Baseball for the Thinking Fan

Login | Register | Feedback

btf_logo
You are here > Home > Baseball Newsstand > Baseball Primer Newsblog > Discussion
Baseball Primer Newsblog
— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand

Friday, July 03, 2009

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 03:53 PM | 15 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
  Related News: GeneralAtlantaMediaOnline

Reader Comments and Retorts

Go to end of page

Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.

Page 1 of 1 pages
   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.
Page 1 of 1 pages

You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.

 

 

<< Back to main

Support BBTF

donate

Thanks to
Bob Dernier Cri
for his generous support.

Bookmarks

You must be logged in to view your Bookmarks.

Hot Topics

NewsblogPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 2-10-2012
(4 - 5:37am, Feb 10)
Last: Not The Real Fausto Carmona (Dan Lee)

NewsblogJeff Sullivan: The Worst Team Ever Projected?
(50 - 5:37am, Feb 10)
Last: Sam Hutcheson is the 'saur with the rainbow roar

NewsblogOrioles Scouts Banned from Korea
(6 - 5:27am, Feb 10)
Last: Fancy Pants Handle is the AntAgonizer

NewsblogNY Daily News: Brian Cashman's accused stalker says Yankees GM misled feds on steroid probe
(49 - 4:34am, Feb 10)
Last: Ron J

NewsblogWhatever Happened to the Spitball?
(19 - 4:19am, Feb 10)
Last: toratoratora

NewsblogFangraphs: Cameron: The 10 Worst Transactions Of The Winter
(83 - 4:15am, Feb 10)
Last: drdr

NewsblogKnobler: Stay away from steroids -- but vote how you want
(19 - 4:02am, Feb 10)
Last: smileyy

Transaction Oracle2012 ZiPS Projections - Texas Rangers
(19 - 3:53am, Feb 10)
Last: Jebuddhallah

NewsblogGrantland/Bill James: An Open Letter to the Hall of Fame About Dwight Evans
(26 - 2:04am, Feb 10)
Last: DanG

NewsblogL.A. Times: 11 bidders remain in running to buy Dodgers
(7 - 1:56am, Feb 10)
Last: Joe Kehoskie

NewsblogNYT: Alderson Remakes Needy Mets From Bottom Line Up
(41 - 1:37am, Feb 10)
Last: PreservedFish

NewsblogSources: Cubs’ Starlin Castro Accused Of Sexual Assault
(5843 - 1:12am, Feb 10)
Last: He's Bought a Bat Like Prince Fielder

Newsblog'Duk: Tim Lincecum slims down with swim routine, loses appetite for McDonald’s
(282 - 12:44am, Feb 10)
Last: MM1f

Jim's Lab NotesPlease Excuse the Mess
(174 - 12:06am, Feb 10)
Last: SoSHially Unacceptable

NewsblogThe Book Blog: MGL: Today on Clubhouse Confidential
(78 - 11:50pm, Feb 09)
Last: RayDiPerna

Buy MLB playoff tickets, plus 2011 World Series, 2011 ALCS tickets and NLCS game tickets. We also have Texas Rangers playoff schedule, tickets to Red Sox games and Yankees game tickets. Plus, buy Phillies baseball tickets, Tigers playoff tickets and the biggies like ALDS baseball tickets and 2011 NLDS tickets.

Demarini, Easton and TPX Baseball Bats

 

 

 

AllianceTickets.com has cheap MLB Tickets. Get all your Colorado Rockies Tickets, Seattle Mariners Tickets, San Francisco Giants Tickets and all your favorite baseball tickets here. We also carry cheap Denver Broncos Tickets, Seattle Seahawks Tickets and Denver Nuggets Tickets.

Page rendered in 0.3754 seconds
40 querie(s) executed