I am not overreacting.........

by pwh9980 on Apr 8, 2007 10:07 PM CDT Comment 63 comments

I am just wondering what everyone elses thoughts are on this.

How long will we have to watch players like Wilkerson and Lofton completely suck before changes are made?

I know it has only been six games, but after watching Wilkerson suck last year, and just look stupid at the plate tonight, isn't is close to time to cut ties and give his AB's to someone else? As for Lofton, he looks lost at the plate to me as well.

Anyways, how long until something changes, and if changes actually do take place, what players will benefit from the changes?

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Lofton Stays

Saving a 40 at bat hitless streak or something like that.

Wilkerson...see phil nevin last year if production does not pick up.

by TexGoesYard on Apr 8, 2007 10:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Man

the vast majority of you can douse yourself in gasoline and drop a match for your knee jerking ways. Seriously, he was hitting vs. Papelbon and Good Schilling. Most hitters are going to struggle vs. that.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

seriously, his last good year was 2004

i may be rooting for sammy but you dont see me posting like hes been good anytime recently.

same goes for half our linep that hasnt been good since 04..

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He has been

decent so far this year. It's just that he's got the "Bill Buckner" goggles where everything bad he does is magnified.

Look nobody's asking you to bear his child, but at least recognize that he has been improving. He's what he is right now. A good bottom-of-the-lineup hitter.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

what improvement are you talking about?

he had the worst year of his career last year, hit .245 in spring training, and has a .583 ops so far this season.

what exactly are you seeing him do?

michael yong and others also doing poorly doesnt somehow equal wilkerson doing well.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm talking about

the ability to take the close pitch again and work out the count again. He fouled off a couple of pitches that he would have K'd on last year. It is progress, and given some time to get into a groove(since, you know, it's still the 6th game of the season) I think he'll be a productive bottom of the lineup guy.

He's taking walks and fouling off pitches, that's something he was lacking last year.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

so now being decent

is fouling off a few pitches...

a lot of people have been bad this year. wilkerson is one of them. its only a week, and im not saying its any more than that. but its a bad week after a bad spring training after a bad season after a bad season.

and through the first week, hes walked at exactly (and i mean exactly) the same rate as he did last year.

wilkerson may yet have a good year, but he has not shown it yet. he has not been better. MY has been bad, tex has been meh, lofton has been bad, etc... and so has wilkerson.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever

we can agree to disagree in this, but he's doing a better job seeing pitches. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't translate into walks (you know, since we've played a whole six games), but he keeps working pitchers, the walk totals will come up.

It's cold, it was against a collection of great pitchers, and nobody has really hit. It's as ridiculous to overreact to Wilkerson as it is to someone like Millwood. You don't have major surgery and come back and immediately become Barry Bonds. I see progress, you don't. Let's wait for more than a week to decide who's right shall we?

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

keep making

excuses for the guy.....he sucks get over it...

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Keep making great fantastic, insightful posts

I'm pretty sure your boyfriend's impressed.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

listen

we could go back and forth but in the end, youre gonna realize that after 60, 160, 260, if he even gets that manyat bats, that he is not a good or even descent player. Id rather have someone that can play better defense out there. Damn, id rather have cat full time out there.

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm glad to see

you can see into the future. With the amount of scouts we have on this sight, we must have the most amount of baseball lifers in any SB Nation blog. Your posts will continue to be ridiculous until you stop trying to procastinate a season over 6 games.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

you are the one who said he looked better

so quit freaking repeating six games to me.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's why we should

wait for more than 6 games before we decide who is right. You know, it's what I said in my original post?

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He can work counts til doomsday

but with his slow bat, he is never gonna be able to do anything even if a pitcher gives him a bad pitch. Sooner or later, you have to hit the ball to be a productive hitter.

"I snorted my father" - Keith Richards

by DJCahill on Apr 9, 2007 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

reminds me of the Billy Beene comment...

"If he's such a good hitter, then why doesn't he hit better?"

by tricer on Apr 10, 2007 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

it doesnt matter who they face...

wilkerson needs to show he can hit against good pitchers....the guy looked like a little kid against papplebon...protect him all u want...

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

tell me

Who looked good against Papelbon tonight?

by Brandon Wilson on Apr 8, 2007 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Does it really matter who the pitcher is?

Cause im not downing the fact that we sucked against pappy....just the point that we need to hit big league above average pitchers....and wilkerson is doing the oppisite

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The point

Sometimes good pitching beats good hitting. I am sure Boston wanted their team to score on Aki the other night.

No one looked good against Papelbon. I tip my hat to him and move on. We won 2 out of 3 and I am happy about it. We could have easily been 1-5 or 0-6 the way all of our bats are going, not just Wilkerson. 2-4 feels pretty good right now.

by Brandon Wilson on Apr 8, 2007 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

that is irrelevant

obviously it does not matter how bad the "core" players looked(MY, Tex, Hank, Kinsler). wilkerson has had a year now to show anything, and in my opinion he hasn't.

ans to say that wilkerson is improving based on 6 games this year is crazy. i believe a years worth of suck outweighs 6 games of bad, but not total suck.

by pwh9980 on Apr 8, 2007 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh please

that year of suck is clouding our judgement. At least he manages to battle back when he's down in the count. He's not going to be the player we thought we were getting when we first traded for him, but he can still be a productive player. And if you can find a player that's going to be as productive, you're welcome to replace him.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's just

ignorant

by Brandon Wilson on Apr 8, 2007 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

THat goes for 1/2 of our lineup

shit, Tex and Young needs to start looking good against bad pitchers.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Um

So did MY, Tex, Sosa, Blalock, and I'm sure the rest of the lineup would've as well. That said, if Wilkerson is sat in favor of Cruz tommorow, it won't bother me.

by jcir454 on Apr 8, 2007 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And yes you are overreacting

at the risk of sounding vulgar, go suck a cock.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Dude, you are a moron

As I said, I am wondering what other people thought about how long certain players would have to suck before being replaced.

by pwh9980 on Apr 8, 2007 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well i am so glad you have been able to keep a

cool head around the rest of s exploding in frustration..

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sorry

but when every single small action is met with countless DOOM posts, it gets a bit absurd. It's early in the season, when people don't realize that we have 25 weeks left to play, it is frustrating. We have 2 diaries on the same knee-jerking idiotic topic. Excuse me for thinking that it's bullshit.

What do I know though, maybe you can draw another picture of MY to bust him out of that slump.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go back and read

this entire post. I did not intend this to be negative. I am not a fan of wilkerson, never was. maybe that does cloud my judgment a little. but, all i said was how long will he get to be this unproductive before he gets the boot. then, you and some other guy blow it out of proportion. maybe if you read something you disagree with, just type i disagree, or do not post at all. then this type of thing would not happen. you are the one that turned it in to a DOOM post.

by pwh9980 on Apr 8, 2007 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

why

why dont you point me to these countless doom and gloom posts

one diary is complaining about two players, and another has one guy criticizing the team and most people criticizing him.

Me and a bunch of others complaining about all the at bats at the end of teh game is not freaking doom and gloom, its frustration at the game. i certainly havnt said now all of the sdden i think the rangers suck becase papelbon beating them.

and its ridiculos to get so mad at people for supposedly overreacting and then in trn overreacting as much if not more. douse yourself in flames? fellate eachother? new levels of idiocy?

oh yeah, those people saying freaking wilkerson has sucked are WAY out of line.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

very good point

by pwh9980 on Apr 8, 2007 10:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

How is the posts you make

right now any different from the DFA everyone or blow it up posts last year? We're all over reacting on small sample sizes. People will look bad during ABs against great pitchers. The fact that people repeatedly make the same posts after anything negative happens is overreaction at its worst.

We had (OMG Wilkerson and OMG Sosa) posts throughout spring training, in every gameday thread and seemingly every time he Ks. It's ridiculous that you don't think that two diaries complaining about the same thing is excessive and overreaction, especially considering we just took a series from a team with a that is one of the best in the AL.

Ask yourself, would we be having this converstaion if we were 3-3 or took 2 of 3 from the Angels? This is just overreaction caused by a slow start, and the fact that we hear it over and over again is ridiculous. We covered it in the gamesday thread, why bother making 2 diaries about it? Is your brand of bitching so much more important/different than everyone elses'? It's a ridiculous way to do things, so yes, we are approaching a new level of retardation.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You need

to understand that anyone that has an account can make a dairy...If it is pointless , oh well, why let it bother u...why let it make u start calling people retards and cocksuckers? If I want to post a diary about the way I feel about the rangers or how they played Im gonna do it....U know why...cause its a freakin rangers blog site...AJM isnt the only one that cant rant about the rangers on here and tell us how he feels. We all make pointless diarys... deal with it dude>

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And by we all

you mean 2 or 3 people here. Seriously, is your special brand of player bitching that different that you needed to jump on to your computer to show us all how you feel? There are much better, more useful diaries pushed down everyday because of useless drivel like this. At least have the common decency to give us a fresh take.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow

dude u seriously are an asshole and obviously are not worthy to be on this site...If i had the power ur ass would be banned. go screw yourself...And by the way how else would I express my feelings about the rangers living in NY? Should I call someone living in Texas? Maybe chat via phone....Or maybe ill talk to all the fuckin yankee fans up here and tell them how i feel about the rangers after theyt lost. ....that would work right? Ur the idiot here dude....this is a ranger blog site and I dont care what fuckin dairies get pushed down...if u happen to see all ur diaries pushed down then open the recent diary link...And by the way faggots like u need to stop using the excuse of "There are much better, more useful diaries pushed down everyday because of useless drivel like this". Dumb excuse man....give it up

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 11:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You have all the right

in the world to be pissed off. I was for the MY/Tex ABs. What my problem with you is, why make a whole new diary about it? We have the gameday thread for a reason. Let's keep all the bitching focused on where it's supposed to go. So unless you have a whole new approach to bitching that we must absolutely know about, post your thoughts in teh gameday thread.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 11:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

is that the rule

on this site....cuz ive been posting here for a good three years and not once has someone ever approached it in such a way that u have...I'll post where I want when I want....if it offends u to bad....and if that is a rule, then calling people and writing what you have towards us should not be allowed cuz all it does is create problems...do me a favor dont comment on my dairys any more cuz i dont care what u have to say...i dont wanna have your input on what u think is right or wrong or where this person should post or how they should suck cock or whatever stupid shit u have posted....this argument is over...im out....

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

give me a break

1) I didnt say they wernt excessive or overreacting, i said they wernt doom and gloom on the season.

they may be overreactions, but i bet most people wold be more offended by a poster telling others off as you have in these threads then they wold be by people saying brad wilkerson has been terrible and MY and Tex had terrible at bats....

2) Its called a gameday thread for a reason.
reactions to the game. if you cant handle people giving instinct reactions to what happens, dont go into the thread.

3) What exactly have my posts said? The only thing ive said is that im absolutely sick of wilkerson. Wilkerson was terrible last year and has been bad this year. Im sick of him. what of it? thats perfectly reasonable.
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ive also said padilla pitched a great game, nelson had a nice line drive and that tex/youngs at bats were pathetic. Theres nothing wrong with any of that. I havnt said the rangers will lose 100 games, the team needs to get blown up, and i certainly havnt cursed off fellow rager fans because i cant deal with their reactions to a game =\

4) I ABSOLUTELY would have complained about those at bats regardless of record. What conversation do you think we are having? What, noone has said wilkerson has been bad before today?

Would I have been a little nicer and in a happier mood abot it? sure. who cares though, those posts dont hurt anybody, they are venting. Im venting about people who arnt here, dont care what im saying, and who the thread is about. You are venting about people reacting to a ranger game in a rangers game blog.

your posts have been the most ridiculous posts in the past 24 hours, at least keep overreaction about baseball players rather than personally insulting people 4-5 times, and then trying to act like you are the one remaining calm.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 10:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please

if it's already been beaten ad nauseum in gameday threads, then let it stay in the gameday threads. Yeah, we overreact and circle jerk there, but that's its function. The fact that we have 2 diaries about the same topic which was already covered in the gameday thread is overreaction. Furthermore, it's overreaction that is unwarranted since we're 6 games into the season.

I don't know, maybe Wilkerson will be horrible again this year, but it's also become readily apparent that his bad ABs are always subjected to more criticsm than anyone else. You might be right about Wilkerson and I might just be grasping at straws, but it's way too early to have a definitive answer. We played a decent game tonight and couldn't take advantage of our opportunities. I don't see why 1) a player gets targeted much more frequently than another 2) anyone can make up a definitive claim on a player's future performance 6 games in.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 11:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

hmmm... a frustrated ranger fan

making an extra diary saying he wants to see struggling players lose at bats on a rangers blog after a particularly frustrating loss, or...

someone who supposedly can see past such short sighted reactions telling other fans to...

