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A well written take on an oft-debated subject around here.

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Good stuff. Posnanski is a great writer anyway, and he gives a well-reasoned take on the value of stats complementing your own eyes. Of course, being in KC he’s predisposed to love Greinke, but he’s not wrong to rave about the guy, and Greinke deserves the Cy Young.

"Those that drink the Kool-Aid, please leave the room."

by Kitspool on Sep 29, 2009 9:14 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I thought this said “Polanski on watching baseball” and thought oh lord here we go.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 29, 2009 9:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Before it even begins

Let’s please not have this conversation here, okay?

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster

by jponry on Sep 29, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Polanski prefers softball. Of the middle school variety.

Why do San Francisco teams insist on having terrible offenses? Frank Gore and Pablo Sandoval can't do it all.

by GiantPain on Sep 29, 2009 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

/walrusman joke

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster

by jponry on Sep 29, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I love JoePo and his adorable crush on Greinke.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster

by jponry on Sep 29, 2009 9:49 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

/spits

Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's

by Giant among Angels on Sep 29, 2009 10:20 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

He reminded me of one of my current pet peeves — HOF voters who dismiss Tim Raines candidacy by saying he wasn’t as good as Rickey Henderson. In what other circumstances is this logic used? Mickey Mantle was a pretty darn good player, but he wasn’t as good a hitter as Babe Ruth, so I’m voting against him. I don’t think Clemens is quite up to Walter Johnson’s standards — he’ll just have to stay on the outside looking in.

My Bucardo is better than yours.

A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.

by Roger on Sep 30, 2009 7:36 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.

Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...

by rotorueter on Sep 30, 2009 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Holy crap, that was good writing. It’s not like I just discovered Posnanski, but that was a damn fine article.

I also like that he uses more parenthetical comments than I do because I’m sensitive about that.

by Grant on Oct 2, 2009 11:34 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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