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Everything posted by Jacoby_Ellsbury

  1. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Most major league players view RBI's, batting average, and pitcher wins as telling, effective, solid individual stats.
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    Alfonso Soriano is a s***** lead-off hitter because his career-high OBP is .351.
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    So you are presenting your experience pitching to beer-bellied, gray-haired clowns as something to be proud of and the reason why you know so much more about late-inning gut checks than any other know-nothing here. I do not envy you.
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    Awfully effective at getting guys out the past two seasons.
  7. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    That 'one' was you.
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    Yes it is a copout. You asked me if I've ever pitched, in retaliation to me stating that anyone who gets 9th inning jitters shouldn't be in the majors. I asked you to explain how it is more difficult, and you went and hammered out 'FIGYER IT 0WT URSELF LOLOL'. That, is a copout.
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    If this babble is true, then pitchers should be blowing saves a lot more often than they do. Terrific. What the f*** does this have to do with closers? I'm not advocating that Bard pitch complete games, if you didn't notice.
  12. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Perhaps you didn't notice that I mentioned Ramon Ramirez as another possibility, should Bard be too unpolished initially.
  13. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Every bit the idiotic copout I expected.
  14. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    So fear is the common denominator here?
  15. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Okay, tell me why the last outs are so much more difficult. And you obviously never got close to the majors.
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    ********. That is all. Anyone who is too shaken up to get those outs shouldn't be in the majors.
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    Your closer, like any other reliever on your roster, needs to get outs. If they get outs, they succeed. That's it. I never said Daniel Bard is a better reliever than Papelbon.... yet. Next year, it could ultimately turn out that way if Bard is given the chances. Papelbon has seen a decline this year. There's no guarantee he'll bounce back; he could very well continue to decline. It is much better to trade him too early than too late. If you ship him out now, there's bound to be teams out there who see this season as a bump in the road, and are willing to part with something valuable for him (the Marlins traded Kevin f***ing Gregg for Jose Ceda, a good relief prospect). Also, IIRC, Papelbon wasn't even slated to be a closer heading into 2006. Francona just threw him into one of the Rangers games, he did a good job, and it stuck. Why can't Bard come in and do the same?
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    What is an 'established closer'? One of them tuff rugged guize at the end of teh 'pen with dat bulldawg, ****ree mentality u gotta have to get them there outs? No, I don't buy it. A closer, like every other reliever on the roster, has one job - get outs. Either he does or he doesn't. Bard is getting outs. If you have perfectly good (and probably cheaper) alternatives already on your roster, why not ship Papelbon to some team that will probably overvalue him and give us more than he's worth? Both Bard and Ramon Ramirez would be sufficient closers.
  20. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    *claps slowly*
  21. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Thread fails, OP is an idiot. That is all.
  22. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    This is uncommon, but I'm also on the verge of going nuts next time someone says that.
  23. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Yeah, I didn't know it when I wrote that.
  24. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    You're very welcome, now go shove a hot spatula up your ass and enjoy Lugo's brutal interpretation of 'fielding'.
  25. Jacoby_Ellsbury
    Nice and short-sighted.
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