DO NOT OPEN, Secret Road Trip Diary, TOP SECRET
by DanUpBaby on Apr 26, 2011 6:00 AM EDT
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PrintApril 7—Dear Diary,
So we started our road trip, and things are totes awkward right now. Tony keeps saying Ryan Franklin's okay to drive but he's also all you-never-ask-directions and Frankie just keeps driving west and it's kind of creeping me out, because he won't make eye contact with any of us. Earlier Colby looked at him driving and then at me and after like a hundred minutes he told me to Google "elephant graveyard" on my Sidekick, which I did, but all I got was pictures of elephants.
Meanwhile everybody's pissed off because they aren't hitting. Mr. Pujols has been caravaning alone in that huge truck he has ever since Lance was all, "I bet you could get to San Francisco faster if you took Route 4-6-3." LOL! Ryan Theriot told me that we wouldn't ever score again unless he started hitting dingers, so Big Mac is happy about that, I guess.
Plus I left my DS charger at the Motel 6 in Laramie and when I asked Frankie if we could go back and get it he just screamed for five solid minutes so I have to listen to all of it. We could use a "slumpbuster", which is what Mark Grace called breaking out of a slump by getting several hits in the same game.
- Kyle
April 8—Dear Diary,
Jake Westbrook says that, being a sinkerball pitcher, sometimes you pitch better when you're walking a lot of batters and allowing home runs.
Frankie's been abusing the spectravision, and he keeps watching the part in The Outsiders where Dallas gets shot by the police on purpose, but he said he'd stop calling me Ponyboy if I didn't tell anybody about it.
April 9—Dear Diary,
Wouldn't it be cool if you were a horcrux? If this was Kyle Lohse and the Chamber of Secrets you would be a horcrux, and eventually I'd have to save Alison Brie from you with a basilisk fang, except I don't know where I could buy one, even a replica.
- Kyle
Do not be alarmed by my spectral fountain pen's sudden play across the pages of your Pepysian chronicle! It is I, the first horcrux of Christy Mathewson! I've been following your tergiversational return to the Cardinals' active squadron with no small interest, which must come, I admit, as no "great surprise" to you, aware as you must be of the way I enjoy "reclaiming" struggling pitchers from my astral "dugout", given my experience with
do you have magic
Some, I must modestly admit, claimed that my "fadeaway" in-shoot could have come from no source but Endor, but I assure you it's nothing more than "elbow's grease" that allowed me to pitch within such narrow pinches!
look I have to go beat brian tallet in 70s-co-rec-volleyball or whatever it is he's dressed up for but okay I'll stop walking people
Quite!
April 11—Dear Diary,
I am the best. I took your advice and stopped walking everybody, and then Barry Zito took the opposite advice and started walking everybody, and everybody was so excited by me going 1-4 that they got some other hits, too, except for Mr. Pujols, so he keeps watching the part in The Outsiders where Ponyboy (not my nickname any more!) hides out in that abandoned building.
Writing this on the way to Arizona. Frankie was in a good mood so he picked up this hitchhiker who was just kind of standing out there in the desert, LOL, so we have company now. Colby says that hitchhikers aren't any more dangerous now than they used to be like back in 1990 or whenever, it's just an attribution problem. Plus he likes the way he throws his axe. LOL, I mean his baseball.
Thinking about changing my name to Sergio Romo Lohse.
- Kyle
April 13—Dear Diary but especially Chris Matthews horcrux,
Diary, it's like Ryan Theriot says: We're never going to stop scoring runs. Lance's power level is over 9000, LOL. He told Mr. Pujols a joke about hitting into double plays and then they high fived, which, wow. I haven't felt this great since that time in the Ten Millionaires Club when Matt and I told Alex Rodriguez there was a centaur outside and he asked whether he was "bounding majestically upon the grounds." Tony let us stop at IHOP and I got like five nutella crepes, and I've just been eating them ever since.
Horcrux, could you let me know if you ever had this happen when you were pitching in "The Olden Days"? The hitchhiker showed up tonight and we were going to have to toss him out of the locker room, because nobody's allowed in there since we're all naked in there sometimes, but then he walked over to a locker that I swear was empty and pulled out a jersey that said Sanchez on it, and then he said, "Yes—this is my name, now, Sanchez," and basically I think he's the ghost of "Pedro" Martinez, come to haunt us after he died in that accident where Shea Stadium collapsed, or something else illegal.
Dear boy, if there are no ladies present I should dare recount a jest once made by our field general, John McGraw, The "Little Napoleon of Truxton-town." On the occasion of The Ironed Man, Joe McGinnity, curling a shutout while suffering from what was, it turns out, a fatal bout with what was known then as Arm Consumption, John McGraw, The "Short Man Who Managed Very Well", said to "Old Six", "Six, I don't care if he is a devil, so long as he's 'turning the old screw' in our direction!", joking of course about the sacrilegious short novel by that man James, although I must add as "The Christian Gentleman" that if he is an actual devil you ought consider my "field manual" on exorcism, "Exorcism in the 'Pinch'", which can be got at
dude he threw a slider that was like a curveball or something and it was awesome
April 22—Dear Diary That I'm Totally Gay With,
Blah blah blah about pitching and such, and sometimes my handwriting is bad and other times it's really ornate for some reason, I'm Kyle Lohse and I'm a big dweeb who loves to ride bikes and hurt himself #justplayin
April 26—Dear Diary That I Write About All The Girls Who Like Me In,
Apparently it's totally cool to steal somebody's diary while they're writing about their road trip and then give it back when your team is in town and be all, "#justplayin, Kyle," like thanks, man. Brandon Phillips wouldn't even tell Nelly I said hi, but we're home now and we just won two games against the Reds, which is a big deal.
Ryan Theriot says we'll be pretty good forever, now, and I agree. We've stopped never hitting, and we've stopped always hitting, so now we're just going to hit most of the time. I told Colby my theory and he just didn't say anything, but he's pretty dumb sometimes.
I looked back at some of the earlier entries, especially the one Ryan Franklin wrote in red ink even when I told him not to open anything labeled TOP SECRET, and man, we were really overreacting back then. So my plan is basically to never overreact again, which should be easy since we've gotten over the weird stuff already.
Also I found a Bryan Augenstein action figure in Sanchez's locker, can you tell me about it?
its me the first horcrux of ryan franklin. did I do this right
kyle man pick up the pen
the action figure is a voodoo doll you dolt eduardo sanchez has trapped me in this book
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My only quibble is with the ending – it’s totally unrealistic. Franklin comes in at the end, and it doesn’t go on for another hour?
by Fajen on Apr 26, 2011 6:26 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Well, technically
Frankie is still talking at the end.
I love your Kyle Lohse.
Eating Nutella crepes, sipping orange Slice, inadvertently playing with magic.
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
I don't ever want to meet Kyle Loshe
for sake that he is not exactly like this.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious." Whitman
by pattimagee on Apr 26, 2011 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
favorite part
Thinking about changing my name to Sergio Romo Lohse.
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
by prophetjohn on Apr 26, 2011 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lohse
DanUp’s fictionalized Kyle Lohse makes me want to meet the real Kyle Lohse. Although, I’m sure it would be disappointing.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
i'm pretty sure danup is 90% to blame
for all the irrational (now justified!) hope that i had for kyle lohse over the last two years when he sucked
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
by prophetjohn on Apr 26, 2011 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
DanUp did make Lohse endearing.
No question about it.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
Is fictionalized Lohse based off of something?
Seen with a Sidekick maybe?
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions
the real one will give you a great haircut.
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
This exact comment has definitely been made before
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Ryan F. Ludwick
hit two homers last night, the second of which was the final hit of the game. It sure looked like he crushed it, yet it only just barely carried out of the cavernous PETCO Park.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
and all he got for it was a shaving cream pie to the face
and drenched in beer.
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
that's it man
teams gone broke.
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
I've got a 'pie' for ya....
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;=8)
Griebenschmaltz!
by The MooCow on Apr 26, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Groan
Auburn Tigers - 2010 National Champions, 2011 Fulmer Cup Champions
by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I got a Ryan Ludwick home run badge!
woo!
Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.
by The Continental on Apr 26, 2011 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
ah, this makes me so happy
but i bet he misses the st louis walk-off punching, the padres seem pretty tame in the celebrations
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
They only hit 18 home runs a year
so they’ve not quite sure what to do….
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
Catch by
the real Denorfia at the top of the inning wasn’t bad either.
Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.
by The Continental on Apr 26, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Is that like
Ludwig von Ballhitter?
"I actually used about nine pitches--two different fastballs, two sliders, a curve, a changeup, knockdown, brushback, and hit-batsman" - Bob Gibson
by ISawGodInGibby'sRightArm on Apr 26, 2011 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Excellent
Thanks, I love these literary genre exercises. I still think of “Notes From Undermound” sometimes to cheer me up.
Stay Gold,
YOG
dingdangolewisdomisunderappreciated
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
Leach:
Bonus stats to accompany this story.
* They’re seventh overall in P/PA (something I address in the story), and yet they’re also swinging at the first pitch the sixth-most often.
That last one, I think, reflects what TLR wants and what they’re doing. When you GET something to hit early in the count, jump it. If not, grind out the at-bat.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
I like it
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions
I was hoping for a Lion King reference by Lohse with the "elephant graveyard" bit
but this post is golden nonetheless.
For those of you who were concerned by shelby's poor outing yesterday
Word on the street is that he got hit by a line drive early in the game. Control problems began after that. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 9:45 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I know someone who got hit by a line drive
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions
[weep]
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
by Yadi2Second on Apr 26, 2011 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
but look how he's kicking ass now
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
You mean this guy?
