Series Win Applesauce - Reyes the power hitter, Mets gurus, Francoeur doesn't walk, Philly fans

that post is incredibly bad. please write a rebuttal, Sam.

Francoeur is awesome.

but Fangraphs has Church at 2.7 RAR since becoming a Brave, Francoeur at 0.8 RAR since becoming a Met.

This weekend alone, he had seven RBIs in the three-game series against the Astros. Gary Cohen asked,

    "When’s the last time any Met did that?"

Well, Wright had 9 RBI in the first tree games at the Giants. Does that count?

At least it is on the level of discourse found in that article.

just… wow

I cannot believe I could actually get dumber from reading a baseball article (well, it claims to be one), but that just happened.

Here are some that take the cake:

"There is a contingency in our fanbase that would have rather seen Francoeur walk instead of driving a dramatic three run homer that traveled over 425 feet. They would prefer to see less hits and more walks."

There is not one logical Met fan that would rather see a walk than a homerun. However, walks are essential to getting on base. Walks are important. I cannot stress this enough.

"But here we have a bona fide slugger whocan drive in runs, and yet so many would prefer to take the bat right out of his hands. "

I am going to stop right here. I was going to do a long, FJM-esque post about how dumb you are, but you do it yourself. I have some guess I want to throw out there:

You have a low IQ and/or have a low-end educational background(I’d love to hear what college you went to)

You are not intelligent. You are very, very dumb.

"I am so glad that Francoeur’s 100 RBI bat is now an integral part of our lineup. And if we do manage to win a wild card this season, you can be sure that it never would have happened without Francoeur.

If we do in fact make the post season, the Jeff Francoeur trade will be known as the turning point in the Mets season. In fact, I believe it already is.

Lead the way Frenchy!"

This is why this website sucks. You are a clown.

This is why there is a “Stats vs Scouts” battle. Whether or not the author of the post is incorrect, it took him time to write out his post, so if you want to debate the point of his post, it’s not best to question his intelligence and his college background. (Like the latter even matters, my father is a MTA driver on the upper west side and is much smarter man than me, his master degree holding son.) This immediately puts the author on the defensive, which anyone would be, and makes the commentator look incredibly pretentious and smug. It would be better to point that slugging is arguably worth three times less the obp or point to Ryan Church’s superior defense anything while avoiding the petty name calling and the appearance of talking down to someone.

high draft picks!

I moved to just outside Philly not too long ago. Actually one of my first years living out here was when the Eagles made the Super Bowl. They would still hate Reid and McNabb one week and love him the next. There is nothing quite as funny as listening to a Philly sports show. They hate EVERYONE.