"Do us all a favor and take a bath in vasoline will ya?"
"the vast majority of you can douse yourself in gasoline and drop a match for your knee jerking ways"
"Keep making great fantastic, insightful posts, I'm pretty sure your boyfriend's impressed."
"at the risk of sounding vulgar, go suck a cock."
"because you guys are becoming Red Sox retarded. That's a whole new level of retarded that nobody should have to deal with in the first week of the season."
"hey why don't you guys skip the pretenses and just felliate each other already?"
"keep making great fantastic, insightful posts"

hmm... which is more irritating and out of place on a rangers blog... hard to say.....

plus..

once again, i did NOT say it wasnt overreaction. I said it may be.
There are plenty of reasons to give michael young and mark teixeira more slack than brad wilkerson. two of them have been the core of the rangers lineup for three years and on the team longer, and one of them has had one terrible year with the rangers and not looked better (to most people...) this year. thats not bias against wilkerson, its logic. pujols didnt get criticized for his slow start because hes pujols. tex and mike arnt pujols, but they arnt brad wilkerson either.

and for the record, ive been very positive with my prediction on the rangers team, like the makeup of the team and was hopeful for wilkerson before the season. i am far from gloomy about the team, and merely get frstrated easily at games like this and the first 3 losses.

and as of right now, i hope wilkerson does get back on track, but i also happen to be very high on cruz becase i think his offense is similar to wilkerson, but with far better defense. id rather see wilkerson sitting half the time than cruz. for now i think sosa has looked a little better than wilkerson, but if he struggles more then its him id pick on.

and when adam lets political threads and lindsey lohan threads go, i dont see tihs as a particularly bad thread. its certain his blog and i dont have a problem with having whatever diaries there are, but i dont see this as one of the main offenders as far as unneeded diaries.

alright, thats abot all i have to say on that.

by DSheppard on Apr 8, 2007 11:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

this qoute made me think

"There are plenty of reasons to give michael young and mark teixeira more slack than brad wilkerson. two of them have been the core of the rangers lineup for three years and on the team longer, and one of them has had one terrible year with the rangers and not looked better (to most people...) this year. thats not bias against wilkerson, its logic. pujols didnt get criticized for his slow start because hes pujols. tex and mike arnt pujols, but they arnt brad wilkerson either." The reason why i get frustrated with wilkerson is because we shouldnt count on just tex and MY. This is a team that needs contributions from everyone. As for wilkerson we traded sori for him...he hasn't lived up to one ounce of value in that trade. Im okay with the fact that we made a bad trade for wilkerson and gave up a star...but he needs to go...we could easily plug someone else in his spot and maybe get better results. I also think guys like blalok needs to be written off...of course after his very very cheap contract is up...how about plugging botts in his spot....botts has to be a better hitter then wilkerson.

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

why

be vulgar....it obviously makes u frusterated also then....but you'll disagree with everything we have to say about sucky guys like wilkerson...give it up dude....r u afraid to change...maybe through some one else in there....

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm frustrated

because you guys are becoming Red Sox retarded. That's a whole new level of retarded that nobody should have to deal with in the first week of the season.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dude, you are overreacting

Coming into the game, Wilkerson was 5th on the team in OPS. I'm not saying the guy has looked great so far, or should play every single game, but give him a little more time than 6 games...seriously. Same obviously goes for Lofton, especially since his replacement would likely be Hairston/Cruz, which doesn't sound too apealing, to me at least.

by jcir454 on Apr 8, 2007 10:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

check

out my dairy....I totally agree that he needs to go. the guy SUCKS...worst trade we ever made....BY FAR....We traded SORI for a washed up piece of garbage...

by NYTXFAN on Apr 8, 2007 10:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey why don't you guys

skip the pretenses and just felliate each other already? Obviously, you have so much in common.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 8, 2007 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

At the risk

of sounding like a family butler:

- Ahem. The next game is tomorrow night at the ballpark against the Devil Rays of Tampa, Florida, often referred to as Tampa Bay. May I run your bath, and advise me if more than coffee and toast is desired in the morning?

Time does funny things. The worst of which is, it keeps moving when you don't.

by Ed Coffin on Apr 8, 2007 10:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This was pretty amusing

I'm not particularly optimistic about Wilkerson, but damn kids, give the guy a little time! I didn't see today's game but wasn't it just yesterday that he had a couple hits and a walk?

Regrettably, I've seen only two games this whole year so far (Thursday I'm finally getting cable!), but in both of them (one loss and one win) most of the players were working the pitchers pretty good. If they continue to do that they'll win some games as long as they get some decent pitching.

If anybody EXPECTED the Rangers to score a bunch of runs this year, they were deluded. They're going to have to beat teams by attrition: getting deep into their bullpens and shutting them down with theirs. A lot of success can be had if they're successful in doing those two things.