Plus I left my DS charger at the Motel 6 in Laramie
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
If ALL the wildness happened after being hit.....
his manager should be fired on the spot. How do you let a kid stay in the game THAT long, if he is ineffective, and it might have to do with getting belted?
by Stanley1 on Apr 26, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
well
He was ineffective in the second, with a HBP, a WALK, and 3 wild pitches.
He then threw two scoreless innings before again losing control in the 5th. I can’t find any reference to being hit by a liner.
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
he's carp's new pet project
he leaves the game just because of some liner, there’ll be suitcases in the tunnel
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
Have not seen when the hit by liner was supposed to have happened
But two separate guys at FR mentioned it
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 12:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
My favorite line
Jake Westbrook says that, being a sinkerball pitcher, sometimes you pitch better when you’re walking a lot of batters and allowing home runs.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
Yes, yes it was.
dude he threw a slider that was like a curveball or something and it was awesome
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
Dan, I need to ask you a question
do you have magic[?]
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
DanUp, this is fabulous work sir.
The fact that you can continually come up with posts like these is mind-boggling to say the least.
the action figure is a voodoo doll you dolt eduardo sanchez has trapped me in this book
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Apr 26, 2011 10:59 AM EDT reply actions
Haha, great read
i think it was worth the sacrifice of your journalistic integrity to break into Lohse’s locker to share this with the world.
you're
Mmmmmmm...Alison Brie.....
;=8)
Griebenschmaltz!
by The MooCow on Apr 26, 2011 11:00 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
Any old school punk fans out there can join me in sadness!
Adios, Poly Styrene!
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
Good man (cow)!
I was beginning to doubt VEB’s cultural-awareness!
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
omg
one of the Fresh Air music guys on NPR was just talking about her releasing her third album, Generation Indigo, yesterday at the end of the show. He also commented on the fact that she had breast cancer which had spread to her lungs. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t aware that she had died (probably wasn’t aired live, anyway. I’m guessing he recorded his segment a few days ago).
"I actually used about nine pitches--two different fastballs, two sliders, a curve, a changeup, knockdown, brushback, and hit-batsman" - Bob Gibson
by ISawGodInGibby'sRightArm on Apr 26, 2011 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't Al at BCB hire a sabermetric dude...
to introduce certain concepts to the blog? It didn’t work.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
Send in VEP!
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
Al is saying...
that Castro should be moved up in the lineup b/c he did X in 50 at bats in one spot and Y in 50 at bats in another spot. He’s just a stubborn guy…
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
The Cubs are really quite terrible.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
What is he hitting in their lineup? 7th?
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
They did a thing last night...
where Darwin Barney batted 2nd, Castro 3rd, and Jeff Baker 4th. Marlon Byrd, Soriano, and Soto hit 6-7-8.
This Mike Quade seems like a strange fellow.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
He's their best player...
They had a really good chance to change things around, but they’ve gutted the system for Garza, and now I fear/hope they will misspend all the money they’ll have available this offseason.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
Misspend?
Mang, I’m insulted!
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
I like...
a 8/250 for Pujols and a 4/48 for Buerhle coupled with a January trade of the rest of their system for James Shields. Everyone will ooh and ahh and it will all amount to 85 wins.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
I would love to see them sign
Buehle to that contract
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The second half would be.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
No, I don't.
One need only read the article on steroids and aging players. His reasoning is often lazy and regularly disingenuous. I do not disagree with the overall premise that PED testing (steroids and amphetamines) has had an effect. But, I suspect it has affected the entire player population. As for the aging player and the lack of production, I would suggest that it has always been true. Bonds is the glaring example of a roided out superplayer who does not see age affect his production, but there are many other factors one must consider. His job is to write about baseball and he puts out this half-baked drivel that raises more questions than it presents answers. If he were thorough, it would save me time because I would not have to investigate myself. Instead, we have the Verducci conclusion supported by what appears to be a pretty selective use of evidence (but it isn’t even really evidence because it is so vague).
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
Judging from what Buehle has said about playing for StL
I think he could be had for peanuts. Not that I think he should sign for peanuts, but ya know, the whole baseball-being-business cliche. Both 4 and 48 are a little much.
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions
By the time we get him
he won’t be worth having.
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Apr 26, 2011 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions
He can be had next year excluding a trade
Figuring his sentiment and the club’s knack for signing gritty players. Mark Buerhle = gritty (yeah, i said it). He could be the Aaron Miles of pitching. I think it’s only a matter of time before he’s in a Cardinals’ uniform.
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Will we need him?
Wainwright
Westbrook
Garcia
Lohse
McClellan
?Lynn
Not sure there’s space for another starter unless there’s an injuiry somewhere.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
when your best player is putting up
1.3 bWAR and earning near $20mil you need to seriously reconsider your franchise
you're
That's all?
I thought it was more for some reason
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
to be fair
he’s been pretty awesome for about the last year or so. I’m not quite sure he’s done yet. It’s a horrible contract but he’s not going to be quite as horrendous as I think we all thought a couple of years back.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Pujols hit 410/439/821 in the 6th spot in 2001
LaRussa has been misusing him for 10 years!
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
leadoff.
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Apr 26, 2011 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
We got this game all wrong
sabermetrics are for the birds
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I tried already, many years ago
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I vaguely remember that
Was it you and Harry Pavlidis from BTB responding to (especially) Al and some guy named Timmy Cub or something like that?
I can’t believe I remember that considering how much shit I forget, but it was pretty entertaining.
by BTown Birds fan on Apr 26, 2011 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, it got pretty insane at one point
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Elaborate
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
it involves your mom
(hopefully that’s still the cool thing to do)
Blaine Matthew Burns: Albert Pujols' biggest fan (his first words will for sure be "Albert Pujols is RIDICULOUS")
rui's mom is still the cool thing to do, yes.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Someone was asking about the Nexus S launch yesterday I believe...
Oh yeah, I hit a lot of bombs. Don’t kid yourself.
More evidence on players performance past age 35
Verducci’s latest gives one pause when thinking about an 8-10 year contract for Albert (but then I think most of us knew this already)
I think most of us were concerned before Verducci wrote about Derek Jeter and Miguel Tejada.
I may write something up on this Verducci piece, but, in the year 2003, Barry Bonds put up the following line:
.340 BA/.529 OBP/.749 SLG
If one takes bonds out of Verducci’s chart, I wonder how much the numbers sag.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
it would be a pretty easy analysis to do.
There’s massive selection bias here. Not to mention — most of the people caught doing PED’s since the testing began are pitchers, so why isn’t that an analysis that’s being done?
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
I find that to be puzzling.
Everyone focuses on the sluggers, except for Clemens, when the pitchers were clearly juicing, too. As you note, the testing has resulted in a larger share of pitchers being caught using PED’s. The effect of this is rarely considered by anyone who is lamenting the breaking of home run records.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
so when is DanUp going to watch Avatar
no, not the blue one.
better hurry up, they’re already making noises about the next one.
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
I'm still mired in the second season somewhere
Used to watch it when my wife had call nights, but that hasn’t happened for a while, so I keep forgetting.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
that Earth season is where everyone gets mired up
then someone dies, and you don’t even realize it.
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
I think I've finally seen all of them
not in order, unfortunately, but that’s how Nicktoons re-runs work (they usually have two different time-lines going).
By saying “noises about the next one” do you mean they are talking about making the Earth book into a live-action movie or are there noises about another cartoon series starting up? (I’d watch either, I just wish they hadn’t revived Power Rangers).
by ArkansasTravs on Apr 26, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
new one. I'm trying to stay spoiler-free, so far so good.
er, I hate to break it to you, but Power Rangers is older than most of us, and there are a billion of them.
Nick was awful about Avatar. I was shocked. No one knew that the finale was even airing, and it was pretty epic.
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
Oh I know Power Rangers is old
I mean the new ones they are producing now, Power Rangers Samurai. The acting/dialog is just as bad as it was 15-16 years ago when my daughter made me watch them. Now the grandson thinks I need to watch along with him.
by ArkansasTravs on Apr 26, 2011 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Man
The day the American version of Power Rangers premiered when I was in third grade was a pretty spectacular day. I was the perfect age for it, and had a background of watching Voltron, Godzilla movies, and this obscure Hong Kong movie called Inframan, so the weird Japanese-iness seemed not weird at all to me.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
Bianca LaRussa Raiders Cheerleader
check out VEB on facebook...just search groups for Viva El Birdos
heh
If she’s anything like her dad, Bianca will use five dancers on a four-dancer routine, move the worst dancer up to No. 7 in the dancing order and have Buzz Bissinger follow her around and write a deifying book about three days in the life of a cheerleader.
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
This is like VEB Groundhog Day.
Which is odd because we were quoting Groundhog Day yesterday…
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
This "news" came out last week. I have no idea why it keeps poping back up.
It’s like the pink eye of Cardinals gossip news.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
Do you have life insurance?
Because even if you do, you could always use a little more, amiright or amiright or amiright???
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
this is getting a lot of coverage here!
free compositionson guitar and keyboards through looping pedal (no overdubs)
by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Memphis playing Iowa on MiLB.TV right now
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
Astros broadcaster Milo Hamilton talks about Berkman.
He has some less-than-genuine things to say about Lance…
“He got in excellent shape by hiring a trainer, and if he had done that the last couple of years he was here, guys, he could have finished out a really fine career in Houston — if he’d had given that same dedication”
“I just want a simple answer: Why did you think it wasn’t necessary to get in shape your last couple of years as an Astro, and now to a team you didn’t even know, a manager you didn’t play for, you felt it was your responsibility to get in great shape? And it’s paying off. Look what’s he’s doing. He was Player of the Week last week, and I don’t remember when he was Player of the Week as an Astro.
