Our Rasmus

I could really go for some Chicken McNuggets…

but I will give him a chance to prove himself.

I really hope VEB never becomes like that, where people are either so arrogant or insecure about their grasp of sabermetrics that the mere mention of a traditional stat sparks some mind-numbing, worthless diatribe from every preachy and pedantic jackass who thinks he knows better. It is possible to understand what some stats measure — and what they don’t — and still use them. Example: I fucking love the RBI stat (may or may not have to do with a childhood spent playing RBI baseball for NES); So you can dispense with it when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (and at the same time, I can still realize that its not a reliable predictive stat for measuring a player’s true offensive ability or, say, projecting offensive production year to year)

I don’t think he’ll be Pinata.

and pitched 94 innings in ’08!

and he was hurt pretty much that whole season and pitched like it.

He raised his GB rate like 3% above his career norms. And Pineiro was a lot better last year than Lohse was in 08.

And I wouldn’t give Pineiro 4/41 deal. I would definitely have given Lohse a 2/16 deal.

I feel like if we had paid Piniero 2Y$18.5M you’d be bitching about it. But since the Angels did we "missed out on a bargain".

That comes with no evidence and is purely supported by your past disagreements with me. It’s borderline trolling, knock it off. You can argue with me on the evidence or about the players, but don’t make generilizations based on what you may think of me.

really, I just think it’d be cool to watch one of my all-time favourite players in a Cardinals uniform. I’d probably sacrifice 1 win from our end-of-year total for that. Chances of 1 win affecting our post-season position (in/out) are pretty minimal anyway, the division is probably decided by 1 win less than like 5% of the time.

I don’t think you do. Evidence doesn’t support this opinion, and you know it.

which offends some people. Look, we can all just agree to disagree at this point, no?

that you hold character regardless of the circumstances. a truly dedicated bovine among men

…I’ve forgotten the comment. Cow brain…
:=8/

And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said ’You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air’

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, ‘I might as well kick it’.

First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear they’re prissy, wine all that
Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat?
I don’t think so
I’ll see when I get there
I hope they’re prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain’t trying to get arrested
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said ‘FRESH’ and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought ‘Now forget it’ – ‘Yo homes to Bel Air’

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie ‘Yo homes smell ya later’
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To settle my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

philosopher kings?

that would leave my hands unoccupied, though