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"That I want to be a country music singer worse than you could ever imagine. I would actually give up my baseball talent to be a country music singer and most people don’t know that."

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Looking at the numbers, I'm assuming he made said deal in two parts

giving up his offensive talent for guitar playing after ‘05 and his defensive talent for singing after ’07. Hopefully, it’ll all come together for him in the offseason and he can follow his dream.

by Sokojoe on Sep 11, 2009 1:28 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

You know he'll play guitar...

…because it’s impossible to imagine him on bass.

phliadelphoe ite domum!

by Doc Manhattan on Sep 11, 2009 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

Opening venue

He could start his career in an appropriately small venue, say, a Delta flight.

by mnbv on Sep 11, 2009 1:45 PM EDT reply actions  

What baseball talent?

Snark aside, I actually despise country music

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

by squid92 on Sep 11, 2009 2:00 PM EDT reply actions  

what a fashionable opinion

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

by Sam Page on Sep 11, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

hmm?

I actually spent my formative years with a family that had country on all the time. i’m allowed my own opinion on music, yeah? haha.
i actually have diverse tastes in music, haha.

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

by squid92 on Sep 11, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Could you imagine if Reyes said this same thing about dancing or becoming a reggaeton artist?

The media would be all over him that he doesn’t love baseball, that he’s not a team first guy.

Anyway, things we now know about Jeff Francoeur and his mind:
On-Base Percentage- Bad
Home Runs- Worst thing you can do in a rally
His Country Music career- more important than his baseball career (country music? really, he couldn’t have said hip hop or rock or something, ya know, good. Hell, I don’t listen to Jazz on a regular basis, but when I hear some I at least say, these guys are good. Country is just horrible.)

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Sep 11, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions  

Fire up the spinners-

Jeff Francoeur officially hates baseball (and America, and pie) even more than Adam Dunn.

"Of course Kolby Rasmus was going deep! That’s what Kolby Rasmus does! You don’t give Kolby Rasmus second chances!" -Kolby Rasmus

by hazel on Sep 11, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

just what I was thinking

Reyes would be burned at the stake if he so much as hinted that he had other passions besides baseball.

Anyway, I’m going to be semi-contrarian and say that some classic country is very, very good. You can’t go wrong with Ralph Stanley (bluegrass legend) or Hank Williams or Willie Nelson. But as for the Toby Keith type stuff that gets put out now? Bleah.

Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.

by Greenpoint Ian on Sep 11, 2009 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah

I was talking more like Big and Rich who are just terrible

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Sep 11, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

There was a post article about Reyes doind Regaeton music as a hobby, I think

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

by Sam Page on Sep 11, 2009 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

but...but...

Hip-Hop is the devil’s work!

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

by squid92 on Sep 11, 2009 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jeff Francoeur Hip Hop

I am laughing just trying to picture that.

by erich10031 on Sep 12, 2009 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

If Ryan Church said this, he would get traded striaght up

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Sep 11, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions  

Country Music? Really

I get that he’s from the ATL but Really Country Music?.That crap blows

Gangsta

by Jadden Hopkins on Sep 11, 2009 6:39 PM EDT reply actions  

Isn't there a Yankee cock holding fanpost

due up from you at pinstripe alley?

"It's like the old phrase goes.....The balls in your court now Mr.Church, so you take that ball, you dribble it up the court and....................................... get a layup"
- Keith Hernandez

by nrmax88 on Sep 12, 2009 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

Country music is not gangsta

You don't cheer for the Mets. You drink for the Mets.

by Kevin H on Sep 12, 2009 8:46 AM EDT reply actions  

You should hear him sing...

believe me, he’s better at baseball. Shocking, I know.

"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 Sep 15, 2009 12:41 PM EDT reply actions  

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