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1. Morty Causa Posted: April 09, 2010 at 04:22 AM (#3498109)I've watched that episode an unhealthy amount of times, and named numerous fantasy teams after throwaway gags in it. My favorite was "Enchanted Jockstraps".
But the writers were laboring under a couple of conditions - they had to write the thing in 1991, and in more than one occasion, they were not able to get the guest voice they wanted. Steve Sax? Nope.
Also, they were going for "famous" names, familiar to non-baseball fans who watch cartoons. I think that WAR be damned, Canseco was probably the right choice.
IMDB says Steve Sax did his own voice. Or did you mean they wanted someone else but had to settle for Sax?
"I'm afraid all of those players have retired and, uh... passed on. In fact, your right-fielder has been dead for a hundred and thirty years."
1) They must speak English passably.
2) At least a few of them must be recognizeable personalities, and none can be total obscurities.
3) It'd be nice if you got guys with good personality. No grumps, no known wife-beaters, no Elijah Dukeses, and no snooze-a-thons.
4) You want to try to represent both leagues, and most areas of the country.
Just off the top of my head, my team, combining entertainment value and quality, would be:
1B - Pujols
2B - Utley
3B - Oh, something offbeat. I know Longoria and Wright seem like obvious candidates, but . . . #### it, Longoria. I'm feeling dumb tonight.
SS - Jeter. Sigh.
LF - I'm never sure about Manny Ramirez's mastery of English. One day you read that he's shy about it, and the next you hear it's not a problem. Anyway, he's the guy, if you can keep him in line.
CF - Grrrady Sizemore & his coffee mug.
RF - Justin Upton? He seems to enjoy himself while he plays baseball.
C - Joe Mauer
P - So many great candidates. Lincecum, Greinke, Sabathia . . . I'll go with Greinke for sheer weirdness.
Manager - Ozzie Guillen is the obvious choice.
Speaking of which, how did you get the so many MLBers whose last names start with "U" on the same team? Where's Uribe? Uggla? Urbina?
Probably not Upton, but I think this oversells Utley's underratedness. Anybody who has watched the World Series in the last two years knows who he is.
Is A-Rod being disqualified for the juice or the centaur paintings? I think his sheer star power makes him an easy choice here.
I KNEW there was somebody obvious I was missing.
On the subject of A-Rod, I disqualified him because nobody seems to like him. Others may feel differently.
Of course, there are all kinds of possible candidates being left out. If one were to stay truer to the spirit of the original team -- ie, mix in some washed-up and not-quite-that-good guys with high name recognition -- you could do all kinds of things. Pedro at pitcher, for example, or David Eckstein, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard, Jason Varitek . . . really the only guy that I'd really want to make sure I had was Guillen.
He does it all the time in batting practice.
And wouldn't beating up a senior citizen disqualify him based on 3)?
Well done.
Voxter's team is a good start, but I too would want The Rod in at third base. So what that he's not universally beloved - the original team had Canseco, Boggs and Strawberry. He's so super-famous that you have to put him in the team, and you could have great fun with it too. I'd incline to Lincecum over Greinke. And, as already said, Ichiro must play right field.
I think Sizemore is a decent choice for CF, but I'd rather have Ken Griffey Jr - he's the only member of the original roster still active.
Papelbon might be an amusing choice as the closer. I think there's a potentially great chief wiggum-papelbon interaction there.
If this is true, it is very sad, because I don't think Utley is anything less than the 3rd best player in the NL. It goes Pujols, Hanley Ramirez, Utley...right?
And I still quote the "Pitt the Elder"/"Lord Pomerston" argument frequently.
how about Scioscia?
Appreciate the link, but I just have to mention that all Simpsons questions can be answered by SNPP.com.
Sadly, I'm not as up on my English prime ministers as either Wade Boggs or Barney Gumble.
This makes me so incredibly sad for America. Nobody could possibly believe that, could they? Manny is the second-most-perfect current Major Leaguer for this team, after Ichiro. I don't know how there could be any debate over that.
He's famous, he's great at baseball, he's frequently hilarious, he looks like a cartoon, he's got a recognizable voice/accent, he's probably a Simpsons fan, he's got a history of trying to avoid games he doesn't want to play in for dubious reasons, and he has fans on both coasts.
I certainly don't.
I suppose the idea of Scioscia as manager has symmetry, I'm just attached to the idea of Ozzie Guillen being on "The Simpsons".
This was sort of my thinking when I first mentioned his name.
Nah. Mr. Burns slept with Cindy.
It goes Pujols, Hanley Ramirez, Utley...right?
When is Ty Colvin gonna start getting his due??????
As noted, given the writers had to write it prior to the 92 season, you should use 92 projections or 91 WAR or 89-91 WAR or something. Smithers can't be expected to predict the future any better than a monkey.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
1B - Prince Fielder
2B - Dustin Pedroia
3B - Chipper Jones
SS - Derek Jeter
OF - Manny Ramirez
OF - Ichiro Suzuki
OF - Adam Dunn
SP - Tim Lincecum, Zack Greinke
RP - Jonathan Papelbon
Next people are going to defend Burns pinch-hitting for Darryl, because he got the platoon advantage!
Or the bees.
My nerdar just went off something fierce. Those tools didn't exist back then. You'd have to compare the picks to the 1992 Bill James Handbook.
Burns actually did have a better team, if they weren't all dead. It looks like now Burns's Smithers-signed team will only have 4 Hall of Famers, 5 if Scioscia gets in as a manager.
We are living in a golden age of "U" players. A few years ago, the career home run record by a player who's name started with U was 123 by Willie Upshaw. He's now 3rd (behind Utley and Uribe), about to be 4th (Uggla is 1 behind), and the Upton Brothers are likely to surpass 123 as well, both currently in the 40's.
That's why he doesn't get any lines except for grunts.
He wins, all star 2nd baseman for the Reds (okay Redlegs).
Although without Pitt there would be no Pittsburgh Pirates.
Which would be a bad thing?
You're assuming Papelbon can read?
Assumes facts not in evidence.
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