On The View Through The Nolan Ryan Jowl-Cam
@whizz_dumb This is totally on me, but I see the Frank Thomas / Robin Ventura / Sammy Sosa "black Sox" teams of the early-to-late 90s as being a whole different franchise than the Kenny W / Ozzie Sox. Granted, I became a baseball fan during Thomas' cup of coffee w/ the Sox, so I have a soft spot for those guys. And if I dust enough at my mom's house, I'll probably find a VHS tape containing the final game of the Red Sox's 1990 season, which Boston (IIRC) needed to win in order to secure a playoff spot. (The final out was Ozzie Guillen hitting a looping fly ball to semi-shallow RRF off of Jeff Reardon that Tom Brunansky made a diving off-camera catch on.) (I feel like I bring this game up a lot, so sorry if y'all have heard me babble on this before.)
Which is to say I'm down w/ the Prez holding Alex Fernandez and Greg Hibbard (and El Grande Bruiso) close to his heart, as I kinda sorta did as well.
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On The View Through The Nolan Ryan Jowl-Cam
@dntsqzthchrmn Call your local cable or satellite provider, and tell them you want OWN in HD! Or something to that effect.
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On The View Through The Nolan Ryan Jowl-Cam
@Hollye I'm w/ my chat-mate regarding his assessment of Young. And when "intangibles" comes into play, it's probably time to shut down any potential discussion, as there's no way to properly have it out about so-and-so's worth when one side of the discussion is valuing something that, by definition, can't be valued.
But I'll stir the pot long enough to get this in. As for Young being a trooper, I can buy that to a point. However, as much as the royal We want tenure to matter (in all walks of life), sometimes you have to make room for the other guy, especially when someone else is paying your salary. This is especially true in Young's case, where you can make an easy case for every person he's moved for -- Soriano, A-Rod, even Andrus, and especially Beltre -- being much better than Young at that point in his career. (If anything, his willingness to make room puts him above Jeter in that regard, since DJ couldn't be bothered to take one for the team when A-Rod came a-callin'.)
He has value, there's no doubt. Every quality team -- playoff-bound or otherwise -- needs guys like Young to succeed. And I'm all for him getting his due props. It's great to have unsung in-the-trench types get the glory and the gold watch. I'm not, however, for the glue guys getting praise above and beyond their station. And for all Young's done for the franchise, he's currently, in my estimation, the Rangers' 6th best player (behind, in no particular order, Beltre, Napoli, Kinsler, Hamilton, and CJ Wilson). When Michael Young is your 6th best player, you have a damn good team. But he's A reason for Texas' success, not THE reason. And I can't willlingly swallow any argument that suggests otherwise.
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On The Esteban German Algorithm
@Carl Hess@twitter Hey, if TLR manages to give STL another World Series trophy, I imagine that buys him at least another 1000 unnecessary bunts and about 5000 LOOGY / ROOGY pitching changes.
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On At Least Rudy Giuliani Is Unhappy
& while this won't stop the none of you from bringing it up: yes, I know the Caruso ouevre also contains SESSION 9. Nerds.
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On At Least Rudy Giuliani Is Unhappy
@Clarence Rosario His name is Robert Pauls... I mean Don Kelly.
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On Don't Leave Dan Plesac Hanging!
@boyofdestiny This year, Roto Y Moi kept Gordon Beckham over Rickie Weeks, drafted A-Rod in the 1st round, allowed James McDonald and Kyle Drabek and Mariner Erik Bedard to torpedo my pitching staff before May 1st, traded away Joey Votto just before his 2nd-half power surge, and dumped Mike Napoli pre-ASB. In another life, I was Chuck LaMar.
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On Don't Leave Dan Plesac Hanging!
@sorry your heinous What's there to talk about? They don't walk, they can barely pitch, and their manager lives under a bridge. And they stuck it to the presumptive pre-season AL World Series rep.
I'm totally overdrafting Wieters next year, by the way, so I apologize in advance for his .200 BA & 4 HRs.
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On A.J. Pierzynski's Mid-Coital Yawp
@Clarence Rosario "Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? J-A-C-K! It was with this top hand that I would swing meekly at room-service fastballs to move a runner over one little ol' base. C-U-S-T! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of baseball. The right hand, friends, the hand of patience, of on-base percentage, a little thing I call OBP. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a-wantin' to get that Productive Out, and it looks like the inning's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, OBP's a winning! Yessirree! It's sabermetrics that's won, and old left hand small-ball is down for the count!"
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On The View Through The Nolan Ryan Jowl-Cam
How about them Cardinals? (Seriously?)