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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, August 09, 2021Why Do We Love “Bad” Players?
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Posted: August 09, 2021 at 10:10 AM | 10 comment(s)
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1. Rowland Office Supplies Posted: August 10, 2021 at 02:53 PM (#6033674)Also AJ Pierzynski, although he's a different kind of bad.
but the only time I ever sat in RF at a MLB game in the first row, happened to be a game when Francoeur was playing.
this was late season, and the whole section clearly was all-in on this guy.
often 2 OFs play catch with each other between innings, and the third OF might toss to a bullpen catcher or whatever.
but Francoeur instead chose kids in the RF stands for his back-and-forth warmups. I never heard it mentioned on a Mets broadcast, and this is before a time where someone could claim it was some social media ploy. seemed like this was his routine, hence the crowd in the section.
if it was an act, then he could have made more money on Broadway than in baseball. each kid was over the moon (I would have been, too, as a kid).
if you watch that in-person and say, "Meh, his WAR is barely above replacement level this year" - then I don't know what to tell you.
as far as teammates go, I recall that he apparently was the Mets commissioner of their fantasy football league or some NCAA pool or whatever. diehard SEC guy.
I think everyone loved him because he was a legitimately good dude. Because he did things like this.
It wasn't just hustling, though. People just loved the guy and kept wanting to give him chances.
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