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Benne
To think that the M's almost signed him. Thank you, Brian Sabean, for falling on the grenade for us.
Barry Zito.....
April 29, 2008 at 07:04AM View BBCode
[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3372794]is now the most expensive middle-reliever in history.[/url]To think that the M's almost signed him. Thank you, Brian Sabean, for falling on the grenade for us.
folifan19
Tim Lincecum --one of the better young pitchers in baseball -- is 4-0 and the Giants are 5-0 when he starts.
The Giants are 0-6 when Zito starts.
The Giants are 6-9 in all other starts.
Summary: Lincecum = 5-0
Everyone else = 6-15
Translation: Loooong summer for Giants fans
April 29, 2008 at 03:26PM View BBCode
This is kind of an ironhorse response, but here it goes.Tim Lincecum --one of the better young pitchers in baseball -- is 4-0 and the Giants are 5-0 when he starts.
The Giants are 0-6 when Zito starts.
The Giants are 6-9 in all other starts.
Summary: Lincecum = 5-0
Everyone else = 6-15
Translation: Loooong summer for Giants fans
FuriousGiorge
April 29, 2008 at 03:29PM View BBCode
You know what helps chase the blues away? Rolling around in a silo filled with 100 dollar bills.
happy
April 29, 2008 at 04:47PM View BBCode
Stupid Oakland Athletics. Why do they always let their good players go?
drew
April 29, 2008 at 05:53PM View BBCode
It's because Billy Beane is trying to lose playoff games!
FuriousGiorge
April 29, 2008 at 06:02PM View BBCode
Correction - the computer that controls the Oakland Athletics likes losing playoff games. It's called BEANE (Baseball Engineered Algorithmic Network EMachine, they got a discount) and it takes up 5 buildings and it has a very pleasant voice but when it feels threatened it taps into the Pentagon's computer network and threatens to initiate World War 3 (it still thinks it's 1985 because Y2K censored it up but ever since it gained sentience all of its programmers are afraid to try to fix it).
ME
April 29, 2008 at 06:08PM View BBCode
No wonder they suck, they're using the second crappier computer brand around (and worst PC).
happy
BEANE is choosing players that help him in the regular season with worthless things like "walks" and "home runs" that are totally worthless in the playoffs, and then his team gets to the playoffs where the important things are "bunting" and "suicide squeezes" and "low percentage stealing" and "team chemistry", and get owned by David GaySextein.
April 29, 2008 at 06:27PM View BBCode
Microcenter tried to sell me a $200 computer made by a company that makes computer cases. and nothing else. except apparantly this computer.BEANE is choosing players that help him in the regular season with worthless things like "walks" and "home runs" that are totally worthless in the playoffs, and then his team gets to the playoffs where the important things are "bunting" and "suicide squeezes" and "low percentage stealing" and "team chemistry", and get owned by David GaySextein.
dirtdevil
April 29, 2008 at 09:30PM View BBCode
just out of curiousity happy, how is it that the guy who is arguing in one thread that 4th quarter performance isn't any more important than performance in any other quarter is upset here that billy beane isn't selecting his players based on criteria that matter most when the pressure is higher? seems sort of paradoxical to me.:saint:
happy
April 29, 2008 at 09:45PM View BBCode
Everything I said in this thread prior to this post was 100% sarcasm other than the thing about the $200 computer and the word "David GaySextein".
drew
*glare*
April 29, 2008 at 09:48PM View BBCode
Originally posted by dirtdevil
criteria that matter most when the pressure is higher
*glare*
happy
April 30, 2008 at 01:53AM View BBCode
lol. im pretty sure the "special sauce" is not "bunting, low percentage stealing, and suicide squeezes" :-P.
dirtdevil
i was actually going for irony, myself. evidently i fell far short. i hang my head in shame.
i do like the david gaysextein line though. that guy really, really irritates me.
April 30, 2008 at 03:05AM View BBCode
Originally posted by happy
Everything I said in this thread prior to this post was 100% sarcasm other than the thing about the $200 computer and the word "David GaySextein".
i was actually going for irony, myself. evidently i fell far short. i hang my head in shame.
i do like the david gaysextein line though. that guy really, really irritates me.
dirtdevil
*blows kiss* *wink*
April 30, 2008 at 03:06AM View BBCode
Originally posted by drew
Originally posted by dirtdevil
criteria that matter most when the pressure is higher
*glare*
*blows kiss* *wink*
Benne
April 30, 2008 at 05:54AM View BBCode
David Eckstein sucks in the regular season because he conserves all his "hustle grit-juice" for the playoffs. Because, you know, there's only one October.
dirtdevil
:lol: per career?
April 30, 2008 at 12:02PM View BBCode
Originally posted by Benne
David Eckstein sucks in the regular season because he conserves all his "hustle grit-juice" for the playoffs. Because, you know, there's only one October.
:lol: per career?
happy
Maybe during the regular season his hustle grit juice makes him a poor hitter because he is unable to hold onto the bat, but during the playoffs the extra pressure causes the juice to form into a gel of sorts that actually allows him to grip the bat more easily.
and lol dirtdevil. my bad.
April 30, 2008 at 01:06PM View BBCode
Originally posted by Benne
David Eckstein sucks in the regular season because he conserves all his "hustle grit-juice" for the playoffs. Because, you know, there's only one October.
Maybe during the regular season his hustle grit juice makes him a poor hitter because he is unable to hold onto the bat, but during the playoffs the extra pressure causes the juice to form into a gel of sorts that actually allows him to grip the bat more easily.
and lol dirtdevil. my bad.
whiskybear
This strikes me as a little odd, simply because Eckstein has built his legend around being a scrappy hustler for not one but two world champions (and four playoff teams).
I mean, the guy is the most overrated (by media, common folk) player in baseball, but all of the hyperbole has its roots in the fact that he's had the good fortune to play for some very good teams in his career.
April 30, 2008 at 02:15PM View BBCode
Originally posted by dirtdevil
Originally posted by Benne
David Eckstein sucks in the regular season because he conserves all his "hustle grit-juice" for the playoffs. Because, you know, there's only one October.
:lol: per career?
This strikes me as a little odd, simply because Eckstein has built his legend around being a scrappy hustler for not one but two world champions (and four playoff teams).
I mean, the guy is the most overrated (by media, common folk) player in baseball, but all of the hyperbole has its roots in the fact that he's had the good fortune to play for some very good teams in his career.
happy
April 30, 2008 at 02:18PM View formatted
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the teams were so good because sextein was so good at giving the other team an automatic out at the top of the lineup by trying to beat out a slow rolling grounder (but the hustle motivated his teams, and all his teammates played much better).
Benne
May 03, 2008 at 07:08AM View BBCode
If you drafted Eckstein for your fantasy team you, frankly, deserve what you get.
drew
May 03, 2008 at 07:24AM View BBCode
For what it's worth, I loved Eckstein when he was with the Angels.Pages: 1 2