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Saturday, September 08, 2007 |
Pickoff Moves
Hey, Steroid Weenies!
You're standing in front of the TV, and we can't see the game. Also, your arguments are lame. Best damn anti-steroidy-hysteria rant in ages:I’m right sick of hearing this crap. Give me a break. “Oh no!!! My favorites sports hero superstar is using steroids!!! THE HORROR OF IT ALL!!!!” Spare me the bullcrap. This is old baseball writers just finding the best way they could ever have dreamed of to rail against these kids today with their no morals and MY generation was eleventeen times better. Seriously. Like 85% of the guys writing these high-and-mighty rain-down-judgment-on-the-infidels steroid articles have AARP cards, and they’re spewing nonsense like they usually do, and I would like to speak behalf on most sports fandom when I say: SHUT THE HECK UP ALREADY.Via BTF.
Bob Nutting Silliness at SportingGurus
From that same site: a hi-larious faux letter from Bob Nutting:“To the fans of Pittsburgh, who are somehow still loyal to the team despite the fact that the team has been raping and pillaging you ceaselessly for fifteen years and counting: As owner and president of the Pittsburgh Pirates, I owe each and every one of you an apology for permitting Dave Littlefield to work here. Dave is really a very nice man to have around, and always did what we asked him to. Well, except win. Or even come close to winning. Or even take any rational step whatsoever in the general direction of winning. But if I asked him to show up for work at 7, he was there at 6:58.These guys are so getting a sidebar link.“I considered offering Dave a reassignment within the organization, because of his team spirit and optimistic attitude, but then I realized that if I put Dave Littlefield in charge of, say, the peanut vendors, it would take him, what, 3 months before we would have the most comically bad peanut vendors in the world? 3 months, maximum. The man is a waste of oxygen in any managerial context. Worse than that.
D-Rays Opt For One More Year Of Joe Maddon
Not that it matters given their lousy talent level and frank inability to compete in an AL East that shows signs of (a) the Yankees starting to get over their lust for name pitchers who are thisclose to falling into the toilet, and (b) the Red Sox marshalling one hell of a financial base intelligently.Roster Notes
- Eric Chavez underwent shoulder labrum surgery yesterday, and should be ready for spring training.
- Mike Napoli may get a start today or tomorrow, as he's running the bases without trouble. He hasn't faced live pitching since July 28.
- Milton Bradley left yesterday's game with a strained oblique, and where have I heard that before?
Labels: angels, athletics, drugs, funny, injuries, padres, stupid ideas
Comments:
"Lousy talent level"? They have more good players 25 or younger than most team in the bigs (Upton, Crawford, Kazmir, Shields). Delmon Young is hitting .293 with 45 XBH as a 21-year-old. Elijah Dukes and Dioner Navarro are still just 23, and have shown some promise. Even their "old" guys are in their 20s.
Their problem is less front-line talent and more the gaping suckiness in the back end of their rotation and bullpen. Put Billy Beane on that bunch & they'd play .500 within a year, and compete soon thereafter.
Their problem is less front-line talent and more the gaping suckiness in the back end of their rotation and bullpen. Put Billy Beane on that bunch & they'd play .500 within a year, and compete soon thereafter.
Tampa has a mediocre offense, a godawful rotation, and the worst bullpen in the league. The problem is and remains front-line talent. Being young is not enough; they must also be good.
League-average is the new "mediocre," eh? I guess I'd better tell the vaunted Mariners.
As for being "young" and "good," that description fits Upton, Crawford, Kazmir, Shields, Young, perhaps Brendan Harris, arguably Johnny Gomes ... plus their 29-year-old 1Bman isn't half bad either.
The TB outfielders rank 6th, 9th and 14th in the AL in Win Shares; between them have more (61) than any three-man OF in the league, and not a one of them is over 25. That's not good, that's great "front-line talent," reminiscent of the Angels in the Four Outfielders days of the mid-1990s. (And like some of those Angel teams, the rotation is two good pitchers and a sack of rancid meat.)
The point is that a smart GM could get the supporting cast to be at at least replacement-level, instead of AA-level, at which point what seems to some like a talentless bunch could surprise people in a hurry.
As for being "young" and "good," that description fits Upton, Crawford, Kazmir, Shields, Young, perhaps Brendan Harris, arguably Johnny Gomes ... plus their 29-year-old 1Bman isn't half bad either.
The TB outfielders rank 6th, 9th and 14th in the AL in Win Shares; between them have more (61) than any three-man OF in the league, and not a one of them is over 25. That's not good, that's great "front-line talent," reminiscent of the Angels in the Four Outfielders days of the mid-1990s. (And like some of those Angel teams, the rotation is two good pitchers and a sack of rancid meat.)
The point is that a smart GM could get the supporting cast to be at at least replacement-level, instead of AA-level, at which point what seems to some like a talentless bunch could surprise people in a hurry.
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