“I didn’t really call him out, but I told everybody what a great guy he was,” Hamilton said. “My big thought was if he thought it was important enough to get in shape for the Cardinals … if he would have done that two years ago, he could have played his whole career with the Astros and ended up here as an ambassador like Bagwell and Biggio. He’s got no future here now.”
Apparently this guy has never heard of someone who is heading down a bad path (fitness, injuries, etc.) having the wherewithal to self-correct. I don’t think Berkman would be playing this season if he wouldn’t have gotten himself into shape. Retirement would have been inevitable.
Milo is an old, old man. They should not be taken seriously and are lucky we still let them have opinions.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
The thing is
I have heard the same thing from Houston fans. They are so mad he is hitting well for us.They seem to forget they traded him and than didn’t sign him in the offseason.
by FlimtotheFlam on Apr 26, 2011 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions
This guy is an Astros broadcaster?
If he is, then one would think that he would be better informed about the Astros and their player moves. He also probably would not reference Berkman’s last couple of seasons with Houston.
In 2009, Berkman posted the following line:
Berkman sustained a knee injury and the Astros dumped him—along with Roy Oswalt—for prospects, ostensibly in a rebuilding effort. This opinion essentially has no foundation in any sort of fact or logic, other than the fact that Lance Berkman was a bit pudgy throughout his playing career and not especially focused on working out. Sure, that changed last offseason, but it wasn’t for the Cardinals. It was because the Astros cast him off due in part to his health and salary and he finds himself on the free agent market, looking for a job. So, he works out and gets a one-year, prove-yourself type of deal. His career is in the balance. I don’t think it was “for the Cardinals” so much as it was “for Lance Berkman’s career.”
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
by bgh on Apr 26, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Even if he was in good shape
all he would have done was bring in better prospects
by martimeryard on Apr 26, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I do find it interesting, though
That he chose St. Louis over the Rangers, as the Rangers seemed like a much better fit and would have given him the outside shot at posting a better offensive season in that ballpark.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
Ever actually had Texas BBQ
it can do both at once.
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
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by MaytheForschbewithyou on Apr 26, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
i wonder if the idea of playing with albert pujols has anything to do with it.
i bet there are a lot of players that think about things like that.
plus – better fans, better history, etc.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. --Albert Einstein
sure, Albert had only just starting talking about the asparagus, and in the American League there's no way they're getting to the legumes
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
they weren't when berky signed his contract
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. --Albert Einstein
Very true
also, they don’t have the best 1B in baseball…
It’s possible he literally just went for the best deal and they weren’t prepared to go to $8m I guess.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Actually
the story is that they offered him more money, but since they didn’t land Cliff Lee he thought they were an “average team”. Even still, they have an above average offense and they play close to where he lives. Clearly he thought the Cardinals were a better contender than the Rangers, World Series ’10 run aside. And, pre-WW-TommyJohn, he was probably right.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
yeah, i think the last sentence sums it up.
That said, I’d say we probably had more chance to make the playoffs (due to a weak division) but the Rangers are probably a narrowly better ballclub with Berkman.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
i think it was a strauss article at the beginning of the preseason
berkman said a large part of coming to st. louis was his faith. i remember adam wainwright being a big reason why. he seemed attracted to the cardinals players being family oriented and christian.
by YesWeOquendo on Apr 26, 2011 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I think he has intimated, somewhere/time
that he really wanted back in the NL Central (partly to stick it to the Astros).
by ArkansasTravs on Apr 26, 2011 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
FWIW
I think the comments from milo hamilton above are kinda assholey, and I’ve always really quite liked Berkman, but I kinda think he has a point. Guys who are paid $10m+ per year really don’t have any excuse to not be in top physical condition and I think it’s pretty clear that in his latter years in Houston, Berkman wasn’t. It’s a legitimate criticism that he’s only got himself in better shape now that his “career is in the balance”.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
it sounds like legit criticism
except Berkman’s lousy, injury-filled 2010 would have to be a certain result of his not being in shape. Otherwise the argument falls apart, because Berk was pretty awesome in 2009 and prior.
Not true, I don't think
because we don’t know what Berkman’s pre-2009 would’ve looked like if he’d been in top condition his entire career. It’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have been somewhat better. And I think his crappy 2010 had a lot more to do with his knee injury than his lack of physical fitness.
Baseball is a strange game – not sure how anyone can argue that any participant in a pro sport (except maybe darts?) isn’t going to be marginally better, all else being equal, with better physical conditioning, especially if they’re noticeably carrying a bit too much weight (which I’d argue Berkman has most of his career). I guess you can argue baseball is a bit different because there’s less time for cardio training etc. when you play every day for 6 months, but there’s still the off-season and the way he’s lost weight over this last winter suggests to me he could (and probably therefore should) have done that earlier in his career.
This applies to the likes of Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard et al too…
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions
well, Hamilton is complaining about Berk's dedication
when, outside 2010, he was actually pretty ridiculously good. Why complain about his dedication if his OPS is top-10? I don’t see a justification. I’ve got to think that the guy OPSing .950+ knows how to prepare himself to hit a baseball, whatever his physical appearance.
sounds like cards fans circa 02-03
complaining about JD Drew
except the whole health and conditioning being two different things
You basically sidestepped my point, though.
If he was as fit as Pujols, maybe he’d have been as good as Pujols, and an inner-circle HOFer, instead of “merely” an excellent player whilst in Houston.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 29, 2011 6:02 AM EDT up reply actions
the ladies call it "huggable"
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
"got no future here now"
They’ll have a Berkman day when he retires… I don’t think he was ever going to have his number retired, although Houston badly lowered the bar by honoring Jimmy Wynn and Jose Cruz.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
the number retiring thing is interesting;
In 10 (and a bit) years as an astro he hit .299/.412/.555 OPS+ of 147, 350+ doubles, 300+ HRs and 1000+ RBI. The numbers are there it just depends on how long (and whereabouts) his career goes on. If he gets another 3-4 years out of his body then he might be less remembered for his time in Houston, if he calls it quits in 2012 or even 2013 and still has a good rapport with the Astros then 17could well wind up on a wall somewhere in Houston.
you're
In pretty much any other era he's a borderline HOFer I think,
if he has a couple more solid years at the end of his career. He had a REALLY good peak as a hitter, one of the best in baseball for nearly a decade, and has always been a surprisingly good defender for a big guy. Unfortunately, he’s happened to share an era with a bunch of other guys who put up gaudy power numbers (many of whom did so in a “questionable” atmosphere of PED use) so I guess he’ll probably get lost in the shuffle a bit.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
For fun...
Read the Amazon reviews of his book.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
heh
Message to Milo: maybe all those teams that fired you were trying to tell you something. This book reeks with self-pity and self-promotion. Having endured Milo’s tenure with the Braves, I’m not surprised at the tone of this book. Milo couldn’t get along with Hank Aaron, who never had an unkind word for anyone. But apparently Milo felt Hank’s little home run chase was overshadowing….Milo. If he’s still working, I’m glad it’s with the Astros, where he has limited influence and exposure.
burns all around.
apparently MIlo
missed when Lance tried to go back to Houston in the off season and they had no intrest. oh and then there that whole knee surgery thing.
i lived in houston for a bit, hated listening to Stros games…their even more homers than most guys
This guys so good(Pujols) He should be illegal-Pirates announcers
the big news today
seems to be that we face bud norris and lance returns to houston for the first time as an opponent.
i’ll be back as a VEB regular next week. until then, finals and the end of my freshman year of college await.
good luck!
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
Good luck on your exams, zoomzoom.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
Get out now...
and count yourself lucky you’ll only have 1/4 the debt of your peers. Truck driving can be very rewarding. Load up the ipod with your favorite podcasts, get a shih tzu to keep you company, an assortment of greenies. That’s the career of the future.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
by guayzimi on Apr 26, 2011 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
those things are dog crack.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
He must be albums that have to do with green. You know, for his ipod.
Like the Green Album. And Pet Sounds. And the works of Al Green.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
by mattybobo on Apr 26, 2011 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ah, freshman year
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
real students post throughout their final week of class and finals.
by stlcardinalsfang on Apr 26, 2011 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I honestly think I had an easier college experience than 99% of students
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
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that other 1% was your football team, right?
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yes
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
i know, wtf
i’ve been posting like i always have and i’ve only missed on game this season. got 100 on the math test i took today, too
and holy crap she grades tests quickly. i was sitting in the class after that and dude looks over at me and says “she’s got grades posted”
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
you can get partial credit, i think
i wish my calculus professor followed the same logic, though. still waiting on grades from a test i took a week ago
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
I post during finals
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions
shut up and get more A's
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions
i would have to take more classes to get more As!
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
that's cute
I remember my first beer
Blaine Matthew Burns: Albert Pujols' biggest fan (his first words will for sure be "Albert Pujols is RIDICULOUS")
by STLRegalia on Apr 26, 2011 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
my first year consisted of no sleep, community college, working almost every night, and partying after that
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I lasted about six weeks my first try.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
two of my friends that went to SIU in the mid 90s fared similarly!
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
amateurs
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
just gotta get through it
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatever the hell it is, it's controlling his brain...
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110424&content_id=18218818&vkey=&c_id=mlb
Manager Tony La Russa emphasized on Sunday that the condition that has bothered him for the past week or so is the result of a non-contagious virus, and not “pinkeye” or conjunctivitis, as has been reported on MLB.com and elsewhere. He continues to feel and look better each day.
