Comments on: WTF: Make your own acronym

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:12:31 +0000

ron: “If we need Inge’s bat, we’ve got problems. Oh yeh, we do have problems.”

Our problems have problems of their own. Partly we need Inge’s bat due to lack of Inge’s glove….

By: ron

ron — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:33:21 +0000

If we need Inge’s bat, we’ve got problems. Oh yeh, we do have problems. If Inge could hit, we could have put up more than 3 runs in how many games? Damn that can of beans.

By: Dave BW

Dave BW — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:55:59 +0000

btw, I also had a ham sandwich today. It was marvelous, and there’s no way I would have given it up for a baseball player.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:38:04 +0000

Apropos of Little:

.302 .360 .615 .974 17HR 59RBI

That’s Cabrera since the all-star break.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:27:03 +0000

Smoking Loon: “But +.033 OPS over a career isn’t as insignificant as it appears”

True, but still a smaller difference than I expected. Especially considering that the OBP numbers are identical, which means basically Beltre hits more home runs, in a more homer-friendly park.

By: Smoking Loon

Smoking Loon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:17:59 +0000

Coleman, I don’t maintain that the Tigers should kill themselves going after Beltre. He could turn out to be a milder case of Renteria (dysrentery?). But +.033 OPS over a career isn’t as insignificant as it appears.

Still, if cost is an object, then the big bucks should go, in the first hand, to improving the pitching and eating part or all of a bad contract or two or three.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:15:33 +0000

Winning Through Fear
oh wait, wrong blog.

Whimpering Tigers Fold
What Trivial Folderol!

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:03:57 +0000

OK, that one was sloppy. This works better:

Whither Thy Fealty?

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:01:20 +0000

We’ll Trade renteria For a ham sandwich, by god.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:59:11 +0000

Smoking Loon: “Coleman never gives me any dap for the moral support I provide on the Inge issue.”

My old grandpappy always used to say, never dap a loon.

Besides, I’ve been hoping for a bit of immoral support.

By: Smoking Loon

Smoking Loon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:57:31 +0000

We’ll Take Fourth.

Also: Whole Team Failure. Where’s Todd, Fernando? We Took Farnsworth? Wrecognize The Fallacy. Weed The Fakers. Who’da Thunk “Fielding”? Wrepair The Flaws. Watch Thames Flop. What’s Today’s Failure? Wishful Thinking Fooled. What They Forgot. Well, There’s Football.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:55:22 +0000

If Inge ever dyes his goat-beard red though, immediately trade him for a can of beans.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:52:35 +0000

Again, it’s hard to think of another 3rd baseman that has a good glove and bat. Adrian Beltre comes to mind, but then you start looking at stats, and what it would cost us, and it doesn’t seem worth it…

Career BA–OBP–SLG–OPS (3rd base)

.272 .327 .460 .787 Beltre
.258 .327 .427 .754 Inge

By: Smoking Loon

Smoking Loon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:43:13 +0000

“its like having Magglio or Cabrera sit because they can only hit”

Not bad.

Thanks for being with me, Angie. Coleman never gives me any dap for the moral support I provide on the Inge issue.

Stephen, Inge will rot in hell for what he did to your dog. Now, please tell us WHO YOU WANT AT C AND 3B INSTEAD so we can all escape the swirling vortex of yet another Ingefest, another thread ingefested with ingetractable arguments. It gives me ingedigestion.

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:30:35 +0000

Here is the list, pick some guys you like, I don’t know how much Mr. Owner wants to spend (I mean along with pitching you could get some other stuff, but pitching would be my first and second and third priorities)

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....ree-a.html