Joe Posnanski on Pedro Feliz and the RBI

Posnanski posted this on saturday. I must admit that I was once an RBI worshipper. And that might have been as recent as a few seasons ago. I have outgrown that, though. I sure wish every broadcaster and journalist who plans to cover a baseball game in 2010 was required to read this before doing so.

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Posnanski is so good

by Brett Perryman on Mar 15, 2010 1:29 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Yes he is...

…I finally bookmarked his blog this morning. I have no idea why I waited so long to do it. Always a good read.

I have no objection to man walking on the moon.

by Chad Crudup on Mar 15, 2010 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions

Baseball in general would be greatly served...

…if the RBI were never ever mentioned again. Never. Ever.

I have no objection to man walking on the moon.

by Chad Crudup on Mar 15, 2010 1:52 PM CDT reply actions

Which writer was it.........

…….back in 2007 who kept insisting that Sideshow Sammy was the Rangers MVP for the first half of the season? I believe they based about 80% of their argument on Sammy’s RBI totals the first few months of the season.

by Hard8 on Mar 15, 2010 2:38 PM CDT reply actions

Pretty sure that was TR

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Mar 15, 2010 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions

Spooky

I have no objection to man walking on the moon.

by Chad Crudup on Mar 15, 2010 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions

ha weird

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Mar 15, 2010 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Pretty sure that was TR

I have no objection to man walking on the moon.

by Chad Crudup on Mar 15, 2010 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions

I was only an RBI believer for a brief time.

1998 was the first time I started to care about stats in baseball to any degree, and so I was looking at RBIs as somehow indicative of someone who “got guys home” or w/e.

One day my mom asked what an RBI was, and I told her, and she said “well would Mark McGwire have more if people actually got on base in front of him?” I was dumbfounded by how great a point that was.

Never looked at them again. At least not for any evaluation purposes.

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Mar 16, 2010 1:53 PM CDT reply actions