The Angels are clearly starting hot and swept the Rangers in California. Big deal. It can be overcome! They won two of three against the Red Sox, and now they just need to win the next series.

As long as the pitching stays healthy, I think this team's going to get better as the year goes along (as for why I think that, well, it's a whole other topic).

I'm cautiously optimistic.

by Dustin on Apr 9, 2007 12:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wouldn't be a Monday morning ...

... without the obligatory thread bitching about Wilk. Of course, we all want to overlook the fact that everyone in the lineup, except Hank, is sucking ass right now. The team, as a whole, has a .600 OPS. So shit-canning Wilk right now isn't going to solve anything. These guys are going to start hitting. When the team OPS is back up to a respectable range, if Wilk is still underperforming at that time, that will be the time to start seriously bitching about his spot on the team. Otherwise, if we're really going to base his future off of 6 games wherein the whole lineup hasn't hit, Hicks might as well fold the team and be done with it, because EVERYBODY sucks right now.

by Athos on Apr 9, 2007 8:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Everyone in the lineup

with the exception of Kinsler and Blalock, pretty much suck.

However, that swing of Wilkerson's is atrocious. I think pitchers are gonna figure out that you can throw batting practice fastballs past him. As long as you throw him strikes, he's pretty much hosed.

"I snorted my father" - Keith Richards

by DJCahill on Apr 9, 2007 9:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kinsler has been sucking too.

He has two whole hits so far. The fact they were both homers skews his OPS.

And you may be right about Wilk. But to toss him on the trash heap when the whole team, including our all stars and future stars are playing like crap, is just a tad bit unfair. Now, if he's still hitting like crap at the end of April, I'll probably be on the "dump Wilk" bandwagon, but not when the season's just a week old and nobody is playing well.

by Athos on Apr 9, 2007 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Heh

Even in the early going, he was smashing a lot of line drives right at fielders. Now the BA has come around a little bit to reflect that.

by a bebop a rebop on Apr 10, 2007 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

wilkerson

I've realized there is nothing he can do to change people's minds around here. he could go on a 20game hr streak and people would complain that he does nothing but hit hr's.

Right now everyone sucks at the plate!

"Pimps be damned, it's harder out here for a Rangers fan!" "If you don't throw strikes first, you're last."

by rentz on Apr 9, 2007 9:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Kind of funny

but I rarely hear bad things about Michael Young this year, despite his leaving over 2 runners on base a game, sporting one of the lowest OPS's on the team, and flashing a fairly weak glove so far. Personally, I think he stands in the running for LVP of week 1 with some pretty stiff competition.

I guess it all comes down to who folks like and don't like going into the season.

"I snorted my father" - Keith Richards

by DJCahill on Apr 9, 2007 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

exactly

"Pimps be damned, it's harder out here for a Rangers fan!" "If you don't throw strikes first, you're last."

by rentz on Apr 9, 2007 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

On the other hand

results aside, Wilkerson's swing looks like ass to me. Even if he were actually hitting the ball, he looks like crap in the batters box. His batting eye may not bad, but either his shoulder is still crap, or he hasn't got his mechanics straightened out, but his swing is almost as bad as Krapler's was.

"I snorted my father" - Keith Richards

by DJCahill on Apr 9, 2007 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's always

had that uppercutting swing. The difference is whether or not he can get around on those chest high fastballs. He's doing a decent job vs. anything in the 90-93 mph range, which is more than I could say for him last year.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 9, 2007 1:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's a difference.

Wilkerson looks terrible in the box -- swinging through a ton of pitches, watching a lot of strikes. It looks like the eye is just not there.

Young, on the other hand, has been making solid contact. In the three games I've watched (particularly the last couple), I've seen a lot of sharp ground balls and line drives of his go right into gloves. He looks solid.

by a bebop a rebop on Apr 9, 2007 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Young+Teixeira are going to be fine

by myoungfan11 on Apr 9, 2007 11:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

just wondering...

what did he do that you thought would change peoples minds?

by DSheppard on Apr 9, 2007 11:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

wilkerson

never said he did something to change anyones minds, i am saying nothing he could do would change anyones minds.... people are set on the fact that he sucks and nothing he does will change that
Personally I don't think he's nearly as bad as people seem to think he is, and i'd rather him be out there than mench

"Pimps be damned, it's harder out here for a Rangers fan!" "If you don't throw strikes first, you're last."

by rentz on Apr 9, 2007 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs