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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.

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1. Lazzeri Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:42 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 Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:46 PM (#3241543)

What would that accomplish?

3. Baseball-Birthdays.com Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:51 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 08:43 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 08:46 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 08:49 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. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 08:59 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 09:07 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. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 09:12 PM (#3241617)

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

10. Craig Calcaterra Posted: July 03, 2009 at 09:20 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 09:22 PM (#3241624)

Confusion! I was aiming for that.

12. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 09:29 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. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 09:45 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. Morally Excellent Posted: July 03, 2009 at 10:18 PM (#3241677)

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

15. Greg Pope Posted: July 04, 2009 at 03:16 AM (#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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