Not to pick on AA's favorite whipping boy, but c'mon! "That was a lot of fun," Jeff Francoeur...

Not to pick on AA's favorite whipping boy, but c'mon!

"That was a lot of fun," Jeff Francoeur said. "You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don't want to do is hit a home run. That's a rally-killer."

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hold on a minute, this is just too perfect

after his ‘if OBP was important it would be on the scoreboard’ statement, and now this, i am beginning to think that Jeff is just the latest project from the people behind firejoemorgan. I’m waiting for him to say something about how he doesn’t walk to avoid ‘clogging the basepaths’ followed by a diatribe against nerds who live in their mom’s basement. Then we’ll know.

by -ben- on Aug 19, 2009 10:00 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If he starts talking ad nauseam about "concetrating" we'll know for sure.

by dtro on Aug 19, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

OH GOD WHY

He’s trying to kill us all.

by psiogen on Aug 19, 2009 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh god, he is so right

I’m pissed that Piazza hit that HR at the end of the massive comeback against the Braves. Killed the rally.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B06300NYN2000.htm

by JoshNY on Aug 19, 2009 11:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yeah what a jerk

nobody in NY will ever remember Piazza for anything!

by KeithsMoustache on Aug 19, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What a moron, I'm sorry.

I would personally require an IQ test to join my baseball team.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Aug 19, 2009 11:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I have no problem with baseball players being dumb.

Like I’m sure David Wright would suck at calculus and Carlos Beltran never really got string theory. I just prefer they understand baseball.

by dtro on Aug 19, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not talking about that stuff.

I’m talking about logic. Like, making a play where you score all the runners on base>scoring some of the baserunners. That’s just basic math.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Aug 19, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Joe Morgan would fail your test

but would probably be the first second basemen I would want on my team.

by Sokojoe on Aug 19, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh please

I bet Voltron writes scholarly materials about string theory in his spare time

by JoshNY on Aug 19, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

On second thought

you’re probably right about Voltraon. I wouldn’t really put anything past him.

by dtro on Aug 19, 2009 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another great one of Jason's was

“We can come out of our room when we’re ready to apologize to Mr. Santana,” when he was getting no run support.

“This is why we can’t have nice things.”

http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2009/5/11/4183026.html

by SupT on Aug 20, 2009 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seems to me...

… that Voltron’s more the philosophy/theology type.

“El es aqui… pero no es aqui? Como?”

by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Aug 19, 2009 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, he's got the time on his hands to learn it now.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Aug 20, 2009 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm thinking

He’s repeating what he’s been told by people trying to maneuver him toward taking smart at-bats rather than swinging wildly trying for the grand slam: " when you get up there bases loaded, Frenchy, you don’t want to kill the rally. Just get a hit, keep it going."

by SupT on Aug 20, 2009 10:43 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He's just confused...

…bless his heart.

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs