Guess he should have just stayed in bed.

Smile.

His shoes just weren't made for these times.

Brian Wilson is probably my most hated major leaguer right now.

Wouldn't It Be Nice if they didn't fine him

Heroes and orange shoe villains...just see what you've done?

God only knows why someone would wear orange shoes.

It's not so much that they were orange, but huarache sandals are not appropriate footwear for baseball.

I guess he should have kept his mouth shut when he started to brag about his shoes.

Guess he should have just stayed in bed.

Or at least just in his room.

I once knew a guy in DC who shaved only one side of his face. He said that women used to cross the street to avoid him. And then there was a dude in Berkeley who walked around in the middle of the Summer in a black suit, and in a black top hat with one pink wing. In the middle of a street crime wave, no less. Everybody crossed the street when that guy approached them.

Giants-related threadjack: Andres Torres is the ninth-best player in the NL and half a win better than Albert Pujols this year? Also, since coming to the Giants, he has 66 XBH in 467 AB and is between +15-25 defensively. I remember when he was a C-level prospect in Baseball Mogul 2003.

And, strangely enough, one of the Seinfeld episodes aired on our local FOX station tonight was The Shoes, complete with Gail Cunningham and Russell Dalrymple.

Andres Torres rocks very hard.

Andres Torres gives the Giants Good Vibrations. And to think I thought he'd take the same path Brandon Medders did this year. Glad I was wrong about that!

It's like those hip baseball players, with their complicated shoes!

Andres Torres! Pat Burrell! Aubrey Huff!

Ladies and Gentlemen, your NL Champion San Francisco Giants!

Trade him to the Angels, so he can wear red shoes. Of course, he'll have to change his name to Elvis Costello, or at least Declan Patrick McManus.

Wouldn't It Be Nice if they didn't fine him

Naw, let him run wild.

Can't say I'm surprised:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtb6H1Q0DE4

Mandarin, no.

OK, so the rules are that you have to wear shoes in the team colors.

Giants are orange and black...why is this a problem?

Andres Torres! Pat Burrell! Aubrey Huff!

Ladies and Gentlemen, your NL Champion San Francisco Giants!

Two water buffaloes and one gazelle.

Andres Torres gives the Giants Good Vibrations.

PEDs? (I am not saying I know. I am just asking.)

Very rarely does a player who never cracked a major league roster before age 24 stick around in the majors in his early 30s. Torres was a weak-hitting outfielder in the Tigers system to age 25. He then plateaued in the minors until age 28 with the White Sox, Rangers and Twins. At 29 and 30, he was playing well, but really just playing out the string, in the minors for the Tigers (again) and then the Cubs.

Finally, at age 31, despite really poor offensive numbers in the Giants' system, he gets called up to the Show to stick for the first time, because of injuries on San Francisco's major league roster. And not only is he good, he is really great, arguably the best outfielder on the Giants since Bonds. PEDs or not, that is really, really strange.

Torres's Runs Created per year as a major leaguer since age 24:

24 - 4
25 - 12
26 - 0 NML (Not in Major Leagues)
27 - 1
28 - 0 NML
29 - 0 NML
30 - 0 NML
31 - 30
32 - 61

Torres has the highest WAR (4.3 from Fangraphs) among all SF position players and he has a higher WAR than all Giants' pitchers. If it is not PEDs, there must be a very interesting explanation, perhaps involving psychology.

#22 -- when you are copying someone else's joke, either credit them or put the line in quotes. Most people outside of Northern California don't know where you took that line from. (By the way, I think Burrell was the originator of that line, but I am not sure of that.)

23- He was diagnosed with ADHD, with all that baggage.

OTOH, he was a minor elague for most of that time, and the minor league testing regimen is tougher than the major league one. If he's on something, there's a couple thousand other baseball players who want his hook up.

Some of the power different might be explained by his completely reworked swing. As I understand it, Torres was a track star in high-school and college who came late to the game, and his original baseball coaches did him the disservice of teaching the old "just hit it to the left side and run hard" approach. Now he has a more typical major league hack instead of a Juan Pierre/Luis Castillo-style swinging bunt.

Wilson's quote is awesome.

Wilson is awesome, even if he's a bit of a meathead.

Wait a minute.

Edwin Rodriguez complained that the shoes were too flashy?

The same Edwin Rodriguez who is this guy's manager?

He would have made more sense if he was just making pet sounds.

ursus has a point. The Giants should protest those shoes.

the orange shoes he wore in the All-Star Game and in saving last night’s win.

So he's been wearing them All Summer Long?

Andres Torres! Pat Burrell! Aubrey Huff!

Ladies and Gentlemen, your NL Champion San Francisco Giants!


Two water buffaloes and one gazelle.

Would you believe three boyscouts on rollerskates?