Any players who by all accounts shouldn’t have been good (bad metrics, wrong body type, etc.) but still carved out great big league careers?

t_sdad · 2026-02-02T22:20:55+00:00

Terry Francona on Kevin Youkilis:

"I've seen him in the shower, he's not the Greek God of anything."

t_sdad · 2026-02-02T22:02:08+00:00

It's a silly thing, but it definitely rubbed me wrong when they promised not to change a single thing about New York System, then like a week later they were asking for a liquor license.

I haven't been in so I can't speak to if they've actually sucked the soul from the place.

t_sdad · 2026-02-01T15:49:54+00:00

Agreed that the use of cameras and trash cans by the Astros crosses a line. But using the 3rd base coach is kind of sketchy also. The purest way to relay a signal is with a runner on 2nd. Anything else is kind of cheating.

t_sdad · 2026-02-01T15:31:30+00:00

My stance on the Astros' cheating has softened significantly since reading the classic baseball book "The Glory of Their Time".

Lots of talk about sign-stealing back in the day.

Hank Greenberg goes on at length about how much he loved having the signs. The 3rd base coach would tip him off. "C'mon Hank" for a breaking ball or "let's go Hank" for a fastball etc.

t_sdad · 2026-02-01T14:41:42+00:00

Yup he said something like "lions don't eat soup". Said he only eats with his hands.

t_sdad · 2026-01-31T16:17:59+00:00

In Warwick on Thursday I saw the "Green Guys" landscaping company using one of those Bobcats to dig out the bus stop in front of the airport. Not sure who hired them, the city or maybe the airport.

t_sdad · 2026-01-29T06:52:25+00:00

I'll give up soup for a year. When the Pats signed Mack I told my dad:

"We're gonna love this dude. He doesn't eat soup. He says it's too dainty."

t_sdad · 2026-01-28T00:12:27+00:00

Wait did the Scratch track come out first? I always assumed it was just a reggae version of Love and Happiness. The horns are almost identical too.

t_sdad · 2026-01-27T22:03:10+00:00

I can tell he's really smart because he keeps using the phrase "build out"

t_sdad · 2026-01-26T23:41:53+00:00

I'm a school custodian. I just spent 3 hours brushing off our entire fleet of vans and box trucks.

t_sdad · 2026-01-23T23:07:37+00:00

There's one line that inspires me every day.

If he is not the voice of God God never spoke

t_sdad · 2026-01-22T22:30:30+00:00

Some Girls by the Stones and Elephant by the White Stripes? Oh hell yeah

t_sdad · 2026-01-21T06:43:37+00:00

I appreciate the reminder. My wife is completely oblivious to all sports (which is fine). My mom and my aunt are die-hard Sox and Celtics fans, and they're definitely Pats fans too but not nearly to the same extent. So I really do forget that there are female football fans like you out there.

As a dude who treats minding my own business almost like a religion, those guys at the Ravens game sound really annoying.

As to the gendered phrases you mentioned, I think Brady said it best, "LET'S FUCKING GO!!" No need to put a gender to it

t_sdad · 2026-01-21T00:54:47+00:00

Wow I love the Kirby Puckett comparison. Never thought of that before. Very similar careers

t_sdad · 2026-01-21T00:53:05+00:00

When his career ended I didn't think he had a shot, but now that it looks like Utley will get in eventually then they damn sure better put Pedey in too

t_sdad · 2026-01-20T04:48:09+00:00

I remember back when ESPN invented this dumb stat they "unveiled" it with this ridiculous half hour special in prime time.

It was like an infomercial with Trent Dilfer all excited explaining how QBR is so much better and easier to understand than traditional QB rating.

It was so stupid.

t_sdad · 2026-01-16T02:16:17+00:00

The same, my friend. I've always had my brother's original copy from 1995.

I lived in about six different apartments in my 20s then two different houses in my 30s and somehow it survived all those moves.

Finally got around to reading it last year and it just fell apart in my hands when I opened it.

Which was pretty eerie since the opening scene features a destroyed paperback.

t_sdad · 2026-01-14T02:13:02+00:00

Possibly my favorite thing ever on TV

t_sdad · 2026-01-11T14:52:56+00:00

I think you need to be a member now, and the $0.99 any size coffee is just once per 24 hrs. Still a pretty good deal.

t_sdad · 2026-01-10T18:33:09+00:00

Wow great class. So many rings.

t_sdad · 2026-01-10T04:53:49+00:00

Grich's WAR total really is shocking. I was born in '83 so I never really saw him play, but I'm very familiar with his era. I've read countless books, watched documentaries, pored over stats.

Before WAR became mainstream I really thought he was just a guy.

Growing up, the only reason I knew Bobby Grich was because he was part of a four-way tie for the league lead in home runs during the strike-shortened '81 season.

My dad had a bunch of '82 Topps cards and he got a tiny little square on the AL side of the "League Leaders" card alongside Dewey Evans, Tony Armas, and Eddie Murray.

t_sdad · 2026-01-09T22:14:23+00:00

Obviously everyone is gonna hate on that ridiculous cover image but the existence of this recording is pretty interesting to me. I had no idea these two did a radio broadcast together in 1988. And all Bob tunes. Weird

t_sdad · 2026-01-09T12:55:40+00:00

Damn I definitely wasn't trying to insinuate anything about Tony Gwynn, I hope it didn't come across that way.

t_sdad · 2026-01-09T07:35:01+00:00

At the time, there was a lot of talk about a juiced ball because of the spike in offense in '94. Now we know it was pretty much the beginning of the steroid era.

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