Comments on: Mitch Albom Weighed in On Trout vs. Cabrera, Annoyed Everyone Who Thinks

By: St. Bear

St. Bear — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:30:50 +0000

I’m a little sad I missed this yesterday.

By: jbriaz

jbriaz — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:27:30 +0000

I think most of the commenters are missing the main point: Mitch Albom sucks.

As to the Trout/Cabrera debate: yeah, Trout should’ve won. He didn’t. Old white baseball writers don’t understand evaluating players. I’m not shocked. Time to move on.

As to the timing of the announcement of these awards, I’m pretty sure this comes up every year on this site. No one seems to have a good answer. I don’t think anyone would particularly be against the BBWAA announcing the awards during the offday between the regular season and playoffs.

By: Alec Hugh Schtittties

Alec Hugh Schtittties — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:20:16 +0000

Meanwhile, we still don’t know WTF is up with his ears?!?!

By: Razor Shines

Razor Shines — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:08:13 +0000

What a smug, dumbo eared dickbag Albom is. If Trout played in Detroit he’d think Trout is the MVP.

By: Razor Shines

Razor Shines — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:06:01 +0000

If you think Cabrera should have won, then you think Josh Hamilton, Justin Verlander and dozens of players should have bearing on who is more valuable between Trout and Cabrera.

This would make you illogical.

This really is logic versus gut/emotion.

Nothing against Cabrera or his season, really.

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:03:47 +0000

Royals' Jeff Francoeur delivers pizza to A's fans

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:02:42 +0000

Video: Jeff Francoeur steals popcorn from fan

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:01:53 +0000

KC's Jeff Francoeur makes great throw -- $100 into stands

By: knifeyspoony

knifeyspoony — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:49:28 +0000

You might want to read up on this guy and realize your statement is patently false.

explain.

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:45:24 +0000

Jeff Francoeur had 103 RBIs in ’06 with a 87 OPS+. That guy’s a certified bum.

You might want to read up on this guy and realize your statement is patently false.

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:42:55 +0000

The 83 fleer project is one of my favorite things. He has done some insane work on that. He’s been nice enough to trade emails with me on occasion. Terrific guy.

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:41:07 +0000

ha yeah, wrong season on that. Sorry for that. Youngblood pulled off that 2 alternate teams in a day. bit. Legend.

By: Curtis the Close talker

Curtis the Close talker — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I’ve never seen a bum drive in 150 runs, so a better explaination than “luck” has to be provided as to why RBI’s are worthless.

Jeff Francoeur had 103 RBIs in ’06 with a 87 OPS+. That guy’s a certified bum.

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:40:06 +0000

Didnt Bill James do that thing that a walk is worth like .71 of a single?

By: ms621

ms621 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:39:53 +0000

I did the math… it undervalues walks if you replace walks with singles. But if you replace walks with the ratio of hits/outs based on BABIP, it values walks a lot. It all depends if you can see stats at the end of the year and say BBs could have been singles, or could have been .3 singles. And I don’t think you can say that either way in retrospect.

I don’t think we disagree, but I’m just willing to be more pragmatic about the existence of OPS than you are. It’s ok, we all have our peccadilloes. I can’t stand people who take liberties with other people’s names.

By: Wide Word of Sport (?)

Wide Word of Sport (?) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:38:56 +0000

And they’re never clean

Nice job.

By: johndewar

johndewar — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:38:28 +0000

In 1977, Youngblood hit .350JOEL Youngblood?

Actually, Joel Youngblood did that in strike shortened 1981.In related news, I had this Joel Youngblood baseball card growing up.I also think that referencing Joel Youngblood on a sports blog in 2012 on a Friday afternoon means it's Miller time.

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:38:18 +0000

WWoS has bed sheets that have the pattern of an Excel spreadsheet on them

Tim Ryan has Ziggy sheets.

By: ms621

ms621 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:38:00 +0000

WWoS has bed sheets that have the pattern of an Excel spreadsheet on them

And they’re never clean.

By: BlockedProspect

BlockedProspect — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:35:43 +0000

This is everything you need to know about the false bravado and growing, well-deserved irrelevancy of so much print sportswriting: Mitch Albom – who’d play Frankie Valli in a dwarf revue of Jersey Boys – sees himself on the better side of the jocks/nerds faultline he still projects on the world.