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Fire Joe Morgan on Albert Pujols

For those who haven't checked out Fire Joe Morgan, it's generally an amusing rebuke of numskull baseball writers - particularly those who fly in the face of data and logic.  I thought others might enjoy the description of Sir Albert from this post.

"Albert Pujols is either the best hitter in baseball or he's damn close. He has 266 career HR and he's played in a total of like 65 baseball games. He has a .418 career OBP. And a walk, mind you, ties the game. He is 12 feet tall, and each of his lats weighs 80 pounds. His bat is 60 inches long and is made of Bigfoot's spine. He is a monstrous monster who eats sliders. Not balls that were used to throw sliders, mind you -- he has figured out a way to eat the concept of sliders. The dude hits with a closed stance only because Marty Barrett bet him he couldn't hit with a closed stance like Barrett did and still win the MVP and Pujols did it just to stave off the boredom that had come from solving baseball. He once hit a home run on a hit-by-pitch. He has more hits left-handed than anyone in baseball history has right-handed -- and he is right handed. He completed an MD-PhD at Hopkins in one hour and gave a graduation address (in Greek), and he had to miss a game against the Pirates in 2003, and he still went 2-4 with a double. The home run he hit off Lidge in the NLCS....just now landed, in Banff.  He is awesome."

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Who would win
Chuck Norris v. Albert Pujols?

by martin on Jul 13, 2007 11:49 AM EDT   0 recs

it would be a draw
"chuck norris doesn't do push ups, he pushes the world down"
"Textbooks are Soviet propaganda" - Rev. Jerry Farwell

by elirock83 on Jul 13, 2007 11:56 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Albert Pujols
doesn't sleep. He waits.

by rockin redbird on Jul 13, 2007 12:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm a fan of The Commish
But FJM takes him apart pretty badly there.

by liam on Jul 13, 2007 12:43 PM EDT   0 recs

I enjoyed the Brian Burwell
article being ripped apart very much.  I'm not sure if anyone saw him on ESPN on July 7th but there was a piece on McGwire where they interviewed Burwell.

Burwell talked about how he came here 5 years ago and everyone had their head buried in the sand and blah blah blah.  Thank goodness he rode in on his self-righteous steed of poor sports writing or we'd all still be ignorant about steroids in STL.

by azruavatar on Jul 13, 2007 1:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

burwell is absolutely horrible
just an unabashedly terrible sportswriter. he does get sanctimonious sometimes, it's true, but more than that he's just absolutely god-awful.

i'm not sure why the p-d still keeps half their columnists on the payroll, to be honest with you. bill mcclellan is another guy who's be shameless about mailing it in for quite some time now.

I believe in the Sports Guy rule. Any "complaining" in this post is actually happy, cheerful "constructive criticism."

by nycbirdo on Jul 13, 2007 3:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Me too
But I gotta side w/ FJM on one point for sure - it might make Philly fans upset?  Who cares?!?  When AREN"T Philly fans upset?

by cardsgirl95 on Jul 14, 2007 9:50 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

One of the best sites ever.
Made me laugh quite a bit. "Lord Scrapford von Gritt tweaked his hustlebone." Classic.

by paCardsFan on Jul 13, 2007 1:05 PM EDT   0 recs

In the comments
"Baron Grittle von Scamperstein", good stuff.

by Just Rope Ball on Jul 13, 2007 1:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

FJM and Dugout
i've sort of come to terms with being THAT BIG a baseball nerd that more than half the sites i visit regularly are "inside baseball" for baseball. two of them are mostly humor-related; FJM is one, and the other is the dugout - wordupthome.com.  for those of you who haven't checked that one out, either, i suggest "spring training 2007: chicago cubs" as an appetizer. i still laugh until i cry.
I believe in the Sports Guy rule. Any "complaining" in this post is actually happy, cheerful "constructive criticism."

by nycbirdo on Jul 13, 2007 3:30 PM EDT   0 recs

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