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1. Crashburn Alley Posted: April 21, 2008 at 03:42 AM (#2752683)And according to RZR, he's the worst-fielding shortstop in the National League among those that qualify (Theriot is 14 out of 14).
Gotta love it when a guy makes himself look stupider than anyone else ever could.
"The ability to hate a ballplayer means you also have the ability to love one and I think most of us would find that to be rather foolish."
Really?
Really?
I'm not talking about romantic love (duh) but it really does make you look like the coldhearted, game ruining, spreadsheet cliche when you say its foolish, as a fan, to love a ballplayer.
I have had the pleasure of watching Chipper Jones' rookie year as I was starting to love baseball and have been able to watch him grow into a future Hall of Famer as I grew up. I have watched John Smoltz go from nasty-stuff yet erratic youngster to Cy Young to so injured he might not pitch again to untouchable closer to back to being a Cy YOung Caliber starter.
Or if we are talking about guys closer to Theriot in talent why can't I admire Mike Mordecai for his timely hitting?
And why can't I say I loved watching him come up as an undertalented kid and manage make himself a 12 year major league career, culminating in clutch three-run double in the NLCS. A double that was key part of a miracle eight inning that was the difference between losing to the Cubs in 6 and winning a WS ring.
How can you NOT love that, watching the little guy do something he, and you, will remember for a long time?
The guy has two World Series rings now
Why can't I love a ballplayer?
Eckstien is a shortstop with a career .351 on-base percentage and he really does do an excellent job getting the bat on the ball. Plus he is perfectly willing to take a dose to get on base.(three time league leader) He is not a world beater but he is a useful player. And he is not a bad defender. His physical shortcomings do not allow him to be a strong one but he is solid.
And he has hit .333 in 51 World Series at-bats.
Even his biggest fans don't claim that he is any kind of stud, so why do people go so far to convince others that hes a bad player when that isn't very true over the course of his career?
Cedeno has looked really good so far. His approach at the plate is much better than it was the last two years. Certainly, the raw numbers he has put up come with a sample size warning. But his approach has looked solid, and that is much more encouraging.
Of course, my amateur scouting might be biased by his success during the first few weeks of the season.
You all read my work every time I write... and I don't read a word of your bullshit. That's the difference. You morons read every ####### word I write and don't think I don't know it. You can keep reading... but you're not worthy of having my work at this site of academic rejects. You quasi-scientists, non athletes... who make up stupid Dungeons & Dragons stats about baseball that mean nothing... shouldn't even watch baseball. Go examine some ####### grains of sand you nerd dolts.
Every time I'm the subject at sites like this, the discussion is a billion times better than it is otherwise. You're the most boring, idiotic forms of life on earth. And Symborski, or whatever the #### your name was... my gay friends would tell you what a ####### faggot you are. #####.
I take it you've never read our esteemed Sam M. expound on the virtues of David Wright.
Dude has got it bad.
Best Regards
John
P.S. I don't mind having David Eckstein around--a club needs solid role players and he fits the bill.
Flirt.
Best Regards
John
P.S. Would you and your ego mind getting a room?
Btw, how did dumbfuck and faggot manage to get through the nanny?
Now, why you'd you choose this particular technique as your shtick I'll never know--it doesn't get that much attention here--but if it makes him happy, good for him.
I was thinking the same thing during yesterday's game. He seems to be recognizing breaking stuff out of the zone much more successfully than in his earlier major league trials, and he's hitting the ball with much more authority. I'm thinking there's a causal link between the former and the latter.
Sample size and all, but he looks like a completely different hitter.
Aren't you a Cub fan?
Because it is not even legal, that's why.
Repoz, and you dunce factory stathead dumbfuck losers... stay the #### away from my site. You're a bunch of ####### imbeciles who don't know the first thing about winning baseball.
Who are you calling "stathead"?
No kidding. Some of us never got past Stats 101 and couldn't scrape data from a db to save our lives.
You're right. I haven't been able to crack 90 on the gun since my labrum surgery.
Was it yesterday or saturday that he started off 0-2, then ended up seeing about 10-12 pitches before drawing a walk? Compared to the guy that stunk up the offense two years ago, that's pretty unbelievable. Cedeno really has a chance to put up a solid offensive season. He'll probably start taking more playing time from Theriot as the season goes on.
This is pretty exciting, to see a young Cubs position player develop offensively.
And looky who was #1 in 2005.
When I'm right, I'm right.
This is pretty exciting, to see a young Cubs position player develop offensively.
It was Saturday. He worked a 10 pitch BB. Jill was keeping score for me as I was a little shaky, and for some reason my vertigo was acting up in the 500 level. She records each pitch (I don't), and I distinctly remember asking her, so how many pitches in that AB. She said 10.
His approach looks completely different from what I have seen before from him. Felix Pie should take notice.
I haven't seen any Marlins games yet, so I have no idea how he looks, but I was listening to Tim Kurjian on the radio just the other day and he was raving about how much Hanley's D has improved. I was skeptical so went and looked him up at THT and was pretty surprised to see that.
Like you said, if the numbers are right, he's the best player in the game right now. EDIT: Of course it's only 3 weeks worth of baseball, so the numbers really can't tell us much.
And I did trim my sideburns.
Given the "intelligence" level of Bad News Cubs, I'm disturbingly intrigued to see what would happen if he actually declined into self-parody.
#### you you dirty ############# ########## and stick your shitty ####### "small sample size" bullshit right back up your ass where it ############# belongs.
FWIW, Hanley looks better out there this year. Last year I fel sorry for Marlins pitchers, but he seems much more comfortable.
Actually, people should be careful about reading his articles. If we are in fact living in a false vacuum, the dumb particles generated from a thousand people simultaneously reading his thoughts could very well trigger a vacuum metastability event, ending our existence.
Hey, I competed in a beer-pong tourney on Saturday, a kickball game on Sunday, AND walked to the train station this morning. I'm a freakin' triathlete.
But if you were any good at the former, no way could you have competed in the latter two events. Amateur!
Or we could just wait for the hadron collider to come online.
I read it mainly for the humor element.
The rest are just rubbneckers.
Folks used to flock in huge numbers to Tyburn Tree to witness mass-hangings--today their descendants read Bad News Cubs.
Best Regards
John
I don't think anyone is going to top that one.
I was actually thinking how varied the experience of the people here are. It seems like there are some former ballers, some pure statheads, etc. It's a pretty diverse, and therefore, a little fairer.
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