Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Frieze, turkey!

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	57	40	.588	C1
2	Philadelphia	53	45	.541	E1
3	Arizona	48	49	.495	W1
4	St. Louis	56	43	.566	C2
5	Milwaukee	54	43	.557	C3
6	New York Mets	52	46	.531	E2
7	Florida	51	46	.526	E3
8	Cincinnati	48	51	.4848	C4
9	Los Angeles Dodgers	47	50	.4845	W2
10T	Houston	46	51	.474	C5
10T	Atlanta	46	51	.474	E4
12	Pittsburgh	44	53	.454	C6
13	Colorado	42	57	.424	W3
14	San Francisco	40	57	.412	W4
15T	San Diego	37	61	.378	W5
15T	Washington	37	61	.378	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Los Angeles Angels	59	38	.608	W1
2	Tampa Bay	57	39	.594	E1
3	Chicago White Sox	55	41	.573	C1
4	Boston	57	42	.576	E2
5	Minnesota	55	42	.567	C2
6	New York Yankees	52	45	.536	E3
7	Oakland	51	46	.526	W2
8	Texas	50	48	.51	W3
9	Detroit	48	49	.495	C3
10	Baltimore	47	49	.49	E4
11	Toronto	47	50	.485	E5
12	Kansas City	44	54	.449	C4
13	Cleveland	42	54	.438	C5
14	Seattle	38	59	.392	W4

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Comments

2007-07-31 22:25:07

1. xaphor

Why not a Cornice?

2007-08-01 02:30:48

2. Murray

Yankee fans have called the frieze the "facade" for as long as I can remember. It's wrong, but I can't even get people to understand that striking out three batters in an inning isn't striking out the side. So I gave up on the argument about the facade a long time ago.

2007-08-01 06:01:13

3. vockins

It's a fascia.

2007-08-01 06:41:42

4. dianagramr

As a loyal member of the "Association for the Preservation of Diacritical Marks", I'm heartened by the inclusion of the cedilla.

2007-08-01 07:46:49

5. Bob Timmermann

In my book, it's a frieze. And not even John Sterling can get me to change.

2007-08-01 08:32:57

6. invisibleman

2- To strike out the side, do the K's need to be consecutive?

2007-08-01 08:53:00

7. Woden325

The Yankees have it both ways in their article about the new stadium:
"
The design will even go further back to recreate some of the original park's features. It will have the tall cathedral windows, auxiliary outfield scoreboards, a right-field Yankees bullpen and a frieze on the roof, which is commonly known as the façade and was a feature of the original stadium. "
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/ballpark/new_stadium.jsp

2007-08-01 09:42:57

8. Mr Customer

I'm not sure that a façade can face the interior of a building. It definitely would be both a frieze and a façade if it ran around the outside.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure what the "front" of a baseball stadium really is. It makes it harder for me to be punctilious about this sort of thing.

I completely support the inclusion of the cedilla, though.

2007-08-01 10:54:15

9. Murray

6 I'm not going to get into this one because the last time I tried, people insisted that my answer was: A is A because it is A. So I'm not getting into a protracted explanation, but the point is: the batters that bat in a team's half-inning are "the side." If a batter reaches in an inning by hit or walk, he didn't strike out. Yet he was part of "the side" that batted. Therefore, the side couldn't have been struck out. The expression is now used to mean three strikeouts are recorded in an inning so often, however, that most people consider that feat to be striking out the side. To me, the usage is logically incorrect. But it is widely accepted.

2007-08-01 11:50:03

10. xaphor

The Computer & Communications Industry Association want to make baseball telecasts less frightening. Here's to free, non-consenting dissemination.

FTC complaint flags NFL, MLB, studios for overstating copyright claims
http://tinyurl.com/yv4g3f

2007-08-01 20:36:21

11. Daniel Zappala

10 Yay for fair use!

This makes me want to setup a web site dedicated to the use of clips from baseball and football telecasts as a means of promoting proper interpretation of copyright law. Oh if I had the time ...