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this is what makes twitter lame
your title is all the description that is in the link. Lame ass crap. I love the in-depth analysis or even possibly a link to an article. Nah, Why do that, when one sentence will describe the whole story?
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
It just broke dumbass
the story is fourth coming.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Oct 25, 2009 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Here
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Oct 25, 2009 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
You are a douche.
What more do you need to know? How Acta and Shapiro engaged in intimate love making before Acta got the job? They thought he was the best candidate etc. and gave him the job. That’s it.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team.-Lonestarjon
Drew effing Gooden??? F U Donnie.
I don't need to know who the manager of the Indians is in the first place
who gives a shit about the indians and manny acta? I guess nobody does, or at least enough to write more than one sentence about him.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
I do
That’s why I promoted it to the main page.
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 25, 2009 4:19 PM CDT up reply actions
I want to see
how he does with a decent team. He was a highly thought of guy when he was with the Mets.
"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron
Me too, and I like Shapiro a lot as well
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Oct 26, 2009 1:46 PM CDT up reply actions
that's your prerogative
you run the site, but worthy of the front page? it’s about as worthy as every FA signing that will happen this winter. Of course, let’s hope the links to those go to more than just a twitter summary. Why even link this?
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
It was breaking news
There wasn’t an article yet.
Maybe the OP could go back and link the actual article once one is out there but theres nothing wrong with this type of link to breaking news
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
How is it equivalent to ever free agent signing?
There are 30 managers in MLB and only a handful of them come open every year. I’m pretty sure more free agents than that get signed. If you had said it was equivalent to a major FA signing (Teixeira, CC, etc), you’d probably be right, but I’m pretty sure those are worthy of front page news.
Geez dude, I’d just quit right now before you dig an bigger hole than you’re already in.
"Feldman and Feliz and and pray for…infectious disease?"--TheJeezus on Sep 9, 2009 1:01 PM PDT
you would place Manny Acta, a manager in the same category
as Teixeira or any other player because there are fewer openings. Somebody really needs to think a little. FA signings are usually much more significant news than a manager who just left the worst team in baseball and now is going to the 2nd worst team in the AL and 4th worst in baseaball. Manager openings usually happen on very crappy teams, and I only care about those teams if they affect the Rangers significantly — ie AL West etc
AJM himself has been quoted as saying Managers don’t really have that much impact on the outcome of games.
And, my main point is not that it isn’t news, but that it is lazy freakin’ journalism. One sentence. Sure that may be all you have time for on the radio or whatever, but twitter seems to allow people now the ability to break news without actually providing any sort of coherent article. Why do we need sportswriters to do this? Can’t you just pay some crappy intern to give these great insights.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
This guy seems to be traping a lot of people into fighting back,
The next hurlerhuley lbrooks. Great…Hello there buddy(or is it goodbye)! Only a matter of time before you piss of AJM and you get banned!
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I have banned very, very few people
Texas_Dawg
habib
StealHome
That’s about it.
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 25, 2009 6:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Didn't Lbrooks get banned for life, or is that just cause of the greece monkey app.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
habib was on LSB?
Guess that was before my time.
Also, Ben had to take matters into his own hands when he banned Texas_Dawg, so lets not take credit for that one, hmn? ; )
Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock
Habib was here? Lol.
That guy was/is an idiot.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 26, 2009 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I've been on here for quite some time
and hardly have that history, so get over it or dwell on it. I could care less.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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@jperrotto RT @alysonfooter: Anthony Castrovince, Indians beat writer for MLB.com, reporting Acta turned down Astros offer and accepted 3-yr deal.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
Indians Farm system >>>>>> Astros farm system
I would do the same exact thing
Bill Simmons: "I will tell you right now, if the Boston Red Sox traded Clay Buchholz for Justin Smoak, I will run around my neighborhood naked...celebrating for an hour. I love Justin Smoak"
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@jperrotto RT @brianmctaggart: HOU offered Acta 2-year deal with 1-year option; CLE offered Acta 3-year deal with 1-year option
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Oct 25, 2009 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Glad to see Acta get a chance to manage somewhere that's much less of a black hole than Washington.
I mean really, who could have gotten a better record out of the Nationals than Acta did?
LOL WUT??? WHY????
@BizballMaury RT Shades of Billy Martin @BowdenFOXSports Phil Garner and Houston should be next announcement
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
Word from Onley is Big Mac is high on the list for the batting coach job that just opened?
And no we will not look at him to possibly fill ours.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
Nevermind he is hired.....
mind boggling cause he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
He also drew a ton of walks
And was a great OBP guy throughout his career.
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 25, 2009 6:31 PM CDT up reply actions
And that could largely be due to opposing pitchers not wanting to pitch to him.
Say what you will but I don’t see him preeching patience at all.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
Opposing pitchers don't want to pitch to Vlad
And yet he never walks.
The idea that guys only draw walks because pitchers are afraid to pitch to them is b.s.
And since patience was a huge part of McGwire’s approach, I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be part of what he’d advocate as a hitting coach.
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 25, 2009 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I guess all I remember is him hacking away when given the chance,
but then again, I never really followed him outside of the big home run chase. Lets see how he does then.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
He hit 263 for his career
but because he was able to draw walks had a career OBP of 394.
I think its safe to say that no hitter in our current lineup who will be on the team next year will ever have an OBP of 394, regardless of who our hitting coach is. I don’t think any of our guys will have exceptional OBPs just due to the collection of offensive talent we have.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
I'd say Vlad is a unique example.
A hitting coach surely doesn’t teach swinging at the types of pitches Vlad swings at.
McGwire was pitched around. Just like Bonds was. It’s alot easier to draw walks when pitchers aren’t challenging you. In fact he didn’t draw walks as much as he took them. To me drawing a walk is fouling off several pitches and making the pitcher miss the zone. Taking a walk is when the pitcher is happy missing the zone and hopes you hack at something out of it to get yourself out
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
by bigsteve on Oct 26, 2009 1:05 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
So
According to Richard Justice, the Astros had decided on Acta as their next manager, but Drayton McLane refused to give him a three year deal, so he went to Cleveland.
With the way Acta handled the nats young guys is this the best move for Cleveland with their farm system?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
You know...
This reminds me of one of my favorite FJM pieces of all time.
Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock
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