difference. We absolutely DO. Because, I see more than the results. I see, as our former Commissioner used to say, not just the RESULTS of the rounds, but what HAPPENS in the rounds. I KNOW when somebody slumping is just a slump and when it's more than that. I KNOW when a fighter on a hot streak is just on a hot streak and when it's more than that. When Willie Mays is 1-20, he's due. When Ray Oyler is 1-20, he just can't hit. And. I know when I'm watching Mays and when I'm watching Oyler."
Reporter: "Which one is Winter?"
Man In The Hat: "My guess is, she's NOT Ray Oyler."
Tess: "Odd Man threw out something interesting...that Holt could be a stepping stone to a title shot for K-Stew OR Winter..."
Man In The Hat: "We ain't bitin'. This stable isn't pushing for any more title shots in 2018. We HAD two. We CASHED one. And, Winter's taking October off, period. What we're gonna do for these last three months is get ourselves ready for a big 2019. We've got a reorg going on among the bigs and we've got our flys pushing forward while King and Reinhart look to step up to join Dennings and Bennet at the top of bantam. Lots to be accomplished. And, that's gonna be our focus. Now. Let's watch some ball."
Meanwhile Kristen Stewart's ass is hot on fire 