If I had a nickel for every time I procrastinate, I'd be so rich that I probably wouldn't be procrastinating anymore.
You would think TLR would go along with the "pink eye" thing even if it wasn't what was ailing him.
“All post-game press conferences are cancelled indefinitely. I have a rare condition of permanent pink eye and you wouldn’t want me to infect you all.”
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
it can't be infectious if he was still in the dugout
and he looked quite well sunday
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
how can a virus be non-contagious
unless it was genetically engineered for him
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
that's what they keep telling me
I mean, what are the possible vectors for something like that? and they’re not communicable?
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
Shingles is the chickenpox virus.
It was dormant and it reactivated in his system. The only people it could be contagious to are those who haven’t had chickenpox or been vaccinated against it.
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
aha
gotcha. so it isn’t strictly “non-contagious”, that’s what threw me off
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
Right.
I don’t know why they just don’t say he has shingles. Lots of people get it. It’s not like he has gonorrhea of the face or something.
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
And medically speaking
Shingles and Chickenpox are a form of Herpes. Learned that in Paramedic class a few weeks ago.
2011 MLB All Star Game FanFest: July 8-12 at the Phoenix Convention Center!
i didn't know that
some information is just not relevant to my life
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
Lots of things I know aren't relevant to my life per se.
I just soak up random knowledge.
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
that's fair
i’m not really good at what’s supposedly common knowledge anyway
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
i could build RAM from scratch, though!
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
Bourn vs. Yadi should be really fun.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
Need our pitchers to keep him close, too
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
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yeah cause Kmac was letting guys have huge leads
This guys so good(Pujols) He should be illegal-Pirates announcers
I was totally expecting a Cy Norris vs Cardinals career retrospective
threw me for a loop, dan!
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 1:55 PM EDT reply actions
Bud Norris career vs. Cardinals: 5-1, 2.27 ERA
Bud Norris vs. all other teams: 11-13, 5.09 ERA
sorry, thats all i got.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
bah, this year Bud Norris will have no power over our lineup
i predict
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
But like a 5.65 ERA in his last two starts.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
regression is annoying
but will he regress to his career line vs cards, or continue to regress to Bud?
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions
he's really not that bad
we, for some reason, have this collective idea that he’s some terrible pitcher who somehow always pitches better against us. Up to this season, he’s been a slightly above-average pitcher overall. There would be plenty of weirder guys to be dominated by.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
there it is
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I absolutely love to follow the Cardinals minor league system. Love it.
But holy hell, can we please get some hitters down on the farm! Oscar Tavares is out with a pulled hamstring and Zack Cox hasn’t done much so far. Ryan Jackson seems to be playing over his head. Matt Adams and Matt Carpenter have started to come around but neither intrigue me all too much.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
but Matt Carpenter is super highly rated by VEB in the prospects ranking system
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
We're missing that guy that we all have to follow on a daily basis.
Oscar Tavares might be that guy when he comes back. Zack Cox will probably start hitting for extra bases at some point, but until then, there is no one else. Boring. At least the pitching part of the box scores are fun to look at though.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
How about Ryan Jackson?
The slick-fielding shortstop who’s hitting .375/.446/.500 in AA?
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
its not that he's not worth following...
its that you’d have to be foolish to expect him to produce like that for a full season.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
he's a half-step up from Kozma anway...
Jackson becomes very intriguing if he continues to hit. If he regresses back towards last season’s Quad Cities/Palm Beach numbers then…yeah he’s not worth following. He’d be just another disappointing MIF prospect with not much value to the big club or to other teams….just like Kozma or Tyler Greene. I’d love to see one of the 3 really take charge and assert themselves as the SS of the future, though.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
unless i'm missing something
he profiles as an upgrade defensively from kozma, and has hit average or better for the last calendar year, something kozma has never done. I’d say he’s clearly the front-runner for SS of the future at this point.
I wouldn't use the word "clearly",
I’d say Tyler Greene has basically no chance.
Peter Kozma hasn’t done anything to enhance his chances.
Ryan Jackson hitting well for a couple weeks in AA means pretty much nothing. Its not like he was lighting up A-ball and making an impact throughout his climb. He’s a guy with a good glove who has been hot for a couple weeks to start the season. Lets hope it continues, I for one, don’t think it’ll amount to much. Hope I’m wrong. Personally, I think we’ll continue to trot out the Ryan Theriot’s, David Eckstein’s, and Cesar Izturis’s of the world for many more years unless they land someone new through the draft.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Count me as a Ryan Jackson non-believer also
It’s an intriguing start to the year, and he probably has to be seen as a genuine prospect again given he’s done it at AA, but he has an absolutely FREAKISH BABIP, even for MiLB. He doesn’t need to hit much to be useful at the major league level, given he’s reportedly an above-average SS defender, but I think Cesar Izturis (from the right side) might be a fair comp. Still, that wouldn’t be too bad – Izturis was just about league average for a year or two, and if you get that out of (I think, from memory?) a 5th round pick, it’s got to be a win.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I completely agree with everything you're saying
which I think makes me a Jackson believer — the only difference is that I think his ceiling may be a bit higher, based on his walk rate and how he has seemingly improved as he’s progressed up the system.
I suppose I'm saying I think he'll turn into the sort of player
you can get on the FA market for about $1m or so, like Punto or (I guess) Greene will be. Which is fine, but it doesn’t really save you much money or have much value.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 29, 2011 6:05 AM EDT up reply actions
He's always had a good glove.
He dropped to the fifth round because of his liability at the plate. Now, he’s had a hot start, but we’re talking about a guy who’s never played at that level for more than a week in Rookie or A ball. Sure, if he could be a .300/.375/.440 guy in AA he becomes a prospect to watch. But I don’t think he’s someone who’s going to do that, just based on reading his scouting reports and watching him play a couple of times.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
Put it this way
If we had any GOOD SS prospects, Ryan Jackson wouldn’t even be playing in Springfield. Such is the state of our middle infielders on the farm since we traded away Adam Kennedy 10+ years ago.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
he may not ever be on a top-50 prospect list
but a great glove at SS and a .359 OBP in his first full season is worth our attention, hot start this season or not. To me he profiles as our best middle infield prospect at this point.
Well sure
But that’s like going to a used car lot that’s next to a salvage yard and asking to see the “best car on the lot”. It’s probably not a slightly used Cadillac.
He probably is our best middle infield prospect. Because we have 0 middle infield prospects.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
meh. now we're playing "what is a prospect"
if Jackson finishes this season with that same .359 OBP and good walk rate at AA, I think he’s on the Cards’ top-10 list.
Well sure
because he’s a SS and if he can hit with a .310 wOBA he’s all but got himself a roster spot.
But that doesn’t mean he’s any good and it CERTAINLY doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be actively looking to improve that spot in our minor league system. Look, if he was a true “prospect” than he’s a guy you expect to hit arbitration hearings at the big league level. I’ve yet to see him be good enough over more than a couple of weeks to even merit having that kind of conversation.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m rooting for the kid. But he’s not a guy who I could definitively say: “Yup, we’ve got a future MLB regular on our hands there”.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
Answer this question:
Would Ryan Jackson being in your farm system keep you from signing a 30 year old veteran SS who’s been average his whole career (think David Eckstein) to a 3 year contract this offseason?
I sure as hell hope the answer is no. And if it’s Yes, then explain yourself.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
so that's how you define good?
MLB roster construction hypotheticals involving a prospect who has played 16 games at AA and is not yet 23?
The guy’s got a real chance of making the bigs at this point. That’s enough for me to think he’s a good prospect, and I’m going to leave it at that.
Ummm. . . no
Good field, no hit guys like him are a dime a dozen in the minors.
by SouthsideCardsFan on Apr 26, 2011 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough, I suppose
although putting up a 366 OBP as a 22 year old in low-A isn’t the rarest or most impressive performance in the world.
by SouthsideCardsFan on Apr 26, 2011 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
no, but it's not bad enough that we should just dismiss him like a dime a dozen
especially not as far as his start in AA is concerned.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
you have a particularly high threshold for what makes a prospect
hmmm, maybe I’ll do a fourstick-style AppealToAuthority©
I think almost all, if not all, professional prospect evaluators would consider Ryan Jackson to be a prospect.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
I keep hearing that he's been able to play defense, as SS, at the major league level already
I think that alone makes him some kind of prospect. If those reports are true, he could at least be a cheap back up middle infielder today. That’s not worth a ton, but it’s worth something.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
And if he can hit a little
Or hit good enough for a short stop, then all of a sudden he’s a cheap option as a starter potentially. Obviously he’s not going to keep up hitting almost .400, and it’s at AA. But still. It’s something to watch.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
Well, sure
But if he can actually hit well, after adjusting his swing (or approach or whatever it was he is doing differently), after everyone assumed he was all-glove, he’s suddenly a really exciting prospect. So it’s fun to follow.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
this is Jocketty fault
I’m sure of it.
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
actually, i kinda hope we don't just draft a bunch of hitters this year because it's an organisational need
the draft looks REALLY strong on pitching and I still think we should go down the “draft the best player available” rationale, although I agree that a couple of exciting hitters would make the farm a bit more interesting. I also really hope we don’t pick up too many low-ceiling-bullpen-y type guys, because we seem to have a ton of those right now (not that that’s a bad thing, but I don’t see people like Joe Kelly and Seth Blair having a ton of trade value in the future).
