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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Even when playing chess, Brown is noisy. He somehow manages to trash-talk while matching wits daily with closer Huston Street.
“Huston takes so long, you get mentally drained,” Brown said. “You start shouting to the chess gods, ‘Why is he taking so long?’ We had a timer, but Huston doesn’t follow the rules, he’d just ignore it.”
“I might have been slower when we first started playing, but Andrew has abandoned the most games,” Street countered. “I had his queen forked last night and he said, ‘Oh, I’ve got to get home, my wife is pregnant.’ “
A nice profile of the 6’8 reliever who has yet to give up a run, in addition to taking over Nick Swisher’s role as clubhouse cut-up.
Elvis
Posted: April 23, 2008 at 12:29 PM | 17 comment(s)
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1. Hector Moreda & The Generalissimo Posted: April 23, 2008 at 01:01 PM (#2755514)Should we be surprised.
I always thought the padres made a mistake by letting Andruw Brown out from under the fold. Especially after they made zero attempt to re-sign Milton Bradley. I hope he does well.
A legitimate chess term, actually. Good thing they don't play bridge, which has strip squeezes, bare queens, and stiff kings.
And that's how babies are born.
Prince Fielder, anyway.
Who is it about, anyway?
....whoa, never heard of him.
"And then I got his wife pregnant and he said 'Oh, I've got to get home, my queen is forked.'"
Most IP in th AL without allowing an earned run:
Cnt Player IP ER Year Age+----+-----------------+-----+---+----+---+
1 Andrew Brown 12 0 2008 27
2 Santiago Casilla 11 0 2008 28
3 Randor Bierd 10.2 0 2008 24
4 Jim Johnson 8.2 0 2008 25
5 Joe Nathan 8 0 2008 33
6 Leo Nunez 7.2 0 2008 24
7 Joey Devine 7.1 0 2008 24
8 Mariano Rivera 7.1 0 2008 38
9 Joakim Soria 7 0 2008 24
10 Troy Percival 6 0 2008 38
Best OPS+ in 2007-2008 (min 300 PA):
Cnt Player OPS+ PA From To Ages+----+-----------------+----+-----+----+----+-----+
1 Alex Rodriguez 173 792 2007 2008 31-32
2 Chipper Jones 172 688 2007 2008 35-36
3 Barry Bonds 170 477 2007 2007 42-42
4 Carlos Pena 165 694 2007 2008 29-30
5 Magglio Ordonez 162 767 2007 2008 33-34
6 Albert Pujols 160 770 2007 2008 27-28
7 David Ortiz 156 763 2007 2008 31-32
8 David Wright 155 799 2007 2008 24-25
9 Chase Utley 153 711 2007 2008 28-29
10 Milton Bradley 151 324 2007 2008 29-30
For starters, he was home-schooled from fourth grade on. He was affiliated with Trinity Christian Academy in Deltona, Fla....
he played on the 1992 national champion AAU team coached by Tom Emanski, the baseball-fundamentals infomercial guru.
This article is a primer thread wet dream.
You go into some of these big towns in the Bay Area, and the World Series has been gone now for 19 or 46 years and nothing's replaced it. And it's not surprising, then, that they get bitter; they cling to the chess gods as a way to explain their frustrations.
Did you mean "18 or 6"? Or maybe "19 or 54"? In any event, nice reference.
Bonus points for anyone who can tell me the first deal Andy Brown was included in and what team traded him away.. WITHOUT LOOKIN IT UP
Hint-It was a big deal and when it was made he was the last name anyone was caring about
Sheffield for Jordan, Perez, and Brown.
Braves fan here...
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