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When Milton Bradley spoke at Lindbergh Middle School in Long Beach the other day - and then invited students to Dodger Stadium to celebrate the opening of the Milton Bradley Baseball Academy (which has a dual focus on athletics and academics) - Hank Waddles, who writes The Broken Cowboy column for Only Baseball Matters, was there for it all.
Among the many thoughts Bradley shared was this:
Right around this age, you start meeting people that are getting into the wrong thing, and maybe that Friday night, there's a party going on, and "Hey, wanna come to this party?" And you gotta tell 'em, "No, I got some work I gotta get done." You might tell 'em something else, but you know what the truth is. There were times, and I wasn't the most popular guy when I was in school, because I just had my backpack on with my books and I went to my next class, I was kind of that guy they called a nerd, but I don't think they look at me that way anymore.
I was a nerd in school AND didn't get invited to parties either. I was a double threat.
My team was weak against lefty pitching, so I wanted some help there. I hoped to outslug my opponents to make up for the decreased defense.
I have visions of Vinnie going "In comes Cintron! In comes Gonzalez! In comes Clark!"
It's 5-0 DBacks in the first, so the Philadelphia ascendancy has been delayed.
Green OPS .700
Beltre OPS .622
Finley OPS .713
Dave Roberts: .809
Drew .894
Kent .888
Perez 1.052
Choi .760/Sáenz 1.053
.622 on the dodgers is between Weaver and Bako.
.700 on the dodgers is Repko.
.708 on the dodgers is Jason Phillips.
I guess its sort of a toss up between Kent and Drew, but that doesn't exactly hurt my argument.
So I totally forgot about him. It looks like his second half slide has started even earlier this year. When that trade happened I was scared about loosing Mota more than anything. You can add him to the list as well.
And I, too, was a nerdy kid who buried himself in books and never got invited to parties. A toast to us!
jasonungar, when you add the fact that Penny and Lowe have been the only consistent starters so far, your case becomes even stronger.
Jones has been doing so much work for SportingNews in the last couple of years, that I was shocked to see him still pitching.
Jun. 6 -
Miami Herald
Love that LoDuca trade!
Oh how times (and General Managers) have changed.
I've been away from this site for a few days - has there already been any Penny-Extension debate?
If we stay out of the race, Penny is for sale come July. (And Weaver too, make an offer!)
I can now stop playing with the kid and keeping company with the wife and go back to doing what I truly love to do... find out some factoids about Hee-Seop Choi.
Oh, and Milton Bradley? He is now my co-favorite player. Great article.
We divided into FJT and DFJTJY (Don't fire ... ... just yet) camps. The former was a much nicer camp with more people and fixed toilets.
The DFJTJY camp had pit toilets and we all had to make wallets.
That said, I feel both should be locked up.
vr, Xei
LOL, thats hilarious.
(So Hunter Thompsonesque)
But still, why not just replace Itz with Robles yesterday. Leave Perez at 3b, Sanez at 1b and kent at 2b.
Does anyone understand the logic of why we didnt do that?
Penny has really got to be thinking sometimes, "does Tracy want me to lose?"
But it's still hard to see Robles in the starting lineup when Choi has been playing so little.
Robles is playing b/c Izturis got the day off. Choi isn't playing b/c Kent is getting the "day off" at first.
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ok, but is it really a difference? I mean he has to be involved in almost every play at 1b? regardless, thats a good theory of why. And if true I buy it.
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not as bummed about Choi/Robles. Itz needed a rest and who else would play SS? Perez possibly? Although I do wish Choi would get regular playing time.
Overall, I don't think yesterday's lineup was as big a deal as others have said. I just don't like that Tracy does very little to get Choi playing time.
Second basemen move on every play too, even ones they're not directly involved in, and generally have to make more difficult fielding plays more frequently.
Franks obviously didn't want to lose Mays' bat. Mays played first base using his regular glove.
Mays played 84 games at first in his career. He also played 2 at shortstop and 1 at third base. I think those were all in emergency situations.
He only played LF or RF 31 times. 2827 appearances in CF.
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