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
also to add to your list
Cody Stanley – I don’t think he’s going to be the next Brian McCann or anything but I think he profiles as a possible above-average catcher, which is useful given that I think Yadi will be more or less finished as a starter in the 2-3 years it’ll take him to get to the majors.
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I think we should nearly always draft
the “best player available”. The teams that do this seem to be the ones that have the best farm systems.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
the Red Sox draft last year was sick.
to hell with the slotting system, and just literally draft the best guy each time. They ended up with like 5 possible first-round-type talents IIRC…
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
It's a lot cheaper to pay guys big, one-time signing bonuses then to overspend long-term with free agents
Obviously it’s not exactly a total either/or, but it pays to spend on the draft.
Albert Pujols does not have "down" years. He has "~6 WAR" years.
Does Schalke stand a chance against ManU?
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Yeah there are plenty
The Daily Wiz is their SBN blog
The Sporting Way is the official team blog, which is actually really good
They both have blogrolls, where you can check out other ones
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Don't ask me
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I would have gone with:
“Nobody beats us, because we’re the Wiz! We’re the Wiz!”
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by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No more Seinfeld references with the name change
Curse you owners!
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No.
Well, on paper Man U ought to be vastly superior and they are clear favourites. Schalke have played terribly in the Bundesliga but have played well in Europe. Classic SSS situation. Yes, they walked all over Inter but that could be deceptive.
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Yep
Neuer’s absolute class
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And honestly, ManU is perfectly fine with a 0-0 away result
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Sounds like a thrilling game.
Pass-pass-pass-pass-pass-pass-pass…
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes let's make assumptions about a game that we're not even watching
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Ugh, chances yes.
Goals, no. This is a frustrating game. Wierdly only two or even one of the chances have been actual misses, Neuer was just ridiculous in the 1st half.
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Why Neuer is awesome
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Soccer would be a lot more interesting...
if they added an extra foot on the goal all the way around.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
It's so clearly the right thing to do...
I can’t believe it hasn’t already happened. If you just watch five minutes of a soccer game the thing that jumps out is how ludicrously hard it is to score.
A pro soccer game should average about 6 goals a game. That’s one every 15 minutes – enough to prevent me from going to take a leak if I care about the teams. They should widen the goal until the average hits 6.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
I think the sport's done okay for itself just the way it is
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This strikes me as a sort of silly argument
I could just as easily say that I find baseball too boring and they should move in the fences/shorten the basepaths until teams average a combined 20 runs per game.
I don’t see how me wanting more scoring makes it “so clearly the right thing to do.”
1.5 goals per 90 minutes...
versus 8 runs per 9 innings. Lots more stuff happens in baseball.
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Define "stuff"
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Soccer has all three of those things.
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by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
What you're actually saying is
Lots more stuff that I find interesting happens in baseball.
If fast-paced scoring was the only interesting thing to watch in a sporting event, both baseball and soccer would basically be fucked.
You don’t like watching the jousting and ball movement and positioning that takes up most of a soccer match (for the record, I don’t either). That hardly suggests to me that the sport should be changed, it just means you don’t like the sport much.
This kind of argument...
basically nullifies any basis ever for changing anything about a sport. You could trot this out anytime someone suggests a rule change.
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In most top european leagues there's an average of 2.5-3 goals per 90 minutes.
and, even as a baseball fan who doesn’t care much for soccer, I’d argue that a lot of the stuff that goes on in between the scoring can be more interesting in soccer.
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions
i think in baseball
a pitcher’s duel is a lot more interesting than a zip-zip soccer game. It’s because when there’s a pitcher’s duel, we can very clearly see someone succeed: the pitchers. and there’s big swinging Ks that make you say “Oh shit, that was nasty!”
There are great defensive plays in soccer too but too often, it just seems like both sides failing.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
I think this is why...
they don’t revamp the horribly unfair way of allocating the talent. If you took all the players in the UK league, or the Spain league and spread them across all the teams, you’d have suckfest after suckfest. Instead they bunch all the good players together and then those few teams become borderline interesting to watch.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
Then watch the Champions League
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i mean, my eye is pretty much always on the offensive team
soccer defense is sorta boring to watch
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
That would do nothing for the interestingness of the game
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...Right
So was his statement.
In fact, most of what I type on here is my opinion!
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it might not make it a better game
but I have a hard time believing that if the goal were a foot wider that it wouldn’t be more interesting, at least in the short run
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I guess so
But basketball would be more interesting if the hoop were 11 feet tall
And football would be more interesting if the field was shorter
And baseball would be more interesting with shorter fences
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We should just let everyone use steroids!
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by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
goal keepers should really only be able to use one arm
bind the other one up
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Baseball would be more interesting
if the OF wall was at the end of the IF dirt, by that logic.
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baseball WOULD be more interesting if home plate were a triangle
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fyp
There isn’t in soccer to appeal to people like me
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Apples and washing machines
the sports are incomparable. Football doesn’t have a scoring problem, it has an appreciation problem (in America)
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This
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The game especially sucks on TV...
because you can’t see what everyone is doing. There are too many closeups. If they don’t score and you can’t see the whole picture, what are you looking at? A bunch of guys flopping around and failing 99% of the time.
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Sigh
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Get an HDTV
Soccer has been much more fun to watch since I’ve had HD.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
I obviously can't speak for every broadcaster ever
but over here alot of the game is shown at a pretty wide angle most of the time. Closeups are usually on replays etc. Its pretty comprable to the angle of most baseball games, behind the pitcher. You can see the important parts of the game. Who cares what the opp. goalie is doing when its a corner?
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I don't want to claim guayzimi's point as my own but
let me try and re-frame it.
I consider myself a casual fan of sports in general. I watch baseball and MMA avidly. I’ll watch tennis, hockey, football, golf and basketball casually (in that order). I don’t watch soccer. Ever.
The announcers have never given me an appreciation for what is going on. I don’t understand what the players who aren’t actively pursuing the ball are doing. I find the lack of scoring to be mercilessly boring.
If soccer is looking to expand their viewership in America they should be targeting people like me. While that doesn’t necessarily mean that the goal should be a foot bigger, I feel like soccer announcers, MLS and/or the Premier league suck at reaching me, the causal sports fan. That’s soccer’s problem in America, imo — part of it is the game seems boring, which I blame on the low scoring environment and part of it is that the game seems inaccessible, which I blame on soccer in whatever organized form it takes.
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by azruavatar on Apr 26, 2011 7:26 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
hmmm....
In regards to your first point, thats really true of any sort of sports broadcasting, when i first started watching baseball i had very little idea what was going on and the commentators did not really help (admittedly they were usually ESPN guys but whatever). I had to sit with a wikipedia page open so i knew what the stats that were flashing up on screen were and wtf a ‘walk’ was.
The other problem is a general lack of soccer education. What i mean by that is, is FIFA (world football governing body) is not looking to expand into N. America, hence the lack of understanding. Commentators aren’t being instructed to make the sport more accessible, they are talking to their fanbase. The same criticism applies to football as it is shown here though; the difference is that 95% of us know the sport inside out, as Americans know baseball, American Football etc inside out.
On the ‘boring’ front. Part of that is the quality of the MLS, which is frankly dire. The quality isn’t there, most MLS players wouldn’t be in the second division of most European leagues let alone the top leagues. But, this ties into the other issue i mentioned. FIFA is in no way interested in letting the better players move to American leagues and players most certainly aren’t. I know there was a big thing about Beckham, but he was already past his best, as is Thierry Henry. Both excellent players but only moved to MLS to pick up pay cheques cause they were no longer good enough for the european game.
I know there is a big disconnect with the european obsession and the N. American obliviousness and thats a shame. I’ve grown up with soccer and it makes it hard for me to see the ‘boring’ or the ‘inaccessible’. As much as i wish that everyone appreciated the game as much as i do, i know thats pretty unrealistic.
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On the ‘boring’ front. Part of that is the quality of the MLS, which is frankly dire.
FWIW, I actually have thought for a while that the quality of MLS is unfairly denigrated over here. I think you could easily be watching an English Championship game, and most sides are maybe equivalent to mid-table SPL teams or teams in the top leagues of the “non-England, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain and France” nations of Europe.
Otherwise I basically agree with all your points.
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 29, 2011 6:10 AM EDT up reply actions
in any case, we agree that baseball is more interesting
otherwise, what the hell are we doing here all the time?
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
I find baseball and soccer equally interesting in completely different ways
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whatever, rui
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
by purple_haze on Apr 26, 2011 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is that not a valid viewpoint?
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if I had an internship dedicated to watching and appreciating a sport, i would probably appreciate that sport more too
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
You realize I used to play soccer and was a fan before 2 weeks ago, right?
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i wonder if you would have called them equally interesting before two weeks ago, though
no biggie, it’s a fine viewpoint.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
i too enjoy el futbol
except Alianza Lima hasn’t been any good in a long time. But I watch all the Argentine National team games.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
I certainly have less access to watching soccer
But I’ve always held the idea that baseball is science and soccer is music. Both beautiful in their own right
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if baseball is science and soccer is music,
what’s hand-egg?
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A sport that I kind of like but don't care enough to make up elegant analogies for
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not going to lie
I think I scoffed out loud at the baseball is science and soccer is music statement
what is your fiancee – the earth?
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by stlcardsfan4 on Apr 27, 2011 3:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Ahem; i'm probably the only guy here who is
football (soccer) first and baseball second. But its close.
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I think JD is a pretty big soccer fan
I’m not hugely interested TBH. Baseball and cricket are my two favourite sports. I get really into the 6 Nations Rugby too.
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 29, 2011 6:14 AM EDT up reply actions
soccer would be more interesting. . .
maybe if they allowed offsides and you had to be accountable for the other team’s players? I don’t know, I can’t stand soccer. But, this is the most annoying part for me when I do get stuck watching it.
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No, that would just encourage cherry picking
Which makes the game less exciting for you Americans
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I think that's a false argument
you don’t see cherry picking in basketball
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Because there are only 5 players in basketball being occupied by 5 other players, generally
In soccer, there are always 3-5 guys away from the action
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I still don't think cherry picking would be that big of a problem
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I disagree. Offsides is the one thing I dislike.
Don’t want a guy behind you? Don’t let him get behind you, jerk.
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The one thing I dislike is offsides on a deflected shot
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if offside literally didn't exist in any form whatsoever, the game would be changed immeasurably
you could just literally put three or four players on the other team’s goalkeeper and hoof the ball into the penalty area. I think it’d reduce the skill quotient and turn it into some sort of weird penalty area ruck-fest.
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't have any problems with soccer as it is right now
But I do think that you could allow on player offsides and not completely change the game. It would open up the middle of the field as you’d have to have one of your backs marking the opposing teams striker virtually man for man all the time.
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not sure i understand what that means
as in, you should be allowed one player in an offside position, but no more?
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by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd like it more with cherry picking
cherry picking in soccer/hockey is not the same as basketball. You still have to beat the goalie. I love watching the one on ones in hockey when a guy gets a breakaway.
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That still happens in soccer
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and it happens in hockey too
but it would happen more frequently in my version of soccer.
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
Also, what's with not using your hands?!?!
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actually, I'd like both soccer and hockey a whole lot more
if the offsides rule was changed
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What basis do you have for saying that?
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What basis does he have for having an opinion?
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I think it slows down the game when it doesn't have to
I would have loved playing a lot more if there were no offsides
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I'd like to see no offsides when the ball is inside the top of the Penalty Box extended.
The defense is packing all 11 players (and a section of fans) into the box anyway, serves them right if an offender sneaks in behind all of them.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
Soccer would be a lot more interesting
with a flag pole in the middle of the field
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and put spikes on it!
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Aw man, that should've been posted like 3 hours ago
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has a picture of ferris wheel been posted to this thread yet?
would've.
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might as well post one in every argument on VEB ever
we love circles almost as much as that guy… you know that ancient greek one that loved circles. Not Pythagoras, the other one.
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Sorry I'm not too well versed in the world of gay fashion.
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by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions
double dip?
danup, I have to ask: being that you are a student of creative writing, and that this sort of post is so obviously remarkably creative writing, are you using these posts for homework assignments too? Of course my opinion will not change if you say yes, but I am VERY curious to know whether any one outside of VEB gets it….
Considering what goes for "good sportswriting"
I would have to agree with this.
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I take it back, Walt Jocketty!
I guess he didn’t always trade away our prospects for older vets. Thank Gobs. Via Goold:
former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin sat in a back corner and told me how he expected to be a Cardinals someday, someway (4). In 1998, Larkin reportedly asked for a trade and the Cardinals were in, out and in the mix for his services. At one point, GM Walt Jocketty spoke with the Reds about Larkin, but they wanted J. D. Drew and Rick Ankiel in return for the All-Star shortstop.link
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Jesus
Aim high
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions
i wonder if Gms ever just laugh
after a call like that. Be like Good one haha.. later
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We'll throw in that, plus ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
what type of 34 yr olds?
depends on the sport
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Probably 34 year old short stops playing baseball considering the context of his question.
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i think lark at 34 was iffy
and in most sports it might be a gamble
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in sports not in real life
Kobe is 32, and the media is saying he’s dwindling(but hes played since 18)
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Dwindling?
I’d say he’s a bit past his prime, but he’s certainly not dwindling.
He doesn’t have the rise on his jump shot anymore, but he’s skilled enough offensively that he’ll be able to play at a reasonably high level until he’s 35 or 36 I would guess.
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i think he's got years left
Im saying what Ive heard from media….his Knees would be the key point. at least in baseball u could DH
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But you still have to have skills to DH too, they can't have faded completely.
I think you can “DH” in basketball — look at the way that the Spurs have used Duncan this season. Or the way the Stockton and Malone hung around WAY past their primes to be effective players. If you have a good skill set and IQ, you can get by when you can no longer do certain things physically.
If you’re Allen Iverson, you can’t. Your entire game revolves around getting your shot off in traffic and being the fastest guy on the floor. When that goes, it’s gone. And you’re done.
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See: Derrick Rose in 15 years
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See:
Every elite PG in the history of the game itself. Stockton being the lone exception, and mostly because Jerry Sloan’s system played perfectly into what he did well, and he was never a “superstar” that had to carry a team.
Which always makes me wonder how Magic would have aged had he not been forced to retire. I think seeing him as a point forward on this mid-90’s Lakers teams would have been really interesting. He wouldn’t have brought the ball up as much, but he could still dictate the entire game in the half court and knock down open jump shots. Plus, with his post-up abilities, he could have morphed into a punishing mid-post small forward.
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Jason Kidd's managed to stay effective
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No he's not
Go watch Jason Kidd from 2003. Then watch THIS Jason Kidd. It’s not even the same player, it’s not even CLOSE to being the same player .
He’s Derek Fisher now: he runs the offense, sets up good shots with his passing, and knocks down open threes. He can’t beat anyone off the dribble, he can’t get up and down the floor like the did in his prime. The only thing that’s saved him is that he’s morphed into a moderate to very good 3 point shooter so you can’t double off of him, and that’s a transition that he started making in New Jersey. But he could not do what, say, Ty Lawson does for the Nuggets, and that’s what Jason Kidd was in his prime.
To his credit, he’s made a transition that very few players, including HOF level talents like Gary Payton and Tiny Archibald, couldn’t make.
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If you take this Jason Kidd
and put him on those Nets teams, they really struggle to score any points at all. Go look at their roster for those years — filled with a bunch of cruddy offensive players, good defenders, and Jason Kidd, who single handedly created offense for everyone. There’s no way he could do that anymore, he’s a defensive liability that has to be hidden against other good point guards, and he’s not capable of running in transition for a full game anymore.
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At least he has against the Blazers.
And it makes me really, really sad. :(
by mattisnotfrench on Apr 26, 2011 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
but boy is he fun to watch now
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Agreed
With the amount he’s improved over his first three seasons in the league, it’s scary to think of what his soon-to-be-arriving prime is going to bring if he can stave off injury.
Not only that, but Chicago has built a team that’s in complete harmony with his skill set. You have a great defensive roster, three different pick-and-roll forwards (Boozer, Deng, Gibson) and shooters like Korver and Deng. All they’re missing now is a knock down shooter that can play defense on other 2 guards and they’re really set. If they had Ray Allen this season they would have won 70 games.
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The same could be said for undersized players like Barkley.
he got by because he was a great athlete. But once he couldn’t rise up and run the floor anymore, he faded in a hurry.
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maybe baseballs different,
i remebering thinking Aggasi was old, but he’s not…media twists stuff and in certain sports whats considered old might be relative
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There isn't a single sport where 34 isn't at least on the downside of your career.
most sports you’re well past your peak, especially if we’re truly post-steroids.
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Golf
Might be the exception. I think there are a number of golfers who have done quite well post 34.
Play well, yes, but not their peak.
Jack only had 4 of his 18 majors after that age. Tiger has officially hit the wall now.
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Well I can't do simple math today. Jack fell off after 36.
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All I can think of are anecdotes
Because I’m too lazy to do any research on golfers, but Singh and Watson and O’Meara were good later in their careers.
And Mickelson has won just about all his majors after age 34.
In fact, the only one he won prior to that was his first, the ’04 Masters, at age 33.
Vijay, Tom Watson, Gary Player, etc. were all very good players after their 34th birthday as well.
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By, the way, I'm humoring everyone in even considering it a sport, but whatever.
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How is golf not a sport?
It requires physical acuity. If it isn’t a sport than there are only maybe 4-6 actual “sports”, and baseball probably isn’t one of them.
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being an opera singer requires physical acuity.
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I'll agree with that last part.
I love golf. There’s nothing wrong with not being a sport.
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In my universe
Sports:
Soccer
Hockey
Basketball
Rugby
American Sports:
Baseball
Football (it’s a real sport if everyone played both ways)
Hobbies, Activities, and other Awesome Things:
Everything else
Driving a Car:
Driving a Car
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("Athletics" should fall under Awesome Things as well)
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Golf is a game
A sport requires defense.
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
That's subjective
Chess requires defense, but isn’t a sport.
Swimming is most definitely a sport but doesn’t require defense. Cycling, same thing.
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A sport also requires some sort of athleticism
so chess isn’t a sport.
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
I didn't say that Chess was a sport
And I stand by my points about swimming, cycling, track and field, skiing, etc. NONE of those require defense. But curling and shuffleboard do.
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i hear a dozen definitions for sport all the time
i go with: physical ability + objective scoring. Chess is out, no physical ability. Gymnastics is out, no objective scoring.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
you can time a run
and measure a jump.
if there are judges giving their opinion, that’s not a sport.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
So, by this definition,
auto racing is a sport, but gymnastics is not.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
I say neither
Auto racing doesn’t contain enough defense or require enough athletic ability.
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
any definition of sport that does not include a foot race, the most primal and basic of sports
is a definition that should be revised.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
Tennis?
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So foot race = just running?
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Ah, I see now
Nevermind
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when auto racing has the last lap on foot
i’ll consider it a sport
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
Particularly when the leaders park their cars and start running
but other drivers are still going around the track trying to reach the last lap
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
yes, the pure carnage that would be possible is what would make it wonderful
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
You mean like
this?
Stupid UCL's.
by Bring Back Tommy Herr! on Apr 26, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't watch it.
Is it from Talladega Nights?
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
You've obviously never driven a race car for any appreciable length of time.
by RollBirdsRoll on Apr 26, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Just go do a 30 lap race at the nearest go kart track,
and see how you feel the next day.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
it's not a sport if you sit on your ass
it’s just not
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
so, crew? not a sport?
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. --Albert Einstein
it's not a sport if you sit on your ass and something else provides the energy
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
when race car drivers start going Fred Fuckin' Flintstone
then it’ll be a sport
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
i mean, if you think auto-racing crosses the threshold of "physical ability"
i don’t just mean hand-eye coordination or reflexes. Video games are not a sport, either.
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
WOAH
you crossed the line with that video game comment.
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
I'll give you video games if you give me pinball.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
I think this goes here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8gu9mTkjq4
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
some golfers peak in their 30s
I don’t know much about golf, but I think I’d be right in citing Mark O’Meara and Vijay Singh as examples?
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Tiger Woods climaxed at 33, 34, 35...
Hell, he’s probably climaxing right now.
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Meh.
I don’t think he’s done yet as an elite player. The question is whether these young long hitters like McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, etc. are going to be able to overpower courses the way that he used to and keep him from winning any more majors.
Can Colby round out our new MV3?
Sense of humor, fourstick!
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I don't think so either.
It was a sex joke.
But being serious…I think there are players on tour that are as talented or more talented than Tiger is right now but the real question is whether they have “it”. “It” is the “fuck the world, I’m winning everything” attitude that made Tiger so great and caused fellow golfers to wilt.
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
WE ONLY HAVE A FINITE NUMBER OF TOWELS PEOPLE
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
i agree, but guayzimi
seemed shocked for some reason. Sports dont reflect real life though.
This guys so good(Pujols) He should be illegal-Pirates announcers
only if you go through the cardinals page first.
its weird…he’s like right at the border of qualifying….i think he’s short like .3 PA’s
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Must have a minimum of 3.1 plate appearances per team game.
The Cardinals have played 22 games, so Holliday is short by .2 PAs.
Whatever sense that makes…
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Which is why he's not clutch.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Apr 26, 2011 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, he's got 68 PAs.
He needs 68.2 PAs to qualify.
Tonight, he’ll be qualified.
I just guaranteed a Norris no-hitter.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
maybe he should go count his money until he qualifies...
(please know I am kidding…)
Mike Shannon: "That strikeout was brought to you by...by...well, I don't know what it was brought to you by!"
John Rooney: "It wasn't brought to you by anything Mike."
interesting piece about Bullpen management by Leach
Alot of quotes from La Russa
“If you’ve got a bunch of left-handed hitters and you’ve got a left-handed reliever, you might get your closer in the eighth inning and the left-hander gets them in the ninth,” La Russa said. “I’ve done that before, with [Rick] Honeycutt. But the bullpen works when guys have, as best you can, identified roles, and you pitch them to their roles.”
so Boggs is TLR’s man for the 9th?
you're
well yeah
Just sshhh. We aint saying it yet. Honestly I think he doesn’t name the closer so it will be easier to swap in someone else if he struggles a bit.
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
He's Duncan's, apparently...well, probably...okay, just maybe
After Sunday night’s game, pitching coach Dave Duncan confirmed that Boggs was the team’s primary closer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Joe Strauss reports.
Recommendation: Since Ryan Franklin was demoted from the closer role Tuesday, Boggs has done nothing but impress. Sunday’s save against the Reds was Boggs’ third of the week in as many tries. “I think you present an opportunity and let results take you where they take you,” Duncan said.
Take the vagueness and unicorns for what they’re worth.
Is there an easy way of deleting all the files
and uninstalling all the programs off a computer? (Except the OS)
you're
The best way though is to format and reinstall os
by FlimtotheFlam on Apr 26, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Know any tech support guys within your company?
They can always put a fresh image on your laptop.
by Ghostrider520 on Apr 26, 2011 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Lineup for the post-Pujols Era
Theriot SS, Jay RF, Holliday LF, Berkman 1B, Rasmus CF, Molina C, Punto 2B, Descalso 3B, Garcia P
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
Oooohhhh
Interesting
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I'd sure like this better with Freese in and Craig healthy.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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Why no Freese, I wonder
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Handedness, maybe
Norris has about a 4.65 FIP against lefties and 4.00 against righties
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but denarfia can't hit
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Freese asleep at the wheel in a ditch clinging to an empty fifth of Wild Turkey with a shattered ankle...
is a better hitter than Denorf.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
by guayzimi on Apr 26, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's like a tiny platoon split
most pitchers are more pronounced than that.
I think it’s just the getaway day lineup, bizarrely at the start of the series…
Still bitching to contact.
by Felonius_Monk on Apr 26, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe with Albert out, TLR decided to rest Freese and pin his hopes on Jaime.
Then will deploy the full squadron the rest of the series.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
That's about an average platoon split
And the difference between Freese and Delscaso is a lot more than that of the average platoon split.
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
any word on what happened to APu?
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
hamstring strain
they were calling it “tightness”
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
precautionary
why not let Jay play a little also. good idea
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
that makes me scared
Pujols is out of the lineup the day after an off-day? Is that hamstring okay? Or is TLR taking one of his patented Who Gives a Fuck© days?
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
that's only on the 3rd day of a series
somethin’s up
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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 26, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
eh, I don't think it's surprising for Albert to be out. He said it was a possibility for him to miss a game or two.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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Yeah, it's awful.
So, we’ll probably score like 30 runs.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
Nah.
This is a vintage 2010 lineup trotted out by TLR to keep the Norris mystique alive.
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
this lineup reminds me of last year
not much past rasmus. Lets hope Garcia can get a few hits tonight
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
he's already got his one big hit for the next month or so
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
Isn't your house floating away? What are you doing here?
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
I'm on a hill
if it floods here, everyone has a problem
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
Yeah, I saw Poplar Bluff in the national news.
good luck!
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
We're in the news!
finally!
The last 2 mornings I’ve woke up, looked at the water over my driveway, and called in. I’m not going to take any unnecessary risks
Also, my uncle is famous now!
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
Did your uncle get interviewed on cnn or something?
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
that is my uncle
he’s the county sheriff. The picture was on a foxnews article
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
but defense!
think of the defense!
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
punto, descalso, garcia
barf
If I had a nickel for every time I procrastinate, I'd be so rich that I probably wouldn't be procrastinating anymore.
by hr on Apr 26, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Theriot hasn't been bad
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Theriot is the #6 SS in the majors as far as OBP goes, which is the only offensive stat I care about for him.
Just ahead of Reyes, Escobar, Rollins.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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this reminds me that i am re-reading moneyball
after about 5 years. i understand and appreciate the book so much more now than i did then.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. --Albert Einstein
I haven't read it and don't know if I will.
I keep my baseball reading to the internets, generally.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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oh yeah, I'm sure it is.
Maybe this summer…
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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Theriot and Jay are ok
Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat
by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions
soo...
you bat Jay 5th here?
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
You don't take Freese out...
when Pujols is also out. We made this same mistake when Holliday was out. I’d personally play Freese and Hamilton over Denorf and Jay, but if Jay has to play I’d move Rasmus up and Jay down.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
I think I'd rather see Hamilton at 1B
and keep Jay on the pine
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is hamilton with the team?
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
beats me?
thought he came up when craig and skip went on DL. me might have been moved down without me hearing of it
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Still looks pretty good
Where is Freese?
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by vivaelpujols on Apr 26, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Those ankles can only play about 2 of every 3 games apparently.
Proud member of the Sports Injury Industrial Complex: We feel your pain and it feels good.
This is when we really miss Allen Craig's bat
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If anyone is interested
Here is a video of Keenan w/ Brian Wilson and some other dude
"Defense is important to this team," second baseman Skip Schumaker said.
YouTube sensation
Teenager with a rare growth disorder who lip-syncs to pop songs and records it. People find it hilarious/adorable.
Unless you meant Brian Wilson, in which case he is a person that is attached to the best beard in baseball.
Or unless you meant the other dude, who is Cody Ross, sorta okay outfielder who plays for the Gigantes.
I liked Brian Wilson
until the so utterly annoying beard shit
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
I still like him.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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I hate it when bullshit seems to be more important than skill
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
eh, it's just celebrity. His amuses me.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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the sport doesn't need celebrity
i’d would have been okay with the quirky beard thing, until he had to go and do those stupid effing commercials
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
I don't think it's a question of the sport needing or not needing it.
hell, the world doesn’t “need” the sport. It’s all entertainment. If it entertains you, enjoy it, if not, ignore it like I ignore soccer, nascar and golf.
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I heard VEB doesn't need mattys either.
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
But Brian Wilson is really, really good
I mostly like Wilson because I know that it’s all just an act, and he’s probably a fairly normal dude with a good sense of humor. I appreciate him toying with the media and acting like a fool for my amusement because I think he’s fully conscious of what he’s doing.
Let me rephrase my comment
I like Brian Wilson, the pitcher. I just hate the beard.
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
I'm dying my beard jet black this weekend for a game at US Cellular
I grew one for tax season and decided to keep it until the game…I only wish it was anywhere near as awesome
Blaine Matthew Burns: Albert Pujols' biggest fan (his first words will for sure be "Albert Pujols is RIDICULOUS")
WTF...it's the damned season,
and all we can talk about is soccer and basketball?
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
yesterday was an off day, jerk
we talked about the lineup and AP’s hammy too
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
roaches don't taste nearly as good as lobsters
"Why are you here? You should be mowing Albert Pujols' lawn right now." - Conan O'Brien to TLR, after noting he was in the audience for Bob Costas' benefit show.
She's not a prospect anymore
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink", Watterson
by Solanus on Apr 26, 2011 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
she's like lance berkman
old, cast off, and trying to revive a career by jacking dongs
by BVHeck on Apr 26, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
i know
broke my z key skipping through kicky foot and shooty hoops
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
We decided on bouncy hoop
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that name is even stupider than the sport
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
...meaning rooey decided on bouncy hoop
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, i'll rec it
another supercool hot-tastic DanUp triumph!
In other quite enjoyable news, our favourite hitch-hiker’s current FIP is 0.04. He’s also got 0.4 WAR in 7 IP, if anyone cares about reliever WAR (which I really don’t).
Still bitching to contact.
Also, OT (somewhat) -
Now that Yadi2’s meme-list of about 2 years ago seems to have fallen by the wayside, just when I need it, I have to ask – what’s with the Chris Denorfia meme?!
Still bitching to contact.
there are so few new entries, it may be quicker to do a search for "memesplanation"
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
Now HE looks like a chipmunk.
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
by spants on Apr 26, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If I had photoshop, I'd totally blend Shannon and Brie...
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
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200 new comments from when I left for my 3:30 meeting and got back
I knew the shit had hit the fan in some way or another
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Don't suggest any improvements to the sport of soccer...
It’s perfect in every way.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
Is that seriously what you got from the conversation?
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Yeah...
for the most part the arguments were 1) soccer is fine, you have the problem, and 2)expanding the goal is bad because moving in the wall in baseball would be bad.
Let me ask you this… if, all other things remaining the same, the sport had more shooting and less pass-pass-pass-ball deflected away, AND a few more of those shots went in, wouldn’t the game be more interesting to watch?
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
No
Because the quality of those shots are going to be terrible
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Eh, "is," not "are"
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Oh, I didn't see the second part of that sentence
I don’t think that it would make the game more interesting, but I can certainly see why a lot of American fans would find it more interesting.
Why should the sport change for a tiny amount of the population where it’s been immensely successful in almost every other country for decades?
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I feel like soccer isn't really popular...
because of the sport itself – it’s as if the whole world needed to decide on creating a proxy for war and an outlet for nationalism/sectarianism, and soccer became the agreed upon sport.
Sign Carlos Silva!!!
by guayzimi on Apr 26, 2011 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Doesn't change my argument, really
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in other words
“people are going to watch whether it sucks or not because of the nationalist implications, so fuck it”
I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
More like
“There is no reason to drastically change a game that 95% of the world is perfectly happy with”
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Your argument still stems from the fact that you, personally, don't think soccer is sufficiently interesting to watch
I think peoples’ point is that suggesting that the rules of a major sport should obviously be changed because you personally have a hard time getting excited about it isn’t a particularly compelling argument.
I think I've figured out why most Americans don't like soccer - it's because we're fat, for the most part
We don’t want our athletes to look too trim and fit. It would explain the gradual disinterest in the NBA in the last decade or so.
by peppermartin on Apr 26, 2011 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I might be a touch overweight...
but I don’t like soccer because it is boooorrrinnng aaaassss fffuuuuuuccccckkk. The same reason I don’t watch cycling, poker, marathons, or any olympic event. If people like it thats fine, I’m glad they can find the same joy in something that I find in baseball.
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like one of my favorite books as a child
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by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I knew that's what you were linking to
Whenever I read it to my grandson, I have to do it in Grover’s voice. (Well, actually, his mom (my daughter) and aunt (other daughter) are more insistent than he is about the voice.)
by ArkansasTravs on Apr 28, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I hope Freese isn't also hurt
But if he’s healthy, this lineup makes no sense. Why sit him two games in a row and the day after an off day? Descalso hasn’t been able to hit big league pitching but yet he’s been in the lineup multiple times it seems like in almost every series. I think Tony views him as Aaron Miles 2.0
by mick311 on Apr 26, 2011 6:17 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I'm willing to give him time to prove he doesn't suck
i still don’t want him in the lineup in back to back games
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
gonna have to dust off my proxying skills tonight
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
I've had great luck with that site posted in Flims second fanpost.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
got it first try!
weird cos i had a hell of a time with that game on fox. ended that the game became available before i got it working
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
i've eaten so much fast food in the last week and a half or so
i wonder if my liver is beginning to pickle
fuck it, i’m hungry and don’t feel like going to HEB
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
happy GDM day everyone
well freaking done Dan, my favorite part? why thank you for asking, it’s
Horcrux, could you let me know if you ever had this happen when you were pitching in “The Olden Days”? The hitchhiker showed up tonight and we were going to have to toss him out of the locker room, because nobody’s allowed in there since we’re all naked in there sometimes, but then he walked over to a locker that I swear was empty and pulled out a jersey that said Sanchez on it, and then he said, “Yes—this is my name, now, Sanchez,” and basically I think he’s the ghost of “Pedro” Martinez, come to haunt us after he died in that accident where Shea Stadium collapsed, or something else illegal.
Balls
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not good, not good at all mate
hence the radio silence. i don’t want to be a constant buzz kill, sometimes its best to just keep quite. i’m sure y’all are as sick of my craptastic life as i am so there’s no need to keep beating the dead horse
also, drink up!
Balls
Happy 4/26 day to you, too.
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
I missed a soccer discussion!
Americans suck. Man u>schalke. Ingrown ass hair>Rooney.
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 7:22 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Oh come on
we’re back to the Brandon Phillips argument, as much as you hate the guy, you can’t say he isn’t a good player. Except in Rooney’s case its less Phillips and more 2002 A-Rod
you're
He's good
But nowhere near where some would lead you to believe. Having said that, I wish arsenal had another striker of his caliber. But no him. Because ingrown ass hair>rooney
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 7:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Oh come on, really?
the guy works tirelessly on the pitch. Drops deep, defends well. He can play literally any attacking position, left wing, behind Hernandez or as a lone striker. He can cross, he can head and he can over-head volley past Joe Hart. He is the best player in the Premier League, maybe he’s not Messi (this year), but he is damn, damn good.
you're
Eh, to each his own.
I don’t even think he is the best on his own team(van der Saar)
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 8:31 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Mark Hamilton is never going to get an AB
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update:
16.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB/HBP, 4 ER, 2.27 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Apr 26, 2011 7:26 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Mark Hamilton shouldn't even be on the team
I wonder if Tony is seeing how long he can go without using Greene/Hamilton to see if he can actually make 14 pitchers work when Tallet/Augestein come back.
by mick311 on Apr 26, 2011 7:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm joking, but no, Hamilton is essentially wasting a roster spot right now
and I found it pretty odd he ever got called up in the first place considering he can only play 1 position and is essentially third on the depth chart at first base. So all he offers is the ability to pinch hit off the bench as a left hande…and currently we have plenty off left handed options on the bench. I thought adding Chambers would of made more sense, and I’m not a fan of 13 pitchers, but when Skip and Craig come back, if that means dumping Hamilton and Greene or Descalso to keep Sanchez and Salas then I’m ALL FOR IT!
by mick311 on Apr 26, 2011 7:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
according to Tony via 1120 pregame:
Albert really wanted to play today but the medical staff wouldn’t clear him. He will be available to pinch hit off the bench and should play tomorrow.
by mick311 on Apr 26, 2011 7:40 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
looking forward to seeing what Punto can do at short
this should be an interesting game
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
i'm not gonna say the other stuff i found in there out loud. promise
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
hah, i ain't judging
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
His UZR playing SS is off the charts
His UZR/150 the last 3 years at SS has been 18.9, 5.0, and 22.2
by FlimtotheFlam on Apr 26, 2011 8:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I hope he gets an opportunity to show it off.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
if he can pull a boog
maybe the universe will right itself and the riot will move to second
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
he's walking, but not hitting and his fielding has been bad so far (sss)
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
d-dee, it's interesting. I've long been in that camp as well,
but 2nd actually gets more attempts per year than short. Also, Punto is probably more flexible as far as moving around, so a comfortable Punto at 2nd and a comfortable Theriot at short, even with his weak arm costing at times, actually could be a better D than putting Theriot at 2, as strange as it sounds.
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
FREESE IN, THERIOT OUT.
ALSO OUT: WHITE SHOES, SCARFS
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
new lineup:
Jay
Rasmus
Holliday
Berkman
Freese
Molina
Punto
Descalso
Garcia
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 7:51 PM EDT reply actions
no reason given for Theriot being on bench
by The Ghost of Todd Burns on Apr 26, 2011 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions
NO RIOT?!!!
I have no reason to watch!!!
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
BASEBALL AFTER OFF DAYS
LIFE IS AWESOME
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
aww crap, i got the home feed on accident.
nervous about having to switch feeds. proxy stuff likes to be fickle
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
it's dan and ricky
consider sticking with it
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
i thought i would try clicking on "switch broadcast"
now i’m in a world of trouble
Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter
stream torrent
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
2011: Boog would've count 24
Arent the Astros a local broadcast for you?
"Miller came in from the bullpen with a gan of casoline." - Mike Shannon
gamethread?
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
gamethread here
7-2-5! Craig to Yadi to Descalso!
I am out of the closet as a member of the St. Louis Riot, 2011.
Self-admitted LOY candidate
Auburn Tigers - 2010 National Champions, 2011 Fulmer Cup Champions
by jd is legend on Apr 26, 2011 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
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