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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
S.I. Who is the smartest person in baseball?
[Based on a survey of 469 MLB Players as they were leaving the latest Triple Nine Society meeting]
Greg Maddux, Padres P....10%
Billy Beane, A’s G.M.....9%
Tony La Russa, Cards manager.....5%
Brad Ausmus, Astros C.....5%
Bobby Cox, Braves manager.....4%
Terry Ryan, Twins G.M.....3%
Derek Jeter, Yankees SS.....3%
Omar Minaya, Mets G.M.....3%
John Schuerholz, Braves G.M.....3%
Tom Glavine, Mets P.....2%
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... oh, it was in economics. Never mind.
Who was the smartest player you ever played with, Kenny?
if I had the time, I would register as Singleton and say something about Eddie Murray
still, that's pretty freakin funny. Kudos.
EDIT: make that 8 1/2, but it would be 9 in Gary Sheffield's book
Considering that Kyle Farnsworth would likely place first in the stupid poll, I think it evens out.
(And, no, that's not intended as a response to #15)
I mean, he told me so himself.
Here ya go.
BTW I am genuinely shocked to see Frank Thomas and Ken Griffey on the 2003 responses to that question. Along with, yes, Kyle Farnsworth.
Here we see an analysis of the results in terms of how racist they are. It is pointed out that, yes, Kyle Farnsworth is the only white guy among the top 10 in "gets the least from the most talent".
Is adequate as is 40.7%
highest of high comedy
I would venture that Pedro, Carlos Delgado, and Ichiro would all fit on this list
Granted, Zack has the "insane" smarts more than anything else
I bet mine is highest.
(Take that dinosaurs! Long live the new SAT, with its 2400 point scale!)
bah, you didn't have to do analogies. That's like having a pre-integration record.
Oh, wait. That IS funny. But, still. Only in baseball.
Pedro is so smart that his brain doesn't fit into his head and he needs to have a tiny man follow him around carrying the rest of it.
Look who took time out from beating off to the Russ Ortiz poster over his bed.
A little sensitive today? A guess the truth hurts sometimes.
I have heard from multiple sources that Carlos Delgado and Carlos Guillen are very intelligent individuals.
And John Kruk. A man so smart no mere mortal can understand his theories on pitching prowess.
Harry Ausmus (a college philosophy professor) is in the running as smartest *father* of a major leaguer. He probably hits better than his son, too.
he would have to compete with Ross Newhan, father of David
Really? That's impressive.
Weird. No idea who you are and you seem to be addressing me as if we know each other or have a history.
Moving along...
Pedro in his prime was Greg Maddux with a fastball. Now he's just the latin Greg Maddux.
Check their injury rates before and after the Maddux pee. Like Moises Alou, he's found its healing powers and is sharing with his teammates. What a generous guy.
You're definitely better off just ignoring him. He's a real head case and a loser who makes up these weird nicknames for the players and liveblogs every single game during the season.
In spite of his snap at Glavine last year, Pujols is pretty bright too. I'd guess he's smarter than LaRussa, law degree or not.
I know that Soriano speaks close-to-fluent Japanese, which he learned from all the years he spent playing in Japan. I have no idea how smart he is, but that's certainly impressive
FWIW, I can work the NY Times crossword puzzle in this many minutes:
Monday -- 8-10 minutes
Tuesday -- 10-12 minutes
Wednesday -- 20-25 minutes
Thursday* -- 30-45 minutes
Friday* -- 45-60 minutes
Saturday* -- ???
* I need to use my dictionary and occassionally other reference books after Wednesday. The Saturday puzzle, which I rarely work, tends to have very long answers along the top and bottom three rows. If I can get those, it isn't that hard a puzzle. If not, I can't solve it.
How'd you do on the SAT?
Of course, Moe Berg really wasn't Moe Berg either.
If Moe were here, he'd doubtless be the first to point out that there is no such office.
Read this as "orifice"
Neither was Aberforth Dumbledore.
Bruntlett, who plays for the Astros, is known for being intelligent. His parents have PhD's.
Curtis Granderson is no slouch. His parents are teachers.
I find I can usually do the Friday & Saturday puzzle if I work at it.
Is Steve Phillips on the list? I guess you have to be in baseball and not an analyst, huh......
I've never heard about him speaking anything other than Japanese and English. He does have his own quiz show kind of thing in Japan during the off season, though. I've seen clips, but I can't figure out exactly how it works. It seems to be more of a word association-based format than a test of knowledge, from what I can tell.
I think people make the false assumption that Maddux has had this remarkable career without having great stuff. They figure he has to be a genius because he has 340+ wins without a 90+ MPH fastball. In reality, Maddux has great stuff. It's just not particularly hard.
In his one outing against the Mets in 2007, he dominated them more than any other pitcher that I can remember off the top of my head.
There's drugs for this..
Oh please. He was a tremendous slouch.
Well if you think about it, he is no different than you or I.
All he does is watch baseball and then debate it. He probably gets paid more per year than Arod to do it, but yeah. No different. He just has connections.
He could be Andy for all you know.
Scott gets my vote.
/ducks.
You mean like David Wells?
Baseball-wise, I think Barry's a genius. Off the field...not so much.
No votes for DePo, or were computers excluded from the poll?
In reality, it made a lot of sense to use the backup catcher for Maddux's starts. You need to give your starter days off, and what better day to take the offensive hit than the day with your ace going?
Well, it's a talk show, not a quiz show. I suppose the media thinks it's a quiz show because the title is "Ichiro-Versus", but in Japan "vs" is often used to represent 対 tai, which is indeed used for competitive match-ups (Taigaazu tai Doragonzu), but used in this case to mean "opposite" - in other words, two people having a discussion.
I remember James writing about Franco too, but wasn't Franco reading The Boys' Magazine?
I suppose the media thinks it's a quiz show because the title is "Ichiro-Versus"
Actually, the media probably think it's a quiz show because someone told them it was - I doubt most of the American media simply have an erroneous interpretation of 対!
Me too...but then I don't use the "Across" clues. Arf!
Yes, upside-down.
But that's cheating, right?
Not sure. Andy and Gaelan will know, though.
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