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Craig Calcaterra: Francoeur for the All-Star Game

Right field: Jeff Francoeur, Atlanta: Apologies to Justin Upton, but when baseball no longer has a place for the likes of Francoeur, a player so extravagantly talented that he can hold down a major league job despite seemingly having little more idea of what to do with that talent than a tomcat, baseball will no longer be worth watching.

May as well agitate for a contract extension while you’re at it, Tim. Sheesh.

Tripon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 12:53 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. Lazzeri Posted: July 03, 2009 at 03:42 PM (#3241539)

I wish we had thought of this in May. It would have been great to get the baseball blogosphere to RickRoll MLB and vote Jeff Francoeur in as a starter in St. Louis. Hah!

2. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life. Posted: July 03, 2009 at 03:46 PM (#3241543)

What would that accomplish?

3. Coot Veal and Cot Deal Posted: July 03, 2009 at 03:51 PM (#3241549)

In fairness to Craig, the tongue-in-cheek vote for Francoeur was actually from Tim Marchman... Craig's just quoting him in his own piece...

4. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:43 PM (#3241599)

player so extravagantly talented that he can hold down a major league job despite seemingly having little more idea of what to do with that talent than a tomcat

that's not quite right--his real talent was convincing a whole bunch of people that he HAD talent

5. Tripon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:46 PM (#3241600)

Francoeur has talent. Its just little of it has value as a baseball player.

6. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:49 PM (#3241603)

Francoeur has talent. Its just little of it has value as a baseball player.

you're right--his blog is extremely well-written

7. Superunknown Gary Geiger Counter Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:59 PM (#3241612)

I was confused. First, this:

May as well agitate for a contract extension while you’re at it, Tim. Sheesh.

Was said by Craig, not Tripon. Second, I have no idea what it means.

8. Repoz

Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:07 PM (#3241616)

Was said by Craig, not Tripon. Second, I have no idea what it means.

I was going to post Tim's article this morning...guess I should have.

9. Superunknown Gary Geiger Counter Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:12 PM (#3241617)

While I am at it, I couldn't access his AL picks.

10. Craig Calcaterra Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:20 PM (#3241623)

As said, I was just linking Tim's All-Star piece. This little bit:

May as well agitate for a contract extension while you’re at it, Tim. Sheesh.

Built (clumsily) off of the lead in where I said that Tim must be trying to give me a heart attack by advocating for Francoeur, with the implication being, if he's going to do that, he may as well advocate for Fancoeur to get a contract extension too.

Weak crap on my part, really. Tim's piece is the one to read.

11. Tripon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:22 PM (#3241624)

Confusion! I was aiming for that.

12. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:29 PM (#3241628)

CC: if it's any consolation, I understood what you meant by that throwaway line

(I mean, it wasn't particularly FUNNY or anything..)

13. Superunknown Gary Geiger Counter Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:45 PM (#3241640)

I thought that you meant Francouer, but it wasn't clear to me. You could have been talking about Marchman hitting up the Luces or whoever runs the Time empire these days for a longer contract.

14. STEROIDS!!!!! Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:18 PM (#3241677)

So, Tripon, do you do a Google search for Francoeur every minute or just every hour?

15. Greg Pope Posted: July 03, 2009 at 11:16 PM (#3241953)

I wish we had thought of this in May. It would have been great to get the baseball blogosphere to RickRoll MLB and vote Jeff Francoeur in as a starter in St. Louis. Hah!

If we couldn't get any Expos voted in during the last year of their existence, I doubt whether any on-line "petition" would succeed.

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