The January 7 All-Star team

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 7, 2009 10:20 AM CST Comment 26 comments

Sometimes I do the "happy birthday" posts, but over at BP today, there's an item where they suggest that an All-Star team made up of players born on January 7 might be better than a team that could be put together from players born on any other one date.

And of course, it includes former Rangers Alfonso Soriano and Kevin Mench...

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Happy birthday, bro.

You still suck.

"I know you're a bit dense but no, it doesn't. Obviously lying isn't a problem for me."

by benmor78 on Jan 7, 2009 10:26 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Happy Birthday!

I may send you a homemade Birthday Jar!

Get off my lawn.

by DJCahill on Jan 7, 2009 10:30 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hah

These days that might get you a nice visit from the FBI and Homeland Security. I guess you could claim it was art like that professor in Buffalo.

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by t ball on Jan 7, 2009 2:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

3rd Former Ranger on that list....

Eric Gagne

"that suzuki guy should go back to making cars" - My girlfriend after C.J.'s close in game 2

by tdi1985 on Jan 7, 2009 10:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Give me February 6th

Babe Ruth’s birthday, a bunch of scrubs filling out the rest of the lineup, and I’ll beat your January 7th team any day.

by JBImaknee on Jan 7, 2009 10:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Ty Cobb

he would scare everybody off the field.

but yeah, I agree. Ruth or any of the great yankees/ted williams and i’ll end up with a better team.

Wait 'til the year after next

by NothinG on Jan 7, 2009 11:00 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

January 31st

That team would have:

Nolan Ryan
Ernie Banks
Jackie Robinson

by Royal Swine on Jan 7, 2009 12:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Not bad...

found out that both LeBron James and Tiger Woods were born on December 30th which is the same day my daughter and brother were born on.

Not a bad couple of guys to share your birthday with.

Of course I share my birthday with the entire damn country so…

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jan 7, 2009 2:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You're the 4th?

At least you always get the day off and get fireworks.

by JBImaknee on Jan 7, 2009 2:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

it’s pretty nice to always have my birthday off.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jan 7, 2009 2:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

happy bday ajm!

"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005

by Agreen07 on Jan 7, 2009 11:58 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Happy Birthday

They don’t make nicknames like they used to.

Kitty Bransfield, and my personal favorite, Heinie Berger.

Heinie Berger >>> Mark Hamburger

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Jan 7, 2009 12:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The name Heinie

made me laugh also. With a name like Heinie Berger I bet elementary school was brutal

by BEW on Jan 7, 2009 1:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Happy birthday

I only clicked on comments so I could make sure that someone has acknowledged what today really is.

And to nominate you for the attorney of the January 7 all-star team.

by RachelB on Jan 7, 2009 12:42 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Me too

Though I have listened to the podcast, and I vote Adam as the color announcer.

That would be EPIC.

"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08

by lisa w on Jan 7, 2009 1:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Happy Birthday Adam!

My list is as follows!

Thom Yorke – Radiohead
Nicolas Cage
John Cougar Mellencamp

oh sports!

Tom Hicks (Olympic Marathon Runner 04’) the other tom hicks!

and one of the best last names in baseball…

Tony Conigliaro (Red Sox) his name sounds like a dish at La Strada!

by mrichardson70 on Jan 7, 2009 2:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Happy Birthday meno71

by cmkelly29 on Jan 7, 2009 2:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I guess nobody here reads Malcolm Gladwell

In his newest book, Outliers, he presents some compelling evidence to suggest that people born just after the cutoff dates for youth sports teams have a huge advantage.
For example, lets say you are born today, Jan. 7th, 2009, and your local league has teams of kids the same age with a cutoff date of Jan. 1st so that in 2019, you would be 10 years old and playing with everyone born in the 2009 calendar year. You would have a distinct advantage, from say, kids born in November or December because you would be older, taller, bigger, and faster than them. That would translate to more practice as a starter and more playing time. It’s not as much being born in January, but being born ASAP after the cutoff date that gives you an advantage over your peers, or so he argues.

Jay Zygmunt, now that you are going to fire yourself...have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

by 3k on Jan 7, 2009 4:02 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Seems intuitive

the same thing is happening with kindergarten. Some parents are intentionally planning birth dates around kindergarten cutoffs in some vain attempt to have their kids older than most of their peers, or even holding them back a year so they are a year older. I say vain, because there is zero evidence of that paying off in the long term even though those kids do a bit better initially.

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by t ball on Jan 7, 2009 6:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs