Steve Phillips ESPN Chat

Anyone want to set the over/under on number of questions it takes him to bash Beltran?

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1.5

But I would love someone to snark him and ask if he was still GMing, how would he avoid the injury bug that has hit the Mets.

by TBlz on Jun 3, 2009 10:52 AM EDT reply actions

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Let’s see if it gets an answer.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jun 3, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Steve-baiting this afternoon I see,

hopefully you get a bite.

by Sokojoe on Jun 3, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions

No such luck

he answered 11 questions. I imagine my "If you were still the Mets’ GM . . . " query wasn’t going to make the top of the list.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jun 3, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions

He must have been busy today

He didn’t even have time to bash Beltran’s leadership abilities.

by mets81 on Jun 3, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, you should have repharsed that to something softer perhaps

“If you were able to keep your job…”

by Sokojoe on Jun 3, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought about it

but, in for a penny and such.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jun 3, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

11 questions, wow

Rough day at the office for Steve-O

by James Kannengieser on Jun 3, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm excited for this chat

1 P.M ET can’t get here soon enough.

by James Kannengieser on Jun 3, 2009 11:12 AM EDT reply actions

This is off to a rockin' start

Jason (who isn’t me) baits Steve with a nice little Pythag anomaly question. I give his answer a 5 out of 10.

Jason (Bergenfield, NJ): What is the explanation for Tampa’s +38 run differential but yet under .500 record?

SportsNation Steve Phillips: (1:08 PM ET ) Run differential has always interested me. A few years back, the Indians outscored their opponents by 70 runs but had a sub-.500 record. A few years ago, the Diamondbacks outscored their opponents but were 20 games over .500. I’m never sure of what to make of those anomalies, but because they happen so often, I wonder if it’s a good indicator of a team’s potential success. If a club outscores its opponents significantly but loses, I guess they win big but lose close games. That’s an indicator of pitching, particularly the bullpen, and some element of luck. The Rays still have a run in them this year, but I worry about their having starting pitching necessary to keep pace with the Yankees and Red Sox.

by jasondg on Jun 3, 2009 1:10 PM EDT reply actions

He's right

for once

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Jun 3, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

This made it a 3 for me:

I wonder if it’s a good indicator of a team’s potential success

by mets81 on Jun 3, 2009 1:16 PM EDT reply actions

^meant as a reply to jasondg

by mets81 on Jun 3, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

he gets points for saying it interests him, and that it’s an indicator of the bullpen and luck. He loses points for citing two examples from “a few years ago” and wondering if it’s a good indicator because, nonsensically, these “anomalies” happen “often” — and loses more for his Morgan-esque final sentence.

by jasondg on Jun 3, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

I guess its

The “I wonder” portion, its like he is fascinated by it but doesnt have a clue what to do to figure it out.

This guy is paid money by the biggest purveyor of sports information on the planet to analyze baseball and his answer is “I wonder”? He didn’t even bother to take a position he can’t support with facts.

by mets81 on Jun 3, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Unfathomable

that a big league general manager has to “wonder” whether there’s some correlation between winning games and outscoring your opponent.

by Eric Simon on Jun 3, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Not unfathomable

when that person is Steve Phillips.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jun 3, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm imagining a conversation like this...

Assistant: “Hey Steve, we won again!”

Steve: “That’s cool. What was the score?”

Assistant: “6-4 Mets”

Steve: “That’s like the fifth victory in a row where we have scored more runs than the other team. Maybe I’m crazy, but I think I’m seeing a trend….”

by deadspy3 on Jun 4, 2009 2:57 AM EDT up reply actions

he either is that stupid

or he assumes his audiance is that stupid. either way, steve phillips ia real piece of crap.

All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.

by kendynamo on Jun 4, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I think the latter

he seems like a pretentious piece of shit. I don’t think he’s dumb, just arrogant. And he irrationally hates the Mets. Why is he on TV again?

by cjmulrain on Jun 5, 2009 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I actually couldn't find anything blatantly wrong that he said this time

I mean, he wasn’t very insightful, but he seems better than Joe Morgan, at least when he isn’t talking about the Mets core. I think he actually used the word “correlation.”

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on Jun 3, 2009 6:45 PM EDT reply actions

Well

he was a GM at one point. Yes, he’s a media jackass now and probably pretty biased but we shouldn’t expect him to put his foot in his mouth every time it opens. Met fans like to bash him b/c he made some ridiculous and desperate transactions, mainly in the latter half of his tenure. But he also traded for Mike Piazza, Al Leiter and Mike Hampton, and signed Robin Ventura. It’s not like he’s a complete and utter fool.

by Zwill on Jun 3, 2009 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I also think he's deliberately toned it down

Ever since that broadcast he did a few weeks ago where he spent more time laying into Beltran than talking about the actual game at hand. There was such a loud public outcry after that game, it was probably impossible for him to miss the fact that 90% of the baseball community felt he crossed a line.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Jun 3, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe

but he did defend his comments in an ESPN chat that week. I don’t think he’s seen the light on Beltran yet and I’m not so sure that he’s consciously altering his shtick. It seems more likely that he was never as dumb as Met fans would like to believe. He was (and is) competent enough to be a GM but not bright enough to be an effective one.

by Zwill on Jun 3, 2009 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe

I mean, I’m not saying I think he’s admitting he was wrong, but I think he may have told himself to tone it down. He may have defended himself in that chat, but how many four letter words do you think got sent to him in that chat? He had to notice. I could be wrong, but it was just the impression I got watching the weekend ESPN game through the first few innings, then Joe Morgan baited him and the stupid began again.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Jun 3, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to get political

But this is akin to Jeffrey Rosen backpedaling like crazy after he said “some people” had told him Sotomayor is dumb and kind of a bitch, besides. He’s been everywhere he can book himself to be, trying to sound like he actually is a responsible reporter, but the repeated attempts to make his points in a non-crazy sounding way are just evidence that he well knows the whole world finds his points crazy. It’s clear he knows he fucked up his reputation royally. I’m not sure we can say that of Phillips, but he does know he got spanked.

by SupT on Jun 4, 2009 2:47 AM EDT up reply actions